Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...

In an interview at @nytimes.com headquarters, Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee and one of the candidates facing pressure to exit the race, refused to entertain the idea. “No, no, no. A thousand times no,” Sliwa said. “I can’t be bought. I can’t be leased. I can’t be rented. I am not corruptible.”

Mamdani was the only candidate who was viewed positively by a majority of voters, with 52% saying they have a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” impression of him. Only 36% used those terms about Cuomo. 56% said Mamdani “cares about people like me,” 8 points more than said it about Cuomo.

Adams and Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Adams and Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mamdani’s views on Israel.

If you can't criticize Susan Collins, how are you a competent candidate to run against her? www.pressherald.com/2025/09/08/g...

“Because the court is not explaining its shadow docket rulings, judges lack any meaningful guidance about what to do in future cases, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis said.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Two green card holders and a US citizen. Not that it matters, constitutionally! But it’s interesting that Kavanaugh thinks this is a no-big-deal thing for people to experience in the course of a day

Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.

Thou shalt not think.

Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.

"Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol - a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Important memo!

Social media posts about the military mission in D.C. summarized on Friday were assessed to be 53 percent negative, 45 percent neutral and 2 percent positive, the documents say.

Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4

There’s a gift link to the article below

Well, look at this: Mamdani represents the views of a plurality of New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...

"“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”"

This video should be required watching for every professor in the US

omg

He might be able to corral another one quarter of one percent with Jeffries and Schumer endorsements.

Not surprisingly, the A&M student paper gives more useful context

“Young people who took to the streets to protest corruption and poor job prospects could face decades in maximum-security prison under a set of laws set up to combat al Qaeda” www.wsj.com/world/africa...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible

Just brilliant negotiating strategy to give up leverage in exchange for a thing Republicans in swing areas already wanted

it feels like August 1939 and June 1914 worldwide, with extra March 1861 here in 🇺🇸

The damaging effects of experiencing or witnessing domestic violence reverberate in multiple directions, often passing down from generation to generation. Domestic abuse cannot be explained away as a “little fight.” Everyday this man telegraphs to the world just how vile and disgusting he is.

When I worked long grueling days in retail at Macy’s, putting makeup on rude people and trying to earn something above minimum, I looked forward most to lunch, when I would go to the break room, eat my mall food court food, and read the book and theater review sections of the NYT and the Star Trib

There it is folks. The brilliant Dem strategy, according to the genius pundits with the ear of Dem leadership, is to let Trump keep doing everything he's doing but only if we can also help Republicans avoid paying a political price for hurting people long enough to hold the House and Senate in 2026

The US Administration has thus imposed a de-facto ban on most professional and academic interaction with a range of countries around the world. Barring those without a year of planning (or more, at their whim) equates to a ban.

Let’s remember: What CBS cut were vicious unproven slander and uncharged allegations by a Cabinet secretary targeting a private person. If we can’t draw the line against such hideous lies, is there no line left?

Terence Tao, one of the world’s greatest mathematicians, is speaking out after federal research funding to UCLA was suspended. “People who support all the positive aspects of America have to speak out and fight for them now,” he said.

As I have stated before, and will continue to do so, come 2029 Nigel Farage will campaign on the line that, under the Labour government, terrorism arrests skyrocketed, and he will have the figures to prove it. One of the stupidest political moves of all time.

Imagine going back in time to like 2010 and telling people that the HHS Secretary would be promoting burgers and fries on TV while expediting review for nicotine pouches. And he'd be testifying to Congress with a pouch in his mouth. All while calling his agenda Make America Healthy Again.

The rising costs of school supplies, increased electricity bills and rent, and uncertain federal funding have made this year’s return to the classroom more financially stressful than usual.

The wait time for a visa appointment in Colombia, Guatemala, Bangladesh, Nigeria are over 1 year. Among other things, this means people getting notices that they have been accepted to conferences hosted within the same year in the U.S. will not be able to come if they don't have a visa already

About 1 in 4 U.S. adults worry they or someone close to them could be deported, according to a June @pewresearch.org survey. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

I’m glad I have a lifetime supply of Sailor pens already

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

The serious strategist answer for why Congressional Dems should do real opposition rather than avoid it while saying "distraction" a lot is not that opposition guarantees electoral victory. It's that they have no idea complacency will either, it's pure guesswork, so might as well stand on principle.

It's incredibly weird that folks have convinced themselves that the Covid vaccines - which had an ~82^% take up rate - were unpopular.

Genuinely think we've entered an era where satire and parody are going to lose a lot of their potency and cultural force.