If this is true, it is the most impeachable offense ever.

What's the proportion of articles written about insane left winger undergrads at Oberlin (enrollment 3,000) vs the right wing Christian administration at say, Grand Canyon University (enrollment 60,000) bsky.app/profile/plaw...

Do you know what IS effective, left-wing, and transformative? When political campaigns give millions and millions of dollars to consultants, PR firms, and professional staff. Never doubt that throwing millions at ad campaigns can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

I am, as always, listening to Tim Curry's reading of A Christmas Carol as I wrap gifts on Xmas Eve & I feel the need to share that there's a free version on YouTube right now for anyone who needs it. It will & should be taken down by dawn, but give yourself this gift: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tsI...

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

Good review of this book earlier in the year. sciencebasedmedicine.org/laptopclassb...

Only a matter of time until a UC Berkeley law professor writes a memo justifying torture, a brave Vanity Fair writer gets tortured to say whether it hurts, and we have a national discussion about whether certain people should be tortured for our safety.

Is this the grim homepage of my alma mater or assertive instructions at a sperm bank?

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

Watching Houthi jet skis sink these things like the gopher blowing up the golf course at the end of Caddyshack.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

The thing is, this isn’t a joke to the white supremacists. Lacking as Vance does Trump’s cult of personality, the white supremacists are going to demand from him a Faustian price for having nonwhite children.

the vice president is a klansman

I don't know, Aaron. I think we need to take this seriously. In fact, after surveying hundreds of years of history in the past few days, I've written an article assessing the originalist case here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

that "prep me to discuss this document" is so your boss or professor don't know you didn't write that shit when they question you about it

Just a reminder that at least 600 Americans were fired for failing to show sufficient respect after Charlie Kirk's murder.

Yglesias saying you have to be on X to fight the right is kind of eliding the fact that he is the right. 1

GenAI/LLM stole my work. Thinking it would make me more creative is like stealing a pie I made, eating it, vomiting, and then telling me that to eat the vomit to make pie. Like, no thank you, I know how to actually make things, not just steal, vomit, and say "I made this" over the steaming pile

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

if these kids were conservative influencers, it would not have been "things can happen"

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

wall is giving thai restaurant

You're telling me the Blessed Event will not be televised?

Indiana taking a stance against racism was not necessarily the thing I expected. it's good though. and that's what they're doing. the point of redistricting is to disenfranchise Black voters. it's racist. 1

this is a long way of saying you want poor people to die of preventable illnesses.

Instant all-timer here:

I don't know whether this conservative-codes me, but I cannot listen to Michael Caine singing "Thankful Heart" at the end of A Muppet Christmas Carol without weeping. It is just so totally uncynical and emphatic of Scrooge's believable *transformation* being both internal and necessarily external.

As I was just saying. They will scale up random “schools” based on market speculation and then close them down when demand wanes. Thats the plan.

the true believers around nixon genuinely saw him as some kind of embodiment of the people and thought that congressional attempts to corral his authority were illegitimate on that basis. straight line from them to the executive power fetishists on the supreme court.

can't really believe that this by me came out three years ago today. I wish desperately that the dynamics I described then had done anything other than accelerate, intensify, and expand so blatantly and so viciously late-light.com/issues/issue...

One of the more wretched things I've ever seen. His 'joke' at the end, at his wife's awful expense, is genuinely degenerate.

helps to think about the details like any regular crime you'd see on one of the 800 cop shows that run on TV constantly: these guys committed one set of murders, thought it over, and then decided to kill the witnesses as part of the coverup. mention of drugs is just jingling keys at this point

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Imagine learning that this was the cause for which you’d ended up giving the last full measure of devotion.

I shall simply free the stuck wheel of bureaucracy by firing everybody who knows how to do things

Rich Lowry is a bigoted piece of shit whose existence makes America a worse place. He's vapid patrician gentility used to mask gutter racism. He's a Brooks Brothers pocket square used to wipe Nick Fuentes' ass.

i think you're just being disagreeable in exactly the way that you seem to relish and i'm glad that's fun for you.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

HBOMax has started showing a 'remastered' 4K Mad Men and they’ve messed things up so during Roger’s oyster vomit scene you can now see the crew men with the vomit hose on the right

This is insane. Any material a prof thinks is necessary but isn’t for formal licensing has to get the signoff of the chair, then dean, then provost? This is an absolutely mockery of academic freedom. I feel like Texas Tech HAS to lose its accreditation for this, no? It’s preposterous.

It's a national failing that only a visionary President would've seen that the American prefiguration of 2020 was the election of 1860. It's the only precedent we have of the opposition refusing to compromise on the winner's legitimacy and then resisting through actual physical violence.

With his new comedy show and debut novel, is it time to let Louis C.K. force women to watch him masturbate again?

There is in fact a fool-proof way to stop students submitting papers written with AI: require that all written material be *composed* in GoogleDocs, etc. GoogleDocs tracks changes *to the second*--which is to say, it tracks the writing *process* itself. AI simply cannot mimic this.