Hello, 911? I just witnessed a murder.

Interviewer: Can you explain this gap in your resume? Xenophon: You are well aware that it is not numbers or strength that bring the victories in war…

Paul Celan knew you can’t trust people who hang an image of your own dead body on the wall and call it a god. www.artofeurope.com/celan/cel3.htm

Charlie Kirk’s tireless efforts to educate this country about structural racism are under appreciated. Like he said: “The moral arc of the universe is long. But it bends toward justice.” #charliekirk #racialjustice

Mamdani has a plurality of votes from Jewish New Yorkers because they know he stands for justice for ALL, but the MAGA & Corporate Dem demonization of Mamdani is further enabling this actual danger. Where are the calls to decrease the political rhetoric against Muslim American candidates? 🤔 2/2

When you’re a soggy sack of shit, you should count yourself lucky it isn’t 100%, Donnie.

I went to National Archives to see the 12th-27th Amendments (on display for 1st time)+ witnessed something extraordinary: A black docent proudly showed a group of white tourists the 13th Amendment, pointing where Abe Lincoln had signed. He was GLOWING. I had chills+ then I cried. History has weight.

accommodate every.fucking.time

Trump has already declared nine (!) national emergencies purporting to justify hundreds of questionable actions that would typically require congressional approval or lengthy regulatory review. www.thebulwark.com/p/reining-in...

btw if you think being a little mean to fascists is bad wait until you hear about the concentration camps they’re building

Who elected Sardinia the geographical center of world cuisine? That's what I'd like to know.

We need to start calling it the Redneck Reichstag.

It’s nuts the way we have all been holding our breath waiting for a Reichstag fire and how we all knew, instantly, when it was here. It’s enough to turn a guy into a Hegelian.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

I think I’m going to sit down and reread Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew tonight for absolutely no reason at all.

it’s a beautiful day to shut the fuck up

Too many faculty fall into the Shai Davidai trap, assuming our students’ positions are fixed, that they are our antagonists, and that we perform for an outside audience. None of this is true. Even students with strong ideological commitments can learn nuance. Teaching it is hard, but honest work.

that guy with the sword there? he was a teacher. but there was something that needed doing.

This is your daily reminder that they don’t intend to face the electorate in a fair election ever again.

I personally lost faith in liberalism when we decided to make Matt Fucking Yglesias an authority on anything other than where to shove a silver spoon.

Bitch maybe we could’ve won Vietnam if your fat ass had shown up.

Attn all ICE agents! Here’s an announcement from our front window: Chicago hates you, and you are not welcome here!

Now we need to convince them that running a show for longer than 3 seasons is praxis.

The leaking shitbag in the White House won’t see your snide tweets about his humiliating demise, but the fresh crop of shitbags vying to replace him might. Post accordingly.

Guys, there is meth smoke coming out of the Capitol chimney. Does this mean the couch fucker is in charge now?

I'm gonna call it: it happens this month. Prayer warriors, join hands.

😙🤌

My wish for her is an eternity of needing to pee, but all she can find are women’s restrooms and she’s in the masc body of Robert Galbraith.

Well, UChicago has paused new PhD admissions in my department now, too. One of the flagship departments for anthropology in the US and worldwide. This on top of hum, social thought, social work, and others. What happens to UChicago's brand--the so-called "life of the mind"--now?

Cuomo is now openly admitting his path into office is via Republicans. This is the guy Jeffries, Carville, Clinton and the rest of the establishment want us to line up behind? They’re admitting what progressives have long argued: the core of the Democratic Party is less-racist republicans. Unreal.

People like this don’t actually care about trans folk, Gazans, the incarcerated, etc. & want to use our fear of Trump to force us to give up these principles. They’re doing the same with Mamdani. Forcing us to choose between public order and our values is a Trumpist tactic. It’s anti-democratic.

Slightly diminish a band Led Balloon

Zohran figuratively beating Cuomo to death with his own shoes when he’s like 20 points ahead is how you establish a Fiorello La Guardia level legacy in New York and everyone in politics should be taking notes.

As a person who learned Greek from the University of Chicago classics faculty, I am aghast. Unimaginable cultural vandalism. This is one of the preeminent classics departments in the world at a University with a $10 billion endowment. Have these people never read their colleague Martha Nussbaum?

Getting ready for some friends’ baby shower and Philip Larkin’s This Be the Verse is running through my head over and over because my subconscious is apparently a complete sociopathic asshole.

Cuomo will be begging for massages at Mar a Lago before the year is over.

Jesus: “No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.” Evangelicals: “Ok but what if they were the same guy?”

This irony-proof motherfucker…

Every news report on this should be emphasizing that he’s doing this to rig the next election. It’s not even subtle and without that context, the media are simply complicit.

Trump is having a high-level meeting to coordinate Epstein strategy and Bondi is attending?! I'm old enough to remember when Clinton simply talking to Janet Reno was enough to get conservatives howling for blood. There really are two sets of rules, aren't there?

Does anyone else remember a couple of months ago when a Republican terrorist shot four people killing two of them in an effort to give control of the Minnesota legislature to Republicans?

I hate the word “seminal” and from now on will be pronouncing it with a long e to help others see how totally creepy it is.

“Let’s use the Jews to destroy the American university system” is some real varsity level Jew-hating stuff, for real.

Another light goes out.

The whole fucking point is that the NIH is not a company. It serves the public good, not shareholders. And, indeed, much of the private sector actively depends on the work they do. I swear to god this country is in the hands of actual morons.

“Why shoot for just half an audience?” said the man who lost his entire audience years ago.