Anything… and I do mean anything… to draw attention away from the files. Which, (insanely) okay, but after all the other lawlessness & incompetence, will even the most damning material in the files (beyond what’s already been pretty damningly revealed) really change his supporters’ minds anyway?

Time to get George Tenet off the bench?

Uh… things were nightmarishly abnormal before the shutdown. Is that the “normal” you mean? The normal too many media outlets have been helping to normalize?

I assume all European universities would *want* to keep teaching American studies as a cautionary tale, if nothing else

Professor of New Testament position at Wycliffe College in Canada www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DPK391/p...

NEW: ProPublica examined months of Fox News’ coverage and reviewed over 700 videos posted on social media. The network used five-year-old footage, mislabeled other dates and implied footage from elsewhere was in Portland.

Sexual abuse served up as reality tv drama is just sickening. For the survivors and their stories, I hope there is justice at the end of this spectacle.

Definitely more active and vibrant my second time out. Gorgeous. What an amazing thing.

Honestly, just say no to reposting over-edited, over-color-adjusted aurora pics😩😉

It is hard to get over that the Q-Anon folks spent years feverishly looking in pizza parlors for the cabal of rich, elite pedophiles and it turns out THERE WAS ONE, right in front of their noses, which they failed to identify and instead voted for three times in a row.

Current view. It’s early; I plan to go out again later.

Fellow Humanities prof here. Yup👇

Local meteorologist is saying great aurora viewing tonight, with clear skies. I’ll be out there!

This is FAR from the most important thing being revealed by document releases but I an astonished to learn that all these elites write emails like they're Zoomers on a text chain. It completely undermines years of teaching college students that emails are a professional form of communication.

Why today so suddenly? Anyone have a clear answer?

Another gift link. This is good, a review of how we got here and where things stand. “Mr. Trump and his subordinates had, in essence, riled up a conspiratorial fervor among his supporters that has now backfired in the absence of significant new evidence in the case.”

“In a message obtained by Congress, the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein wrote that Donald J. Trump spent hours at his house with one of Mr. Epstein’s victims.” Sharing as a gift link:

"Trump seems committed to turning the U.S. into a petrostate, solidifying its position as the world’s largest oil and gas producer and exporter. ... China is becoming an electro-state, the world’s largest manufacturer, exporter and overseas investor in clean energy technologies." By Lyuba Zarsky.

I’m tired and sick of the almost daily emails (looking at you Chronicle) which offer me things (workshops, training, etc) all built on the shaky or outright false premise that “the AI era” in education is a fait accompli. It’s not, and it’s insane to simply be resigned to it.

Records obtained by ProPublica indicate that food banks across the country were expecting more than 27 million pounds of chicken, 2 million gallons of milk, 10 million pounds of dried fruit and 60 million eggs that never arrived. (Published October)

I’ll join the fun

For @thenation.com and @typeinvestigations.org, I looked into American Landmark, a major landlord filing evictions far more than the national average. I found they are owned by an Israeli company with ties to the IDF, including during the Gaza genocide. (1/10) www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Broke: people driving around with their high beams or “brights” on Broke: newer cars and trucks whose low beams are blindingly brighter than old cars brights

Not to mention that OpenAI and other parent companies themselves are always/already storing and taking ownership of anything you input.

Cruel and chaotic, like so many other things. Good reporting. Gift article.

“Why does anyone need ethics or a sense of justice,” they ask while committing grave acts of injustice. But the minute anyone “wrongs” them in the slightest: “Why doesn’t anyone believe in morality anymore?!”

Cruel and chaotic, like so many other things. Good reporting. Gift article.

The construction industry, where more than a quarter of workers are foreign-born, has long struggled to find enough workers. Now, industry officials say Trump's immigration crackdown is making it worse.

This is my Chinese cave gecko. It caves less than the Democrats.

How we doing, Eagles fans? Cheeseheads?

Well deserved head and neck rub for this pretty lady

no quote about the US political system has ever gone harder than this one

Despite consistent demands from both the Israeli government & its opposition that Israel be allowed to veto, Türkiye is prepping more than 2,000 of its soldiers to be deployed to the Gaza Strip and expects that the US will override Tel Aviv. Türkiye's role has greatly expanded since November 1st.

This is very cool. I would not have assumed, though it makes perfect sense, how much language he drew from the news article. This would make such a great lesson on primary sources and the different types of documentary evidence, historical memory, and the economic & labor history of the Great Lakes!

Concerning, not only for those immediately impacted, but as with shocking events anywhere now, this will quickly take on a social media/conspiracy life of its own. Hindutva groups/ actors won't waste time pinning this on already/always embattled minority communities. Praying for calm and truth.

And we should honor the German connections all the more because of the great Friedrich Max Müller. There's a Muller Bhavan (Goethe-Institut) in Delhi named in his honor. Wouldn't be surprised if the word Bhavan itself has interesting I-E connections.

Indo-European linguistic connections like this are so cool. So too, "pur" or "puri" (British spelling, "pore") in many place names in India, e.g., Jodhpur, Jaipur, Kanpur. Another example: "knowledge." Greek "γνώ" as in gnosis, Sanskrit "ज्ञा" as in jnana, and English "kno" as in know/ledge.

not enough chatter about how frequently members fly and how attacking airport capacity directly affects them in a way that cutting SNAP does not

🧵and photos for the history folks 🗃️

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

A horrid thing about our moment (last couple decades) is that we keep getting into these self-inflicted crises *directly caused* by GOP incompetence & corruption, & yet every single one somehow gets framed as the Dems’ responsibility. And too often, the Dems oblige by going along with that narrative

50th anniversary of this Great Lakes tragedy, the wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. Its fascinating, and adds to the lore, that there are still multiple freighters of the same type (some of which were with the Fitz on that night, and helped in the initial search) still plying the lakes. More below.

some helpful takes in the replies, including this thread. one question being how likely Dems are to filibuster on the other side of this bsky.app/profile/stem...

It’s great that at his age he’s still “got it” to this degree. Gotta respect the man for the way he continues to speak truth and fight.

Student-initiated petition to save the BA in Theology and Religion at the University of Nottingham. Please do sign. www.change.org/p/stop-the-r...

The craziest part is that Republicans could’ve ended the shutdown on their own anytime they wanted. 50 senators is all it would take. But they didn’t feel like it. Which is accepted as a premise, so fixing things becomes Democrats’ responsibility, and apparently enough Democratic senators agree.

A Sudanese medical group has accused the RSF of trying to hide evidence of mass killings in Darfur by burning bodies or burying them in mass graves aje.io/ha15f7

As it should be, if the church is being remotely true to its founder

Hear me out 1: There’s a lot of money (think sports betting) riding on this potential senate “deal” and some of them are in on it. Hear me out 2: Some of them are so grossly anti-Mamdani that they want to stick it to their own party and voters after what happened last Tuesday.

Groceries saw their biggest jump in nearly three years last month, a worrisome sign for inflation-weary shoppers. Tariffs are contributing to higher prices for imported staples like bananas and coffee.