The “free speech” and “cancel culture” panics have led to overt state censorship because that was always their purpose. (Gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was. You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 5/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 4/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 3/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 2/5

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house. This is where America is now

In this Ep (4) Daryl Li discusses a new report on the Weaponization of Civil Rights Law to Repress Campus Speech on Palestine by the AAUP & Middle East Studies Association. We discuss the history of Title VI, academic freedom, and the roles Democrats and Republicans played in how we got here.

The pulled “60 Minutes” episode on the CECOT prisoners is down on that YouTube link but up now here: www.muellershewrote.com/p/watch-the-...

Elegant

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

Yep, it’s the journey, not the destination

It was such a joy to celebrate Hanukkah with Mandy, Kathryn and their son, Gideon. As Jewish New Yorkers across our city prepare to light candles and mark the seventh night today, I wish you and your families a Hanukkah full of light and love. youtu.be/KIxAKyioXng

Tell me again about Harvard’s problem with “wokeness” “Maybe it’s different for you, but Adolf Hitler’s policies are incongruent with my values, personally,” Morganbesser replied. “I’ll quote who I want,” Army shot back. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Cultural context for the win!

Pope Leo: “Creation is crying. But many powerful people do not hear this cry: the wealth of the earth is in the hands of a few, very few, increasingly concentrated – unjustly – in the hands of those who often do not want to hear the groaning of the earth and the poor.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...

Vijay Iyer has impeccable taste.

You're mad because you expect a "software update" to make things work better. You will only be free when you understand this to be an illusion and accept the fact that software is suffering

JUST IN: As deadline nears, Trump administration appeals judge's ruling blocking attempt to cut off Harvard's federal funding. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/26...

"Cuomo isn't Jewish, Adams isn't Jewish, Trump isn't Jewish. But they all are delighted to weaponize antisemitism, to weaponize Jewish fear, against Muslims especially." Jewish Democratic Congressional candidate Brad Lander. My full interview with him: zeteo.com/p/meet-the-p...

Rob Reiner either made your favorite movie, or made somebody you know’s favorite movie. If you’re a Californian, he’s also part of the reason you or your friends can get married. He has changed more lives for the better than this asshole commenting on him ever did.

The Executive Committee of AAUP-Harvard Faculty Chapter is alarmed by the abrupt termination of Professor Mary T. Bassett as Director of the Francois-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights at Harvard’s T. H. Chan School of Public Health www.aaup-hfc.org/aaup-harvard...

Trump’s foreign policy isn’t “noninterventionism,” it is a kind of neo neo conservatism devoted to imposing authoritarian ethnonationalism abroad instead of democracy (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

the united states is currently being led by a bunch of little david dukes with a senescent outer-borough grand dragon at the top

Huge Win for Rümeysa Öztürk! “I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.” - Rümeysa Öztürk AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!

I don’t think the implications of this headline have dawned on enough Americans. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

"A Chinese hospital ship quietly docked in hurricane-hit Jamaica this week, projecting soft power into the heart of the Caribbean where a US armada is conducting a controversial anti-narcotics mission targeted at Venezuela."

looking forward to either a 6-3 decision that trump as God Emperor of the United States can change the constitution by fiat or a 5-4 decision that 14th amendment means what it says with a dissent from thomas that actually the constitution recognizes donald j. trump as sovereign

Bummer. I was hoping to scoop up a discounted property.

“That there is so low a political price for the president’s racism that he and those around him see little risk in its expression—well, that does say something about America, and Americans.”

this really isn’t an exaggeration

She shouldn't have to keep doing this by herself. She is supposedly a member of a political party and every single one of her *colleagues* should be BLASTING the fascist in chief. ALL OF THEM. Where is the solidarity???

Sacks was the third player in the Ackman-Rufo disgusting takedown of Claudine Gay w/cherry-picked, ancient allegations, mock outrage, racist tropes about Black competence, and vibes. But he’s crashing out over a legit story abt his conflicts. Like Ackman melting down about his wife’s plagiarism.

So my book about Howard Zinn’s outsized life comes out August 2026. That’s now official. If you want me to come to your bookstore/library/community center/house party to talk about Zinn’s life and and what teaches us about how to beat back the bastards, please email [email protected]

This is as good as this stuff will ever be, this is the phase where we're all supposed to be getting hooked in to this disruptive new thing. Once the free money dries up and they have to turn a profit, it will inevitably get worse and worse

this is just gutter racism

"a single person of this demographic may have committed a crime, therefore we must punish the entire demographic" is a policy response you may recognize from fascist governments dedicated to ethnic cleansing elsewhere.

Billionaires, who quite often do not see education as a common good, should not be guiding higher education policy. “I kind of yearn,” Mr. Nassirian said, “for the gilded age when billionaires satisfied their extracurricular interests by collecting Fabergé eggs and prized ponies.” #DefendHigherEd

New student survey reported on by the Harvard Crimson — 63% of Harvard undergraduate respondents say Harvard should divest from companies and institutions operating in Israel. 23% said No. 70% say Harvard should disclose such investments. 19% said No.

for days we got the "Showdown with Socialism" buildup only to get the payoff of Trump essentially saying "wow this socialist guy fuckin rules. I, on the other hand, am a fascist". what a country. what an era bsky.app/profile/self...

Laughing at Donald Trump saying he'd definitely feel comfortable living in Zohran Mamdani's New York on the same day that half the consultant brain-poisoned Democratic party voted to condemn socialism

Imagine being one of those CEOs or school presidents who bowed down to this weird old man, then realizing he doesn’t like you as much as he likes this guy who didn’t bow at all

This is most likely how we know the bubble is very close to bursting

Well put by @drrachelbarr.bsky.social

100%

“If corruption and authoritarianism are tied together — if they are two acts in the same story — then the struggle against Trump’s authoritarian designs must also be a struggle against his personal corruption as well as the corruption of the political system.”

Moderation as a strategy, "It's tapped out. There are no gains left to be had. ....I see anti-corruption as this very open lane for realignment," says @adambonica.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2030...

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