Kinda fascinating that Sabrina Carpenter gave Trump & ICE more pushback than all the universities combined.

every movie should end with an original song recapping the film in one way or another

You really have to read this thread. The genius of Tom Stoppard, the fragility of memory, the magic of theatre — and the glorious stubbornness of a researcher who would not stop.

Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.

Wicked: For Good - many parts were very silly (the staging of "As Long As You're Mine," all new songs), but I did of course cry.

We used to be a proper country

dude lol

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I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

Noem is mad about the whistles. Good job everyone.

one of my fun new old man yellings at cloud is "click on websites! for the love of god CLICK ON WEBSITES!!!"

i haven't noticed the cloudflare outage because i've only been visiting morally pure websites today

As has been said, do not voluntarily hand your phone to the police. Or give them consent to just look at or formally consent to a search.

in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co

Unless they’ve relocated to the ninth circle of hell, it isn’t far enough.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

They’re all just looting the treasury now

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

Incredibly smart PR tactic from ICE to continue assaulting very handsome priests

Joyce Carol Oates sitting across a desk from Kendrick Lamar: "So I'm putting a team together..." Isaac Chotiner knocks on the open door.

The world’s first trillionaire initiated a move that has left more than half a million people dead, most of whom are children.

welp, I asked

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libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins. they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.

Hell is not hot enough. If you’re not yet tapped into your local mutual aid or rapid response group, today is as good a day as any to plug in.

In my professional capacity I do need to point out that this is in fact by some of the ogs of this genre - schmoyoho/Gregory Brothers/AutoTune the News.

walking out to DHOOM MACHALE ♥️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uUm...

starting with a Eugene Debs shoutout, excellent.

whoever is DJing at the Zohran HQ is crushing it. playing A Milli when it says he’s reached over a million votes? top tier! drop the election night playlist!

The GOP has governed like elections don't matter, taking unpopular stand after unpopular stand. Captured by their far right base or led by far right assholes or both, they have moved so far from the center of the political system that they really suck at elections.

you truly love to see it.

Looking forward to learning all about how the right should move left to win elections tomorrow. They should maybe dye their hair pink, learn to love pronouns.

Pls share billionaire crashouts I need them all

A colleague just stopped by my office pre-workshop to say "hey I just wanted to let you know that your chapter caused me psychic damage!" good to know I'm accomplishing my goals, excited for her to blurb the book.

arXiv, a preprint publication for academic research that has become particularly important for AI research, has announced it will no longer accept computer science articles and papers that haven’t been vetted by an academic journal or a conference. Why? A tide of AI slop.

Border Patrol repeatedly punches this man in the head while he’s on the ground in handcuffs. Also today, an appeals court ruled a federal judge lacks the power to have Bovino explain his men’s conduct on a daily basis.

You’ve probably heard but I have been federally indicted by Trump’s DOJ. We now have to cover the costs of a campaign *and* a legal battle to preserve our First Amendment rights. Help us win this fight by chipping in at katforillinois.com/legal

Is the new Florence depressed millennial white woman-core? Maybe! Did I immediately cry at "Sympathy Magic"? Yes of course!

Chicago

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The thing about wanting to do the right thing once in a blue moon is maybe you should have thought of that before you hitched your wagon to a movement whose only animating principle is Do The Wrongest Conceivable Thing In Every Scenario

Just made a footnote longer than the paragraph it's embedded in, things are going great.

This is like when the raptors learned to open doors in Jurassic Park

Worst night of my life. Was in a conversation circle w an academic celeb/crush and they said "oh someone here smells good" and leaned over and smelled me and it turns out it wasn't me.

I found the war on Christianity

I think it's @cooperlund.online who first pointed out that they're not so much interested in fascism as generating fascist content

Claim: 10 cars rammed ICE Truth: No cars rammed ICE Claim: She boxed ICE in Truth: ICE boxed her in Claim: She shot a rifle at ICE Truth: She did not have a rifle Claim: ICE returned fire Truth: Only ICE fired Claim: She drove herself to the hospital Truth: Paramedics found her

Overall my preliminary take is that this is indeed boppier, which is nice, but it's hard for me to get over the significant list of lyrical choices that, at the most generous, indicate that she doesn't have someone in an editorial role going "hmmmmm that could be a white supremacist dogwhistle"

"I like my whiskey sour" is my new "sweet like cinnamon"