These scenarios are as upsetting to contemplate as the most perverted fan fiction

Not even small children find going to the bathroom as emotionally and aesthetically interesting as those fucking cartoon bears do. A culture that wishes us to feel that fulfilled by *waste elimination* is a culture that is trying to make us something other than and less than human

“War on Christmas”

The takeaway is that broad, full spectrum demands once held back must be made now.

"Figure out how we can put this on a press release" seems like the driving force behind the entire AI bubble

The majority of UMD faculty are nontenure researchers on federal funding. Hundreds of our public servants are threatened by MAGA science cuts. We're asking our bosses for simple things to keep people whole or provide dignified exits. If you work at UMD or have worked with us, please sign and share

"What's the point of standards?" is pretty much the battle cry of the Right's "intellectual" sphere

Yesterday, when Bovino announced ICE would be returning to Little Village today, some of us donated and fundraised to buy out street vendors in the neighborhood. This morning, volunteers hit the streets at 6:30 am, looking for vendors to buy out. Tamales make an excellent breakfast.

On November 11, 1887, four anarchists were hanged, after being found guilty of murder of a cop in Chicago's Haymarket Square, though the prosecutor admitted that they were actually tried for being anarchists.

Their political philosophy hinges on a vision of white supremacy in which people who aren’t white are here at the privilege of white people, which they can revoke at any time, which they expect to be received with gratitude.

I told y'all, the compact failed. They've pivoted back to one-off deals with institutions.

Let me run the Bond franchise and I’ll blow him up at the end of every movie. Maybe several times within each movie if it feels right. He’ll be back the next movie (or scene) and nobody will talk about it, but man are we gonna explode that guy a LOT.

💀

They glue Daniel Craig back together and he bolts upright and says “see, I was shaken, not stirred”

So many problems are a product of treating individual tactics as 1) strategy or 2) identity.

Feeling annoyed at the cognitive cost of having to dismiss all the offers of "AI" assitance every time I use Acrobat to provide feedback on documents my students wrote. (NO I do NOT want an "AI" summary of this. In what world???) Decided to check settings:

The definition of "race ideology," which will likely be banned at Texas A&M, includes "accus[ing a race or ethnicity] of being oppressors in a racial hierarchy or conspiracy." That's functionally a ban on teaching vital swaths of American history.

Rick Scott was CEO of a large, for-profit healthcare company called HCA. While Rick Scott was CEO, HCA stole so much money from Medicare they were fined $1.7 Billion.

It’s never “companies don’t want to pay a fair wage,” but “companies can’t find workers.”

The problem from their point of view is that rapid decarbonization requires public, collective decisions about the organization of production, in a way that threaten capital-owners' authority over both the production process and the political system.

Every time someone’s like “put that in the louvre,” my head now goes “and then steal it from the louvre, the security password is louvre”

Damn near half of my career consists of tracking Republican challenges to the ACA and I’m twenty years in the game

Why is it I get the sense the Democrats ended the shut down not despite the string of Democratic victories, but because of them?

PSYCH’S OWN skyler gisondo

More than 15 Senate Democrats join GOP to advance nationwide ban on hemp products, including CBD gummies,

This Washpost oped is every bit as awesome as its headline

having a conversation with the Amazon AI chatbot, so lifelike!

Did anyone else just see this banana pants Park Police ad?

UCPD has charged four UC Berkeley undergrads with *felony vandalism* because they attempted to hang a cardboard bug on Sather Gate.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

We were told they couldn’t fight or even talk about anything else because health care was the winning hand.

The number of people who think you can only hold *Republicans* to account is vastly smaller than it was even a few days ago.

If you’re seeing this viral claim that Trump is working on 15-year car loans, it’s fake.

I am. Read the 3 chapters and join me!

What if I told you that the University of Michigan was one of the most infamous offenders of faculty and student rights during McCarthyism? It feels like their current moves targeting student protestors are in alignment with this dubious honor. specials.michigandaily.com/2025/opinion...

In this moment, there should be a broad, but rebuttable presumption that anyone holding a position of significant institutional power should be removed.

They want to control students and faculty and want to be able to blame the federal government for the restrictions.

Like Roe was a political issue until they did nothing to protect it, and then it wasn’t?

I spent today at a work conference that had a LOT of AI stuff and somehow I managed to find an entire day of good panels that were people with experience and insight with none of that nonsense.

I have plenty of yell for all of them.

Whether to fight is actually what is at issue

Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints" www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

it’s absolutely astounding democrats think getting republicans on the record opposing ACA subsidies is a win when republicans have screamed loudly for fifteen years that they want to end Obamacare

They held the line for more than three years. Three fucking years. Incredible.

The best thing you can do for yourself next year is to join an organization if you can.

Once again, a lot of people’s worldviews are shattered right now, and they are potentially open to new ways of thinking and acting.

Worth considering why one would choose not to maintain a filibuster against Trump in order to ensure you have it in other circumstances.

This is grotesque