Samuel Alito flew two flags used by insurrectionists. Clarence Thomas' wife plotted to overturn the 2020 election. Both justices refused to recuse themselves from SCOTUS cases related to the January 6th plot. It's a stain on our nation that this has effectively been forgotten.

I could never understand how Hitler and the Nazis managed to brainwash so many German people. We are now experiencing a living example. The only bright spot is our current administration's gaslighting doesn't seem to be working on a large enough scale. Let's pray that sanity holds.

this is how every outlet should refer to X

Five years ago.

Somewhere on WhiteHouse.gov is a moving tribute to the Japanese pilots that lost their lives on December 7, 1941 because those selfish losers on the Arizona did not just immediately surrender the western fleet <sad/angry sarcasm emoji>

Here's a heads up: KU News Service story TK on censorship during the Inquisition.

I will try to remember these ladies when I am stuck in a single lane of traffic on MAIN STREET or BROADWAY. www.kcur.org/housing-deve...

It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

BBC journalists have been banned from describing the kidnapped Venezuelan leader as having been kidnapped. The BBC News Editor has sent this to BBC journalists.

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

Bloat. Enshittification. Affecting the two largest purchases Americans make: homes and cars. www.detroitnews.com/story/busine...

The word is that I’ve a 'movie' out shortly. It's true. My 2022 theatre show The Beatles / Evolver:62 was filmed, and selections from that + new material shot in Liverpool and London comprise a feature that'll be streaming from Feb 2026. More details to follow, sample here vimeo.com/1023543808?f...

I was the exact right age to eat up bubblegum music.

I was EXACTLY the right age for bubblegum music.

Found the actual men in women's bathrooms assaulting women.

Stories TK in the New Year touch on Barbie, street art, classical music, sci-fi and ...

Five years ago today, Trump summoned a mob to Washington, DC for a “protest” on Jan. 6, 2021, tweeting: “Be there, will be wild!” Rightwing extremists began planning for violence almost immediately. www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/...

Call me shallow. I was always a #DCComics guy. news.ku.edu/news/article...

The 6 richest men in the world are all Trump allies. They control your algorithms and data on X, TikTok, Twitch, Instagram, Facebook, WhatsApp, Threads, and YouTube. Just in case you’re wondering why more isn’t done to stop right-wing bots and misinformation on social media.

The name of this outlet, Straight Arrow News, is perfect for KU Comm Studies prof and presidential rhetoric expert Robert Rowland because he is a straight shooter. Journalists, HMU for his comment on Trump's next outrage. san.com/cc/what-to-e...

Party like it's 1789! new-years-eve.tripleseattickets.com/registration...

Burgum: "Gulf of Mexic-- Gulf of America"

This story contains a fun "Star Wars" shout-out! #JustSaying news.ku.edu/news/article...

Here is more news from #kuexperts I can hook journalists up with: the amazing film musicologist Grace Edgar. What a fun story! news.ku.edu/news/article...

HMU to speak with #kuexperts scholar who resurrected Sayyida al-Hurra from obscurity to computer-game fame. news.ku.edu/news/article...

This is a cool story of #kuexperts who rescued a woman leader from obscurity & helped turn her into a top computer game character. Journos, HMU to speak with the scholar. news.ku.edu/news/article...

No wonder the FBI hasn't found the Brown University shooter yet when so many agents have been shifted to the campaign to make America whiter.

KU News Service story TK on this development. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VII...

My favorite KU News Service story of 2025 - maybe ever. Journos, HMU to interview #kuexperts in fields like Music, Architecture & Design, African & African American Studies, etc. news.ku.edu/news/article...

As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing

this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.

Grading and googling hallucinated citations, as one does nowadays, and now that LLMs have been around for a while, I've discovered new horrors: hallucinated journals are now appearing in Google Scholar with dozens of citations bc so many people are citing these fake things

Donald Trump's rant about Rob Reiner raises new questions about Joe Biden's mental state.

Exactly the sort of tyrannical behavior that the Constitution was written to prevent. See the Fourth Amendment in particular.

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

PSA: The Harder They Come is streaming on Pluto TV, the people’s other streamer

This is both disgusting and expected. The Scumbag-in-Chief

I considered this before I put up the Chanukah decorations. But fuck 'em. www.jpost.com/diaspora/ant...

WOW. @haleaziz.bsky.social with a new scoop: ICE now gets a running list of every person who is going to be taking a domestic flight inside the United States from the TSA and runs it through their database looking for targets. This explains the Babson College student's arrest.

Maybe the most fun story I've written in 9 years at KU News Service. Certainly up there. HMU to interview the prof. news.ku.edu/news/article...

We were just remarking how good the tap water tastes around here. These guys are on it. www.kcur.org/health/2025-...

🧵 It’s the holiday season. Santa Claus is an icon of that history, but he wasn’t always reaching for a soda. 🎅 Unwrap more vintage Holiday magazine art & more in our collection ⤵️ archive.org/details/@ias... #HolidayArt #PeriodicalArt #Archives #CulturalMemory #ChristmasHistory #PrintCulture

Shocker! That WSJ published it, I mean. www.wsj.com/economy/jobs...

So there has been more combined articles written, social media threads, and podcasts about it than actual books sold. America doesn’t care about the Olivia Nuzzi story, despite the fact that it seems like the American media can’t get enough of it.

My favorite quote f/the book by Martin was about a major concert hall in Prague: "The concept of the building was strongly anti-German ..." Journalists, HMU to ask #KUexperts how that could be. news.ku.edu/news/article...

Trump: "We have a dead head Fed hair"

"Mahomes has been a shadow of the buccaneering quarterback ... at the peak of his powers ... 42.4% completion rate, lowest of his career ... Advanced metrics also indicate he has been less accurate than ever." Lotta folks in KC don't wanna hear this! www.wsj.com/sports/footb...

No one had identified every one of the thousands of bits of movie music that score all 66 Republic Pictures serials. Until now. HMU to interview researcher @universityofkansas.bsky.social musicologist Grace Edgar. news.ku.edu/news/article...

"the Pentagon ... has yet to deploy a single hypersonic missile." Talk about a missile gap! www.telegraph.co.uk/us/news/2025...