so much is wrong here, but i’m stuck on the fact that the people who are brutalizing immigrants at court houses and schools couldn’t pass the US citizenship exam.

Save knowledge www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

absolutely shameful that the university has embraced the administration’s demand that it discriminate against its students. this is the board of visitors telling UVA students that if they aren’t white and cisgendered then they don’t belong.

With grave concern, I led a letter with @frost.house.gov  @vanhollen.senate.gov & @merkley.senate.gov pressing the Trump Administration on the detention of Mohammed Zaher Ibrahim, a 16-year-old American citizen who has been held in Israel’s custody since February 16, 2025.   Read the full letter:

These tariffs are being levied to make the state’s coffers large enough to sustain the contracts of Palantir and all the other parasites who enrich themselves on government contracts.

The entire "free speech on campus" moral panic was manufactured to blackmail us into making space in intellectual life for bigots and charlatans who couldn't get there on their own merits. Its a DEI scheme for fascism. Congratulations to everyone who took it at face value.

i expect to be UVA in the hot seat again next year when its black enrollment has not dropped to 0%

This thread brought me a smile

If being against a guy with a Nazi tattoo makes me a purist I guess I'm an anti-Nazi purist. If you think that makes me an anti-Nazi single issue voter, you're wrong, but also it's a pretty good single issue. There is more than a year. Go get another real progressive who doesn't have a Nazi tattoo.

there are good & worthwhile historical & legal arguments for why the unitary executive is nonsense but to my mind the most straightforward argument is that it makes no logical sense that the president has absolute removal power over the people whose job it is to keep the executive branch accountable

This is going to have far reaching implications for all of higher education:

Nothing in this thread really surprises me. But that is my history degree talking

NEW: After The Washington Post reported Monday on the demolition of the "East Wing facade," a new picture obtained by Law Dork that was taken on Tuesday shows that a substantial portion of the entirety of the East Wing has been demolished.

That’s not how I expected the second half of this headline to go. “Part of White House Reduced to Rubble” should be followed by “What the Fuck.”

the other thing i’ll say here is i am a bit frustrated with the narrative of online radicalization that treats it as akin to brainwashing. it lets individuals, families and communities off the hook for the choices they make and the environments they foster

Oh man, the New York Young Republicans implicated in the Nazi groupchat scandal ran up a $23,000 tab eating filet mignon and drinking at a hotel in Syracuse -- a city with one of the highest child poverty rates *in the nation* -- and then refused to pay the bill.

A striking visual of what Trump and his cronies have been doing to government: to Medicaid, the CDC, the EPA, USAID, and many, many other agencies.

SO TRUE.

I never thought I'd be applauding Comey and his defense so hard. Four post thread:

Hey, so another piece of advice for people who are S-Corps: there is a company called Opolis that acts as your employer of record and will provide health insurance and other benefits.

Guy is literally like "oh you guys said No Kings??? Well I'm Kings!!!!!"

It's like the War of 1812 but this time the President is doing it himself

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

also, what an image. the president demolishing a portion of a humble people’s house to make room for his royalist monstrosity

We know they're doing this to citizens in the scores. They're doing the same and sometimes worse to non-citizens in much higher numbers; it's just harder to track. Immigration agents should not be abusing people regardless of their citizenship.

Speaker of the House holding a formal presser to announce that Jesus is the king of everyone in the USA should be getting more attention

Let's see: before the end of June, an estimated 367,000 people had died from USAID cuts. www.medschool.umaryland.edu/media/som/ne... Projections of 14 million preventable deaths by 2030 from these cuts.

A modest proposal from my brilliant colleagues www.michigandaily.com/opinion/op-e...

The US economy is so bound to GenAI at this point that this bubble bursting could be disastrous.

"researchers at MIT recently tracked the results of 300 publicly disclosed AI initiatives [&] found that 95% of projects failed to deliver any boost to profits.…McKinsey & Company found that 80 percent of [companies using GenAI] reported that the technology had no “tangible impact” on earnings."

"Dumps brown liquid."

"No officers were hurt in the mishap, which dropped shrapnel onto the vehicles parked on a ramp to a major freeway that had been ordered closed by Gov. Gavin Newsom.… against the guidance of military officials, who had said it was safe for it to remain open."

Free The #AlabamaPenis Lewd behavior? Give me a break! I saw one of these in my city on Saturday and was just disappointed I couldn't get a photo.

A FIGHTER JET RAINING SHIT

Remember that Bobby Jr wants placebo controlled trials for all vaccines, meaning the placebo subjects will be needlessly infected. He needs a new compliant IRB to have a chance of getting his unethical plans approved.

Dismantling the Institutional Review Board (IRB), that oversees all human subjects research, is bad. Really bad.

US Funding Cuts Could Result in Nearly 9 Million Child Tuberculosis Cases, 1.5 Million Child Deaths www.bu.edu/sph/news/art...

hey this seems bad

Nothing that any elected Democrat has ever said about Republican voters is ever as crass or as cruel as what Trump says about Democratic constituencies every single day, and the media just treats it as background noise.

it really is people who remember WWII vs people who don’t. we boomers grew up within the deep damage that war wreaked on our parents. My students, by contrast, have never been politically conscious in a world without Trump, and this looks normal to them, even if they don’t like it.

This is quite a hed/subhed. 1) Start with Vance. Use strong action verb. Accept the autocratic premise that the “Marines’ Might” are Vance’s to flex. 2) Mention the protest second and absurdly describe them as in the thousands 3) Treat Trump’s strong man use of the military as a partisan scuffle.

A fun (“fun”) new thing we need to address is the time wasted correcting the errors of people who arrive at a conversation having only read the AI summary of a document.

I keep hearing and reading "largely peaceful protests" while Republicans pretended they never predicted otherwise. But we don't need the adverb. They were PEACEFUL protests. I saw many American flags: we had true love of country. Unlike Charlottesville or Jan 6.

if i posted a video of me in a fighter jet dropping poop on joe biden signing the TRICARE trans ban into law, within 5 minutes sarah mcbride and two national lgbtq nonprofit executive directors would be on the ezra kleincast explaining that my rude behavior is why we don't deserve healthcare

DC J6: 1.500 arrests DC No Kings: zero Tell me again which side is violent?

all these people protesting today in groups of a few dozen on the main streets of small towns in deep red Trump country - where they will absolutely take shit from their neighbors about it at church tomorrow or at work on Monday or next time they go to the grocery store - are braver than the Marines

And @operationinflation.com is here on Bluesky too!

And I managed to share this with no text except alt text. These are from Tampa No Kings today. And one more:

I just keep thinking about the first guy to put on the frog costume reading the news today and seeing frogs literally all over the world what a fucking thing, man that 25 year old did more for the country in a week than most of the NYT op-ed section in a lifetime