Gitmo 2: Greenland

We read Washington’s Farewell Address for US Foreign Policy today, and whew. Political factions are vulnerable to exploitation by foreign powers and concentrate power in the hands of an individual.

I keep thinking of this passage from the events at Stonewall. And Mohamed Bouazizi’s self-immolation.

If it was just a show about incompetent rich pricks playing "serious businessman" it would be amusing. But people have died, are dying, will die, and life will get generally worse because these image-obsessed pathetic weirdos need social media likes. youtu.be/JT0-yeowgKc?...

If the student didn’t want to bother doing the assignment, she would have done what her classmates did and enter the prompt in AI. There is no evidence that the instructor gave different grades to other students who clearly failed the assignment. Jeez, this is chilling.

When I was in college, we were watching Jesus Christ Superstar and trying to decipher what drugs the characters were archetypically on. Now, we can recreate the magic with our administration.

We’re looking at the floor very strongly.

@profanity.accountant have guesses but let’s see

SCTV, Kids in the Hall, and Tom Green Show are the kinds of soft cultural power that entices people to defect.

Me explaining the Isaac Chotiner interview to my family at Thanksgiving: it’s like going on the Jerry Springer show because a family member wants to share news.

My partner is a big Detroit Lions fan and has a student whose brother plays for the team! After a recent win due to the brother’s efforts, the student shrugged and said he lost money on the parlay. My long-suffering fan was disturbed that gambling is destroying the community that sports creates.

Weird that the Times never mentions the emails between their staff and Epstein. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/11...

Get this piece of shit off the Lions game!!!

If you’re in line to piss on Cheney’s grave, stay in line.

The baseball will continue until morale improves

I see protest discourse is hitting the feed again ahead of No Kings—idk man, go, don’t go, …but if you do go make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing and if you don’t go, make sure to link up with an org that’ll help you get into longterm organizing

This clip is the perfect encapsulation because it not only shows the failed up fool, it also shows the uselessness of the counterpoint that dogs don’t play football and they don’t wear costumes at dog shows while the spectacle continues. Much prefer the comedy version here.

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(NPR apparently) That ain’t working. That’s the way you do it. Lemme tell you them guys ain’t dumb. Maybe get blister on your little finger. Maybe get a blister on your thumb.

Jimmy Kimmel beginning his monologue with “As I was saying” invokes Fray Luis de León who began his classroom lecture at the University of Salamanca after being imprisoned four years by the Inquisition in 1576.

The Baileys are liberals. - Charles E. Schumer

I’m sad for Guillermo

Waiting for Patel to put out an ad for true crime pod girlies to solve the Kirk murder.

On another note, none of my students knew about Calvin and Hobbes (beyond seeing images of Calvin on bumper stickers) so I had to start there before I got to Calvinball.

Updating my AI policy for this semester and am including the link to this article. So the "expert" thinks education should just be entering prompts into our LLM. That's gonna be a no for me, dawg. Holy shit.

Pentagon spokesman not knowing how to spell soldier is the only funny thing about this horrible story.

The Republican candiate for Senate in NC has never run for public office in the state, but he did rig an election to become GOP Chair. Go Cooper! www.wunc.org/politics/202...

Cooper is nothing like Sinema or Manchin. Good heavens.

Notorious

Just spent a few weeks in Spain, visiting sites of massacres from the Civil War. One night, we were talking w friends, and they asked about Trump. I cried as I told them about the disappearances, the ending of civil liberties, a social safety net, and institutional independence. It’s all here now.

The All-Star game has live audio of the pitcher and catcher and they are interacting with the booth! Immediately after a pithy exchange the National League scored 2 runs! Focus on the game! Seems weird for these important players to be talking to them live.

The weirdest thing. I cut open this spaghetti squash and the seeds had sprouted! I’ve never seen anything like it. (Still struggling to use these nails i got before a recent wedding I attended)

When I was young, there was a mall in the nearby city that seemed magical. In addition to every store and food court option, it had an ice rink (in the South!), movie theater, arcade. It was intergenerational and integrated. It became unsafe and closed. I miss Twitter as a marketplace of ideas.

Top 5 Hitchcock Foreign Correspondent Sabotage 39 Steps Notorious The Lady Vanishes (North By Northwest gets a little goofy running around Mount Rushmore but Grant is perfect.)

Crimes by dockworkers are tried before a jury of their piers

Today, we joined others in solidarity to still Stand Up and Speak Out in Hickory, NC in front of ammosexual nutjob NC10 House Rep Pat Harrigan’s office.

I'm at the constitutional crisis / I'm at the collapsing economy / I'm at the ccccccombination constitutional crisis and collapsing economy

Hickory, NC says Hands Off!

Factcheck website spending days parsing the specific meaning of the word bloodbath.

Thank you Senator Cory Booker 🇺🇸💙🇺🇸 #Justice @booker.senate.gov

Now this is how you drunk-leak to a reporter (Not linking to the Ryan Lizza story because ew) www.esquire.com/news-politic...

I’ve been predicting that none of his appointees will ever resign for wrongdoing during this admin. They regret all the defense they played over all the resignations last time so they’re going to go full Roy Cohn id this time. Power means never having to say you’re sorry.

Trump is take back his effusive thanks to CJ Roberts from last night.

Ronald Reagan, who Kristol cringebrags about working for, made the 11th Commandment “Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican” in 1966. Kristol et al enforced this edict for decades but now want to blame Dems for not being critical of R policies. Stop rehabbing these Republican 🤡, Dems!

@cfraserbbc.bsky.social Thank you for your insightful questions. I enjoy your show. I’m teaching international law this semester & watched your panel on 17/01/2025, just before the inauguration. Would love to have a copy of that clip for my class for the casual rhetoric re the return to colonialism!

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

I’ve said it before, will doubtless say it again: These folks are going to be permanently resentful because they’re seeking political power as a substitute for cultural power, and it’s never going to give them what they actually want.