This entire thread. I’ve always felt that FIRE was very selective and have been questioning them for a while, but they’ve jumped the shark. This whole thread is a good one.

It’s still Christmas, so happy holidays to all the poser traditionalists who lack the stamina and will to fight the TRUE war on Christmas. #suckitcromwell

I really am hashtagged blessed and somehow you terrible people with questionable tastes and poor life choices are a part of it. Merry Christmas you filthy animals, and remember to leave out some cheeses for some micees.

This is, by far, my favorite Terry Pratchett quote.

My father in law has done his traditional Christmas Day Facebook post to remind us of the true meaning of the day: Reminding us of the greatest Christmas of all, December 25th, 1989, when they shot that bastard Ceaușescu

Dylan, Imma gonna let you finish but Gary Allen’s “What would Willie do” is the best Willie tribute of all time. youtu.be/5ZEtnbkDQoY?...

I hear there is a wave of people coming from twitter? I have a starter pack of non-AI cat accounts that post their own images and use alt text. go.bsky.app/J8yqxnN

Massachusetts folks: Be aware that the LUCE ICE hotline will have special holiday hours.

Just remember, if someone gets mad at you for saying Happy Holidays, you can always get indignant and ask if they don’t celebrate New Year’s, Epiphany or any of the other 12 days of Christmas. Technically, Christmas hasn’t even started yet. 🤷🏻‍♀️

US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).

this morning's big Epstein drop finally includes many internal communications behind the 2007 plea in which the defense conspired with the feds to deprive survivors of any notice of the secret plea agreement. We knew this existed, but reading it is something else.

… anybody know anyone with a projector, time, and a legal budget on Martha’s Vineyard?

Jail every responsible officer over the holidays for contempt and then until the agency returns her to the US. This cannot stand.

They waited till students were gone to announce this btw. Cowards. Also, be careful assigning causality bc pretty sure this is how both those schools are described in the official UT Austin style book. So just double check if you’re speaking to a Texan if they are *bigger* clown schools now.

IMPORTANT SE LOUISIANA QUESTION TO START A FIGHT: What’s the best replacement for the jalapeño cheese roll in Spinach Madeleine, and, for extra credit, why is what your cousin uses- no, not her, the other one, on your mama’s side- the absolute wrong answer?

Bari Weiss and these academics claim that universities/TV networks are biased because they’re unbiased & don’t seek to indoctrinate people into conservatism & then use these false claims of bias to promote their own conservative biases.

W/giving a cat a bath and finishing grading I didn’t really pay attention today so, to double check, Greenland’s back on and we’re watching Canadian underground recordings of banned US news? TBH, I did expect pirating to make a comeback but not w/us cosplaying both sides of the Cold War.

So in global governance, we did UN simulation on climate change in my student representing China brought up Taiwan at every opportunity because they committed to the bit. They have continued this through their final paper and I love it

Damn. Somebody displaying some actual political instincts that show why people voted for them in the first place.

I just bathed a cat so if anyone has any other impossible tasks they need done, lmk. Fees reasonable.

The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.

This is so dumb it sounds like Mississippi should be involved.

The elitist bubble where you think liberals are annoying because all the big problems are solved so why won’t they just shut up and let you use a little bit of racism/sexism to get your policy passed. Nobody really means it ok? (Spoiler: oh they mean it).

So typically if I have a student notice the whole letter of marque thing and they ask what it is, their response is less “the children yearn for war crimes” and more *deep sigh* “pls stop proving how badly out of date the fundamental law of our country is”

OH COME ON.

Y’all we need to start teaching students about stuff. Use your introduction to the course- tell them what to call you, explain what your title means, and why there’s so few tenured profs. Then when talking about your email policy and your response time, tell them what your job description entails.

A storied Wall Street law firm that hemorrhaged talent after bending the knee to President Donald Trump has announced plans to merge with a much larger firm in a bid to save its practice. www.thedailybeast.com/storied-law-...

“it’s goals and student expectations; its grading plan; and any required purchases.“ We should defeat this but there’s been a movement to simplify syllabi by posting links to sections. I’ve done this and lots of my assignments are written as reading packet 1 (on Blackboard) or assignment 1.

If you are a reporter and a member of Congress says this to you, ask why they weren’t publicizing this until now or having hearings or ordering audits? Are they lying or did they just not do the most basic parts of their job? Which is it? Lying now or incompetence then?

Ummm

Of the most “step on a butterfly, change the world” though I have right now is that we should have had voice actors dub Hitler’s speeches in English. Every single time they played with subtitles allowed people to not recognize when others used the same exact phrases and ideas.

This is what happens we we abandon classical education: (The Classic here being the Jungle)

We don’t do impulsive rebrands. Ask the Gulf of Mexico.

Interesting to consider that if you were to go and deface the Kennedy center by removing Trump’s name, you’d be arrested and charged with a crime, but your act would be no more unlawful than what they’re doing right now.

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

How are they going to be able to do this and remain employed? I know they’ll just get scooped up by the NIH or CDC, but they shouldn’t have university affiliation.

Look at this reporting:

I think I know who the dean was.

So I don’t like to speculate about perpetrator or motives in a mass shooting bc there’s so many ideological possibilities (aside from the no duh prediction that they will have a history of violence against women or domestic/family abuse) but I’m thinking this may be more of a workplace shooting.

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****SCREAMING****

I think we need to have a talk in academia about what it means if you have colleagues that are naturalized citizens. These applications are huge and the chance for error is high especially if you started by applying as an F1 student at 18, then OPT, then H1-B, then green card, then citizenship.

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Tocqueville on American Cartesianism blah blah blah

Chicago Boys in Latin America and the Cold War CIA as a “refuge for Ivy League intellectuals”, are now joined by Harvard and Yale law school messing around here.

Well thank god. I hate it here.

NEW: Jack Smith told lawmakers he developed "proof beyond a reasonable doubt” that Trump engaged in a “criminal scheme” to overturn his election loss. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Wait. I just reread the quote right after he lists the cohort’s job-getter’s identities, after an aside to say he was hired on the merits, he adds job getter was “into stuff that’s very in.” no way a smaller dept might want someone to teach what the youths think are cool. MUST BE RACISM.

Y’all, my spouse just asked me a really good question. Anyone w/a PhD knows that there are fewer jobs every year + smaller departments need the most general generalist to cover as many classes as possible. So are these guys just opportunistic grifters trying to get their bag or very very stupid?