Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

Can I RT this twice

I've been thinking about this a lot lately. How corrosive it is that public figures are--more and more shamelessly--ripping the copper wiring out of the walls. Integrity is for suckers. Abusing power is fun. Caring about anything bigger than yourself is lame. An elite class of evil toddlers

"The norms of political correctness thus set basic ground rules for social life—at least, in politically mixed company. These norms lorded over a motley moral crew." via @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

CHOTINER: When you’re at Chipotle, you get to choose a salsa. Which one do you get? ME: Well I get the pico. But also the hot CHOTINER: But on Bluesky you said— ME: Yes, also the corn. And also the medium CHOTINER: So (pause) all four? ME: There’s no rule saying only one, okay? CHOTINER: Okay

By no means is this hyperbole 👉

Good for Craig Melvin, asking harder questions and following up in a way the WH Press Corps apparently has lost the taste for.

MELVIN: The president repeatedly did say though that he would end the war on day 1, and we are some 250 days into the administration MARCO RUBIO: Yeah, but that's not up to us to end the war MELVIN: Repeatedly on the campaign trail he said he would end it on day 1

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by the process of law. they don't have the capacity to compel obedience by violence. the only lever by which they can obtain obedience is fear. do not offer it to them.

it’s hard to see ezra’s actions as anything other than a shameless attempt at self-preservation

This is Blueskyism

See also Biden. Dean Phillips would like a word.

This. 👇👇👇 JB Pritzker: "Any rational person who has spent even the most minimal amount of time studying human history has to ask themselves one important question: Once they get the citizens of this nation comfortable with the current atrocities committed under the color of law, what comes next?”

It would be better if Dems in DC approached issues with the mindset of "how can I accomplish Democratic objectives?" rather than "I need an excuse to avoid conflict with Republicans" or "the Democratic base is always wrong, my job is to keep them in check and avoid doing what they want."

Ezra Klein is right and it matters he's saying this. The question is not "funding the government" or "shutting down the government." It's funding *this* government versus shutting down *this* government. It's not the definite article existing independent of who's in power. It is who's in power.

the real glory of world war two was that it involved a warrior cult being ground down and beaten to a pulp by people who would rather have been doing something else.

Nothing "devalues and demeans the Christian faith" more than a group of lying grifters who just bragged about murdering a boatload of people and are protecting a pedophile sex trafficking ring pretending that they are, despite all their actions, Christians.

Middle of the day in an airport terminal seems like a fine place to start the 2026-27 FAFSA Tracker sandbox, right?

I'm very aware of hyper partisanship and all that but a little principle or basic seriousness as a treat would really hit the spot

Recall that last year Trump said he wanted to staple green cards to every international grad student’s diploma and much of the press reported it as fact. Three days ago he suddenly declared he’d bring in 600k Chinese students (?). This is basically the opposite of what his admin has actually done

Trump admin planning to change student visas from lasting for duration of academic program to fixed 4-yr term, and then much harder to renew Could destroy US ability to attract global talent, particularly those seeking advanced degrees in STEM. The median time to complete a PhD is 5.7 yrs per NSF.

Where IS Mike Johnson holed up anyway?

Once again wondering if any journalists have any interest in tracking down either the Speaker of the House or the Senate Majority Leader & asking them what they think about the PresIdent proclaiming he is a Dictator, unconstrained by Congress, the law, or the Constitution. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Don’t worry folks, the National Guard & Border Patrol have the exterior of the Museum of Natural History well-secured at lunch on a weekday. It already was well-secured but now as an added feature children get to be terrified before looking at dinosaur bones and taxidermy. Go home & #freedc.

For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE

That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.

Spoiler alert: TRIO is still needed.

these people just fundamentally believe that only they have the legitimate right to political power www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-house-...

Higher education is a full-dollar export. Weird for a president consumed by the trade gap to go after it, hmmmm?

In Advice | A look a five key drawbacks of being a department chair and how to minimize them so that you can actually enjoy the job. chroni.cl/3V4KkgS

fuck this, Casa Lala does great work and Lala herself might be a literal saint

The Atlantic is beyond parody at this point. Ridiculous.

And which ED staff exactly will be taking on *this* gargantuan task? "The order requires ED to update IPEDS to make its data more legible to students and parents and to 'increase accuracy checks for data submitted by institutions through IPEDS'" www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

the trump administration is selling its war on higher education as a strike against the elites who have disadvantaged ordinary americans. in actuality, the administration is destroying advanced education for *everyone* in pursuit of its effort to deskill the american public

COVID is the deadliest virus ever when they talk about the "lab leak" theory to gin up outrage, but just a mild little cold when they talk about masking and public health measures to gin up outrage.

Its really important to be clear, that these are “non binding suggestions” These are scare tactics, they are trying to get pre-emotive compliance; and given how higher Ed institutions have been folding at every turn, we will see more of this because it’s working.

"Why don't (more) students complete the FAFSA?" It's a perennial question for policymakers and practitioners alike. This data suggests 40-50% of lower-income students may mistakenly think they're ineligible for the aid unlocked by the FAFSA. www.ncan.org/news/707024/...

Facts don't matter for This Wildly Unserious Person, but again, the idea that "you can't get into college," whether you're white or not, is simply false & reveals nothing other than one's own incredibly elitist views of American society & higher education: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Anyway, we're all just yelling at clouds offering statistics and data on this. She's lying. She knows that she's lying. She knows that you know that she know that she's lying. Etc. Etc. Performative public lying is hallmark of far right authoritarian parties...& the media that enable them.

Obviously very pathetic behavior - lol, academia is like 72% rejection - but also I'll be curious how long this holds up in the face of future opportunities to get press. (I don't know if you know this but universities often like getting press.)

Of course, their goal is to end tenure and leverage incentive pressure to direct enforcement efforts from college administrators onto the college students holding ideological commitments they do not like. The blame on the universities themselves was always a fig leaf cover for that unpopular goal.

public opinion thermostat go click-click

And the exact circumstances of her dismissal were chilling -- both figuratively and literally. Please read if you have some time today. (3/3) hechingerreport.org/proof-points...

Ever since the former commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics was dismissed by the Trump administration in February, I wanted to hear her story. Peggy Carr was among a string of Black senior officials fired in early 2025. (1/3)

Mamdani is not allowed to get very high SAT scores. And Rufo is allowed to either publicly lie or publicly misunderstand how SAT scoring works.

I’m starting to suspect that the president might not be in charge of his administration, but we’ll have to wait four years for Jake Tapper to look into it I guess?

It's good to have good news, and the class of 2025's FAFSAs are delivering it! Through June 27, the class of 2025 completed 17.5% more FAFSAs year-over-year. That's an additional 334,000 completions! Good for a ~54% completion rate! www.ncan.org/news/705304/...

Something really sickening about watching so many people cheer for millions of people losing their health insurance. Just a fundamental, unbridgeable disagreement in morality, about whether other people matter.