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Before women, the workplace was perfect. It was full of trees. There was no need to labor with your hands. You didn’t have to wear pants, or any form of clothes. Every kind of animal was there. Hmm I may be thinking of something else women supposedly ruined www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

Every story on Page One in Charlotte is about ICE/immigration: @charlotteobserver.com

thanks for having me on @kalwradio.bsky.social www.kalw.org/show/your-ca...

I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution. Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.

“Look, the president is very frank and honest with everyone in this room,” Leavitt said. Wait, so the reporter is a “piggy”? www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Mark my words, teaching will be next. The regime is targeting loans for traditionally female occupations.

🚨BREAKING: historic scenes at #COP30 as Colombia launches the Belém Declaration on fossil fuels, together with a first international conference on a just transition away from fossil fuels - and invites cities and subnationals.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio, the nation’s top diplomat, worked on a secret plan for Ukraine to surrender to Russia, which illegally invaded it twice, with no future security guarantees against Russia trying a third time.

Cheers to the person who leaked the initial changes www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

trump branded what now?

Trump has ended all the worry about China destroying the American-led order by destroying American primacy all on his own. My latest: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

A city of 10 million people is running out of water and sinking by up to 30 cm *every year* But please, tell me again how manageable climate change is.

Thinking a lot lately about the simple fact that college allows people to spend about 15 weeks immersed in a disciplinary conversation with an expert in that field. And what a special thing that is.

Tonight’s dinner convo went from how US places got their names to colonial practices to kids articulating that colonial practices are not nice to 5yo exclaiming “that’s not the Grant way!” Re colonizers. “Grant way” = school’s be kind, be safe, be respectful, be responsible. Ace parenting

United States paid Eswatini $5.1M to accept deportees from third countries, Eswatini’s finance minister confirmed to Reuters.

Right, like some sort of international aid organization or something. Huh, what an idea.

Apparently it's only "identity politics" when women object to being oppressed because they are women. When men oppress women because they are women it's just a day ending in "y."

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

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It's easier to talk about one's pet rather than a child or elder one cares for, and that is indicative of the system we live with: a privatized network forcing us to fend for our selves while never mentioning the young or old people we care for.

When you assemble a squad of thugs and tell them they're above the law, don't be shocked if they start behaving as if they're above the law.

Montclair State is getting rid of its humanities departments. 🤬🤬🤬

Powerful op-ed from Btselem on accountability in Gaza: "Accountability is essential – not for revenge, but because there’s no reckoning without responsibility. Genocide must not be normalized. And a system that carries it out must not go unchallenged." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

“All the threads which led to the Asian expulsion in 1972 are present in the US now. But it’s not the same. The big difference is that there is a counterthrust here, and it’s just beginning. I think this election in New York City is a possible beginning.”

I mean. It's just. "Quiet, piggy." How. How does. The president. Of the United States of America.

Well, it isn't liberals or progressives calling MAGA a bunch of Nazis...it's Laura Loomer.

And to hopefully keep beating, keep spreading that love. "Who can I tell about it when all the vowels are you." Missing my mom so much these past few weeks, and then Nikita Gill posts something that somehow articulates even the feeling of having no words. <3 Thank you.

"But when the Trump Administration reframed its request as a demand to redistrict congressional seats based on their racial makeup, Texas lawmakers immediately jumped on board." — Trump appointee Jeffrey V. Brown, writing for a 3-judge panel storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

here's something i never thought i'd say: hell. yeah, bon jovi

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

Bingo

Translation: I um, have never taken economics... um....

I mean. It’s not rocket science

Excuse me, miss? Your racism is showing.

this is really disgraceful framing for this

to be clear: Brazil not only does not restrict you from immigrating if you're disabled, you can actually be granted residence if your disability involves a long-term medical treatment that you're receiving here.

This. Absolutely. And the post they're quoting as well.

People who did not grow up here will never understand the tears that just erupted seeing TOM SKILLING's name on this

I think I've used up all the wtaf's I have for now... but wtaf

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Hey so “underage girls” are…children. The word you’re looking for is children. They’re not like, women-in-waiting or women-lite or whatever. They’re children. I think some of you are very uncomfortable with what that means for you but it is still true.

*in chicago* alone