Ever since I saw this film (Clash of the Titans, 1981) I've been waiting for someone to do this sort of video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AJi...

This meme, a grasping attempt to make oppression look symmetric in the US, is getting popular on the right. Vile as she is, Helen used to read books. Now her brain's the same fascist homogenate as the rest of them.

Not that it matters, but have they even collected enough tariff revenue to offset the ag losses?

Yep, PJM capacity auction. www.monitoringanalytics.com/reports/Repo...

Not totally sure what auction this is referring to, presumably the recent capacity auction? *DATA CENTERS ADDED $7.3 BILLION IN SUPPLY COSTS IN PJM AUCTION

The fine tuning these clerks are about to do to let Trump fire Cook without opening the door to further abuse will be darkly fascinating to see.

🚨 Fuel crisis in Russia: - 38% of refining capacity offline - 2.5 million barrels/day. - Ukrainian strikes directly responsible for 1.7 million barrels/day - 70% of offline capacity - 25% of total refining capacity in Russia. - Supply is now just 80% of domestic fuel demand.

Buckle is just correct about reactionary centrists in the UK, they are a genuine threat to our democracy and will have us down the same path as the USA. Seeing how much of the authoritarian drive in the US has been due to elite acquiescence has shaken me. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

I continue to think that one of the reasons this country is falling apart is the wholesale abandonment of public virtue as a broadly shared aspiration. Or even something people should be embarrassed about if they don’t have it.

NEW: In a scathing 161-page order, a judge finds Kristi Noem + Marco Rubio knowingly conspired to chill free speech by trying to deport pro-Palestine students. He likens ICE's masking to the KKK: "ICE goes masked for a single reason -- to terrorize Americans into quiescence."

all the kids are passing around brand new copies of “johnny got his gun”

the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability

with alt text

peak performance

I was wondering when the evangelicals would turn hard against the LDS…for the same reason more conservative Muslims will never be accepted into that fold there are legit doctrinal issues between the LDS and other denominations, especially evangelical, and Christian nationalism won’t include them

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Counter point, club sandwiches that are quartered…

while you were out having premarital sex we studied metaphysics. and now that the world's is on fire and the fascists are at the gates you have the audacity to ask us what grounds the grounds?

Analytic philosophers - this is it, this is the moment that the grounding literature actually becomes relevant to something.

I can't bring myself to relisten to this cos I think I am too cringe but fwiw I *think* it's in this podcast I say something very similar to what Coates is saying here. As I've gone on I've more and more come to think that it's actually functional and important that I be astrategic in a certain way.

@edqjournal.bsky.social @sagepub.com L. Schmahmann @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social‬: City Competition for E-Commerce SalesTax Rev:Qualitative Evidence on Politics of Land Fiscalization in CA. @upjohninstitute.bsky.social: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNLF... Paper: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

That should just launch Edge where you can just be "looking something up for work"

LOOOOOOOOOOL

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

the jeffersonian tilt of anti-trust is one reason, imho, some of its loudest advocates occasionally fall into a reactionary producerism, whereby the small business owner is always Good and anyone who seeks to limit their autonomy is Bad www.theargumentmag.com/p/the-proble...

man I am going to get just *hosed* by this paulkrugman.substack.com/p/understand...

Who called it Prozac instead of Pepto Dismal

I still remember clearly the first time I saw Yggy deploy “woke” as a slur and I knew the reactionary word had turned. He used it merely as a way to mock and silence Black people concerned about police brutality and not its broader incoherent usage now, but I consider him patient 0 on this

handled this one myself bsky.app/profile/mmas...

the other half of this that I've never really gotten over: this all but explicitly amounts to valorizing being "asleep". people are really out here wielding "I have no idea what's going on, historically speaking" as a credential

Holy shit. "When groups are built around wank-statements that both purport to be objective and have the full measure of emotion and identity preventing challenge or implementation, you have to be able to agree exactly with the statement being made to be a part of the group...

You can disagree with how Eric Adams ran the city, but you have to admit he won the war against rats.

HUH!

I'm being silenced.

The lecture materials profs will have, assuming we still have unis, across like 8 distinct fields of this admin’s malign incompetence is endless. Just a parade of what *not* to do at the highest possible levels

prophesying the downfall of the roman invaders and all the sellouts who collaborate with its blasphemous regime to keep judea from exercising independence: definitely not legal. in fact, the usual punishment for this kinda behavior - and hang on b/c this is a wild coincidence - was crucifixion.

This move exploits an unreconciled tension in 1A law in that "government speech" is said to be unbridled by the 1A, and also spending money is speech, but also discriminatory government funding has serious 1A limitations. I explore the tension a bit here: knightcolumbia.org/content/gove...

Nick Valencia, who has been doing amazing reporting, just wrote about this: “These Are Abductions.” Newlywed Husband Says Wife Taken During Green Card Interview open.substack.com/pub/nickvale...

The president of the United States seemingly can no longer discern between fantasy and reality. This is somehow less of a crisis for our legacy news media institutions than the previous president having a stutter and sometimes mixing some names up.

"AI is going to replace actual teaching & instructors & solve the problem of unplugging 20-25% of the entire budget of every research university in America" is an incredible revealed preference. I mistakenly believed we were trying to educate students & conduct actual research. How naive of me.

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

Courage is always an option.

I think what haunts me about “I woke up feeling the cheesiest, Coach” is that it necessarily means the wheels of cheese need sleep

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Yikes this is sobering

Portland is like the last city you’d need to worry about engaging in illegal vaccine trades…the naturopaths and libertarians are always on the cusp of tipping that whole metro area over into some new random outbreak

MAGA: “Stop accusing us of dogwhistle racism, your wokeness alienates real Americans.” Liberals *nervously*: “Oh no, what if they have a point?” MAGA: “Anyway, so the inferior races (Muslim, black, Latino) are genetic pollution” Liberals *sweating profusely*: “Uhh let’s talk about.. healthcare??”

MAGA is very open about how its main grievance is “we hate people who aren’t white.” What is truly shocking, though, is how media and Democrats, having been bullied into treating accusations of racism as per se hysterical, feel obliged to pretend that there’s some kind of substantive complaint here.