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Thanks to my friend @capodice.bsky.social for the opportunity to contribute to this very fun episode on the grievances in the Declaration of Independence. This is one of my favorite exercises to go through with students every year and I loved getting the chance to do it for such a great podcast

“awful people don’t deserve to be killed, but they don’t deserve to be praised, either” is apparently a thought too complex for the pundit mind

No better evidence that "The Cathedral" is fake than allegedly liberal journalists tripping over their dicks to praise, as a champion of free discourse and expression, a guy who made one of his central accomplishments a blacklist of professors

Once again: politics in this country is not a serious business. The idea that you can't have more than two parties when both of them are so manifestly unfit for purpose is pathetic. It is long past time for US citizens to find more respect for themselves and ditch this disgraceful duopoly

this is true of games for the most popular sport in the world too. The decline of PES remains a tragedy

The most frustrating thing about the conspiracy of lies we have all been subjected to about Joe Biden's fitness for office for two years now is that it was not in service of some great agenda. Their goal was to prove they could beat Trump by promising nothing and delivering less

You won't find an emptier suit outside of a department store. Hard to think of a major world leader this devoid of conviction and courage. Never really seen anything like it. It's like they discovered a new political quality called antileadership or something.

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

Imagine if projector salespeople told you projectors were great in the classroom not because they let everybody see an image better but rather because now every course could be about projectors, because projectors are the future and the time to opt out of talking about projectors all day has passed.

a northern state being attacked by the federal government for the crime of not apprehending a fugitive, cheered on by the very people who whine constantly about respecting "states' rights"? Where have I seen this one before?

Stancil has shown has one redeemable quality in that he can barbeque MAGA trolls with the best of them, but he'll fundamentally always be a "people don't believe things or have values, they're told what to believe" late-stage Democratic nihilist at heart

very funny that Elissa Slotkin was Chuck Schumer's *hand picked* face of the future of the Democratic Party

For all the failings of the institution he led, this nevertheless feels like the loss of an essential voice defending basic human decency at a moment when it is harder than ever to do that

I could get mad that the NYT Daily podcast features Chris Rufo, but without the NYT no one would know Chris Rufo, so it’s really like a homecoming.

Trump take napkin

See a lot of people without degrees in economics sounding off now, which is fine because that’s not a real degree.

in fairness to the market no one could have guessed that a nearly 80 year-old ex-President with a messianic self-certainty and the hyperfixation of a toddler would enact a policy he spent each and every day of a two-year campaign promising to enact!

a colleague reminded me today that the day after the election, I said to him that the question is not when Trump will crash and burn because he has surrounded himself with sycophantic morons, but rather how much he will destroy on his way down. I think I will avoid said colleague tomorrow.

This is how it’s done, university presidents!

Jason Stanley is never beating the allegations

Another reason it is cowardly to simply obey and let them take over your newsroom or university is that if you don’t they often will be like “well fuck, that was our main idea”

Extremely funny that anyone would describe Jason Stanley leaving somewhere as a "brain drain"

Honestly an incredible tweet. No notes really. "If you learn how to skip learning, you'll outperform those who try to learn!" The Business School ethos succinctly stated

Nothing says "welcome back from Spring Break!" like a whiteout

The ACA is a perfect example of running on changing something systemic and unjust but caving to entrenched interests when in office. The Democratic Party diluted all of Obama's radicalism to pander to the Biden-Lieberman-Manchin reactionary wing

Ezra Klein is the perfect Obamacrat. He believes you can make things better by distracting people from their real problems with elevated Sorkinesque sophistry. He thinks persuading corporations to have empathy and the military industrial complex to have ethics is the end goal

Former Irish PM

hardly surprising that Joe Manchin's best friend Jeanne Shaheen loves everything Trump is doing, but Maggie Hassan really should know better. She's operating in an alternate reality if she thinks Granite Staters wanted her to do this

posting is an esport

Ah yes, all those rich right-wing moguls who own multi-billion dollar media companies aren't to blame for the decades of relentless misinformation that have led voters to believe factually untrue things. The true culprits are leftist tweeters Will Stancil doesn't agree with

This isn't going to get the attention of Columbia, but it's at least as bad: the University of Maine is having its funding cut off because the governor of Maine dared to challenge Trump.

Forgive the earnestposting but we lost our lovely Toby this morning to a heart condition. I know the idea that dogs are man's best friend is a cliche but this dog literally was that for me. He was there for me through it all and I just wanted to tell you all I loved him and will miss him dearly

Aside from the obvious direct harm, what's so irritating is that a handful of spoiled ignorant assholes are breaking things that we all built together. They weren't content to own almost everything, they had to wreck what little they didn't own. It's vandalism on a mass scale and has to be punished

The university is the enemy of incuriousity so it makes sense that history's greatest dullard would want to destroy them

ah yes, I recall that section of the Constitution that says you have to get a permit for your free assembly

"The free market but for research funding" is a very good bit, impressive satire really, no notes

It's going to be really disappointing for future historians who try to come up with a grand theory of why this is happening only to realize that the entire rationale is "Elon learned about economics on 4chan"

Genuinely appalling and revealing how much more thorough, thoughtful and well-researched the videogame speedrunning community has been in evaluating Elon Musk's claims than the tech press or DC political press youtu.be/z1ykCc588Zw?...

I think we can condemn Trump as a world historical diplomatic dumbass without rehabilitating Ronald Reagan who would absolutely love that Russia now has a right wing dictator

he's really so stupid and I can't stand it. if you warmed up mars and melted the water, the water would evaporate into space. Mars can't have a habitable atmosphere in its current state bc it has no magnetic field. solar winds strip away everything that isn't stuck to the surface.

the worst part of all of this is that The Americans was a masterpiece of showing how foreign powers could exert political influence in a ruthless and targeted way and now it has been rendered effectively meaningless by a simpleton who just likes Putin because he imprisons people who question him

Supporters Praise Trump For Upholding Traditional American Value Of Supporting Murderous Dictators For Political Gain

it remains staggering to me how much Elon and Trump are convinced of their own indispensability and invulnerability

“Hubris” is too dignified a term for how Trump and Vance embarrassed themselves with Zelensky today. To watch how this guy refused to bow before a powerful state and its genocidal war against his country only to then think “but surely *we* will be able to bully him”—that’s just being a dumbass.