WHY ARE YOUR CHILDREN AT SCHOOL AND PROTESTING ICE WHEN THEY SHOULD BE IN THE FACTORY OR FIELD?

help blue-skiers! have you read something solid on the "50 Shades of Grey" franchise from back in the day?

NEW: ChatGPT is encouraging stalkers, telling them they share a special bond with their targets -- and to keep harassing them even after they've been asked to stop futurism.com/artificial-i...

Brought to you by the Chase Center for Civics, Culture, and Society, recent $5mil NEH grantee www.chronicle.com/article/a-pr...

I know not the point but why do these tools love taking so many pictures of themselves? like who took this picture of these shlubs just making evil plans

Transphobes remind me of incels in quite a few ways. The one where they make up a fictional version of trans women to hate is exactly like what incels do to women.

I think those are all requirements now to win Republican nominations. quorumreport.com//quorum_repo...

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

A quick note on the passing of Fred Wiseman movieenthusiast.substack.com/p/frederick-...

The National Capital Planning Commission is now accepting public comments on Trump's ballroom that dwarfs the White House and is ugly as sin. To comment, click on the link below, then click on "Submit Written Comments" button. Next, select "East Wing Modernization Project" off the menu. Go for it!

New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...

Damn, federal court judges are on fire 🔥

This also justifies abortion bans and blocking pregnant women from control over their reproductive futures

I have yet to see ONE email to or from Epstein that sounds like it was written by anyone over 14

Part of my theory of change is to share the words white men need to hear, spoken by white men. This is because creating defections is crucial to stopping authoritarianism and democratic backsliding. This is because almost everyone else is already off the Trump train.

This also justifies abortion bans and blocking pregnant women from control over their reproductive futures

My sister-in-law and nephews were rescued by a stranger in an ice storm, who helped them escape when their car was stuck and they ran out of gas. The stranger possibly saved their life. It is absolutely disgusting that DHS agents are preying on the kindness of those who help the stranger.

They hate humanities because they hate critiques of the brutal power they wield: “The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knows no bounds.”

“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”

Ken Fucking Starr of Clinton impeachment fame went on to defend Jeffrey Epstein after he was accused of sex trafficking. How is this timeline even real

Oh haaayyyyy Ken Starr, been a minute "After famously serving as the independent counsel who investigated Bill Clinton, the Texas lawyer...[later joined] Epstein's legal team in 2007. Epstein, living in Palm Beach at the time, was accused of trafficking and sexually abusing high school girls."

I think this is what passes for rational self-interest in capitalism

New fusionism: “Citing their work, Brockman predicted in 2005 that the “dangerous idea of the next decade” would be that “groups of people differ genetically in their average talents”.” ht @libankerdc.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

University of Texas Austin announced it was closing its American Studies Department just as Harper attacked one of the few foundations left willing to fund American studies research

It does not take any especial brand of genius to understand that if you have no moral standards and don't care about breaking the law, you can accumulate wealth and power in a way that people who are morally and ethically upright cannot.

While MLPS was a victory, moral and tangibly, for ICE resisters, don't call it 'a retreat.' The dystopia is just getting started Thousands of new agents. 150 new offices in every state. And the nationwide gulag archipelago. The fight has just begun My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/ice-...

“If this is true, it would mean the Department of Justice redacted more than 96% of the mentions of Trump." trib.al/0LEUOPT

As somebody who has worked on Wall Street for the last 19 years, I promise you that a lot of people who are insanely rich - not just average millionaires, people with true wealth - are dumb as dog shit, but just have no morals and know ways to make tons of money by not caring about hurting people.

These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

“Race science and rape apologetics” — the scholarship you hear about on “edgelord podcasts” They go together because babymaking is a duty of the edgelord class, which must ramp up the birth rate and gift their superior genes to the next generations… 🤮

They hate humanities because they hate critiques of the brutal power they wield: “The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knows no bounds.”

Some very powerful people want us to believe human labor is obsolete & way too many people are buying it. Don’t let them make you think that you are disposable. Time to revive the idea of a job guarantee. They just created a bunch of fascist ICE jobs overnight. Imagine that for work that matters.

Epstein & Co HATE humanities: “It offered intellectually insecure reactionaries a pass. Without opening a book they could dismiss all of feminism, postcolonial & queer studies...& devote their brains instead to the race science & rape apologetics that now pass for scholarship on edgelord podcasts.”

“The salon played yenta to billionaire money and alpha-male minds, and together they all converged on a master philosophy: they were apex predators ordained by nature to exploit and subjugate others. This creed allowed them to steer intellectual history into its current fascist dead-end.”

Why does everything need to be "hyper-personalized"? Why would that be better? Why not share in common cultural experiences? It's fun when we're all comparing our perspectives about some event, it brings us together. So why would they..... Oh. They don't want us united. They want us divided

This is hands-down the best thing I’ve read on Epstein‘s worldview and those of his fellow tech, finance, and academic elite. It’s a rough read, but at least every paragraph is a banger. 🔥🔥🔥😭

They talk and act exactly like Nazis in pursuit of the exact same objectives as Nazis using the exact same tactics and rationales as Nazis but it would be wrong to call them Nazis until they grow the little mustache.

Julian Bailey, 43, is the man who was killed by U.S. Marshals in DC earlier this week. This is a message from his family. #JusticeForJulian

CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Be the courageous neighbor in a bathrobe you wish to see in the world

14 February 1932 | Polish Jewish girl, Bertha Müller, was born in Krakow. In July 1939 her family emigrated to Norway. She arrived at #Auschwitz on 3 March 1943 and was murdered in a gas chamber with her mother Cyla after the arrival selection.

This would be horrible for GW — both for the veterans who are consistently the hardest working and most engaged students, and also for all the students in their classes who won’t benefit from their perspectives. Has Hegseth has ever once made a decision that benefits veterans?

Bari Weiss is a one trick pony who always does the same thing: enforce right-wing conformity under the name of heterodox courage

Every single University that has taken Trump to court has won. It’s much cheaper to pay legal fees than to be extorted for $50 million by Trump!

Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

“Miss u” - wtf is wrong with these 8 year old dork monsters

And all saturated by melodrama: their actions are good and righteous, the actions of those who oppose them are evil, and the good guys are morally justified in severely punishing or eradicating the villains in any way they choose

From post-Sandy flood protection to making streets more resilient to climate change, Louise Yeung has helped shaped NYC climate policy for a decade. Now, as the new chief climate officer for Mayor Zohran Mamdani, she plans to implement a “multi-hazard” approach for how we think about the climate.