I love modern criminals, they’re always googling shit like “how to do crime”

Not the point but seems very likely his "teaching" is sitting in a chair and talking about stuff.

They are fully aware they aren’t being persecuted (but are doing the persecution) and need to fake victimization (to this wildly extreme extent… can you imagine).

I am bubbling with excitement to see how Thune gets back at Johnson for this.

my wife just said "the larry summers of our discontent" and i had to sit down for a minute

bringing back shame and consequences would not by any means be the ballgame, but it would certainly be something

“What is fascism but colonialism in the heart of a traditionally colonialist country?” - Frantz Fanon

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

A helpful thread on nuclear power, why it didn’t work the first time around, and why the tech-bro billionaire class really wants it to anyway.

Frump’s neo-fascism is a grift. When he goes down, his kids will likely float off on golden parachutes. “This summer, The New Yorker reported that the Trump family had earned $3.4 billion through deals it had arranged since Trump entered the White House in 2017.”

Yes, Trump Will Get More Reckless as His Power Ebbs talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/yes-t...

I mean, we’re clear that all holidays are made up, right? Including Thanksgiving?

You may not be able to afford rent and groceries, and your health insurance may be about to skyrocket in 42 days, but the good news is that the Saudis got F-35s, nuclear tech, and security guarantees after putting hundreds of millions in Trump’s pocket.

I’m still thinking about “quiet, piggy.” No president should be able to speak to a member of the press that way and remain president. That moment encapsulates how vile, misogynistic, and horrible that man is.

“Iowa City eliminated bus fares in August 2023 with a goal of lowering emissions… The two-year pilot program proved so popular that the City Council voted this summer to extend it another year, paying for it with a 1% increase in utility taxes and by doubling most public parking rates to $2 from $1”

The “canceled people” database listing victims of cancel culture, which includes oft-repeated cases such as Bret Weinstein (Evergreen State College) and James Damore (Google), has a little over 200 entries across 18 years. canceledpeople.org

Meanwhile the President just yesterday said an assassinated journalist deserved it and celebrated his killer

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

This doesn’t seem weird to anyone else

I don’t know if anyone remembers when a voicemail that Alec Baldwin’s sent to his daughter was leaked. He screamed at her that she was “a disgusting little pig.” She was a kid. It was so full of misogyny, towards a child (and presumably her mother, as these things often happen).

On top of this today, the sent out an email at 1:30pm that campus was closing at 3:30 for electricity maintenance. Turned off elevators at 3:20… and the electricity turned off at 3:35. 🤡

Gig economy for snitches

AI centrists: “We need a nuanced conversation about AI.” AI: “I’ll kill your children.”

I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

For my newsletter, I wrote about Olivia Nuzzi and the older men who have taken advantage of her her whole life. www.burnsnotice.com/olivia-nuzzi...

trump clearly envies the Saudi Kingdom’s ability to chop up journalists with bone saws

Seems like a good day to remind everyone that Jared Kushner advised Saudi Crown Prince MBS on how to “weather the storm” after his hit squad slaughtered American journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

By plugging tens of billions of phone numbers into WhatsApp’s contact discovery tool, researchers found “the most extensive exposure of phone numbers” ever—along with profile photos and more. Read more: wrd.cm/483paGa

"In the last court term, I wrote ten dissenting opinions, more than any other justice. Have you previewed the horror show on the docket for this term? Alito just winked at me and asked if it’s too soon to joke that I don’t have the brain processing power to do this job."

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

What could go wrong? 🙃

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

When the New York Times has more integrity than Harvard...

Remember: they used thousands of academic books too! If you’re a scholar, check for your books too. This isn’t just novelists and pop writers, it’s academic books too!

The misogyny is the point

Trying to work under neo-fascism is already hard, but then your university launches a new version of your admin website. Why the fuck? Mid-semester!

The more these people act like asshats the more I suspect Marie Antoinette may have actually said ‘let them eat cake’. They keep just flippantly shaming poor folks that their wealth hoarding makes poor.

Cloudfare may have taken down access to lot of the internet this morning, but our new episode at Ben Franklin’s World is not impacted. Discover Indigenous foodways among the Wampanoag & Cherokee. It’s a fantastic way to pass the time while the impacted websites come back online.

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

Today, the Alabama Educational Television Commission holds a public meeting to discuss severing ties with PBS. But, no public comment will be allowed. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

I did not ever need to know this much about the sex lives of political journalists

Turkish prosecutors seek a farcical sentence against the politician who repeatedly beat Erdogan's ruling party in an election, humiliating the strongman on the world stage.

The headline forgot “…in the upside down.”

"A.I.R. maintains a “library” of eight high efficiency particulate air (HEPA) filters (also known as air purifiers) that can be rented with a refundable $20 deposit for various events."

It’s truly bananas we’re expected to go about our lives eating lunch and putting on pants like the President isn’t a well documented child sex predator who was best friends with the king of child sex predators

they're going after holocaust survivors

My grandmother and mother worked as lunch ladies for some years (off and on). They get paid so little, but do a vital service. They not only feed these kids, but often are important points of positive contact at school for kids.