Ahem, Quebec. Loi 21 & 9.

www.wsj.com/opinion/mont... Another one of my colleagues weighs in on the “restructuring” of our home college. This time in the Wall Street Journal. It’s paywalled, so screenshots to follow.

Local media ❤️‍🔥

Wtf is a TEST of a ceasefire?!?!??!?

On rewatch I was shocked that the bad guy government guy was from the EPA - maybe a not so subtle nod to 80s deregulation

Just received from a colleague: looks like Penn is going to join the universities refusing the extortionary Trump "compact". I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Montreal, folks. Montreal.

Worth noting that young in this context is 18-40. Or as other people call it, adult.

“We should replace Bad Bunny with Lee Greenwood” is an also a perfect summation of the “deal” they’ve offered universities.

It is simply accurate to call this regime segregationist.

It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.

Well well well…

It's increasingly clear that the president lives in a constructed bubble of unreality designed by aides who are manipulating him in order to take control of US policy. Seems like an important story - wish media would cover it.

Miller’s attempt to deem The Left terrorism was obviously where this was going and why, in addition to it being intellectually and morally correct, it was important to resist efforts to classify pro-Palestinian groups as such. You reject the politicization of “terrorism” or you accept it for all.

Klein reminds me of the 2016 “no one does political history anymore” brouhaha. If you reduce politics to electoral persuasion, then winners do it right, losers wrong. TNC tried to broaden the political by grounding it in Black history. It didn’t work.

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Read this as Slaughterhouse case. Still a bunch of bastards.

“Hit roadblocks” is a really funny way of writing “failed to fake evidence”

if Jimmy Kimmel's political humor is too hot for you to handle, I'm not sure "snowflake" even cuts it as a term of derision for the level of fragility you've achieved

Our book is out!! Happy publication day to our fantastic team of editors and authors.

Fraud in defense of genocide - and on day when Israel is destroying Gaza City’s last remaining towers and ordering more than a million to the south.

My name was added to this letter without my consent. It is perhaps worth noting that it lists my old professional affiliation rather than my current one. It may also be worth noting that I checked the letter when Nathan posted it and did not see my name, so it may have been added since last night.

"How Are the Very Rich Feeling About New York’s Next Mayor?" A Dramatic Reading of The Recent New York Times Dispatch from the Hamptons. Presented by The Gilded Age's Morgan Spector.

Mine in today’s New Yorker. Greetings from America’s High-Capacity Server Coolant Reservoirs, formerly the “Great Lakes.” Read my cartoon-filled rant about this at open.substack.com/pub/paulnoth...

By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

By far the coolest volume I’ve ever been in. The essays meet the current assault on public health and expertise. Each imagines ways of honouring bodily autonomy without sacrificing our collective well being. @nursingclio.bsky.social @rutgersupress.bsky.social

MAHA and the war on fibre

‘The people we have been starving were already quite ill’ is an admission of guilt not a defense.

In 2019 I had a 1 minute panic attack about the 7 yo not going to a coding camp. On reflection, that was 1 minute too long.

No more hiding behind "the kids!" "the bathroom! "women's sports!" -- it's always been about punishment and forcing trans people out of public life.

Scalise knows better. Medicaid is not a cash payment. It’s insurance paid to the health care provider. But lies are effective. How straight is the line from mythical welfare queen to video game bro?

As a short non-billionaire, I appreciate this

How do you celebrate this? Lie, lie some more, and lie again.

Kids in 2012 and 2015. They never learned this at school.

I doubt they’ll be that dumbfounded

Murder

“DRACULA” can stand for “Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo’s Useless Lazy Ass” or “Don’t Rank Andrew Cuomo’s Useless Lecherous Ass” because this is a big-tent movement where we believe in ideological diversity

Gorgeous day $ crowd in Burlington, VT. Much love and respect for the seniors who brought it with the signs.

posters going up in Philly and some other cities

Could lead?

DAMN what a photo. By Frederic Brown of AFP.

The thing about Curtis Yarvin is that his ideas are shallow plagiarisms of monarchists and fascists and the only reason he has any influence is because the tech oligarchs are desperate for an ideology that gifts them legitimacy and they’re actually dumb as shit.

Quick thread for QCers, Canadians, and beyond on why I—a trans researcher on policy, gender, migration—am nervous for whatever Comité des sages report comes out today tl;dr we've got an all-cis, all-white, zero gender/sexuality expert, roundly-critiqued panel w/a report on gender identity in QC

wait till Chris Rufo hears about this shit there's gonna be hell to pay

I’d make fun of him but I’m afraid he’d turn reactionary right wing

Christ. This is what we just told our 10 year old, and not because of tariffs. Also, communism is not fascism. And AI art sucks.

I actually want to say this really loudly because I am not seeing other non-Jews say it enough. The Israeli diplomat shooting was an antisemitic hate crime. Yes, most allegations of antisemitism within the anti-genocide movement are bullshit. THIS was antisemitism parading as anti-genocide.

Dear Americans, Republicans in the House just passed the largest transfer of wealth in history to the top 1%. Those of us with the least amount of money will suffer the most.

Does nobody remember Air America?