Social media apps as Lord of the Rings characters, a thread: Twitter: Twitter is Gollum. Began as a normal halfling. Overexposure to evil left it thin and stretched and bitter.

It should absolutely shock your conscience—whether you're progressive, libertarian, conservative, or otherwise—that a man was jailed for 7 years pre-trial only to be acquitted of all 26 charges. His co-defendant has been jailed *10 years* pre-trial. An incredible injustice.

Days like today remind me why mugshots shouldn’t be publicly available. They’re taken as a record-keeping measure. But in practice, they’re used to humiliate people who’ve yet to be convicted. That these defendants are unsympathetic doesn’t change the principle of the matter.

“Psychologists already barely care about the findings in their own field; that's why, when we hear about another replication massacre, we don't even bother to ID the bodies.” Also, please don’t sue him. experimental-history.com/p/im-so-sorry-…

America has the world's safest air travel, but the safety record of our car-dependent ground transportation system is among the worst among wealthy nations.

There are only 32 full time public defenders in all of Mississippi. The result: Thousands of people who’d otherwise be free who are trapped incarcerated pretrial w/ no lawyer to argue for release. nbcnews.com/now/video/miss…

I worry that we're all so conditioned to expect bad faith and manipulation everywhere that we don't celebrate where us imperfect humans are actually *trying.* Considering the circumstances, you did an important and brave thing not only inviting Coleman Hughes to TED but also

This is a family in crisis and the recreational cruelty I see on social media needs to be out of bounds. I know the impact this has on children. I'm calling for restraint because cruelty has substantial collateral damage. We can't ever forget that they didn't sign up for this.

This is so depressing. Whatever your politics, these are human beings—many of whom risked an extremely dangerous trek to make a better life for themselves & their families. Everyone is entitled to their views. But we have to stop acting as if these people are sub-human.

The University of Missouri is part of the Soybean Innovation Lab. Missouri, as a state, is #7 in the nation for soybean production. It is our #1 crop. The annual on farm value of Missouri’s soybean crop is more than $2.5 billion. #moleg Governor Mike Kehoe /1

It’s often hard to want to be kind to people whose values are at odds with our own. But I think being kind, even when it's hard, is one of the most important things that the average person can do to make the world a better, safer place for us all. open.substack.com/pub/peterleavi…

It is impossible to understand why President Trump and Vice President Vance seem determined to put more pressure on President Zelensky while they seem to be coddling Putin - the person who inflicted this terrible war in Ukraine.

Canadian friends! What are some of your favorite Canadian products/services that you can personally vouch for? Who do you know personally who will be hit hard by the trade war and what kind of resources do they need most to survive and thrive? 🇨🇦❤️

Any comment on this, Marco Rubio? How about you, JD Vance? Elon Musk? You just admitted to accidentally sending an innocent father from Maryland to a torture dungeon in El Salvador. And you refuse to do anything about it. theatlantic.com/politics/archi…

This is nauseating. The Trump admin conceded it sent a migrant with legal status to an El Salvadoran prison bc of an “administrative error”—& there’s nothing they can do. History won’t look kindly on those who defended this. Utterly inexcusable. This is why due process matters.

"Lifelong consequences," unless you were a January 6 rioter who was beating on cops. Then the president will immediately pardon you.

1️⃣ Derrocar a un dictador suena moralmente justo. Nadie llora por un tirano. Pero el derecho internacional no se construyó para proteger a los buenos, sino para contener a los poderosos. Por eso prohíbe la fuerza casi sin excepciones: no porque ignore la injusticia, sino porque

A witness shared this video with me showing an ICE officer shooting a driver in an SUV in south Minneapolis. DHS says the woman is dead.