Not sure the *faculty* had anything to do with this firing, unless you mean that they should all have resigned in protest

Lukewarm Take: Young Zoomer / Gen Alpha memes like 67 and Skibidi Toilet are so surreal and devoid of meaning because they, like all youth, need sub-cultural signifiers that aren’t legible to us adults. It’s an important and healthy thing. They need their own conceptual spaces that we don’t steal.

Worth repeating: “Mary was a homeless, pregnant migrant. Joseph crossed borders by night. Jesus had no papers. Would you recognize them if you met them today? They are here. Behave accordingly.”

This is correct. Also explains Xmas trees, wreaths and fruitcakes (ask if you want to know).

tired: you should watch Die Hard because it's a Christmas movie wired: you should watch Die Hard because it is a perfect action movie

One of the great pleasures of reading the original text is learning that Gonzo’s line reading perfectly captures Dickens’ use of all-caps here

I thought at least Squirtle had some integrity left

Did you read a book by a transfemme in a language other than English this year? Comment them on this post! The Foreign Language category for the TFR Awards only has two votes total and I need more crowdsourcing.

Mt 11-year-old finished her free hotel breakfast in record time this morning and asked to go back to the room. I asked her why the rush, and she told me: "The breakfast room had F*x News on."

If you want an alternative Christmas playlist for tomorrow, I’ve made a few over the years. Here’s one with The Fall, Sparks, Half Man Half Biscuit, Momus, Mazzy Star and more… open.spotify.com/playlist/6Jk...

This is where we are. Note that piece predates yesterday's 6-3 Supreme Court ruling. But we can't count on more rulings like that.

I really do believe that at the grassroots level the opposite of Team Fight is Team Trust. There are a LOT of partisan Dem voters who believe that Dem leadership is doing all they can. The upside of this is that if Dem leadership flips on court-packing (or whatever), these folks will flip too.

The Department of Justice is a serious institution full of committed public servants who have left literally millions on the table to try to do good. And now another Trump troll is shitposting in their name. Who can trust in the independence and integrity of prosecutions under these circumstances?

someone once told me “you invite candor” and my sister’s lesbian ceramicist friends liked it so much (“that’s the nicest thing you can say about someone!!!!”) that they made me a cup with “I INVITE CANDOR” stamped on it

"What If A Christmas Carol," by J . M. DeMatteis

well said

Delete that shit right now friends.

instead of riley gaines we should call her riley loses

Clinicians who actually saw the horrors of COVID (and didn’t get infected, because masks fucking work 🤷🏻‍♂️) are pretty pissed at this. Especially the @newyorker.com - I expect better 🤦🏻‍♂️

Everyone to the left of the Bulwark (and probably half @thebulwark.com, which progressive ought to be reading) saw it coming

I obviously haven't gone through what Sandy has but can relate to feeling isolated and misunderstood and finding an outlet for those feelings, and a sense of unity in Harry Potter, and then the sadness, loss and discarding all my silly little trinkets that meant something only to me. Thanks.

Make it free and tax the cars (ideally the federal govt would pay)

Riley Gaines, director of the Riley Gaines Center 💀

the fact that there is free parking at all in manhattan is wild to me

The wizard puts the groceries into the cabinets and magic ice chest and then reads a poem about the desert.

The people who profited most from the cancel culture/free speech panic were less interested in actual freedom of speech than establishing their own control over public discourse. You don't even have to take my word for it. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

On the night before the night before Xmas, let us remember Randall Jarrell's great poem of that name, his longest and arguably his best @kenyonreview.bsky.social kenyonreview.org/piece/januar...

At long last, we’ve created the Spectacle from classic French critical philosophy book Don’t Invent the Spectacle

Remember: It ys okaye to be lonelye. It ys okaye to feel lost. It ys okaye to be sad. It ys okaye yf nobody ys arounde. It ys okaye to have no plannes or just small plannes. It ys okaye to have big plannes that seem exhausting. It ys okaye to be a mess. Take care of thyself. Thou art amazinge.

Daskalakis thinks that the Renaissance can come from the local level (which is where he is now working in New York). But he also acknolwedges that even if that works it probably means more inequity across US states in the future...

His advice is to look beyond the now: "If you have political will that is designed to destroy and they have the power to destroy, it is almost futile to try to push against the destruction. Instead, you have to get through the dark age by sort of deciding what the Renaissance is going to look like"

not something you ever want to hear from past CDC leadership, but it’s the truth

I've suggested before that what ICE has done has gone farther than anything Kavanaugh's concurrence had actually authorized. Seems he agrees.

We apologize for the additional lack of dog #DailyDoggo

I have many trans Ss (organizing anthology of their comics) - we should be a safe space for them, for disabilities, immigrants/1st gen, for unique programs - comics(!), video games, ethnic studies (sfsu pioneered) a place welcoming Ss from around the country rather than nickel & diming us for parts

Yes Mr. President please resign the office so you can devote your full efforts to next year's show, that Rob Schneider summary isn't going to write itself

SCOTUS just rejected Trump’s illegal deployment of the National Guard in Chicago, confirming what we knew all along - that turning the military on the American people is a disgusting misuse of our armed forces. We got lucky this time, but our checks and balances remain under immense strain.

did a lot of people do a lot of really unspeakably disgusting, evil things? absolutely. but investigative files are full of weird fake tips and they released all of those on purpose to flood the zone so you’ll take the bait 500 times, start feeling foolish, and either go tinfoil hat or give up.

If there was a liberal equivalent to Fox/NY Post every page of the Epstein docs that slightly mentions Trump would be 2–3 weeks of content. Panel discussions, breaking alerts, hell even 3d reenactments. Roger Ailes was an evil genius at such things.

Every artist, get more self indulgent NOW! Draw your ships kissing, draw your blorbos, draw that idea you’ve been putting off (you’re good enough to do it!!!), redraw that old art, draw yourself wearing a cool outfit, draw a better world- just draw!!!

Oh my God, they’re posting Zerohedge. If you’re not familiar, ZH is a right wing propaganda operation, ostensibly about financial markets, but more focused on sewing general discord.

‘Remember shoegaze? If you’re under forty you won’t,’ Stephanie Burt (@notquitehydepark.bsky.social) writes. It’s back: ‘There’s a shoegaze revival underway, and it’s youth-led, and characteristically trans.’ www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...

It's pretty fucking fearless to go back and do your goddamn oversight visit where they last framed you for assault.

"The author hopes his readers will sweep away the reigning orthodoxy—literate, peaceable, feminized, and specialized... It laments the monopolization of conquest by professional militaries. If conquest were more accessible to young white men, then the best of us would be happier."

I mean… this. Always.

So if Conway has no chance in hell of winning, what is my agenda in telling people to stop hyping him? I’m trying to spare you from getting grifted. There are so many organizations and people who really do need your money and support to defeat Trump. His campaign is not one of them.