For folks asking if they've made it *inside* a Home Depot yet as the business has clearly just continued letting agents do whatever they want in their lots, the answer is yes. This is from yesterday in Evanston.

Well it was fun while it lasted

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

Blum of Students For Fair Admissions (SFFA) is targeting the Kamehameha Schools-privately run schools founded by descendants of King Kamehameha in 1887 (before the overthrow and annexation of the Kingdom by the U.S.) Refusing all federal funds, the schools aim to preserve Native Hawai'ian culture./1

OK so 2 things First: this is vandalism and you won’t convince me it’s not. This is our house. We didn’t approve this. Who is overseeing this to make sure history is preserved? Nobody. Cool. Second: This is all the proof you need that he doesn’t plan to leave office. We have to force him to. 💔🤬

"Exposure to more unvetted views does not automatically bring one closer to the truth..“Disciplines do not create expert knowledge through a marketplace of ideas in which content discrimination is prohibited and in which all ideas are deemed equal” ..some ideas are better than others." #academicsky

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

What do you call a ‘ceasefire agreement’ that permits an occupying settler colonial state to murder seven children and four other civilians in cold blood? www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Examples of how fascist untruths get regurgitated as fact by LLMs are ubiquitous, but this one is really jarring. The Harvard Kennedy School article Gemini scraped is entirely about how the claim is false. Gemini cannot parse this, instead sharing DHS propaganda as fact when you search her name.

Kyle Walsh does not appear to have any substantial administrative experience. However, (according to two sources), his main qualification is that he was buddies with JD Vance at Yale. 3/3

In our non-DEI meritocracy, Larry Ellison's son bought CBS so that Bari Weiss could then put her sister on air.

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

So the president of the United States plans to meet with Putin in Hungary, and when a reporter asked where that plan came from, this was the reply of the United States government www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

BREAKING: The US and Saudi Arabia have succeeded getting a majority of countries to postpone the decision to adopt a carbon charge on pollution by one year.

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

amazing opening www.nytimes.com/2025/10/16/p...

roberts’s constitution allows for racial discrimination as long as you don’t say you’re racially discriminating, because in a classic bit of racecraft, roberts’s constitution forbids acknowledging race but has no particular issue with racism.

Once American democracy made it possible for a Black man to be elected president, American conservatives decided that it had to be destroyed

what level of AGI is porn chatbots for verified adults

Trump ICE regime troops assaulted and abducted a 15 year old American girl and two other US teens, a 250+ pound regime agent set his knee on her neck during the violent attack. "They were telling them they were U.S. citizens, and they didn't care." www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

Al Jazeera is doing videos of the Palestinian releases and they're heart wrenching. One man was detained for over a year and was released to find out that Israel had killed his two kids. The youngest was three. Her birthday would've been on Saturday. He'd made a small bracelet for her in prison.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

The one good thing about them taking the horny restraints off ChatGPT is that we will never hear from some people again

Greg Bovino, Kristi Noem, and DHS need to answer for their unchecked attacks on Chicago residents. ICE is an out-of-control danger to our peaceful communities. The images from the Sun-Times today speak for themselves.

🚨 The DSCC — led by Kirsten Gillibrand, Mark Kelly, Adam Schiff, and Lisa Blunt Rochester — has formed a joint fundraising committee with Janet Mills. Mills, running against Graham Platner in the Maine Democratic Senate primary, would become the oldest freshman (79) ever elected, to a 6-year term.

POLITICO: “.. They referred to Black people as monkeys and ‘the watermelon people’ and mused about putting their political opponents in gas chambers. They talked about raping their enemies .. and lauded Republicans who they believed support slavery. @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

For about three years now, I've been ranting to anyone who will listen that the Equal Protection Clause is being rewritten so that it protects white people from so-called anti-white discrimination. That's what's happening here.

Watching people being brutalized by the state, secure in the knowledge that I'm safe because I don't do anything wrong. And the best part? The state can't suddenly and arbitrarily redefine what "wrong" means

Hard to even comprehend this. Coral reefs are lost. We knew it was coming but still… Coral reefs are lost.

“Israeli” ceasefires only ever apply to the other party. They’ll continue to kill whomever they want, whenever they want until they are stopped. They see themselves as occupying an altogether different moral plane than their enemies, like any colonizer.

Once they leave their positions and return to academia, it is probably worth remembering articles like this when considering how to interpret the work of Makary, Prasad, and their ilk. It sounds very much like they're operating as commissars for RFK Jr. rather than sober scientists.

Is there an explanation for why Palestinians are "prisoners" and Israelis are "hostages"? Is the implication meant to be that the Palestinians were 'criminals' being punished through imprisonment?

No one should be held hostage and I'm glad they're free, but man, the front pages of every newspaper today are galling when you think of the millions of Palestinians, whose suffering has *never* been presented in that urgent, humanising way at any point in the last two years.

A young trans girl DIED by her own hand, in part over feelings of desperation that trans healthcare was unobtainable. And Graham Linehan wrote THIS!!! 😤🤬 Save this and post it in response to journalists writing “trans people ruined my marriage” articles about him in the future!!!

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

Boy this ref is terrible. It’s great that every bad call is going the Commanders way though.

What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

what if they just forget how to turn the government back on, like a compulsive defiance disorder but for passing a budget

I just learned, Thomas Alter, tenured professor, has been terminated effective immediately. Shame on Texas State! We mst build support for Tom. spectrumlocalnews.com/tx/south-tex...

The funniest thing about defending Bari Weiss being hired to lead CBS and beating back any criticism of that as “cancel culture” is that we are about to enter an era of collusion between the government and media targeting any critique of the state not seen since McCarthyism

Eugenics are a common ideological thread that hold together MAGA from MAHA to the tech right to Voight.

Everyone saying “we need to send these people to The Hague” yes but we need to defeat them first

The MMWR is such a storied institution. The very first report of the AIDS epidemic appeared in it. When I was in grad school I used to read it occasionally, hoping to be the first to find out about the next epidemic.

an incontestable fact of the second trump administration is it is actively trying to sicken and kill as many americans as it can

My theory here is that they believe health is caused by virtue and therefore healthcare spending is resources wasted on the unvirtuous. Furthermore it should be the most virtuous who are in charge of what is healthy. So it's sort of a mystic soup of eugenics and hierarchy and 'justice'.

Eh, its fine