This gets at the central confusion in the discourse right now

This is such a good article on how the undermining of universities is part of an anti-democratic movement: “Anti-university rhetoric is the language of an international pro-authoritarian movement opposed to centers of learning that model liberal-democratic values”

“AI has turbocharged the spread of bullshit and falsehoods. It is not able to produce actual, qualitative academic work, despite the claims of some in the AI industry. As researchers, as universities, we should be clearer about pushing back against these false claims by the AI industry.”

You can do it entirely without confrontation, any woman who survived junior high can tell you how to do this. Make them entirely unwelcome and deeply judged without uttering a word. Freeze out ICE.

I can’t tell you how much good could be done right now by average citizens socially cold-shouldering anyone tangentially working for ICE.

And hand-delivered a Supreme Court seat to Donald Trump!

While Stephen Miller claims that Democrats calling him a fascist constitutes incitement, there are hundreds of examples of Miller publicly calling Democrats fascists.

chef's kiss

The White House knows exactly what it was doing when they published a list of Democrats who have used their voice to call out Trump & Miller’s ICE abuses. The list is now being used by the far right as an enemies list. It’s reckless. It’s dangerous. And it puts lives at risk.

What Orwellian bullshit they have been peddling

Crow: They’re doing things that are deeply unpopular. Their approval ratings continue to go down—that is, Republican members of Congress and this administration—and yet they don’t seem worried about it. Which raises the obvious question: what are they going to do?

For 26 but especially 2028 it's time for Democrats to make clear that the current Supreme Court will have to be reformed (expanded in number, reformed in structure) to allow popular govt to continue in the United States. Not so much a litmus test as precondition for any other promise to be credible.

Trump incited an insurrection on Jan 6 and should be in prison for life. 🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

Indeed. A model for all.

'Union Square, Looking up Park Avenue.' (1975) Fairfield Porter cited Édouard Vuillard as one of his most important influences - he learned to paint in a manner that was 'concrete in detail and abstract as a whole.' This work was painted in the last year of his life.

Taken just a few minutes ago outside the ICE facility in Portland that Trump claims is under siege. My message to Donald Trump is this: we don’t need you here. Stay the hell out of our city.

You realize “full force” includes killing people, right? He’s telling the army to invade Portland and start killing whomever they like.

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This shocked me: “There’s more traffic to Strength in Numbers now than there was at 538 six months before the election.”

EFF, in coalition with several other CA organizations, is pushing @governor.ca.gov to sign AB 566, a bill that will make it easier for Californians to exercise their privacy rights, into law. But we need your help to put on the pressure. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

It is always key to remember that none of this would be possible without the Supreme Court and congressional leadership acceding to virtually all that Trump wants, as I have written. www.lawdork.com/p/trump-is-s...

It looks like Trump's hand picked Supreme Court isn't going to stop him from rescinding money that Congress already agreed to use. How can Democrats agree to a Republican budget that lets Trump delete the parts of it he doesn't like?

“A Portland Police Bureau assistant chief said in court recently that federal police were “instigating” some of the clashes between officers and protesters outside the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement building in South Portland.” www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/0...

Some things never change! 4,000 year-old ancient Egyptian writing board with a student’s many spelling mistakes corrected in red ink by the teacher! 😂 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

'View of Hastings, Sussex.' (1940) Philip Cole was a versatile artist: a painter, decorator, designer, book illustrator, poet, author, teacher and art theorist. He spent most of his life painting scenes in and around Hastings on the southeast coast of England.

Holy shit.

I've been podcasting again! This time I spoke about how 'Plato: a civic life' provides the historical background to Plato's thought and helps to explain how his ideas developed - with Morteza Hajizadeh from New Books Network: newbooksnetwork.com/plato

THIS, a thousand times THIS

“He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. “He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power.” -Declaration of Independence

ICE brutality around the country highlights the importance of #IndivisibleSantaFe #NewMexico signs to help businesses assert their privacy rights when ICE shows up. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents... 1/2

Mike Johnson is stalling the swearing-in of the new Democratic member of Congress to keep her vote from being counted.

President Donald Trump has dispatched federal agents to Portland, local elected officials said in a hastily scheduled press conference on Friday night

I’m telling you, there’s just not enough outrage about the craven actions of Speaker Mike Johnson.

No political retribution at the FBI, right?

Worth a read. Breathtaking audacity of the majority.

Worth a read

🧑‍🌾 ICYMI — “When are you gonna stand up for us instead of kissing Trump’s ass for these trade deals?” A MISSOURI FARMER to repmarkalford (R) about Trump’s policies raising prices and crushing farmers. (H/T @corybooker )

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The Trump administration owes @mikiesherrill.bsky.social, and all Americans, an explanation of the breach of her personal data, and it must be investigated so something like this cannot happen again.

Today’s shameful shadow docket decision from the Supreme Court—allowing Trump to unilaterally cancel $4 billion in aid—is not behavior that any healthy democracy tolerates of its judiciary. It is a sign of constitutional rot that precedes the rule of law’s collapse. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Yet again, the GOP supermajority steps in to allow Trump to break the law. The case will be decided on the merits later, it says, when the damage cannot be undone. But in the meantime it is giving the Trump administration a green light to engage in impoundment.

This headline says it all about where we are on the rule of law. “Trump Fired a U.S. Attorney Who Insisted on Following a Court Order” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

ah yes, the paragon of wokeness

Trump is proposing to give 15% of TikTok to UAE Sovereign Fund. Because that country has given billions worth of deals to him, his sons and Witkoff’s son in their crypto exchanges. No one in Congress or Wall Street is going to say something about this?

For him, that’s the big win. As I wrote in “2025”: “the president’s top priority is publicly announced investigations. Right-wing TV repeating the words ‘treason and ‘abuse of power’ in every segment. That’s the victory. Everything that follows is the gravy.” A show trial. A public smear. 2/

What Trump wants are public investigations and, ultimately, show trials that destroy and bankrupt. He thinks he wins these regardless of the actual trial or its outcome. It’s right out of Putin’s playbook.

It’s past time for Democrats to launch a serious perjury investigation into Emil Bove, who very clearly lied before Congress (unlike James Comey) to cover up his own egregious, unlawful misconduct (unlike Comey). His robes should not shield him from consequences for his brazen law-breaking.

Should this man be in any law enforcement position? Now ask this: do you believe this man will face any consequences for this violent assault on an unarmed, emotionally distressed woman? We can call in complaints to the DHS misconduct hotline: 1-800-323-8603 www.oig.dhs.gov/hotline

Excellent thread on the new EO threatening his political opponents

This is really bad. It won’t get the popular opposition the Kimmel incident did, but it’s way more sweeping and authoritarian. This is an effort to bring the full force of government down on any and all opposition to this administration. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...