No, but obstruction of the law is. Johnson not only used his veto to subvert the will of the people, but he used his control over the military to obstruct the military elements of the reconstruction act. This led congress to pass the Tenure of Office Act to get around his obstructionism.

Today in American history, Andrew Johnson avoided conviction for high crimes and misdemeanors for his obstructionism with Reconstruction post Civil War. Johnson repeatedly attempted to veto Reconstruction Acts, forcing Congress not only to override his veto, but to seek a supermajority to stop him.

One of the wildest physics facts I know is that the speed of light and the speed of gravity are roughly the same. Now, you can’t measure the speed of gravity, but you can estimate it by hypothesizing its effects on objects.

Agreed. This is a subspecies of the gatekeeper. If literary fiction were the only thing that matters, we wouldn’t have may favorite Shakespeare play, Twelfth Night. Or my other favorite, A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Hm. My position on “great literature” is that it demonstrates excellence in a particular element of what makes literature in general great. To this end, we could say reading tale of two cities shows us how a particular element of literature works, but it should be buttressed with modern examples.

One of the most interesting things I read this week was a paper on how the mountains of state media published to the internet went into the sausage machine of generative AI training data and how it affects what comes out the other end. TLDR your AI chatbot may be quietly laundering state propaganda.

There isn’t much left to say except that your children will be less well-rounded than you. Less well-read than you. Less intelligent than you. Less able to problem solve than you. Leas worldly than you. Less empathetic. Less equipped. And more helpless. For the first time in living history.

This post should read “the English major should not teach us to discredit what make literature great to people generally,” which is to say that you should exit an English program with enough understanding to say “I get why Twilight appeals to you, and that’s cool.”

“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

As another “worst English major ever.” the point of the English degree has always been to better understand why my sci-fi and romantasy and epic fantasy does what it does for me. I’m of the heretical position that the English major should enhance our appreciation, not transform us into snobs.

what i think @hurricanexyz.bsky.social is dead-on in highlighting here is that the VA supreme court ruling was a violation of the VA constitution itself, which quite explicitly notes that the power of the people to reform their constitution is sovereign and inalienable

I'm just saying: a lot of women hated their husbands before AI (and very much, probably more so, vice versa); problematic technologies tend to exacerbate already‑existing social phenomena.

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I’m such weirdo and the worst English major ever that whenever I see a list like this I groan at all the suggestions because I just want to read my silly little cozy mysteries and sci-fi’s and romances and none of this serious literature shit even though I’m sure they’re great LMAO

there is a limit at which we are so clearly not in a democracy that you can't actually shame me into thinking I should be better than them, especially when being better than them is destroying civil rights. idk when that limit was but it is in the rearview mirror now. "fuck you, make me" is here.

I am not in the business of just preparing “future workers” no matter how hard they try to make me.

Okay yeah this is pretty funny

The FT is regarded by many as a paper of record. A social researcher would do some kind of qual before doubling down on this hypothesis, which is suggested but not proven by the figures, and which, most seriously, could have quite damaging outcomes for young women who don't have bodily autonomy

'Aqua Chroma' A meditative slow gaze at Earth's atmosphere, revealing the hidden depths of activity in the water-filled skies of planet Earth. 4K HDR 36m20s youtu.be/F2jsuJPU0Lo

Update: the letter from the editors has been found! Now I need to find that piece in the Chronicle. That maybe a tomorrow (or Monday) issue for the simple fact that the article submission portal has gone belly up.

I'm finishing up a manuscript on AI and the Promise of Happiness, and I need to find an editorial that past John foolishly did not bookmark. It was from the editor's desk of some pper and it basically said how they believed that journalists needed to learn to use AI? Any thoughts?

pushing out diverse people to accommodate diverse views about those people's inferiority, be fucking serious

A lower decks style show about the grunts in q branch who have to fix bond’s car whenever he brings it back totaled.

I’m not sure what motivates people to reply “this isn’t new,” but it remains one of the more annoying things people do on social media. Your comment isn’t new either, buddy.

James Bond movies are about James Bond and we should probably recast the character, perhaps as someone who isn’t a white dude. That said, the Bond franchise establishes the existence of other 00 agents, which provides a wealth of opportunity for telling other stories.

instead of investing in private curriculum we could make reading central to teachers' jobs

i don’t take myself seriously, so my first urge is to make fun of the fact that i made the Time100 Philanthropy list. but i really am honored. not just to be on a fancy list (w/my buds Messi and Shakira) and have my work seen, but to have gotten to help people in the place i love so much

Kinda want to do a Ziwe style conversation with anti-racist white people (or activists or politicians) where I get to ask questions like: "As someone who benefits from a world organized around you, what did it take for you to start seeing people of color as humans?"

When every single fucking autocorrect in every application I use tries to correct my name to "Jon." The "h" isn't a typo.

I don't want to read any more opinions about "how instructors should respond to AI" that don't engage at all with our working conditions: heavy teaching loads, large class sizes, adjunctification, etc.

gwen does fantastic work as usual on some of the 401,000 trans people who’ve had to flee hostile territory in their own country in the past 18 months.

I’s post the William Adama quote about the military and the police but ICE ISN’T MILITARY.

Welcome to the age of model collapse.

A terrifying but also heartening story. "The experience, she said, revealed a level of community solidarity she had never anticipated. 'One of my biggest takeaways from all this is the ways in which the community really showed up for me,' [Mel Curth] said."

I just want to note that trans people are generally estimated at about 1% of the population, which means that there's probably around 3,300,000 trans people in the US which means that more than 10% of trans people have, in the last year and a half, fled the state they were living in

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

Tbh, the Neo Bahamut/Bahamut Arisen design for FFVII: Rebirth is also really cool.

I’m tired of the dishonesty of this entire debate. The folks calling for “perspectives different from their own“ are shutting down Women’s and African American studies because they hate differing opinions. Marginalized folks had a small foothold, and powerful people decided to push them out.

The Bahamut variants in Final Fantasy have consistently been some of my favorite designs, outside of Todd Lockwood's OG Draconomicon designs, with Bahamut Fury (retsu) taking the cake.

a ”funny” situation arises where marginalized people are simultaneously often hired ONLY to write about their identity but also not hired to report on anything that’s “too close” to their identity. leaving them chronically underemployed and broke!

As requested.

aight I had more to say about this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

NO FUCKING SHIT. I didn't need the goddamn Federal Reserve to tell me this was going to happen AND that this was intentional. It's like the burning of Black Wall Street was an event whose duration wasn't confined to that single fucking moment.

I have recommended people's books to my friends because I was like "Yeah, I know the author and they're a cool person," and we're just moots posting on the same platform.

When white supremacists described the first black politicians winning elections in the South during Reconstruction, they too called it a "reign of terror" that innocent white people had to suffer under. Black leaders! Elected to federal office! Can you imagine the indignity?!

Absolutely recommend this book. I read it almost once a year because it is THAT good.

Daily reminder that "country music" became white (and patriotic) through the systemic exclusion of Black and brown artists which results in contemporary "popular" country music being almost exclusively white, and exclusively hot fucking garbage.

This whole thread is full of receipts for what I am talking about when I say that we tend to overstate the case where King's non-violence is concerned.

Hard for me to see how this doesn’t amount to telling marginalized people, most of whom are the voices Will is talking about, to shut up snd accept a torrent of abuse as cost of the greater good. I, for one, will not participate in this omelas adjacent bullshit.