The hand-wringing over Hasan Piker & company advocating the hypothetical theft of lemons has overshadowed all manner of crimes committed by the state. Take the just released final report of the Illinois Accountability Commission. Social crime makes sense in context. Dems would be wise to listen.

Goodbye, get lost, and we'll see you soon.

Essential reading--> Illinois Accountability Commission final report, released today. Chronicling DHS activities in Chicago Midway Blitz, it finds officers regularly engaged in unconstitutional surveillance, use of force, and the coercion of detainees into "voluntary deportation" ilac.illinois.gov

Lest we forget: for millions, the price of gas was a dealbreaker; the abuse of children was not.

When we talked back in January, @proftwolf.bsky.social told us about this new @aaup.org platform. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Dg1... It is really great to see it coming together - and especially inspirational to launch it in TX, ground zero for attacks on academic freedom. Check it out!

Today, the AAUP & @aft.org launched our national policy platform to win back an American higher education system that protects the freedom to teach & learn & strengthens our democracy. Read it in full here: www.aaup.org/blueprint-st... 🧵

Double strike against efficiency - waste of government money and a loss of more efficient energy infrastructure. What winning looks like in the Trump era.

InfoWars in The Onion age may be "the premier destination for trans comedy." Here's hoping!

Restricting academic freedom will likely also make the U.S. a lower income country. After world war II, US colleges and universities benefited from taking in many of the Jewish refugee scientists and academics fleeing the Nazis. We are seeing this pattern in reverse now. It will not end well.

While Slobodian and Tarnoff proffer four possible futures for Muskism, the one I’m more keen to believe is something like a Grok/Trumpian Human Centipede. Please read the full article here #musk #AI #politicaleconomy open.substack.com/pub/breaking...

For whatever reason toilet humor gets more clicks. But then again I guess it would be nice if we could flush out the TERFism from our policies. A bit of background to this "Enemy Feminist" movement and its genocidal obsession with trans women. breakingculture.substack.com/p/terfs-are-...

just to give you the tl;dr: we have the absolute dumbest people in charge of deadly weapons.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

“I’m not a white nationalist, i just love hitler’s favorite american law because it kept non whites and jews from coming to America” bsky.app/profile/lets...

One day the right pretends to care about trans kids. The next they are warning that trans people are terrorists. But everyday is actually the same. We must all resist this genocidal BS.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

Mamdani: "I am in support of abolishing ICE. What we see is an entity that has no interest in fulfilling its stated reason to exist. We're seeing a government agency that is supposed to be enforcing some kind of immigration law, but instead what it's doing is terrorizing people."

this is what it has come to for Mexican restaurants in the Twin Cities

Many thanks to @aaup.org President Todd Wolfson for joining me on Breaking Culture Live to talk about the work AAUP is doing to defend academic freedom. Check out the last half of the interview to hear more about their process envisioning a future of US Higher Ed. youtube.com/live/2Dg1CLt...

there needs to be a sex offender registry but for ice guys. you should have to go door to door when you move to a new area and inform your neighbors that you used to be an ice guy. they shouldn't be allowed with 500 feet of a school

Yes, JD. Let’s ask them if they think a stay at home mom, avowed Christian, and widow of a veteran deserved to be shot in the face and left to bleed out in her own car after dropping her 6-year-old off at school, for the crime of looking out for her neighbors. Let’s ask everyone running for office.

I know that there are a lot of hot takes today and I hope others are making this one, but I wanted to highlight something I've seen several people point out here - that Good had a wife and her son had another mom.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Brilliant!

This is how you can be an ally. They need to feel the cost of what they've done.

The propaganda and lying is so craven and corrupt it is breathtaking. The agent wasn't even touched by the car. He ran over to the car after he shot her. He is nowhere near a hospital.

Trigger warning - but this is the video of the ICE agent murdering a legal observer in Minnesota today.

Journalists can't stop attributing agency to these bots.

I wrote about Grok's CSAM problem and how journalists keep fumbling the story www.readtpa.com/p/grok-cant-...

Over 24,000 people have signed an AAUP petition supporting Mel Curth, an instructor at OU removed from her duties after a viral fallout over a grading dispute. The petition demands OU to publicly affirm the faculty right to teach & research without political interference & political attacks.

In our next episode, we’ll be speaking with the scholar, communications professor, and current AAUP President Todd Wolfson about the state of U.S higher education and academic freedom today. www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul...

I'm really hoping the new year brings more subscribers to this project - and by extension all the others I'm working on. Thanks to those of you who are already signed up - but here is a note about what is to come. breakingculture.substack.com/p/new-year-n...

All of that. But also I think the cis boy is a little jealous and thirsty and can't quite get his head around it. And his friend needs some sort of assistance.

ICE can't drive on ice.

It’s almost like green energy is the only way forward and a handful of oil barons are doing everything in their power to keep that from happening so they can get even richer at the cost of literally everything else in the world.

It has been a long time coming, but my colleague Madhurima Chakraborty and I have finally completed most of the season for our new podcast, called So What?

On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹

A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country. Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them. Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Would you look at that, one of the most consistent anti trans voices at Harvard. Never fails.

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Tomorrow on Breaking Culture Live we'll be talking with Daniella Gati about their project on a Queer Theory of AI and Reed van Schenck about the memetic remaking of the world. Program streams at 11:00 am Chicago time, Dec. 3. Links to their work below. www.youtube.com/@BreakingCul...

Another day, another example of these thugs commandeering the government for their personal use.

Insane that we have to rely on court after court to just maintain a basically functioning democratic society.

BREAKING: Federal judge rejects DOJ's effort to subpoena the names and medical records of children who have received gender-affirming medical care from the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

This was bound to happen. Sounds like it was social engineering rather than hacking. Shows that all the OPSEC rules about not revealing personal info are really important as are making sure people don't advocate overt violence on those threads.

And Trump likely sees in Mamdani what he always wanted himself: to go from being a Queens outsider to a Manhattan insider. (2/2)

In the Oak Park neighborhood of Detroit, Michigan, on November 17, 2025, an ICE goon tased a non-resisting woman and then threw her non-responsive body into his truck like a rag doll.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.