Extrajudicial killings have become the norm for this Administration. From shooting our own citizens in Minneapolis to these lawless killings in international waters. We must make sure that Hegseth & those who ordered these murders are held accountable.

After a discussion with their attorney, I have confirmed that Juan, his 16-month-old sister, his mom, and his dad have been deported.

This is just open, unabashed white nationalist rhetoric at this point.

it’s exactly what Republicans did to the IRS money in the Inflation Reduction Act

The Rubio speech really is appalling, and if you haven’t read it yet, you should. www.state.gov/releases/off...

The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

This elitist view that only rich/Ivy/private school kids should study/have access the liberal arts is so deeply ingrained in so many highly educated Democrats’ views (including tons who majored in the lib arts themselves) that they don’t even realize they hold it, let alone how ugly & elitist it is

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

The default assumption should be that they’re lying

Massachusetts Will Allow 3-Year Degree Proposals https://bit.ly/4cblV3d

An unimaginable honor to have George Lewis come speak to my advanced music technology course at Skidmore yesterday. Studying with George in grad school will forever be one of the great honors of my life and I am so grateful that my amazing students got to talk to him in this intimate setting.

Do I know any truck people? My car died and despite my general aversion to pick up trucks dominating the roads in America, it is probably what I need. My commute is 10 miles and we live in the deep woods with a lot of stuff to haul. Strong opinions about a standard cab truck welcomed.

A stunning detail the ICE chief shared in this hearing that was supposed to be a brag, except it isn't: ICE has arrested 379,000 people between Jan. 2025-Jan. 2026 -- but only 8,700 were suspected gang members or known suspected terrorists. That's 2%! www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

Jack Duffy attaches a respirator to his bagpipes to play through tear gas. “I always play it whenever the police retreat because it's like, ‘You fucking ran while we stayed,’” he says. The full story: lataco.com/protest-bagp... By Julianne Le

They're building concentration camps with my tax money Chuck. They're torturing children. They're murdering innocent people on the street. What are you doing.

The real news here is Peter Navarro saying lower jobs numbers *are good* because they (supposedly) indicate fewer immigrants are working in the US. Trump-MAGA ideology values sheer numbers of removals over pretty much all else because their top priority is ethnic reengineering.

The Heritage Foundation has released a 250-year roadmap to “save America.” The document is a how-to guide for subjugating girls & young women: a detailed plan to push them out of college, funnel them into early marriage and motherhood, and then trap them there. jessica.substack.com/p/theyre-com...

this is so funny because it's like, oh my god, what an awful question for a news show. and then wham the answer is so much worse somehow

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

what time is the super bowl

Take a drink every time you see an ad mentioning AI. Take a second drink every time a company says "now with AI" or some variation but doesn't explain what AI actually helps with. Have a ride to the hospital on standby.

Football teams should be able to earn coins for completing various challenges throughout the season. Eventually, these coins could be exchanged for in-game items like a double sized football and a sword that can teleport you to the endzone

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

It has to be "The Muppets Take Medieval Studies," because Kalamzoo is objectively the funniest place name for anywhere an academic conference takes place.

RIP Ebo Taylor (1936-2026)

🚨BREAKING: Local Minneapolis police SWARM ICE protesters making mass arrests in front of ICE prison. One protesters forehead is gushing blood ⬇️

as a musician and a professor my fragile psyche has to contend with both "rate your music" and "rate my professor" and I would just as soon be anonymously rated less often.

Also Joe, Kamala and their staff knew this the entire time. As in, they knew from October 2023 that what they were doing was not popular. A WH press staffer told me in fall 2023 that they personally believed Netanyahu was genocidal.

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

Even Sanders keeps invoking imaginary reasonable Republicans instead of just attacking the R brand. One of the biggest asymmetries in party rhetoric.

So, first of all, of course it was Trump. But even if they were telling the truth, "We give staffers who post videos of the Obamas as apes access to the agenda-setting, decree-sending, market-moving account of the president of the United States" is not the exculpatory statement they think it is.

jamming with my new trio: it's me on drums, a generative Max patch in 7-limit just intonation on guitars, and a seasonal affective disorder lamp on lead vocals. taking suggestions for a band name.

Subprime mortgages but for rent, brilliant

jamming with my new trio: it's me on drums, a generative Max patch in 7-limit just intonation on guitars, and a seasonal affective disorder lamp on lead vocals. taking suggestions for a band name.

The big tech founder whose 417-foot, $500 million superyacht needs a 256-foot, $75 million superyacht to "shadow" it -- because the bigger yacht lacks a helipad -- had to cut his paper's newsroom almost in half, for reasons

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

It’s a Big Herrenvolk and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the Big Herrenvolk. Again, if a single Democrat ever talked about punishing rural areas like this for ___, it would be a nonstop national scandal for months on end. But Republicans can treat cities & urban residents like this & 🦗🦗

“You have a typo.”

I strongly support the new position of the US Government that the District of Columbia can bar possession of firearms, which contradicts the Supreme Court’s mistaken 2008 ruling establishing that individuals have an absolute 2nd Amendment right to own firearms. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distric...

TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN OP-ED: In our society we have too often accepted the heckler’s veto, allowing the perfect to be the enemy of the good and making the refusal to forgive our highest virtue TENURED YALE PROFESSOR IN AN EMAIL: hii jfefrey Can I come to rape party w/a plusone this weekend

Chotiner: Tell me what you found interesting about these vampires. Documentarian: Well, it's just -- the group dynamics, I guess. Chotiner: I can see that. I can see finding Nandor, Laszlo and Nadia entertaining. Documentarian: Exactly. Chotiner: So. How many people did you watch them murder?

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

I've almost doubled the number of entries in the music notation timeline this year alone--and it's hard to believe that in a year this resource will have been online for a decade! silpayamanant.wordpress.com/timeline-of-...

Larry Summers complaining to Epstein that his kids admire Bernie Sanders too much

That's correct. Including the Founders.

I’m *extremely concerned* about the way folks are reforming their image of the cops in light of everything that’s happening, even though we only have a handful examples of them disagreeing with ICE, while still being responsible themselves for the murders of Black and brown people across the country

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

I couldn't help but remember Lanzmann in Shoah interviewing families who took Jewish homes after WWII....