A good case for jury nullification.

This week, I withdrew from a speaking engagement at a public university because they sent me a list of prohibited “words & concepts.” I will not humor this censorship. It does a disservice to the stories I’m discussing & the audience, who deserve unfettered access to information & conversation.

Thread And to bang on this drum again: The default should be that anyone associated with this regime is lying unless there is independence evidence to the contrary. Even when testifying under oath.

I see the regime is opening up a new front in the campaign against 'DEI'

Incredibly, this actually underestimates farmers' support. I'm from one of these counties (Grant County, WA). It voted 67% for Trump. But when you look at precinct level data and take out the townies his support is closer to ~75-80%

Data on race and ethnicity has put us on the cusp of breakthroughs in treating kidney failure, which disproportionately affects Black Americans. But the Trump administration has halted that data collection as part of its war on supposed "DEI." Important new story from @laylaayanna.bsky.social

Student journalism for the win again

I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again! My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/soci...

I have been feeling depressed and discouraged that this man has the power and influence he does at my school and in my profession And I am a tenured professor at Harvard! How much more protected can I be? Imagine how STUDENTS feel. Junior faculty. This quote nails it

This is the first story I ever did that got more than a million views

this

Sex pest : i am retiring from public life public : good fuck off sex pest : except for these various paid and unpaid public positions public : did we stutter

His dementia is progressing so rapidly that the decline is recognizable on a month to month timescale.

Yes, our quisling UC/UCLA leadership is still pursuing a settlement: "Not only did the University of California leadership have nothing to do with the case, but the school system leaders remain so cravenly wedded to capitulation that they’re still in settlement discussions with the administration"

Larry Summers was doing dating the right way. by Ezra Klein

I urge members of the legal profession to realize that prosecuting individuals who seek to overturn the constitutional order is not "retaliation" in any normatively significant sense.

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

The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

oh my fucking god he is 100% confusing cadillac insurance plans with people buying cadillacs "and it's gonna be locked so they can't go out and buy, uh, a cadillac, they can go out and buy health insurance"

Rudy Bridges is younger than the Sitting President of the United States and 29 sitting United States Senators

And to remember who the fuck it is NOT here: Julio Frenk and the rest of the quisling leadership at UCLA

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Even if the Epstein emails only result in banishment of garbage D elites like Summers it will be a salutary effect. But if POS like him are allowed to maintain their prestige and influence....well, then its just time to burn everything to the ground.

Higher education “got in trouble” by paying men like this exorbitant salaries to ruin the liberal arts teaching function while sucking up to trustees for perks. As a former subject of a Gee administration, E. Gordon Gee is a synonym for high-profile foolish waste of money.

There is a good argument to fire and disbar every DOJ lawyer involved with this.

Student journalism continues to put elite outlets like @nytimes.com to shame

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Can we circle back to the part where the NY Times never disclosed that they have incriminating information on Donald Trump from sent by Epstein that's been sitting on their email servers for nearly a decade?

55 years ago today, the Oregon State Highway Division had a whale of a problem on its hands. How it solved it is the stuff of legends. In other words: Happy Exploding Whale Day!

"Larry Summers believed he was oppressed by the American elite" is both ridiculous and deeply revealing about how these men see the world

A high-resolution digital map allows people to plan their routes along the ancient roads of the Roman Empire go.nature.com/4nHZmoM

My latest for @hyperallergic.com looks at a late Roman shipwreck (ca. 320 CE) found off the coast of Mallorca with over 300 amphorae. A ton of implications for understanding early Christian trade and of course … garum 🐠 Thanks to @hakimbishara.bsky.social for edits! hyperallergic.com/1056159/near...

A reminder - last March, republicans promised to restore $1.1B in funding to DC in exchange for funding the government, and Mike Johnson never took it up in the House.

congrats to everyone for thinking this through before signing very big contracts to put it on every student’s device at the school or university you run

Fucking quisling leadership

What a queen

1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

Seeing stories like this make me wish that I believed in heaven and hell. Because it would be a small consolation knowing every single person in this fascist regime responsible for such suffering would be facing an eternity of damnation.

Jury nullification is good and it's a good sign for America's path out of authoritarianism that juries are recognizing their power to nullify.

Long live the jury trial in America.

"Not only is Schumer disloyal to a prominent party member who won the primary fair and square, he is a terrible leader. He should step down as leader of Senate Democrats, and in the likely case that he refuses to do so, other senators should organize to remove him—and he should be primaried in 2028"

The Department of Geography invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Indigenous Geographies, preferably with a focus on Human–Environment Relationships. Read more 👉 www.uvic.ca/faculty-staf...

inject this directly into my veins

I do think yesterday’s results reinforced the dynamic that while much of the American leadership class is chickenshit, most of the electorate is not

These lines near the end: "If tonight teaches us anything, it is that convention has held us back. We have bowed at the alter of caution and we have paid a mighty price…We will leave mediocrity in our past. No longer will we have to open a history book for proof that Democrats can dare to be great"

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

I hate that we've gotten to this point, but I think that allowing ICE agents to work in plain-clothes and face masks is a deliberate strategy by the administration to get one of them shot by mistake as a pretext for a wider crackdown on civil liberties, including invoking the Insurrection Act.

This to me is the game. I don’t care if Schumer doesn’t like Mamdani, but for him to stand silently by while sex pest Cuomo leans into gutter racism and Islamophobia while accepting endorsements from Trump, Musk and Miller is outrageous from the Senate Minority Leader.

Two of the media organizations that have really "met the moment" in national coverage are Teen Vogue and WIRED. Along with student-run college newspapers in general. And scores of local start-ups. The main hope for journalism (in its dark times) is the next wave of journalists.