Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com

4 hours ago

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com

15 hours ago

super cool that the nation’s political press want to speedrun the 90s juvenile crime panic without anywhere near the actual reported crimes

m @keptsimple.bsky.social

15 hours ago

watching national reporters who live in DC do this is really embarrassing. no one speaking at this conference was raising a legitimate issue.

Matt Ortega @mattortega.com

2 hours ago

Not the way to characterize “cooking the books.”

Miranda Yaver @mirandayaver.bsky.social

7 hours ago

“Seeking friendlier data”? Seriously, NYT?

Other People Want Pierogis Hat @kenwhite.bsky.social

4 hours ago

“I strove to be a shitty person to impress shitty people and win their admiration and patronage and it turns out shitty people are shitty. I was not expecting that because I am very dim in addition to being shitty.”

The New York Times @nytimes.com

6 hours ago

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

Lauren Southern’s new memoir reveals her "painful attempts to contort herself into an archetypical tradwife,” writes our columnist Michelle Goldberg. “Her story should be a cautionary tale for the young women who aspire to the domestic life she once evangelized for.”

Opinion | A Right-Wing Influencer Tried to Be a Tradwife. It Almost Broke Her.

Being an anti-feminist, it turns out, is no shield against abusive male power.

onekade @onekade.bsky.social

9 hours ago

Incredible. Maxwell isn’t just at Club Fed. She gets to leave prison during the day just like Epstein did when he served his little sentence in Florida.

Mueller, She Wrote @muellershewrote.com

10 hours ago

BREAKING: EXCLUSIVE: Senator Whitehouse asked the BOP for Ghislaine Maxwells sex offender waiver, custody level, transfer code, and security point score. I have them. She's also been granted the ability to leave the facility for work assignments. My latest: www.muellershewrote.com/p/exclusive-...

EXCLUSIVE: I Have Ghislaine Maxwell's Security Score, Custody Level, Transfer Code, and Sex Offender Waiver

I have reviewed an electronic file that includes some of the information Senator Whitehouse is demanding from the Bureau of Prisons.

Chicago Tribune @chicagotribune.com

8 hours ago

Gov. JB Pritzker on Monday likened President Donald Trump’s call for possible National Guard troops occupying Chicago to when the Nazi Party in Germany “tore down a constitutional republic” in the 1930s.

Gov. JB Pritzker again makes Nazi comparisons after President Trump threatens DC-like takeover in Chicago

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker says President Donald Trump “has absolutely no right and no legal ability” to send National Guard troops to Chicago following president’s threat.