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the guy that wrote this is absolutely melting down and blaming all of the left and calling bluesky a cancer, just completely crashing out, telling all academics to leave here, because people are dragging him for absolutely godawful shoddy work. its pretty funny.

One moment the Dow is over 50,000. The next you're in the trash. Happens to the best of us.

God bless our troops! Signed, President Trump. www.npr.org/2026/04/02/n...

"I write because it feeds my spirit. It helps me unspool my thoughts and feelings in the hopes of helping others do the same. The process is the purpose." I commit to striving 4 a better world w/ a media of more reporters like @marisakabas.bsky.social & less of cutting & pasting soulless bots.

Trump’s FY2027 Budget Is Not Just a Spending Plan — It Is a Transfer of Power A detailed look at Trump’s FY2027 budget request, what funding rises, what gets cut, and how the numbers reflect a broader political vision. www.onestnetwork.com/trumps-fy202...

We can’t afford universal healthcare. There’s just no money available.

What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

This is What White Male Fragility Looks Like

“TAKE THE OIL.” Didn’t Trump the other day say we have all the oil we need here at home?

yes you fucking morons free preschool for everyone or it becomes just "free preschool for the poors" and then you call them leeches and ask for tax breaks when really we want free preschool for everyone because we want smart well adjusted kids why is this so hard? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/n...

The fastest way to get published in The Atlantic is punching left. We, the broad left, are responsible for everything bad, including the right’s racism. The right is just reacting to our unreasonableness.

This is how zombie movies start

There is a predictable way that this ends and Hegseth owns it

what next? what, are we gonna provide *roads* for the wealthy too? gonna have health inspectors keep contaminants out of their groceries? are we just gonna have gutters and sewer systems around rich people's homes?

In My Nightmares Tonight: Carnivorous Caterpillars

My dating journey in one clip/song 😬💨🤌🏾

Shoulda fired Stephen Miller …

This is just crushing to think about in regards to teaching undergrad and grad students...

“I often liken my experience as a faculty member to being in a relationship with an abusive partner. The neoliberal university abuses us, and we stay. We stay for our livelihoods. We stay for our students. We stay because it isn't always bad. We stay because it is less scary than the unknown.”

Pam Bondi’s ouster makes Trump’s Justice Department even more dangerous www.vox.com/policy/48472...

If I can ever track down my 20 year old laptop, I really want to find the paper I wrote in college on anti-suffragist newsletters written by women. It was striking at the top how similar in tone and style they were to contemporary right-wing political blogs.

This is going to surprise, well, no one who has been paying attention, but Trump's birthright citizenship legal arguments are based on the theories of a former Confederate officer, white supremacist, who went on to argue the segregationists case in Plessy v. Fergueson. www.vox.com/politics/483...

the trump administration is selling this country wholesale to rapacious, extractive industries that will destroy our collective resources for private profit morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/breaking-t...

Never mind that I died inside when I heard Gorsuch say in Trump v Barbara arguments that there weren't any immigration laws in the 1860s. Taps new book 👇 in which I document the over a century of first colonial then state-level international and domestic migration laws before federalization.

"Trump has gotten America into a bad strategic position, and no matter how hard he wishes or how forcefully he lies, it looks like there’s no good way out." Unsparing cataloguing of Trump's war failures here. Grouped in one place they're really striking:

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The Racist in Chief

Here we go again. www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

Fun! What could go wrong?

I wrote about how the campaign against trans people in the United States is one of social murder. www.thedissident.news/every-trans-...

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Today’s Least Surprising News of the Day. www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/investi...

It's all about the Benjamins baby. They realized it's their mistake to imprison him because he's too rich. We ain't forget he's an utter monster though.

"Imagine a song about composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a song that discusses his rockstar-level success but also spends too much time talking about his debts. Imagine this song is an ’80s synth-pop number, but with the lyrics rapped. Speaking of the words, imagine they’re almost entirely German."

This is What Necropolitics Looks Like

Penn had argued that releasing the information sought by the EEOC for its investigation into antisemitism would put employees at risk and create an undue burden on the school.

“Broadnax is set to enter the execution chamber in Huntsville, Texas, on 30 April. He will be strapped to a gurney and injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital – his life snuffed out in no small part because of the prosecutorial use, or misuse, of his poetry.”

So he can glare at Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Coney Barrett, and do like this in person...

Ketanji Brown Jackson was the only dissenter in the conversion therapy case 😞 It's so upsetting, and I just want to remind folks that Trans Lifeline is a resource you should take advantage of right now if you need it. Your life is precious. +1-877-565-8860 translifeline.org

What's the difference between Druski wearing whiteface in a video making fun of Ericka Kirk and Trump tweeting a video making fun of Obama? Racist Baby is back, and he has questions.

You can’t really learn much if you’re having AI generate your homework, your papers, and everything else you need to complete a class, but for some reason universities keep shoving AI into the learning environment on the assumption that it’s an improvement.

In protecting Haitian migrants' TPS status, Pressley has done some of the most impressive political wrangling I've seen. And FUCK JD Vance.

Meanwhile in Progressive CA…

With all seriousness, I suggest that the citizenship stripping caper is an attempt to revive the institution of slavery. Don't believe me? Ask Stephen Miller. I explain on to @ianmasters.bsky.social on www.backgroundbriefing.org

DEI is okay if it promotes white men it seems. Video: buff.ly/3hQP2le

really striking how race science freaks seem to spend their every moment crowing about how superior they are versus actually doing anything socially useful that would demonstrate it.

"We were given wormy food, and when someone spoke out about it and said that the children should get better food, he was taken in the middle of the night and threatened that he and his family would be separated."