Damn right.

Not a hard question, except for the culture that pretends it's not the answer 1) right-wing media lies incessantly, so anyone truth-based doesn't trust it, and anyone who trusts it doesn't trust anything else 2) other media treats those lies as legitimate, for "fairness," getting trust from no one

It’s too bad only farmers are people and not librarians or artists or healthcare workers or researchers.

Co-sign

Taney:Scott::Roberts:???

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

There are basically two premises I'm working from right now: I'll n'ya pas de hors-texte Never argue with someone John Brown would have shot

Every time there's a shooting the GOP screams about how it's a mental health issue, not the guns. The response now is to take away mental healthcare and attack trans people. But, sure, this is a group of people that have our best interests at heart.

It’s continues to be despicable how the media has spent a decade normalizing the orange felon so much so that they are reporting on his authoritarian militarization of Washington DC as if it were a routine military exercise. They deliberately failed democracy for clickbait.

A country is real estate. A nation is a brand. Governance is deal-making. Diplomacy is franchising. Services yield profit. Everything is zero-sum. All relations are transactional. This admin is what happens when everyone majors in business or econ… or runs a car dealership.

There are a lots of folx clanging alarm bells about communism b/c major corps are turning over $ to the federal government. But I hate to tell you - that's croney capitalism. This is not the result of a state run market. It's the result of oligarchs. This is still about profit for the capital class.

If I were a public memory scholar I would be holed up in my bedroom right now, under the covers, crying. I still might.

"Never trust anyone over 30." J. Weinberg

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

What if instead of fighting fascism and racism and the patriarchy we play with puppies? Sigh. I guess you're right. Can we at least do both?

it's so deranged how rich business owners have demanded for decades that they be called "job creators" despite the fact that every single person i know has experienced a rich guy buying out an existing business and firing everyone and usually completely bankrupting it before cashing out and leaving

I am re-doing my Freedom of Expression syllabus to be less work and more relevant. I am less and less interested in being a cop and more interested in doing what I can to enrich the students who give a damn as I get older.

"We're all throwing dildos at women athletes to promote our memecoin" really puts a fine point on not just how sexist, mean and stupid so much of right now is, but also the grim degree to which we're just inundated with Stuff a 15-Year-Old Dipshit Would Think is Cool. A confederacy of Beavises.

The destruction of the Rose Garden is such an apt metaphor. Also, if this doesn't remind you just a tad of Mussolini then I guess you didn't have to do a paper on fascist art in grad school.

I love that the NY Post is literally running stories on an impending alien attack and the admin is attacking Beyonce and we are supposed to say to ourselves, nope, definitely, not a diversion. I am very smart and not gullible at all and this all seems totally legit...

Look, I'm not going to give you the context, here, but at 12am my husband and I were Googling whether there was any Roy Orbison cling wrap porn out there. There is.

The big news of the day is that the Chicago Manual of Style no longer requires a place of publication in a book citation. There is a niche group of people, and we are slowly being muscled out by APA, for whom this is very, very exciting.

Prediction: as midterms approach ppl like Josh Hawley will propose legislation to negate the most harmful parts of the BBB, putting Dems in the tough spot of supporting a good R cause, or playing obvious politics & opposing it. The Dems and the deficit are the big losers and Hawley comes out on top

Just in case you think things are one-sided, I just saw an obviously AI-generated bit of leftist propaganda. It described a conflict between Leavitt & Crockett in a poorly produced AI voice. But the images were just random pics of the them. There wasn't even an attempt to deepfake the exchange.

I did not order the autocratic Kakistocracy. I'd like to speak to the maitre'd

New office door decor?

I feel like a lot of these problems could have been avoided if the last three generations of parents would have encouraged their boys to read fiction.

The labor movement strongly opposes the Senate’s current budget reconciliation bill. It demands millions of working Americans give up health care, food, income, and jobs - all so the rich and large corporations can reap the greatest tax benefits. aflcio.org/about/advoca...

It's a Saturday afternoon. I could read feminist theory for a few hours. Or I could day drink and find new albums to listen to on repeat. I am at once 46 and 19.

It will be interesting to see the USA wage a war that there is absolutely no support for at home.

I don't know about you... but I'm disturbed by the amount of hell NOT BEING RAISED by leadership on all sides about masked thugs jumping out, refusing to ID themselves, shoving people into a van, never be heard from again.

We watched Jaws for the 50th anniversary. My teen said that's great, but we have to either watch ALL the Jaws movies now, or at least watch Jaws 4 tonight. The kids are all right.

Turner v. Wilson (1904) was never overturned. Look it up at your leisure. It is time to be alarmist. This is a time of slippery slopes. This reasoning is being used against students. These things don't stay confined to one place.

I would have liked to have seen Rome before we devolved into a militarized police-state with armed guards at every corner devoted to rounding up the most vulnerable and keeping those of us with privilege but opinions that run contrary to the admin within 2 miles of our home, but waddayagonnado?

I am watching Sen. Alex Padilla talk on the Senate floor about being assaulted last week, as I watch New York City controller Brad Lander get assaulted at immigration court. In between reports on the two MN Democrats shot, one murdered, last weekend. But both sides, people, both sides.

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As @letsgomathias.bsky.social reported, "remigration" has been used by white supremacists as "a euphemism for ethnically cleansing non-white people from Western countries." The GOP is "sourcing many of its talking points and policy ideas directly from neo-fascists." www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

This is THE thing incoming freshmen need to know and it is absolutely absent from all of the advice, prep, and guidance they are getting.

Re: college majors: Just about everyone I worked with in law firms who were not English (me) or philosophy majors wish they had been. Those disciplines give you the arsenal of skills, soft and hard, you need for the job. Just sayin’

Chicken Soup for the Technocratic Kakistocracy

If any of the Dems start courting Elon just throw them away and start over. Maybe try something in a nice Socialist or Anarchist? They're lovely this time of the dystopia.

The allure of the Switch might be too much. My husband may play Mario Kart right through tip-off.

Trump is starting an office of ethnic cleansing. Act accordingly. www.axios.com/2025/05/30/s...

You know what I wish I had at this point in the year? A few more reports to write. Yeah. That's the stuff.

If I don't see a lot of MAGA folks dressed up as Sexy Executive Order this Halloween then we will know they are deeply unserious people.

This is funny to me because I'm dropping a podcast tonight about how no American would get this joke.

One time Agamben was making fun of neoclassical economics and called them “Chicago Americans”. I think about that today

Look, I just want people to be fed, housed, and have their basic needs met. And that's not asking a lot - the resources are there. If we're not worrying about survival the senses of curiosity and creativity that will save us from ourselves might actually be able to flourish.