Charles I watching Trump speed run personal rule without consequence

Maybe Weiss should have spent time in college learning how to write instead of trying to get her professors fired

Pretend you’re 65 & act accordingly: save your pennies, visit friends, enjoy slow walks in your neighborhood, shrug your shoulders at old beef between family & friends, grow a garden, forgive people because they’re “still young” even if they’re not but hold all politicians accountable. Get a cat.

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman. Amplify amplify amplify please.

Yesterday, Kristi Noem’s and Greg Bovino’s masked agents threw chemical agents near an elementary school, arrested elected officials exercising their First Amendment rights, and raided a Wal-Mart.

Is there a running total of the number of times this year that ICE has deliberately broken the law in arresting or assaulting elected officials?

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

It would be nice if we, as a society, stopped rewarding incompetent trolls.

One thing that I will say about classical political philosophy: a society that elevates people who reward friends and punish their enemies really does suck big time. No flourishing at all. Would not recommend.

Thank you, UPenn AAUP, for your powerful response to the administration's "invitation" (correctly renamed "threat") to join their academic compact. #academicfreedom #defendhighered @aaup-penn.bsky.social @aaup.org

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

So now, both Trump and GOP Congressional leaders have endorsed Russ Vought's agenda of using the shutdown to engineer back-door impoundments.

Becoming an ancient crone who tells mystical tales to the English majors in my classes about the halcyon days when the college library was wall-to-wall stacks of wonderful books rather than 80% coldly sanitized monochrome “flex spaces”

In case you are considering applying but have forgotten to submit your application, the review of applications for the position of Assistant Professor in Latin American politics in the Department of Government at Smith College will begin tomorrow, October 1. Please apply! apply.interfolio.com/172310

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality. I don't know how to yell any louder.

Support your local @aaup.org chapter and pay your dues.

"ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

17 people are dead from US strikes in the Caribbean this month and we still don't really know who they are and so far the president and VP have made jokes about scared fishermen.

Relevant www.nytimes.com/2024/11/29/u...

Hegseth: 'If you report a fellow soldier of a war crime, then I will support them over you.'

*Pete Hegseth, overcome with tears, standing up from his theater seat and saluting Steven Lockjaw in his final scene*

How am I supposed to even begin to make sense of a world in which the Dave Matthews Band has objectively better politics than Radiohead.

Was asked about “viewpoint diversity.” It may sound like pluralism, but it means auditing faculty for ideological balance—confusing scholarship with partisan accounting. Pluralism rests on rigorous debate and critique, not political mandates, and rarely welcomes every opinion under the sun.

This is not leadership or strength. This is fascist clownery.

My shortened understanding of dialectics is that the failures of this society will build the future but that it is not predetermined how it should do so.

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

In the past 10 yrs, teachers' wages DECREASED by $46/week after adjusting for inflation. Wages increased by $220 for other college grads Why are we penalizing teachers for working one of the hardest & most important jobs in our communities? We need to pay teachers more! www.epi.org/publication/...

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

I took Tylenol as needed throughout my pregnancy. I am a doctor. I order Tylenol for pregnant women regularly. Tylenol is safe in pregnancy. RFK Jr is ignoring a huge recent well-done study because he doesn't like the answer it gives. There is no causality between Tylenol and autism.

There’s nothing wrong with John Roberts that woundn’t be fixed by giving him dozens and dozens of new colleagues

Just so I’m clear, instead of enforcing the TikTok ban that passed in Congress and was upheld by several courts including Supreme Court the White House is giving control over it to co-partisan oligarchs?

Holy shit

‼️ Read an adapted excerpt from EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism in @nybooks.com ‼️ Extraction is officially published TOMORROW (9/23) 👀 www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Sorry everyone, but male fashion peaked here.

Douthat's argument is that distinct from Trump there is a conservatism that could pursue a culture war through using the state to arbitrarily fire liberals and unworthy out-groups in order to chill their speech and dampen their social power. Douthat's argument is a fiction. That is Trumpism.

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

1. Just so we’re clear, this is the clip that got Jimmy Kimmel’s show shelved by ABC. If I’m missing any other clips please let me know.

Trump’s FCC chair stooge acting like a middle school bully confirming they were lying all along as they distanced themselves from what was always the playbook

Let’s mock them still

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

Government by goon squad

We cannot make the headlines blunter people www.theverge.com/policy/77979...

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Democracy is beautiful. I just watched a video of a guy say that he is “committed to ethically harnessing technology such as AI” to “unlock the community’s full potential” and then I filled out a form saying he shouldn’t get to do that

BREAKING: A historic coalition of national & California labor unions led by the AAUP filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration challenging the illegal & coercive use of civil rights laws to attack the University of California system & the rights of their members.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

The AAUP notes with great alarm the rash of recent administrative actions to discipline faculty, staff, & student speech in the aftermath of the murder of Charlie Kirk. 1/4