This is like those embarrassing Iranian monarchists, only they're not even part of the group being oppressed.

I'm working on a guide for community opposition. There's going to be so many ways to make this impossible to materialize if people are willing to put in the work. Local community efforts dealing with zoning, building codes, etc will be vital. We must stop this www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

I had European intellectual history courses as an undergrad at a regional public in Missouri and it was great and the class was full and the austerity comes from administrations, not enrollment, and austerity then causes dips in enrollment that are seen as proof of its own rightness. I hate it.

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back. Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

(3) But the Democrat view is also bad: while it's fine for people at Princeton and Harvard to study Latin and Sanskrit, public higher education is about job training and $ ROI. There is no room for the idea that curiosity-driven inquiry is a good that should be supported by the public.

This is what the customs and border patrol has always been: a fascist death machine

Yes exactly right. For example the attempt to deport Ozturk for writing a critical oped about Israel and her university's complicity in its actions not only violates her rights, but also the rights of citizens in the US to read her writing.

a stat i always cite is the number of anti-trans articles in the press went from 60 in a year, to 7,500

the idea that this was a popular backlash to a socially dominant 'woke' worldview, pushing pronouns down all of our thoughts is absurd a decade ago most brits did not hold well defined views on this, there was a bi-partisan consensus for tolerance

pure elite capture - the uk just folded to a hardline anti-trans campaign pushed by a tiny number of people www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...

There are humans behind CoreCivic! Damon Hininger should be prosecuted and we should start saying that NOW. bsky.app/profile/rbre...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Over on threads someone just use ai;dr and we all need to adopt that right quick

I have this theory that most of the US's math curriculum of arithmetic through calculus is based on a model designed to train rocket scientists in the 1950's and I wonder if that's actually true, and if we just redesigned the non-specialist math curriculum from scratch, what might result.

Instead of taking this at face value, think of it as a *hit list* of targets that billionaires would like to eradicate. Translators, historians, broadcasters, political scientists... ...now do you get the picture?

The pronoun labeler, which was by far the most useful labeler on the site, was deleted by its creator. But thanks to @ripperoni.com there’s a new one available. I highly recommend it. It’s a great way to share your pronouns or see someone else’s pronouns at a glance. bsky.app/profile/pron...

Despite bread’s central place in Arab societies, the region lags in wheat production, and its heavy reliance on imports has impoverished local farmers, writes Abdel Tawab Barakat ⬇️

Under Starmer, recognised refugees can no longer reunite with their children. Recognised refugees. Denied the right to reunite with their children. It’s diabolical. Worse than anything the Tories did. & no, the racists are not & never will be satisfied. So yes, he’s hated.

If you have a ring camera, it is possible to return it and get a refund, and looking into doing so might be well worth your time. bsky.app/profile/tris...

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.

Ok I’ve been picking up some followers so let me do an intro I am an accounting student that used to work in international affairs. I freelance write and run a newsletter that is proudly not on substack on American and international politics the-haters-guide-to-international-politics.ghost.io

somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

‘Living in today’s America reminds me of nursery school torment. The reigning tyranny; the men who brutalise the innocent – like the boy with the hammer – because they can; the people who, like my mother, say this can’t be true, life can’t be that terrible.’ Yiyun Li: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/fe...

Heat pumps are quietly one of the most sci fi pieces of tech on the market Part of an efficiency revolution that should get so much more attention, but the entire tech sector is mesmerized by AI

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

These look really interesting!

Went walking in the snowy woods and saw all the colors at once.

Horror movie where you can tell someone’s a demon because pop music in Spanish makes their head explode

in an era when carnivore diet influencers are in charge of the american nuclear arsenal we have to admit the "annoying vegan" stereotype barely ever actually existed and the "all meat diet guy" is real, increasingly omnipresent, and way more annoying and inconvenient to actually be around

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

(what are we wearing?) CLOTHING! Warm and comfy winter clothing!

which pun am I making huh??!? www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

This Super Bowl Sunday, I’d like to introduce you all to the magical curse bowls used in Upper Mesopotamia and Syria in late antiquity. Written in Mandaic (as here) or Syriac Aramaic, they trap demons who trespass on a household by sucking them in with spiraling spells to the center of the bowl.

The authentic sounds of musical instruments used in ancient times 🎶 #saturdayvibe 📹 Bilimtüel

Times article has an incredible illustration

Loot that drops after defeating me: Cabbie hat Laptop with a mess of folders you may have some difficulty navigating 4 different library/university cards Bike multi tool Flashlight If I'm on my bike: the bike itself plud saddle bags w: pump lube spare tube lightweight folding camp chair

Om nom nom

I mean sure if you don't usually cook Vietnamese you won't have another use for those ingredients, if you do they'd be pantry staples... this didn't occur to her did it?

Probably the most obvious example of a successful hate campaign from monied interests on the right.

You’re not crazy. The anti-trans movement is not organic; it was funded by pedophilic billionaires like Jeffrey Epstein who backed a network of conservatives to accuse the same people they were sexually abusing of being the real danger. @madycast.com exposes the truth in our in-depth report.

Are you studying, researching or teaching the histories of race and ethnicity? Try using the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH). It contains 670,000+ resources from 55 BCE to today! Find out how to use BBIH buff.ly/yD11954 @brepols.net

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

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My friend Vevian Zaki @vevianzaki.bsky.social has started a blog called "Margins speak: Hidden voices from Christian Arabic manuscripts". Big bonus: Posts are in both English and Arabic. Check out Vevian's fascinating first post on a "thief blessing":

Film Review: 'Happy Birthday' is a tender portrait of a child maid in Cairo, exposing class divides through one girl's innocence, resilience and longing:

It feels like it's been impossible to get people outside of higher ed to understand that eliminating staff/programs/majors is primarily an ideological project, whatever claims are made about finances. What's happened at the Post is what's been happening in higher ed for ages.

I was just denied entry to the Dilley detention facility while my constituent, seven-year-old Diana, remains inside. What kind of sick, horrific conditions are children being forced to endure in there? I will be back tomorrow. Accountability can’t wait.

Mind you, the culture war that filled MAGA's sails started with the lie that people in my profession no longer teach Shakespeare. And you can be sure this washes over every single one of those hypocrite 'defenders of the West' as it would performed for a dog alacritously nosing its own shit.