My sense is that this is why the humanities in general, and literary studies in particular, are so put off by this shit. We're practiced at recognizing linguistic nothings.

i’m sure giving bigoted students a dunce’s veto will work out just fine

call us old fashioned but, if you've built a machine that makes child porn, we really don't care if can do anything else. unplug the machine.

Worth adding here that SpaceX is almost entirely funded by government contracts and subsidies, and so this really amounts to embezzling taxpayer funds to cover up the losses from his stupid idiot boxes.

Not for nothing, but I love that the 60 Minutes segment leaked in less than twenty-four hours.

really cannot be emphasized enough that bari weiss has literally never done journalism. i don’t mean that in the pejorative sense. i mean that in the “has never performed the job she was hired to do” sense

CBS paid the president of the United States millions in bribe money and now they censor news reports so it does not annoy him. I don’t know how much plainer we can put this.

My main takeaway is not so much how it demonstrates that they know they're full of shit, because we already know that. My main takeaway is how easy it is to catch them with the simplest follow-up, and how obvious this makes it that they're not used to being asked basic journalistic questions.

Actually, Democrats DO NOT FUCKING TEXT ME SWASTIKAS EVER BUT ESPECIALLY NOT DURING CHANUKAH Fuck you Christian Urrutia

You know, journalism.

Imagine showing Martin Luther this just after he nailed the 95 theses to the church door.

Not that it will but the willingness of Americans to obey is a very funny contrast with our self-image and should probably prompt some reflection bsky.app/profile/jonf...

The federal fucking government is trying to stop companies from selling products that allow people to make their breasts less prominent. There is no freedom of expression, no freedom of gender nonconformity, no bodily autonomy for any of us if they win.

We murdered five more people in boats today.

This is a good opportunity to remind everybody that Marquette University invited David Brooks to be the commencement speaker when I received my Ph.D., which he took as an opportunity to lecture graduating students on the sanctity of marriage.

lol, lmao, lol, lmao

If this were true, they wouldn't be banning the medical care that does this.

Pope Leo XIV names fellow Chicagoan, Bishop Ronald Hicks, as archbishop of New York in his most important U.S. appointment to date.

he was good at his job, his job was explicitly to destroy things so they'd be acquired and shareholders would make a bunch of money this isn't an incompetent getting a payday, it's the guy who planned the heist getting the biggest cut

*tearfully looking up at a portrait of the guy who illegally sold weapons to Iran and used to profits to fund right-wing death squads in Nicaragua*

This is the compromise? This is the bipartisanship? This is the civility? This is the return to normalcy? This is the price of winning? WHAT WILL YOU HAVE WON

It's a defining feature of the Trump Era: unqualified people in big important jobs who don't want to do them and can't anyway so they spend a lot of time pretending to do it on TV and social media.

NYC: Senators Schumer + Gillibrand both voted "yes" on the federal trans athlete ban, in case you need yet another reason to hope they never have a moment's public peace & want to call and wish them (another) happy "get primaried into to the stone age"

Grades completed and submitted.

One way that the reaction to Rob Reiner's murder mirrors Charlie Kirk's is that the best way to eulogize each of them is to quote their words, and in both cases, doing so pisses off conservatives.

what caused the bell riots

Rob Reiner's first seven films: 1. Spinal Tap. 2. The Sure Thing. 3. Stand By Me. 4. THE PRINCESS BRIDE. 5. WHEN HARRY MET SALLY. 6. Misery 7. A Few Good Men. Good lord. Even Spielberg included 1941 in his first seven. And that was after playing Michael Stivic. I hope this news isn't true. But...

This is Trump celebrating the murder of Rob Reiner. That's what it is. That's what we should call it. People who said this sort of thing about Charlie Kirk were fired, arrested and banned from the US.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.

Conservatives rebranded bigotry and every time the media uses “wokeness” as a euphemism they are helping a movement that it quite literally erasing the history marginalized people’s role in American life.

So there is already an ai-generated whitewashing campaign to bury the name of the Muslim man, Ahmed al Ahmed, who disarmed one of the Bondi Beach shooters, and replace his identity with a white guy name and that’s why even a thimble of our potable water powering this tech is too fucking much.

The tragedy of the Biden administration is it did not have to be a blip and interregnum in the Long Trump Era, but thanks to choices made, largely his own, it will at best be remembered as an attempt to govern without doing politics, a failure compounded by his disastrous support for genocide abroad

Pathetic.

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Pathetic.

shoutout to the crowd that insisted it was a political loser to stand up for abrego garcia’s rights

Do not come here. Shun us. Isolate us. Turn us into global pariahs, as we should be.

25 years ago today, SCOTUS elected George W Bush president of the United States by blocking completion of a voting canvass in Florida. A subsequent canvass by the Associated Press showed that Bush's rival, Al Gore, had won the race in Florida—and thus the contest for the presidency—by 700 votes.

Twin Peaks: Audrey Horne, dressed like a star trek villain, in The Great Northern.

Indianapolis Star, November 22, 1918

intrigued by the idea of a think tank report that doesn’t suck shit “In fact, moderating on some positions was more likely to reinforce Republican talking points and make Democrats seem weak, according to the report” newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Google, show me a bunch of midwesterners who can read the room.

Five tracking numbers open in a single tab. Must be Christmas.

I wish there was more public recognition of how batshit insane it is to call the president a dangerous authoritarian and then give him a $1 trillion military budget

even if you’ve never written a book you only sold 1200 fewer copies last week than Olivia Nuzzi

when you think about it, the billionaires siphoning money off the public to grift them while also poisoning them are very similar to working class construction guys