Sexual harassment & bullying is power. Power, prestige, & connections of the abusers leveraged against those without it. Academia is full of these power differentials. That coupled with institutional refusal to enforce anti-discrimination measures leads to this type of abuse. He's but ONE of many.

The Vice President of the United States spends his time defending Nazis on social media and it’s met with just a collective shrug!

Yeah it’s doing the NYT thing where the writer wants you to read between the lines to discover his quietly devastating critique but: a) that is obnoxious, say what you mean b) it accepts as facts numerous things of which there’s no evidence, including that she is a good journalist

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

This guy is still teaching undergraduates.

That is a fucking atrocious call

I’ve been thinking about this exchange all weekend. Even with everything else, the fact it hasn’t brought politics and the news in general to a screeching halt is surreal. There’s a new book “Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows” about how collective knowledge drives collective action, or inaction. /1

Larry Summers turns out to be a bigger creep than I assumed and that is really, really saying something

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Ah, to be a neutral observer rather than being in the shit

This is like Seahawks/Rams if you swap out interceptions for 4th down turnovers

Look, I know this weaponization of male academic interest is the oldest story in the book, but it’s just so, so pernicious. It’s awful to the women directly involved, but it’s also awful to *all* women in the academy, who have to live in its shadow all the time.

Beginning to think that Mel Kiper is not, in fact, smarter than every NFL organization

JJ McTebow.

The idea that Gore could have won by asking for a recount in every county ignores what the Court was doing. It said Florida courts could not set a statewide standard for a recount *and* that not having a statewide standard was unconstitutional! You can’t escape a Catch-22

i don't think that bush v. gore is the *worst* ruling in the history of the supreme court, but i do think it is the most openly *corrupt* ruling in its history. a real disgrace.

There should be a cool as hell exemption to the taunting rule

OK Sam, you can make every pick immaterial now

The Founders were so concerned about bribery that the Constitution forbids it three separate times. Two emoluments clauses ban officials—unambiguously including the president—from accepting things of value, plus bribery is the only named impeachable offense besides treason. Unprecedentedly corrupt.

It looks like “news shouldn’t have paywalls“ discourse is starting again. -Banner ads don’t cover costs, and you block them -Native ads are coercive -Billionaires buying papers backfired -Event driven funding doesn’t scale -Newsletters are narrow and lack accountability infrastructure

Scott Lemieux is right about the things he wishes he was wrong about and wrong about the things he wishes he was right about, an ongoing series www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/nfl-...

Mahomes smirking and pointing after getting his bullshit get-out-of-jail-free card it so annoying

Simon Jenkins is now firmly in the op-ed equivalent of “there’s always a tweet” territory.

The AJ Barner tush push is kinda ass

Three more summary executions from the Peace President www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/thre...

White House aggressively posting “trump is straight” content amid the blow job e-mail

JSN at the point where all you can do is giggle

J S-N is a stone cold motherfucker

Big Game Sam 😬

"ProPublica’s reporting debunks the idea of a ’Tren de Aragua complex' taken over by a horde of terrorists. We found no criminal convictions for 18 of the 21 Venezuelans we identified. Three of the men had been charged with offenses ... but in each case the charges were dropped."

Bilbo's memoir reveals a lost Mordor.

There is a word for these people, and the word is “Protestant”

Seth deserves a ratings bump and I thank the president for doing him this favor

Kanpai!

If they think scandals don't make a difference, I'd like them to explain Doug Jones beating Roy Moore in Alabama

Operation Strapping Manservant

Earlier this month the AG candidate in VA ran 4.5 points behind the party’s gubernatorial candidate because of some offensive texts! “LOL nothing matters” is not actually sophisticated political analysis

Not that I believe really anything Nuzzi writes, given her record, but the far bigger scandal here is her claim that RFK Jr. was still actively using psychedelics last year, then became HHS secretary in an admin that is killing people for smuggling recreational drugs.

reminder that Dubs, Washington’s live mascot, is an ABSOLUTE UNIT

This is an important new line being crossed. Trump isn't just pardoning the act of attempting to overthrow the government on January 6: he's pardoning *those people* for committing crimes generally. He may be creating a group of (federally) legally untouchable people.

His sincere updates on his attempted relationship with a student are so creepy and cringe, and then you remember the person Larry Summers is pouring his heart out to is DISGRACED CHILD SEX TRAFFICKER JEFFREY EPSTEIN, IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD TWO THOUSAND AND EIGHTEEN

“Mr. Carlson expressed bafflement over the reaction to his session with Mr. Fuentes. He said he did not understand what was so problematic about his guest…” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

A major writer of enduring consequence. I read last week that he was too sick to be on the road and too broke to be off it. Awful people indulge themselves in despicable rationalizations about life choices and lost highways, but it's murder most foul. I don't think I can take this business anymore.

made a similar point on the opinions podcast this week in response to the idea that epstein is a dead end. not only are actual voters interested in this but it divides the gop and puts pressure on the president. it would be political malpractice to treat it as a sideshow

The only thing that's interesting about Nuzzi is the story of how an amoral careerist with no interest in policy and abysmal ethics became an acclaimed national political reporter. But rather than tell that story, the entire media seems desperate to play a part in it.

Todd Snider, R.I.P. www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/11/you-...