If you aren’t getting paid for working, don’t go to work and don’t worry about your patriotism (which is not a relevant concern in the context).

In terms of big disappointments, he gets honorable Manchin.

Texas A&M panel: Firing violated professor’s academic freedom - @texastribune.org share.google/Q5UVRMb2CCd5...

...and the other hand is givin' a peace sign! (This is one of the dumbest things I've read this year, which is saying something)

Sean Duffy: "You all saw with the DCA air crash -- the last administration didn't see the 85 near misses" (Trump was in office when that happened)

BIG NEWS: Congresswoman-elect Adelita Grijalva will finally be sworn in as a member of Congress tomorrow. She is likely to be the 218th vote on the Epstein discharge petition, which would force a full vote to release the Epstein files in their entirety.

Wow, a Long Island jury awarded $112 Million to 674 immigrants who were unlawfully held by county police so they could be handed over to ICE

BREAKING: A Kansas county agrees to pay $3 million and apologize over a 2023 police raid on a small-town newspaper, editor says.

At some point embarrassment MUST come

Unfathomably deep historical ignorance combined with a magic view of language

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...

Little known fact: the original seven dwarfs were Dopey, Doc, Solitary, Poor, Nasty, Brutish, and Short.

When did he acquire this “are you ready?” Tic for his most egregious lies?

the city’s investment income in 2026 is projected to decrease by 23% why is that.

No one will ever sum up Bari Weiss's career more succinctly than "what's the point of standards"

Shelley, easy.

A couple years ago I worked on 12 grants in my role as a task force director at the Library of Congress. This year, zero. We are going to lose a lot of our public memory. Which is at the crux of fascistic mobilization.

The man really doesn’t understand any occasion

Many people are saying

BREAKING: The UK has stopped sharing intelligence with the US on suspected drug-trafficking ships in the Caribbean, saying it won’t be complicit in strikes it believes are illegal-CNN

The American dream of having a mortgage you cannot afford

I am so goddamn tired of conservatives destroying things that belong to the public. This department doesn't belong to Sim, it's not his, he has no moral right to do this. This is social vandalism. He just sucks so much. And he's not even a fun mayor who sucks, he's just boring and mid and awful.

It is crazy to think that for all those years she played second fiddle to Darryl Hall.

Agnotocracy sucks

A really good long read about the terrible Amazonesque anti-union moves Concordia is doing right now by not renewing all Limited Term teaching positions so they don't have to make them into Extended Term positions. thelinknewspaper.ca/article/conc...

Transparency has not been our Mayor's strong suit.

Ken Sims has never worked for the people of Vancouver, he works for those who hate the city and who want to gut it of all of its social services, its defining wins around sustainability and wants to turn the city over to those who are exorbitantly wealthy and only care about sustaining their wealth.

Imagine being this stupid

Hesse knew what was what

When the leadership passes to new people

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

Vancouver had 117 people die during the 2021 heat dome climate disaster.

These guys... Andreesen said in an interview I heard that there's been "no new information in the Classics since the 1850s" and the amount of stupidity in that is wild. Just wild.

UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration. www.wunc.org/education/20...

The proposal's definitions of "race ideology" and "gender ideology" are exactly as thoughtful and workable as you'd expect

Academic indentured servitude

In the most predictable development ever, Mike Johnson is not committing to hold a House vote on ACA subsidies

I love how Adobe now tells me a 14 pp document is “long” and offers an AI summary. Oh, sweetie, I’m an academic. 14 pp is almost absurdly short.

The Manhattan Real Estate Project has reached critical mass of stupidium.

“We have a good poker hand. but what if we are playing bridge??”

O ffs, what is the lethal dose of stupid? How am I still alive?

Charlie Brown successfully negotiated Lucy into having a vote on whether he’ll be given the chance to kick the football.

An, an 8:30 am Monday final exam slot! My students are going to be stoked!!

This is why Musk never wears rubbers

Canada has just lost measles elimination status. The U.S. will undoubtedly follow shortly. Elimination means that there is no continuous spreading of measles within the country for a year or longer. Canada and the U.S. have blown it, and it’s largely the fault of the anti-vaccination movement.

I know no media is covering the Canada Student Grant cuts, but it's real and it's going to cost several hundred thousand students about $1200 this year. Here's the explainer.

Thread about how lacking in vision Vancouver city government is

42% of residents and 37% of businesses surveyed supported a 5% property tax increase in order to maintain the current level of services in the city of Vancouver but wait there’s more a lot more 1/? council.vancouver.ca/20251112/doc...