Looks like my lecture last week about what Hapeas Corpus unfortunately has some current world examples, when it was supposed to be set in 1870s Reconstruction US.

Gonna be real fun to see SCOTUS shadow docket this and say it is perfectly fine for the Pres to subvert Congress and spend money however he wants, because originality and stuff.

I saw this and needed to share. I apologize for nothing.

If there was an election next week, he would still be very close to winning again.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

I might use this excuse for virtual faculty meetings I have this week.

Not sure if this is a painting or a picture, but saw it online and thought others might enjoy it as well.

With the crazy snow and wind outside, it feels like I should be laying on a big comfy rug in front of a roaring fireplace listening to some music whilst sipping on a nice drink, with my loved one I can dream, since I don't have that stuff.

I really hate preparing for my annual review, because the system I have to put stuff in is the worst, but also having "goals" for next year, is me trying to figure out how to nicely say "keep being employed and getting paid" Isn't that everyone's goal for the next year?

Back in 2007 Fox News did a segment on how Mr. Rogers, who died in 2003, was "evil" & was the source of many of America's problems. Fun fact: Fred Rogers was a lifelong REPUBLICAN, but he was the sort of old school liberal Republican that Fox News was designed to eliminate. youtu.be/29lmR_357rA?...

I just thought everyone should see this

Combine what you're seeing now with the knowledge that 80% of consumer spending is now done by the top 10% in the USA and you see their future.

🚨HOLY CRAP. An ICE whistleblower just revealed a secret memo authorizing ICE officers to break into homes without a judicial warrant, which DHS's own legal training materials say is unconstitutional! ICE then hid the memo from the public, passing it along by word of mouth and private conversation.

There is this big glowing thing in the sky that is slightly warm when I stare at it. I don't know what it is, but I am weirdly drawn to going outside and worshipping it. I guess that is what I am going to do now.

O Brother Where Art Thou prequel where the fellas have just escaped from the chain gang and are hiding in the club where/while Sinners happens

And millions love this and will vote for him again if they could.

Also remember he has had a few calls with his buddy in Moscow in recent months, regarding Ukraine, and then this. Has to be considered in why he is doing this as well.

A joke for the history buffs.

quick someone award Jeffrey Epstein a Greatest Pedophile Ever medal and Trump will get so jealous he'll release the Epstein Files just to prove he deserves it more

If you think this technology isn’t eventually being used on you, you’re kidding yourself. Either we smash it or destroys us.

3rd and 1 and you pitch the ball backwards? I mean are you trying to lose the game? And people give crap on the Brotherly Shove, but it works in those situations. Stop being stupid.

Do we need to say it louder? Here. Louder. " Federal courts in Alabama are using a law last applied during the U.S. internment [incarceration] of people of Japanese descent during World War II to charge immigrants who don’t register themselves..." www.al.com/news/2026/01...

When I lecture to students about how the apparently thriving economy of the 1920s was really a house of cards just waiting to be knocked down, one of the points I stress is how much a small number of the very rich were essentially propping up consumer spending in unsustainable ways

So they want to do to Greenland what they did to Venezuela, take whatever they can and get a few people rich off of it. While at the same time attempt to destroy NATO for their buddy in Moscow.

Can someone please point me towards the nearest void, I have a lot of screaming to be done.

She's ready to defend Greenland.

It is oh so much fun to get emails from Grad administrators stating that they don't have to follow University policy if they don't want to, b/c that is just how it has been. Yeah no. That is not reality here people.

Students just wanted to borrow some money to go to school and improve their lives. They had no problem paying it back. But the usury, the greediness, the political bickering, the constantly changing terms and moving goalposts have made it a dumpster fire.

Cartoon by Adam Zyglis

Gleichschaltung (German): "the act, process, or policy of achieving rigid and total coordination and uniformity (as in politics, culture, communication) by forcibly repressing or eliminating independence and freedom of thought, action, or expression"

ICE is now behaving in such a way that even Tucker Carlson’s favorite Holocaust minimizing, Hitler-apologist “historian” is like “hey now guys, this is getting a little out of hand.”

I will forever appreciate when people nae their animals the opposite of what the animal is. For instance, naming a tiny dog "Killer" or "Butch" and then naming a massive dog "Tiny" or "Precious" I just love that.

Every week is overwhelming evidence of what we saw with our own eyes, but which our credulous media was afraid to print: the Nazi salute was a Nazi salute

Dems, here is your 2026 Mid Term campaign and slogan. Just run with this over and over again.

100% this!👇

Really NFL? You are putting a playoff game on Amazon Prime and not or a normal channel? You greedy MFers.

It is deeply counter to the whole very basic concept of this nation that its citizens can be taxed and then have funding withheld punitively because the person exercising the power of the presidency decides on a whim to do so.

You know what is really fun, trying to update Uni polices that were written in the 1970s and haven't been touched since that clearly doesn't open up a can of worms to other policies that need to be changed/updated as well. Faculty Senate work is never glamourous but...I got nothing, it just isn't.

Just watched PREDATOR: BADLANDS, it wasn't bad. Not as good as PREY, but not bad.

I have them separated by genre, then also by height from left to right. Highest on the left, naturally.

In competitive authoritarian regimes, the government deters and undermines opposition by using its powers to inflict costs on those who challenge it rather than recognizing their legitimacy as democratic opponents