All right I feel like crap this morning but I guess we're doing this: a thread on my thoughts on immigration.

Russia's history is a history of colonialism. I have a standing prediction that the Russian Far East will eventually become a part of China. The RFE is resource rich, I believe the China immigrants there out number white Russians of which there are around 6 million and declining. That's a better move for China than invading Taiwan. No one is going to care if China took over the RFE.

yeah, early days on this stuff, and there are sure to be challenges, but it’s still very impressive

Today two women were ACQUITTED of inciting racial hatred with the Khaybar chant—a reference to an ancient battle where a Muslim army slaughtered Jews. It’s the 2nd time this chant has been given the ok by juries. In a time of extreme violence against Jews that is shocking ⬇️

Minimum wage research has shifted from “do wage floors reduce jobs?” to “which empirical choices make the answer disappear?” The recent literature increasingly says: the null results are much more fragile than advertised. 🧵

Ancient DNA in Siberia provides evidence of earliest known plague outbreak - 5,500 years ago. theguardian.com/science/2026…

Anyone who has ever been to a funeral knows that grieving people laugh at happy and humorous memories. The people accusing Erika know they’re evil and they enjoy being cruel.

WE‘RE HERE!!!! Second game of the World Cup. Watching the last dance of the GOAT.🐐🇵🇹

Boghossian et al argued that the root of the intellectual rot in some of the humanities, and particularly anthropology, was the abandonment of intellectual rigor, justified by a facile relativism. These guys are not beating the allegations.

"This is the message I wish the entire anthropological community to hear: the core academic value of anthropology is not the pursuit of truth, because all truth is subjective." I really don't think anthropologists have thought this through very carefully.

I'm not the only one who gets attacked by Deer Flies at the park. This Great Blue Heron is being bugged by one, with the fly buzzing constantly around the heron's head. The fly is near the cheek, seen against the neck feathers.

Oh boy. They are going to cancel Freddy, aren’t they?

A fledgling Blue Jay waits for a parent to bring over food.

The puppy in this clip is running steps 1 through 4 of a wolf's kill sequence. Steps 5 through 8 got bred out. Wild wolves follow a built-in hunting sequence: Orient, Eye, Stalk, Chase, Grab-bite, Kill-bite, Dissect, Consume. Herding breeds were engineered over thousands of years to stop at step 4. The kill instinct was bred out so thoroughly that a well-trained herding dog won't finish the sequence no matter how long it works a flock. Raymond Coppinger spent decades studying working dogs at Hampshire College and showed why this matters. The crouching stare a herding dog fixes on the flock is the "Eye" step running in real time. Sheep detect a predator mid-hunt. They don't panic because the grab-bite step never comes. They're cooperating with something that would kill them in a slightly different animal. This puppy's approach is so uncoordinated that the flock reads it as curious rather than threatening. A trained adult herding dog sends the whole flock into a controlled retreat. This one's getting mild curiosity at best. The sheep aren't being patient. What the sheep are picking up from this puppy doesn't look like danger. Timing matters here. Puppies have a bonding period that closes around 12 to 14 weeks. After that, forming new social bonds gets much harder. Livestock guardian breeds (think Great Pyrenees or Kangal) get placed inside the flock before 12 weeks so the sheep become their primary social group. Those dogs don't herd. They sleep with the sheep, live among them, and will fight coyotes and wolves to protect them. A 2010 American Sheep Industry survey found 90% of farms using guard dogs reported an average 62% drop in sheep predation. The sheep bending down to sniff the puppy is running a threat check. It's a prey animal identifying an incomplete predator, and the assessment came back clear.

El-Sayed would be the biggest gift to Michigan Republicans in a very long time. He's basically a Mamdani with less charisma, and Mamdani only managed to get 50% of the vote in Kamala 40 New York City on a very good night for Democrats.

June 17, 1944. On a tiny speck of land in the Pacific called Saipan, US Marines were clawing forward inch by inch. The Japanese garrison had been ordered never to surrender. So the fighting went field by field, cave by cave, cliff by cliff. Often hand to hand. Why bleed so hard for one small island most people had never heard of? Because Saipan had airfields. And from those airfields, the brand new B-29 bombers could finally reach a target that had been untouchable until now. Tokyo itself. When Japan's leaders realized the island was lost, the shock was so severe it brought down the entire government in Tokyo. The battle ended in horror. One of the largest banzai charges of the whole war, and then a mass of terrified civilians throwing themselves and their children off the northern cliffs, convinced by propaganda that the Americans were monsters. Saipan looked like nothing on a map. But it cracked the door to the Japanese homeland wide open, and Japan never recovered.

🧵They truly are the most entitled group of people on the planet. Here's the latest edition of "How dare you criticize me. I should be above reproach. Waaaaaa" from Lina Haaga, a boy who stole a championship track and field title from his own sister. Here we go: "For as long as I can remember, I have known I am a girl. That certainty is as instinctive as knowing I am right-handed." In order to know that you are a "girl," you need to understand what a "girl" actually is. A girl is not a male individual, so it was impossible for you to "know" that you were a girl. You were and are a boy who wrongly believed he was a girl. "It is difficult to explain to someone who has never been transgender or loved someone who is, but I have never lived this way to gain an advantage or take something from someone else. I live this way to honor what I know is true." It really isn't that difficult to explain. You were a typical young child who was at the stage where you were trying to make sense of the world around you, not yet in control of abstract thinking or knowledge of reproduction and internal organs, and you associated being a girl, as almost all children do, with stereotypes. You're continuing to live "this way" because your parents indulged you in it and continued to reinforce sexism in your home.

Another accounting of the Rotherham rapes. It reports shocking numbers, but I don’t know how accurate is. Those rapes revealed obvious failures of the state.They all revealed the extent of family breakdown in the English working class family. gov.uk/government/speeches/b…

When you’re feeling sad, remember your C6 vertebra; it’s happy to support your head every single day. 😂

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Bison are leading one of the most remarkable ecological comebacks in North American history. For more than a century, the great herds of the American bison were fragmented, broken into isolated groups by roads, fences, and human development across the Great Plains and Yellowstone region. Now, in a powerful wildlife success story, those artificial barriers are being overcome. On their own, bison are instinctively reuniting and reopening ancient migration corridors that had been lost for over 100 years. This isn’t just movement: it’s a profound return to ancestral memory. Large, unified herds are once again flowing across the landscape as they did in centuries past. As they travel, these iconic animals act as masterful ecosystem engineers. Their powerful hooves aerate compacted soil, their selective grazing encourages the growth of diverse native plants, and their dust wallows create seasonal watering holes that benefit countless other species. In doing so, they spread nutrients and help restore the health of the grasslands. By simply allowing bison to roam freely across their historic ranges, nature is showing us that wild ecosystems recover best when their original architects are given the freedom to lead. [Texas A&M University. After 120 Years of Conservation, Yellowstone Bison Are Now a Single Breeding Population. Journal of Heredity]