This is it. Part of why it has been tough for me to weigh in on the Epstein discourse is because we’re really just seeing an extreme manifestation of white patriarchy. The men involved have consolidated an obscene amount of power. But the violence itself is horrifically ordinary.

The deadliest antisemitic attack in US history, the 2018 Pittsburgh synagogue shooting, specifically targeted the Tree of Life synagogue because of their work with HIAS on refugee resettlement. Antisemitism and anti-migrant hatred are intertwined. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/31/u...

Trump's backpedalling on Minnesota matters. It means he is not confident enough to try to impose and enforce a lie on his loyalists. He still feels that he must be responsive to media perception and public opinion, that he does not control the narrative. That's a massive setback.

Those in power have tried to convince us that resistance would be too tiring. But let Minnesotans teach you that it’s actually energizing to be a part of a movement to change society for the better. If you’re tired, get involved. You’ll be surprised by how quickly you start to feel better.

Chris Murphy: "This is really scary because what Bovino essentially told you is that if you just happen to be present when they are undertaking an operation, if you pull out your phone to record it, the use of force against you is justified. That is not true, it's not what the law says."

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

ICE's actions are so egregious that even Senate Democrats have begun to take notice.

One basic lesson from political research is that secret police generally rely on mediocre men willing to do the dirty work of authoritarian regimes in order to advance their careers. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-the-fb...

Do not snackrifice yourself for an institution that would not snackrifice itself for you, and in the end few of them will

So when the AHA says it's OK to use AI to summarize scholarship, the greatest risk this guideline poses isn't simply to the quality or accuracy of research; the hazard it poses is to the communal nature of the knowledge production. A pursuit that puts people across time & space into conversation 4/n

"universities across the US are shuttering their religion programs." that's all that goes through my mind when i see "bari weiss town halls about god." silly of me, but i believe religious literacy is a net plus for this country. and bari weiss ain't it, CBS.

I'm not a political scientist but I'm pretty sure "fake award from FIFA" is a pretty strong indicator of a country's slide toward authoritarianism

Not to defend Olivia Nuzzi, who broke every rule in journalism and promoted a charlatan to his current position. But it's incredibly telling that she will lose her job, but RFK Jr. gets to stay in his job despite the reports of his drug use, his affairs and his defenestrating of public health.

Turns out it’s a short trip from Fox News host to war criminal. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

i’m thinking about every non-white immigrant in the US this AM. what a rough week, and that in a year full of rough weeks.

"We followed everything we were supposed to do" Legitimate green card applicants with US spouses are being arrested by armed, masked men at scheduled immigration interviews, taken away from their children, sent to prison www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Yes. This is how fascism operates: by constantly redefining the boundaries of The People and exercising brutal force against whoever finds themselves outside. No one is truly safe. You will find yourself on the outside at some point.

Did Post Malone just drop an f-bomb on live TV? Anyway I can't understand any of his lyrics but it's great anyway. Somehow I don't think The Discourse on Post Malone will focus on that.

This year at AAR/SBL, I spent most of my time in trauma studies sessions. It was so different from what I'm used to in historical critical sessions. No pettiness, no "more of a comment than a question," no throat-clearing. Panelists freely expressed vulnerability. There was humor and grace.

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

Say what you will about Gen Z and social skills, you know you're always happy when the person next to you on the plane is under 30.

maybe i am going insane

know what’s best about the mirrored keys? they “mirror” my argument, and thus gain new resonance if you read the book — just like “magic” does in early petrine literature. i mean, OUP crushed this cover design. PS: you should read my book! the inside is pretty too!

At least his location isn't undisclosed anymore 🔥🔥

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

the federal government is running ethnic terror pogroms executed by washed out skinheads

Prep soccer would be a lot more fun if dads could get booked

Happy Residual Rapture Anxiety Day to all who celebrate

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

It would be pretty awesome for every professor in Texas to talk about how there are more than two sexes in class today. They can pick you off one by one. But they can’t fire all of you at once. Solidarity is the only way through this.

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

the obligatory second tweet after "monitoring and praying" to show you are very concerned. then maybe a third tweet before going back to talking about how some restaurant changed its logo or an M&M no longer wears sexy boots

A reminder that this is what the path to a full ban on vaccines looks like. No one is banning vaccines for everyone overnight. Just like with abortion, they will carve off one group at a time and hope the those still eligible respond with gratitude and self-interest instead of anger and solidarity.

If you're a guy, and there are any women who *actually* trust you, treat that like the highest achievement possible. You think a Nobel Prize is a bigger deal than that? There are a LOT of Nobel Prize winners who can't say that any women trust them.

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Whoopsy

The Clintons have always shown steadfast loyalty to the wrong people.

How are all the strong-willed children out there feeling today? Drop a gif.

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

Do I have any academic friends who work specifically on American slavery who'd like to co-write a piece on this, fast and angrily?

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

It’s darkly funny to see what’s happening to techies who sneered “Learn how to code!” at people in other endangered industries.

Archie Comics presents Plato’s Republic

At least after tech bros wreck the economy we'll get to watch them suffer less than the rest of us

First day of classes! Today I just ask them all to pronounce their names, and then we break into small groups for content discussion. *Maybe* we get to the syllabus? Students won't remember first-day content, but they'll remember how they felt about it.

I would very much love to see the year-by-year numbers around how much $$$ is spent on consulting companies in education over the past decade. (I don't think it is a flat line.)