“We got a reaction out of everyone therefore it was a worthwhile endeavor” is literally the logic of a subway masturbator

The thing about the Times is when you look like mamdani you are not owed any privacy even as a teenager while filling a confidential form for college but if you look like Jordan Lasker your identity must be protected even as a grown man while sharing stolen data for the purpose of neonazi propaganda

in a way it's actually really funny how little it took to completely undermine 200 years of declaration of how much America loves free speech

Comrade card for 6/1/2025.

Finally watched the Joni Ernst videos and… I mean, I…. It’s just infuriating how much they think they can get away with. They truly believe the the voters are so beaten down and so disengaged and so hopeless that they can do That to you, and still draw a salary from your money

Funniest detail to me re: Thom Yorke's weird relationship to Israel is that it's the first place Creep really took off so Israel kinda launched Radiohead's career. Israeli music fans could not get enough of a song that asks "what the hell am I doing here" and answers with "I don't belong here."

this guy is a world class asshole

Famously nothing happened involving race in the 90s we all got along. Can't we all just get along? I can't remember where I heard that

Unfortunately for a large number of americans their ideal existence is being a plantation owner in 1820s mississippi and they feel a deep personal void that they were born in a time that denied them the opportunity bsky.app/profile/mari...

Was reminded of this all-time Tumblr post

“Maybe the ideal way to read these books *is* side by side—a compendium.” It’s a battle of the heavyweights today at the 2025 Tournament of Books, presented by @fieldnotesbrand.bsky.social, as @aditikhorana.bsky.social decides between “James” and “Martyr!” www.tournamentofbooks.com/2025/james-v...

"When a complex system is far from equilibrium, small islands of coherence in a sea of chaos have the capacity to shift the entire system to a higher order." Iya Prigogine, Noble prize-winning chemist

I wonder if there are other parts to it?

Must read: Mahmoud Khalil speaks out for the first time since his arrest by the Trump administration in an exclusive letter, dictated over the phone to his family, from ICE detention in Louisiana.

Based on this fast and excellent WaPo reporting, these four guys are not gang members, just Venezuelan dads who came to the US to work. They’re now being paraded in shackles in El Salvador www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

If you have Democratic senators, and you haven’t called them yet asking them to replace Chuck Schumer as senate minority leader, today is a beautiful day to do that. Holds double true if Schumer is your senator.

It’s depressing enough that so many people live in manufactured-reality bubbles where they could believe that universities are “factories of Maoist cadres.” Worse that one of them is an opinion columnist for the New York Times.

So I’m assuming the name of Gavin Newsom’s podcast is “I Don’t Want To Be President”

look, I'm not trying to say things aren't terrible, but the roman empire's best literature came out of its collapse, so stop writing for booktok and start writing for cold eternity

Facts and legality aside…I can’t imagine this message will help move more cars. “If you buy a Tesla, you become a target of domestic terrorists.” Who do they think is going to be like, “Yes, and please finance that target over five years please.”

Jewish students at Columbia university today organized a demonstration in solidarity with anti-war student organizer Mahmoud Khalil and to denounce Trump's attacks on public education and protest. Photo via @/Columbia_psc

why the fuck does my governor have a podcast to begin with

Sent to USAID essential personnel this morning

I guess I’m saying it’s either stupid or evil no third option

As someone who has spent more than 12 years on weather and climate services: I have never seen a fully private service work economically. All effective, affordable services are built on public data. If NWS is privatized, you’ll be paying more for less effective forecasts.

*looks directly at camera*

This is criminal behavior.

DOCUMENT DESTRUCTION: My reporter Brett Murphy obtained a remarkable directive to folks at USAID: Empty the safes with the classified and personnel records and then, "Shred as many documents first, and reserve the burn bags for when the shredder becomes unavailable or needs a break."

If you’re a Proud Boy or an Oath Keeper convicted for seditious treason by a jury of your peers, however, you get an invite to CPAC.

This should have been signed by every Democrat and every elected official who opposes the kidnapping and illegal imprisonment of political dissidents

The campus protests did everything you’re “supposed” to do and they were still despised. There is no way to protest correctly besides going somewhere where no one can see it

They have nothing. Nothing. They kidnapped a legal resident, shipped him across the country, denied access to his attorney, and are now trying to deport him. And their only justification for it is either protected speech or vague descriptions of alleged crimes committed by other people.

Here is a legal defense and support fund for Mahmoud Khalil. Their baby is coming soon. Please let's help. chuffed.org/project/just...

Foley Square

If we don't have free speech, we don't have a democracy. That's what's at stake with the detention of Mahmoud Khalil. Protecting unpopular speech from government sanction is vital because any speech can become unpopular. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

If ICE agents are in your college dormitory, know your rights.

More than 24 hours since feds snatched someone from Columbia property and locked them up to punish them for protesting, with the President of the United States now boasting about it, and the university still hasn't said one word about it communications.news.columbia.edu/content/univ...

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

If you’re an academic invited to give a talk or attend a workshop there, just decline by saying “I don’t want to risk getting deported”

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression theonion.com/trump-s...

Last week: SpaceX ship explodes, shutting down a huge chunk of Florida airspace. Today: X completely down. The last month: Tesla stock price down by a third. Gotta hand it to Musk: He really is running the government like he runs his businesses.

Trump takes credit for Mahmoud Khalil's arrest by ICE:

Again, the Secretary of State has no authority to “revoke” green cards.

Higher ed in the US has been calcified by an administrative-industrial complex that has systematically dismantled its own societal mandate, and ironically, it’s now being punished for it

There's a lot of frankly tedious debate about whether We're In Fascism Right Now. Whatever your view, I hope we can all agree that "government shock troops disappearing dissidents into their gulag network" is a pretty basic example of fascism. www.discourseblog.com/p/this-is-wh...