in a moment when too much of the remaining opinion column space in the states seems to have been set aside for farcical, garbled thinking, so grateful for @elienyc.bsky.social, for his moral clarity, and for the way he wields the form.

People have largely tried to act like ICE/CBP failed and retreated from LA and that is completely untrue. If it weren’t for the relentless coverage of places like @lataco.bsky.social these stories would be completely under the radar.

Listing any one of her accomplishments feels like it it does it justice, and listing all of them would take hours. What a legend, what a loss.

The white folks who know better: you have serious *SERIOUS* deprogramming work ahead for your brothers and sisters

Tenure is in many ways an extension of the axiom that those who it binds it does not protect and those who it protects it does not bind.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

We did not consent to any of this, and if it happens the people responsible need to go to prison this time.

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Every woman around the world:

unintentionally revealing that he’s not in or even aware of any networks who are at this moment doing exactly what he claims no one is doing because he’s not doing it

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

💯 this.

The fact that Summers remained so popular after questioning the intellectual abilities of women is really a pretty harsh indictment of US society as a whole and particularly the elite circles Summers travels in, and Democrats should have kicked him to the curb for that shit.

Libraries purchase books. When you see a book at the library, it isn’t “free” the library bought it. which in turn means that the community bought it. In other words, library books are not lost sales for authors and publishers; they’re positive sales. Active sales. Those are bought.

If women are underrepresented in STEM, it's at least partly because men like this offer mentoring, then embarrass themselves by assuming their mentees must be into them, then decide the best solution is to cut ties, which sends the signal to other faculty that the mentee must not be good enough.

This is clearly designed like a slave ship to transport deportation flights and make already miserable people miserable before we give them to countries that will run prison camps. Deporting people who have not been convicted of a crime. I can only hope this is AI slop or satire. But it’s too easy…

Charlotte's black sheriff, who was elected in 2018 and who has not cooperated with ICE, is one of the black sheriffs being targeted by the GOP in North Carolina. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

If a man said what Megyn Kelly said, you would assume he was a trafficker. This young lady is wise beyond her years, but she is still a “child”and she would like a word…

My sister is an extra in that movie - in a group of girl scout brownies walking up the stairs in some segue. She is the best part of the movie :)

I made it halfway through Frankenstein from @realgdt.bsky.social on Netflix. It is really good. Maybe too good. I am having a hard time with the violence. It reminds me of present day violence. It is really good art. I will finish it eventually, but it may take a while.

I remember the days of yore when having a 30 or 40-year old mistress was enough to end a presidential campaign and being a child rapist meant you couldn't get a job as a dog walker much less make you the second coming of Jesus. Such innocent times.

“We can’t afford a king”

On this day in 1830, North Carolina passed laws that criminalized teaching enslaved Black people to read and that made the repeated dissemination of anti-slavery pamphlets punishable by death.

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

The problem with the “Joe Rogan of the left” trope is that the left doesn’t need its own Rogan; it needs an ecosystem where influence isn’t so concentrated. Similar issue here: we don’t need more woke straight hot guys; we need to value the opinions of people who aren’t woke straight hot guys.

I watched MC Escher: Journey to Infinity, but you shouldn't. I really like Escher's art, and wanted to show it to my kid. I'm not sure she's at all excited about the art now, which is unfortunate. Honestly not sure how they could have made a more boring pedestrian version. Stunning in its awfulness.

“Re ‘There are a lot of people on your side who will be in the Epstein Files too!’: No there aren't, my side is the ‘People Who Don't Fuck Children’ side, anyone not on this side can get all the way into the bin, what side are YOU on, exactly?” — John Scalzi

THEN YOU PURCHASE THEM AND DO NOT USE THE PROPERTY OF OTHERS

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

Another way of looking at this is if each of the US’s 19,000 cities, towns & villages had their own solar thermal plant, THE MEAN AVERAGE would be 2sq km or .77sq miles. Less than a square mile doesn’t seem so bad, does it.

Because once we get rid of Trump, we need to have laid the groundwork for reversing this, for saying, "remember when we could have nice things? Well, the way to get that back quickly is to fire the kidnappers and rehire the cancer scientists."

There's a lot we have not visualized in a useful way. One of the big ones is the SHIFT in govt employment from "people who cure cancer" and "people who make sure your Social Security comes on time" and "people who care for veterans" to "people who kidnap your neighbors."

the biggest lesson from the emails today is that powerful people are so unafraid of consequences for crimes as bad as “raping children” that they will just talk about it openly in emails the only path to a better society is one where that is no longer true

Well, it's a little clearer now why billionaires are so invested in technology that produces better written emails.

Ps if you watch the Ken Burns American Revolution series keep your ears peeled for a certain looping Canadian American cellist 😇

I think there are a number of people employed at the New York Times -- certainly not all of them, but many! -- who simply do not grasp how badly the paper's credibility has been shaken over the past few years, along several different axes, and for multiple different reasons

Nov. 13, 1925: A Charleston dance contest in front of St. Louis City Hall.

Imagine if America's smartest engineers and techies were devoting their brain power to things that would really help humanity.

I’m going to think about watching this moment unfold in real time for a long time. for all the horrors coming out of Chicago and its metro area, the principled courage of everyday people, in the face of such intimidation, never ceases to astonish. www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/k...

it's all just so uncontritely what it appeared to be all along

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

I was in medical school then, having already earned a 3.97 GPA in biomedical engineering. And the president of freaking Harvard said people like me were not suited for science. He still had a high-powered, prestigious career after that but tell me again about how cancel culture ruins men’s lives.

Nov. 12, 1925: A federal judge in Minnesota rules that the Department of Justice can’t arrest immigrants for crossing the U.S. border illegally, as the ban was meant only as a wartime measure during WWI. The decision by Judge William Cant tosses the convictions of 11 immigrants.

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

Glad this story is finally public but also incredible that it is taking media so long to dig up what is essentially open knowledge in these communities rn.

Three German universities offering post-docs for researchers "who cannot conduct or continue their work in the USA appropriately because of actual political pressure. " www.uni-konstanz.de/zukunftskoll...