This is insane

New: A grad student at Johns Hopkins has been stranded in Canada for months after his visa was canceled at the border. He’s been incurring thousands in expenses without being paid by the university, which says it won’t petition officials for six months: www.thebanner.com/education/hi...

We must keep calling out those that cave to the Trump Admin, and the latest is Northwestern. As part of their "deal," NU will pay $75 million, stop vital research, renege on agreements with its students over the war in Gaza, and more. Throwing your students under the bus to please Trump. Shameful.

From the crazed hyperbolic radical alarmists at… The Brennan Center: www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

"If you believe a Palestinian child is equal in dignity and worth to an Israeli or American child, it is no longer possible to support this Israeli government while hiding behind platitudes about peace." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

"Trump has been functioning as a dictator...but it’s a vulnerable dictatorship. Virtually none of these abuses are popular with the American people...and it’s coming home to roost for Trump." On the pod, @davidrlurie.com is good on Trump as weak, failing autocrat: newrepublic.com/article/2037...

"The things they carried were an homage to '80s nerd culture, so Mike carried science club trophies and a toy Millennium Falcon. He and the other members of the Hawkins AV club carried a Heathkit ham shack radio unit until Eleven destroyed it when communicating across dimensions."

This rhetoric is indistinguishable from the stuff you hear coming out of white nationalists. Completely identical language.

Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“

VP JD Vance stood before a crowd and tried to falsify history, claiming Christians ended widespread mass child-sacrifice practices among Native Americans

He just spews one racist lie after another. It's despicable.

When Frustration Threatens Desire, by Kerry James Marshall, 1990, 📸 by @drewhallowell

McSweeney's is here for us, tabulating and color coding every single month. ♥️ @mcsweeneys.net www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/oct...

This is spot-on. The UVA "deal" might be the worst/most dangerous (so far). With the help of UVA's leadership, Trump coerced a leading U.S. university to foreswear all efforts (including 100% lawful measures) to achieve diversity. A betrayal of our values. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The teenager told officers he was a U.S. citizen, but an officer broke the car’s driver’s side window and detained him. In a video, the boy can be heard telling an officer that he is a citizen, to which the officer replies, “Get out of the car” and “I don’t care.” www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Its interesting that no one really talks about the fact they also took down the existing extremely good team that looked for cost improvements

you know what? good advice.

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

It's kind of funny that Summers originally thought he could save face by stepping away from various public-facing things while continuing to teach teenagers.

“I want their morale as low as possible because a team with low morale is ineffective.” Meet the veteran who chases ICE on a scooter

sorry what newjerseyglobe.com/congress/van...

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

So many people told me this wasn’t possible, no way. Stop being silly, little girl. This is radical “Personhood,” which Mississippi voters defeated in 2011.

…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Last night, the Trump Administration sent a letter suggesting Wisconsin should return our FoodShare payments. My response ⬇️

President Donald Trump’s administration is demanding that states “undo” full SNAP benefits paid out under judges’ orders last week, now that the U.S. Supreme Court has stayed those rulings. The administration is threatening to punish states that don't rescind the payouts. buff.ly/RYfxOI7

Breaking News: Late last night Conde Nast illegally fired 4 union organizers who asked company execs to explain the downsizing of Teen Vogue and continued layoffs. We’ve filed a grievance.

This one's got a lot of meme potential

I can't decide if I like Harnik or Caballero-Reynolds's angle better.

Besties, we did this already and it turned out to be really bad.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

the dumbest person you know is being affirmed by Chat-GPT right now

I know other media outlets around the country are running with "diseased monkeys with COVID, herpes and hepatitis are loose in Mississippi!" And yes, it makes great clickbait. Those posts have thousands of RTs. But it's just not accurate. Our factual report by @nickjudin.bsky.social:

WTF

spend and be spent

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

Periodic reminder that this scheming half-wit Goebbels isn’t even a lawyer.

Rahm Emanuel covered up the murder of Laquan McDonald by Chicago police

UPDATE: More donors funding the demolition of the East Wing for Trump's $250M ballroom have been identified

Alabama plans to execute Boyd with nitrogen gas tomorrow, an experimental method that involves suffocating prisoners to death. “There’s nothing you can do to prepare for something like that,” Boyd told me. “You can’t prepare a person for drowning.” For more: boltsmag.org/anthony-boyd...

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.

"Groceries have never been more expensive. We really thought this was something Trump might be able to help us with. But the high cost of food is worth it so a transgender teen in Idaho can’t use the school locker room."

Same energy

No Kings Duluth, MN

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.