My statement on Northwestern's settlement with the Trump Administration.

and you know what? these students should also be judged, and judged harshly for this. running to the admins and state legislators and the press because you got a fairly earned failing grade on an assignment is and should be seen as a mark of extremely poor character. it makes you a very bad person.

Some ppl have seemingly forgot that political news media spun up a "Biden secretly has parkinsons" story out of a doctor visiting the WH while the admin was working on Parkinsons policy or that Nuzzis big "Biden didnt remember me" piece was written when she was secretly working for RFK Jrs campaign

It doesn't feel like December is tomorrow bro what happened

I’m seeing Jane Krakowski in Oh, Mary! in 3 hours!!

I'm really glad to see someone like Kelly finally saying this. bsky.app/profile/atru...

RIP Sir Tom Stoppard, if you had only given us Brazil and Leopoldstadt - Dayenu

Stoppard always feels clever in a way that so so many writers mimic, but everyone else copies the surface. the Stoppard magic is that the cleverness is impossibly thin, basically transparent, and there’s this unending well of feeling on the other side

Northwestern told its alumni, misleadingly, of “hard red lines we refused to cross: We would not relinquish any control over whom we hire, whom we admit as students, what our faculty teach or how our faculty teach. I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case."

R: We might as well be dead. Do you think death could possibly be a boat? G: No, no, no... Death is...not. Death isn't. You take my meaning. Death is the ultimate negative. Not-being. You can't not-be on a boat. R: I've frequently not been on boats. G: No, no, no--what you've been is not on boats.

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern forever

Well, damn.

"you will miss Trump when he is gone" no, no I won't.

Hitler was bad. An essay that, you know, I didn’t think I’d need to write.

My general sense is that my students, like Thoreau, feel overwhelmed by the challenge of just knowing how to be a decent human and to flourish in a world suffused with injustice and indifference. Society is telling them that new technologies will solve all the problems, but the youths are skeptical.

Columbia and Northwestern are the academic homes to the most prestigious journalism schools in the country and they are the two universities that caved to the Trump administration’s extortion demands that are directly connected to the First Amendment. Just gonna sit with that for a while.

Critics have likened John Gotti’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with the Gambino family

Everything about this movie is great, especially Hal Holbrook, but I still firmly FIRMLY believe the best part of this movie is watching Dustin Hoffman try to upstage Robert Redford in every scene they share and fail, miserably, while Redford doesn’t even break a sweat

BTW, any story about a possible Northwestern capitulation should include this detail (screenshot is from the oped linked below)

You've heard of the Friday night news dump. Here's the Friday night of Thanksgiving wknd dump. For special circumstances, like when the faculty assembly votes 595-4 against paying to end a shakedown and you do it anyway. Link to agreement here: bulkmail.northwestern.edu/trk/click?re...

Medill F, Northwestern

this is a better investment than whatever is on sale at Target or Amazon

The one #BlackFriday sale I recommend. Criterion Channel for $6.25/month if you pay for a full year. signup.criterionchannel.com #FilmSky

This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.

[ROMANCING THE STONE] Kathleen Turner is particularly adept at letting herself be seen through. Her star performance is one long, infinitely varied double take, and it's exhilarating. (1984)

Elliott Erwitt, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. New York City, USA. 1988.

WHY DON'T YOU WRITE SOMETHING PEOPLE READ!? God help us all today. Happy Thanksgiving, Literary Writers!

The new Vanity Fair editor sought to make his magazine less woke and some of his first moves were hiring Olivia Nuzzi, publishing an abstract nude of Nuzzi by a person now alleged to have made illegal recordings on her behalf, and putting only men in the Hollywood issue

boq should have just been honest with nessa from the start 🤷‍♀️

*Women *Women *Women *'not a real doctor' = women *Making buildings pretty? *Jews *Women again *More women

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

everyone knows the number one quality of rigorous, responsible journalism is waiting months and months to reveal urgently newsworthy information until it can cause the most harm in your personal vendettas

As an nu history alum I for one am not thrilled!

Maybe quick ask your history department how capitulation to tyrants works out.

I am thankfully off the train and seated for wicked with my nieces and nephew

[DIRTY DANCING] Swayze gives the film a masculine dance strength. (Baby’s like a soft child holding on to big, virile Daddy; the picture seems subconsciously shaped to the reveries of teen-age girls.) (1987)

I’m standing near a restroom just bc I’m getting off in a few and there was a female Conductor in there & this guy jiggled the handle & I was like there’s someone in there which I already told him & he said oh I know I’m just giving them a gentle reminder. he is so lucky to be alive right now.

Lots of people sharing this clip because it's funny and cathartic but I also genuinely believe it's important. We have to win the narrative battle between "I live in a corrupt society and that's just how it is" and "I live in a corrupt society and we are going to defeat and humiliate these ghouls."

Say what you will about Biden, but I would bet every last dime in my bank account that he and Jill have already reached out to Caroline Kennedy and her family to make themselves available for anything.

Yep, it's very real. People who don't realize I'm Jewish have said all kinds of bizarre things to me. One recently "confided" in me his theory that the Jews killed JFK to prevent him from stopping the building of the Dimona nuclear program in Israel.

No, America's rising anti-Semitism is not an online illusion created by foreign-run social media accounts on X. I wrote about how this comforting fiction is contradicted by real world events and survey data. Foreigners can fan the flames, but they didn't start the fire. We did. Gift link:

Some girl just spilled an entire fucking hot coffee on my leg while boarding Amtrak

God, I see what you've done for others and ...

Share the last movie you watched! The Wizard of Oz (1939)

Oh my goodness, what a poster

New York Thanksgiving: the babka line at Breads is insane at 9:16 am weds

TIL that JJ Abrams wrote FOREVER YOUNG, the Mel Gibson cryogenic freezing movie that made me obsessed with Elijah Wood as a child www.youtube.com/watch?v=9phB...

At one point one says "Maman" & gestures to her offscreen & she says "I'm not getting mixed up in your business" 😭

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