Hatred of higher education is central to movement conservatism. Everything scholars do upsets them, everything about classrooms drives them nuts. Trashing college professors is easy politics. No one has our back.

It turns out that when you treat students life consumers and don't even acknowledge the full-throated rightwing attack on higher education, you fail to build trust.

Exactly one year ago today:

This. For the love of God. This.

Me trying to quickly think up a fake name but the only other object in the room is the president

I stopped watching all the comedy-news shows because of this. It just made me feel sick. Making sharp, pointed fun OF fascists works. Lightening mood with laughs does not.

It will never stop pissing me off how much trump is going to walk away from this presidency as a “real” billionaire in a way he never was before, and it is going to be solely because of the public office

I feel like clawing back the money the Trump family stole from taxpayers should be a live topic in this summer’s campaigning.

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

If there are any Democrats who are thinking of running for the presidency on 2028 on anything less than a clear agenda of widespread prosecution for this administration's corruption and fundamental structural changes to ensure it can't happen again, they should just stop right there.

In 2024 The Conversation had 8.3M in revenue and 7.8M in expenses and paid $0 to writers. Is that really ok with you? projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/o...

people really don't like it when the rich and powerful tell them that their expectations for the future should be permanently and drastically lowered, is another way of putting this

Real question, please help: does one send query letters to multiple literary agents at once? One is supposed to talk to uni presses more or less 1 at a time.... Also: at what stage? I see some sites saying, "submit the manuscript" while others seem to want nothing more than a cover letter & 10pp.

If you get mad at THE PITT for not doing what you wanted THE PITT to do, you should try writing your own shit. I mean it! That's an impulse you can put to use instead of just being an entitled fan acting like art exists to meet your desires.

This is my Rep

I am very tired of seeing professional democrats blame people who criticized them for their failures. If you were any good at your jobs you’d have won.

Hard agree. If you win the nomination you still can’t take your Democratic Party base vote for granted. Woo them. Engage them. Don’t just assume you have them banked then run off campaigning with Liz Cheney or whatever the fuck. Do like Obama and Biden did for much of their gen elect campaigns.

IT REALLY SHOULDN'T

You and Schumer could have pushed for a review of his govt contracts when you had the majority. You didn’t. Maybe stop doing that.

My thing with Graham Platner isn’t even about Graham Platner. His ascent signals that certain stuff that would have been disqualifying for a Dem candidate a few years ago is now okay again. We used to have a zero-tolerance policy towards guys w/Nazi tattoos. I thought that was a good thing.

Billionaires threatening to leave if they’re taxed: I’m sorry are you laboring under the impression that you were going to be allowed to stay?

as someone with an anxiety disorder who gets bad brain fog during very anxious periods, choosing software engineering and then writing as careers was certainly a series of decisions

And yet he still makes more from it than I do from both my books combined.

one thing I keep explaining to people is you do not even understand what extreme losers these guys are- when you call them "dangerous" it makes them feel cool, because their entire lives and formative years the only adjectives they ever heard about themselves were "loser" and "joke"

“Yale admits roughly 2,300 students a year. SUNY’s 64-campus system serves nearly 400,000.”

What a mystery

I wonder if some leftists and liberals will pay attention to this. I've seen folks overly praise Rightwing organizing as if it is not subject to the same social forces and interpersonal dynamics as Left organizing. In fact it is: we often just don't have the same visibility into their groups.

I’m going to be annoyed for life by the way people convinced themselves that opposing things like racism and transphobia meant you’d been “duped” by elites.

given graham platner’s history of making, shall we say, questionable decisions, how certain are the folks backing him that swalwell-esque stuff isn’t going to drop the second we hit the general election?

put this in ads against every R senator who's running this year and voted for this monster

I do find this insistence on contingency and hedging survivors’ accounts really tedious. Andrew Cuomo was found to have sexually harassed Lindsay Boylan—and many others—by the New York Attorney General.

The billionaire sex pests pushing generative AI keep spinning up badly remembered science fiction scenarios of apocalypse, as both advertisement ("we are literally creating a god... it might be too powerful!") and as a way of shifting the conversation from its actual real world harms it already does

“you need to learn how to use ai” what the fuck are you talking about, how hard is it to type a prompt

"How can Democrats claim to be the party of change, going into the November midterms and then 2028, if they’re led by someone who always resists it?" My case for the Dems chucking out Chuck Schumer, especially after his recent arms-to-Israel vote:

I watched Eastman, in real time, testify to the Georgia General Assembly that it was their *duty* to overturn my vote in 2020. He lied about evidence. He misled his client about the law. Law profs who back wannabe coup leaders and authoritarians should retire because what’s the point of law at all?

Trumpist Law Professors: John Eastman advocates for you being disenfranchised if you voted for the wrong party and shot by the army if you protest it. If you disagree, you’re INTOLERANT

The implication that an artist and professor should be raining inherited wealth down on their kid is pretty funny.

"The University of California system, the California State system, the City University of New York — these are the institutions actually educating America’s workforce, actually moving first-generation students into the middle class, actually delivering on higher education’s democratic promise."

Steve Bannon is a lot of things, including a charlatan and a grifter. But he’s also an extremist who deliberately sought to harness the power of the alt-right for Trump’s political purposes. He’s a major reason the right is so extreme today. And much of the media has given him a pass for a decade.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

the conviction that such-and-such a mediocrity is brilliant and essential also way outruns any actual demonstration of their brilliance. very common among Democrats here, for instance, and 85 percent of it is just presenting regurgitated ideas as if they were their own strokes of genius.

this is just fox news culture war bullshit that frames folks who work in academia or entertainment as the elite in order to deflect anger away from billionaires. once you accept that the nyt is just a bog standard republican paper, it falls into context and makes perfect sense.

as I have often remarked, DC is an oral culture that pretends to be a literate culture.

I mean, you have to admit it's an interesting mental disorder.

When the ship well and truly sinks there will be lots of people who will insist they didn’t like him that much anyway and it’s very important that we don’t let them get away with that

"the colleges that dominate the headlines are not the colleges that most Americans attend their core mission: to serve students from all backgrounds, at a price families can actually afford, prepare graduates for real careers and meaningful lives." www.geneseo.edu/enrollment-m...

it’s really sad and confusing to watch the fandom attempt to make The Pitt into something more complicated than what it is and what it, in fact, needs to be: a simple way for Noah Wyle to deliver to me secret messages containing the instructions for my missions

I can't believe people fall for it.

Reasonable minds actually can’t disagree about the 2020 election, sorry senior respected law professors