Same people who whinge endlessly about how the removal of confederate monuments “erases history” have no problem erasing actual history

The beating heart of a fighting labor movement is in Minnesota. One of the key battles for the future of working people will be determined there. Trump’s goons are treating their assault on the state as a workshop for what to do next. Solidarity is the answer. labornotes.org/2026/01/will...

Government accounts just post like this now and that’s how policy is made

This is actually a pro-ICE message that if taken seriously will lead to the agency being expanded even more than Obama, Biden, and Trump have already expanded it. Pseudo-opposition at best.

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

we have not "apprehended" the president of venezuela. we have invaded a foreign country and kidnapped its leader. what the fuck are we doing here, i am going to lose my mind

Death recorded

The contempt I have for these people knows no bounds

conservatives basically want to implement the caricature of affirmative action for conservative students. acceptance without meeting qualifications, good grades and degrees without having to do the work.

Mamdani turned his haters into waiters at the table of success

He’s becoming Zohran’s own Club Chalamet

In case you missed it: an essential piece from Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò from earlier this week: www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

He said integration was a failure lol

RIP Charlie Kirk, you would have loved politicizing the shooting of Charlie Kirk.

George Floyd was a father too and Charlie Kirk called him a “scumbag.”

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

I did not ask for this, don't do this, I don't want AI slop generated from work I did.

For over a year now I’ve worked so hard and tried everything I could to avoid this. But I couldn’t save enough, so here we are. I made a Gofundme. Depending on the outcome I will either hire an expensive immigration lawyer and give it one more try, or pack up and use the money to start over.

I recently got socially anxious that I was pronouncing the word shibboleth wrong

Israel destroyed a Palestinian seed bank today. This is such a specific kind of evil, targeting literal hope for the future. Attempting to further alienate Palestinians from their home and land. So much destroyed just for the sake of destroying. It's awful.

My latest newsletter, about The New York Times' "correction" of its story about starvation in Gaza, and what it says about their adherence to Israeli propaganda.

So yesterday I learned about Ava Cordero, a transgender woman who, in 2007, sued Jeffrey Epstein alleging he sexually abused her when she was 16. Her lawsuit was filed in 2007 while Epstein was negotiating a plea deal in Florida for abusing other girls, but her claims were mocked and dismissed

Saw some of the latest hasbara and I truly cannot believe how fucking deranged it is. Posted by this guy I did theatre with in high school.

hope everyone checks out my new guest post in the daily nous!

Has Mamdani condemned restaurants with QR code menus

We hope other organizations will do the same!

Just this page alone outlines the key problem: not starting your own papers; projects; summarizing; brainstorming; exploring; and/or revisioning is being framed NOT as thinking less or cheating but “leveraging” by automation— this is wrong. We have to tell students these are fundamental skills.

Media came down on Mamdani like a ton of bricks for a phrase he literally never once said. Trump says a slur on stage on camera and they twist themselves in pretzels like this. If this is what journalism is, I welcome its death

The existence of the East African Indian diaspora is a really fascinating artifact of Imperial globalization and a great example of how much more complex and interconnected our world is than we realize, so of course the American intelligentsia takes it as a personal insult.

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

I can only describe this as gender hasbara. The same playbook of employing language of safety and inclusion to support a political movement with genocidal aims

Pronouns are melting the brains of guys my age. Another little clip from my new special Positive Reinforcement (premiering 6/27 at 8pm) for you to enjoy! Share this with a grammar or sports enthusiast in your life and watch the whole special when it’s out in the world!

The Times could have tried talking to ANY of the actual Jews or Jewish orgs involved in Jews for Zohran! There were many many many — and highly visible. And it’s dangerous malpractice for the NYT to not include us for the sake of an inflammatory binary.

Adams running a throwback campaign by accusing Zohran of being a metrosexual

If I may be a contrarian here I'd argue that the victory of a democratic socialist is not "like a spiritual Kristallnacht."

And the Being Normal olympics begin.

NYS Tenant Bloc out with a statement: “Tenants are the majority in New York. Zohran Mamdani understands that and he gave us something to vote for... Tonight’s results send a clear message to landlord-backed politicians like Andrew Cuomo: your time is over."

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

no reason not to primary chuck schumer now

Bill Clinton please endorse my enemies

yeah also I'm eternally deeply suspicious of/p much against any "why won't [person] denounce [thing]," I think it's a bad faith line of questioning. ask people what they support and report their answers, it's really kinda easy

It's been about two weeks since Senator Alex Padilla was forcibly removed from Kristi Noem's press conference and Chuck Schumer just now got around to sending her a letter about it

refreshing to find out that some bombs are too unseemly to drop

That's right

wait, jonathan chait thinks it’s okay to subject people to purity tests and threaten their position if they don’t conform to his vision of what the party should look like?

Stephen Colbert drew a direct link between the mayoral campaign of an Indian African Muslim and white supremacists in Charlottesville who probably would happily lynch said mayoral candidate @colbertlateshow.bsky.social as a Black Jew I cannot tell you how fucking disgusting this is

One technological innovation I would appreciate is being able to type the word imagine without Meta AI trying to get in on the action