can't stop laughing at this Poilievre: "We will reinstill a warrior culture, not a woke culture."

Nirav Shah — one of the prospective candidates to replace Graham Platner — says he will not vote to send aid to Israel, and affirms that Israel is committing genocide. Shah just took second in the Maine democratic primary for Governor and served as director of the Maine CDC.

Heartbreaking hearing that the woman who Platner raped was hesitant to come forward because she agreed with his politics and didn’t want to damage the movement. If you didn’t already realize, this sort of thing happens a lot you just don’t usually hear about it

Democrats have to win back the Senate if we’re going to stop Donald Trump’s daily, nuclear-grade corruption. The assault allegations against Graham Platner are disqualifying and he should be replaced as the nominee. But this can’t happen as a party insider backroom deal.

THE ACKROOMS

whoopsie

Universities are being murdered, exhibit 87

Remember that the tuition fee rise just about covers the simultaneous increase in employer national insurance contributions for universities, so cutting teaching grants on this basis means universities on life support being subject to a shake down and being expected to say thanks for the privilege.

Audible groans in our house when we hear he’s an announcer of a match 😬

It’s been six months since the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti. Here is how the federal government has stonewalled investigations, and how Minnesota law enforcement is attempting to push for accountability anyway

PASTOR LORAN LIVINGSTON (@CentralChurchNC): “There has never been a Christian nation, and never will be. You don’t live in one now. A Christian nation wouldn’t have killed and displaced 20 million Native Americans, or thought owning slaves was pleasing to God.”

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As Mrs Merton would have asked, "Philosophers, what first attracted to you the multi-billionaire tech oligarchs?"

"By the way, since you now have Google, perhaps take a chance to look up the Sedition Acts, if you really want to know our opinion on free speech." buff.ly/jVgh3EO

"Members of the group Patriot Front ride the metro as a commuter looks on, during the 250th anniversary of U.S. independence in Washington, D.C., U.S., July 4, 2026. REUTERS/Cheney Orr"

WHAT A FUCKING GOAL

On Birthright Citizenship: “The Reconstruction Amendments were an anticaste, antisubordination reset for the Nation, not a mere spot treatment for the dark stain of slavery.” -Justice Ketanji Brown 💅💕

Just shocking this was a 5-4 ruling. This Court is so so badly broken.

This birthright ruling is why I just refuse to tolerate all the Democrat garment rending over NY voters choosing progressive candidates. They are incapable of governing in this moment. The politics of appeasement and centrism gets us to a 5-4 decision on the constitutional question.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

See, people always want to make this just about "sports," but the real upshot here is that, 6-3, trans women can't make a claim under the Equal Protection Clause. And if they can't do that, it's hard to see how they have constitutional rights.

Scoop: Hundreds of contractors working on a project for Meta pretended to be kids in order to see how other chatbots like Gemini and ChatGPT would respond to high-risk subjects like suicide, sex, and eating disorders, WIRED found.

Something something … the country that left the EU becoming a federalist state … something something…

The next time one of these guys has a new idea will be the first time.

Finished Marlen Haushofer’s The Wall today. I am profoundly aggrieved that it took me 43 years to find this book - for shame on everyone who never recommended it to me!

The Democratic Party freaking out that Democratic Party candidates are winning is the most Democratic Party thing ever.

"When I visited her in the Wichita Falls jail in May, her spirits were bright despite her circumstances. I wanted to ask her about what she’s been reading, but wondered if she was scared to answer. 'It’s crazy that we live in a world where it’s not safe to ask what books you’re reading,' she said."

UK to Universities: drop dead archive.is/PN5y7

Email from the VC at Herts announcing the need to save £20m over the next year. Includes this line: 'Over recent years, the University has taken steps to reduce non-essential spending and improve efficiency'. That's interesting. Managers spent £14k on attending the THE awards dinner this year.

Some of my favourite photos from @collectivewlp.bsky.social Conference '26. Nothing like philosophy brings out my one right dimple and left eyebrow cock. A time was had by all - 'til next year xx

Bills up. Wages too low. Record profits for Oil & Gas. 50 richest families with more wealth than 50% of population. Shit in our rivers. Pensioners jailed for protesting. Migrants thrown under the bus. Supporting a Genocide. That's Starmer's legacy.

‘First government department quits X’. This is good news, and will add pressure to other Government departments, and hopefully Labour, to follow.

Interestingly, the models themselves offer pseudo-mathematical explanations for this effect, claiming that women authors are simply “less salient.”

When academics go hard we all win

The replies are fun but what I see is the mother of all end of year gen juris essay prompts

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

Today I reluctantly resigned as external examiner for Edinburgh law legal theory modules. It is the best research atmosphere in legal philosophy in the UK and I refuse to enable those that seek to harm it.

It should be in the textbooks, the judgment, for illustrating how legal outcomes are constructed by judges' selection and characterisation of facts. Stressing the covert, unapologetic, 'violent' nature of Palestine Action in contrast to the 'good' type of direct action that the Sufragettes did.

Parents believe social media is bad for *other people's* children (yougov.com/en-gb/articl...).

Best weekend of the year!

The modern day equivalent of Lord Haw Haw broadcasting from afar. What's different this time though is the British government broadcasts on the same frequency.

I don’t need to see the research. I feel this in my bones.

‘A hoot’. I still remember the hoot of talking to a suicidal EU citizen; the hoot of when Brexiters on Twitter spent days discussing my breasts; the hoot of police chasing one of my stalkers down the street; the hoot of not going to events on my own for years. …Honestly: how could you publish that?

'The university has adopted the position that boycotting staff are in "breach of contract", will receive no pay, and are therefore not expected to work at all, leading to what some have described as a "lockout".' 1/3

Update: Supposedly the ADA not the NIH called the police. This makes sense: of course the ADA spontaneously and without coercion opted to forcibly remove from their annual meeting the editor-in-chief of their own flagship journal for sharing a paper they themselves published in that same journal.

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link