According to r/ApplyingtoCollege, Bari Weiss’s University of Austin is sending emails to students: “You didn’t apply. We’re admitting you anyway.”

Tuition at Hotchkiss boarding school is north of $75k.

As Kagan notes in her dissent, the Court opted not to hear the due process parental rights argument against bans on gender-affirming medical care in Skrmetti, basically setting up a regime where parents can force their trans children back into the closet but cannot help them out of it

“Two parents involved in the case said that they were not told for months that their middle-school-age daughter was being identified as male at school, and that they learned about it only after she attempted suicide.” These people have sacrosanct parental rights. Parents of trans kids: none.

I love everything about this story!!! “His great-grandfather, William Delisle Frisbee, had been a potato farmer and schoolteacher in western Pennsylvania by day, but by night he was a traveling showman. He drove his horse and buggy from town to town to dazzle the locals with a projector.”

Wish that the NYC press was more concerned about NYPD assisting ICE than with teenagers throwing snowballs at a park.

Congressional Democrats: impeach him or resign.

I don't want to link to them, but someone is generating hoax Rachel Maddow videos that are incredibly sophisticated (very credible legalese dialogue, proper set and graphics, 15+ min. long with no obvious glitching). It's terrifying how convincing these can be.

So they are now admitting ICE is not about “protecting our borders,” they are US secret state police.

This is so hilarious if it’s real and only slightly less so if it’s a put on.

I keep thinking again, in light of the latest Epstein files dump, about how MeToo “went too far.”

NY Times reporter Nellie Bowles, wife to Bari Weiss, getting introductions and LOLs from Epstein, shortly before getting sued for trashing Lessing for defending MIT connections to the "convicted sex offender." Bowles connected to Epstein through "Putin Kisser"/ venture capitalist Masha Drokova.

Working on a humanities fellowship I have 0% chance of getting (no NEH = everyone scrambling for 5 options left), getting alerts I haven't completed my mandatory ethics training-- regret not pitching development of a "horny virus," farming out hot research assistants on my edu account.

I just screamed and my partner ran upstairs in a panic. How can we without you, Catherine O'Hara?

It seems significant that one of his weapons was a pizza cutter.

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The nurses started the nationwide shutdown call on r/nursing, which has been the best political read all week. Solidarity!!

NYC Action: 4PM Foley Square

ESG, Peaches, and Sheer Mag are all playing in NYC this February 😍

You have to get 2/3rds through the copious evidence that Jordan Lasker is a race science influencer to discover the Times was more than happy to use him as a source to attack Mamdani.

I don't suggest watching the new video from the woman in the pink coat (so brave!), but it is damning beyond belief. He was helping a woman that ICE pushed to the ground, attempting to get her away from the situation, when the officers sprayed him in the face and jumped him. Cold blooded execution.

Alex Pretti was a colleague at the VA. We hired him to recruit for our trial. He became an ICU nurse- I lover working with him. He was a good kind person who lived to help and these fuckers executed him. White. Hot. Rage.

He was a nurse. They executed a nurse holding a phone, who had been helping to direct traffic around the site where ICE and protesters had gathered.

He is holding a phone and recording them. He is not holding a gun. Reprinting DHS lies is not journalism, it's promoting propaganda for a fascist regime.

Dear press: please stop centering businesses closing and start centering the incredible people of Minnesota. Also please call this what it is: a general strike. #generalstrike

Every time. Bad faith operators.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Minneapolis showing us the way, on the ground solidarity, let’s go! 💜💜💜💜

The list of companies making millions from contracts with DHS is something else. Time to make the bad PR outweigh cashing in on kidnapping and murdering innocent people.

Representative @meeks.house.gov, I called your office this morning and they would not share how you plan to vote on the DHS appropriations bill. You represent a community of immigrants in Queens depending on you to vote NO.

It's NOT a big deal because he refuses to do his job and secure a unified "no" from the Democratic caucus. He's riding on positive PR that he, personally, is against ICE knowing full well the bill will pass. PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS NOW AND PRESSURE THEM TO VOTE NO: www.house.gov/representati...

Not primarying this collaborator is a colossal mistake. He is allowing this to happen.

Resign in shame, what is the matter with you??

This is the least thing wrong with this monstrosity—- but who styled this thing? It’s an ad about milk, and they put the milk in a disposable plastic cup? Is it photoshopped in or has she never held a glass before?

“She scratched at the back of her head and suddenly her silver hair came floating down around her shoulders as if she’d pulled the pin from a hand grenade.” God damn, Karen Russell!

Peak Positively Rochester:

This is the actual problem and we need to demand more than cheaper eggs.

The Democratic leadership is utterly complicit at this point. They clearly have no intention of doing anything. I love our new mayor, but I do not understand why he’s trying to protect Jeffries. We aren’t even going to make it to the midterms at this rate.

There have been confirmed reports from local organizers in Portland ME that ICE is knocking on doors claiming to be from MaineCare and “offering help“

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

The democratic collapse of my country is making it hard to focus on the collapse of my profession

Welcome to Minnesota, fuckers. Also this is super disturbing because the ICE agent's assault rifle appears to fire as he falls down. This was filmed by a friend near Chicago and Lake last night.

Can't stop thinking about Renee Good's wife, and the cruelty of her erasure by the media. To watch your partner get murdered in front of you, and have to pick up your son afterwards and try to live. But the WP puts up a picture of your wife with her ex-husband, and everyone calls your son an orphan.

A targeted traffic stop in a busy hospital parking lot, where ICE pulled out their guns and opened fire.

Cool. The Washington Post is giving the sentient shitscum who shot an unarmed mom on the face an origin story. Also gave us his full name...

Wow, didn’t see that coming. Also love highlighting “the first” to build anticipation for a wave.

My guess is the next few years will be a series irreparable losses, and it will be hard to predict which losses will hit hard. Which will reveal exactly the degree to which the world we've been living in, the things that brought us stability and comfort, no longer exist. This one hit me.

OMG OMG OMG. We are in such deep trouble.

To state the obvious, this would be the hugest gift to Putin. How could the world come back from this?