frankly I think tourists from the US *should* be asked this question, and maybe those who voted this way this woman clearly did should have to think for a damn minute about how their actions have impacted others. also: you can't just "get away from all that," for heavens sake.

Wrong answers only. A new diaphragm.

I’ve seen enough. Not about the election. Just generally.

Republicans have caused total chaos in Dallas County. It's instructive. Whether or not Trump attempts some sort of executive order to nationalize election administration, Republicans have an endless number of paths to create absolute mayhem in November.

This is what "anti-wokeness" was all about, making it publicly acceptable to be an aspiring genocidaire bsky.app/profile/mehd...

there are a lot of people working in the government right now who want to intentionally trigger an apocalypse to create the conditions for the return of jesus christ and I know how crazy that sounds but its absolutely true

The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

"There are multiple arguments that Democrats need to be making, including the fact that he’s acting illegally, and the fact that he’s acting strategically stupidly. So make all of those arguments. Don’t just ask for a briefing," says @mattduss.bsky.social. www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

I love that we all know 90 percent of them will flip on a dime now, from “trump won’t send your sons to war” (like it’s only sons) to “trump is sending your sons to war and that’s good.”

Just want to note that 3am in Washington is like 11:30am in Tehran. The American people are the ones he snuck up on in the dead of night to conduct this illegal attack, not the purported enemy.

CNN follows NPR and Politico in finding that DOJ scrubbed the Epstein files of evidence related to a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old.

trump going on about corruption and then slandering somali-americans makes my blood boil

personally if I were sitting behind a man proclaiming that my entire job was meaningless and my power was as dust in his eyes I would not smile and clap and nod and stand but that is one of many ways Mike Johnson and I are different

the state of the bronzer is unblended.

The state of our union is incredibly fucking embarrassing.

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

A recent NYT op-ed blamed the Trump's regime's lawless violence on 'paganism' while conjuring Christianity as the source of good values. I think this is a terrible way to think about history and gets in the way of cleaning up the messes Christians have made. My latest from @religiondispatches.org

this is total nonsense? presidents quite famously struggled to maintain control over the federal bureaucracy going back to before the civil war and congress has always interfered a great deal into the executive branch. congressional deference is the abnormality!

If I could change one piece of the discourse-that-drives-policy it’d be to underscore that higher education is not only a benefit to the individual but to all of us. It’s a collective good.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

wild choice of example

George Wallace in 1962: "I started off talking about schools and highways and prisons and taxes and I couldn't make them listen. Then I began talking about n**rs and they stomped the floor." Donald Trump in 2023⬇️

If you really think college students need to learn to use AI (by which I mean LLMs), I suggest you create and fund a department of expert professionals who can teach them. The humanities professors are busy trying to teach those classic texts you keep whining about disappearing from the curriculum

SCOTUS was like "No kings when it comes to our personal stock portfolios" lol

It's sex predators all the way down. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/19/b...

Breaking news: I finally figured out who Pam Bondi sounded like in that ludicrous hearing—Parker Posey’s character in Best in Show berating people about acquiring a new busy bee.

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

“Young people are quickly becoming so dependent on A.I. that they are losing the ability to think for themselves. And rather than rallying resistance, academic administrators are aiding and abetting a hostile takeover of higher education.”

oh so just dumb luck these idiots didn’t shoot down a passenger aircraft

We have received numerous credible reports of torture, killing, and inhumane treatment of detained individuals at the Camp East Montana migrant detention facility, located within Fort Bliss. #txlege

I don’t know what this is about, but it can’t be good.

Hi everyone, I'm organising a conference in Leuven, 4-5 June, and you're all invited*! It's called 'Performing evil: the mediation and display of diabolic spectres 1700-2000' and here is the call for papers (get in touch if you'd like a pdf!). Please share widely! *to submit an abstract before 21/3

📢NEW MANY-HEADED MONSTER POST📢 'G.M. Trevelyan once wrote, ‘there is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where everyone goes his own way and is right’. Could he have been talking about primary source research too?' manyheadedmonster.com/2026/02/10/i... #EarlyModern🗃️

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance https://theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-lose-ability-to-speak-english-after-exposure-to-bad-bunny-performance-dios-mio-cry-millions-of-panicking-republicans/

Bunroe Doctrine

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

I just want more halftime instead of a second half

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

Pour one out for every professional political pundit, writer, consultant whatever that has spent the last decade trying to pretend that the Trump phenomenon was about trade or opiates and not a big chunk of white america losing its mind over having a black president bsky.app/profile/kyle...

Among other things, the Epstein files make clear that academia has long been home to rampant misogyny. It has undoubtedly been better for my generation, but it is still with us. Quieter, more casual, insidious in its own ways. It shapes hiring, promotion, and scholarship. It is a feature, not a bug.

This is insane. Under absolutely no circumstances should a prof ever discuss the physical appearance of a student in a rec letter! I can’t believe I even have to say that!

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Honestly, this interview is art. Unlike the film in question.

A huge political earthquake in Texas tonight as Democrats flipped a State Senate seat from red to blue in a district Trump won by 17 points. Trump personally waded in — endorsing the Republican and personally urging base turnout — and was dealt a massive loss.

10/10 ICE protest sign

Full rights and citizenship actually means they’re not a “foreign labor class.” And that’s what he’s angry about. He’s mad citizenship is universal rather than restricted to white people like before the civil war bsky.app/profile/gbbr...

I know I don't say this often enough. But at this moment, with a full heart, I want to tell you, from the depths of my soul: I hate my job

The wealthy have class solidarity and we'll only beat them when we have it too