Just when I thought I couldn't possibly love this man more ... ۞ إِنَّ اللَّهَ يَأْمُرُ بِالْعَدْلِ وَالْإِحْسَانِ وَإِيتَاءِ ذِي الْقُرْبَىٰ وَيَنْهَىٰ عَنِ الْفَحْشَاءِ وَالْمُنكَرِ وَالْبَغْيِ ۚ يَعِظُكُمْ لَعَلَّكُمْ تَذَكَّرُونَ (16:90)

The Democratic Party would do well to look to the social programs of the Black Panther Party as inspiration if SNAP disappears on Saturday. Just running party-sponsored food drives and regular party-sponsored spaghetti dinners in some major cities would be both helpful and good PR.

it’s kind of funny that the New York Times, which is probably at least 50% Ivy League on the editorial side, is one of the primary drivers of contemporary anti-intellectualism, but not really funny in a good way

the costumes will get bigger until morale improves

I'd yeet this at the heads of professional academic orgs to which I used to belong, but they wouldn't care & power comes from below anyway, so instead I yeet it, more gently, at junior scholars trying to do decolonial work. Every academic should read it. workshops4gaza.substack.com/p/against-co...

It's Indigenous Peoples' Day, and I must once again remind many of you:

The government asserts that Trump's post on Truth Social authorizes the action. A judge should be asking who actually writes those ...

$150 million to acquire a publication with 170,000 paid subscribers ... what a shrewd move. "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man."

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

I honestly have no idea what people are taught at US service academies, OCS/OTS, military graduate schools, and so on ... Do they learn about what happened to the Janissaries in 1826? 😬

At the risk of staying the obvious ... If you sign this, you are in no way a journalist.

If you've bought the lie that these folks want free speech & open, honest debate, you need to wake up and smell the rank authoritarianism. You may enjoy their rhetoric and the way they punch down at people you don't like, but you should know that their ideas and actions are profoundly un-American.

In other news, the executive committee of the not-for-profit American National Tooling and Industrial Fasteners Association (ANTIFA) called an emergency meeting late Wednesday evening to adopt a new name and update their articles of incorporation.

Oh, look ... an advance party from the craven, conceited, and utterly contemptible Consultant Class, eager to defend corporate Dems against those pesky lefties. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/u...

"the righteous endeavor to protect the legitimate free exchange of ideas and opinions, which requires the vigilant maintenance of appropriate behaviors" A sphincter says what?

Robert Redford was a class act.

People are saying there's no way you could become a Radical Marxist after just 1 semester at a state university ranked #259 in the nation followed by a few years of vocational school, but I'm here to tell you that's simply not true. I mean, you probably can't get through all 3 vols of Das Kapital...

@joyannreid.bsky.social is asking the right question.This may be the most dangerous period.When the dog catches the car & realizes he can’t open the doors or satisfy its hunger. Now there’s rage, snarling and vicious humiliation at having exhausted itself pursuing something that has no real meaning.

Here's how I put it on the Ezra Klein Show four years ago: "The news system isn’t really designed for public understanding. It’s designed to produce new content every day." www.nytimes.com/2021/11/12/p... Which is to say: any "fix" has to be systemic too.

Touched grass. Now itchy.

There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces

"We now return to our regularly scheduled programming."

Please remember that the tone-policing and calls for civility are coming from people who benefit from the status quo—which in these dis-united states has been and continues to be a very uncivil blend of white supremacy + misogyny. You don't have to be polite to people who want to extinguish you.

broligarchs and private equity firms

Fossilized billionaires want you to think they're self-made men when they're actually some of the worst "welfare queens" you've ever seen. Getting rich by selling the dregs of decomposed dinos while on the government dole is nothing to be proud of. www.wired.com/story/us-tax...

Dear menswear guy, what are some sensible yet stylish fall outfits that will help to hide a fellow's mitochondrial challenges? @dieworkwear.bsky.social

Well, this looks useful. A free high school journalism curriculum! www.teachjournalismforall.com

Fedco, Gottschalks, Miller's Outpost, and Zodys have issued a joint statement announcing they will be ceasing all California operations to protest "the woke-ism that pervades Gavin Newsom's failed socialist state."

this iconic advertising copywriter named Kathy Hepinstall Parks died over the weekend and I wanted to share something from her website I thought Bluesky would like

It's straight-up "The Birth of a Nation" racist bullshit. These mediocre, thin-skinned, whiny losers have absolutely no new ideas.

Follow. The. Money.

Why is it so easy for many of us to see this extortion while the @nytimes.com treats this as The Art of the Deal? It is so repulsive and craven of these reporters and their editors.

If we're going to call it the Presidential Fitness Test, the President should be required to pass it.

A chicken for The New York Times, a star for Bloomberg: A new “Media Capitulation Index” ranks large media and tech companies www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/a-ch...

Oligarchs are wielding power in increasingly insidious ways across the globe, perpetrating corruption, abuse of power, and environmental exploitation. But expert investigators have a series of tips and techniques for tracking their influence and exposing their wrongdoing. Read more @gijn.org.

We shouldn't need a Black Women’s Equal Pay Day, but here we are. Still underpaid. Still undervalued. 66 cents on the dollar means we lose thousands every year, for doing the same job. Over a lifetime? That’s hundreds of thousands gone. Pay Black women. Period.

See also iatrogenesis.

ARIZONA: This is not a red-against-blue, "my team vs. your team" partisan issue. Public media is the *only* local media in many rural and tribal communities throughout our state. Ask yourself: "Who benefits when folks are prevented from accessing high-quality news and educational programming?"

As if *gestures expansively* all THIS wasn't enough to pulverize whatever shards of sanity we have left.

What's the difference between a regular burrito and a burrito Supreme? One costs more money and is packed with globs of sour whiteness. 🤔

Democracy dies in broad daylight.

"It has been said that history repeats itself. This is perhaps not quite correct; it merely rhymes." –Theodor Reik, Curiosities of the Self: Illusions We Have about Ourselves (1965) OK, fine, Herr Professor Reik, but this particular history is rhyming in white supremacy.

it is funny so many people are surprised the young, handsome, multi-lingual guy with a detailed platform focused on affordability—that he effectively communicated at rallies, debates, and in videos—beat the billionaire-funded, corrupt, sex pest, who had to resign in disgrace and barely campaigned

Primary all Democrats over the age of 60.

Anyone who thinks war is awesome has never been very close to one. Or else is a deranged psychopath.

Gen X actually had two wars in the Gulf: what Iraqis & Iranians call the First Gulf War (1980-1988) and what Americans call the First Iraq War (1990-1991). Our music was definitely better. But a bunch of our generation turned out to be horrible humans—the same machine the rest of us rage against.

If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, sounds like a duck ... Abolish The Fucking Duck.