kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

Pluribus

the 6% is the WaPo editorial board

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world. But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.

‘SINNERS has won Best Cast Ensemble at the Critics Choice Awards.

Tramell Tillman has won Best Supporting Actor in a Drama Series for ‘SEVERANCE’ at the Critics Choice Awards.

all this is both foolish and unnecessary

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled, 1951 Oil on canvas National Gallery Of Art, @ngadc, Washington, Gift Of The Mark Rothko Foundation, Inc. Courtesy Museum Of Fine Arts Houston @mfahouston © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christoper Rothko/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

“Please,” cried Frog, “please go away!” But no one went away.

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

he's just gonna keep doing illegal shit as long as everyone keeps letting him

What if instead of spending millions if not billions on military operations against Venezuela, the US invested in treatment and rehab for people addicted to drugs and oil in the US.

BREAKING: Venezuela's vice president demands the U.S. free Maduro and calls him the country's rightful leader during speech.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

No war for oil in Venezuela. No war on Gaza. No war.

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.

In his first press conference as NYC mayor, Zohran Mamdani announced three executive orders on housing and tenant protection One will revive the Mayor's Office to Protect Tenants. He also revoked prior orders issued since Eric Adams’s indictment

Stranger Things was destined to fall apart because if you have show where the whole point is that the main characters are seeing the world through the lens of childhood you can’t sustain that at all if those kids grow up. Season three would have been a great place to stop. Season two even better.

"They want to know if the left can govern [...] they want to know if it is right to hope again. So standing together, with the wind of purpose at our backs, we will do something that NYers do better than anything else: we will set an example for the world" - Mamdani

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Last year pretty sure my word was spaghetti.

What if America was a cigarette store just over the border in Indiana

Ringing in the new year by rewatching Andor Season 2.

all the things that God would have us do are hard for us to do

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Blue, Green and Brown), 1952 Oil on canvas © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko/ARS, N.Y. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Black and Dark Red on Red), 1958 91 7/8  X  61 3/8 Inches, Oil on canvas Private collection © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Trump Says Recession Unfortunate But Necessary Step To Get To Depression https://theonion.com/trump-says-recession-unfortunate-but-necessary-step-to-get-to-depression/

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

AI is the opiate of the masses

I leap with thee; I burn with thee

Brilliant from @adamserwer.bsky.social: the Roberts Court's attack on the Reconstruction Amendments are "consistent with the Antebellum Constitution’s narrow definition of who “We the People” are." Here are some legal historians exploring the Antebellum Const. www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

They deported Yuanxin www.nytimes.com/2025/12/19/n...

Nothing exists in itself.

“They’re going to bring back suffering and death,” said Dr. Sean O’Leary, chair of the infectious disease committee for the American Academy of Pediatrics. “I don’t say that with any hyperbole, that’s exactly what’s going to happen.”

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

so far tonight msnbc has interviewed two students from brown university that are also survivors of separate high school shootings. insanity.

Worth pointing out here that the original image was a publicity stunt & put everyone involved in it in great danger. Also worth pointing out that it depicts construction workers, not their bosses, & is a celebration of the hard work & incredible achievements of *human hands.*

Interesting research project at Georgetown. I can't wait to update my Spring Race and Campus Histories course syllabus to include this development. wapo.st/48NjKPZ

𝗠𝗔𝗥𝗞 𝗥𝗢𝗧𝗛𝗞𝗢, Untitled (Browns), 1957 92 X 77 inches, Oil on canvas. Collection of Adriana and Robert Mnuchin © 1998 Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York 𝚂𝚒𝚐𝚗 𝚞𝚙 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚁𝚘𝚝𝚑𝚔𝚘 𝚛𝚎𝚕𝚊𝚝𝚎𝚍 𝚗𝚎𝚠𝚜 𝚘𝚛 𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎 𝚊 𝚝𝚊𝚡 𝚍𝚎𝚍𝚞𝚌𝚝𝚒𝚋𝚕𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚒𝚘𝚗. 𝙻𝚒𝚗𝚔𝚜 𝚒𝚗 𝚋𝚒𝚘

sometimes I think about the guys who were really good at hackysack back in college. what are those guys doing now? is hackysack still part of their whole deal?

Normal person walking past a field of wildflowers: What a beautiful field of wildflowers Me after 4 years of Poison Ivy-related research: You could kill a whole dinner party with some of the shit growing in there

There is magic in it.

The man's name was Joseph Barnes. Here's the request for a copy of his freedom papers from the St. Mary's County, Maryland, Register of Wills, 1806-1852, which the amazing Maryland State Archives has digitized and made available online. #slaveryarchive

This really is a must read for anyone in academia.