New York City had free college tuition at all CUNY schools for 130 years

Just to state the stupidly obvious: This is treatment the United States has subjected HUNDREDS of men to without trial or process, the vast majority of whom have no criminal record of any kind. (Not, of course, that it would be acceptable if they did.)

not guilty on sex trafficking charges for cassie is fucking unbelievable

Casandra “Cassie” Ventura’s lawyer has released a statement: variety.com/2025/music/n...

IT'S. NOT. A. BITTER. DISPUTE. It's a one-sided authoritarian assault on a private institution. What are we doing here, and what is journalism, anyway?

it gets to a point where you have to stop mad laughing and shit just isnt funny anymore. for me i think its this

David Graeber said this in 2012 about protests in New York City. Though this is increasingly what is happening this week in Los Angeles. davidgraeber.org/articles/con...

i love the implication here is he willingly knew he was a pedophile and worked with him and thought it was cool until he could use it against him lmfao

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the elon/trump saga... oh im sat

I’ll never get over how, in an era when women’s rights and status are being attacked and eroded in law and culture alike, we were incessantly told that it was boys and men whose suffering we needed to attend to.

It’s bad for society that AI is going to render even “college-educated” people functionally illiterate. But it’s going to be a boon for those of us who majored in philosophy, literature, or history because we actually like it. The ability to read and analyze a text without AI will seem like magic.

Things are getting much scarier much faster than I think people realize

chronicle of higher education paywalling the DEI legislation tracker. lol

i just encountered my first 404 not found on a government website for statistics about LGBT students and it felt like a gut punch

Republicans have been "on the verge of standing up to Trump" for a decade now. Centrist media loves this message but the reality is that Republicans have steadily purged opposition and are more dedicated to him than ever. Who gives a shit what they say in private.

genuinely one of the most loved apps ever and they're making it a gamified google translate

One of my favorite pastimes when the newly-granola, worm-friendly RFK Jr fans speak about processed foods is to ask them, dispassionately and directly, “what’s processed food?”

empathy is important, people falling down those rabbit holes NEED to know that you their loved ones will be there for them when and if they leave but empathy must be paired with a hard line. "No I do not believe this. No I will not debate certain things. If you cross this line we no longer talk."

Hmm interesting, but did Maine try giving Trump what he wants and getting kicked in the face anyway?

Bro they lobotomized your aunt

oh how LOVELY

how do you say “diva down” in Latin

I might be a hot single lesbian but I’m also stupid and annoying so it all evens out

fun historical fact: among the core political forces in the development of mass incarceration was the "Victims' Rights Movement". Its first major legislative national legislative victory was under President Reagan. The prison population doubled under his administration.

reports coming in that earlier today Trump dropped ranch dipping sauce for his chicken nuggets on the Oval Office floor and made Vance the "licking that shit off the carpet" tzar as well

future humans resurrecting a 21st century American to answer the greatest question their scholars have: "how could a nation with absolutely everything throw it all away?" recently thawed modern man: "ok do you guys know what 'video games' were?"

soooo where's that good ole trucker convoy at! chop chop brothers

The people sending people to concentration camps are facing resistance? How terrible

holy shit he's alive i'm in tears

fox and the gop have sold latino migrants as all being scary af ms-13 members. its the same thing nazis did with jewish people. repeat: it is the same thing nazis did with jewish people. the. same. thing.

AOC stonks 📈

all these anti DEI in higher ed laws are literally nothing more than an administrative headache that requires us to be in endless meetings and ask endless questions without definitive answers

You can help people learn about trans participation in sports. Its a nuanced topic that has lots of room for growth for a lot of people. I've had this conversation with probably over a hundred people at this point and unless they are diehard transphobes, this is usually how you teach them.

New York public schools tell Trump administration they won’t comply with DEI order

The logic of filling in public swimming pools with dirt or cement instead of racially integrating them, applied to the whole country

this is straightforwardly concentration camp stuff. just in very plain terms: we send people to camps now if we, the government, deem it necessary, without due process. you can file a habeas petition in the united states district court with jurisdiction over el salvador, i guess.

“But we don’t have the money” they say about housing, health care, and education.

less than ten trans women tried to play collegiate sports and now the car dealership class gets to crash the global economy and set up sweatshops in the midwest

This all alone is an open-and-shut cause for impeachment, yes there are dozens of others but sometimes it's clarifying to just look at one

death rattle moment

jokes on you liberals, i havent looked at my retirement account for months so i have no idea how much money i even had before the stock market crash!

the good news about the collapse of the markets is it could simultaneously cause the AI tech bubble to burst which would be pretty funny

The far right's stance on COVID was always incoherent and contradictory. It was a devastating bioweapon, but also just a cold. It was a plot to cull the herd, but also infect yourself on purpose. Donald Trump moved mountains to create the vaccine, which you should avoid because it will kill you.

the entire US system is sustained by the cheap treats we get, like a new video games and pieces of technology. telling americans they can't have their treats is like declaring war on their existence

Tapping the sign.

We simply had to intentionally destroy the world’s strongest economy while dismantling our scientific and educational infrastructure to ensure that a team with a trans girl would never finish second place in the Mountain West volleyball standings again