Stop saying “DEI” or “equity-related.” Stop using the words they choose to mask their vile racist ideology with the language of those they hate. Say they want to remove any books that speak to the lives of anyone who isn’t white, straight, Christian, or male. Name the hate. Make them own it.

worth saying that some portion of the freed slaves were themselves illegal aliens having been brought illegally into the united states by smugglers. if the birthright clause applies to them, it applies to undocumented immigrants

41 minutes is a long time to sit in your air conditioned office watching men struggle to survive as you decide to kill them.

If anyone cares at all, EV battery recycling is now hitting 99% recovery for important metals Please remind me again what the recycle rate for fossil fuels is interestingengineering.com/energy/recyc...

For some reason, people are having difficulty understanding the point that I was trying to make here. Perhaps this will help. kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-south-...

"are you enjoying duo mobile" does a hamburger enjoy being made of quarks. does a fish enjoy linear time. does the mountain enjoy the first taste of a cup of hot chocolate when you get back to the ski lodge. your question means nothing to me. i couldn't enjoy duo mobile even if i tried

Consider the following before adopting a Manticore for your family

NEWS: The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored ALL previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge in Rhode Island last month. This is a massive win for libraries & communities in every state & territory! Learn more: www.ala.org/news/2025/12...

Good news today for anyone who got a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services: all grants are reinstated! www.imls.gov/news/statem...

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

Once again: this is not something that "threatens" academic freedom, though it will doubtless be reported that way. This is only possible where academic freedom has already ended.

if every human on earth was placed in lake superior we would each apparently have 10m^2 to swim around in, which seems insane.

Sign at an outdoor classroom for a nature center: “Think outside. No box required.”

Perfect Tom Stoppard story from DTel obituary: His response to a letter from Harold Pinter canvassing support for a proposal to have the Comedy Theatre in London rechristened the Pinter Theatre, “Have you thought, instead, of changing your name to Harold Comedy?”

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Michael Bohacek, an Republican state senator in Indiana, says he is a “NO” on Trump’s redistricting push, pointing to the president’s use of a slur

church sign spotted in new orleans “ICE: WHATSOEVER YOU DO TO THE LEAST. YOU DO UNTO ME.”

If you needed more evidence that shared governance is a total myth sustained by admins in hopes that faculty & staff will be pacified by the illusion of input. 👇🏻

There are many things I love about Finland but somehow the fact it's the sort of country to make another country go "Who shall we send as ambassador...? I know! THIS guy!!!" kinda captures the essence of ALL of it.

Reminder that in high school, Tucker Carlson listed himself as a member of the "Dan White Society," named after the man who shot and killed Harvey Milk, the first openly gay elected official.

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

Go ahead toward a people-centred urbanism 💫 Thank you to our friend & crack @brenttoderian.bsky.social for this great Starter Pack 👌 Please share ⚡️

It's that time of year when Americans set up quaint, walkable Christmas villages in their living rooms, dreaming of living in such a cozy place. ​Meanwhile, they'll show up to city council meetings to fiercely oppose any plan that would actually build that kind of car-lite community in real life.

CW fire. Be smart y'all!

Hey everybody, go check your mum's attic. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Holy shit!

hey does anybody want to mind some rich moron's five neglected kids while getting malnutrition in a shack full of dangerous snakes lmk. no pay

It’s fun to think about the surgeon who will botch your surgery 20 years from now and what he’s doing at this moment. He just ran all his homework through ChatGPT. He just read that article about vaccines and autism at the CDC website. He just watched an Instagram video about the moon landing hoax.

A succinct history lesson for today.

Can’t believe the whole country has to suffer through the return of Dickensian childhood diseases because the worst, most ignorant attention-demanders decided other people’s expertise makes them feel bad

Report of the Gettysburg Address of 11/19/1863 in The Liberator. Note the applause. www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...

Reminder to Harvard: the time to fire Larry Summers was when he publicly disparaged women's intellectual capabilities.

Starbucks @sbworkersunited.org baristas are standing up to corporate greed and Starbucks’ unfair labor practices and demanding the fair contract they deserve. No contract? NO COFFEE!

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

As it gets colder, please remember to NEVERRR plug a space heater into a power strip, which are not designed to handle the high current flow and can overheat or even catch fire! Directly into the wall outlet ONLY!

No lawmaker in Congress should be able to buy, own, and sell individual stocks. Period. Let's make Congressional stock trading illegal.

Consider sending in an abstract to this important conference about slavery and privacy 🍀 teol.ku.dk/privacy/news...

Trump might be untouchable, but stuff like this still makes it worthwhile. Bring em all down.

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It is genuinely incredible to me how much evidence there is to support investing in the public good and how much animus there is to do this simple, effective thing.

evergreen

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Part 5 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg German hunting knife that's also a gun, that's also a calendar..

Part 9 of 200 in historically interesting things to inspire your ttrpg Samurai helmet (kabuko) shaped like an octopus. 1700s

Honestly, Ontario banning speed cameras and most bike lanes is a pretty big blow to urbanist optimism in Canada. The province is 40% of Canada’s population!