Every story about govt handouts to farmers have the line about how farmers really don't want the checks. But not only do they take them, they lobby for them, and their business plans depend on getting those checks every year. Small government for thee ... www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

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Universities will be silent on the undoing of Title IX (except as a mechanism for faculty to engage in petty grievances), on the elimination of trans people, on the fragility of birthright citizenship, on the murder of US citizens, on war and genocide, and call it "institutional neutrality"

Good for this company but also WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING

When Ezra Klein had Ta-Nehisi Coates on to discuss his book about Palestine, Klein basically called him an extremist and obliquely referred to Tareq Baconi as a terrorism-supporter, and then a year and a half later Klein is now saying exactly what Coates said but acting like it's his original ideas.

The fact that there is so much money available for monsters is a failure of democracy. Their backers need to be taxed back into the kinds of reasonable income ranges where they lack the extra funding for fascists. Their listeners need to be socialized to not be such scared douchebags. And them?

Boy I tell you what Mexico has one jaunty national anthem.

It is very US Republican to think that you can just convert to Catholicism and then start lecturing the pope.

NO graduate teaching fellows have taken the courses they teach. They’re graduate students—teaching for undergrad classes—at schools that—more often than not—they did NOT attend as undergrads. What a total BS of an excuse to use against a grad student.

Summer sunset baseball at Camden Yards

This guy and Dreher are in a fucking death match over who can sound more like Ignatius J. Reilly.

Too many Americans still retain a presumption of normalcy, that institutional guardrails will kick in and the Trump era will become a historical period for the textbooks. They need their imagination widened by comparative-historical analysis. Things both can be bad *and* can get so much worse.

you know, when someone says something like "these are the things that need to be done to avert disaster" and your response is "you think democrats will do that?!?" all you're telling me is that you think politics is a spectator sport

There’s a story like this approximately every other day now. www.cnbc.com/2026/06/29/t...

Read @perrybaconjr.bsky.social on the false equivalence of democratic centrists who conflate fascism with folks who want education and healthcare.

update from this week’s heat dome bodleian library, ms douce 134

I need y'all to understand that I teach high school and there are teenagers already planning to leave the U.S. to because they will be studying science or medicine. They are SO serious about it - saving money, learning extra languages, and looking to see if there are familial connections abroad.

Lauren Fucking Boebert trying to zero out funding for the Fulbright program is so apt and so colossally stupid. www.alliance-exchange.org/alliance-com...

The World Cup is African home team vs Africa away team but you want to end migration. Ok.

On one hand, I think it's really good that younger queer people have no idea just how bad it was to be growing up queer in the era when Pete Buttigieg was a kid, but good god people, at least listen to people who lived through the era about why it took time for queer kids to accept themselves.

When I, an obvious cis straight dude, shared an apartment with my friends, two out gay dudes, it was a bit of a scandal. This was in Boston in 1993-1994.

I love the period in the match when each side is trying to find the limits of the extracurricular violence the ref is willing to accept.

This Netherlands/Morocco match is going to be pretty good, I think.

trump is stealing a golf course used by ordinary washingtonians and giving it to his rich friends

it’s really striking to me how uncommon it is to hear someone say something this clear, straightforward, and true for all the writing that’s been done on Books In Schools

KIDS ARE NOT PRODUCTS

If there are historians in the future they will giggle over accounts of this tragicomic omnishambles. www.thedailybeast.com/trumps-empty...

I just got off a long whitewater run with friends, and now I'm in a diner in East Tennessee, drinking a Coke, eating fried pickles with ranch. God bless America.

It's cheaper now to produce energy from solar than any other source. We're just stuck under an international pursuit of oil profits and the wars waged to control the last of the dwindling goo. Never been a better time to connect the dots. Global fascism + global warming = rapid destruction

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South Louisiana likes to think North Louisiana doesn't exist but now Julia Letlow is gonna be in the senate and Mike Johnson is the speaker and South Louisiana's own monstrously evil humans are being lapped by the North

Hell yeah, Al Tamari!

I love Argentina too, but let's go Al Nashama! Make 'em work for it.

46 years ago today "Love Will Tear Us Apart" is a song by English post punk Joy Division, released on this day in 1980 as a non-album single #punk #punkrock #postpunk #lovewilltearusapart #joydivision #history #JoyDivision #otd

Generative AI is not only fundamentally based on the rejection of consent, but also *standards*. Artists have been micromanaged and hounded over individual pixels, academics fighting to defend every minute detail of their thesis, etc, and then are tossed away in favor of the get shit wrong machine.

There are dozens of actual far-right extremists in the House GOP caucus, people who have said and done racist, corrupt, crazy things. And you’ve never heard of them. Because the Times and other establishment media outlets have never negatively profiled them like this. The GOP gets a pass.

So glad I renewed mine last year.

Hell yeah former Pelicans great Jose Alvarado. Still beloved in New Orleans too.

I'll be teaching this wilderness first aid course for NOLS next month at Paul Smith's College. Come hone your backcountry medical skills in the High Peaks of the Adirondacks! www.nols.edu/course/wm/wi...

Awful. There need to be consequences for the person who made this false report.

What was the whole point of tariffs again?

NEW — The sentencing of the Prairieland demonstrators shows the brutality of Trump's war on dissent, but it's not without precedent, @kimkelly.bsky.social writes. History shows us the government has always punished anti-fascism. But this time we can change the narrative in real time. Read here:

#DulaPeepShow #DuaLipa

GET. IN. TRUSTY!!

I mean, let's go US and everything, but really

Honestly, this is really begging for some kind of online quiz that forces people to confront that all the shit they are afraid of is stuff that we did in the 30s and then lost in the Reagan administration.

One of the more challenging aspects of climate change, which contributes to its urgency: it becomes more difficult to solve as it proceeds. It's hard to address something that's actively disrupting the people and processes (and infrastructure and ecosystems) needed to address it.

Oh, so you don’t approve of FDR? You don’t approve of going after the trusts and obscenely wealthy? You don’t approve of Social Security, and building a nation that works? WHY THE FUCK ARE YOU CALLING YOURSELVES DEMOCRATS YOU TWATWAFFLES

My students who read Marie De France's Bisclavret this fall will get a kick out of this.

I'm psyched about US soccer, and I'm thrilled for Poche for all sorts of reasons. But the staccato spondees of "U-S-A!! U-S-A!!" really creep me out.