“What kind of administration releases naked photos of victims, and then protects the perpetrators?” #TrumpEpsteinFiles #EpsteinAdministration

Look at this bullshit. If I was the parent of a victim, I’d be livid.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

The Justice Department has withheld some Epstein files related to allegations that President Trump sexually abused a minor, an NPR investigation finds. It also removed some documents from the public database where accusations against Jeffrey Epstein also mention Trump. www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...

Meanwhile the FBI director is partying with Olympians on our dime.

Pretty amazing that comms person at FBI called my @ms.now colleague @kendilanian-nbc.bsky.social a liar and demand a correction only for Kash to post a photo from the locker room

UF restricted professors from volunteering for post-tenure review because too many were getting the highest evaluation

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

This one hits hard.

Your weekly reminder Stephen Miller did not go to law school and seems at this moment to be engaged in the unauthorized practice of law.

I just explained to my students that crooked politicians always like to use the passive voice to avoid accountability, and this is a pretty solid example. Exonerated by whom, sir? When? How?

Must-watch interview: youtu.be/oiTJ7Pz_59A?...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

If this country was truly “pro-life,” we would have Medicare for All, a Green New Deal, gun reform, universal child care, and a living wage. The right-wing agenda isn’t about “life.” It’s about control.

Hey everyone. Potentially the biggest story in the country, right here. substack.com/home/post/p-...

If Jeff Bezos could afford to spend $75 million on the Melania movie & $500 million for a yacht to sail off to his $55 million wedding to give his wife a $5 million ring, please don't tell me he needed to fire one-third of the Washington Post staff. Democracy dies in oligarchy.

Finally back into a consistent writing schedule for the first time since 2020. I was tenured in May 2020, was on faculty senate, and was part of our Uni emergency mgmt team. COVID for me (professionally) was multiple years of massive service load. I don't regret that work...

It's a "forget about thorns damage and die on the crackback" sort of day - but the sun is shining and classes start tomorrow so that's something to look forward to!

Erikson’s Malazan Book of the Fallen is the best epic fantasy series I’ve ever read send tweet

Look, I know we're all sick of hearing "if this had happened with any other president ..." but it's absolutely true and absolutely can't be forgotten. For some reason, this nation gives this idiotic spoiled brat a free pass from things that would destroy the administration of any other person.

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

“Screw responsibilities, let’s do magic.” CC: @jamesngilmore.bsky.social

BREAKING: economist discovers “second shift,” a concept coined by sociologists almost 50 years ago; gives it new, stupider, and less explicitly labor-oriented name

I've seen a lot of concern about staying within the "rules" of each bracket; and would like to reiterate that these are not rules. They are the average expectations of players in that kind of game. If your deck doesn't meet those expectations, you can ALWAYS mention it to adjust those expectations.

EXCLUSIVE: One Saturday afternoon in October, my phone lit up with a notification. I glanced down at the message. “Anna, Lindsey Halligan here,” it began. So began my text exchange with the woman who is prosecuting the president's perceived political enemies. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/anna...

Who’s eating the tariffs? You, mostly. @cnbc.com www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/t...

My book American Idolatry uses data and history to tell Christians 1: the best way to love God is to love your neighbor and to define neighbor as broadly as possible And 2: Christian nationalism keeps you from doing #1 b/c it demands you idolize power, fear, and violence

My high school German teacher passed away this week. She was one of those one-in-a-million teachers who changes the way you think about learning. As a professor, she's one of the teachers I regularly think about as someone I want to emulate. Today, I'm thankful for amazing teachers.

Lot of unhappy things going on at large and in this article, but one of them is that there a contingent of RW activists searching through social media for comments they can use to get people fired or worse. Be careful. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish. The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

Some claim "Christian nationalism" is just "loving Jesus" & "being patriotic." Lots of social scientific evidence shows the "Christianity" of Christian nationalism is much more than that. In fact, it brings with it 5 pieces of cultural baggage. kettering.org/five-element... @kettering.org

Protesters chanted that President Donald Trump is the “Hitler of our time” while he dined at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab on Tuesday, a rare journey outside the White House to a D.C. restaurant. https://wapo.st/3V6st9v

ICYMI: -SCOTUS ruled that "common sense" racial profiling is A-okay when ICE does it -The WSJ released Trump's vulgar Epstein drawing -The White House sent out an invitation for the public hanging of the separation of church and state -The ickiest Murdoch gets to keep control of Fox

This week on Culture Critically, @aspyle.bsky.social joins us to talk about the relationships between crisis communication and critical analysis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

Great episode, really fun listen from a couple of “well seasoned millennials”

My brilliant friend and colleague @jamesngilmore.bsky.social has relaunched his podcast and you should absolutely check it out! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

This is why "diversity of thought" is a dead end. Equating anti-science quacks with professional scientists is how you end up putting worm-for-brains RFK in charge of spreading measles to Texas families. Scientific consensus is good, actually.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

Whoa. "Now the debate among national security professionals is over whether the secretary was just incompetent or whether he was drunk. That’s how low this has gone. - Seth Moulton, not pulling any punches

GET IN LOSERS, WE’RE GOING TO DESTROY THE COUNTRY

I had to bring this here because it’s so good

This is a profoundly evil betrayal and a direct reflection of Trump's soul—a disgusting, small, and shameful ghoul who gets off on harming the powerless. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

Huh.

Spot on thread from @jessicacalarco.bsky.social

Donald Trump is lying to you.

KYIV INDEPENDENT: “It’s time to say it plainly. America’s leadership has switched sides in the war. The American people have not, and they should speak up.” kyivindependent.com/editorial-a-...