"Trump will just defy court orders, what's even the point of litigating" This, this a point

Me: I need you. I can’t go on without you. Why do you want to hurt me? My lower back: Because you turned very slightly to the left.

You've been hit by a car and you're fading in and out. You ask the EMTs to price the ambulance ride. You get to the ER and tell the docs you'll need a price on each service before it's done. You get cancer so it's time to put treament out to competitive bid. I can keep going...

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

"there's a new serif in town"

This is it. Right here.

What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again? Milking cows.

Scorpio: Good things are headed your way. You can run, but you can't escape them. There's nowhere to go. They're everywhere. They've already taken most of the city, destroying the ennui of thousands. They are coming for you. THEY ARE COMING.

What in the actual hell

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a GIF. Hard mode: no Star Wars or trek no Lord of the rings no Marvel and no Disney animated or Pixar.

My dad abhors any negative comments about immigrants. Asked him recently why he’s so strong on it: ‘Because we’re always happy to take the rich and clever ones. Which means it’s not about disliking immigrants. It’s about disliking the poor and vulnerable. And that’s a bad human instinct.’

Sometimes I forget that this is what really matters when it comes to teaching these humans who are learning to become adults. 🥹

I see many citing Tanith Lee as a good fantasy author to replace some tarnished names, which is great, love her, but do be aware she is balls to the wall, knee deep in the genre trenches, not safe for work or safe in any way, a wizard will sexually assault a horse skull and it's only chapter three

Contrary to what some liberal critics say, John Roberts has kept his pledge to only call balls and strikes. He never promised that the strike zone would be the same for Democrats and Republicans.

the birthright clause was not just written to wipe dred scott off of the books, it was written to repudiate the *idea* behind dred scott, you might say the larger *ideological project* of dred scott. and the whole of section 1 of the 14th amendment is a constitutional statement of political equality

This is a cruel act of bigotry against an amazing woman who served her country with distinction.

It might be easy to find things like this merely petty or superficial, but that would be a mistake. Demeaning, erasing or eliminating celebrations or acknowledgments of Black America is straight from Redemption playbook, and is intended to reinforce the racial hierarchy and signal its reinstatement.

exhibit #81823840 in my "Terry Pratchett should be recognized as one of our foremost worldly philosophers" file

This ENTIRE thread, and the article at the end.

Billionaires, in addition to being evil and immoral, are often extremely arrogant, ignorant…and immoral. Did I mention they have no morals? They think they know best. They don’t. This money could be given to people who do and who could maximize the societal benefit. This will do virtually nothing.

Oh and on the subject of public schools trying to get out of educating special needs kids... When my husband was a hospital social worker he had a patient whose family was being told by their school district that they should probably disenroll their kid and look for a specialized private school.

My feeling is that students becoming attached to identifying "themes" is partially to do with an aversion to being outright wrong about an argument or perspective. Punitive grading systems disincentivize taking a swing at a topic bc the risk of being all the way wrong is unacceptably high.

I think we lost it in editing but I talked about that very thing. Real rural life is virtually invisible — no art for dollar stores and meth clinics. And its racial diversity is erased. Actual rural people, especially poor ones, cannot access its aesthetic power

I'm being disingenuous while you advocate for literally anyone who lives in Dearborn—whether a Harris voter or not—to be renditioned to a concentration camp because you don't like how the city as a whole voted? Ok buddy.

These people talked such a grandiose talk about Bluesky being a kinder gentler internet. (Maybe for the infamous transphobe they adjusted the TOS for...) Meanwhile they fabricate a reason to permaban a beloved Black autistic disability advocate. Shameful.

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

A lot of transphobic whataboutism is just straight up trying to make being a bigot sound like a legit position asked in good faith. Nope, same old horseshit.

For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss: It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!! www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...

Aching for that trans instructor at OU, betrayed and vilified by her own university. What must she be feeling right now? May those decision-makers live to regret it.

As I said, I get the same scolds either way. It’s $45 every interaction. A typical itinerary could mean $90-180. I’m not really talking about what *I* would do or what I can pay. The point is this is baldfaced usury for something they said was about security, not profit.

This. This this This this this. (Also some of them are not so well meaning, but most are!)

A college student complaining about a grade on a paper is not national news. Not even close. The details have minimal import outside the class itself. Well-funded political activists targeting profs and TAs—in this case because they're trans—with the help of elected state officials? National issue.

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When a news outlet puts a reckless, undocumented claim by the Trump regime in the main headline and puts medical experts’ pushback in the smaller type, it’s making a choice. And not a good one.

Many creative workers have been saying this is unethical vapor since the beginning, and we’ve been told off and mocked. I welcome people catching up. A lot of money was burned to try and bully people to buy into gen AI.

This is where I am as well. And I would add that students have often been TAUGHT to write in the bland platitudes that mimic LLM slop. Because on the BIG IMPORTANT STATE TESTS it’s AI grading their work.

Great. Why did it take having a child with T21 to care about people with intellectual impairment? Why do you not care about other marginalized and mistreated groups? Trump has attacked…(checks notes)…all of them.

Introduce yourself with 5 animals you’ve seen in the wild: Tarantula Dolphin Black Bear Bald Eagle Moray Eel

My youngest attends a dual enrollment HS. Both the HS and the college go on AT LENGTH about not using AI for assignments. Yet every bit of software on the school supplied computers has AI enabled with no way to turn it off since they can’t mod the software on a school supplied computer.

Cartoon: Loch Nessman.

the requirement is, of course, “be white” amp.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

So. SO! If have either a kind but befuddled elder OR a That Guy Shit stirrer ask about "The F Word" at the feast tomorrow, I recommend the following reply: "Oh fletching. It's the feather things on the back end of arrows, you know? Like what's up with that? Well, you know how weird JFK Jr. is."

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

Violent communication includes contradicting, second-guessing, and assuming that a person either doesn't know what they're talking about or don't mean what they say.

The United States scored a 58 — higher than countries like Russia, China and India, but still in failing territory along with them. https://bit.ly/4rsze4u

I mean, c'mon, what good is being in power if you can't order your secret police to kidnap your nephew's mother so your brother can take custody?

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who’s coming to save you? Dang this could get dangerous.

A movie that takes place where you’re from.