Passerby snapped a good one of the Ghia

It’s a beautiful evening to be a democratic socialist

what terrifies these people most is that Mamdani started off in single digits and now he's got Staten Island magas liking his policy proposals. there's no role for the consultant class in an ecosystem where people run on principles

Sunday

Shoutout to whoever was like the news sucks, let’s spice it up by doing a jewel heist at the Louvre

No university that signs the compact will be a university, in the accepted sense, anymore. They will be mere Trump Institutes, teaching only what subjects Trump doesn't bar them from teaching -- and only until he does. Signing is an abdication of responsibility and an act of great moral cowardice.

Again, Kavanaugh justified racial profiling by claiming that this doesn't happen--a justification that becomes more preposterous with each passing day as Trump's goons terrorize more people based on the color of their skin ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/brett...

Just posting this. Everyone knows why.

It’s here!

Basically this was all a game to the right and when Kirk got taken out they’re mad and in panic mode because this wasn’t supposed to be real for -them-

I knew Lear had ended up in a poem of mine and here it is.

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

RIP Jonathan Lear, whose course on Freud changed my life

Let’s mock them still

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

They did it. They fucking did it. They made me like Jimmy Kimmel.

what ezra doesn't seem willing to accept is that charlie kirk was part of a political movement that does not think that "we are going to have to live here with each other" and is fact very interested in the elimination and/or subjugation of many, many people

I am losing my mind

staring straight into the camera and lying. just a despicable person and a poor excuse for a national leader.

I know there are tenured professors out there who breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the A&M firing happened to a non-tenure-track faculty member. It’s going to come for you too, so maybe this is a good moment to do unto others etc.

Went for a drive

Love and companionship would be nice but more importantly: half off rent

When you leave for the weekend and 14 lets you know what’s going on

I caught a recent performance of John Cage’s “4′33″” and thought it was perfect: no notes.

headed into the rest of the week with Trump still alive

Beach read

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

I believe these are the first four academic books to cite an episode of American Vandal, which, like, there will be prizes.

DMV folks: 804 lit salon on August 16th at 7p. Always lmk if you need an invite or want to be added! We will have readings from @vjoshuaadams.bsky.social @Amanda Newell Allie Barkmeier, Molly McGinnis, Bailey Blumenstock, and @ktonbsky.bsky.social www.eventbrite.com/myevent?eid=...

It’s… almost as if the attack on higher ed wasn’t about “make it practical vocational training” but instead “we hate nerds and scolds and poets”

the corollary to the absolutely true “one day, everyone will always have been against this” is that they’ll also never truly forgive you for being loud and right long before they were, unless you play along and pretend for them

Great podcast. Great guest. And, let’s face it, great poem.

A Nazi owns Twitter, right wing billionaires own the Wall Street Journal and the LA Times, and CBS is run by a right wing nepo baby who just fired one of the network’s biggest stars for criticizing Donald Trump. Here’s why America has a left-wing media bias problem.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

Philosophy and literature friends: I am pleased to announce that this book has finally entered the world! Intro and purchase information below!

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

New arrival

One of my all-time faves

How I take criticism

This letter comes from the guy who literally raised his fist to the mob outside the capitol on January 6th!

Hi friends! I know there’s a lot going on right now, most of it bad, but a small good thing—forgive the immodesty—is that today is the publication day of my debut novel, THE NIMBUS! It’s available as a hardcover, ebook, and audiobook from a bookstore near you. Also here: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

LAPD out there like

If seeing a Waymo tagged and on fire upsets you more than a teenager ripped out of his high school graduation by ICE your mind is no longer your own

The enemy of my enemy is still my enemy but I still like seeing them fight

Helloooo bringatrailer.com/listing/1993...

this is with no exaggeration a david duke line

My opposition to generative AI comes from the fact it's a massively wasteful technology built on theft of art and the human experience of creating and viewing art, so if it "works" I actually hate it more.

Alice Notley, you were so honest and real

say it again: 4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities ROI for NIH and NSF for local economies is conservatively 4x, often close to 10x demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

Sunday morning