So much of trump sycophants' behavior looks like warlords plundering state resources (in this case the resources are symbolic). They love the taboo of the taking as much as the taking itself.

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The problem with academia was never the woke humanities profs. Its always been the administrators at the top level who fancy themselves C Suite tycoons. So mad to see this happen at my Alma mater.

This headline doesn't capture what appears to have happened here. A man who routinely engaged in sex "tourism" in Thailand and Colombia, and bragged about it to his CBP colleagues, is resigning in the wake of a @washingtonexaminer.bsky.social story about said sex "tourism".

The best way to handle the haters!

America in a nutshell. "Ms. Oliveira had saved around $1,200 for an AK but never bought one. She ended up having to spend the money on car repairs."

We’re the FIRST state to ban dynamic pricing in grocery stores. Here’s why:

John Oliver is just so good. This funny and cutting, but also so humane.

Whoever wrote the line "Shake Your Booty with the Substitutey" for Matt Damon's SNL skit deserves a raise!

Grifty McGrifty pants over here giving us an economics lesson on how to grift brazenly and with abandon.

So many people unwilling to meet the moment or face criticism for their sniveling cowardice and avarice.

"...he [Andreesen] is scripting his own psychotic break. He is doing it because he is a huge dumbass. Don't expect Claude to tell him so." I love how @defector.com covers our villianous tech overlords. Said overlords are obscenely powerful and decidedly mediocre. And Defector knows it.

Union strong, union beautiful 😍

Love this essay. It's like a David Harvey-lite explainer on yuppies as avatars of the finacialization/enshittification of the US economy & the political realignments that followed it. & even though its not in the essay, you'll see why the Bezos/Sanchez MET gala is just more overpriced avocado toast

The funny thing about all these whingey billionaires comparing things they don't like to the Soviet Union is that they think the metaphor is really going for the jugular. Most millenials and Gen Z have no experience with the cold war baddies.

Political Science/IR use the term 'political violence' only for non-state actors. Functionally, the term establishes a boundary btw legitimate/illegitimate violence. States are allowed to do violence, non-state actors aren't. Euphemisms (counter-terrorism/homeland protection) cover state violence 1/

Whoever writes headlines for @defector.com should have to carry insurance for all the readers who spit their coffee out on their keyboards from LOL-ing.

The level of contempt this guy holds for voters is something else

Lots to chew on in this great article by @cullenhendrix.bsky.social. Given the stakes it's bonkers govts are hands off in regulating AI. They're taking a neoliberal attitude (limited regulation=increased productivity=more redistribution) to a sector w/ robber baron dynamics & dystopian edge lords.

As ever, a thoughtful post by @mocomikee.bsky.social on rent stabilization. And bonus points for getting the word "vibes" in here!

I have to laugh. I grew in Lynchburg when Jerry Falwell was alive. He used to believe fundamentalists should separate from the world but shifted gears in the 70s. Fundies should take over secular spaces. Become bankers/lawyers. Get rich. But they still hit a glass ceiling. Redneck know thy place

If you must 'both sides' everything, do it like @defector.com does it. defector.com/everyone-sur...

That Trump's got all these macho, trad men talking about ballrooms says simping is still very much the coin of the maga realm.

Also, the maga propensity to treat everything as a social media moment to either express grievance or dominance makes it harder to discern not only truth from fiction but also the mundane from the significant. At some point all that drama can start to feel fake, even when some of it isn't.

Garramond 13 point when I'm working on a paper. Corbel 12 for short handouts/quizzes for students.

Rockford also spends a lot of time complaining about the FBI and federal surveillance more broadly. He could have been a militia guy, but instead he decided to be a sexy private eye

Don't worry y'all. Tony Dokoupil is there to tell us what happened.

Like I can trust anyone at THAT dinner to report what’s happening there accurately

I love this piece every time i read it! I'm a murhlander, a denizen of south four corners, and a big Silver Springer because like @mocomikee.bsky.social I am fully aware that there's only one silver spring, not silver springs!

Kash is a bad faith actor who's done major damage to the FBI, but my sympathy is tempered by the agents who thought DOJ was too aggressive on J6 prosecutions & thought Trump would be ok. How can I trust you to investigate crimes if you can't even recognize a failed coup and the criminal leading it?

I can't tell you the number of times I've heard, "if only we could get so and so to retire." Normally I just say, "we don't have a mandatory retirement age, so move on" But now I'm gonna now start saying, "If only we could get all the VPs and AVPs to retire."

Yes, Swiss scientist Fritz Zwicky coined the term “dark matter” which is impressive, but he also coined the term “spherical bastard” to describe people who are bastards no matter which way you look at them, and I think that should be celebrated more.

I don't have a problem w/ SPLC doing intensive research on far right groups. Their lawsuits took down horrible orgs like Aryan Nation & there's no way to do that w/ desk research alone. But SPLC needs serious rebuilding. Stop harrassment against unionized workers & laying low to avoid maga.

"...the new dean of law was the only candidate NOT recommended by law school faculty.” Higher admin f*ckery in 15 short words. Pleasantly surprised to see Beshear call it out.

Great news! Get ready for more Alex Jones day drinking/whingeing on other people's podcasts

Russ Vought has flown below the radar, but he is one of the administration's biggest extremists. And that is saying something given this motley crew of haters.

This article only talks to humanities profs, but these policies wont just affect English profs. Imagine studying black maternal mortality rates or racial disparity in cancer diagnosis. It's only a matter of time before some moronic state legislator starts hollering abt identity politics in medicine.

💯! Plus, wait til you meet the AI. This series has the most realistic depiction of evolved AI that I've ever read. You'll want to put your Chatgpt and Claude in the airlock and space the hell out of them

I somehow missed the discourse that millennial feminism was a failure (lucky me!). But this🎁article is spot on. It's a backlash we're seeing more than a failure. There were also real gains from 'me too' that continued apace. Swalwell couldn't outrun the solidarity & safety nets 'me too' created.

Every faculty senate email is like 'we're about to do the dumbest shit you can possibly imagine but you can't complain about it because on the bottom of a 42 page consent agenda last August we said we were cooking up some super dumb shit for April and you never complained'

This is how you sell taxes!

The cruelty is the point.

How a politico plays the game says alot about them. This says Pinto doesn't have a lot of red lines. She's willing to treat people (White's dad) as expendable. Now imagine you're a vulnerable DC resident. Is Pinto someone who will take the care your issue needs & think abt ur dignity in the process?

It's galling that it's this image, not the pictures of ICE throwing people to the ground, separating parents from their children, and shooting and killing citizens that bothers them. But it tracks. They're all about hierarchy, and John Wayne Jesus is still above Trump.

It's the Kentucky Derby with preetier accents!

In 2020 my colleague & I got trolled by memebers of the Hungarian govt & their Twitter supporters for writing this article. It was surreal (I only had 1,300 followers). I couldn't understand most of the insults (I don't speak Hungarian) but I'll never forget the antisemitic memes. Good riddance.

The same week the NYTimes was devoting its significant resources to producing this ridiculous piece about Lauren Sanchez Bezos's call for rich people to not worry and be happy, Ryan Hass, an independent journalist in Oregon, was investigating this horrifying story about a death in an Amazon plant.

Can't wait to read this!

Ladybugs by the bay