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I am about as "give every student the benefit of the doubt" as you can be, but eff this student. Willfully setting up a TA and professor; nakedly lying to destroy others' careers; shamelessly cashing in with the right-wing grievance complex. What a miserable person. I hope she never graduates.

“He raped me.” “Donald J Trump had raped her along with Jeffrey Epstein.” “She was found with her head ‘blown off’… there was no way it was a suicide.” Now we’re starting to see why Trump was hiding the Epstein files, and it probably gets much worse.

Clean version. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LG32....

Soon after the county announced charges against Clint Massie, the sheriff began receiving calls from alleged victims across the U.S. Two of them, he realized, were sisters. Neither knew what had happened to the other, or that each had come forward. With @startribune.com

60 minutes CECOT segment. Recorded through my browser. HD quality. Not phone. Spread it around. If you're press, it's yours. Go nuts. It's streaming on a Canadian website, but there is no telling for how long. www.filemail.com/d/wkcdttnacp...

here’s the 60 Minutes CECOT segment, which is temporarily available in Canada you all know what to do

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Question: When the head of the DOJ’s Civil Rights division tweets out a false statement about an individual that results in them being barraged with death threats based on their religion and ethnicity, which governmental agency would look into whether that student’s Civil Rights had been infringed?

Once again, writing a book about the head of the DOJ's Civil Rights Division in the 1960s, when it was *not* working on behalf of racist shitweasels in defense of white supremacy, is giving me whiplash more and more these days.

A new federal rule would ban gender affirming care at virtually every hospital system in the country. Now, an organization says they've prepared, have private clinics and financial aid ready for families that need them. Meet one group fighting back, the TYEP. Subscribe to support our journalism.

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Feminism is the idea that women are full human beings, so the question “has feminism failed women?” interrogates the assumptions of those asking far more than it interrogates feminism.

The Plot to Enslave America

Interesting, because I am assured by people on both side sides of the aisle that homeless people are not a part of our society, but a social nuisance to be harassed and a great societal danger to be expunged.

Another incredible case of white racial grievance about the academic job market. He reveals at the end that he wouldn’t provide the necessary application materials!

this has exactly as much scientific basis as their antivax garbage and is somehow even more directly aimed at killing people fuck this absolute monster

Fantastic piece.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

Every single reporter there needs to hold the line on this too. Don't throw him a lifeline with another question if he dodges. Have each other's backs and demand he answer the question.

Faculty and staff need to be fluent in the language and techniques of univ budgets. Budgets are how an institution's mission is operationalized. But they're arcane documents, cloaked in obscurantism. And upper admin and boards use that opacity to do all sorts of shit, unaccountable and unfettered

Tyranny

Operation Metro Surge is state-sanctioned racial profiling used as a tool of political intimidation. But Somali Minnesotans aren’t intimidated, we’re brave and resilient, and our neighbors have our back. We don’t cower to bullies.

I genuinely don't know if this is a "Minnesotan" thing or an "old guy of a certain age" thing but in case it's Minnesotan and people need an anger translator: this guy is so angry he could just about set something on fire with his mind.

We're heading into the last few weeks of the year, but I'm not taking a break just yet! Tonight, we're finishing off the Dragon Age II DLC, Mark of the Assassin. Streaming in about 15 minutes!

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

NEW: Trump’s DOJ Pressured Lawyers to “Find” Evidence That UCLA Had Illegally Tolerated Antisemitism An investigation by ProPublica and @chronicle.com reveals how the U.S. government ignored due process to gin up its attack on the University of California.

Musk is just straight up white nationalist now. (And helpfully decoding that Western Civilization=Whites)

Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from detention. Grand jury failed to induct Tish James for a second time. Indiana Republican senate votes down redistricting. Trump failed at authoritarian consolidation and he's losing his grip on power. We're going to win.

King: you know we haven't seen JK Rowling in a while King: is she still tweeting? Barker: ha ha ha oh steve Barker: ha ha ha ha ha Barker: ha ha ha ha ha ha King: what's so funny? Barker: ha ha ha! King: c'mon i want to know the joke

So this take is spreading around a lot, and I want to put a little caution. The NDAA is a bill that passes yearly, only applies to this year. The “definition of sex” applies only to athletics and only to military cadets, so not other athletes. It is still a bad bill, for many reasons.

This is so fucking ugly.

Look out. #Supergirl lands in theaters June 26.

Ossoff: "If you'd asked me 6 months ago, I might've told you that what concerned me was people feeling such despair that they were paralyzed. Now the risk is complacency."

Ossoff: "She got her new insurance quote & it's $700 more per month than what she's paying now. She's diabetic. She had surgery a few months ago for something else. She told me she cried again bc she realized she's gonna have to cancel her insurance. She believes she might die bc of a policy choice"

The White House surely wants to see one of these ICE crackdowns lead to violent pushback. They've got untrained unqualified goons acting with impunity. It seems deliberately designed to provoke an incident. But do the goons get this? Do they know the big plan is to get a couple of them killed?

Marjorie Taylor Greene horse traded her vote on the NDAA for a floor vote for a felony ban on gender affirming care for trans youth that would criminalize parents and doctors for providing evidence based lifesaving care for their children.

they’ve had fifteen fucking years and the best they’ve ever come up with is “concepts of a plan”

This post by the world’s richest and most divorced man on the site he bought to promote his far right extremism is ripped straight from the Klan messaging of the 1870s or the 1915 film Birth of a Nation that inspired the Klan’s rebirth as a PR stunt/Ponzi scheme/terrorist organization in the 1920s.

I will keep saying. If you have the means, make preparations now for likely emergencies in your area. Plan for help to arrive very late, if it arrives at all.

They're using the confinement box, one of the most horrific methods of CIA torture in the post-9/11 black sites, against migrants now. This is the direct result of the lack of consequences for the architects of the torture program. Either there will be criminal penalties for this or it will expand.

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