“Do not let the lamp of hope dim in the chaos that descends. May peace know you by name.”

Also, translation is interpretation. You can’t just one-to-one port over meaning. It’s a choice of how to best represent context. A machine can’t do this!

I’m continually disappointed by higher ed in this moment.

Utter coward shit.

I’ve finally found a short story sadder than “baby shoes, never used”.

Thank you Canvas, for placing the AI helper button (that I didn’t even want) directly over the submit comment button on Speedgrader. Expert design there. Real upgrade to the service.

Beautiful sentence. God bless America.

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.

I find this so bizarre and unsurprising. Yet again we see university admin sacrifice the ideals of the academy on the altar of comfort. The idea of taking any moral stand is anathema to them. Just sheer intellectual cowardice.

This is obviously true, but even beyond that there are plenty white families and cultures who also do this! Ask my son and he’ll tell you he has like 10 aunts and uncles and I have two blood siblings. It’s a wholly invented and insidious controversy.

This is obviously true, but even beyond that there are plenty white families and cultures who also do this! Ask my son and he’ll tell you he has like 10 aunts and uncles and I have two blood siblings. It’s a wholly invented and insidious controversy.

This is legitimately moving. What an incredible show of bravery and respect.

Lol, lmao even.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

I love everything about this essay.

This flies in the face of the entire body of education literature. Just absolute rubbish.

Ezra Klein is really putting to the torch the idea that he ever was a smart guy. He’s speed running self destruction.

sometimes I get a tiktok where I'm sitting there waiting for the punchline and then I'm like, oh no, it's just a dude in his twenties staring into the camera with sad music and the text "sometimes ur friends can be ur biggest betrayers". that's cool man, we had AIM Away messages for this

Stop saying he’s doing things that only Congress can do!!!!

trump can issue as many executive orders as he wants, perhaps coverage should reflect the fact that a lot of these have the legal force of a child's wishlist for santa

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

the one thing i genuinely did not anticipate from this administration was its vicious, know nothing hostility to any and everything that might even be adjacent to science and scientific research. they genuinely one to destroy the entirety of the nation’s research capacity. and for what, exactly?

I am not a physically imposing dude but I’m 100% I could take TCW in a fight. What a colossal dork.

The last time this man was politically relevant, there were roughly 10-20 websites on the internet. This is not the same world. Stop giving this man column space!

i think the last decade is a clear evidence that hypocrisy is preferable to honest displays of cruelty and depravity

It’s so funny to me how these reactionary centrists can look around at a world where US citizens are being thrown in concentration camps and still think the problem worth writing about is the lefties on Bluesky are too mean to me.

the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia asks the Tennessee criminal court to order the govt to stop making extrajudicial statements about Abrego that could prejudice the trial. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

no amount of free money is going to get people to have children in a stagnant society of rampant corruption and dwindling opportunity

man it would've been nice if the dems ever had a plan for SCOTUS other than "win every election till a bunch of justices die of old age again, hope we have the executive, house, and senate with untouchable majorities then, and hope they don't roll back too many rights anyway till that happens"

hideo kojima: my next game is about a guy who delivers packages video game executive: cool. sounds very normal kojima: [lightning strikes in the distance] i assure you it is not

I need people to understand the Supreme Court is not the be-all and end-all of everything, even legal things. Abolitionist lawyers went into court and won freedom suits under the Fugitive Slave Act, after the Court upheld its constitutionality. They helped build a movement that dismantled the FSA.

The left better start figuring out how to weaponize today's decision rather than just (rightfully) criticizing it. - Go back into Judge Kaczmaryk's court to dissolve all of his nationwide orders. - Pass gun bans and insist any order applies only to plaintiffs.

Universe, let me live long enough to see Stephen Miller tried at The Hague.

Aaaaaaayyyy!!!

I wonder if the democratic establishment will see this result and will consider not spending millions of dollars and all of its political will and energy backing unpopular bad candidates that everyone hates, lol jk

I HAVE NOW RESTORED THE ROMAN EMPIRE. THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL CEASEFIRE IN ITALY THERE IS NO WAR WITH THE GOTHS AND THERE IS UNIVERSAL PROSPERITY, ANYBODY SPREADING RUMOURS ABOUT A plague IS WRONG, THER IS ALSO NO HERESY ANYMORE ALL IS ORTHODOX THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER, YOUR EMPEROR

If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad.

A party that actually wanted to mobilize young and disillusioned voters would be studying Zohran Mamdani’s campaign like the Bible

BREAKING: codebreakers have finally solved the Zodiac’s final cypher. After years of studying and many (MANY) attempts, experts have agreed that the decoded message reflects Zodiac’s last will and testament. it reads: ANDREW CUOMO FOR NYC MAYOR 2025

Not that it’s surprising, but the lack of any clear moral line from the most powerful people in the country is truly stunning. Migrants can now be rounded up and sent to torture camps in random countries for the crime of … coming to the US to build a better life.

These people don't want power, and they don't even want to critique power

The answers are in the video, Chuck.

I really need you to tell the people that keep flippantly saying bad guys die off, that has literally never worked in all of human history

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

We deserve this.

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake