Puppy Bowl > Super Bowl

100%. If you aren’t smart enough, talented enough, or committed enough to create art without AI you’re not an artist. If you use AI, You’re not a writer. You’re a talentless hack piece of shit and you’re greedily trying to destroy society because you failed to be someone worthwhile.

Absolutely right. Democrats backed a national ban on gerrymandering while Republicans pushed their advantage in key states. This evens things up but also draws us closer to real reform.

You don’t get to call the Biden-Harris administration “heinous” but then cry big fake tears at how bad things are under Trump like you’re shocked this is happening. The call is coming from INSIDE the house, bud.

I think it's hilarious that a big account historian on here is critcizing ICE while simultaneously being the guy who, before the 2024 election, was like "I think the Democrats need to lose so they learn their lesson." Like fuck you, my guy, we told you this would happen, you arrogant prick.

It was never about promoting STEM. It was about defunding the arts and humanities, attacking critical thinking, and controlling the narrative.

Finishing up the last essay of my collection and started thinking about 90s music. Anyway, here are my Top 5 albums of the 90s: The Colour and the Shape To Bring You My Love The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill Jagged Little Pill Cracked Rear View

Whenever people say that Pittsburgh is the Midwest I always like to counter that New York is basically New England and watch them get furious. Thin pizza, non-rhotic accents, complete and total ignorance of everything west of the Appalachian Mountains? Idk, seems like they might be the same place.

Jeffrey Bezos is destroying the Washington Post for the same reason Musk destroyed Twitter and Ellison is destroying CBS—oligarchs oppose the free press when if it threatens their wealth and power. They don’t want normal people to see what is happening in America.

The first comment on my Substack piece being about how "collectivism is cancer" and "Mamdani is going to destroy individualism" by some who thinks that Guns, Germs, and Steel is a seminal piece of work is hilarious.

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Hey all--absolutely no pressure, but my daughter is selling Girl Scout cookies this year (her first year doing Girl Scouts), and I thought what the heck. digitalcookie.girlscouts.org/scout/sophie...

I had a year of that awful Body Shop song and at least that much of “And if I only could, I'd make a deal with God” which is one of the worst songs ever written. I need more than 1.5 weeks of Jon Hamm in the club. TikTok is bullshit.

Today, I wrote about 750 words for my first Substack piece (yeah, I know, but why not?) and finished my lectures for next week. Not a bad day in my ongoing attempt to be a fancy man of letters.

Higher education is under attack at Texas A&M. I just signed the bsky.app/profile/tamu... petition and you shoud, too. Defend Academic Freedom at Texas A&M University! Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/de...

Outdoor hockey in Florida is proof that the NHL has absolutely no idea what it’s doing. Move Florida, Carolina, Tampa, Arizona, Dallas, and Vegas to Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Providence, Portland, Kansas City, and Hartford. Stop with this hockey in hot weather bullshit.

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

I’m just saying, I haven’t seen a single drag queen in the Epstein files.

The Modern Middle East The History of Fashion The Atlantic World The Works of JRR Tolkien The African Diaspora

Smearing a junior scholar’s book on the pretense of trying to correct the historiographic record but in reality trying to push your own upcoming book on the same-ish topic is peak academia eating itself and pulling up the ladder.

Was never a fan of Chomsky - dude has been straying out of his field for decades now, often to hilariously and pathetically mediocre results - but now we know he’s actually a giant piece of shit.

It doesn’t seem like Epstein is a hoax after all.

Bruce Springsteen’s ICE Protest Song Soars To No. 1

"The whole business is nothing more than gambling, where one set of sharpers bet against another set, and the honest hard-working but ignorant toilers pay the bill." - W.E.B. DuBois, "The Philadelphia Negro;" as relevant and true today as it was then.

Fuck you. They’re concentration camps. I’ll not be lecture by some pussyfooted coward who thinks we can just vote our way out of fascism. Eat shit.

A random UAW worker in Michigan. A mom dropping off her kids. A nurse at the VA. These people demonstrated more bravery and grace than nearly all of our politicians and legacy media members. It's not going to be our leaders who save us. They would have by now. It'll be us, together.

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

the arrest of journalists in minneapolis, including don lemon, is more evidence that the only move the administration knows how to make is to use force, and does not know how to respond when that force is met with defiance and indifference.

Chuck Schumer is going to introduce a non-binding resolution requesting that federal agents wipe their feet on the doormat before storming into a journalist's home at 2am to arrest them for angering the president.

Got some really excellent professional news today re: my book, so I am going to be flying for the rest of the day.

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Hiring David Brooks from the NYT is just more proof that the folks at The Atlantic have no interest in being a serious media outlet.

David Brooks knows fuck all about anything in the world other than being David Brooks. The only reason that clown takes his head out of his ass is so he can pat himself on the back.

Aww, someone failed a history class and hasn’t gotten over it.

It’s wild that the people of Maine are represented by a Senator who lacks object permanence.

come october I think we all know what we need to do

We don’t talk enough about on-campus counseling and health services being FERPA protected, not HIPAA protected. If you go to the campus mental health center, those records are not protected under doctor-patient confidentiality a la HIPAA. They’re protected, but it’s not as secure you you’d think.

Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told his officers that they have a duty to intervene if they see ICE committing crimes and will be fired if they don't. We need a lot more of this. www.ms.now/news/minneap...

I feel so betrayed by academia. This PhD was fucking worthless. Only thing I can get is an adjunct job over an hour away teaching 1 class. That’s it. Semester starts Monday and I’m dead-ass considering resigning because like seriously what’s the fucking point?

There is literally no incentive to be an adjunct. The pay is crap. There are no benefits. It never leads to full-time work. It’s so much work for so little reward.

Ok friends in the Worcester-Framingham area. I really REALLY need a job. Anything at all. Send them my way.

Absolutely the fuck not.

I have signed every email as “Brad.” I have told people, directly and publicly, “Call me Brad.” And yet. Still. Every single person at Thai school emails me “Hi Bradley!” Lazy or rude doesn’t matter, it’s deeply frustrating.

One of the elements of the employment crisis that doesn’t get discussed as much is the disappearance of “on the job training.” Everyone wants candidates to have essentially done that exact job before, with no room to learning or developing. There are a lot go jobs I 100% could do if given a chance.

Hold on everyone! Susan Collins might be more than a little concerned!

Our building is asking to dna test the dogs in the building so they can test it against the poop in the dog park to see who’s not cleaning up after their dog (so they claim). Is that lawful?