They should teach kids about how closed borders mean people travel back and forth a lot less than they used to. Doubt that's his point though.

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I swore an oath to the Constitution in 1986. I've upheld it through 25 years of service and every day since I retired. If Trump's trying to intimidate me, it won’t work. I’ve given too much to our country to be silenced by bullies who care more about power than the Constitution.

"the funniest thing I can think of is getting my horrible machine to say slurs at random people at a party" what an utter wasteland this man's mind is, no wonder JCO got to him so badly

this one made me laugh out loud, "two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl" is sublime I have pretty strong aphantasia and can't visualize very well but that paints a very clear picture even to me

Discworld QOTD, from Wyrd Sisters "Magrat had used a lot of powder to make her face pale and interesting. It combined with the lavishly applied mascara to give the guard the impression that he was looking at two flies that had crashed into a sugar bowl."

anyway, let's have more of this they are weak and they are beatable and that needs to be the message from every corner of the opposition

good work guys you picked a fight in which Dems can stand up out of their permanent defensive crouch and go “our guy is a fucking astronaut and you’re an alcoholic tv host”

My mom’s husband hung up a poster of North American birds in their house, and this category describes most of my closest friends.

journalists shouldn’t let strongman dictatorships with sovereign wealth funds run sponcon

Over a half million dead and counting. All on those DOGE kids and Emerald Dunning Kruger.

so if i understand this correctly, gaines has made her career by publicly calling trans athletes predators and threats to women while completely failing to ever mention even once that her mentor/college swimming coach was sexually assaulting and harassing women on the team while she was there?

We don’t have a non misogynistic way of describing it because of patriarchy but many non men feel comfortable doing awful things to more marginalized people They believe we have to have empathy for them at cost of our own safety and we need to say no

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Been seeing a lot of art of her lately.

Yeah, my 'hours' as an adjunct have always been carefully calculated so that I didn't get health benefits and the one time the department slipped up and put me over the line they 1) didn't notice until I told them and 2) have been cutting back my teaching bit by bit ever since.

Every 2-4 years, a bunch of left-wing populists have the brilliant thought “Hey, what if people’s resentment of social minorities is actually just sublimated resentment for capitalist elites?” and then we get to spend 2-4 years once again learning that no, it’s very much the reverse

I suspect this is true - the humanities will go back to being a status marker. Rich kids and the elect get to study Homer, but the middle class must settle for adjunct-taught mega-lectures before STEM classes. A grim destination, but right now that is the road the voters keep choosing.

West Point is committing "a crime of serious proportion" then.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

Though triggered by an Andrew Tate post, good thread on why, in this complex world, a global military can benefit from some understanding of gender roles and relations and how they vary

If you are in Australia, you can watch the brilliant new documentary, Army of Lovers (on the Theban Sacred Band) on demand. For everyone else, it will hopefully come to YouTube soon (I am told or maybe use a VPN?), www.sbs.com.au/ondemand/tv-... and trailer www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUTe....

Though the online ur-text for this that remains Undefeated is probably @pptsapper.bsky.social 's "Stop Calling Us Warriors." angrystaffofficer.com/2016/12/14/s...

I'm hardly the only one, but I've been warning against the 'warrior' language and symbolism for years (foreignpolicy.com/2021/04/19/u...)

I can't wait for them to try to explain how they'll suddenly repurpose all these half-built conventional data centers to quantum computing, which is like trying to convert a teddy bear to diesel.

The First and Last Stop bar has existed for 75 years, always black owned, now the new landlord is a white dude who has been trying to force the lady who has run it for 20 years out. he tried to evict her before going to court even. New Orleans legend Kermit Ruffins paid her back rent.

the past few days candace owens has been claiming that the french have put out a hit on her & there’s possible conspiring with israel as a result of her spending the last nearly two years transvestigating brigitte macron

I ran into an advocate who told me that the 9 men detained from Canal Street last month struggled to find legal representation. Historically, Black immigrants experience disproportionately *more* removals than any other group. Anti-Black racism fuels US immigration in *every* way.

The problem isn’t just historic inequality and how it creates imbalanced systems or destroys capitalism through contradictions. It’s also what intentional precarity as a weapon does to people mentally and emotionally.

Almost every day the fascist stories are accompanied with stories about record anxiety and stress and uncertainty and loneliness and hardly anyone wants to connect the obvious dots. Fascism is a collective breakdown. People are struggling and there has to be relief.

The AI stories about people losing their minds chatting with bots are indicators of a need to regulate these companies but also red flags that mental health is absolutely cratering and the same people who should regulate need to address this increasingly and intentionally precarious environment.

Over 320,000 Black women have been pushed out of the workforce. This is a red flag for our economy thanks to Trump’s mass firings & attacks on DEIA. I convened Black women leaders to discuss how to fight back and save Black women, Black families, & Black futures.

basically everyone zohran has put on his transition team has proven he knows ball both on policing and housing

Just sent $400 to partners Mom to save the Only Car for a family of 9 bc the $200 we sent yesterday was used to pay electricity. Rightly so. Please help us recoup as that wiped out our dental treatment, grocery & bills fund. linktr.ee/wylder

Kid asked me if she had permission to just message me whenever if she wanted to talk and my heart just melted and I suddenly feel much less miserable and guilty lol

How about a gal who might like Hornet a lot?

Please dont scroll past this This is a cry from a desperate mother in Gaza My daughter Alma is hungry, sick, and losing her strength. Every night she asks for food I cannot provide Your compassion could bring her a meal, warmth, or a chance at life Please if your heart still feels, help us survive

Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season

they are not playing 3D chess. they are fucking idiots.

It’s always worth reminding ourselves that the memes about 5D chess are revealing of an understanding of the world mired in make-believe, and not grand strategy, because 5D chess isn’t real.

Trump wrongly indicted me. I’ll rightly impeach him. Impeachment isn’t just an option, it’s a necessity. I know firsthand the lengths Trump is willing to go in order to silence dissent — but is it working?

Megyn Kelly claimed Epstein was into “the barely legal type,” referring to 15 year-olds. So I wrote about how her comments highlight the ways both purity culture and rape culture sexualize young girls and make male desire their responsibility. www.liberalcurrents.com/the-barely-l...

General Bill Slim, Britian's best WW2 General, thought encouraging private armies within the military was liable to end just as well (terribly) as encouraging them outside the military.

This will always be the most iconic example of White Supremacist / Internet Male subcultures being owned.

i'm having a bit of a fundraising day today - but that's an essential part of building institutions we can't accept our current (at best) collaborationist media & a better press won't happen by itself - @liberalcurrents.com is just *the* opposition outlet right now

"Collecting that experience" is an incredible euphemism for "Asking a guy about the fact that more than a dozen women accused him of sexual misconduct"

People pleaded with them the entire time they did so, too; there were prayer vigils calling on Congress to show moral courage every Wednesday through the summer to no avail.

No matter how one feels about Carville, he continues to be a voice with influence in the Democratic Party. It is significant he is now openly joining others in rejecting the neoliberal economic policy espoused by his former boss. But we should absolutely reject this divisive—and dangerous—framing.