Ask yourself if this is the kind of country you want to live in

as designed

Which is also fucked up because courts just determined they were illegal and these people have no recourse for anything. Trump take job.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

Thank you to the @polpsyispp.bsky.social for this thoughtful statement on the ongoing Israel-Gaza crisis

hoping this sets important precedent for the apparently SIX faculty in Florida so far who have been fired

"... Zeldin intends to sign off next week on the final policy and legal justifications for repealing the so-called endangerment finding and Biden-era climate rules for cars and trucks... before agency staff have time to sift through all public comments...." subscriber.politicopro.com/article/eene...

My employer New York Public Radio just announced that it is offering @onthemedia.bsky.social, @radiolab.bsky.social, and other programs to at-risk public radio stations for free! More info: current.org/2025/09/wnyc...

Just gonna leave these here...

Former UNC-Chapel Hill Provost Chris Clemens sued trustees over what appears to be brazen defiance of open meeting laws and accused them of secretly using the Signal app to sidestep oversight. Ironically, he also used Signal for university business. www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Gantz claims that recognition of Palestine is an affront to the 'democratically determined consensus' of the State of Israel which rejects such a state's existence. Israel rules over 5,000,000 people who do not have the right to vote.

Benny Gantz with an op-ed in the New York Times today in which he openly states that opposition to Palestinian statehood is at the heart of the national consensus of the Israeli body politic, something that virtually all Israeli Jews agree with Netanyahu on.

Chotiner: So you chose to kill your slavewomen as well as the suitors who had taken over your home. Why? Odysseus: Well, I was in a frenzy understandably, plus they had probably slept with the suitors. C: Ah. And as slaves did they do this voluntarily? O: I didn’t ask because C: They were dead?

A word of warning from someone who was a dissenting voice on one of these committees: it is fucking exhausting

"The United States, created in opposition to monarchy, should never become a country where the president can order the indefinite imprisonment or the unilateral killing of people merely because he has deemed them to be criminals."

It would be so easy and cheap for an administrator to say, “I know it’s so rough right now. I know you’re getting it from every side. I know you’re trying to do your job in an impossible situation.” It wouldn’t be enough, but it would be a lot. For reasons I don’t understand, they can’t do that.

Political violence is always bad. And we should politicize the hell out of their deaths. We should demand the country stop and honor them.

Wising peace and love to the families of those victims. I hope they are mourned and valued as much as any other target of an assassin is.

wow, i wonder if nihilistic memes can ever be used in connection with political violence i guess we'll never know

You've likely seen the new $100,000 penalty on high-skill immigrant workers. Here's the next, separate bomb the White House is dropping on high skill immigration, to be officially published *tomorrow*. tl;dr: Most H-1Bs now inaccessible for entry-level jobs, e.g. new grads from US universities.

An Update: I received an email canceling my contract as a columnist at @startribune.com after sharing this story publicly. (I had written columns past the one-year contract already + been asked to continue on in July).

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Still the ultimate symbol of the Republican conference's total submission to Trump

The band whose practice space I sometimes pass by was playing “Holiday in Cambodia” tonight. The Dead Kennedys had a view on Kissinger, and then there’s …whatever this is.

People are making Rapture jokes like there's no tomorrow

I'm all in for AOC in 2028, but anyone quoting Nemik gets at least some consideration.

Let's be clear: no one should be taking medical advice from the man who told Americans to inject bleach. To moms worried about the Tylenol they took while pregnant: you deserve better than being RFK Jr's scapegoat. And to the autism community: you are loved exactly as you are.

ISAAC CHOTINER: It’s just interesting, because my understanding is that you had a pretty good opportunity to destroy the one ring. ISILDUR: No, that’s not— IC: O.K. I: You have to appreciate what was happening. IC: Right. You’re in Mt Doom with the ring— I: Sauron was right there! IC: Sure.

1800 humans just gone. Family members just disappeared and it's not even our top news story.

Precisely.

I've been vocally, publicly, on the side of shame since 2021, when people said not to shame people for breaking covid rules. The alternative to shame is criminilization which... has problems and often doesn't work for stuff like this

One dynamic that national coverage of campus speech has understated is the degree of surveillance for the purposes of punishment. In this case, the student wanted anonymity. In other cases, students are trying to build a brand. Few students but big effects. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/how-to-bec...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

I don't think this a very good argument for voting to honor a man who thought Jim Crow should have stayed legal. democraticleader.house.gov/media/press-...

"Jewish Democrats are much more concerned... about the prevalence of discrimination against marginalized outgroups... Those longstanding values... are diametrically at odds with Israel’s mounting human rights violations against the Palestinians" goodauthority.org/news/democra...

Israel is deliberately depriving people of aid in #Gaza. MSF’s new report shows how restrictions blocked medical supplies, sometimes even forcing our teams to perform procedures without anesthesia. Read the report: ow.ly/YZ8v50WZFBs

The 2025 #ProductionGap report warns by 2030, fossil fuel production is projected to be: ⚠️>2x above the 1.5°C temperature limit ⚠️77% above 2°C To deliver on the Paris Agreement, gov'ts must implement the commitment to transition away from fossil fuels. Read the report: www.iisd.org/publications...

I don't agree with this because I think the wannabe god king being seen to try and fail matters.

In the news from Texas: Angelo State University has just informed faculty that "if they make any statement implying that there are more than two sexes or genders (male and female) they will be fired." conchoobserver.com/2025/09/19/a...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

Harvard is at it, again.

A federal judge ruled Monday that a nearly complete offshore wind project halted by the administration can resume, dealing President Donald Trump a setback in his ongoing effort to restrict the industry. https://to.pbs.org/4gBPT0k

I'll continue to be "I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win"-posting, so figure I should address this point that seems to come up every so often Q: "is it still 'winning' if only *some* good things happen in the near term instead of total planetary eco socialist revolution?" A: yes

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

Today we submitted our public comment on critical flaws in EPA's rationale for rescinding its authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. This proposed move is a big deal with profound implications for our future. Today's the last day to comment. www.cmu.edu/cit/veg/publ...

"Lin’s decision also creates a potential opening for other researchers seeking to challenge their grant terminations after an August U.S. Supreme Court decision seemingly made that process harder." Pay close attention to this move, it's useful! Congrats to UCLA faculty! laist.com/news/educati...

IT IS TIME.