my mom took tylenol when she was pregnant, which made me super focused on menswear and now i have a million followers on twitter

Everyone should read Kagan’s dissent from this atrocious order. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...

In person, you can have them write assignments in blue books again. But entirely online classes are what I'm having difficulty with, and I don't have any decent solutions yet...

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

They put up a bust of Rush Limbaugh in Jeff City and then they had to buy a security camera for it…

The Trump administration said it will require journalists at the Pentagon to pledge they won’t gather any information that hasn’t been authorized for release. Under the policy, the Pentagon may revoke press passes for anyone it deems a security threat.

I like this. Since under RFK Jr, Covid shots are now for people with underlying conditions that put them at risk, Michigan’s chief medical executive Dr. Natasha Bagdasarian states that not having the most recent Covid shot constitutes such an underlying condition. www.michigan.gov/mdhhs/inside...

This is staggering. Dismantling the right wing propaganda machine is imo one of the biggest and most vital obstacles to the future of this country.

Heads up @igagoths.bsky.social - delighted to announce the CFP for IGA 2026: 'Gothic Selves/Artificial Others' hosted at the University of Hull 28-31 July! hullgothic.wordpress.com

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

The Department of Justice is escalating its demands for sensitive data from voting officials, suing two Democratic-controlled states who have thus far rebuffed the department's requests.

A free and democratic society cannot silence comedians because the President doesn’t like what they say. This is an attack on free speech and cannot be allowed to stand. All elected officials need to speak up and push back on this undemocratic act.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

"When we use generative AI, we consent to the appropriation of our intellectual property by data scrapers. We stuff the pockets of oligarchs with even more money. We hand over our autonomy, at the very moment of emerging American fascism."

Not a democracy anymore.

JON KARL: What do you make of Pam Bondi saying she's gonna go after hate speech? A lot of your allies say hate speech is free speech TRUMP: We'll probably go after people like you because you treat me so unfairly. You have a lot of hate in your hate. Maybe they'll have to go after you.

BREAKING: The DC Circuit has *rejected* Trump's bid to fire Lisa Cook from the Fed board, allowing her to participate in tomorrow's interest-rate setting meeting. Trump's last hope is a quick stay from SCOTUS. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

PLEASE give a look at this House Resolution. It concerns revoking US passports for mighty vague reasons, with essentially no way to challenge it.

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

This story feels like it’s going to have huge repercussions

The Nazi extermination programs didn’t begin with Jews. It began in September 1939 with the involuntary euthanasia of people with disabilities and the mentally ill under the Aktion T4 program. That’s how they developed their techniques of mass extermination.

You can use ChatGPT instead of your own brain to write your paper if I can talk about ChatGPT instead of you in your letter of reference

See, for instance, what Franco's regime did with the legacy and image of José Antonio Primo de Rivera.

La ultraderecha española rinde tributo en Madrid a Charlie Kirk, icono MAGA asesinado en EE UU. Entre banderas a media asta y megáfonos, se funden Vox, grupúsculos ultras y guiños trumpistas. Una escena que revela conexiones e impunidad. @carloshdefrutos.bsky.social

Unreal. "Forwarding these names, a well-known practice from the McCarthy Era, may well subject a number of faculty, staff, or students to widespread surveillance—a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice." - Judith Butler, whose name was among the 160 shared with the Trump administration

This is the biggest story in America right now. Coffee up 20.9% year-over-year Steaks up 16.6% Apples up 9.6% Bananas, 6.6%. www.axios.com/2025/09/11/t...

“At least 6 Historically Black colleges have issued alerts and halted classes after receiving threats…” abcnews.go.com/US/multiple-...

The UK fired their ambassador to the US over his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein. Meanwhile, Epstein’s best friend remains the President of the United States.

Charlie Kirk is dead.

@govpritzker.illinois.gov's take on Kirk is the correct one: "Political violence, unfortunately, has ramped up in this country ... I think there are people who are fomenting it in this country. I think the president's rhetoric often foments it." On point. So glad Democrats are saying this.

I keep saying this. The Right fundamentally are *not* hypocrites. They believe in double standards. For them, double standards are correct, inevitable, and desirable, because the idea that certain groups are better than others and should therefore have more rights is the basis of right-wing ideology

My parents took me out of a country where this was the norm and where it led to the execution and imprisonment of millions of innocent people. They brought me here, to America, believing that it would not happen here. And yet here we are.

Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

NEW: Three charter school districts’ superintendents are among the highest paid in Texas. The same three districts have also had failing or near-failing performance ratings in recent years. By @emsimani.bsky.social and Lexi Churchill

Poland said Wednesday that it and its NATO allies had shot down Russian drones that violated Polish airspace in what it called an "act of aggression" as Russia launched aerial attacks on Ukraine.

They’re claiming the signature isn’t real but I’m going to remind everyone that 11000+ photographs and videos were removed from Epstein’s properties by the FBI and this is the tip of the fcking iceberg. And I think everyone in the GOP knows it.

I would sue if I found out my therapist was using AI during therapy. A total privacy nightmare. "Suddenly, I was watching him use ChatGPT,” says Declan, 31, who lives in Los Angeles. “He was taking what I was saying and putting it into ChatGPT, and then summarizing or cherry-picking answers.”

Trump paid El Salvador $4.7 million to imprison Venezuelans that he had deported.

GEIST: What is 'reasonable suspicion'? Is it an accent, a tattoo, a job? TOM HOMAN: A lot of those things combined. We don't arrest people just based on their looks, but it's myriad of factors.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

report from former student yesterday that they were instantly auto-rejected from a civilian position to which they were specifically invited to apply; they were given menu in HR portal to opt-out of feeding their materials to AI, and doing so seems to have opted them out of any consideration

The Trump administration has appointed Heather Honey to a top election security position. She is a protege of Cleta Mitchell, a lawyer who tried to help Trump overturn the 2020 election results.

This undersells what insurance exchange policyholders will feel if Congress doesn't act. The 18 percent increase is on the raw cost of insurance. But many will also lose enhanced subsidies that expire at the end of December. Those people will feel an average increase of *more than 75%.*

Save this for the ICC JD Vance endorses murdering civilians: "I don't give a shit if you call the killing of civilians a war crime"

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

Everything is terrible right now, but my dog--who has bad anxiety and needs trazodone for nail trims--was happier than ever about three hours after his meds, and you all need to just look at that face. 😅

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.