all this Hitler dick talk is unhinged

Skynet wants to convince you skynet is right

reading this prose is like being suffocated with a pillow

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

NEW: The government is about to reopen. But the legislation involved does nothing to extend expiring “Obamacare” subsidies, meaning the problem at the heart of the fight hasn’t gotten better. If anything, it’s about to get worse. @citizencohn.bsky.social reports.

I got this useful bon mot from a middle school teacher recently. In response to, “I DONT UNDERSTAND,” he calmly said, “okay what steps have you taken to understand?” And that’s when I realized that a lot of folks have no steps.

“Kids, you tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is: never try.”

There’s a young southern woman on tt doing an experiment: calling churches & asking if they can help her get baby formula, saying she can’t afford it. Of the 30+ she’s called, nearly every church has said no. The ones who said yes were: Black Baptist Churches A Mosque A small Appalachian church

We potentially cede our civil liberties every time we go online. It does worry me. That, and a cashless society. Anyone who understands the lessons of history knows where this can lead.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Reminder that this is a winning position, and people support it

Mamdani got a humanities degree. His win helps to illustrate that one of the central forces driving higher ed’s dissolution of the humanities is the fear that teaching people how power works can also lead to their interest in seizing it on behalf of the less powerful.

Important new report out from AAUP & MESA, “The data…offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation – and particularly Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act – has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Nope go to their offices . And cuss the the fuck out , We are not routing and changing entire modes of campaigning for them to be weak little quislings Start calling and start cussing

“I’ve seen condiments you people wouldn’t believe”

if you want to know what happened to Teen Vogue yesterday, my work wife @allegrak.bsky.social — who ran our politics section for 6 years until this past June — said it all in this. can't even pull out a favorite part til I sign my separation letter lol, just read the whole thing.

you should definitely have a colleague bestie who sees a Pickolas Cage and knows you are the best recipient of this Pickolas Cage

US citizen shot from behind as he warned ICE agents children would be coming to get bus, lawyers say

It doesn’t matter what I think. Also, none of this would ever happen. But if I had a zillion dollars: 1. Run a “we do hard things” campaign across southern and rust belt states. Invest heavily in local, state and regional social infrastructure. Sponser later hours at a library, build a skate park…

The moment Trump dies, this will be the sum total of the GOP. It took them 60 years, but the Dixiecrats finally took over the entire party.

“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy--they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made…”

The Weekly Read is "Archival Irruptions" by @ktgerbs.bsky.social, which traces how British colonial authorities in mid-eighteenth-century Jamaica came to criminalize Obeah, a religious practice held by enslaved Africans. Read the entire book now, for free! buff.ly/rccy0qL

the concerned face of the man behind her is because her pants are literally on fire, just out of frame

It’s worth considering how an Andrew Cuomo mayoralty would objectively be a disaster and everybody knows it—especially his backers. But they don’t give a shit about the day after, only thwarting the rise of any potential alternative. A striking demonstration of the nihilism of the political centre.

I love this so much

When I worked in WaPo Opinions in 2017-2018, senior editors specifically told junior editors not to factcheck Marc Thiessen and other MAGA columnists, otherwise they wouldn’t be able to publish anything by them at all, and “we need them for intellectual diversity.”

Worth noting that evangelicals view their commitment to Israel as necessary to bring about the apocalypse, after which they imagine that Jews will be condemned to Hell. So kinda fitting that they're down with antisemitism since that's like central to their worldview & politics.

I pictured napkins

heck, @profirmf.bsky.social and I made the argument the title in our book www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/757650...

POV you’re still not married and your grandparents just found the nicest boy with a good job they want you to meet

I like this quote, further down in the story: “If we want to talk about Torah values, Cuomo is a serial sexual abuser who spent $20 million of taxpayer money paying for his defense. In what way do my colleagues think this is any representation of either pragmatic or ethical values?”

Yes, so much this

We live in an episode of Veep

nerds: this is worth your time and budgets

i should be able to click a button at the beginning of a sports season that says “i’m normal” and i don’t get served any ads for crypto or gambling

People and TeenVogue have been savagely precise and truthful about what's going on. Meanwhile the "respectable" and "dignified" rags ushering in fascism with a red carpet and champagne.

What the WaPo has become: "The White House cannot simply be a museum to the past. Like America, it must evolve with the times to maintain its greatness. Strong leaders reject calcification." The MAGAfication of the language.

support whomever you’d like, but what is frustratingly dishonest about this take is that actual issue — the thing critics have identified as the problem — isn’t the decision of the 21-year old to get the tattoo, but of the judgment of the 40-year old who still has it.

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This is one of the best analyses of the total grift and scammery of AI in education I’ve seen, and it is a MUST Read: “Higher Ed’s Rush To Adopt AI Is About So Much More Than AI - defector.com/higher-eds-r...

Well, in a certain way, Trump achieved what the flight 93 hijackers could not

ABC News pulled the satellite imagery of the White House comparing Sept. 26 to today. abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

"The fact that the nomination got this far illustrates how much antisemitic and hateful rhetoric has been normalized, explained away or rewarded by Republicans in power," @katierogersnyt.bsky.social writes of the Ingrassia case. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

good god

what you don't know about jihad is a lot, probably (except for the significant portion of my TL that are, in fact, experts in this 😂) anyway *I* am never done learning from @profirmf.bsky.social and neither should you be www.religiondepartment.com/offers/qeNpZ...

I’m giving a talk next week that touches on my first book, latest article, and the weaponization & racialization of “jihad,” for the fabulous folks @ The Religion Department! Join us? www.google.com/url?q=https:...

After the FBI denied "children were zip-tied or hit with rubber bullets" in a raid in Wilder, Idaho, the FBI said no "young" children were. The updated statement came after KIVI-TV sent FBI photo reportedly showing 14-year-old U.S. citizen in zip ties.