Absolutely. And in the case of our campus, there is also a huge push to replace unionized graduate worker labor with AI so we can continue increasing enrollments without spending more on grad workers and faculty, which is itself driven by the big cuts to federal grants that R1s depend on.

I think we should also ridicule Miller here, not fear him. His fascist cosplay is absurd. He thinks tweeting in a clipped, military-sounding tone will frighten us. Oooo, he said "utilized"! Scary! Meanwhile their efforts to prosecute foes are imploding in buffoonery and Trump is polling in the 30s.

Tom Nichols, Jon Stewart, etc in 2024: "it's too early to call them fascists" Trump regime in 2025: "it is now illegal terrorism to call us fascists" Funny how the time window on that worked

It is not appropriate to call fascists "fascist" until a secret moment where they are fascist ENOUGH for the self-appointed civility police And then once we hit that secret moment, the ACTUAL police will arrest you for saying it It's almost as if we're just never allowed to call fascists "fascist"

Does pushing back *always* work? No. But we know that not pushing back *never* works.

Unreal. The casual reader of this @nytimes.com hed and subhed will have no inkling whatsoever that Trump's "characterization" is wildly false and that it's a bad faith *pretext.* Time to get better at conveying the fundamentally pretextual nature of these authoritarian decrees already.

The thing that will drive me insane is watching the right explicitly calling for violence against their enemies (see also the Daily Caller article) and then in the same breath declaring anyone who even points it out as being a violent extremist, and then the media going “Sure, makes sense to me”

Good new detailed reporting from @washingtonpost.com on Hegseth calling all the brass to Pentagon at great cost and security risk. Here's the last paragraph: www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

🚨Mike Lawler’s top strategist Chris Russell, a GOP operative, ex-business partner, & now tied to a scandal leaking Rep. Sherrill’s unredacted military records…also works with Bill Weber & NY GOP. The company Lawler keeps speaks volumes. #NY17

If they let this go, in service to this tyrannical fascist and the horrible fascism that is gripping this nation, they are saying that all of the high and mighty solutions they proclaim we have do not exist, so long as they are in charge.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

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Great thread about what it really means to keep kids safe online.

Antifascist "alarmists" were right about all of it. And I really, really hope folks can think about what that means for who they should listen to moving forward.

So much has gone wrong in US press reporting on Trump because the White House reporters are people who have exclusively covered US politics. They need people who have worked in Hungary, Turkey, etc. The relevant knowledge isn't Reagan factoids; it's the dynamics of competitive authoritarianism.

I don't agree with what feels like the current consensus about black pilled shooters, that they are "neither right nor left." Neither right nor left is on the right by default. Also the pepe, 4 chan, irony poisoning, humor are key to alt-Right virality. The macho death cult shit can't be left wing.

Trump thinks he should rule like a king and that Ds are an illegitimate party. that's all he knows about the budget negotiations, and it's the entire basis for his "negotiating strategy." It doesn't have anything to do with what the Ds asked for; Trump has no idea what they asked for.

Here are two of the most influential people in liberal media, David Remnick and Ezra Klein, telling each other outright lies about what the 2016 Democratic presidential candidate said because years of exposure to conservative grievance media pounded the original facts of the case out of their skulls

1 thing undiscussed in “autism/Tylenol” BS is acetaminophen half-life is a few hours, it’s not something we take daily in pregnancy&it’s not even a good hypothesis to propose transient low-dose exposure@ some unspecified time wld rearrange brain development in some vague way. Not even EtOH does that

1) The problem with running DOJ if you've recently defended Trump is he heard you claim there was no evidence of his crimes when in fact there were entire pallets full of it. 2) Who, in THIS White House, has the insight to realize the Comey prosecution could backfire? www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Trump: everyone in the US died from drugs last week Reporter: [nods] Trump: so we must murder on the high seas Reporter: [nods] Trump: I caught Trix rabbit once Reporter: [nods] Trump: the cock on that bunny Reporter: [nods] Trump: bigger than you think Headline: Trump Policy Seeks To Save Lives

An important tactic Trump learned as a private citizen is that if you’re rich, you can wreck people’s lives with completely frivolous litigation, even if you have no chance of winning. This terrorizes everyone else who might get on your bad side by, say, demanding payment or reporting facts.

definitionally you can't engage in blood libel against people who are openly rounding people up and putting them in camps and disappearing them blood libel is a whole different thing

If Democrats don't make this the biggest story in the country for the next several days - and either force Republicans to denounce it or not, what are we even doing here? Every voter should know about this. (Imagine what would happen if, say, Mother Jones wrote this.) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/b...

Big I hate Obamacare but the ACA saved my life energy

So Publix decided to sabotage the Black Book Bash by first asking to be the only sponsor for the event, only to cancel 5 days before. Y'all, I'm tired. #blackbookbash #blackauthors #Publix #Jacksonville

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

Breaking news from Des Moines: ICE has detained Dr. Ian Roberts, the superintendent of Iowa's largest school district. The Des Moines Public Schools said "We have no confirmed information as to why Dr. Roberts is being detained or the next potential steps." www.bleedingheartland.com/2025/09/26/i...

This is what *actual* antisemitism on campus looks like.

Sinclair restoring Kimmel to its networks, and this whole situation in general, needs to be a lesson that we imprint in our minds and add to our arsenal of fighting back against fascism. If we are forced to live under capitalism then we can wield capitalism as a weapon and win.

#Publix promised to sponsor a Black book festival, asked to be the EXCLUSIVE sponsor, then pulled out days before the event, leaving the organizers with huge bills and no sponsors! #BookSky

Turns out the winning play was “captive audience to make him feel important”. Absolutely off the charts loser energy.

This is, of course, one of the characteristic features of fascism: they are allowed to lie and impose violence. You are not allowed to complain about it. You are not even allowed to say it out loud or write it down!

The US conservative movement has organized & funded a massive anti-wind power campaign, based on lies & bullying. Researchers at Brown University have been investigating & revealing that campaign. Now cons are pressuring the university to shut the investigators down.

Whatever happened to Librarian Shipwreck?

seems like a good thing Ds could promise which would have a measurable impact for many (patrons and employees) and would show a commitment to doing more/moving forward, not just trying to pick up the pieces we've lost (which we need to do too.)

Medicaid work requirements are just bad. But, as I wrote for @motherjones.com, there’s an extra level of vileness going on with them being implemented as more work-from-home jobs disappear. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record. As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

They will use all this dangerous BS about Tylenol use as another weapon to criminalize pregnancy loss.

Some good news, because we could all use it.

yeah we're into LLMs (Large Lamb-bridge Models)

Today, I'm learning about levels of evidence in medical research for my job. The pyramid has systematic reviews and meta-analyses at the top (most reliable) and expert opinion at the bottom. What's below expert opinion? Trump and Kennedy screaming about vaccines and Tylenol.

I took my newly 1 year old baby to her check-up this morning & she got her MMR, chicken pox, flu & COVID shots. If she's feeling fussy tonight, I'll alternate Tylenol & Motrin, per my pediatrician's rec. How fun that I get to ignore the president & be a good mom (and good citizen) instead.

In a genuine WOW moment, this administration publicly acknowledges (perhaps for the first time) that an ICE officer violated procedure and will be taken off duty and subject to an investigation. This is a step in the right direction — I just wish it wasn't only because of such an awful viral video.

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

I was in public education for the better part of 30 years, and I never once heard an administrator announce that we were taking a certain step because of the strength of the evidence. This is a post about AI in K-12 education. ies.ed.gov/ncee/wwc/essa

The gutting thing is when I speak to anybody under 25 or so, and they… don’t know this is unusual. The only America they’ve ever known is this openly corrupt, broken one.

repeating the phrase "full books" as I slam my head against my desk until I pass out

"All RIGHT!!! Let's have some TEA and let's answer some QUESTIONS!!!!" Me, psyching myself up to log onto LibChat. #LibraryLife