“No, 150-Year-Olds Aren't Collecting Social Security Benefits” - WIRED.What a bunch of nit-wits. apple.news/AnhDth1ThT0Kgd…

RETWEET if you stand with President Zelensky!

Pete Hegseth just reportedly ordered the US military’s Cyber Command to “stand down” from all planning against Russia. Analysts have been ordered not to follow or report on Russian threats. One inside source said, “Putin is on the inside now.”

Quite illuminating. nytimes.com/2025/02/24/mag… via The New York Times

Hey, Elon Musk. Social Security has kept more American seniors out of poverty than any program in American history, along with Medicare. The way to keep it solvent forever is for YOU to pay your fair share!!! YOU stop paying in at $176,100 worth of income. SCRAP THE CAP!!!

Good to know there’s a name for that - what I’m feeling these days.

Black Saturday: The Day the United States Ceased to Be a Constitutional Democracy The Moment Democracy Ceased to Function 🧵1/10: Saturday, March 15, 2025, may have seemed unremarkable to most Americans. But in time, history will remember it as Black Saturday—the moment the

I want to know what trades were made by members of the Trump Administration before these unhinged tariff moves? Who, if anyone, shorted stocks before the tariffs were first announced? Who bought back into the market before this pause was announced? Who is profiting from this?

SCOOP: DOGE is getting audited. wired.com/story/gao-audi…

Musk’s DOGE involved in what appears to be a foreign espionage operation and data theft. They also have death threatened US federal whistleblowers and disabled security systems, deliberately allowing Russian IPs to access sensitive US federal government systems.

Very enjoyable conversation the other day with Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo 🇲🇽🇬🇧🇪🇺 about my book, Small, Medium, Large (Polity). Feel free to listen in! Available on various podcast sites.

This is a clown show. Trump Officials Blame Mistake for Setting Off Confrontation With Harvard nytimes.com/2025/04/18/bus…

Italian essayist Andrea Colamedici tells WIRED "Hypnocracy: Trump, Musk, and the New Architecture of Reality" was a “philosophical experiment and a performance.” The book’s Chinese author does not exist. wired.com/story/an-accla…

Europe will always stand for science and the freedom to learn and invent. As of 11 am, tune in, and discover how the European Commission wants to help the best and brightest ‘Choose Europe’.

“Transaction” - “an exchange or transfer of goods, services, or funds” (Merriam-Webster.com). What’s the other side of the exchange?

Very much looking forward to talking on Thursday with the World Bank community about my research on standard sizes in the U.S. (If you'd like to attend, contact Sandi Soe Lwin at [email protected]).

In "Alive in the Sound," Ronald Radano offers a new understanding of Black music, arguing that its value developed from the historical relation of race and capital. Read the introduction for free now: buff.ly/E01QGpV

Amidst a whirl of impending calamities that can only be addressed with collective action--for which we don't seem to have the necessary political bandwidth--let's not forget this one . . . Does AI mean the end of the entry-level job? wsj.com/lifestyle/care… via The Wall Street Journal

When a history museum rewrites history to appease the president, it stops being a museum and starts being state propaganda. Straight-up Orwellian.

Trump can pretend it didn’t happen all he wants, but the facts don’t lie – he was impeached twice. I know. I was there. washingtonpost.com/entertainment/…