Palantir, Sauron … It’s like they skimmed LOTR but didn’t understand it, particularly the warnings.

Sigh

New article: "Legislative Control and Partisan Disparities in Dyadic Representation" in @lsqjournal.bsky.social w/ Dan Butler and @steverogersinfo.bsky.social. GOP leadership doesn't shy away from policies where GOP constituencies disagree with the party platform, impairing dyadic representation!

my demands are simple, mr. bond

early discworld is not as polished as later discworld but I'm going to go out on a limb and say that it's still pretty good

The same person who told you that immigrants eat cats—and tripled down on that filthy, idiotic lie when challenged—regrets to inform you that immigrants also cause nuclear war.

It's a fascinating profile, but there's something a tad ... rich ... about having Toobin write about someone else's double life, no? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/28/m...

TIL that Chubby Checker is still alive

When I’m dead, I want the @washingtonpost.com to lower me down into my grave so I can be let down one last time.

my great grandma was widowed in 1934 with three children & worked as a night cleaner walking 3 miles to and from work to save the bus money for her kids her great grandkids have a PhD, a DVM, and a masters in engineering these people can get all the way fucked

Make a Bond fim academic. No Time To Do Research

Make a Bond film academic. The Spy Who Plagiarized Me

Make a Bond movie academic Tenure is Forever

Stephen Miller is a horrible racist in the sense that he is actually not that good at being racist.

Live and Let Cite

From Historical Institutionalism With Love

At least 11 congressmen from 1865-1871 were arguably not citizens under Trump's interpretation of 14th A, our research finds. Yet no one challenged their eligibility to serve. Why not? Obviously, b/c no one who drafted or ratified the 14th A shared Trump's view. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

My “we” is bigger than hers. It includes non-Christians. As our nation ALWAYS has.

We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

You will be visited by three spirits

Sure hope the ADL is feeling good about their decision to go all in on working with this administration right about now.

This is spot on 🔥

Really sad and totally unexpected to see the America First ethos devolve into bigotry, who could have predicted?

Die Hard

It was an important issue for worthy clients.

Like, literally since the ancient Greeks, education has been recognized as one of the best things you can do for human beings

Update: 5 months

If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career

"I shot a bunch of people because they have the same religion as a nation state in a different hemisphere doing terrible things" feels like the dictionary definition of bigotry, and in this case it's pretty clear what the bigotry is

Key media hack: All you have to do to kill an unfavorable story is refuse to talk to the reporter. Clip'n'save

oh no Laura shoot I can’t believe no one warned you, a Jewish woman, about this kind of thing, wow dang this must be super upsetting ok byeeeeee

Friends season 1 episode 1: Chandler: All right, kids, I gotta get to work. If I don't input those numbers... it doesn't make much of a difference

Woah. Wasn’t expecting that. SCOTUS blocks Chicago national guard deployment.

This is embarrassing

So you’re telling me that when your country welcomes talented people from around the globe, and brings them together in world-class universities, they make discoveries that save lives? Interesting. UM researchers make breakthrough to treat form of leukemia www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

Bari Weiss still having the temerity to call herself a "centrist" after openly acting as Trumpworld's highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist is exactly why they gave her the roles of highly-placed apparatchik & propagandist.

At the Library of Congress, a bullet casing fell out of a file detailing the near-lynching of Thurgood Marshall in Columbia, Tennessee. Made my heart stop. www.tba.org?pg=Articles&... 🗃️

He’s gilded the entire White House, slapped his name on both the Kennedy Center and Institute for Peace, installed a new Trump Gold Card, and now proposing a new “Trump class” of naval vessels. I know we keep saying this is insane but this is seriously fucking insane.

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

Has no one ever watched a movie

surely the women's bathroom is a sacred space ive been told by conservatives

Interesting for a movement led by the guy who posted antisemitic memes and claimed he didn't know anything about David Duke and said there were "very fine people on both sides" of a neo-Nazi rally and talks about little guys in yarmulkes counting his money

Dignity. Always dignity.

I dare the newspaper to print an accurate headline that correctly describes the VP as a bigot. I dare them.

What percentage of his worldview is shaped by board games