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National News was not showing a massive protest against Trump in D.C.

this guy is the co-founder of Airbnb

Hey, Dems, let's do this: Instead of centrists freaking out about the success of progressives, maybe we could take Mamdani as a model and focus on listening to and delivering for the voters. What if we had big competition among candidates to see who could do most for voters? Just imagine.

"Hiring of college grads is down across the board. But certain majors are able to access opportunities in a wider array of industries, new LinkedIn data shows." ENGLISH ENGLISH ENGLISH 69% VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS 68% www.forbes.com/sites/courtn...

Sign the petition below to challenge newly proposed accreditation policies that threaten to chill free speech, weaken faculty governance, restrict curricular autonomy, and undermine academic freedom. @emergencycampaign.bsky.social

Here come four months of centrists attacking the left with far greater existential fury than they ever aimed at Trump (because they prefer Trump and helped him win):

Would love a deep dive or even a book telling modern US history via stadium names. Tonight’s game will be played in a stadium named after a fintech online lending company and the Lakers now play in Crypto Arena.

you people need to show more respect for the political machinery that lost to donald trump twice

Tell your state leaders to hold utility companies accountable and bring down energy costs action.consumerreports.org/nb-20260512-...

Yes, this is an issue nationally for the Democrats, who can’t seem to learn that the 1990s are over. But the party in New York outside of the City is utterly disorganized, and pretty much invisible.

My cab driver in Staten Island was a Reagan-Bush-Bush-Dole-Bush-Bush-McCain-Romney-Trump-Trump-Trump voter. He said that by nominating Mamdani-aligned candidates, Democrats had just thrown away any shot at getting his vote.

Let's make it happen.

Check out these two ridiculous headlines in which @nytimes.com grants agency to inanimate objects in order to avoid holding Trump directly accountable. Not, 'Trump's Reflecting Pool Makeover Appears To Be A Failure' and 'What Is Trump Hiding Behind The Kennedy Center Tarps?' Feckless absurdity

Her revulsion is palpable. Visceral.

New piece out on feminist anthologies, editorial care, and tender(ness) in Pittsburgh in @asapjournal.bsky.social. Read it, open access, here. dx.doi.org/10.1353/asa....

The art of the deal

This might be the final straw.

Madman theory (the President is negotiating with the voices in his head)

Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

If Trump can avoid falling asleep or shitting himself during tonight’s Knicks game, he can win the expectations game.

Netflix has decided that they are only going to make TV movies.

Make this go viral. What else does he need to know ? Mayor M. needs to hold a press. and confront. 🤷‍♀️

www.tiktok.com/t/ZTBPreBPB/ THIS is why I am steering clear of any investment in AI. Through shell companies, Nvidia is literally manufacturing whole cloth the “demand” for its own product to create a profitability narrative. Same with SpaceX. It’s all smoke and mirrors, and Index funds

Susan Collins is corrupt as fuck.

boycott cbs

A portion of The New School's staff and faculty have just been fired. This is its AAUP chapter's response to another debacle. Sympathy to the affected people and hope that their colleagues can roll at least some of the cuts back

If Democrats do not pair their next electoral victory with a strong record of governance, we are going to be right back in the maws of fascism one election later. trib.al/28zHchV

The whole “info bubble” discourse needs historicization. Why did Black Americans found/read the Black press? The mainstream press legitimized slavery, then spent a lot of breathless time justifying lynching, Jim Crow, and then mass incarceration. So damn, yeah, folks want other info environments.

Something I will never, ever understand is why the DNC thinks I want to receive emails from James Carville.

Suzanne Vega releases “Luka” 39 years ago this weekend. She said she once received a fan letter about it: “Dear Suzanne, Luka is the most compelling piece of music I’ve heard in a long time. There are no words 2 tell U all the things I feel when I hear it. I thank God 4 U, Prince”

Anyone even vaguely left of center spending time online blaming "the Left" for why the US is bad at this point have lost the plot

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

Hasty adoption of AI may erode the scientific culture and human relationships that sustain rigorous research.

Retractions never get proportional attention. This one should.

If you don't have an individual MLA membership, or your English/languages dept isn't a member of MLA's academic program services arms (ADE/ALD), this is a damn good reason to reconsider. These individual & institutional memberships (+ tiny donations) made this lawsuit happen. (MAPS link for depts)

In the lawsuit by the MLA, @acls1919.bsky.social, & @historians.org, the court has ruled that termination by the NEH of grants to support scholars, research institutions, and humanities organizations was “unlawful, unconstitutional, ultra vires, and without legal effect.” www.mla.org/Resources/Ad...

Sox management blames Cora for their mistakes. www.nytimes.com/athletic/723...

Every publication should publish the names and outlets of the people who attend tonight because most of us will want to be sure we never make the mistake of listening to them again.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

“The A.I. industry is so far subject to none of the regulations that govern other dangerous technologies, such as firearms, pharmaceuticals, and environmental chemicals.”

Illiberalism is not Inevitable www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

A thread worth reading

Apparently the NCAA hired NBA refs for the championship game.

BREAKING: For the 11th time, Republicans have blocked Democrats from paying TSA. Republicans have been given ELEVEN chances to send TSA agents their paychecks, but they refuse.

I’m stuck at the gate at JFK because American Airlines won’t post a delay on a flight while waiting for a flight attendant to show up. They claim they don’t know when, as if they had no way to contact the employee.