I’m beginning to suspect all of the men in the Trump administration are impotent.

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.

Open bribery by a foreign leader. The exact scenario that the Founders feared. "no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State"

The mainline Protestants are continuing to radicalize

I don’t want anyone to receive threats, but for many years Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene has enjoyed this sort of energy from President Trump when it’s been directed at her political enemies and now objects to it when she’s on the receiving end.

Plz read this imp public service 🧵 Nuremberg is out, and I am making a special request you go see it. Go see Nuremberg: not only will it teach you about the Nazis’ many, many crimes, including the Holocaust which is (rightly) the one thing people know about the Third Reich.

I doubt anyone needs reminding that these pardons are a bright, blazing green light for Trump supporters to wield violence on his behalf.

So Stephen Colbert's show *does* get cancelled because he didn't flatter Trump. And Megyn R. Kelly's show *doesn't* get cancelled because she tried to dismiss & normalize pedophilia. That's the morally topsy-turvy country we are currently living in.

Part of the appeal of Trump is that he sells himself as not a politician and incapable of being bought because he’s “so successful.” An anti-corruption campaign from Democrats — especially after what we’re about to witness — could be a massive game changer if they go for everyone

this is what's so ironic about the current struggle around land acknowledgements at Ohio State - those of us trying to roll back the university's new restrictions on land acknowledgements are mostly pretty ambivalent about them! But saying you *can't* do them? That's a big, obvious problem!

America was not a real democracy until the Voting Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act, and even after that it has remained far back in the pack in terms of liberal democracies, scoring slightly better than Hungary and probably recently passed by Poland. US democracy remains unevenly distributed.

I was coming here to say exactly this. Trump probably doesn’t care if he’s called a pedophile, it just gives him a hero narrative & reason to fight. He HATES being called a lame duck. He hates the thought of being irrelevant. Hes a lame duck. The lamest. bsky.app/profile/balm...

So let me get this straight: The President’s plan to lower prices is to roll back some of his own tariffs?

Trump's illegal murders in the Caribbean just got worse. An internal DOJ memo on the bombings says the victims are waging war on the US, but per NYT, it extensively cites the WH's *own claims* to this effect as evidence! It gets even darker than that. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2032...

The Humanities have taken hit after hit in higher ed since 2008. Here's what Trump has added. #GiftLink www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

One thing that's abundantly clear: passing the SAFE Research Act would permanently end the United States' ability to be competitive in any area of advanced technology. Just straight up suicidal policy-making.

What a photograph. “Nearly two dozen arrested as faith leaders protested outside a federal immigration facility near Chicago…” Arrested large amounts of peaceful clergy face first on pavement is a pretty good sign you’re not the good guys in the story. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

65 Years Ago,,, History was made. #RubyBridges

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

They're running from it now. But the fact that Senate Republicans tried to give 10 of their colleagues at least $1 million each for nothing but a bogus press op captures the corruption of Trump II. In no other environment wld this even occur to the most corrupt politicians.

People *still* had the knee-jerk reaction of equating Gay and Summers’s treatment, even though Larry Summers was prominently featured as a friend and confidant of Jeffrey Epstein *this week.*

This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms: ✅He personally directs criminal investigations. ✅He is targeting opponents. ✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents. Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀

Google has moved from moral cowardice (removing ICE tracking apps) to direct complicity in the violent, unconstitutional abuse of vulnerable people. As a civil liberties lawyer who worked at Google for ten years, this one hits me in the gut.

In other words, fascism is anti-science

Area Man Discovers Tariffs Raise Prices and Cause Inflation

As the Senate tries to defend a million dollar payday to 8 of their own - and as the House GOP tries to explain why they refused to amend the CR to strip it out, let's review exactly what it is they want restitution for. Brief thread:

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

Message to all faculty: your expertise is no longer trusted or valued at this so-called “university.”

No one demanded the market distorting effects of personalist dictatorship more than capital, they should be happy with their choice. bsky.app/profile/carl...

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I know it's really about control, but the way these evil monsters talk about banning books to save the children out of one side of their mouths, and downplay an actual pedophile out of the other is rage inducing

"I like MechaHitler"

NEW: DHS launched a $200mln+ ad campaign, featuring, Kristi Noem, aimed at stemming illegal immigration. We found the firm secretly hired for the work has ties to Noem. @justinelliott.bsky.social, @josh-kaplan.bsky.social & @amierjeski.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/kris...

This is your regular reminder that most men who sexually abuse children do not meet the clinical definition of a pedophile. They simply want to abuse their power and no one is more vulnerable to abuse than a child.

Todd Blanche's Defense Of Ghislaine Maxwell Prison Transfer Goes As Well As You'd Expect

My daughter is 15, a child with a baby face whom I won’t even put in an Uber by herself. Just utterly disgusting from the same people who have spent years demonizing trans people as predators for daring even to exist. What are we even doing right now?

the Pope is outflanking the US government on every single social issue. like, it’s not ambiguous: even without him making any meaningful concessions on trans rights (or abortion or anything else), he’s still to the left of every US federal government policy

Well he can’t be in the East Wing

Cloverdale, a tiny town in Sonoma County, California, is being invaded by secretive investors who want to build a new "town." Of course, the backers of "Esmeralda" have very deep ties to the Network State cult and Peter Thiel. My notes: www.thenerdreich.com/esmeralda-ne...

JD Vance: "A lot of young people are saying housing is way too expensive. Why is that? Because we flooded the country with 30 million illegal immigrants who were taking houses that ought by right go to American citizens."

Get'em!

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

COLLEGE STATION, Texas (AP) — Texas A&M adopts policy requiring professors to get OK from school president to discuss certain race and gender issues.

Good statement from the US conference of Catholic Bishops

New in PN: “It’s 4chan shit" — @cwarzel.bsky.social on the federal government's deranged social media presence "Now you see Trump administration accounts that look like they’re literally run by Groypers. What Homeland Security is tweeting out isn’t even dog-whistling anymore."

I don’t post on twitter any more, but I access it periodically for reference. @noelcaslercomedy.bsky.social has always been up front about The Apprentice “star” so I revisited one of his posts from a couple of years ago. I’ll remove this if he objects, but for now, here it is. Prophetic, isn’t it?!

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

This is what male solidarity & collective action to oppress women looks like: Artist Andres Serrano--successful, but nowhere near the same class as Thiel & other billionaires in the files--stating that he'll vote for Trump, despite his politics, out of *sympathy* with T's sexual assaults on women.

A bad thing is unfolding at NIH this week: It looks like the Trump administration is trying to replace key civil servant scientific leaders, the Institute Directors, with political hires. These directors control the NIH budget, tens of billions. A bit of a video explainer here: 1/ 🧪

Trump’s first nominee for Attorney General of the United States