People in the Trump WH are upset that the Sec'y of Commerce suggested that Trump's former Sec'y of Labor has access to videos of Epstein's massage room and that everyone who spent time with Epstein knew he was gross but he bribed them all into silence with said videos. zeteo.com/p/trump-jeff...

What a tremendous goddamn movie

Being yelled at by people who want stuff from you is part of the job description

Tickets secured for tomorrow. Might mess around and watch How to Blow Up A Pipeline tonight for a 21c weather underground double feature

UMD admin, take notice: 1000 grads came out to our Majority March on Oct 1 to say that we're done playing by your rules. Negotiate with us now, or we WILL shut it down! Shout out to our allies @umdydsa.bsky.social @uam-umd.bsky.social MD/DC AFL-CIO and others for joining us!

Trump has been talking about Nobel Prizes and coins and whether he'll get into heaven for one simple reason: the alien Goa'uld parasite is done with his swollen body but the only underlings who know how to use the Stargate have been laid off.

There are two reasons for this 1-keeping the House out jams the Senate with the 7-week CR as the only available option 2-it keeps Adelita Grijalva from being sworn in, so there aren't 218 names on the discharge petition to release the Epstein files

Popular consensus is that we're at the beginning of a 50-year Kondratiev wave, with AI powering the next boom. But it's just as likely we're at the end of a 50-year Pérez wave, where AI is a speculative, relatively arcane investment that we've settled on after the other growth opportunities dried up

MORGAN STANLEY: “.. it’s difficult to ignore the market’s reliance on AI capex. In market-pricing terms, we believe we’re closer to the seventh inning than the first, and several developments indicate we may be entering the later phases of the boom.” 👀 [Shalett]

"Full-day kindergarten expansions were responsible for as much as 24 percent of the growth in employment of mothers with kindergartenaged children in this time frame."

Dwayne has his job back because we organized for it. We fight or we die. Join AAUP today www.aaup.org/join

Possibility: this whole year is Make a Wish for a deeply awful person with a terminal illness.

This is good. If I could make one minor suggestion: separate out the bad parts of the totality. It'll be so much easier if we could just externalize these social relations internal to capitalism.

The Whitest Kids You Know sketch where the guy asks for a tattoo of Bowser surfing while playing a double-necked Les Paul with a weed leaf and cross behind him.

Bluesky is a site explicitly founded by cryptocurrency libertarians with the idea that it would be a decentralized platform where users would be free to choose the open-source moderation and algorithmic feed tools they wanted, and by accident acquired a power userbase that hates all of those things.

really seems like @govpritzker.illinois.gov is talking out of both sides of his mouth. either step in or stop pretending.

People really do be believing that police departments do what elected officials say huh

Mamdani’s controversial stance is the he believes an arrest warrant by the ICC needs to be respected regardless of the accused. Those who disagree believe that international law must never be applied to the people they like. It really is that simple.

I applied for one hundred games jobs between july of last year and may of this year and it was kind of like trying to build a liferaft out of the mud at the bottom of the ocean

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Every third or fourth post I think about the line "she stared directly into those soft blue eyes and knew, with an instinctive mammalian certainty, that the exceedingly rich were no longer even remotely human.” William Gibson wrote that in 1986. Imagine the evolutionary diversion since then.

On the one hand, I really want to subscribe to see how he elaborates on...whatever that word is that libertarians use for child sexual crimes. On the other hand, I am so so grateful I can't see the full story rn.

klein thoroughly misunderstands abortion as a political issue in red states: as a single issue, a solid majority of voters are in favor of making it legal or expanding access, but it's not enough of an animating issue to get voters who otherwise lean conservative to elect pro-choice candidates

I mean you are not far off.

This short passage from a Politico afternoon newsletter captures a huge amount of the advantage gained by lying at scale and the why the DC press corps remains wired for the GOP.

On the eve of the holiest day of the year for globalists, no less.

Look, these people are Protestants.

modern monetary theory empowers the socdem left to say that deficits don't matter at the national level because world reserve currency. But unfortunately the other side of that is that the federal government determines what counts as dollars because taxes, a blow to dreams of blue state sovereignty

Emilio Minassian: “In the Middle East, the proletarian irruption of 2010—weak in its offensive capacity yet persistent in its manifestations—appears to be settling into an endless military restructuring, with Israel once again at the forefront.” brooklynrail.org/2025/10/fiel...

Great day to be in a union! UMD grads with GLU-UAW have supermajority support but our bosses refuse to recognize them. Instead of standing with their workers, the universities are joining Trump's attack on them. @uam-umd.bsky.social stands with grads and demands UMD recognizes their union!

I'd venture to say ANY academic professional. Those without faculty status are welcome to join as associate members. Many academic librarians are not and as noted in a recent post, the AAUP has historically upheld our need for Academic Freedom. We need all of us in the fight to #SaveHigherEd.

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.

Just so. It's always structurally a government of bosses, but this one is very specifically the revenge of the family firm. The drunk son who dad promoted anyway? He runs the military. The grandpa who can't read anymore but won't retire? He's president. Their main issue is secretaries not smiling.

The @aaup.org beat Marco Rubio in court, with a Reagan-appointed judge ruling that ideological deportations obviously violate the first amendment. These cases cost money. And we need millions of people moving together to make them stick. If you're faculty in the US, join AAUP and join the fight.

“[This] looked like hundreds of masked agents knocking down doors and dragging families out in the middle of the night…holding babies that were unclothed,” Castro added." From @thetriibe.com about the raid in South Shore last night where at least 40 people were taken into federal custody.

Imagine getting owned this hard by Hakeem Jeffries

They got OBAA in 70mm down the way...

This is somewhat encouraging as to the "will you shoot your neighbors when ordered to do so?" question

One of my favorite food blogs has a new essay on my personal dietary philosophy: a little meat in a variety of greens and grains, rather than no meat or all meat or imitation meats.

Remarkable victory for antiapartheid organizers inside and outside Microsoft. Workers in particular have raised the question in every meeting, birddogged every exec, organized within recruitment events, and much much more. They raised the price of collaboration and now MS is out.

Never a big fallout boy fan but the singer wore the dead Kennedy's "Nazi punks fuck off" shirt at a festival on the shore this weekend, my sources tell me

They bought and or towed all these from god knows where with your tax dollars. Looks fun and all, but this is what they're spending money on instead of teachers, trains, helping poor people and curing kids cancer.

My thing is: how do you find a video you watched if you wanna look up some info contained therein? Video search sucks!

Emma made an awkward attempt at some grace, and this bitter woman threw it back at her. You cannot make peace with these people. Their bigotry consumes all that may have once been good about them. 'She has so little experience of real life,' she is 35 years old.

I'm so nostalgic for the crap food, blatant homophobia, and unopposed warmongering of 2002

We have had at least two highly successful boycotts under Trump 2. They've both 1) had clear demands and 2) been tightly targeted to the party that can grant those demands. This is the way.

30% drop year over year!

But what if the people who had the ability to solve the problem also wanted to wet their whistle

Stephen Miller is a school shooter who took control of a country instead