IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Remember Anne Frank...!

This sounds like an incredible talk; I'm really hoping it will be available online for those of us who couldn't make it, someday. @qgcon.bsky.social?

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The rebranding of reactionary gender and biological essentialism as “heterodox and challenging ideas to which liberal students must be exposed” is one of the greatest achievements of our stupid era. Congratulations to the reactionary centrists who helped make it happen - you dupes, you utter dolts.

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We've surpassed $500!!! Onward to the next milestone—$625. Reaching this means I can donate more than $500 to Doctors Without Borders after all the payment processing fees. There's only 4 days left! Is it still possible? 140 people have bought the game, so I'm hopeful.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/26/f...

I am old enough to remember when even plenty of liberals talked about ICE and Homeland Security this way, how even the terms were creepily police state and surely the next Dem president would roll it back. Then the Obama administration expanded it, so they accepted it. And here we are.

Speaking of voices under attack…can we be just as loud about Black journalists and comedians who are silenced, even by our so-called liberal outlets. • Joy Reid • Don Lemon • Melissa Harris-Perry • Tiffany Cross • Jemele Hill • Marc Lamont Hill • Karen Attiah • Amber Ruffin

you won't believe what's saving rural towns HINT: IT'S SOCIALISM. SOCIALISM IS SAVING RURAL TOWNS. AND THEY LOVE IT. THEY CAN'T GET ENOUGH OF THE SOCIALISM. A SIGNIFICANT PERCENTAGE OF THEM VOTED FOR SOCIALISM. getpocket.com/explore/item...

Hello, hello. Earlier this year, after some medical appointments, my medicine costs hiked a lot. The job search has also not panned out yet. I've incurred a little bit of debt because of these expenses and would like to ask for some help. itch.io/s/160647/diw...

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

The white supremacist conceit that everyone in antiquity was living under some kind of global jim crow segregation is just complete bullshit news.harvard.edu/gazette/stor...

Just bought and read this and it is so, so lovely (both in game design and graphic design). As usual, @momatoes.com has done incredible work - one of my favorite designers. Excited to get to play it!

This interview was such a delight--Wythe is great! Check it out today.

Thread! #VaccinesSaveLives

I like Jimmy Kimmel. I really do. I have no issues with him. I'm talking about something very different. Kimmel was only suspended. But he's back now. Karen Attiah and all the other Black journalists are still fired. Y'all do know how to fight, when you want to. But you don't really want to. 🤷🏿‍♂️

small poem. i've been playing a lot of "name the 500 biggest urban areas in the US" type games lately to keep my mind busy when i'm fretful

1. The Trump administration has filed an emergency motion with the Supreme Court to reinstate its transgender passport restrictions. The filing in the much-criticized shadow docket could cast trans travelers into chaos, with a decision likely soon. Subscribe to support our journalism.

VT just closed its religious studies department.

This is unironically a lot worse than Jimmy Kimmel but you won't see 1/1000 of the outrage

Saw their performance at the Edinburgh Fringe. Incredible. Doing the work so many of us are uncertain we can.

This CANNOT be allowed to stand if the regime goes through with it. Cis folk—especially queer cis folk—need to stand up for trans rights and do whatever we can to protect trans lives. 🏳️‍⚧️

The Deluxe Edition of What Dust Remains is now out! 52 haunting pages for a game of legacy and sacrifice. In this sweeping narrative game, build the life of a Pioneer struggling to achieve meaning in their life. momatoes.itch.io/what-dust-re...

It is fucked up what they did to the headphone jack

Reread this short guide to responding to fascism in higher ed this morning. I have very mixed feelings about how increasingly resonant it is proving to be, but also I hope it will prove helpful and maybe comforting as we watch current events unfold. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

For those deleting our Academia dot edu accounts (due to their new exploitative TOC) make sure to follow the instructions quoted below or they'll force you to accept the TOC before you can get to the "delete my account" button. See you all on the open-source alternative hcommons Humanities Commons!

When one primarily attains power via moral panics, *everything* (and that definitely includes normal people just livin out their lives) will become a nascent moral panic. It's a governance structure! It has the capacity to produce mass murder. We choose to reject fear and panic for this reason.

Watching prominent commenters followed by dozens of people I know say "it's over" because Jimmy Kimmel got suspended...like, they actually killed Medgar Evers, in defense of a fascist system that had been in place for decades. Imagine social media that day! Read history and have some self-respect.

My rage knows no bounds

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

The human interaction (especially in real space) is heavily on my mind as a theater artist these days, too. It's a shared element between theater/performance and live RPGs (plus live gaming generally).

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Really excellent essay here, worth a read.

trans rights strike at a fundamental base of individual liberty: if we do not have control of our own bodies, you don’t either

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

Would you believe me if I told you every episode of this arc gets progressively more bananas? Either way, listen to find out! 😉

Battle doom scrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Hearing a cricket 2. Seeing a butterfly 3. The second cup of cofee 4. Cozy socks 5. Internet friends reminding me to do things other than doomscroll :) :) :)

There's an interesting example about risk, awareness and consent in an old Polish larp called Geist. The rule was that no violence would be simulated, so that to hit someone, you hit them for real. Crazy, right? Except... There was no violence. The refusal to simulate reduced violence to zero.

what this sounds like to me is the administration is cutting money for efforts to support integration and sending some of the cash over to HCBUs, under the view that this is where black students ought to go www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

We love political sci-fi, and we love @benferber.com. One day, we will print a cyberpunk/mecha setting for Stillfleet by Ben with lots of sad robots, some of them possibly cats. In the meantime, do listen to the new Dungeons + Drama Nerds season. It's funny & has all manner of smart robo-sound FX.

I mean... minnesotareformer.com/briefs/haged...

i know it is all intentional but boy howdy is it crazy-making to have ICE killing people in the street and watching the once “mainstream” media still carrying water for the idea that the left has a violence problem