The center-white punditocracy spent ~2 decades sarcastically scare-quoting through takes like "Oh, sure, Oberlin students. Eeeverything's about gender and race. Eeeverything's about how white men perform their masculinity & their whiteness." Next thing you know: Pete Hegseth & UFC White House Night.

Total lifetime charitable giving by these five parasites is ~$10 billion, or 0.4% of current net wealth, equivalent to the median American donating a total of $771 since they were born. (The parasites have another ~$30 billion in fake "philanthropy," money sent to tax-avoidance funds they control.)

Joe Rogan is just a racist, stupid piece of shit. Always has been. He's a cancer and a symptom of illness all at once.

One thing academia should do is shame, shun, and remove the growing number of academics who see a quick path to right-wing favor by publishing right-wing conclusions then later cobbling together drivel & slop to support it. This is the same thing Ilan Wurman did with his birthright "scholarship."

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I am begging people to realize that police do not use this technology is not a "jumping off point" or an "investigative lead"--the computer spits out a name and police arrest that person without follow up. How many people have to spend months in jail "by accident" before we consider the danger?

PELLEY: “.. And about four hours after our deadline, Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent?” @nytimes.com #$PSKY www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

republicans left the city en masse and you will absolutely believe what happened next

What I will remember about Anthony Head is that he was willing to retake photos and resign autographs if you'd changed your name I will remember Anthony Head said Trans Rights

I got to tell you, professional managerial class liberals are unfuckingbearable. Nothing will turn you into a class trailer more than having to deal with them. A grotesque bunch. I mean they're still better than Republicans but whatever.

An absolutely insane story from @telliotter.bsky.social about a US government employee who exposed Elon Musk's DOGE for accessing and exfiltrating sensitive data. Days after he went public, he was driving his car and discovered his brakes had been cut.... www.wired.com/story/he-ble...

Chris Cillizza is such a feckless, simpish, unremarkable troll cosplaying as a truth-to-power media critic. he's so foundationally embarrassing I'm surprised he isn't in charge of CBS or CNN yet

The racists on the Supreme Court need to be hounded. In the press and in their private lives. Fuck them.

this court would authorize all-white primaries if it could find some facially neutral means to do so

It is with great sadness I say: fuck off dude www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/b...

🚨BREAKING: All I can say is this is fucking so cynical I have no words. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Scott Pelley is an American hero and Nick Bilton is a joke of a man.

Here was DHS’s statement at the time.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

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So I really love the absolute line so far, interesting and fresh takes, but it's such a turn off narratively when things in Batman get absurd. The entire stretch where he's in Ark M in issue 10 is edgelord nonsense.

A lot of white people learned about the Tuskegee experiment during the pandemic and believe that is the reason Black people don't trust the medical establishment. This is not true. Black people don't trust the medical establishment because the Tuskegee experiment is not an outlier.

The genocide of Indigenous people in Canada never stopped. It's an ongoing process that we need to dismantle. www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

Yet another example of a polling agency actively participating in spreading an actual, serious and consequential lie to the public. Fossil fuels are more expensive. Clean energy is cheaper. @yougov.co.uk is very literally lying in this poll, and there should be actual consequences for this

Holy shit

I'm old enough to remember when a highly regarded senior scholar accused me of "cynical framing" (and worse) for suggesting that Wurman's "scholarship" was generated entirely for the purpose of being cited, and not because it was the result of sincere scholarly exploration. Whoopsies.

Absolutely nothing is stopping John Cornyn, Tillis, Murkowski, & Paul from caucusing immediately with Democrats & giving them control of the Senate. The same is true of Thomas Massie & any 2 retiring GOP Reps in the House. It is a choice to continue caucusing with the authoritarian personality cult.

As an example of how the push to erase transgender people is elite-driven: The captains of Oxford's rowing clubs opposed the ban. It was imposed against their wishes. That's how elite-driven it is: it's not even "Oxford student"-level elite. It comes from "Oxford University admin"-level elite.

one thing that is so flagrant yet stunning to me here is the gloat about how he abused mainstream media's trust in his expertise to become "the guy" who promotes a particular ideology without actually putting in scholarship...

The Atlantic is so funny, >50% of their content is soothing drivel for reactionary dullards. It is not difficult to find "a coherent explanation" for economic pessimism unless you have carefully constructed an information bubble around yourself.

You'll need to go for a long walk to calm down after you read how the UK got to here on trans rights. If you're only ever going to read one piece on trans people, this would be the one.

This is pretty shockingly evil. Wild (if not surprising) that Washington does this while maintaining that Cuba is a threat to the USA.

No it the fuck was not.

I loooooove Karnilla

“Bust a Move” turns 37 today — a milestone in crossover rap. People called rap “music that you slam your door to after you argue with your parents,” said Young MC. “My record wasn't necessarily rebellious, but it was clever enough to grab in a decent segment of people who didn’t listen to rap.”

Laura Gillen (N.Y.), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.) and Eugene Vindman (Va.) are all on the Congressional Equality Caucus. Email [email protected] and tell them to resign from this caucus. If you are a registered Democrat, it is a priority.

i was asked recently if i thought clarence thomas saw himself as a villain. i said yes and this is a good example. he is totally bloodthirsty and loves the idea of the government executing people.

Jamie Dimon is a piece of shit who should be publicly reviled though.

It's fascinating (and perplexing) that Justices Kavanaugh and Barrett were willing to join in a "DIG" (keeping the lower-court rulings intact), but apparently *not* willing to join in Justice Sotomayor's concurrence, which is all about why the lower courts were *right.*

this was HR 2616 which also bans books by or about trans and nonbinary people from schools START CALLING YOUR SENATORS NOW CIS FRIENDS TRANS KIDS NEED YOU

This is legitimately insane, even for a greedy sycophant who would murder his own children for money.

Under the thesis that "when you're explaining, you're losing," I guess this bogus argument from this trivial-taxpayer is encouraging. How about we tax him at the same effective rate as that teacher in Queens? At the very least, that would inject a dose of fairness into the situation.

Of course Scott Galloway can't imagine people being motivated by anything other than financial interests, nor that his occasionally repulsive comments might elicit actual responses from people rather than bots. He doesn't seem to understand politics or people at all. @pivotpod.bsky.social

After covering a busy week of #SCOTUS news, today’s “One First” takes a deep dive into justices testifying before Congress—how it used to be a regular occurrence (and not just to ask for the Court’s budget), how it’s petered out over the last 15 years, and why we should really make it a thing again:

Written by the health "reporter" at the NYT who is constantly questioning every minute detail of youth gender care, seen here writing with praise about conservatives abusing testosterone.

It’s AI getting booed, yes, but importantly it’s also a billionaire carrying a billionaire’s smug confidence getting repeatedly humiliated by young people with absolutely no way to escape.

I'm sorry, what? In writing my first monograph, I spent six weeks trying to track down a citation in TWO languages I didn't know. And good thing too, because the citation was wrong. That's scholarship. That's research. You know, the thing we're trained to do?!?