Oh come ON www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives

Might these two things be connected, perchance?

We’re all trying to find the candy that did this

A narrative from a faculty member on the current escalation of ICE activity in Columbus. Please see the list of resources at the end for ways to get involved with orgs doing the work on the ground.

Mayor Ginther did not specifically mention Somalis at all in these comments to which Miller is responding. He only talked about Columbus' immigrant community in general. Which makes it clear that Miller, a racist piece of shit, is targeting Somalis simply because they are Somali.

Read the full email Sharyn Alfonsi sent her team about CBS pulling their segment on the Trump admin’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants

Lots of depressing previews before the SpongeBob movie but none as bad as AMC replacing the Nicole Kidman commercial with an ad where they thank their investors

Gadamer laser eyes

man, George Wallace was more subtle than this

I would hope Ross Douthat deplores the Harvard Salient’s move into open fascism but he should take responsibility for paving the way with his own Salient pieces that, e.g., defended Pinochet

Ross Douthat was the EIC of this publication when we were in college. “variations of a racial slur used casually in a group chat of members; an unpublished issue featuring a call for mass executions; and draft versions…that included two images of swastikas and a Nazi slogan in the subtitle.“

A sparrow flew down. "Excuse me", said the sparrow. "Have you read Dominique Routhier's seminal work, With and Against: The Situationist International in the Age of Automation?"

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

Matt Yglesias has been a morally bankrupt hack since he was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq as a college student. The fact that I still have to hear about his opinions more than two decades later is as a damning indictment of our information environment as I can imagine.

Got some figures from the @lachlanmcnamee.bsky.social Salma Mousa & @kylepeyton.bsky.social DEI analysis from 4.67 million employment records at US public universities (1993-2024) Compact article gets it backwards. Unis diversified *leadership* not faculty.

Undoing *any* decent thing America ever did in the last few decades. Monsters.

The part about who owns syllabi is a massive attempt at grabbing power away from faculty. Intellectual property in their own courses is a pillar of academic freedom and self-governance. Institutions claiming for themselves it reduces teaching to work-for-hire

That was really the plan newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/a-year-in-...

Abolishing ICE is the floor.

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$2,500 for a “standard content package” to promote a Chicago restaurant! I assume food influencers in Columbus receive, like, a $20 gift certificate to Homage or something

“So, I’m not an expert on Hitler by any means…” Anyone who suggests you need granular knowledge to respond to “Hitler bad?” is someone who is guaranteed to be a Holocaust denier

Once again, this is the picture of the GOP electorate that the Manhattan Institute itself is publicizing: "They were not, for the most part, crushed by economic conditions... Psychologically, this group was marked by desensitization, shaped less by fear than by boredom."

I read through these (more in the comments) and hoped maybe this was some cheeky lefty publication that went looking for the most extremist nuts they could find to make the right look bad. Nope. It’s City Journal, published by the far right Manhattan Institute. Horrifying.

rethinking my entire view of tariffs based on this information

why is my employer sending me fake spam to test me. what's next, sending me a fake job candidate to test if i discriminate against white guys?

The University of Florida spends about $21 per month per student on library materials and database access.

ICE - aka Stephen Miller thugs - are creating havoc and pain in Ohio RIGHT NOW. We are not helpless and we must peacefully resist these illegal intrusions. Find guidance in this thread! Commit. Support. Share. #Resist 👇🏼💪🇺🇸

Here's a column about the speech that Jewish students at Harvard got on Hanukkah in 1907 from the president of the university.

Elissa Washuta, an associate professor of English and director of the American Indian Studies program [at The Ohio State University]: “It’s hard to feel like I’m allowed to be fully Native in the classroom at this point because of the lack of clarity around what we are and are not allowed to say.”

This is so evil - I genuinely don’t know how these people live with themselves

The AAUP-Ohio State executive board condemns ICE escalation in our communities. We urge our members and all who love democracy to do what they can in this moment. Here’s a statement from the Ohio Immigrant Alliance. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12...

Yeah, here is the thing: Bari Weiss is fine with conspiracy theories that target her enemies. The biggest causes of political violence in America? Universities, which operate like madrassas. That’s a conspiracy theory dressed up as respectable middle-of-the-road punditocracy. That’s what it is.

astoundingly racist, but less surprisingly when you remember that many putatively liberal universities like Harvard also refused to divest from apartheid South Africa and have never apologized for it

"On the Columbus campus, the number of students who identify as Native American dropped from 99 in 2013 to 37 in 2023...the drop is the end result of a pattern of reduced institutional support ...a state law [SB1] banned diversity, equity and inclusion programs at all Ohio public universities."

this video is at least thirty seven minutes too long

Once again a reminder: We can have trans rights, bodily autonomy, gender nonconformity, and freedom of expression, or we can have none of these things. There’s no third option.

Brown has over 1,200 cameras and it wasn’t enough because cameras are a security blanket we’ve all been sold. They don’t prevent crimes and they barely solve crimes but in the meantime surveillance companies got rich and no one had to address the societal root causes of crime and violence.

The BLM (Bureau of Land Management) is trying to frack the Wayne National Forest again. We have until Jan 15 to submit public comments and stop the lease of 41 parcels. Our forest is not for sale to an industry that leaves us with leaks and explosions. benohio.org/blm-once-aga...

ex infinitum that the free press is basically a rental service for rich people with estranged kids to get a zillenial to tell them "you're so smart and right and I'd be lucky to have you as a father"

ahem, that's *official sponsor of Ohio State Athletics* Anduril Industries to you

Eliza is 50% off. It’s a fully-voiced visual novel about an AI therapy app. It was released in 2019, years before the idea of AI became what it is now. How much did it get right? What did it get wrong? Play it for yourself (play the whole thing) and decide. store.steampowered.com/app/716500/E...

Columbus folks: tons of social media reports of ramped-up ICE activity in town, focusing on Northland and on the west side, up to Hilliard. The Dispatch just published this, with video of these fuckers tacking a guy on a bike and dragging him off. www.dispatch.com/story/news/l...

ICE brought fascism to Columbus today. NO ONE feels safer. ohioimmigrant.org/blog/2025/12... #OhioIsHome

The Top 10 Fast Casual Columbus Restaurants of 2025: Middle Eastern Chipotle Greek Chipotle Korean Chipotle Italian Chipotle Fusion Chipotle Salad Chipotle Other Salad Chipotle Chipotle Vietnamese Chipotle African Chipotle

Beatty is my representative. I was unaware she was on the Kennedy Center board. Wish she would resign from it. bsky.app/profile/zach...

To do this as a senator for Utah - home to some of the most magnificent national parks in the country- you have to love Milton Friedman more than literally anything else in the world

The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other The marketplace has heard the ideas Large supermajorities reject them Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions The problem is the anti-democratic institutions

Sometimes I really wonder who Axios imagines its target audience to be