Actual White House quote: “go fuck yourself.” Its not being some pearl clutching prude to ask whether this is really how most Americans want their kids to see the seat of our government behave. www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

Klein not only underestimates it, but when he's asked to look at history and precedent, he says he doesn't want to because he finds it too depressing. this is a good example of how intelligence is a moral choice, not some sort of biological capacity.

Surprise! www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

This, from the Quakers, is a pretty good example of how to resist pressure from bigot lobbying groups. Effectively “we legally can allow trans people to use the loo, we morally should, and we tried it and nothing bad happened”

The Journal of the History of Sexuality is looking for new editor(s) networks.h-net.org/group/announ... 🌈🎓

During his address to #UNGA80, which many diplomats boycotted, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu said the war on Gaza is ‘not done yet’. Israel’s genocide has killed at least 65,500 Palestinians.

UPDATE: The man ICE violently arrested has been identified as Job Arias-Mendoza. Two weeks ago he published a video to his social media accounts of ICE handcuffing a man in front of a liquor store—it has more than 200,000 views on TikTok. streetcarsuburbs.news/arias-mendoz...

Texas A&M already fired four people for one professor acknowledging the existence of trans people. They're making it so that the mere idea of transness itself is forbidden, upon which any number of atrocities can be committed.

This is pseudoscience. They are mandating the teaching of pseudoscience. Might as well force faculty to teach that like 443 megahertz is a healihg frequency or the earth is flat or whatever. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Who is going to ASA and will hang out with me

BREAKING: President Trump asks Supreme Court to uphold restrictions he wants to impose on birthright citizenship.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

ByteDance will hold bigger-than-expected stakes in the new TikTok companies that will allow U.S. operations after national security concerns, per Reuters. Months before the election last year, TikTok hired lobbying firm Ballard Partners, run by one of Trump's top campaign bundlers Brian Ballard.

Nearly one third of federal student loan borrowers are behind on their payments. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

New: "Trump Golf Course Displays Gold Presidential Seal—Here’s Why That Could Violate Federal Law" 🏌️🚔 me, for @forbes.com 1/

Reporter: There was a little awkwardness in the courtroom because 2 different versions of the indictment were presented and Halligan had signed both of them. That underscored how new she is at this. Who is going to prosecute this case? Is it going to be Halligan, who has no prosecutorial experience?

A new Watergate, every day.

Really happy to see Mamdani planning to send baby baskets to new parents. When I lived in Scotland, every new parent got a baby basket with a few helpful basics from the Sturgeon administration. It didn't cost taxpayers much, it was wildly popular, and it built up a ton of goodwill among voters.

Rumor has it Phil Berger is going to further redistrict NC Congressional districts in exchange for an endorsement from Trump. open.substack.com/pub/politics...

The Brookings Institute found that Charlie Kirk was the 2nd largest misinformation spreader among podcasts they analysed. "Mr. Kirk, a conservative activist and the founder of Turning Point USA, ranked second, with 17 percent of his episodes containing an unsubstantiated or false claim." Gifted:

Cuts to and closures of university presses are 100% part of the separation (or as @mattseybold.bsky.social has called it "unbundling") of research and teaching in the humanities and the devaluation of both quite frankly--in this case at the expense of the career training admin claims to care about.

The irony is that Trumpworld is obsessed with energy.

COLUMN: UNC’s Board of Trustees has gone from one spendthrift to another. Art Chansky writes on former BOT chair John Preyer's involvement in the hiring of Bill Belichick, and how his replacement doesn't have the best spending track record either.

Housing is the top self-identified unmet need survivors have reported to NC Emergency Management Disaster Case Management. According to Buncombe County’s Helene Recovery Plan, 372 residential units were destroyed during the storm, about half of them rentals. www.theassemblync.com/place/ashevi...

Last word about the massacre to American Horse (Lakota): "The women as they were fleeing with their babes were killed together, shot right through, and the women who were heavy with child were also killed." /fin

I would also add that Hegseth is damaging the prestige of the Medal of Honor by supporting its being awarded to people who committed atrocities against women, children, and the elderly. 7/

Fortunately, history does not work as Hegseth seems to believe. It is never "settled" and the government cannot (at least for now!) impose its interpretation of events on the rest of us--especially an interpretation so at odds with the historical record. 6/

Dakota physician Charles Eastman was an eyewitness to the massacre: "Fully three miles from the scene of the massacre we found the body of a woman . . .and from this point on we found them scattered along as they had been relentlessly hunted down and slaughtered, while fleeing for their lives." 3/

US forces surrounded a community of Lakotas along Wounded Knee Creek in 1890 and used the new invention of rapid-firing Hotchkiss cannons to kill large numbers of the population. Soldiers than pursued the survivors for miles, killing them wherever they were found. 2/

I need you to read this thread to understand why so many historians are revolted by this regime's crimes against the past

"experts say" www.cnn.com/2025/08/11/b...

I’m at the Indigo Girls and Melissa Etheridge concert

NYT: “Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said this week that if New York City needed a federal bailout” under .. Mamdani, .. “Drop dead”. “.. But Argentina is a different story.” @colbylsmith.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/25/u...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Huge #ncpol news:

AL94 is likely to become a tropical depression in a day or two near the Bahamas and interests there should monitor the progress of this system. Heavy rainfall is likely across portions of the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, the Turks and Caicos, & the southern Bahamas. 👇

Home prices are up 56% since February 2020. www.npr.org/2025/09/25/n...

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. opened an investigation into the safety of the abortion pill mifepristone, as the anti-abortion movement continues to push the administration to restrict access through lawsuits and policy.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

Breaking: Oklahoma State Superintendent Ryan Walters has resigned after porn allegations. Walters is the guy who directed public schools to incorporate the Christian Bible and Ten Commandments into instruction, which triggered lawsuits over church–state separation.

The Department of Justice anti-corruption unit has been cut down to just 2 staffers under Trump.

Another storm blowing up and heading this way in a few days. Wetter storms & shorter prep times— that’s our world now

While speaking in Concord Wednesday, Vice President JD Vance blamed Democrats “soft-on-crime” policies for the death of Iryna Zarutska, the Ukrainian woman fatally stabbed on a Charlotte, North Carolina, commuter train earlier this year. www.theassemblync.com/politics/jd-...

No historical moment or event provides a perfect precedent to understand contemporary politics. Analogies can be more or less apt, but there is no reason why thinking about the Reichstag Fire AND McCarthyism analogies can't each provide helpful, if imperfect, ways of thinking about the present.

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

Having my work covered by Campus Reform has been by far the most stressful part of my PhD experience

"Any risk we could be subjected to is, of course, nothing to what Palestinians are risking every day, just trying to survive." Climate activist Greta Thunberg, currently abroad the Global Sumud Flotilla, shares why she is part of the mission to break Gaza's siege.

Charleston quite famously wanted to enforce it's fugitive slave laws in Boston