The NYT sneer is visible from space

An open endorsement of hate - precisely what you do not want the President to do after an assassination when messages from leaders disavowing violence are especially important www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/u...

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EAGLES BLOCK THE FIELD GOAL [AGAIN] TO WIN THE GAME JORDAN DAVIS! MERRILL REESE AND MIKE QUICK ON THE CALL! #FlyEaglesFly

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I know evangelicals can get very selectively into Judaism but it's just Rosh Hashanah it happens every year

Your occasional reminder that nothing of particular note took place on Jan 6, 2020

I’m genuinely not sure what journalists are for if they let easily disprovable lies go unrebutted in print like this. We might as well just read press releases.

The mainstream news environment. Page 1: arguments at a suburban Miami town council Page 24: Ted Cruz calling the FCC a mafioso, US attorney forced out, Pentagon demands no investigative journalism

After Douthat says Trumpism is pressuring institutions "to do the right thing," his first example of that "right thing"—the "civic purpose"—is resegregation in higher education

Restricting visas doesn’t lead to hiring non-immigrants—it leads to hiring foreigners. For every H-1B visa rejection, multinationals add ~0.4–0.9 foreign employees, especially in R&D hubs like India, China, and Canada. via @florianederer.bsky.social

Tom Homan is halfway to sponsoring an H-1B visa

iOS 26 looks a little odd but it also fixes the wack layout of the Photos app

This was a great joke.

This is the kind of provision whose very existence invites the appearance of corruption

Sure seems like they should get Kimmel back on the air on Monday

It's time. I started a newsletter. It's called Art & Politics and the first post is on Jimmy Kimmel and Ezra Klein and how despite asking what Russia was like, most people don't really want to know miriamelder.substack.com/p/beware-the...

This was before we had driver's side sliding door technology

My most cusp-of-millennial complaint is how people treat the Star Wars prequels as if they are real movies

If his ratings were tanking and advertisers were fleeing—the market working as intended—surely the federal government didn't need to start making threats?

Continued palpable levels of snark in our provost's updates about the new chancellor

The ACIP vote was tied 6-6 for requiring everyone to get a prescription for the COVID19 vaccine. The chair broke the tie by voting NO. Prescriptions will NOT be required.

outstanding www.engadget.com/wearables/me...

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

Linguistics Bluesky, what are our favorite analyses of this use of "first", where it appears to take something like clause-level scope? 🐦🐦

More and more I am convinced there is an entire genre of rock music that is best characterized as "chasing the Come Together outro"

The defining lesson of this first year of Trump authoritarianism is that kowtowing & capitulating yields zero permanent benefit and only emboldens the admin to come after you more. This critical lesson was first documented in the landmark political science treatise “If You Give a Mouse a Cookie.”

Do you know a Milwaukee-area kid 12-18 who is interested in songwriting? Saturday 9/27 there’s a cool songwriting workshop happening with some amazing local songmakers (and me). More info here: facebook.com/events/s/a-r...

You can't buy yourself safety by giving ground, exhibit a million

The internet was a mistake but it's also full of Brian Dawkins supercuts so it's impossible to say whether it's bad or not

Welp: Texas A&M President Mark Welch just stepped down after pressure from Republicans over a video of a professor who taught about transgender people in a children's literature class

But will they occupy the Orb?

I can tell this site needs more sports knowers because everyone's been yelling about canceling Disney+ and Hulu all day and I literally haven't seen anyone yelling about canceling the new ESPN app, which was just rolled out and the success of which is existential for ESPN.

HAPPENING NOW: AFT and @aaup.org are in Washington DC to launch our new campaign, to show the country that #HigherEdBenefitsEveryone. Follow along in the thread below!

Does Klein earnestly believe the reason you don't see progressives tour conservative evangelical churches to defend abortion or some such is that progressives are dispositionally less interested in debate and civil discourse than the right? Genuinely? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...

Real life is becoming more and more like a version of The Onion written by idiots

look she is awful but this is a sure sign no one but the most overt maga people like what is going on

Very disturbing that the New York Times keeps referring to Trump's authoritarian actions as bringing institutions "to heel," as if subjugating key institutions of civil society with the force of the federal government is a legitimate expression of presidential power.

What is even supposed to be the parallel here? Matt Lauer lost his spot on TV for being a creep, not at the behest of a president he criticized on air.

Meanwhile Carr in one breath is portraying this as the natural outcome of endogenous market forces and in the next saying we can do this the easy way or the hard way. Can't be both!

"In the absence of governance, or just in its place, the state has taken up a grim and shameful kind of content creation. The conservative elite...now has to crash out about nonbinary baristas and kick around sophomores with septum piercings for clout, like common influencers."

Travels in north Berkeley, or:

Straight to the point www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Major media outlets are (surprise) missing the fact that the big networks are being more feckless than usual (Kimmel) in part because they're lobbying the FCC to eliminate some of the last remaining media consolidation limits preventing the big four networks from merging

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Chuck Schumer and Hakeem Jeffries could hold a press conference right now and announce that they will not fund a government that is engaged in an organized and unconstitutional effort to silence any criticism.

Man that Barnard president op-ed is real bad

Look at this absolute murderers' row

Excited to learn more about Enemy Of The Good PAC