As a sociologist who's more of the Weberian tradition, it offends me that he named it after Weber. I thought slow boring referred to his style of writing.

“Importantly, the ruling dismantled Florida’s arguments that students who are asked to learn potentially disturbing ideas about America’s racist past (and present) are being subjected to unlawful discrimination.”

I wish what Ds took from trump was less, "maybe we should be more bigoted" and more, "maybe we could stand to take our own side in a fight."

really proud to play a small part in this effort www.usatoday.com/story/news/u...

Looking forward to Argentina vs. Switzerland: Who Holds More Nazi Gold?

Everything is always ending in The Atlantic. Men, diplomacy, trust, world order, and so on and so on. It’s a business model likely pitched to older readers, whose keener understanding of their own mortality can sometimes make them project it onto the world around them. trib.al/Bpu8H0L

I mean, this is essentially modern academia. Especially for humanists but really almost everyone these days.

Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social from @fivefourpod.bsky.social has written an essential piece about how the (far) right is pushing the Supreme Court re birthright citizenship. stringinamaze.net/p/has-the-ri... The fascists have the ear of the court. They are winning in the halls of power.

NEW FROM ME: "As Bloomberg says, DHS *wants* to create its own deportation airline. But we’ve known that since last year. What the new documents actually show is that they’ve failed. No one wants be an ICE pilot or an ICE flight attendant." gillianbrockell.com/whats-missin...

The idea that we can and should sit and talk with openly racist and sexist propagandists was the whole point of the free speech anti woke movement of the late 2010s. A typical instance of the paradox of tolerance.

The long shadow of Tom Cotton’s call for murdering Black protesters

Omfg, my point is about McConnell acting in his own ultilitarian interests not having some coming to Jesus moment morally. (he said on the record that he thought Trump should be be impeached in 2021!) And sir, I am not personally the NYT, nor do I have any admiration for McConnell, you doofus

The Times most popular liberal podcaster just sat down for a friendly talk with the nation's highest profile racist (Rufo), and the opinion section employs a leading segregationist (Caldwell), so this tracks. Racism is editorial policy.

Lord this already struck me as extremely paternalistic, gross, imperialism shit and then the article straight up described the USA-Venezuela relationship as "akin to parents handing out allowances to children"

This is the key point: Academic freedom is not just about protecting higher education, it is about preventing state control of civil society institutions to promote its ideology and suppress dissent.

“Hearing an idea you disagree with is not discrimination; it is an opportunity to come up with a better idea, or maybe even change your mind,” she wrote.

Nothing says "intellectual diversity" quite like a mandatory law dictating forced enrollment in a bureaucratic safe space for policed thought. Ohio lawmakers want you to think freely, or else. 👀

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

🚨BREAKING: Federal Court DISMISSES Department of Justice lawsuit to obtain an unredacted copy of New York's statewide voter registration list. A big victory for Elias Law Group and our Client the NAACP. DOJ is now 0-12 in these cases. ELG is undefeated. www.democracydocket.com/cases/new-yo...

OpenAI hardware chief Tang Tan allegedly helped coach recruits on how to evade Apple’s data security protocols and directed them to bring confidential Apple parts to job interviews at OpenAI. www.wired.com/story/apple-...

another insightful post from chris rufo, good faith participant in the discourse

The throughline of Rufo's work is that he is liar. He cares about amassing power, and will degrade the principles he claims to defend to do so. When Trump took office, he effectively said, "cancel culture is good when we do it, but bad when it is done to us." donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-era-of...

Rufo's great insight is that much of our media, even the media he attacked, was unable to convey his hypocrisies, and defaulted to treating him a serious thinker, helping him build a brand where he now charges 50-100K to give a talk. The hypocrisies were more valuable than integrity.

this guy is a degenerate racist and grifter and he doesn’t even try to hide it. it’s incredible.

As I said in one of my Red Scares columns, faculty have been leading the charge on protecting institutional independence

I wind up in spaces where people are very committed to focusing on presidents but, for my money, I want more ways to give faculty and staff the capacity for something like this

Trump lies so much that many treat his Iran war lies as normal. Just the way he talks. But it’s highly abnormal, and very consequential. Can’t make real peace when one side insists on pretending the president’s fantasy is real. My latest, on the recent flare up of fighting over Hormuz, in @ms.now:

For those who don't know (other white ppl?), this is more administrative racism; pseudofolliculitis mostly affects Black men and other people of color, so ending permanent shaving wavers will make the armed forces more white

“American colleges and universities became the envy of the world in part because the nation understood that legislators dictating course content, or banning entire subjects outright, is tyrannical.” Always read @victorerikray.bsky.social, now in @msnownews.bsky.social ! www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social

Alarming story that confirms my own reporting along similar lines: Dan Moraff, the political strategist who plucked Graham Platner out of obscurity to run for senate and barely vetted him, was barred from Rep. Summer Lee’s 2022 campaign after three complaints of sexual misconduct.

Maps are for getting around in Hyrule, not for driving.

I followed the blue line on my phone, how else?

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

" “I think the Washington Center, ironically, seems to be exactly what it complains that higher education has become. It was created in Charleston, and it was imposed on the university, so it’s a big government mandate.”" newrepublic.com/post/212911/...

Having been stuck with “Black Rifle Coffee” the last few days while staying out of town, I can say with absolute confidence that just slapping a bunch of flags and right wing catch phrases on burned, acidic garbage is the easiest way in the world to get rich.

We should invent a kind of canceling where the guy goes away

We should not move on. These efforts aren't popular, they're performative cruelty and absolutely useless in the grand scheme of things and yet I'm sure Fox News will keep getting cranky segregationists to vote for it.

Once again, the opportunity to do what @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social has done over the last decade was also readily available to a lot more people who claimed to be pro-democracy moderate Republicans & remains so: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Would you like to all hear the most absurd and bizarre and possibly ridiculous health update? So. For almost two years now I have been developing a reaction to all but a couple foods. One spot in the back of my mouth itched like CRAZY, and sometimes it would cause a spasm.

Well, I did write a book whose main argument is that personal proximity and exposure to the actual fighting and costs of war tends to puncture lies and misinformation about it, such as the idea that you’re winning the conflict when you’re not www.amazon.com/Seeing-Disbe...

But there is a certain logic informed by the book to Ukraine’s operations. They’re targeting legitimate military and economic targets, not civilians. But in so doing they’re bringing the war and its costs home to millions both at the gas pumps and in terms of the drone strikes people witness, and…

It’s funny, I’ve given many talks on this book and related research and always say something when discussing its policy implications on how I‘m NOT suggesting more people should be bombed so they’ll understand the realities of war better (my policy recs are more about amplifying the locals who do)…

#ELB: BREAKING: “Trump fires all Election Assistance Commission members, leaving agency unable to act” (This is going to be a BFD if Trump Tries to Assert the EAC’s Powers over the Federal Voter Registration Form) https://electionlawblog.org/?p=157199

Trump just fired all three remaining members of the Election Assistance Commission, leaving the agency with no commissioners just months before the midterms

I wrote about Lorenzo Salgado Araujo—who is now the tenth person federal immigration agents have shot and killed during Trump's second term.

The administration may have changed its P.R. strategy for Trump’s mass deportation campaign. The violence hasn’t changed at all. trib.al/puZ1vsR

Wow. I just heard back from ICE on this. Here's their statement. No comment at all on the claim that the three witnesses in the van with the deceased man are being pressured to self-deport, and ICE refers further questions to the FBI: