Damn, I got through grad school without debt by translating Harlequeens into German

Just ran a clearly AI-generated essay though several AI checkers, all of which confirmed that it was indeed AI (except for Grammarly, which claimed 0% AI, lol), and all of which offered to "humanize" the text. It's like cops giving you tips on how to get the best price on fentanyl.

This is what Trump is doing to the economy of a state that actually voted for him in 24

Tomorrow I will testify before subcommittee of House Judiciary Committee against the proposed "Preserving a Sharia-Free America Act," which would authorize exclusion/deportation of all or most non-citizen Muslim immigrants. My written testimony posted here: reason.com/wp-content/u...

Some sports news

Still mad the Harris campaign made Tim Walz stop saying "weird"

Santa Ono: Proud to be raising the next generation of fascist dipshits to refresh the Epstein class

Digital creator!

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

This is driving me nuts. This is a Dem seat. They didn't even bother having an election there the last time because the Dem just walked in. In 2015, the R got 18%. This tells you nothing about anything.

Dispatch from the South

Has anyone done for AI/Epstein what @katjathieme.bsky.social has done for higher ed/Epstein? The most prominent German in the files is Joscha Bach…

Studies in winter light on Lake Erie #blueskyartshow

Like anybody with two passports, I wonder where to go if I need to go, and Scotland remains top of the list just for stuff like that.

@victorerikray.bsky.social, at least we know now where the line is that removes the scare quotes from "racist"

It's the lead story on the NYT homepage, but why bother checking

God, give me the power to focus on my writing the way Trotsky focuses on this formerly stuffed duck

Oh no, not DHS shutting down! how shall we cope

They're such incredibly dim bulbs. All they know is whom they hate. They have no idea what anything is for, why we had it, what it did while we had it.

As always, "is it malice or is it incompetence?" is impossible to answer without inside info

I love Philly so much.

tHEy aRE all tHE samE

To understand what's going down at WaPo, this information is essential. The tech bros brought Trump to power, and the are exploiting their hold on the administration to accumulate wealth in an obscene fashion. The last thing they want is a newspaper running exposés that mess things up.

I encourage @umich.edu students to embrace our new “center for american dialogue” with the same fervor. record.umich.edu/articles/dia...

Who could have predicted that students would react to state-sponsored re-education offers with less than full enthusiasm? dailyiowan.com/2026/02/02/l...

people say the lesson is don’t use gmail, but the lesson is that we all need to write emails to prosecutors because they don’t have the manpower to track down and visit a hundred thousand of us.

I’ll be in Ann Arbor (Friday) and Detroit (Saturday) this weekend to talk about my book! Hope to see yall there!

amazing. this is exactly how „college women,“ who congregate in sets of six, speak to each other Slay queen.

Our cat and his kill

right on.

Watching insanely hyper woke German crime show. “I do not subscribe to any -ism! No racism, no antisemitism in me!” — “yes, but do you know what does not end in -ism? HOMOPHOBIA!” my people never know when to stop

Ladies and Gentlemen, “The Aristocrats”! sorry, I meant “The Academics!”

The California State University system spent $16.9 million last year giving ChatGPT to all students, faculty, and staff. We are asking the CSU chancellor not to renew the contract with OpenAI when it expires. Anyone can sign the petition — link below!

now more than ever disobediencepress.com?fbclid=IwdGR...

„told you we shoulda gone to Africa for the winter“ visiting my beloved storks i. germany 🪶

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

First i have to embrace Bill Kristol, now i have to root for Don Lemon? (I know, I know, the cruelty is the point)

The depravity of our government knows no bounds.

Our excellent student paper reports on our FOIA office's practices here at @umich.edu. Many of us have observed that the office appears to have become nakedly political over the past few years, regularly turning down or delaying or overcharging for requests. www.michigandaily.com/news/adminis...

got this in an auction on behalf of the Minnesota ACLU. How often do you get to support artists and anti-fascism in one tax-deductible act? Find her at susansolomonpaintings.com/section/4568...

They’re sending the poets now. “In your fayce.”

Guys, I need to you to understand the moral depravity of a high-ranking government official of Turkish heritage specifically targeting the Armenian community in Los Angeles and calling Armenian language and alphabet a "dialect." This is some REALLY fuckin bad juju by Oz here: x.com/DrOzCMS/stat...

OMG, he’s doing the “what was she wearing?”, but unironically

people are, for good reasons, dunking on these, but if they lost anonymity (provided they’d comply…), it would, I believe, change things at least a bit. social ostracism is a powerful force. of course, abolish ICE and DHS is the superior demand.

move over, make loneliness epidemic. the real victim is claude.

A time of extreme political polarization. But everybody agrees that data centers suck.

offline friends sent these from Chicago today. they say 10,000.

there’s a new paper, it’s calling itself “The New York Times”

Please donate to Nekima Levy Armstrong’s defense fund if you can. she needs support. gofund.me/fc414b37f