“What has gone missing are the institutional consequences that disapproval used to trigger. Public opinion is working. The machinery that once converted public opinion into accountability is not. The jury came back. The foreman spoke and then everyone went out to lunch, including the accused.”

The Sovietization of Texas public universities continues at breakneck speed.

To be clear: These people want us dead. Erasing us from history makes erasing us from the present easier, because if we don't have a past or a heritage, how real can we possibly be?

"A powerful cohort of vengeful racists has targeted one of the US's leading anti-racist organisations, but why? An investigation."

In Trump DHS, you can apparently hop from "FEMA Policy Analyst, Region 2" directly to Deputy Assistant Secretary in charge of counterterrorism. www.thedailybeast.com/top-donald-t...

Christian politicians accusing Jewish politicians of being antisemitic for being less pro-Israel than they are is the logical endpoint of our current discourse on antisemitism.

Our very stupid and annoying "Pope" is at it again. He should drive his dumb little car up his own fucking ass. Fuck you! - The President

"A man becomes preeminent, he's expected to have enthusiasms... enthusiasms... enthusiasms..."

Usha Vance Catches Husband Measuring Her Skull Again

Ha. He's talking about Tracy Letts.

Wild that both Billy Dee Williams and Giancarlo Esposito had signifcant stage credits as child actors in Bway & Bway-level productions.

1. I know the idea of "norms" went out with Cheers and technically there's no law about presidential medical disclosures, but the White House and its doctors covering up the president's true medical condition ought to be a Watergate-level scandal

The bargain is clear. As with the Trump admin campaign against "campus antisemitism," Jewish academics are to present only narratives that bolster American exceptionalism, by refusing to relate the Shoah to anything contemporary, or by constructing a "Judeo-Christian" US heritage, as Tikvah does.

The Trump admin muzzling the Holocaust Memorial Museum, while giving the largest grant in the history of the National Endowment to the Humanities, makes the strategy clear. They want to turn academic Jewish Studies into a ward of the state.

every NYT headline is like…They expected pee: poo greeted them instead

Nice to see the term "race suicide" lives on. Even when just echoed.

This job description calling for "5-7 articles a day" seems already tailored to an AI bot. Or at least a writer who relies heavily on AI. The transition is already happening.

These AI acolytes may pose behind "just trying to help" advice but make no mistake, their agenda is definitely to replace the "inefficiency" of a human author's research & process with a more streamlined low-cost/ maxumum-output model for all mass publishing "content." That's the dream.

Maybe a guy who believes people can be teleported places is not someone you want running FEMA disaster response.

native americans determined to not be birthright citizens; deported back to america

To a base that is 75% divorced dads who don’t talk to their kids, this is Churchillian.

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Again, the first Tea Party rallies in April 2009 -- heavily promoted in advance by Fox News -- only had about 300,000 attendees across 750 cities, but the media treated it like the Second American Revolution. There will be multiple *individual* No Kings rallies today that have more people at them.

Yeah, Trump would have taken Hitler out … to dinner.

Trump's slogan is literally "America First," if you want to know how he would have acted in the 1930's.

Robert Mueller Dead At 81 https://theonion.com/robert-mueller-dead-at-81/

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

It is hard to turn an institution into a propaganda outlet but it is much easier to just render it incapable of producing reporting that damages the regime.

is net 0 job creation bad? That sounds bad, but I'm not a highly successful businessman president so I don't know.

friend, this is Marcus Junius Brutus CAESAR has declared himself DICTATOR FOR LIFE and MUST BE STOPPED can you rush a donation of ten denarii today to show that you STAND WITH THE REPUBLIC?

It’s not just annoying at this point; there’s a profound blind spot in media reporting where arts coverage isn’t even worth taking note of.

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

MAGA Voter Claims She Loves High Gas Prices https://theonion.com/maga-voter-claims-she-loves-high-gas-prices/

Timothée Chalamet Under Fire For Dismissive Comments About Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater Form ‘Bunraku’ https://theonion.com/timothee-chalamet-under-fire-for-dismissive-comments-about-traditional-japanese-puppet-theater-form-bunraku/

According to DOGE flunky, a documentary about the experiences of Jewish women's slave labor during the Holocaust is "inherently discriminatory." Come ON.

for those of you who werent adults during iraq, its hard to overstate how much the media loves war porn. they salivate over pentagon spin briefings. they love stories about all the bombs and how supposedly infallible they are. they love the notion of the commander in chief, in the situation room etc

Reporters should ask the administration -- if a foreign power bombed the United States, would they expect the American people to respond by suddenly demanding the Trump administration be removed from power, or would there be a different reaction? Especially if the bombs had hit a girls' school?

One more high scoring player this week: Garrett Eisler @garretteisler.bsky.social racked up 16 points with his film music smarts. Fantastic work! #filmsky #moviesky #musicsky #filmscores #games #fun #quiz

Trump in 2024: I can tell you, you're not gonna have a war with me

Being an antiwar Diaspora Jew at this historical moment means being caught between an Israeli government that thinks we’re disloyal and doesn’t care if its actions lead to more global antisemitism, and populists on right and left who think we’re loyal to Israel above all else.

If I lived in say, the West Bank, Gaza, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Iraq or Iran, and Israel was consistenly attacking my country and killing my friends and families, often with US behind them, I think I might be an "antisemite" in the way the ADL, AIPAC, and the AJC call people who don't like Israel.

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Reupping my 2025 piece about Casey Means, who apparently is about to become our new surgeon general www.nytimes.com/2025/05/12/o...

v early in Mamdani’s term in office but hard to escape conclusion that he’s causing a lot of snowfall

Please someone get this idea over to SNL now! (Or to @colbertlateshow.bsky.social ...?)

So....the Fourth Reich?

Pretty amazing that Arthur Kennedy was basically Arthur Miller's muse in his BIG 3 plays - premiering the roles of Chris in "All My Sons" (1947), Biff in "Death of a Salesman" (1949) and Proctor in "The Crucible" (1953). Quite a run.

RFK Jr.: ‘Time In Hot Cars Helps Babies To Sweat Out Toxins’ https://theonion.com/rfk-jr-time-in-hot-cars-helps-babies-to-sweat-out-toxins/

Freelancer Loves Being Able To Barely Scrape By Livelihood On Own Schedule https://theonion.com/freelancer-loves-being-able-to-barely-scrape-by-livelih-1819579667/