There's a lot of people trying to distinguish between ICE and other thugs with badges, because they still want to hold onto the myth that police are good guys. If they actually cared about protecting and serving their communities, police would've gone to war against ICE intrusion in their spaces.

"We could improve but the other guy is worse" policy is what put Trump in the office. Both times. Be better candidates and people will want to vote for you. The fear of our current disaster ISN'T ENOUGH. Stop looking to scare people into the mundane and instead BE inspirational.

"Back to fighting" implies there had been a fight. There has not been. There's been capitulation and voting for his noms. There's been cowardice. And there's been a lot of hiding.

Nope! This time it sticks. Those 8 senators deserve to be tarred and feathered and should never be allowed to live down this betrayal. This is not a “hurt feelings” moment to move past. This is an abject dereliction of duty and betrayal of their constituents.

At this point, can’t have unity without internal recriminations

“Internal recriminations” is a hell of a way to rephrase “simple accountability to our constituents”

Senator, your colleagues just voted to end the one battle we were winning in a war we are otherwise losing. Running cover for them is not the answer.

I'm sorry, fuck this bullshit. Somebody's feelings ARE wrong, and it's the eight turncoats along with every other Democrat in power trying to chastise us back into line... You want to talk about a battle? Chastise your goddamn colleagues, Sheldon, because you'll never win if y'all keep quitting...

It's hard to fight a foe when the people ostensibly on your side continually stab you in the ribs... if the stakes are so huge, then talk is cheap and actions say everything. Democrat leadership needs to wake the fuck up yesterday and read the goddamn room, because this ain't it Sheldon.

I will never understand the point of having a lawn but keeping off the grass.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Remember when some of us said the Democratic leadership would take all the wrong lessons from the blue tsunami and squander all the goodwill? Here you go.

The centrists in the Senate Democratic caucus saw that the country was rallying to the party in the 2025 elections and resolved that they would do anything they could to kill that momentum.

all they’ve done is proven yet again that you should *never* listen to some chin-stroking wise elder who lectures you about how *your* priorities are foolish and counterproductive while *their* priorities are strategic and wise. because in the end, *they* won’t even fight for *their own* priorities

no matter what the circumstances, democrats are always saving their energy for a mythical future situation where they will do something good

THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY THEY PEPPER SPRAYED A BABY Please read this entire excellent piece by Caroline, which points out that a judge ordered the Feds (again) to stop doing **this exact kind of thing** and they are still continuing to do it all over Chicago

agreeing to make a terrible deal while your main opponent is quite literally being boo'd on live tv by an entire stadium of people is the kind of political instinct you'd normally only find in a 3 week old dead goldfish

Pinning this again: Do not use milk, juice, urine, antacids, baking soda on pepper spray or tear gas. Just water. Plain water.. Optical saline ok in eyes, but maybe save it for the dumbasses who wore contact lenses. Plain soap or shampoo ok on skin, but never in eyes.

It's well past time that we treat the Mechanical Turk like a Wicker Man...

One of the talking points I keep seeing from Democrats is that part of the deal is that it will "ensure federal workers receive back pay" but that's the existing law! That's not something you've won in negotiations. That's just the letter of the law. You don't get to claim that as a win.

So the republicans shut down the government and create a unilateral paramilitary that is completely loyal to the president that’s arming itself with chemical and biological weapons, and you’re blaming the democrats? You’re a Nazi. You’re a Nazi and you deserve the same respect as a Nazi.

I can't wait to primary @fetterman.senate.gov's racist ass all the way back to Braddock. That genocidal Quisling piece of shit only won because Oz was his opponent. Pennsylvania won't make that mistake a second time with this manbaby. We deserve someone who has more fight than this chickenshit.

8 Quisling chickenshits, that's what you see in this picture.

Vanderbilt and Georgia Tech plummeted out of the top 12 in this week's BCS rankings. BYU held on to a top-12 spot, but would not reach the playoff ahead of conference champs from the ACC & AAC. After 11 weeks of football, we're really starting to learn where everyone falls in the CFB pecking order.

Just spent a bit of time looking at old multipurpose stadiums from the 1960s and 1970s to add to some lecture slides. Boy, were those venues glorious. Boy, were those venues uniformly ugly.

A heroin addict thinks that nothing is more useful to them than more heroin. I see people becoming addicted to GenAI tools in the same light. And, as we've already seen through its penchant for goading suicides, it can be just as destructive to lives as a drug addiction.

My own computer rankings are now live & updated through yesterday's games. If nothing else, it's been a fun thought experiment as I dive back a bit into my book on the history of college football's national championship. See the full list of 265 Division I teams here: sites.psu.edu/zbigalke/col...

All the crazy 1984 shit they told us would happen under communism or even socialism is happening now under capitalism.

I think I might just have been convinced never again to go to a live sporting event, if this is the sort of shit that's going on at stadiums...

Generative AI cannot comprehend or think. An algorithm cannot draw insights, nor can it understand information. It's a goddamn string of code, not your new best friend. It sure as fuck doesn't "manufacture time" when you must double-check its work because it loves vomiting up bullshit.

Tried to take Lady out for a walk this morning. She initially looked excited. I went to the trouble of putting on my boots, even. Then she flumped over onto her blanket and went back to sleep. Which means she'll want to walk right about when the sprint race is scheduled to go lights out...

I think it’s quite risky to hedge our entire economy on a technology that is built entirely on stolen data.

Are any of my friends in sport studies interested in reviewing either one of these books? Shoot me a DM and let's talk!

Good article from Justin Reich, who coordinates the Teaching Systems Lab at MIT, and whose book on ed-tech ("Failure to Launch") should be required reading for higher ed leaders/IT folks/faculty developers. Justin is an insightful and original thinker in the edtech space; I'm a big fan of his work.

Hey guys, can we all just do a little pledge here that no matter what Marjorie Taylor Greene says or does between now and the election for whatever higher office she’s clearly gunning for, we won’t pull a Liz Cheney on her and start pretending none of her past actions matter?

Almost through three semesters as a teaching professor after finishing my PhD... HOW IT STARTED / HOW IT'S GOING

The posting lawyers are so funny. Some are saying that the Sandwich Guy case was jury nullification but his entire case was premised on the idea that throwing a sandwich doesn’t meet the definition of the charge. The jury agreed. You are saying you would have voted to convict the guy.

Fortunately, there's some great scholarship that pushes against that tendency & asks more difficult questions of the records. But to be honest, that's something we need to do a great deal more of bc it relates so closely to the logics of "passive violence" that continue to govern the state today.

LET'S FUCKING GO!!!!! 💪 How I win every argument with a machine.

The more I see once perfectly-fine programs clog up their functionality with a bunch of flashing pop-up windows to use their AI gimmicks, the more I get tempted to throw my fucking computer in a lake and just use my typewriter to write up research and send physical copies of letters to people...

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

Looks like these assholes' shell game is finally going tits up and they're crying to mommy to fix their mistakes for them.

If it works anything like Honorlock, it's going to be racist as fuck. Which means it's almost definitely going to work as poorly as Honorlock. (Or work exactly as intended, given the underlying racism behind all this panopticon shit.)

I should be grading things. Or prepping for next week's classes. Or working on revisions to one of several different pieces. Instead I'm sitting at my desk and staring blankly at my whiteboard, waiting to see if any students show up for office hours. (I doubt anyone comes today.)

We must protect the Juicero of the tech world.

And this shithole regime will probably hand over the dough, because they're that fucking corrupt and gullible.

so what you're saying is the centrist brunchlord substack punditry's claims that Dems have to shift further right to win is complete bullshit