The rest of the developed world: 👇 The U.S: Nah, we'll take the "grab them by the P" guy.

"...higher education in America requires that every university reject it. If any schools capitulate, the pressure will be enormous on all to fold. The only solution is solidarity and collective action against this effort at federal control over higher education."

It's such a firehose that this can't be bothered to register on the mainstream media radar.

This whole article flows through my veins. Thinking of @emayfarris.bsky.social @victorerikray.bsky.social and others who embody the courage to speak truth to power. I fail in comparison.

These are not judges. They serve at the pleasure of the Department of (In)Justice.

an extraordinary person with an extraordinary legacy who nevertheless didn’t take herself too seriously when Gary Larson published this cartoon, she was in Africa and her institute was horribly offended and drafted a complaint the whole thing was defused when she returned - she found it funny

Jeffries is exhibit A that strength of one's spine is a better correlate than age to being in (out of) touch with what the party needs.

One of the worst consequences of an administration that disregards all rules of accountability is that nothing its says can be trusted.

I hope he furrowed his brow when his comms person wrote this.

"For my friends, everything. For my enemies, the law."

Over/under on jury nullification.

Hard to believe, but Adelita Grijalva is the first Latina Congresswoman from the state of Arizona.

We estimate that Donald Trump's approval rating is negative among 2024 voters in eight states that voted for him in November: Texas -1 Arizona -3 Pennsylvania -6 Nevada -6 North Carolina -7 Georgia -10 Wisconsin -11 Michigan -11

Happy House majority shrinks and now there are enough votes to circumvent leadership to release Epstein files Day to those who celebrate.

[read the room gif]

I guess there goes the America Party.

This @zackbeauchamp.bsky.social piece pulls it all together nicely. www.vox.com/politics/462...

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"more representative of what it should be" = excess of and access for the super-rich and privileged. How anybody ever thought he was "a man of the people" I'll never understand.

The president of the United States calls two democratic senators "sleezbags," while my colleagues and others get doxxed and harrased for pointing out Charlie Kirks' own words. It's difficult to reconcile the upside down world.

"...staff members on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” began to receive death threats following Carr’s remarks on Wednesday, with their email addresses and phone numbers being doxed and blasted across social media. For Disney, [it]... became a safety issue for employees" This is bonkers.

Happy Constitution Day, everyone! It was a great day to celebrate.

This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

Guess who is never subscribing to Business Insider?

Oh, hey. Deleted two days after the Kirk assassination.

"Raising concern"? Tailwagging copy

How has this guy not been tapped for a job in the Trump administration?

We are at an existential inflection point in America. This inflection point is a president and vice president of the United States openly and unabashedly rising the temperature for political violence and declaring that anyone not on their political team is an enemy. 1/n

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Opinion | I’ve dedicated my career to promoting free speech on college campuses. Here’s why the murder of a red state college dropout by another red state college dropout means it’s time to fire liberal professors in blue states.

Republican elected officials out there calling for rational discourse and a lowering of the political temperature should start with the leader of their party. But they won't. The MAGA brand is built on (out)rage and blaming the other side. Without these pieces the whole thing crumbles.

"He faces consequences for his actions, I don't."

Thinking a lot about honor-- who had it and who should have it bestowed upon them.

This. When did seemingly rational people decide that it is appropriate to fly flags at half mast to honor someone who built a career by denegrating others? We are broken on so many levels.

Didn't even take a day.

If your a political leader condemning political violence today, but tomorrow you will try to incite political violence with your rhetoric, go eat dirt.

If it were any other epidemic, federal, state, and local leaders would declare an emergency, summon the foremost experts, dedicate unbelievable resources, and change policy so it never inflicts society so broadly and repeatedly again.

2 things can be true at the same time: 1) It was reckless for the Dem Party (including Kamala Harris) not to stand up to Biden sooner and prevent him from seeking reelection. 2) It was obvious the Biden administration did not elevate or promote Harris as VP Person over party in both circumstances.

Every signature in Jeffrey Epstein's birthday book was real except for Donald Trump's, which was forged. Just like every Republican victory in 2020 was real but Donald Trump's loss was rigged. Why is that so hard for the Left to understand? by Charlie Kirk

Not just Texas.This will be diffused to other red states where Maga students will be emboldened to similay challenge instructors and curriculum and receive apologetic compliance without an investigation or due process. Exactly the opposite of what higher ed is supposed to represent.

My 2025 bingo card is really effing with me.

The Israeli government sure is emboldened to violate international law and sovereign borders. I am confused by why... [wait, checks notes on current U.S. foreign policy actions]. Oh.

It's definitely, definitely not a cult.

The greatest and most significant consequence of Trump being elected president has been his ability to reform the Supreme Court in his image with enough democracy destroying acolytes. No other consequence comes close because they all flow from being able to remove that check/guardrail.

How anyone can think that Trump is a champion of the every day person is beyond me.

The U.S. Open has been delayed to accommodate the Dear Leader.

Current mood.

The willingness of institions to capitualte to or curry favor with a leader bent on destroying the very system that is responsible for their success never ceases to amaze me.