sometimes a possum is a big mouse and sometimes its a tiny bear. and sometimes its a big challenges alligator

You cant get a better window into the mentality of the Democratic party than them having a former CIA agent give the rebuttal to Trump's address in a literal fantasy recreation. They want to turn back time to a fantasy rather than push for a new, real future

Well, the DOJ has done it: they have filed a lawsuit against the University of California over antisemitism. The complaint contains some falsehoods. But as someone who teaches and writes about Title VII, I'm equally struck by what the complaint doesn't say. A few thoughts— 🧵

folks i acknowledge kash is very embarrassing but can we not pretend like the fbi would be any greater a force for good if someone competent were in charge

this is roughly the number of internally displaced peoples from conflict in Bangladesh or the Central African Republic. state governments, the White House, and their allies in the NYT have perpetrated a civil war-sized disaster on trans people in the US.

hazing is one of the primary social mechanisms for elite reproduction: it teaches you to expect nothing but shit until you get powerful enough to force others to expect nothing but shit the social class that is the free press audience could not exist without centuries of hazing passed down the line

Good thing all these universities have a ton of goodwill built up from how they treated student protesters a year and a half ago, and their steadfast refusal to stop profiting and investing in a genocidal apartheid state

Turning Point USA hosted an event in Alabama recently with two leading abortion 'abolitionists' - extremists who want abortion patients punished with the death penalty. Legislators in over a dozen states (and counting) have introduced their bills. This is no longer a 'fringe' movement

Every few years, American finance realizes this one thing called speculation (investment) and this other thing called speculation (fiction) are the same thing. AND THEY FREAK THE FUCK OUT. And then forget again almost instantaneously. aeon.co/essays/the-f...

If you shout “fuck-ass bitch” while Trump is speaking you’ll receive $1 billion in donations tomorrow and immediately become the 2028 frontrunner. It’s crucial you do not do this.

iambic tetrameter ass stick

the town of emporia consists entirely of the I-95/Rt 58 intersection & the gas stations that surround it, this is now an ICE surveillance node for all of south central VA

watching Black city managers shill for this stuff is really depressing

definitely true that in the world-conception of a man who purposefully cultivated the title "the prince of darkness", the job of the police is never to arrest people like him because nothing they do can ever be a crime

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

This free community training event will focus on nonviolent legal actions that community members can take if they witness ICE activity.

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

happiness is a solitary mcgregor room

Reposting for the morning team!

Wow! Huge protest against a new ICE concentration camp warehouse in Romulus Michigan. I've never seen anybody in Romulus protest against anything before. Protesters and cops all over the place right now.

2003 book in my local little free library. Hard no!! 😳

Botstein palled around with Epstein for years and helped launder his reputation. The Epsteins cannot exist without the Botsteins. It's time for accountability katemanne.substack.com/p/bards-pres...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

Outer Wilds, if you haven't played it yet, is one of the best games of all time. It's a fun space exploration game with a timeloop twist, and 90% of all game progress happens in your head, as you learn things about the universe and your situation. Absolutely play it if you haven't yet.

fun team, good job also happy to field any questions about the position & the town, or more generally about weird media & the hidden histories of the world

Friends, I am hiring two scholar-advisors this year! Come join the best advising team in the country (for real). Please help me spread the news about this great opportunity! This is a permanent, non-time limited instructional staff position, and I will be happy to answer questions!

“In a protest against their board of trustees’ decision to delay the awarding of tenure to four faculty members, Muhlenberg College’s AAUP chapter held a walkout at their February 13th faculty meeting. The meeting was unable to continue because they could not reach the 78-person quorum.”

Here is an annotated version of the Citrini Memo with my own intro. It is analyslop - scare-fiction written to ingratiate AI boosters and analysts/traders with tales of ultra-automation and socialist data center policies. Shameful that the markets reacted at all. www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/1p1n0...

Gremlined Rivalry (part of my G2.22 seg for @aesnos.bsky.social)

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 IMMIGRANTS TRAPPED ON NEW HAMPSHIRE TARMAC DURING BLIZZARD! 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 An urgent request from Black Lives Matter New Hampshire, x-posted from: www.instagram.com/p/DVHIyaFiR-... Details in thread (1/5) #NHPolitics

Me with a scoop/exclusive Five days after Jeffrey Epstein’s arrest, federal authorities “directed” NY law enforcement authorities to “stand down” their investigations related to Epstein, new documents released by the Department of Justice show. Part of new Timeline on NY and Epstein.

the kid who created this lists stealing his dad's credit card to start a reselling business as his first experience as an entrepreneuer.... which seems right

Israeli teens burn their draft papers, refusing to join a military that's committing a genocide.

hilarious that this happened during @davidaustinwalsh.bsky.social & me trying even to just scratch the surface of l’affaire epstein with our conspiracy culture class

Peter Mandelson arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office

This is Neal Katyal. He argued for Nestlé's right to profit from child slavery without consequence before the Supreme Court—and won! Thank you, Neal. ===============

I found this lying around in a random folder with other things I made in grad school: FOOTNOTE ALIGNMENT CHART

elevator rave from my g2.22 seg

The snow is doing some beautiful things

Hylics 2 mentioned

Did you miss the premiere? Good news, it'll be looping! Get hydrated, grab snacks, and get ready for round 2 over at watch.aesno.tv

also tonight: second ever airing for this video essay with @hacksaw.bsky.social, originally for movie night G2 screening vimeo.com/780767489

shoutsout to whoever played this tonight on gg2.22 youtu.be/ZJqFZM0VpoA

Gremlins 2.22 starting up now! preparing for my brain to be altered in some unpredictable & marvelous way

So excited for people to see this

IT'S ALL HAPPENING watch.aesno.tv