The peace president makes the case for forever wars

1. Big tech funds MAGA 2. MAGA wages war on universities 3. University revenues plummet 4. Big tech buys university assets 5. Data centers literally replace higher education

"When the field of history is left uncrowded by historians with full-time employment, historical actors—with self-serving intentions—who wish to exculpate and justify their actions will fill the vacuum."

Jesus. Another boarded up unit. This is all so fucking wasteful. Running everything for the benefit of speculation rather than commerce is so destabilising. All the pointless destruction of stuff that made things feel normal, even the dull shit. The knock-ons always unforeseen, chaotic.

If you want to know how the British print news industry ends (which is, de facto, amazingly still what supports most newspaper websites) it's the distribution channels getting banjaxed. When you lose "TG Jones" etc even people who want a paper can't get one. That'll be the real start of the ending.

Remember that Trump, the dumbest man in America, couldn’t come up with a rationale for how Obama was bad for the military so he said we were out of bullets?

“Stop obeying in advance” should be so obvious. And yet, I’m too frequently reminded that those chosen to lead our hospitals, our schools, and well… everything, are simply incapable of looking past the next quarter.

I hope they surround it with inspirational quotes from college dropout Charlie Kirk like "college is a scam," or maybe the time he told a 14-year-old girl she should only go to college to find a husband to take care of her, or something detailing the harassment campaigns he led against professors?

Interesting. @insidehighered.com features a few academic libraries for doing what so many academic libraries have been doing for so many years. One thing is true: there is almost certainly something powerful happening at your library & you should get in on it! www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

We appear to even be saying -- so far as I can tell -- that US government employees and their dependents in those countries are on their own

Salute to a man who was probably the single most important studio engineer of my most formative years and beyond. He shaped sound, sharpened samples and varnished vocals. Tribe, De La, The Roots, Badu, D’Angelo and too many more. A true wizard. RIP Bob Power. 🕊️

The kids will hardly believe it today, but way back in 2024, the mental & physical acuity of elderly presidents was, quite literally, <the> single most important, nonstop front page story of American politics 🤔

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n... Bypass here. archive.ph/4NboB

This isn't a knock on the quality of the cover-up, those are always tricky, but replacing JESUS OF NAZARETH with SHREDDER OF THE FOOT CLAN is the funniest god damn thing

Getting served ads on YouTube in which Goldman says he's coming for Kristi Noem. Primaries are great!

This is why we kick and scream, yes, at your own party. It’s the only way they will even pretend to listen! Keep going! 📣 🗣️

MF DOOM

incredible, he did the joke

Awful big talk for a guy who lost three f-15s to friendly fire this morning.

Even in a crowded field, Fetterman is really making his play for the title of all-time king fink.

If you don't want to click on the Substack and give money to nazis, here's the comment link: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

For ppl who aren't aware: Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut. They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures. You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

(9:17, July 2025) 4k walkthrough of the beautiful JACK KIRBY: HEROES AND HUMANITY exhibit at the Skirball Center. I learned about this exhibit just in time to visit it on its last day. youtu.be/AcdhmmYfRco?...

Yesterday was the last day that JACK KIRBY: HEROES AND HUMANITY was on view at the Skirball Cultural Center. I went to say “good-bye” to the exhibition and have one final look at these artifacts of a genius that have been etched into my imagination for most of my life…

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

of course

Everything Trump calls preventative is actually a hideous attack.

Marco Rubio: "No presidential administration has ever accepted the War Powers Act as constitutional"

Hillary Clinton has more than her share of flaws, but when it comes to "showing congressional Republicans the proper level of contempt" she is flawless.

The Fuhrer's invasion of Poland is unconscionable and does nothing to lower the price of eggs for the people of Germany.

you'd think that marco could have practiced his doublespeak a bit more before this embarassing effort

So is this what they're really going to settle on?

Melania Trump urges protecting children’s education at UN after Iran school strike

Speed running the greatest hits

watch the other dude's eyes as he's trying to follow along

Hillary Clinton finding out Lauren Boebert is posting photos of her testimony: "If you guys are doing that, I am done. You can hold me in contempt from now until the cows come home. this is just typical behavior... We all are abiding by the same rules." Boebert: "I... I will take that down."

Gotta tell the bookies first, I guess. www.ap.org/media-center... Anyways. Another reputable news source soiled forever now.

I started to distance myself from a lot of things prior to 2020, but that year really made me misnathropic. People were dying, including two people i knew and you had racist ghouls in South Jersey threatening to riot because the gyms were closed and the governor asked ppl to wear masks.

BREAKING: Credible whistleblower discloses that FBI forensic experts were ordered to stand down from processing the scene where Renee Good was killed, because Kash Patel did not want Good referenced as a “victim” in the warrant.

You can watch writer & filmmaker Toni Cade Bambara's documentary on this, THE BOMBING OF OSAGE AVENUE! www.pbs.org/video/whyy-s...

What could go wrong except, well, EVERYTHING?

Feds can magically retrieve video from Nancy Guthrie’s Nest camera that had no active subscription but have claimed for like five months they can’t get video from their own server.

the good news here is that the economist has a stunning track record of being dead wrong in all of their forecasts and predictions

RIP to hundreds of Iranians and one American vacation

👀 ”In a statement released following the incident, Amazon said “objects” struck the building, creating sparks and flames, declining to link the incident to Iran’s missile and drone attacks.”

I'm gonna be thinking about this one for a while.

“‘Missed the joke’ is not an oppressed class” is a GREAT line, though.