The obvious answer here is that the student protest movement was broadly smeared as anti-semitic and aligned with terrorists, and a variety of institutions from government, media and the universities acted as if that smear was true, threatening, suspending, expelling and even deporting students.

The completely normal experience of Googling 'avignon papacy' and then clicking over to the News tab.

it’s very funny to come on bluesky and implore everyone to call their reps, this is the nerd website, we are way ahead of you. go explain what a government is to the people on threads

i can't tell if i had too much coffee or too much nihilism so far today

Inside you there are two helpers. One of them is hamburger.

can confirm, my blood is bouncing

coffee is not a drink for when you’re thirsty coffee is not a drink for when you’re thirsty COFFEE is NOT a drink for when you’re THIRSTY

decided to order a burrito about it

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

okay i made a 17-slide presentation detailing what you need to know to understand current Summer House drama

WHY do we want to submit our most beautiful and strong women to be the next Bachelorette in their time of need i wouldn’t wish 30 wannabe influencers trying to kiss me on my worst enemy!

i have no one to talk to about this Summer House news i almost grabbed random women on the street to ask if they’d heard the news

Speaking as someone who is *definitely* going to hell, "The lord only speaks through big naturals" is an objectively hilarious statement.

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

patriarchy is probably one of the biggest flops we've had to endure

gr8 job babe!!!!

po-cope-ia

whomst else is feeling farty and weird tonight or is it just me

hmm

i need us to not forget about this weather and the hope it gave us when it gets into the 30s over the weekend we can do it ppl

wow the wind in my leg hair feels amazing

thinking about last night’s sunset and sighing wistfully

there’s who i was before pokopia and who i am after pokopia, simple as that

i haven’t listened to harry’s new album yet because i’m saving it for when it’s 70 degrees this week

trying out a new feature, lmk if it works

every time i see huffpo get reposted here, the color is SO similar to onion-green that i have to do a double take

a couple months ago, i heard that college students were using chatgpt to write introductions of themselves for class forums is it that people don't know how to write? don't value it? are confused by forming sentences? ABOUT THEMSELVES? something about that...

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

our windows are OPEN!!!

i forgot the Traitors reunion meant more Rapaport :/

This is why you can't really collaborate with the feds under any circumstances. If your policy is "we will only collaborate with them when it's unrelated to civil immigration enforcement" then the Trump administration will just lie about what they're doing!

does "remember me on this device" mean NOTHING anymore??

as a connoisseur of reality television for most of my life, i can tell you the first season of The Traitors UK should be up there with the all time greats

Hey, I wonder how the Kyle MacLachlan AMA is goi-

The call has been made! NYC Public Schools will have a full snow day tomorrow.

i used to work in viral animal media and i’ve clearly distanced myself too far because i JUST learned about punch-chan tears spontaneously jumped from my eyes

Keza Macdonald — author of a fantastic new book on the history of Nintendo — is coming on the pod this week to talk about women/non-binary people getting into gaming *as adults.* We need your questions!! Spectacularly easy question submission form here: docs.google.com/forms/d/1x-9...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

my husband is my best friend but a glass of ice water is my soulmate

it’s snowing again i just felt my mental health plummet 📉📉📉📉📉

i finished my grand Summer House rewatch this week and am caught up on new eps i tried starting a VPR rewatch but s1 is…darker than i remember or want what reality show should i rewatch that has a smidge of whimsy in it

i'm always saying this!!

are there any leggings that aren't high-waisted and "performance-based"

“your con edison bill is ready to fuck you over now” oh good thanks

maybe my problem is that i haven’t been in a bookstore in two months…

sometimes i pick the nonbinary emoji instead of the lady version because i can’t totally tell the difference and just try not to read into that too much

at what point is my bagel place concerned with how frequently i’m ordering from them