students are ends in themselves

Corporate media is missing the point about Portland’s Mr. Frog. They are covering him and his menagerie as a humorous side show. In reality Mr Frog has seized the visual narrative by pointing out the absurdity of troops in Portland. In our visual media world. Mr Frog is winning the war. #ProudBlue

Philip K Dick, something of a personal expert on the boundary between the sane and the mad, once said that reality is that which continues to exist when you stop believing in it. No matter what immediate expediency abandoning the truth and reality can give you, it always ends in ruin.

Having now read the Administration's proposed compact with universities, I have two thoughts: This is not the sort of system set up by an administration that ever expects a different party to be in power again. It is a "fuck you, make me" moment for universities.

That’s on *them*. That’s *their* fault. Say it. Over and over again. Even to people who already know it. Especially to people who don’t, no matter what side they’re coming from.

Every USN vs PLAN encounter after 2032 is like the USS Masculine Warfighter, Glorious Defender of the Cracker Barrel versus six identical copies of the CNS 我们昨天建了这个 supplied by a ship that does nothing but make birthday cakes for the other ships

As a Baltimore resident, anything that can let people understand just how evil Fox45 actually is, that's an unalloyed good thing.

NEW: Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom announced today that they have all recognized the State of Palestine

people's response can be "fuck americans" or "fuck republicans" and it's up to democrats which one will happen

i do probably think that it should be an article of faith that the next Democratic president should join the ICC

Electricity costs are going to be the biggest topic of the 2026 election I think. There’s going to be a big push to get democrats to complain about big utilities price gouging even though they’re largely regulated and we need them to build a ton. I’m begging just blame Trump please.

He has kept among us in times of peace Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures. He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior to the Civil power. He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign to our constitution & unacknowledged by our laws.

And they were singing Bye bye to American Sci

Second-best ship-naming skeet about WWII of all time; the USS We Built This Yesterday (next post) remains undefeated.

You can even listen to it with andor in the background

Boundless is going under, it’ll cease trading by end of day. Archna has emailed Neem Tree Press authors about this but not Unbound ones :/ Authors, a couple staff members are working hard to get reversions, subcontracts, and files to us—if you need them email NOW before the lights go off

trying to find “for I was hungry and ye gave me a sermon” in the parable of the sheep and the goats

The world's most prestigious university fails the Lando test: "University officials...concluded months ago that even if they prevailed in their court fight against the government, a deal could help Harvard to avoid more troubles over the course of Mr. Trump’s term." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

I don't give a shit who's in it. Expose them all.

It’s easier to drown the government in a bathtub if you hire people who don’t know how to hold their breath.

And if Cuomo becomes mayor he promises to move to New York City.

yub yub

There is currently an NWS flash flood warning in effect for all five boroughs of NYC. But no City agency has posted it on this platform. Please help spread the word. “If you live in a basement apartment or low-lying area, be ready to move to higher ground.”

I think it's now possible to make a poli-sci course that equips one for modern political analysis better than most classic theory and has a syllabus sourced entirely from random internet posts. Text 1. Wilhoit's Law, born as part of a 2018 blog comment crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

In case you missed Jamelle's very accurate commentary yesterday:

This is the sequel to INDIANA JONES AND THE IDIOTS WHO THINK ARCHEOLOGISTS STUDY DINOSAURS

fwiw:

Split verdict in the Combs trial, with convictions on two felony Mann Act counts and acquittals on the conspiracy and racketeering charges. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/07...

My personal thought here: rather than organizing it under Article III, invoke 14AS3 as authority to disqualify complicit appointed and elected (incl. state level) officials — and set cooperation with a Congressional truth & reconciliation committee as a necessary condition of re-qualification.

Worth putting it on the record here, though you probably already know it: “Alligator Alcatraz” is a concentration camp.

SUCK IT ANDREW CUOMO

I don’t think the chart correction really changes the fact that youth vote surged and Mamdani rode that wave to a decisive victory, just turned the magnitude down a bit.

Yeah this sounds like coordination between the two, not sabotage.

In a watershed moment in the fight to hold corporations accountable for complicity in Israel’s war crimes, A.P. Møller Maersk has become the first global shipping company to halt the transport of goods to and from Israeli settlements. mondoweiss.net/2025/06/mask...

Lesson 2: You are interested in Housing Policy. War is interested in you.

i’m seeing a lot of discourse framing the NYC primary as a reflection of the DNC and comparing it to the 2020 POTUS primary. while the clinton and clyburn endorsements are real, frankly they matter a lot less than all of the local unions and electeds who endorsed cuomo. it’s the nyc machine not dnc

Trump has no constitutional authority to take us to war with Iran without authorization from Congress, and Congress has not authorized it.

And hopefully they bothered to tell, like, Israel at the bare minimum, which is something I am very much in doubt of. Unilateral launch of a military strike against a nation we aren't officially at war with, without even bothering to call a press conference, is obscene.

Judge: And so given all those factual findings, I'm going to exercise the discretion I have to ORDER THE RELEASE of Mahmoud Khalil

The Iron Bank will have its due.

No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran. No US war with Iran.

Per Google Translate: "The Iranian shopkeeper, the doctor, the bus driver - they are friends of the United States, and it is not in our interest to destroy them."

It means "having a tyrant is always sick"

“You know damn well how wrong all of this is” needs to be said more. I don’t care how much of a “scold” it makes me.