The war will end when Russia stops fighting. Therefore, pressure has to be put on Russia, so that they stop believing that they will win. Why is that so hard to understand?

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I was listening to a podcast of authors talking about "bad review" parties where everyone brings their most brutal review to try to win a predetermined prize. Academics should do this with peer reviews. I think my "amusing at best, waste of academic time at worst" is a strong contender.

Here’s what is interesting about this answer: It is not a “no.” bsky.app/profile/just...

I'm not sure why the Biden administration didn't release the files when they were in power, but I am 100% sure that if they had Leavitt and all the other MAGA flaks would have howled that Biden was "weaponizing government" to "attack his political rivals" or something.

Jeffrey Epstein in 2018: "i know how dirty donald is."

Our leading news organizations turned a cache of ultimately-innocuous emails into a scandal-coded weeklong series of front page stories leading into the 2016 election. If they do not cover the "emails from notorious pedophile implication the President" emails with the same fervor, it's curious!

You know, Democrats, there really isn't an upper limit on the amount of outrage you can have over the president of the United States being a child rapist. It should be the primary, if not the only thing you talk about. Go ballistic because it's the right thing to do.

"Epstein mentioned Trump multiple times in private emails, new release shows." www.cnn.com/2025/11/12/p...

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An update on Subu Vedam by my friend and colleague Russell Frank. www.statecollege.com/articles/col...

Absolutely, positively. And for the Caribbean boat strikes, too.

This is an actual photo of when a guest passed out at the Oval Office today.

There it is. That’s a HUGE part of the reason Trump & the oligarchs love the Gilded Age — the era before the income tax. They want to shift the tax burden back to consumers & working people while the robber barons celebrate their biggest tax cuts in US history. That’s also why Elon decimated govt.

Impeach RFK Jr. If things go on, North America is on track to becoming a hotspot for permanent measles transmission. Canada could lose its measles-free designation this week. We are not be far behind. 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/meas...

This is looking like a very good night for democracy and sanity. What a relief.

BREAKING: Pennsylvania voters approve to retain three state Supreme Court justices, NBC News projects, preserving Democrats’ 5-2 majority on the state’s high court.

Authoritarians don't give good reasons and facts, they'd rather not be questioned at all. They'd rather "because I said so" is the end of the conversation. They're "cognitively irresponsible" and unaccountable.

I fail to see the problem here.

If you thought Trump was Marie Antoinette saying to the hungry "let them eat cake" or a partying Gatsby-era rich guy indifferent to the hungry, it's worse than that. He's now openly defying a court order, refusing to release SNAP benefits to stick it to Dems...more than willing to let people starve.

Any day now...since 2016.

what fucking lines

This was $8.99 last year.

1: I'm not sure if JD Vance is someone who should gauge what is 'normal'. And, 2: F*ck that Nazi racist pos.

15 million Americans are going to lose their health care.

Celebrating the great Joseph Turow: the latest issue of Advertising & Society Quarterly includes an conversation between him and Susan Smulyan, and excerpts from Joe's retirement presentation and Sarah Banet-Weiser's praise for him at the Annenberg School at UPenn. muse.jhu.edu/pub/21/artic...

Rep. Rosa DeLauro: "On the food stamp issue, the money is there! Let them not get away with saying they can't do it. Their political will isn't there to feed the people who rely on the SNAP program which is the most effective anti-hunger program in the USA."

"Not only is Donald Trump not here, not negotiating, Mike Johnson has now shut down the House for 39 consecutive days. There's no one to negotiate with. Across town, Trump is building a $300 million ballroom while he is set to let Americans starve." -- @repstansbury.bsky.social

That VP ended up being the voice of reason who told Mike Pence “of course you can’t steal the election for Trump.”

This petulant moron destroyed part of the White House last week, all because he was mad we protested against him. Now he refuses to speak to our neighbour bc they called him out. (Remember he was a democrat when Reagan was in ofc) He is a danger to us all. So is his court of maniacal jesters.

You still want to believe the political fuel that powers the American collapse into authoritarianism isn't the deep, abiding resentment of white men who pine for an America that sees and services only them? Gaze upon Leni Riefenstahl's recent work for Donald Trump's U.S. Department of Labor.

I have one slight disagreement with this post. There is at least one story bigger than that of a president instigating a plot to end U.S. democracy. And that is the story that a president is instigating his *second* plot to end U.S. democracy.

Two stories in my Facebook feed just now. Let Them Eat Ballroom.

New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) Friday pleaded not guilty to bank fraud and false statements charges brought by the Department of Justice amid President Donald Trump’s public push to get retribution on his perceived foes. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Great job, Jiayun!

As of this month, the screens in NYC's yellow taxis are now playing national news from Newsmax—the ultra-conservative media outlet known for pushing baseless election fraud claims.

Times Square, NYC. #NoKings

No Kings in State College, PA.

This is good: Rep Eric Swalwell tells me House Dems are now discussing making an end to mask-wearing a precondition for ICE funding. "When we are in the majority, the masks are coming off," he says. This is the next frontier in anti-Trump resistance. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2018...

2/2 And remember how, NINE YEARS later, we're still getting think-pieces about the single word "deplorables." Whereas "I love [Adolf H]" may be washed away, in the firehose of news, by next week. Sort of like "grab 'em by" nine years ago.

I've said this before, but one of the more striking things about the current generation of righties is that they really show no sign of understanding that there's a world *beyond* their screens, beyond owning & being owned on social media. A real world, with real people & real problems.

MAGA thought they elected Trump to save America, but instead he’s saving Argentina. $40 billion now going to Trump’s buddy Javier Milei, while Americans can’t afford groceries, gas, or basic healthcare.

Growing list of airport authorities who are refusing to play the Kristi Noem video for travelers that blames Democrats for the shutdown: Portland International Airport Seattle–Tacoma International Airport Buffalo Niagara International Airport Niagara Falls International Airport (cont'd)

Opinion | It's time for corporate America to end DEI and choose its leaders on the basis of merit alone. by Barron Trump

In their quest to rig the 2026 midterms in their favor to the maximum extent possible within the law, the Republican Party wants to gerrymander the hell out of a state they won in a presidential election by just 183,000+ votes & give it an 11-3 R congressional delegation. This is authoritarianism.

The deportation order is based on Vedam’s conviction for murder—a crime he did not actually commit and for which he’s now been wholly exonerated. He entered the US at 9 months old and was a legal permanent resident before his conviction. We are so, so, so far from the light of justice.

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

Should the New York Times be sold to Pennysaver and its editors sent to work in Amazon warehouses? It depends on who you ask.