I don't remember seeing any calls for violent retribution after a Minnesota state senator was assassinated, and it would have been nice not to see any today.

I keep saying this but it remains true: Dems have not learned the central lesson of Reconstruction, that multiracial democracy cannot survive when those working to overthrow the rule of law & fair elections are allowed to operate with impunity.

Narrator: turns out bootlicking the nazis is bad for business

I don't know who needs to hear this but slavery was bad.

This.

I am going to frame all of these

This is A+ trolling

Authoritarian regimes are notorious for making people think what they perceive to be reality is not actually real. Sometimes this is called creating "unreality" sometimes "gas-lighting." It doesn't matter which label is used, the goal is the same: make people doubt what they see with their own eyes.

THIS. It has hurt STEM students on the job front as much as it’s hurt humanities enrollments. We claim to be helping these students w focused ‘job ready’ degrees. It’s a lie. It has always been a lie.

(Humanities professors after decades of STEM pushes)

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

I'm so tired of hearing that we need to "teach our students how to use AI" when the thing they most need to use it is a critical-thinking skill set that can only be acquired by NOT using it. I'm tired of hearing that it's inevitable. I'm tired.

60 years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed Medicare and Medicaid into law, the greatest health insurance expansion in our nation's history. I usually celebrate the anniversary of this transformative moment, but this year, now that the BBB is in effect, I just feel sad.

So I’m going to need him to run for office.

If Trump didn't send Epstein that birthday drawing, then why did he beg Emma Tucker, editor-in-chief at WSJ, not to run the story?

Trump genuinely believes that tariffs are a free money hack that everyone except him just never noticed.

Every word of this

61 years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964. I shudder to think how few current Republicans in Congress would vote in favor of that legislation.

the Senate's small-state ultra-bias is never more maddening than when one senator uses it to get benefits for her 740,000 constituents while openly acknowledging the bill she's supporting will harm the nation's 339 million other residents.

This nation was built on the backs of immigrants, many of whom were forced. We are stronger because of our diverse population of many cultures and beliefs. Kirk acts as if his being white is the result of an accomplishment on his part. It is not. His genetics are the least interesting part of him.

Does anyone else get frustrated with playing videos on @bsky.app? They will always stop with 20ish seconds left, then I try and reopen it and it won’t play right away. I thought it was just me, but I’ve talked to several ppl and they experience the same thing. #bluesky

Eliminate ChatGPT from the humanities and humanities education

There are no distractions. It's all bad. Systematically stripping trans people of their rights, guys in balaclavas shoving any brown person with a tattoo into a ummarked vans, ending healthcare for millions. It's all in service of fascism and technofeudalism. It's all one thing. That's the point.

I am so fucking sick of fighting this regime and then hearing of Democrats rolling over in Congress and providing votes needed to pass anti-American legislation. All under Chuck Schumer’s leadership. Buy a fucking clue and help get him out of the way.

Maybe quit voting for their fucking bills then? Maybe quit confirming their nominees? Maybe shut down the Senate with the many procedural tools available to you? Maybe do something other than send sternly worded letters?

Grading fuel. Wish this wasn’t so hard to find here.

63% of American adults had unfavorable views of Martin Luther King Jr in August 1966, per Gallup surveys 46% of Mississippi GOP voters said interracial marriage should be illegal in a 2011 PPP poll to push w/e is popular instead of trying to popularize justice is to admit you lack moral leadership

Fetal personhood is akin to fetal coverture. It merges the identity of the woman into that of her fetus. Under this hierarchy, the interest of the unborn, trumps that of the woman. Marital coverture was a dubious bargain. Fetal coverture is no bargain at all. virginialawreview.org/articles/sta...

By all means, please keep interrupting the educated woman trying to answer your question.

Growing up in Houston, our teachers would send us off into summer break with hurricane season packets/worksheets so we could track along with the NWS and be prepared for the worst.

My husband and I were just talking about how Nixon’s crimes seem like child’s play compared to Trump’s.

I grew up in Houston and have seen my city underwater too many times. This will devastate gulf coast states and communities. These are states where a majority voted for 🟠 but will likely be denied assistance.

We devote musicals, miniseries, and documentaries to the founders of our first republic and not to those of our second, who saw this country with clear eyes. We need fewer encomiums for Jefferson, Madison, and Lafayette. More respect for Sumner, Stevens, Bingham and Douglass (Frederick).

That is in fact what this administration has done.

I will never forget that the week Qatar decided to bribe the president of the United States with a plane, CNN decided to focus on the age and health of an ex-president. Shame.

Let's talk about these two department store owners: brother and sister Louis Bamberger and Caroline Bamberger Fuld. From Newark, New Jersey. They are random people, basically. But in the late 1920s, with fascism taking over Europe, they made a choice that profoundly changed the world: 🧵

seems like hegseth is more interested in his white supremacist ideological project than actually building an effective military

Popular initiatives keep undoing GOP legislation but people keep voting for the GOP over Dems. I really do think that is indicative of a major problem with the Dem Party

My daddy didn’t have a BC until the military gave him one. This is because many Black people were born at HOME during Jim Crow apartheid b/c doctors didn’t allow Black people to go to or even become doctors. Chris Rock spoke about his mama having to go to a veterinarian to get dental care

Do they need historians/educators?

Peewee German is mad mad

Small pox, polio, measles, whooping cough… All of these are conditions I never saw when I was a kid. Because of vaccines.

What an idiot. I will guarantee that almost 100% of autistic kids probably won’t do 14 years of heroin, attempt to scavenge a bear carcass for dinner or have worms in their brain.

For those interested:

MAGA does not recognize or respect due process.

FFS. This should not be the bar Democrats are required to meet. “Taking nourishment”!?!? AYFKM? That statement alone makes him a dinosaur.