Bored National Guard Goes Door To Door Asking If Chicagoans Have Any Order They Need Restored https://theonion.com/bored-national-guard-goes-door-to-door-asking-if-chicagoans-have-any-order-they-need-restored/

Nothing remotely resembling an insurrection is happening anywhere in the country. Any violence associated with protest has been isolated, mild, and, in nearly every case, instigated by federal law enforcement. If we let Trump get away with calling dissent an insurrection, our republic is over.

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

I really believe that huge majorities of Americans don’t want masked soldiers shooting priests in the street. They don’t want naked children ripped out out of their apartments in the middle of the night and handcuffed. We win by making sure these stories get told.

They are not Trump's enemies. They are critics and opponents. He sees them as enemies, because that's how autocrats perceive their critics. NYT should not repeat and normalize authoritarian discourse. How Trump Is Using the Justice Department to Target His Enemies www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

The executive branch calling the enforcement of the law by judges "insurrection" is a five-alarm fire for democracy.

"Dear Sweet Blessed Little Baby Jesus, please watch over our armed thugs as they turn away the stranger, persecute the foreigner and harm the least of our brothers and sisters."

Irony just took its shoes off and slowly started walking into the ocean until it was never seen or heard from again…

👇🎯 This is how governing works in literally every actual democracy around the world. If you don’t have the votes, it’s up to you to make concessions to the minority parties. It’s not their job to save you from your responsibility to govern by giving you things you don’t have the votes for already.

Wow, it must be terrible being told that you can’t use the bathroom.

Charlie kirk gets killed by a white man, HBCUs get bomb threats. White man shoots up a white church, people talk negatively about the Black Panthers. People get mad about alleged latin american drug cartels, a predominately Black apartment complex gets raided at 2 am I'm seeing a trend

"It is, Sir, as I have said, a small college, and yet there are those who love it"

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

University presidents it’s time for a united front. I mean, it’s past time. What are you going to do.

But also we’re terrified of the subway

the people who are destroying all public goods and trying to kill you would like you to blame someone else, perhaps some Other whose immigration status you can deduce at a glance by putting on your racism glasses, who you can have sent to a concentration camp on the basis of your suspicion

Brb, just planning a course based on this paragraph. Part 1: “They want to like chop my head off, right?”: The ‘Other’ in the American Imagination Part 2: “They got a fucking Chili’s over here!”: Capitalism & Civilisation in American Culture We’ll be reading a lot of Edward Said

An alternate headline would be GOP is not interested enough in serious governance to pick up the votes necessary to avoid a shutdown.

Impressive how one political party can control the White House, the House, the Senate, and the Supreme Court, but not bear responsibility for whether the federal government functions. Neat trick.

In light of today’s absolutely fucking deranged “I’m in a war movie” speeches by Trump and Hegseth, I give you the plaque at West Point.

Literally a five-alarm fire for democracy 🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

There’s a nice article on this by @erikbleich.bsky.social @amauritsvdv.bsky.social et al in Political Studies.

Trump is ordering the military to use “full force” against an American city, while the Supreme Court declares him the Sun King and Congress hides under a pile of coats. The checks and balances only work when the institutions aren’t run by utter cowards and the complicit

Saying this with a straight face after pardoning all the Jan. 6 perpetrators of violence...

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

"AI is going to replace actual teaching & instructors & solve the problem of unplugging 20-25% of the entire budget of every research university in America" is an incredible revealed preference. I mistakenly believed we were trying to educate students & conduct actual research. How naive of me.

Very important thread. Wish more university admins. would take note and think twice!!

Good moment to remind ourselves about causes of terrorism- from DOJ: “militant, nationalistic, white supremacist violent extremism has increased in the United States” and that “the number of far-right attacks continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism”.

Imagine being one of these incredibly impressive four-stars and being lectured about being a warrior by an alcoholic former weekend cable news host

Enough of the BS. It's not a 'crackdown' on academia. You 'crackdown' on criminals and villains. It's a wild assault and a desperate power grab. And that shouldn't be hard to say, regardless of ideological preferences. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/o...

I love that the takeaway from this graph is "Those damned leftists."

The success of the far right is not only measured in votes and seats but in its impact on rhetoric, policy and ideology. The fact that a (nominally) social democratic head of government with a huge majority choses to say and do this is maybe the biggest success of the far right in Europe yet.

Every word of this should be a source of abiding national shame. This is a *former human rights lawyer* capitulating, eagerly, to an essentially racist notion of how people should be treated, and actively collaborating, from the top of government, in imposing it on the population.

He talks about moving a World Cup game out of Chicago because it has high crime, which is interesting because there is no game slated for Chicago. But Dallas has a World Cup game, and Dallas has a higher violent crime rate than Chicago, and Dallas has a Republican mayor … oh, OK, I see it now.

Every day, Trump wakes up and thinks “what product should I make arbitrarily more expensive today?” Truck tariffs means drivers pay billions more for vehicles, companies/consumers pay more for shipping, & the benefits to truckmakers get outweighed by costs to other manufacturers

Fun article, but weird that the headline writer did not go for the there-for-the-taking "the old college try" !! www.nytimes.com/athletic/664...

This. They’re “ironic,” but the joke is always punching down. They “don’t care,” but only because the system benefits them in ways they don’t see. They don’t want “politics,” they just want the world to cater to their every whim. I could’ve very easily been this person. We can choose differently

The number of people burned alive inside a Tesla is now .. 148 Statistically that's ~2,5 times more per Tesla (!) than the world's 'most fire hazardous car' ever: the infamous '70s Ford Pinto (Taken out of production for 27 fire deaths After 3.2 million produced) docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A particular characteristic of fascism is the fetishization of masculinity and the subordination of women. Fascism is virulently male supremacist, uber machismo, and rife with sexual anxiety about gender roles. This is 100% Fascism.

Some things never change.

The problem here is that to Trump, Rubio, Musk, et al., saving lives is completely orthogonal to the purpose of US aid, which they see as just serving the US national interest. (on the link between national aid goals & national aid policies, see my book:)

Genuinely kind of amazing that Trump owes his first election to Comey, and this is what Comey gets in the end

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

I've been assured that misstating circumstances around a public act of violence is an offense that must have you removed from all airwaves immediately

Bessent unclear on the concept of "alliance"