It's impossible to overstate how horrendous this feels to most academics in the US, esp those working at state unis. Higher ed is busy slashing humanities programs allegedly b/c of a lack of popularity (tho they tend to make $$) while paying football coaches US$53 million not to work there

Combatting poverty and hunger in this city will take every single one of us. Myself included.

This profile of Dan Driscoll, the man Vance sent to force Ukraine to surrender by Thanksgiving, is interesting. But it doesn't mention that he's the guy Rubio and Republican Senators had to stop from doing Putin's bidding and possibly breaking up NATO. archive.ph/UsukT

Surveying the world of Native cinema for 2025, Indigenous Editor Leo Koziol finds fierce film warriors on the global cultural landscape laying down the challenge to make their voices—and those of their ancestors—heard. Read the full story on Journal: https://boxd.it/2Qc

Miles, an Indigenous actor best known for her roles in “Northern Exposure,” “Smoke Signals,” “Wyvern” and “The Last of Us,” handed them her tribal ID from the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation in Oregon. Yet, Miles recalled one agent calling it “fake.”

It will never cease to amaze me that so many tech bros read Lord of the Rings, decided the hobbits were the bad guys and Sauron and his forces were the good guys, and have built their entire personalities around being corporate ring wraiths.

they will die mad that they've already lost because, crucially and irrevocably, they've already lost

“Ban all immigrants seeking refuge from persecution” is just a perfectly spot-on GOP Thanksgiving message

find it; axe it

In the richest city in the richest country on the planet, the thing we can’t afford is to forget those who are left hungry.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Glad that Matthew Berry is far away from this dude now

Reminder to add TOKYO GODFATHERS to your Christmas movie watchlist this season! Grateful to have given (English, dubbed) voice to the trans anime icon, our beloved Hana, in this Satoshi Kon holiday classic from @gkids.com! Watch it for free on Tubi or rent it on AppleTV!

Even though the ruling class sucks shit and our leaders belong in The Hague and we should eat most billionaires there’s STILL a lot to be thankful for

Wow

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This is a deeply unprofessional and illegal partisan statement from the Trump hack who's currently director of the CIA. It's also deeply dishonest, because the decision to grant the shooter asylum here was made by the Trump administration.

A central dividing point between Bari Weiss et al and actual academics is whether academia (and other professions like journalism and medicine) are real professions that should have some autonomy, or whether they should be subservient to the interests of politicians, culture warriors and capital.

i mean what are these "western values" these guys are so hopped up about? they are directly antagonistic to western europe. they don't believe in civil liberties. they reject democracy. and don't get me started on christianity, they hate their white neighbors almost as much as the brown ones

how do you come back from this, we don't even have broad agreement that people are entitled to choose their representatives and elected officials. there's no baseline of shared values

it's hard to get your mind around how irredeemably broken this country has become. no one in charge at this time seems to understand even the basics of our system of government as written or our stated set of values as a secular society

I lost my job, I can't afford turkey or pie, and my kids have measles. But at least I'm not seeing any trans people in the Macy's parade.

CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG (1968) is on TCM today at 5:15pm ET if you’d like to jumpstart the Dick Van Dyke centenary. It’s part of a day of classic family films, incl. THE ABSENT-MINDED PROFESSOR (1961) + Dr. Seuss' anti-fascism musical fantasy THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T (1953). #FilmSky #TCMParty

If one Afghan nationalist shooter means all Afghan nationalists are evil, wait until I tell you about white male shooters.

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Hence this famous line

She helped destroy public health purely for the love the game

Michael W. Twitty's cookbook celebrates the South’s complicated heritage : NPR share.google/oxz299PgIBA7...

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

If you’re a president with a Supreme Court that makes you a king, you can murder anyone you like without a hint of due process or congressional approval, using the overwhelming force of the US military. Trump’s been doing it. Nobody stops him, or even questions him seriously about it.

So, yeah, I guess that's gonna be a "no" from him, Elton... What an asshole.

Glad we all learned a lesson from Charlie Kirk’s death and are immediately assuming everything about the shooter on day one is stone cold truth.

An 18yo US citizen, surrounded by eight masked, armed agents of the state, taken into custody, not read his rights, not offered a chance to contact a lawyer, proof of citizenship ignored, handcuffed so tightly he later required medical attention. Profoundly, profoundly anti-American shit.

Truly the most rizzless man to ever live

One of the best films ever made

John M Chu make one scene feel urgent challenge

There has always been a type of person who becomes a journalist because they want to get next to power or success or fame. It is dumb to be reflexively cynical and suggest that that is all, or most, journalists. But they're the dangerous ones, and what's frustrating is, they're not hard to spot.

I read the thing and - grotesque journalistic malpractice aside - it’s pretty striking how literally every single person involved is an enormous asshole.

Seriously everything, EVERYTHING about the RFK/Nuzzi/LIzza moment is an argument for a newsroom where you pitch stories in front of each other and editors who shield you from your own worst impulses.

People will die, and are currently dying, because RFK was granted one of the most powerful megaphones in the country. Two people who could have thrown barriers in front of his climb decided not to; there's a sex scandal here but it is not the biggest scandal.

RFK Jr made one dumb lady so horny an entire generation of children are going to die of measles

“‘If Haiti doesn’t warrant TPS, which country does?’ said Guerline Jozef, co-founder of the Haitian Bridge Alliance, a San Diego immigrant rights group. ‘For this news to come on the eve of Thanksgiving is devastating.’” www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-...

So Olivia Nuzzi is clearly a piece of shit who can never work in journalism again after this. And, also, Ryan Lizza is clearly a piece of shit who should never work in journalism again after this either. We're all agree on that, right?

Hey, congratulations to all of Olivia Nuzzi’s horny media critic defenders. Heckuva job!

Secretary Pete Hegseth, a Princeton graduate, was unable to comprehend that photographs create mirror images of their subjects. Here's why affirmative action has lowered the standards of Ivy League admissions.

There really ought to be a special dispensation for what I would describe as “awesome crimes”

Things are obviously bad right now but the Hong Kong classics revival in rep theaters and on Blu and 4K has been a real highlight of the year.