The current iteration of the Republican Party consists of two competing factions: Fuck Them Kids (figuratively) and Fuck Them Kids (literally). In this essay I will

The president of the United States posted a video of him defecating on the American people. Many in my profession normalized it. This is a big reason why we are where we are.

The ACA is not perfect but it’s much much much much much better than what came before it (more or less *nothing*, for all intents and purposes), and people saying anything different are either 1) too young to know any better, 2) dumb, or 3) Republicans. Combinations of 1-3 are also valid.

Serious business here

You are welcome to your "viewpoint diversity" op eds if you can survive a semester of teaching an Intro level course at a state university/ community college with a minimum of a 3/5 overall rating. Good luck 🫡 y'all suck and the students would hate your self involved obnoxious small mindedness.

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

one of the worst fucking things in the world is the move to call sincerity and care "cringe" fuck that shit. let's build a political community based on care for one another.

An artillery shell fired during 250th anniversary celebration of the Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton on Saturday detonated prematurely over Interstate 5, damaging a California Highway Patrol vehicle on JD Vance's security detail www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...

Decided, after much thought, to return the Season 13 box. I can’t support the blu-rays if this is what they are doing now.

Netanyahu won't stop until he's murdered every Palestinian on Gaza. #FreePalestine www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

as someone who worked at twitter during the takeover i can say that leakers talk because they’re pissed and want everyone on the outside to know what’s going on. it’s a public SOS. and it only gets worse.

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I thought they were being paranoid; even with the interfaces you actually have to read the words, preferably all the words. Sometimes non-augmented humans don’t do that. Sometimes augmented humans don’t do it either.

We're calling him Diarrhea Don. He's owning the libs so hard with this, it's brilliant. Everyone talking about the president's uncontrollable bowels, how manly and cool his uncontrollably explosive shits are.

Yesterday's No Kings protests were apparently the largest since the first Earth Day in 1970 The NYT covered that story with a six column headline across the top of the paper and two full pages inside Today, two small pics below the fold and a story on page A23 They constantly let America down

Retired Army Sgt. Brian Wofford spoke to me this morning at the Oklahoma City #NoKings protest. Didn’t expect him to be carrying his DD214 so I asked some warmup questions like when he got out and whether his injury was service-related. He paused while describing the car bomb in Iraq to say this:

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

Randall Munroe once noted that more Californians than Texans voted for Trump and more Texans than New Yorkers voted for Harris.

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Solidarity!! Last week, Indiana University fired the director of student media & halted print on the Indiana Daily Student newspaper. Yesterday, Purdue’s student paper printed the banned edition & drove two hours to deliver it. Incredible www.heraldtimesonline.com/story/news/l...

Proud papa moment: my son J published a letter in the @nytimes.com today (in print tomorrow) on the need to think our definitions of autism.

Take note of all these people turning out for protests in small towns in red states. Remember them the next time you’re inclined to write an area off because “they voted for this.”

Trump’s EPA canceled a $20M flood protection grant for the area in May, calling it “wasteful DEI spending.”

i think raw terror for their own physical safety is going to be the single predominant motive during the rest of this administration, which maybe suggests some not-great things about where we might be headed

This video of the "ICE" agent [?] with no ID, who thinks claiming to be in the DHS means he's allowed to drive his kids around drunk answers two questions: 1. Many ICE agents probably *are* just cosplaying vigilantes with issues; and 2. Many think claiming to be ICE means they can disobey laws.

Paging @whysharksmatter.bsky.social

If I could offer students one bit of…advice: be brutally traditional about what is printed on your degree. If you are first-gen or in any way non traditional, this goes double. Let rich kids get degrees in AI. You get something called “English”.

I am not one to say that police won't get out of pocket in 2025. I just think people who are gearing for war will find it more likely when they show up that twenty grandmas try to register them to vote and force free water on them because hydration is important.

Some days, the NYT spelling bee is actually mean.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Idaho started ACA open enrollment. Here's a preview for the rest of us. When your rates rise and you can't afford coverage, remember that it's the GOP who made it happen. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I mean librarians are always one book ban away from the barricades, this is known

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

My husband’s ballot came in the mail. Mine did not. I looked into why and… I was purged from the voting roll. PLEASE CONFIRM YOUR VOTER REGISTRATION.

Man, this freaking guy. "I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

"I was married, but I'm not married anymore. Women don't like the vehicle."

The fight against female genital mutilation is being co-opted by anti-trans activists, hindering urgent laws from being passed. And as the White House and Republicans falsely conflate FGM with gender-affirming care, it’s only getting worse. New reporting from @jazzmyth.bsky.social and myself

Dammit 2025. www.npr.org/2025/10/16/1...

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Meanwhile, the House just passed a bill last month to try children as young as 14 as adults for some crimes in Washington DC.

Media is awesome because it can show an organization trying to get rid a guy who is underwater with state Democrats by 50 points, undermines any Democratic policy, and is just completely off-putting to anyone who has to spend five minutes around him; and they phrase it as “seeding discord”

pretending you were asking for more information was the best way to try to get the humans to realize they were doing something stupid.

Please be conscious if you protest this weekend that there are feds at the protest. They look like you and they sound like you, not like Steve Buscemi in that one clip with the skateboard. Thinking you can spot them is self delusion. Nobody you haven’t met needs to know your last name.

ABC spelled credulous wrong.

When we write or draw porn or erotica, we get banned from having a bank account and our livelihoods get seized even if we give it away for free. When billionaires steal what we've written or drawn to churn out a slop-approximate of porn, they're allowed to charge for it.