I hope Kat & co sue these thugs back to the stone age

I feel pretty comfortable in saying that what he did today is a greater threat to our democracy than what he did on Jan 6th.

I say without hyperbole that this is the most brazenly corrupt action in US Presidential history. That it does not immediately lead to impeachment is a dangerous sign of how far the rule of law has declined.

Holy shit this piece will melt some eyeballs. Writer argues Dems need to take drastic, even once-unimaginable tactics in response to Voting Rights Act being gutted. He writes: "Patience is the enemy now" and we have to stop asking people for it. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

That’s it. I’m canceling my subscription.

I'm so sick of people sugar coating the Epstein files. These rich and powerful men raped young girls and boys and the President of the United States was part of it. #ReleaseTheEpstein_Files

Did you ever want a thing so badly you were afraid to say it out loud?

Conversations about the future of higher education in the US need to start from the unfortunate, basic fact that both Democrats and Republicans agree with Reagan that government should not subsidize curiosity driven learning and inquiry.

It's neo-segregationist John Roberts's country now. We just live in it. newrepublic.com/post/210025/...

Attention all men. More of this, please.

This is the scariest thing I've read in a very long time: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

I am so sick of seeing academia slandered and abused like this. We perform a vital service for a healthy society and do so while making (often far) below market wages for our trouble. We would be better off if fewer journalists used their platforms to tend to their narcissistic wounds in public.

The John Roberts Court has done more to reduce the political power of poor people and Black people while enlarging the voting rights of rich people and corporations than has any court since Roger Taney was Chief Justice in the 1800s. I opposed his nomination in 2005, and I stand by that.

John Roberts is a racist piece of shit who will stand in history shoulder to shoulder with the worst segregationists and Klansmen. His robes may not be white, but he has told us who he is.

Call me when the NYT is ready for a "12 Bitches Who Were Right about Everything" piece.

So endless accommodation for right wing media and pro-fascist oligarchs. State censorship for critics. Nice first amendment you’ve got there. Shame if something were to happen to it.

It’s Gunnar, isn’t it?

I know normalization is just what we've decided to do to cope but turning a botched assassination attempt on the president of the united states into a public debate on gilded playspace is FUCKING STUPID and I refuse to treat this bullshit pivot seriously or with respect.

Now do Musk.

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Waitress in a Klingon diner: TODAY IS A GOOD DAY FOR PIE.

I don’t care how he would govern. I just want to hear him give a SotU address. Just one.

Drop whatever you're doing and check out Angine de Poitrine. It's like waking up and realizing, in an instant, how formulaic and essentially conservative our culture has become. We need a lot more of this kind of art if we're going to get out of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Ssi...

samuel beckett was born on this day 120 years ago. astonishing to think that if he had survived, and could run 100m in 9.57 seconds, he would be not only the oldest but also the fastest man in the world - together with his nobel prize for literature, an astonishing trifecta

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

If you’d told me 10 years ago that the sight of the juxtaposed US and Canadian flags would choke me up, I wouldn’t have believed you.

If you’re an administrator who forced your humanities faculty to put humiliating “learning outcomes” on syllabi, you own a part of this. The erosion of the idea that humanistic education is not an end in itself didn’t happen all at once. Trump and Musk had many accomplices.

What would it look like if Army brass tried to resist mobilization for ground operations? It would like this, right? Exactly like this?

Private equity read “Bowling Alone” and saw an investment opportunity

This is also me except I’m the swamp too.

I defended my PhD 10 years ago today. That was the least remarkable thing that happened that day. Sharing something I wrote about it last year. Since then "the horrors persist but so do we." And with dignity.

hearing that donald trump has lost his lecturer line at pomona college, which was the only way he could get health insurance, over this post

“Saxon Musk” sounds like a cologne marketed to white supremacists that smells like cow shit and BO.

Sixty senators have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever today.

remember that time Howard Dean made a weird noise and it ended his political career can we get that but for nazi tattoos and transphobia

Left wing media won’t tell you that Markwayne also knows how to get his sister off.

I think Stranger Things is the only show where I’ve never fast forwarded through the opening sequence. That synthwave and VHS film grain is such a vibe.

I was this many years old before I heard a sitting Defense Secretary describe me as an “enemy.” Ngl, I could have waited a bit longer.

He’s leaving to spend more time with the kids.

Having got to a place where there are few to no career-length jobs in the humanities, in a society where much of the work itself — particularly on “divisive” subjects — is reviled in media and attacked by politicians, we have created conditions that select for wealthy folk, cliff divers and saints

Somewhere in the Midwest a diner is doing this rn

Wow.

Lefties need to resist the urge to watch this and feel like it’s a win for us. We need to feel this man’s grief and recognize his anger at not being able to love his country right now. We need to be cultivating anger and humility at this moment.

36 years ago today, the Pale Blue Dot picture was taken by Voyager 1, from an unprecedented distance of over 6 billion kilometers (3.7 billion miles, 40.5 AU). The Earth appears as less than a pixel; just a tiny dot against the vastness of space, among bands of sunlight refracted by the camera lens.

It ain’t over til Minnesota has ICE’s battle flag

Why the fuck is @schumer.senate.gov negotiating for rights we already have?

I love that half the ads now are about trying to find meaning in our existential hell world and the product at the end is either AI or Jesus

Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome