Bari Weiss cutting the Peanuts Christmas Special from the CBS lineup because it doesn't move the ball forward or get the parents on-camera

Erika Kirk is a liar (and schemer).

can i get uhhhh holy infant tender and spicy?

The price of coddling conservative ignorance and malice is astonishing.

Rubio Orders State Department Braille Signage Switch To ‘Times New Roman’

The Republican hacks on SCOTUS start with whatever ruling will help their fellow Republican partisans and lazily work backwards from there, barely offering an excuse for their egregious hackery. John Roberts keeps complaining no one respects them. Yeah, because we’re actually paying attention.

Working In General Vicinity For 8 Hours A Day Misinterpreted As Friendship https://theonion.com/working-in-general-vicinity-for-8-hours-a-day-misinterp-1838142520/

I find OU's actions throughout this story to be very concerning, not only because the university caved to a bad-faith reactionary smear campaign but also because it appears to be enrolling students who are borderline illiterate

The fact that the OU Psychology department gave the grad student a teaching award a day or so before the suspension is another tell. I’m surprised the social posts about it were up long enough to get cached by Google

Introduce yourself with the last 5 concerts you saw: Tame Impala Pulp Supergrass Nine Inch Nails Oasis

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

Let me fix that for you: Texas A&M is limiting how instructors may discuss gender identity and race in classrooms in an assault on academic freedom unseen in America since the Red Scare.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

you could fact check this — there aren’t 30 million illegal immigrants and there is no evidence that the presence of an immigrant in say houston has any impact on housing in madison, wisconsin — or you could note straightforwardly that this is just nazi rhetoric

Good fucking morning to everyone except every MAGA official who’s covering up for Donald Trump’s involvement in Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes. They knew about these emails that implicate Trump. They knew he was at the house, on the plane, and that he spent time with the victims. THEY KNEW.

All day, many of you have been asking for a Cheney obituary from me. Get ready:

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

Nation’s Older Brothers Recommend Not Being Such A Little Bitch https://theonion.com/nation-s-older-brothers-recommend-not-being-such-a-litt-1823191955/

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Some of us have hated Auburn for “reasons” since we were kids, but there is still plenty of room on the hater bandwagon.

“I swore never to be silent wherever and whenever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ~Elie Wiesel

The half-life on our National Conversation™️ about toning done the rhetoric lasted about as long as expected.

In 24 hours we have the politico story about the Kansas Young Republicans praising Hitler, the GOP congressional staffer call with a swastika in the background during a Zoom chat, and now this.

The "anti-woke" backlash was always about white collar labor competition from nonwhites, not hr bullshit. bsky.app/profile/phil...

the extent to which media elites treat liberal americans as if they do not count in the body politic is a real problem

one of my takeaways from this great piece is that weiss just doesn’t…sound like an intelligent person? or at least, not someone who has thought even a little bit about how and why they think the things that they do. www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieT...

Auspicious start for the new CBS News, laundering unattributed cop shit-talking through the incoming editor-in-chief’s blog and failing to correct a misspelling of the story subject’s name in the web headline for three days.

Co-sign. This is an excellent segment on the grievance troll Bari Weiss and her misguided bullshit journalism and academic ventures.

Just think of how many TT faculty lines, graduate stipends, and resources for teaching and research this kind of money could buy...

MIT’s reply to Trumps shocking attack on education is a master class in deft rhetorical communication and positioning. It refutes without ceding ground. It negates without naming the charge. It accuses and rejects while sounding compliant. What a breath of fresh air after endless disappointments

If you'd like to delight in a side-by-side comparison, here's Bari Weiss' reported note to CBS staffers (left) and the one I cooked up on ChatGPT with a quickly dashed-off prompt (right). Looking forward to hearing from you in the days and weeks ahead!

As someone who kind of wrote a book on it, let me share the number one sign someone is lying to you about politics: When they claim that, through some unspecified alchemy, paradise and prosperity can be achieved through suffering exclusively by other people.

a heartwarming story of how being an unethical and talentless hack is no barrier to success when you are willing to endlessly flatter the wretched views of rich dipshits

“This meeting served only the secretary’s whiskey-addled daydreams, and not a single active member of our armed forces. Many of the quotes from it will be etched in stone one day, on a monument that will be torn down by a joyous protest mob.” www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

"I think you’re quite familiar with Hegseth. He’s a real asshole! And an embarrassing one, too!" @drewmagary.bsky.social's column on Hegseth's speech at Quantico: www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

The president just told all of the military's leaders that all Democrats are evil and promised to send the full force of the military into Democratic cities to assault the "enemy within," and there's *still* a chance that Democratic congressmen provide the crucial votes to keep this regime running.

Trump literally declaring war on Americans. I wonder if there’s a term for that

basically everything about this is wrong and horrifying but I'm stuck on the absolute fucking chutzpah you'd need to lecture professional military personnel like this after you personally texted wildly classified war plans to the editor-in-chief of the Atlantic

the people who hate title ix design trans-detection schemes that freak out girls so much that they don't want to play!? who could have seen this coming except everyone.

Future historians will understand that the key factor in the slide to authoritarianism was the total collapse of the GOP as a pro-democracy party, & the total failure of its not-actually "moderate" & "pro-democracy" rump minority to ally with Democrats & put an end to fascism. But sure, Murc's Law.

What exactly is the conservative position on two-sample t-tests, chi-square, or multiple regressions? Is MANCOVA the conservative version of MANOVA?

Don't. Print. Lies. In. The. Newspapers. This is just a slightly politer version of the lies Robin Vos spreads about UW all the time (bsky.app/profile/mcop...). It's ugly. It's not true. Nor are the grants lies true. Frankly, it's all obscene given the authoritarian assault now on 🇺🇸 higher ed.

So cool they discovered the cause of autism on basically day they guessed they would. I’m also glad they are withholding this information for a few days to prep for a WrestleMania-style announcement. This is how science works.

I was reliably told celebrating political violence was cause for government reprisal and private sector termination.

Call me radical, but I think we *don't* need to have polite chats with racists who are spewing conspiracy theories that keep motivating white supremacists to massacre our fellow citizens, and we *don't* need to have bipartisan deals with fascists trying to destroy our democracy and our government.

it kills me knowing what’s needed is for people to double down on bucking any demands for “civility” because they understand these demands are training people to surveil & snitch on their neighbors and an exploit to intensify authoritarian control over our thoughts.

Amy Astley, editor of Architectural Digest Todd Martin, tennis pro

Your regular reminder that, whatever problems they may have, there are exactly <zero> societal institutions that are <more> protective of disagreement & debate & viewpoint diversity than universities.