Views | A coordinated political campaign has moved from attacking “critical race theory” to reshaping university governance through partisan board control, putting academic freedom, campus climate, and the democratic mission of higher education at risk.

Misinformation can be unintentional but still damaging. Basic fact (that this article omits): professors are already required to submit syllabi to their supervisors, have those docs reviewed by admin, and are consistently evaluated by colleagues and students. 1/4

'Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict' (Pink Floyd, Ummagumma)

My latest: Mark Carney just delivered the most important speech in recent Canadian history. Now, we wait for the fallout. #cdnpoli www.nationalobserver.com/2026/01/20/o...

if you don't defund the police, you end up with a police state.

accursed fiends beckoned him to leap down among them

I'm convinced that the legacy media's unwillingness to report on all the small madnesses of this criminal administration is the main reason most disengaged voters aren't more pissed off

Last Barney Miller, of course. St. Elsewhere finale also pretty great

Georgia has lost all their 2026 games while the 2026 Gators are undefeated Bringing the optimism into the new year Go Gators 🐊🐊🐊

You should watch this right the hell now

There’s a reason the political right wants to keep people dumb.

George Saunders

Well, fuck them. I’m just gonna professor even HARDER.

Make him hire A GODDAMN OFFENSIVE COORDINATOR

What were the East German secret police called? I forget

#Gators have 3 TD in the first half. Most they have scored in a GAME since the Texas win.

Op-ed: In authorizing #Florida bear hunt, state wildlife officials based their decision on old and outdated 2015 population estimates rather than current science. That's why everyone should oppose it. www.tampabay.com/viewpoints/2... via @sierraclub.org

Why is this reported as some cutesy story every time it comes up, rather than the affront to the Constitution that it is? There is no context in which this is funny, quirky, or just "Trump being Trump." This is not charming patter; it's Putin territory.

I agree 100% with this post. The media's double standard on Trump makes us realize they aren't journalists at all. www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-poop...

New ICE recruiting methods have resulted in half of this group of absolute winners failing AN OPEN BOOK TEST

The Mercury had been the official paper of The University of Texas at Dallas since 1980. That was until students running the Mercury broke off and formed their own paper in response to the university's crackdown on pro-Palestinian expression on campus. unicornriot.ninja/2025/rip-mer...

The New York Times describes Trump demanding his own Justice Department pay him $230 million as a "potential" ethical conflict.

Diego Pavia should have the Heisman

this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.

In Chicago, four vehicles descended and eight ICE agents moved in to kidnap a child. She screams, “I’m 15,” as ICE yanks her from the car and kneels on her neck. This is not about immigration enforcement. It's about terrorizing Americans.

And that is beautiful

PEN America congratulates Hungarian novelist László Krasznahorkai on winning the 2025 Nobel Prize for Literature. A master novelist with a singular style, Krasznahorkai’s novels buffet stories of the apocalypse with profound looks at humanity, art and beauty. www.npr.org/2025/10/08/n...

Of all the ways to get hoisted, the one I hate most is by my own petard

Lodge 49

Nothing from Murmur in replies, weak. How about Catapult?

Tears in my eyes, Go fuckin’ Gators

Milkman by Anna Burns!

Democrats need to begin with the truth: "My opponents' intent is destruction of the public good and theft and murder of the people who live here, which poisons even the few facts they get right; therefore, there's no point in finding common ground; we should seek only to oppose and defeat them."

AI is for writers who don’t like to write but want to have written, and readers who don’t like to read but want to have read. Into the sea with the whole miserable joyless fucking lot of them.

Drive-by Truckers, obviously

The Trump Administration is racist. That's why they call it divisive. Not because history is ideologically malleable, because they are racists, who don't want you to know how racist they are.

In 2014, Israel massacred more Palestinians in 50 days than the total amount of Israelis killed by Palestinians in the prior 30 years. This has never been about a "response" to October 7. Israel has been mass murdering Palestinians for 77 years

Democrats owe it to the country to think through this stuff and be honest with themselves about whether they’re really up for the fight. If they are, they can telegraph it to voters by fighting harder between now and next November. If they’re not, they should yield to new leaders.

Again we see the incoherence of right-wing policy. Rounding up homeless people and imprisoning them *is* housing them! Punitive solutions to this problem also cost a shitload and require a massive bureaucracy. They are fine with providing housing, but only if it is ineffective and dehumanizing.

Leave it to the Swiss to so efficiently summarize my view of life

Just a failure on every level that we were not able to defeat the forces of ignorance, hatred, and incompetence when as you can see anyone who knows anything gets that this is pointlessly self-destructive

One reason Trump says & does whatever he wants is because every societal institution, including the media, has completely normalized & internalized the idea that the laws, the Constitution, & the international treaties we have signed & ratified simply don’t apply to this one guy. It’s maddening.

Imagine you watched me gather the following ingredients: 1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour; 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder; 1/4 teaspoon salt; 1/2 cup unsalted butter, softened; 1 cup granulated sugar; 2 large eggs; 1 teaspoon vanilla extract; 1/2 cup whole milk. www.the-reframe.com/they-know-ex...

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

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