Stress-Free Eric Adams Spends Day Bribing Pigeons In Central Park

It’s publication day 🥳 my book is officially out in the world thanks to @stanfordpress.bsky.social, and I celebrated by giving it the 6+1 treatment at the @duckofminerva.bsky.social.

Thank you @aaup.org and @mesa1966.bsky.social for taking this on when so many others wouldn’t.

When they come for @nytimes.com I will speak out Saying, "Good. Fuck them"

That's quite the chart annotation. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Thread

TRUMP: I have commanded the military to destroy the enemy within. SCHUMER: We’re working hard to reach a bipartisan compromise.

Everybody in that room now needs to think about what they're going to do when Trump, as Commander-in-chief, orders them to fire on American citizens. It's a matter of time.

I don't think we'll ever get another sentence which sums up everything the New York Times embodies quite like "Some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily kill civilians".

This is really hard to read. And the thing that is sitting with me the most about it is that it has always legal and possible to do this for decades. The only thing preventing this from having been the norm was a sense of humanity. This is why we need structural reform. Not just a change in admin.

Paris celebrated the opening of its 300th “school street”: landscaped & pedestrianized or semi-pedestrianized blocks situated in front of schools. Most have been completed since 2020.

can never forget that Fred Trump spent his later years totally gaga but surrounded by a gaggle of senility-denial-enablers who drove him to a make believe office where a make believe secretary had him sign make believe papers—which sounds cute til you see the sequel & the secretary is Stephen Miller

the misdemeanor acquittal was most revealing. gregory bovino testified that he saw the defendant strike an officer, and the jury decided (rightly) that he is a lying sack of shit. jury nullification for the win!

Recall also that the signal chat made plain that miller gave the final say so for the strikes on the houthis ("as I heard it, the president was clear: green light"). Plus all the military deployments to US cities are his thing. Commander in chief stephen miller, playing with his murder dolls

Only a failed nation fails a human like this. www.instagram.com/reel/DO_dOVf...

Well, I can imagine most of our quisling university leaders falling in line: “Suddenly, to get a grant, you need to not demonstrate merit, but ideological fealty to a particular set of political viewpoints. That’s not merit...I can’t imagine a university in America that would be supportive of this”

Jury nullification is an essential act of resistance at this time.

They’re right (Obama drove them insane) but for the wrong reasons (being black and defying their expectations of black people was unforgiveable) bsky.app/profile/smot...

The Citizenship Clause is the linchpin of the entire Second Republic Constitution. You nullify that, the entire thing crumbles in an instant

Gonna lay down a marker here: if they do in fact rule for Trump here, it will be properly considered Dred Scott II, and will in an important sense mark the end of the Union

Good luck getting an LA jury to support this

When the Democratic Party comes back to federal power - and I fear this could take quite a while - they will face a true "deep state" that is deeply hostile to its power and liberal democracy. Democrats will have to not just fire many people but also abolish whole institutions to protect both.

white supremacist victimhood is a wonder to behold

The @aaup.org and Council of UC Faculty Associations sent this detailed letter to UCOP President Milliken and UC General Counsel Robinson explaining why they should not release the personally identifiable info of faculty, students, and staff to OCR. www.aaup.org/news/ucs-sho...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Morning walk

Being City Controller comes with inherent difficulties. This is why WE NEED Charter Reform‼️ Visit bit.ly/lacontroller-charter to read our Charter Reform recommendations AND also join the virtual meeting for the upcoming September 29 Charter Reform Commission meeting at 5pm.

"there is a deep rot in the upper echelons of American society, among people who have been put in positions of power and leadership...those folding have had ample resources to resist Trump’s shakedowns but haven’t been brave enough to do so. They are, in a word, chickenshit"

But let’s be clear: every day, masked ICE agents are acting violently against our neighbors, illegally abducting them, holding them in cruel and inhumane conditions. Treating them as less-than-human, and not deserving due process.

Remember that the Trump Administration demands you idolize these agents and not condemn them. But they’re Gestapo trash.

"If we go light on the Kissinger part, I wouldn't complain" is an instant hall-of-famer.

A must-read essay

Somewhere in Hell Qaddafi smiles knowing his will never again be seen as the most demented speech in UN General Assembly history.

this is a very sharp piece on why it makes no sense to run universities as if they are businesses. They're not businesses. www.afr.com/work-and-car...

As did our collaborationist leadership at #UCLA

Crockett: "I'm gonna honor someone who decided they were going to proclaim I was involved in the 'great white replacement'? Yeah, I'm not honoring that ... it's unfortunate more of my colleagues even on my side couldn't see the amount of harm this man was attempting to inflict upon our communities"

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

The 58 D reps with the moral courage to vote against this abominable resolution

AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.

Not a single D senator was was willing to stand up and speak the truth: That Charlie Kirk was a hateful POS of a human being and commemorating his life is moral degeneracy.

Respectfully disagree: 1) in fact it is unusual for a democracy w/ this level of GDP to turn authoritarian & so quickly; 2) the weakness of both institutions (congress & courts) and individuals (Schumer etc) is shocking. Would take less than 10 people in congress or 2 SC justices to stop all this.

Some killings you're allowed to joke about.

There is no material difference between "we do not support the basic foundations of liberal democracy" and "we only support the basic foundations of liberal democracy if it poses literally no risk to future shareholder value"

Boli me kurac

Members of random juries on either coast are braver than the most powerful politicians, university administrators, entrepreneurs, and billionaires in the country.

Good. The default should be to assume that everyone in this regime is lying unless there is independent evidence to the contrary.

Boli me kurac

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life: 1. Sunsets 2. The perfect wine/food pairing 3. The smell of a forest after rain 4. Fresh picked (as in only minutes or an hour or so before cooking) sweet corn 5. Cat videos

The basic problem with this is that what they mean by "conservative academics" isn't just like, staff who happen to be registered Rs, but staff explicitly teaching right-wing political positions. And that's often not a "less qualified" thing, but a "is unfit to do the job at a basic level" thing.

I'd like to commend the lawyers who wrote this complaint on behalf of the professors and employees of the University of California against the Trump administration. It's a sober legal document with strong claims, but also, this is a fight for public opinion, and this reads like the writers know it.