the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

Schumer (NY) 202 224-6542 Booker (NJ) 202 224-3224 King (ME) 202 224-5344 Hassan (NH) 202 224-3324 Durbin (IL) 202 224-2152 Ossoff (GA) 202 224-3521 Shaheen (NH) 202 224-2841 Gillibrand (NY) 202 224-4451 Masto (NV) 202 224-3542 Warner (VA) 202 224-2023

Going to step away from this mess in the Senate right now but will just say I intend to make life a living hell in any way I can for any @democrats.senate.gov that surrender to the GOP for nothing.

"The people who are paying attention to this cycle are getting anxious. On a scale from one to 10, the AI-bubble concern is: people posting memes of Christian Bale’s character from The Big Short, squinting in disbelief at his computer monitor."

The media is about to blitz us with stories about how awful Maduro is and I want you to remember that even if they're all true, they are being issued solely for the purpose of manufacturing consent for invading Venezuela and killing innocent people.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

friend shared this, immediately updated my settings

uh, AI *is* the enshittification trap?

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

Cringe is back, folks, and it's going to save this country.

Not that anybody comes to me for Maine politics, but the fact that the Democrats successfully convinced a 77yo Governor to primary the 41yo progressive, is today's example of why the Democrats fucking stay failing. Susan Collins is 72 and if Schumer gets his way, she'll be the YOUNGER choice!

Absolutely wild that congressional Republicans woke up today and decided to call millions of patriotic Americans terrorists. If you want to change your profile picture today to tell people you're showing up on October 18th, we've got you covered.

The conversation between Klein and Coates showed me that a lot of people who screech about “infighting” on the left aren’t aware of the fact that marginalized people have been forced to learn how to regulate their emotions during conflict, and so, are better able to hear what’s actually being said.

I will start teaching my students how to use AI when my colleagues in computer science start to teach Homer, Dante, Langston Hughes, Borges, Foucault, Audre Lord, Spivak, and Donna Haraway in their classes

Ta-Nehisi Coates dropping such a beautiful articulation of a sense of #history and struggle that, I think, minority communities understand way more than, say, your average white American. "I will make the contribution that I am supposed to make." Write that on my classroom wall. 🗺️

Call Gavin Newsom's office like you called ABC/Disney/Sinclair/Nexstar

Yes! I am seriously considering moving up the date of my second and final retirement to next May because of this.

There are 730,000 people in the US on H1B visas. This is what many of them are thinking right now.

It was very telling that for three days, none of the major TV anchors would have me on air one-on-one to talk about my firing from the Washington Post over Charlie Kirk. The first offers were from Black media, independent media, Substackers, and podcasters.

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

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Makes Schumer and Jeffries lack of endorsement even more shameful.

🚨👀 Seems like a BFD - Sen Van Hollen calls out New Yorkers like Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand, Hakeem Jeffries for “spineless politics” bc of not endorsing Mamdani. Great to see CVH speaking w moral clarity w/o fear. More of this please. 🔥

This is an amazing excellent analogy. Civility in the service of evil is hollow.

This man will not be fired for calling for the murder of American citizens, yet multiple journalists/reporters/teachers lost their job for accurately reporting things Charlie Kirk actually said and stood for. But it’s the “violent left” that’s the problem

"I Was Right About Charlie Kirk: Six Black Women on His Killing" is something that you never see

Now reading Is a River Alive? The section on Los Cedros in Ecuador is especially interesting because I incorporate information on the fight of indigenous peoples in the tropical Andes against oil and mining companies in my courses.

Finished The Water Dancer last night. Highly recommend. I need to learn more about Harriet Tubman.

I'm not kidding when I say you could teach an entire ethics course with this article. Everything from character to integrity to parrhesia, from care and solidarity to the leap into faith demonstrated repeatedly by one family in the name of what's right.

The Crimson, scooping every news outlet not run by undergraduates working in between classes, gets into how court orders mandating return of research funding have been flaunted, and makes a clear case for contempt proceedings against DOGE officials. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Dear people who are saying that the CDC directors who quit yesterday should have “stayed and fought”, With all due respect, you do not grasp the magnitude of the problem of RFK Jr. He is asking them to do unethical and immoral things that will actively harm the people of the United States. 1/3

Democratic leaders need to resign. Lord, this is depressing. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

This is a very good read. “In just seven months since his inauguration, the favorability of the U.S. (not just of its president) has collapsed to the point where this nation is now less popular than China in the eyes of the rest of the world.”

Neighborhood kid's lemonade stand takes Venmo and all proceeds go to Northwest Immigrant Rights Project. The kids are alright. *Feel free to blow this kid's mind and support ‪@nwirp.bsky.social by buying a virtual cup (the lemonade was excellent btw).

Heads up to anyone in the US who occasionally or regularly orders books, art supplies, or whatever from overseas -- this is going to be an expensive mess. wapo.st/45P7k8M [gift link]

One thing I see in comments is a lot of people still saying solar and wind are no good when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing. People, there are these things called batteries, which have also experienced huge progress 2/

TIL: ‘Afro-Appalachian’ is a thing, and when its done by Mon Rovîa, it’s like heaven

If Jeffries or Schumer offered themselves up to the Sunday shows to speak out against the military occupation of the Black majority US capital city they would have been booked. So far it doesn’t look like they bothered.

Corn ethanol is a scam. All farm-grown fuels are scams–and they’re land scams. When we use crops for fuel instead of food, we need to grow more crops to replace the food, which means more deforestation and more eating of the earth.

This is not a massive decision or any kind of change. Costco has never carried mifepristone in its pharmacies. An anti-abortion group is taking credit for something that didn't happen, possibly to generate disingenuous left-wing ire against one of the few corporations that hasn't gone MAGA.

The last six paragraphs are especiailly useful

Gavin, you massive disappointment, what are you doing?? (I mean, I know what you're doing, but I need you to stop) How many educators did you talk to when you made this decision? Oh, none, you say? Ohhhh this is for presidential donations, you say? www.mercurynews.com/2025/08/07/n...

Today I learned that when sugarcane farmers burn their fields, a “black snow” falls for months on communities downwind. Under FL law, burns are prohibited when the wind is blowing into wealthy, white neighborhoods. They’re only allowed when it’s blowing into poor, majority black areas.

Love this story. How a Peruvian in Rome became the papal barber

“Tomato is the mother of potato.” scim.ag/4mheKrH

I'm late getting to this, but this is very big news: A Colombian court last week sentenced seven former Chiquita executives to more than 11 years in prison for financing paramilitary groups. www.elcolombiano.com/colombia/con...

I wonder if the Columbia leadership realizes (or cares) how much blowback there might be from *within* the academy. This post, from a Cornell Law professor, is worth reading: 3d.laboratorium.net/2025-07-25-c...

As I’ve said before, a billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should WAIT WHAT no it’s a metaphor IT’S SUPPOSED TO BE A METAPHOR —

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA) is going to be terrible for anyone in the US planning to ever retire.

The first year for blooms on the three lobelia cardinalis plants I put in last summer. The three new plants added this summer will bloom next year.