Neil Stenhouse
@nstenhouse.bsky.social
Data, research, progressive politics, climate, energy, scicomm. Formerly @EmpowerProjUS @GQRResearch @UWMadison @Mason4C. From 🇳🇿 (Palmy)
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Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
November 17, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house
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In the latest episode of Patel's misappropriation of bureau resources, the FBI Director has reportedly assigned a group of elite agents in Nashville to guard his girlfriend.
Due to this, sources say these agents will likely be unable to respond to crises in the Nashville area. trib.al/D0EGPNv
Due to this, sources say these agents will likely be unable to respond to crises in the Nashville area. trib.al/D0EGPNv
November 17, 2025 at 5:18 PM
In the latest episode of Patel's misappropriation of bureau resources, the FBI Director has reportedly assigned a group of elite agents in Nashville to guard his girlfriend.
Due to this, sources say these agents will likely be unable to respond to crises in the Nashville area. trib.al/D0EGPNv
Due to this, sources say these agents will likely be unable to respond to crises in the Nashville area. trib.al/D0EGPNv
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In this new essay on the internal culture of the right, I report on something big: allegations by a Heritage Foundation insider that the organization has allowed a toxic culture of "open misogyny and racism" to grow among a segment of the staff
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In this new essay on the internal culture of the right, I report on something big: allegations by a Heritage Foundation insider that the organization has allowed a toxic culture of "open misogyny and racism" to grow among a segment of the staff
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
www.vox.com/on-the-right...
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![In 2020, Katyal represented Nestlé and Cargill at the Supreme Court in Nestlé USA, Inc. v. Doe, a class-action suit brought by former enslaved children who were kidnapped and forced to work on cocoa farms in the Ivory Coast.[29][30] Katyal's argument was that Nestlé and Cargill should not be held liable under United States law for their use of child slave labor because international law does not apply to corporations. Katyal cited as an example that the company which supplied Zyklon B to the Nazis to kill Jews and other minorities in extermination camps was not indicted at the Nuremberg trials. Katyal was criticized by publications including The New Republic.[31][32]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6gmtdexnravcgbru5ylk56ra/bafkreiho5apikhaxdfjyp4pjwysccptjnmkllekgs2q3w33ed7b7bvirhe@jpeg)
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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
Tell Students the Truth About American History
We owe it to Americans of all ages to be honest about the country’s past, including its contradictions.
www.theatlantic.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”
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A former Palantir VP has an op-ed in WaPo today offering "advice" to Democrats that includes this line: "When Democrats treat companies as politically toxic, especially those supporting national security in the United States, they alienate the builders trying to serve and advance the country."
November 17, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A former Palantir VP has an op-ed in WaPo today offering "advice" to Democrats that includes this line: "When Democrats treat companies as politically toxic, especially those supporting national security in the United States, they alienate the builders trying to serve and advance the country."
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"[...] Paramount and its subsidiaries have spent 2025 blacklisting and silencing the opposition from within and without, pissing all over free speech, attempting to shape the news to their favor, and paying off the government—all in service of gaining more control over more of the media landscape."
Now that people have seen The Running Man, we can talk about how it's pretty goddamn ironic that it's being put out by Paramount www.avclub.com/the-running-...
It's pretty damn ironic that Paramount is behind The Running Man
The anti-monopoly message of The Running Man, aimed at a blacklist-happy Network, makes it hard not to see its own studio as its villain.
www.avclub.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
"[...] Paramount and its subsidiaries have spent 2025 blacklisting and silencing the opposition from within and without, pissing all over free speech, attempting to shape the news to their favor, and paying off the government—all in service of gaining more control over more of the media landscape."
Scientists have recorded the first known use of the Shaggy Defense by a worm
the seven little words every woman wants to hear: "baby don't worry. it's not a worm"
November 17, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Scientists have recorded the first known use of the Shaggy Defense by a worm
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the seven little words every woman wants to hear: "baby don't worry. it's not a worm"
November 17, 2025 at 2:25 PM
the seven little words every woman wants to hear: "baby don't worry. it's not a worm"
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Neal Katyal says he's working on a TV show that he describes as "The West Wing for the Supreme Court," and my question is, have We As A Society not suffered enough
A Brief History Of Awful TV Shows About the Supreme Court
The concept of “The West Wing for the Supreme Court” might be the only thing more upsetting than the actual Supreme Court.
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November 17, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Neal Katyal says he's working on a TV show that he describes as "The West Wing for the Supreme Court," and my question is, have We As A Society not suffered enough
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This is a very good thing in my book. Ambitious Republicans want there to be democracy in 2028 and not just anoint a third Trump term or Rubio/Vance/whomever as a successor.
They'll need to create some distance between themselves and the Trump Administration and alternative power bases.
They'll need to create some distance between themselves and the Trump Administration and alternative power bases.
LMAO -- Ted Cruz is on Fox News talking about running for president in 2028
November 17, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is a very good thing in my book. Ambitious Republicans want there to be democracy in 2028 and not just anoint a third Trump term or Rubio/Vance/whomever as a successor.
They'll need to create some distance between themselves and the Trump Administration and alternative power bases.
They'll need to create some distance between themselves and the Trump Administration and alternative power bases.
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Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content - Oklahoma Watch
The Trump administration removed a congressionally mandated report on missing and murdered Native Americans from the DOJ website, citing compliance with an executive order against DEI. Senators who ch...
oklahomawatch.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:22 PM
Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content
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Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Top 5 Film Genres:
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Average Joes ineptly involved with crime
Yearning and Burning
The Vibes Are Off
Arty But Not Too Arty
Hotel Transylvania
Top 5 Film Genres:
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
Finish The Puzzle And Die!
Never Mind "What Is It?" Just Eat It
Henge-porn
These Ghosts Are NOT A Trauma-Metaphor
If You Go To That Cabin The Trees Will Try To Fuck You!
November 17, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Top 5 Film Genres:
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
Here's An Apocalypse You Can't Just Shoot, So What Now, Dipshit
Incredible Magic/Surreal Thing Happening to Normal Ppl Who Still Gotta Be At Work At 9:00 Tomorrow
Space Normies
Style Over Substance But It's SO 😱 U Don't Care
Auteur Swan Song/Magnum Opus Insanity
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Heritage, for its part, was so upset about this reporting that it threatened to sue Vox to try and stop publication. But we are confident in our source and our reporting.
Here's a gift link to the piece that Heritage tried to kill www.vox.com/on-the-right...
Here's a gift link to the piece that Heritage tried to kill www.vox.com/on-the-right...
The toxic culture behind the right’s civil war
A Heritage insider alleging “openly misogynistic and racist” conduct shines a light on the right’s inner workings.
www.vox.com
November 17, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Heritage, for its part, was so upset about this reporting that it threatened to sue Vox to try and stop publication. But we are confident in our source and our reporting.
Here's a gift link to the piece that Heritage tried to kill www.vox.com/on-the-right...
Here's a gift link to the piece that Heritage tried to kill www.vox.com/on-the-right...
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Folks, there are many female Harvard undergrads in Larry Summers’ courses RIGHT NOW. Imagine being in that situation and reading The Crimson.
“This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender Jef...
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Folks, there are many female Harvard undergrads in Larry Summers’ courses RIGHT NOW. Imagine being in that situation and reading The Crimson.
“This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
“This semester, he is teaching two large undergraduate courses and one graduate class.”
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
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The point about LLMs lacking "voice" is correct, but imo the limits to good AI writing are more fundamental. I would sum it up like this: the very best writing "defamiliarizes" the familiar -- makes it fresh, conjures it anew, etc. But LLM outputs are an averaged rehash of the familiar, by design.
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The point about LLMs lacking "voice" is correct, but imo the limits to good AI writing are more fundamental. I would sum it up like this: the very best writing "defamiliarizes" the familiar -- makes it fresh, conjures it anew, etc. But LLM outputs are an averaged rehash of the familiar, by design.
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Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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New foreign student enrollment in the US fell 17% this fall www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...
How foreign student enrollment is shifting in the U.S., in 6 charts
Foreign student enrollment in U.S. colleges has stalled, with a 17 percent decline in new students this fall after Trump policy changes, a key survey shows.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:17 PM
Again, this is an existential crisis for the entire financial & academic model of 🇺🇸 public universities, but the public doesn’t understand this, in part because our leaders have been on this issue. It’s maddening:
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It’s Sunday, November 16, 2025.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
November 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It’s Sunday, November 16, 2025.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
This is your reminder that:
1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court.
2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.
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Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
Public Media: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
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November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...
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I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
Robert George has resigned from the Heritage board of trustees.
November 17, 2025 at 11:48 AM
I know that this site leans quite left, so I very much hope that people will recognize the significance of this news. The right is cleaving, and the side triumphing — in terms of sheer numbers and media coverage — needs to be understood for exactly what it is: authoritarian and bigoted.
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ofc RFK Jr never had a brain worm: he made up the whole story to avoid paying alimony to the ex-wife he later drove to suicide by cutting her off financially AND denying her access to her kids
Olivia Nuzzi and Cheryl Hines are like Manson groupies.
Details: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
Olivia Nuzzi and Cheryl Hines are like Manson groupies.
Details: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
November 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
ofc RFK Jr never had a brain worm: he made up the whole story to avoid paying alimony to the ex-wife he later drove to suicide by cutting her off financially AND denying her access to her kids
Olivia Nuzzi and Cheryl Hines are like Manson groupies.
Details: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
Olivia Nuzzi and Cheryl Hines are like Manson groupies.
Details: www.politico.com/news/2024/05...
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Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
WASHINGTON—In an effort to bring an end to what he described as an anti-American trend in filmmaking, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Monday imposing a 100% tax on the profits of movi...
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November 17, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Trump Imposes 100% Tax On Movies Where Slaves Escape
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Trump on Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes: “Get the word out. The people have to decide.”
Trump is openly Nazi-sympathetic.
Trump is openly Nazi-sympathetic.
Q: Tucker had a friendly interview w/ antisemite Nick Fuentes. What role do you think Carlson should play in the GOP?
TRUMP: I've found him to be good. He's said good things about me. Will you let me finish my statement? You're the worst. You're with Bloomberg, right? I don't know why they have you
TRUMP: I've found him to be good. He's said good things about me. Will you let me finish my statement? You're the worst. You're with Bloomberg, right? I don't know why they have you
November 17, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Trump on Carlson’s interview of Nick Fuentes: “Get the word out. The people have to decide.”
Trump is openly Nazi-sympathetic.
Trump is openly Nazi-sympathetic.
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i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate
This whole NYT account about the weaponization of DOJ is beyond disturbing. Kinda feels like the US government fell in January.
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
November 17, 2025 at 2:19 PM
i'd say it did. the public put a group of thieves, vandals and extremists in office last november and they promptly went about destroying everything that might work to limit their ability to loot, steal and inflicting pain on the people they hate