a common feature in this emerging genre is the thinly veiled contempt that the administrative classes of institutions have toward their own students, and there's a simple explanation for this: those administrators see students chiefly as revenue streams rather than fully participating humans

it’s absolutely wild. she’s vetoed recreational marijuana, municipal collective bargaining, and we expect her to veto state level class actions. just a goddamn disaster.

if there's no value to publishers in letting Google reference them, they should not let Google access their content.

I’m not kidding whenever my answer to “how do you pay for it” is “take it from the cops”. If you give everyone enough food, crime goes down. If crime goes down, then you can spend less on cops. Cops exist downstream of problems. Keep doing this for every problem and you keep spending less on cops

it is sort of grimly funny to watch google commit suicide by turning search into slop. unfortunately, google will be taking most of the open web with it

Leftists & antifa have been saying for decades "If you let them take away some people's rights, they'll take everyone's." And then Trump came along and gave us a perfect user case by first getting his voters to agree only citizens deserve rights, then unilaterally revoking people's citizenship. 2/?

Oh my god why wasn’t “Eric Adams is going to try to get some of the Trump henchman money” my first thought

@mayor.nyc.gov public libraries need a measly .5% of the city budget!

If this fails, Raskin and other Democrats must not shy away from calling their Republican counterparts by their true names: cowards and traitors

they're really leaving us very few options for what to do with them when they lose power

"When you expose a problem you pose a problem. It might then be assumed that the problem would go away if you would just stop talking about or if you went away." - Sara Ahmed, Living A Feminist Life

He's going to double down on right wing politics in the immediate future (maybe even today). In 2018 he was working incredibly hard on increasing production and he was globally laughed at for his submarine idea - that was when his personality started shifting. This is how he deals with humiliation.

the president loves stealing your money and giving it to pedophiles, folks. it’s like his favorite thing to do

I understand why this is confusing: you're used to the press saying poor people deserve to die and not rich people.

Just watched episode 2 of Devil May Cry season 2 and can't believe I just watched Vergil go on Jerry Springer to tell America that Demon Rupert Murdoch manipulated Dick Cheney into orchestrating 9/11 as a pretext to do regime change in Hell, and that the US already has Abu Ghraib for Demons.

I would like Democrats to come out and say that anyone receiving assets from this new slush fund, or profiting any of the other corrupt acts from this candidate, will have 100% of their assets seized the first chance we get. Even if they get pardoned.

Will they “have to” the same way they “have to” let members of congress inspect their facilities? That kind of “have to”?

In an unusual flight path, jet flies into World Trade Center.

lol any way 💅

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

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The system always lays bare the cudgels it wields when it comes to disrupting the status quo. We can't fire people upholding an incomprehesively ghoulish and bureaucratic system like privatized healthcare. But we can't make education free because why waste that money on ditch diggers and trashmen

Look if we don’t confiscate all of this guy’s wealth and property on the other side of this I don’t even know what we’re doing.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?

the thing about the institutional apparatus of the dems is that it’s the biggest collection of losers we’ve seen in my lifetime. despite 2 governing trifectas in the last 18 years and the presidency for 12, they’ve overseen the return of segregationists and the end of bodily autonomy for women

they can’t acquire fuel but they’re bringing in drones somehow? seems legit.

Not the main issue here, I know, but: Prison abuse has nothing to do with the blood libel. Nothing in this story has anything to do with the blood libel. Comparing this to the blood libel is a really disgusting abuse of Jewish history.

Alien: And how did you run out of water? Earthling: Machines drank it. Alien: Machines. Earthling: We had to feed machines the water. Aliens: So the machines were holding your planet hostage for water. Earthling: No, we made the thirsty machines. They worked for us. Alien: End communication.

"even though we have literal video and mountains of other physical evidence of severe abuse it doesn't matter because this specific case of abuse can't be verified" by the people who brought you "it doesn't matter if Palestinians didn't behead babies because it's the type of thing they WOULD do"

Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I think a few new states, a bigger House, and a national anti-gerrymandering law with real teeth gets you most of the way there (along with fixing SCOTUS, of course). In a one-person-one-vote America, the GOP is going to be a minority party for quite some time.

Dude you should read this superhero deconstruction comic. No I'm serious dude it's about how being a superhero would actually derail your life and it would actually be so difficult to juggle that and also school and a job and relationships and it's completely thankless. Oh what's it called? Spider-m

What I find so weird about the whole discourse is that I, a college professor, spend most of my time explaining complex ideas to 18-year-old novices. There’s a lot to mock academics for, but most of us couldn’t do our jobs at all if we didn’t know how to communicate with non-experts

I'm glad that AOC was able to say this in plain language that normal people can understand.

At a MoCo MD meet & greet. Person: I heard you're a NIMBY. Candidate: Not at all, I fully support housing & transit 100%, but we have to take time and do it right, the infrastructure has to get built first, we also have to consider the needs of families, we can't change things overnight!

Greater harms would come later but the entire reason for being of the Biden Administration was to 1) prevent Trump from getting a second term and 2) punish him for the harm and corruption of the first one, and it was such a failure on that front that now this is happening x.com/KFaulders/st...

When the legislative body of the monetary sovereign is derelict in its duty, you take matters into your own hands

I think this is the same guy who escapes the galaxy's most dangerous prison every morning. Hope his college experience got better.

I just feel like running government on the principle of fuck you we can do what we want is maybe going to undermine the rule of law in ways no one is going to enjoy, even them

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In 1975, Leonard Nimoy wrote an autobiography titled "I Am Not Spock." 20 years later, he wrote another titled "I Am Spock." If you play a character like that, its gonna define you as much as you define them. That's the job.

My favorite story about Harlan Ellison is how he sued Marvel for ripping off one of his stories without credit and part of the settlement was that Marvel send him one of everything forever. One of every comic. One of every poster. One of every promotional material. One of every t-shirt.

mr. met is like doctor doctor when i make love to mrs. met, it is so short-lived. i don’t give my wife the pleasure she deserves and the doctor is like, the solution is-a very simple. just-a think about baseball. and mr. met is like, but doctor, I am baseball

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

It's like the Onion doing Hitchcock

All these losers are so fucking miserable. If this woman spent the rest of her life changing $20 million worth of diapers it would be far and away a more valuable use of her time than anything she'd do otherwise.

Bail is for people who haven't been convicted of a crime. This is voter disenfranchisement. This keeps eligible voters from voting & creates justifiable distrust of electeds among families, who then may not vote. When you blame your problems on non-voters, perhaps ask what disenfranchised them.