Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

people are clowning on this, but the Canadian mind is cunning, pitiless, steeped in boreal perfidy

The same people who think we need to bring back real standards to academia also want to give all students a “suspend my professor” button if they don’t like how things are going

Wow: Lemkin Institute for Genocide Prevention (named for Holocaust survivor Raphael Lemkin, who coined term "genocide") calls Clinton's remarks "genocide denial." "Young people in the US are not stupid or gullible. They simply reject genocide – something the Secretary might consider doing as well."

Just the shrimp tacos for me thanks.

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

Having a Chicago Pope really paying off right now.

ben smith’s take from last year when the nuzzi/rfk story first broke aged like cheese on a dashboard

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

good morning specifically to the FBI agent who introduced Mamdani’s dad to Marx

Worst night for Virginia Republicans since 1860.

"You cannot be explaining your Nazi tattoo and defeat a multi-term incumbent."

The attack on core departments, tenured, and tenure track faculty is now accelerating in blue states, building upon the assault on NTT colleagues. Far from resisting Trump’s assault on higher ed, University admins in Democratic run states are spraying fuel on the fire to make it burn faster.

ozzy osbourne dies everyone: "enjoy hell (complimentary)" hulk hogan dies everyone: "enjoy hell (derogatory)"

THE HORSES HAVE DISCOVERED BLACK METAL

Honored to write the Rolling Stone obituary for the worst American of the post-World War II era. Rot in piss

In moments of gravity like this, I'm reminded of Byron on another famed diplomat: "Posterity will ne’er survey a Nobler grave than this: Here lie the bones of Castlereagh: Stop, traveller, and piss!"

It’s November, which means we’re coming up on three years since this quote. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/tru...

I'll be heading to WPSA, so if you are going and want to meet up, let me know!

i feel like i’m going completely insane otherwise and then i log on and people are just posting like “will the gop mobilize behind Chip Hornk (R-CO)?” i simply don’t know. i don’t know. i don’t know

Moby Dick is just sentences like this, piled up to the length of a book, and it rocks.

Ngl, this was a weird week to be teaching Gandhi.

In Noah Pinion's attic hangs a take that just keeps getting smarter and smarter

It's incredibly heartening when students come up to you after class to ask what else you'll be teaching next semester.

C: So this function your talking about, that's, what in Greek, it's ergo? Me: Ergon, Mister Columbo. With an n. C: Aaaaaah, like ergonomic! You know my wife, she's been after me to get one of those, what do you call it, ergonomic chairs. Is that what Aristotle was after? Me: Hardly Mister Columbo.