4/ Summers is welcome to publish papers via peer review like anyone else. He should not be a leader of the profession, given plums such as invited publications, lectures, made integral to programmatic policy statements, etc. Doing so implies that gross sexism is regarded as triviality.

Met a bunch of second and third cousins today, and saw a family tree for my matrilineal line family that spans six generations. (Got to offer a few corrections too!)

I generally treat land acknowledgements like I do corporate DEI trainings: I may inwardly roll my eyes on occasion, but I'm instantly suspicious of people who become outwardly aggrieved by them. For that reason alone I think they actually provide some value.

“You’re not breathing” is a precursor to “Ocean waves,” and they mean the same thing: Fight, but take care of yourself, because the struggle is long, and if you let it destroy you, they win.

Eddie Murphy says some wild things in that new Netflix documentary (like when he compares Ridiculousness to a Jodorowsky movie), but this part about Redd Foxx, Rick James and William (Buckwheat) Thomas was the most devastating.

Those claiming Dems should retreat on racial justice aren't hard-headed realists, they're pushing against the electoral tide rather than leaning into it. The story of Gen Z isn't about racist backlash or red-pilled young men. It's the most racially progressive generation in American history. 🧵

I have been online for way too long, I think. because account suspension thrashes and meeting facilitation and the Nazi Bar anecdote are all the same elephant. you either moderate behavior or your community context falls apart.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Things so bad the Catholic bishops are using TikTok

🚨 local how-to-help opportunity for brooklyn! 🚨 flatbush / PLG / crown heights area: my dear friend Sarah is organizing a non-perishable food drive to benefit the Ladies in Waiting food pantry on Fenimore. bring items to Hasenstuble (1184 Nostrand Ave.) from 4pm onwards on Wednesday 11/19!

I take this so fucking personally. Two key difference between 8yo and 15yo girls: -The first is a young child, the second is an older child -The first is an excellent political prop, the second bears much of the weight of a long history of misogyny and fear of women's sexuality and autonomy.

“We’re on a mission from God”

Local media is calling it: Katie Wilson will be the next mayor of Seattle. Wilson ousts Mayor Bruce Harrell after running as a progressive challenger. Her win is a west coast companion to Mamdani’s as a statement victory for the left.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed

Started watching MURDERBOT and now I don't wanna go to work, I just want to watch MURDERBOT, which is pretty much the plot of MURDERBOT.

i mean c’mon. the president’s best friend was the most notorious pedo in the country’s history who ran a massive child trafficking ring. every bit of circumstantial evidence we have says that trump was a participant. if this were a criminal trial we’d have enough evidence to compel a plea deal.

crazy how much this bugs me now that someone pointed it out. if i worked at the white house, i would find this ugly, but not as annoying as i do now. ignorance is really bliss bc they more you learn, the more you just walk around thinking "collar gap" and "kerning is off."

God says trans rights

I do think this is a point of radicalization because a lot of angry, angry normal people were ready to dig in and suffer a lot in order to make fascists suffer a little, and their resolution was sold out and made into a mockery

“Apes don’t read philosophy.” “Yes they do, Otto; they just don’t understand it”

people thing knitters are like sweet old ladies who would never harm a soul. wrong!! knitters are fucking feral

*Women receive substantially lower "potential" ratings despite receiving higher performance ratings *Differences in potential ratings account for half of the gender promotion gap *Women’s lower potential ratings do not reflect future performance: women subsequently outperform male colleagues

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

It’s pathetic that random groups of Chicago area moms are better at fighting fascism than their senior senator

What do you call a leader with no followers? Just a guy taking a walk. He's not just a senator. He's the *leader*. His job isn't his personal vote. His job is to unify and lead his caucus against the regime.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

yes senator they're roasting you on Bluesky, sir yes full roast sir, the communists, the wine moms, Bill Kristol, they're all roasting you, sir no, sir, I haven't seen him in Waiting for Godot, but he's roasting you, too, sir

It’s giving “Chris Coons torpedoing impeachment witnesses so he could get home for Valentine’s Day weekend”

I’ve said it before but news outlets worry a lot about looking biased and not enough about looking phony. Why should people trust you if you won’t say what they can see plain as day?

50 year mortgage is so crazy. to put it in perspective, 2016 was 50 years ago

People think the past was all LEAVE IT TO BEAVER but really it was more like THE HONEYMOONERS

“You sayin’ I got *four* kidneys?”

Mamdani is going to implement Serena Williams law. New Yorkers will be required to serve a tennis ball at over 100/mph

I spoke with 'Sandwich Guy' Sean Dunn about his uncomfortable newfound celebrity, the militarized and 'frightening' raid to re-arrest him, and the boost he got from all your sandwich memes and street art. Oh, and now we know what kind of sandwich it was. www.huffpost.com/entry/dc-san...

He’s not wrong

I love that the Boston cop slide never got fixed and now people just willingly go down it in tribute. It’s basically a national landmark at this point

am reminded of the old joke: what did James Watson discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes.

Literally the one place in the country where Democrats got their clock cleaned was in the home county of state chair who refused to endorse Mamdani and has generally overseen a string very poor democratic performances.

I watched the first two minutes and then realized I had to save the rest for later as a treat

Never forget. Vote them all out.

I do not think all anti-Zionists are antisemitic, but anti-Zionists who label Zohran Mamdani a "Zionist" simply because he condemned swastikas drawn on a Jewish day school in Brooklyn are in fact antisemites.

Warning to the feds: if Trump sends soldiers to NYC, we have very varied sandwich options at our disposal. You will encounter a fusillade of bahm mi, BEC, gyro, chop cheese, BLT, doubles, lox bagel, croque-madame, torta and döner. Hell, half a Katz’s pastrami on rye could wipe out a couple of guys.

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

This is a big deal, the opposite of Obama standing down his organizing base after 2008.

I needed a sandwich for lunch and I was just reading live-posting from the courtroom. Give those jurors some deli sammies!