Begone.

When this criminal was jailed, the judge told David Gentile and America: ‘This is a warning to would-be fraudsters that seeking to get rich by taking advantage of investors gets you only a one-way ticket to jail.’ I guess not

Knuckleheads elect knuckleheads, especially in primaries; and then gerrymandering helps speed knuckleheads on their way. "We" need to start being less knuckley in our heads.

On this day in 1921, a white mob lynched a 15-year-old Black boy named Robert Murtore after a local sheriff in Texas failed to protect him while he was in his custody.

Do they teach this in journalism school? Are there classes where the lesson goes “the way to do headlines is uncritically repeat whatever officials say, regardless of veracity, that’s the job”? And if they’re not taught that, if that’s not the field’s chosen standard, why do so many editors do it?

Nope.

What hill are universities willing to die on? Or even to fight for? To fight for openly and publicly and thus as an example to others?

Just to be clear: armed government agents are allowed to wear masks, balaclavas, and glasses that completely hide their identities as they disappear people off streets and out of public places, but students can't wear masks while protesting even in approved "time, manner, and place".

And we knew it would be based on 2017-2021 and based on J6 and based on Trump’s legal cases 2021-2024 and based on his statements & see he’s in 2024. And yet we re-elected him. We debase ourselves.

You're not seeing the defense and international conflict experts disagreeing because if the facts are true, it's one of the most basic things in the law of armed conflict: You cannot kill people who are "hors de combat," taken out of the game by injury or attack. This is Geneva 101 stuff.

Northwestern just discarded every ounce of its now previous prestige. Same with ALL the other universities who've bent the knee. Disgraceful. Shame on you.

So Trump just pardoned the former prez of Honduras, who: -took a $1M bribe from El Chapo: -was aided his in clemency campaign by Roger Stone -ran for reelection despite a law against it, thus setting off political violence that killed dozens. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/28/w...

a lot of words, none of them denying that Hegseth gave an order to kill helpless people who were stranded at sea after he blew up their boats

"It took only weeks for Trump to turn the US from a biomedical & global health leader to a pariah, shattering trust while shattering lives, all the while posing fundamental threats to a law-based international order grounded in human rights & democratic governance" journals.plos.org/globalpublic...

the fact that the news media isn't blasting across every front page of the country how completely unhinged the president is on a 24/7/365 basis, tells me that the news media is completely complicit in Trump's regime.

Another inexplicably vague headline I now must fix. Well, here we go. (📢) BREAKING NEWS: America to Launch Illegal Unilateral War Against Venezuela At Any Moment; Invasion By Land to Commence "Very Soon" to Distract American Voters From Trump-Epstein Pedophilia Scandal

They’re going to take anyone they can get their hands on. They’re evil, folks!

Again, as with all the other federal budget cuts that are incinerating 20-25% of the funding & the entire budget model of every R1 university in 🇺🇸, this is a five-alarm emergency that requires immediate, loud, collective condemnation by our university presidents. Total 🦗 as it’s all being gutted.

Turkey served on China, hold the Chile and skip the Greece. Baked Alaska for desert.

Fired. Investigated. Silenced. Reuters documented at least 470 targets of retribution under Donald Trump — from federal workers and prosecutors to universities and media outlets. It’s the most comprehensive accounting yet of his campaign of payback.

If we are going to go “biological“ as if humans, morphologically or genetically or physiologically are either all male or all female, then I think as a biologist I need to acknowledge that nature is many things, but in this case, binary is not one of them.

Elmer Gantry is in the pantry. 👀

I think it’s time to put this one back out into the ether, friends Come and learn about how the tropes undergirding anti-Jewish hatred and conspiracy theories as they exist today came to be…

So Epstein is in jail? Syntax is taxing.

Oh goody! Government cash to subsidize farmers, those ardent disciples of laissez faire, & the Trumpiest sector of America. USA! USA! Sayeth the Yeoman: Government payments for me, but not for thee

On this day in 1957, the Texas legislature passed a bill allowing the governor to close any schools to prevent federal troops from enforcing integration.

It’s hardly a right if its exercise is unreasonably and endlessly delayed.

Mmm. Apparently it’s easy to be cowed when your lawyer is part of a dog-and-pony show

The standard process is now standard harassment in the absence of legal standards of due process upholding individual rights and limiting state power capriciously applied

Restoration of the good stuff leading us to achieve our highest aspirations of justice, equality and liberty; while Reformation of all the bad stuff dragging us into exploitation, white supremacism and shackles.

I biked to work all winter. People asked if I ever fell on the ice. Yes, I replied, I fell twice last winter—both times walking. And I didn’t have my bike helmet on to protect my head, as I do when I bike.

Amen. At least the electric ones are less noisy.

Comparing apples to oranges is fair to MAGA if one of the apples is crabapples.

Tell me you don’t distinguish between farmer and farm worker without telling me you don’t distinguish between farm worker and farmer.

Saucy Meyers threw in a wrack of lamb in basting the Turkey in Chief.

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Yes, and as usual.

For some Protestants, the Pope IS the Anti-Christ

Whoa. "Orshansky was careful about what she was measuring. In her January 1965 article, she presented the poverty thresholds as a measure of income inadequacy, not income adequacy— 1 of 2

Brevity is the soul of wit, but repetition is the soul of repetition.🍻

Attend Your Union Meetings! Alas, GOPers at least as far back as Douglas MacArthur become fickle in a pickle.

To anyone who thinks it’s an “exaggeration” that the rule of law is in danger… U.S. Senator Mark Kelly is being investigated for the “crime” of telling people not to commit crimes. We’ve fallen far.

What about issuing illegal orders? Who is held responsible for that?

Wait, 4? The Four New England Colonies: Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire. Vermont, no; part of NY. Maine, no; part of Massachusetts

Yes. But how well?🍻

American Apartheid. I can think of no other topic more enduring and more damaging to the nation as a whole.

The Nadir

#tdih 1887: Thibodaux Massacre 💔 Louisiana militia shot & killed 30 to 60 unarmed Black sugarcane workers, on strike over meager pay issued in scrip, not cash. No federal inquiry. Assassins unpunished. #terrorism #laborhistory #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️ 🧵 www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/th...

A pill that’s for Calvinism, tho.