god yes absolutely here for the ecclesiastical content, honestly if rian johnson would give us one of these every 3-5 years for the rest of our lives this century might just be bearable

watching men like Larry Summers continue to teach at places like Harvard while my brilliant friends and colleagues can't even get an interview literally anywhere and entering my Harley Quinn era

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

And it's full of so many tells that show that the people who made this thing Actually Fucking Care. Linux OS, showing Godot during the gamedev portion, the modularity and compatibility. AND! Valve is a privately-owned company. Not beholden to shareholders & actually run by a game guy, not a $ guy.

Cassidy is smart enough to understand how the ACA works. He is simply lying because he is a bad person.

I don’t think women’s professional ambitions should be limited by how tactfully or gamely they respond to men’s sexual entitlement.

Exactly one woman has won the Booker in the past six years www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

tfw you are in line with the US bishops

RE: TN-7…

The optics of a Christian nationalist regime sure are interesting, folks.

1/ Egalitarianism should begin at home. I link to this article by @bencasselman.bsky.social in light of the communications between Larry Summers and Jeffrey Epstein that have just been released. The released emails and the fact of friendship are vile. www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/b...

Probably fewer women in economics because they’re just not as smart, right, Larry?

NEW: In his first interview since his arrest for protesting outside the Chicago-area ICE facility, @revdrmichaelwoolf.bsky.social tells me he has "bruises all over my body." Even so, he said, “the cruelty that goes on that facility … must be 100 times worse." religionnews.com/2025/11/15/a...

Hey yall, ever seen a bunch of academics call someone a lily-livered coward?

UVA’s faculty senate is pulling no punches

Going back to Summers' talk about how women don't want to work hard and don't have high end aptitude, we could ask: What fraction of young men must deal with a creep with substantial power over their career hitting on them using tips from an infamous pedophile? 🤔 www.thecrimson.com/article/2005...

US Bishops have responded to attacks by Border Czar Tom Homan: “The bishops of the United States have spoken together and in unity with Pope Leo XIV.”

Hold up

"The Cavalier Daily corresponded with former Rector Robert Hardie, whose term ended June 30, regarding the two accounts. He confirmed that he agreed with Ryan’s account. 'I concur fully with President Ryan’s recollection of events,' Hardie said." Welp www.cavalierdaily.com/article/2025...

"Fox News: We are equal and balanced – unlike the (fake!) mainstream media – we argue the pedophiles' side."

Producer pitching to Netflix execs: "It's like Succession, but with Nazis."

I really urge anyone interested in or concerned for UVA to read the letter, which is soberly written but includes some pretty dramatic information.

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

This seems to be a common misconception. *There is nowhere to go* for most faculty & staff. The academic labor market is incredibly inflexible even in good times, we haven't been in good times for decades, and we're now in a *contracting* phase, not expanding. For most people, there's nowhere to go.

So much to unpack here. But importantly: the first rule of journalism is to get the name of the cat, or dog. Or in this case, the horse. "The ad’s aesthetic sits somewhere between a political campaign ad and a Jeep commercial..." is ✨ writing www.propublica.org/article/kris...

Fox News propaganda machine still winning at providing pretextual fodder to violate people's rights.

The message has always been, "These people did whatever the fuck they wanted, and they still do. And they're going to do it to you," and we should say it that way.

Meanwhile, here's an example of the horrendous things found in Hillary Clinton's emails—the only story worth covering for any serious news outlet in 2016, apparently. This email is also regarding a child who suffered abuse from a grown man.

What you want from a functional, thriving superpower is every reporter in the country spending all day combing through a cache of documents that all say, more or less, “hi [rich ruling class person], it was good seeing you last week for all the child sex crimes!”

*at christmas* “look, honey, of course we all wanted more things under the tree, but the people in charge made the completely reasonable decision to protect the international brotherhood of sex pests”

Imagine trying to convince someone a decade ago that this sentence would be a 100% literally accurate description of the American political situation.

This inspired me to run an experiment, and bsky.app/profile/numb...

It is journalistic malpractice to be within a city block of Vance and not read him this tweet through a bullhorn

People are doing something. Is it enough? No, not yet. Will it prevent catastrophe? We don't know. Are we still hurtling towards an unknowable future? You bet. But this is literally what doing something looks like.

This has gotten lost: Abigail Spanberger won big after vowing to RESCIND Glenn Youngkin's executive order directing local cooperation with ICE and voting AGAINST the anti-immigrant Laken Riley Act. Yet she gained bigly with working class. New piece laying this out: newrepublic.com/article/2030...

In 2017, the sitting president had Thanksgiving with his old friend who had been convicted of sex crimes with a minor. And we’re only learning about this now?

Great update and thread on UVA's president search process. Hoping Steven's analysis holds true!

I'm convinced 80% of both leading executives and Trump's base are men who can't get over being rejected by women in high school.

Welp, here's hoping "pedophile" works better than "fascist" as a red flag for the American populace.

I love this.

They thought they were going to get pretext to throw a bunch of liberals in prison bsky.app/profile/maya...

"guys" being this one guy in particular

I'm not saying this won't work, but given the extremely partisan polarization of the electorate and media, it might be more effective to let the few GOP leaders who are susceptible keep calling for release of the files. Like, MTG is a good person to call and be like "thanks for pushing this issue."

"phillip k dick, but stupid" describes everything now

Turns out poor people spent a lot of money on tea and sugar *because they were poor* and that was their inadequate replacement for unaffordable things like cooking fuel, food with actual nutritional content, and enough calories to slave away over a loom for 12 hours.

an actual not-made-up death panel, except there’s only one guy

C-suites are where elites funnel their failsons so that they can mitigate the shame of their fuck-ups and maintain power at the same time, like when medieval European nobility gave their second-born to the Church.

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet