Mayor Mamdani has nullified every executive order issued by Eric Adams after he struck his corrupt bargain with Trump to secure dismissal of the indictment against him.

Unironically, America fuck yeah.

This would be so popular at the national level if centrist Democrats let us use those words in that order

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

It’s worth saying out loud that this is Nazi propaganda. They’re not winking and nodding. It’s pure unadulterated lebensraum.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO HORSES! IT IS HORSE BIRTHDAY! HORSE!!!!!

If 2025 didn't stop you nothing will

Anderson Cooper cannot keep it together during his dramatic reading of the lyrics to Taylor Swift's "Wood" (r @vineyarddawg.bsky.social)

Happy new year, and a terrible new year to your enemies

Happy New Year. We’re going to win.

This is the technology our schools are encouraging our children to use.

Uh… check out what ChatGPT allegedly told a man before he killed his mother and then himself. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.

"But masking gives me acne" Please don't let your fear of getting acne while your nose is full of gross boogers lead you to do things that can literally get other people killed, ok?

The reason this Harvard history professor decided he was done with one of the best and most privileged jobs in the world was, in his own words, because he was forced to lecture in a mask during peak Covid. I’m not making this up.

Rest in peace you absolute legend of an artist

This thread of insults should be commemorated in bronze. It should easily make the longlist for the national posting awards.

It is interesting to me that I get the most angry emails when I mention masks in an article than anything else I write about.

Not just the rich and that's also something to sit with.

One of the reasons I’m glad I retired from Professoring before the 2024 election is seeing Universities cave to right wing pressure. The U of Oklahoma’s decision to remove Mel Curth from her teaching position for failing a student who quoted the Bible instead of a reliable source is one example.

Bring back the idea that there's stuff it's rude to ask people about and none of your business (why are you masking, why aren't you drinking, etc.)

when people ask my mom why she's wearing a mask, she says, "it helps me mind my own business"

After being banned from the pub (again), Steve is experimenting with disguises.

Wrote about how disappointing it is that Jon Stewart punched down on people masking at @motherjones.com, when people should mind their own business and leave mask wearers be. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I try not to become so bitter a person that I would wish my long covid on anyone. I don’t wish the crushing fatigue, the heart problems, the weight gain, the hair loss, inability to exercise, the shattered immune system, on anyone. But I do fucking wish none of them could ever eat a potato again.

Hanging out with German relatives this week and all them have been like, “Oh yeah that’s definitely a Hitler you got there. You wanna fix that now or else you got a REAL problem down the pike.”

My new year's resolution this year, as every year, is to be a more available, supportive friend as well as an increasingly looming, formidable enemy.

Here’s to 2026

One thing that I’ve become increasingly certain of over the course of this year: As an academic, I do not have (and never will have) a responsibility to teach students to use Gen AI ‘ethically’ (as if that were possible). The idea that academics should be doing this is a blight on the sector.

In case people were wondering how Brown’s $50 million dollar bribe to Trump that threw trans people under the bus was working out for them

Gingerbread 2025 Dumpster 🔥

it's also disgusting to intentionally reframe the conversation this way to drive a specific reaction from people who also didn't read the whole article. "i don't want my monetary donations going to purchase tampons!!" well luckily they didn't! none of that happened!

frankly i think it's disgusting to share an article about a candidate's strategies to accuse her of "campaign fraud" while deliberately ignoring the parts of the article where 1) the campaign actively works to maintain compliance 2) the tampons were all donated, not purchased with campaign funds

I missed the AP story when it ran earlier this month. It included this photo of Jo Ann taken by Bethany Mollenkof on the day she and I sat at her table in her LA home in 2019. I was working on a project interviewing those who desegregated America’s schools. Not the laws, the people.

I should write an essay about organizing titled "All Those Boring Meetings Paid Off."

We're ruled by people in all three branches of government and across the tech/corporate landscape who think it's bad that this happened and wish the mob had prevailed, plain and simple. It's clarifying.

We should ask why it’s so easy for terms and concepts like “Heritage American” and “Western Chauvinism” are met with earnest analysis and exploration while academic theory produced by Black scholars are summarily dismissed by people reading introductory texts if that.

Not to be controversial but I think we should use tools and resources to make people's lives less miserable instead of more

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

unironically a good idea

The fact they treat prompt writing as a coveted skill is such a tragic self-own and they don’t even get it. Society is being pressed through cheesecloth by illiterati.

Anyway. They spent the last decade telling us STEM degrees were the future and the Humanities were worthless then they spent hundreds of billions of dollars to build a glitchy Humanities robot.

This is one of several studies re covid-induced brain/cognitive damage among university students. If you are concerned & thinking ‘someone should do something’…we ned to look in the mirror b/c that someone is you, just as it is me. We cannot accept this. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Happy holidays to everyone who's in solitude today. You get to decide what this post-solstice 24 hours is like! You could mourn or reflect, give gratitude or binge-watch, join your chosen family or cozy up with your animals. You may not be surrounded by people, but a lot of us are in the same place.

I saw a tiktok that said: "You deserve a break. Stop healing. Crash Out. Choose Violence. Do. It. For. The. Plot" And i feel like this is the energy we should enter 2026 with

Tiny Tim, who did NOT hit her. He did not. Oh hi, ghost

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