The Department of Education has hung a massive banner honoring a racist college dropout who built a lucrative career out of targeting professors for harassment

Social media created this nonsense idea that not exposing yourself to hatred is isolationist. Choosing to not spend your free time with bigots isn’t living in a bubble. I don’t need to know what’s going on at X. I won’t be smarter or more knowledgeable or empathic by being there. Neither will you.

When a company in an industry built on hype tells you that a use case is a bad idea—and actually dangerous—that means it’s a *catastrophically* bad idea.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

Yes this is political retribution on MN, but don’t lose the thread that fraud narratives are meant to undermine trust and support for a social safety net. The goal is to undermine Medicaid and other public programs until they eradicate them, and we can’t lose that thread.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

A white woman who is not a doctor & doesn’t believe in science is currently undergoing Senate confirmation hearings to be the US Surgeon General. Black people, don’t EVER let these people tell you that you are a “diversity hire” or don’t deserve the roles you have so richly prepared for & earned.

It is very hard not to have a safe choice to use the bathroom in public. It may be impossible to continue living, working, eating, etc without a valid driver's license if your life was built around driving and the assumption that your license wouldn't be invalidated overnight by the legislature.

lol the people they want to say got there by merit and not race.

This is an announcement of their intention to make the social safety net disappear.

Their goal is to undermine ANY public support for Medicaid, SNAP, or any program people rely on to meet basic needs. Their goal is to eliminate any semblance of a safety net. Do not fall for waste or fraud narratives.

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

Most Conservative Students Don’t Feel Persecuted on Campus A new survey of college students contradicts Republican rhetoric that campus culture is hostile to right-wing views. https://bit.ly/4styRX5 #AcademicSky #HigherEd #EDUSky

Instead of subjecting yourself to the SOTU, you can just not. The news and replays and people’s hot takes on whatever lies come out of 47’s mouth will be there tomorrow, you can actually just have a calm and restful evening.

My (unscientific) theory has always been that the conservatives who say they couldn’t share their views on campus never actually… tried it. Some perceive there isn’t space for their views because they lack the ability to be vulnerable and speak up without knowing if others agree

Breaking MS NOW: Agents with the FBI's elite evidence response team were delayed in reaching the scene of a mass shooting at Brown U. in December because there was no FBI plane available. Kash Patel was in south Florida at the time with one of the FBI's two available jets.

I understand why chatbot cheating happens but every time I read about it I want to gently remind everyone that the point of schoolwork is not for the submission to exist. Teachers are not just greedy for more essays or solved equations. The point is to do the work WITH YOUR OWN BRAIN, FOR LEARNING.

Sickening. We also need to be talking about how the goal here isn’t just mass deportation- it’s also (even more) mass incarceration. This administration wants to jail more immigrants and use our taxpayer dollars to do it- funneling money to GEO and other greedy, complicit corporations

So pro-life they'll kill ya. www.tennessean.com/story/news/p...

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Cis people who don’t respect trans people’s pronouns hate it when you use the wrong pronouns for them. They get so mad!

Culturally ‘normal’ people treat their friends and strangers respectfully, and that includes learning people’s names, using the right pronouns, and supporting everyone’s safe access to bathrooms and schools and sports and beyond. ‘Normal’ people want civil rights and are prosocial.

Roughly 1,700 trans people in Kansas are going to have their driver's licenses and birth certificates revoked this week. apnews.com/article/tran...

Corporations: We are collections of people & therefore deserve the civic rights afforded all people. Me: Ok. May I talk to a person? Corporation: No. Never again.

"ICE agents are the equivalent of cartel hitmen" is a wild take, but Mike Lee is here for it.

STOP THE SAVE ACT (Updated) My new piece is up with lots of info about the SAVE America Act - the version of the SAVE Act that passed the House and is before the Senate this week. This is a MUST READ and then ACT. open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

I don’t understand finance, someone explain to me like I’m 5, how the government picking what stocks your kid is invested in via Trump accounts isn’t market manipulation?

JD Vance prefers violent sex offenders in the highest ranks of govt instead of in the streets

What’s that one with Tom Hanks talking to a volleyball stranded on an island?

Ghislaine Maxwell is a convicted child sex trafficker. Feels more important (and accurate) than calling her a socialite.

The fascists and their propagandists in media are really saying the quiet part loud these days. They just don't want trans people to exist, folks, that's the long and the short of it.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy? Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia. And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

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This is a reminder that ICE is still in Minnesota, that people still can’t leave their homes, and that funds are starting to run dry. Please donate if you can. Places like food shelves are struggling to meet the community’s needs.

Hey @jerusalem.bsky.social and @mattyglesias.bsky.social, can you tell me what the polling is on public support for banning trans people's underwear? Because that's where we're at right now.

SCOTUS was like "No kings when it comes to our personal stock portfolios" lol

Trump Suffers Setback Unrelated To Child Rape

laws aren’t real but cash remains

Well, this is a bit of a plot twist.

The only thing I’m confused about here is who decided to ban him from entering the Labor Department, since this administration is openly full of men who assault women and people who cover for them.

This is important to name Is it shocking and can we be glad that a British royal might face some accountability? Yes. Is this about accountability for abusing girls and women? Still no.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

How much effing time did this dude have on his hands

Kinda weird that the party that controls the House, the Senate, and the White House claims there's rampant voter fraud.

Absurd claims of how to get healthy aside, I’m not so sure it won’t backfire on these morons to keep broadcasting pics of themselves looking like they’re on vacation, while most in the U.S. struggle to pay bills.

Or maybe just pack some extra underwear 🤮 I have only used in room coffee makers when there was literally no other coffee option nearby, bc I assumed they aren’t ever cleaned. I never assumed anyone cleaned their underwear in them. Never again.

Man, expectations are so low and I understand. People have been so beaten down politically that they think that nothing will be changed. But WE are the ones who have to push them to enact the policies they commit to. Nothing will 'just happen.'