it was only few days ago that I learned that “lowkirkuinely” is supposed to mean “in a subdued sealioning manner like that of a dead bigot” I had assumed it meant “in a ritual-averse manner akin to that of the Church of Scotland”

Rome wasn’t built in a day, but it was burned in one

As it looks like Steyer isn't going to make it, @nithyaforthecity.bsky.social's race is the most important race in California by far. Most of California's housing crisis is driven by LA being awful and it'd be a massive victory if suddenly they weren't.

100 The deportation cases some immigration courts now stack into a single "master calendar" hearing, up from the usual 10 to 15. Attorneys call them "mega masters" and say they shrink the window where due process actually happens.

This thread shows zero awareness of the economic history of poetry since the Second World War. The collapse of poetry as a viable piecework business, and the shift to reliance on academic postings and prize money for income, predate the dreaded Internet by decades.

The past decade has me convinced that more people need to be making this case directly. Immigration and multiculturalism are good! They make our lives more culturally rich and varied, they make us richer and stronger, and they are morally correct too.

So grim. In the 1990s I visited China. The faculty there couldn’t believe I designed my own courses. They kept asking the same question in different ways thinking I hadn’t understood. I assumed that China would come to adopt Western freedoms, not US would adopt central control.

Spent a few days this last week in Estonia and talked with several people who still remember the Soviet occupation (including a former Estonian president), and it was just a reminder of the moral bankruptcy of the Bluesky Marxist-Leninists who whitewash or deny the Soviet Union's horrors.

The Minneapolis protesters were remarkable for how peaceful and restrained they were in the face of brutality. It’s why nearly all the charges against them haven’t held up in court. Seeking out footage to the contrary isn’t “telling the whole story.” It’s constructing a false narrative.

there are three different possibilities here: (1) the man in charge of the entire United States military thinks that the Nazis were right and the Americans were dangerous invaders, (2) he’s too stupid and/or drunk to know who landed at Normandy, or (3) both.

Also, since there’s been some talk about Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves on the timeline, Daisy Head, who plays the red wizard Sofina, is his daughter.

These sick bastards are the ideological heirs of the Nazis and they know it. They go to D-Day events and implicitly position themselves *with the defending force*. Cannot wait to see them all driven from power.

Andrea Pedro-Francisco was detained by immigration agents in early February on her way to work and was sent to a detention center in El Paso, Texas, just days before she was scheduled for surgery to remove a large ovarian cyst.

I don’t particularly need a “vision of masculinity,” but if for some reason I were in the market for such a thing, I cannot imagine wanting to get it from a political party.

Pretty sure I remember at least one Latin exam during my MA where I saw the sight translation passage and was, indeed, pallified.

RIP, Anthony Stewart Head.

We’re in Khan al-Ahmar with Rabbis for Human Rights and Bnei Avraham to stand in solidarity with the community and its fight for its home. About 300 people are at risk of being expelled from their land according to a government plan to take over the village. (1/2)

Going to be honest with you all: it should not be this difficult for progressives to believe "imperialist wars of conquest are bad".

oh no www.bbc.com/news/article...

Here's Rep Jamie Raskin's bill nixing Trump's corrupt protection against IRS audits. Chef's kiss: It's called the "Block Lawless Agreements and Nullify Corrupt Handouts and Emoluments Act” or the “BLANCHE Act." Backstory below.

People talk about the filibuster and other minority rule chokepoints but the real vetocracy is the literal presidential veto. A Congress that can only check the president with two-thirds supermajorities is effectively a Congress that can’t check the president at all.

just as American fascists are obsessed with European fascists, so too European fascists desperately want the “if you don’t stand for the magic sky cloth it won’t freedom correctly” aspect of American fascism

sidenote, but personally, while i for one think it's very silly to read achilles as straight, i do think he is clearly bi rather than just gay. the whole briseis storyline just makes a lot less sense if he doesn't literally romantically love her

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

this was a super fucked up situation all around, and i'm both glad and shocked the guy is charged AND suspended without pay.

One bright spot of the protests at Delaney Hall is the release Monday of a high school senior who'd been detained for nearly two months. That and more here: www.huffpost.com/entry/delane...

It's good to see people taking the lessons from Minneapolis and applying them elsewhere. A volunteer corps of what amounts to Minutemen is absolutely ideal for warning the neighborhood and confronting ICE.

This reminds me, THREE pieces of mine are getting performed in the month of June, and I should, uh, probably promote myself or something (*cringes instinctively*). So: 1. My setting of e.e. cummings' "i like my body when it is with your" will be on the awesome IOCSF program quoted below... (1/)

UN High Commissioner on Human Rights report on the US policing/ imprisonment system: "The [International Independent Expert ] Mechanism is of the view that unpaid or poorly unpaid forced prison labour in the United States perpetuates slavery to the present day." www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

We are disgusted that Boulder SJP chose to celebrate the firebombing attack on a peaceful march. They dress up the language to make murder sound like liberation. The reality is they are celebrating the horrific killing of an 82-year-old woman who came out to march. Nothing excuses this.

That they’re doing it to suck up to Trump is the important thing to say plainly and directly because there’s no denying it with a straight face.

California is not the only state that uses mostly, or in a few cases 100%, mail ballots. It is the extreme outlier on being the slowest state to count and report results. Just noting it doesn't have to be this way, they can and should get their act together and catch up to plenty of other states.

A study finds that an mRNA vaccine is highly effective at preventing recurrence of this dangerous skin cancer, when used in combination with Keytruda, an immunotherapy drug. n.pr/4u3FHCZ

New: attorneys for U.S. citizen Debbie Brockman announced today that she's filing Federal Tort Claims Act claims against the govt. over her 10/10/2025 arrest by federal immigration agents in Chicago. Brockman, who last October worked for WGN, is now seeking $10M in damages.

It is important for all Americans to reflect on this official statement. An agency that seizes people off the street at gunpoint, into overseas prisons, refers here to a *US citizen* as "this illegal alien". The rule of law protects all of us. It protects you. That was the genius of our Framers.

Note there are some funky rules in play tonight! CA: Top-two primary, but in specials & local races, 50%+1 wins outright IA: If no one clears 35%, it goes to a *convention*, where all candidates are eligible SD: Requires runoffs if no one clears 35%, which hasn't ever happened but could tonight!

American cultural exports used to be Bruce Springsteen and Prince and Clint Eastwood movies, now we export whatever this shit is

It doesn't often come up in my political theory classes, but I'm still going to add "exponential increase" to my standard studnet writing guide/ list of frequently misused terms. I'm seeing abuses of it even in published works of scholarship by professional social scientists; got to fight the fight.

“you’d be in prison if not for me” is a true statement that Trump has said, and also one of the many sins for which Trump will have to account before the throne of glory

It’s early, but still safe to say that this is one of the most important articles about constitutional law that will be published this year, and I wouldn’t be surprised if it ends up being the most, full stop. yalelawjournal.org/feature/the-...

Brand new homes are expensive primarily because building them costs a lot of money and the sale or rental price needs to cover the cost of construction. We have a housing affordability problem because restrictions on new home building have driven up the prices of OLD housing that should be cheaper.

Tonight outside of Delaney Hall, police kettled protesters and press into a tight circle. After a couple quick snatch and grab arrests, officers gave credentialed media the choice to leave. Most of us did, but a couple journalists who wanted to go were detained.

Racial profiling, including of US citizens, in Kavanaugh Immigration Stops is now routine. As in the time of legalized slavery, one racialized group, regardless of immigration status, bears the brunt of the full force of the federal government's resources in punitive immigration enforcement.

Honestly, I’m grateful for America’s more permissive free speech culture, but do people still think Piker isn’t a Jew-hating ghoul? Calling this a dog whistle feels like an insult to dog whistles

Something that has been really striking to me as an attorney representing detained immigrants is how even the detention center staff view these places as prisons. I’ve corrected guards numerous times who referred to my client as an “inmate,” only to realize that they thought I was wrong.

I think there are a lot of reasons, but one intuition off the bat is that the kind of person radicalized by the trauma and tumult of the early twentieth century could be a great artist while the kind of person radicalized by having to press 1 to speak English could never make significant art.

I think the interesting question is not whether fascists can make art but why did the interwar period produce fascist artists of immense significance while the present resurgence of fascism has produced nothing worth putting on a syllabus.

As horrifying as this campaign of premeditated murder is, what might be even more disturbing is the utter indifference of Congress, the public and our allies to such a shocking and unapologetic obliteration of the many laws and norms against targeting civilians. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/31/w...