Teachers should also get more time to be pleasurably bored! It’s a solution for many things!

America today is a puzzle of contradictions: it proclaims freedom yet fears its own police, it venerates strength yet trembles before old age, it boasts of prosperity yet cannot afford its own steak. At the center sits its weary ruler, a man older than his republic can bear.

Trying to imagine what a historian of this moment will look for in sources. A visiting foreign journalist's account of the collapse of the Republic, perhaps?

the president of the united states wants to use the american military to kill american citizens on american soil. that's the whole story!

The press, once celebrated as a pillar of freedom, now cowers under the thumbs of billionaires. Once-brave journalists have become court stenographers, transcribing lies and calling them news. The Washington Post, no longer a watchdog, but a leashed poodle, tugged by the whims of Jeff Bezos.

The capital trembles, & at its center is the 79-year-old ruler, Donald Trump, so aged that his own government seems to wither around him. His reign illustrates America’s gerontocratic culture: the elderly cling to power and youth is seen only as a source of campaign rallies and military recruits.

Dispatch from Washington, D.C. I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.

The “growing body” here is a tumor, malignant and metastatic

durbin underrated as one of the worst mcclellan democrats in the senate

Dispatch from Washington, D.C. I arrive in Dulles Airport, just as the capital is preparing for its recurring October 1st ritual: the potential and probable Federal government shutdown. For the outsider, this strange rite may appear chaotic, but for Americans it is as old as their democracy.

And here I thought Mr. Robot was being overdramatic by calling it Evil Corp... EviCore is just one letter away and doing all the evil by denying Americans the healthcare they paid for.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

Just so everyone is clear, this right here is what an actual violation of the First Amendment looks like. When the head of the FCC says a company needs to do something about someone who displeased the administration or lose its license, that’s no joke unconstitutional

John Stewart called it out long ago on CNN Crossfire. Yet here we are.

trying to talk about Harpers Ferry without talking about slavery is jokes like, slavery is the only reason why you know about Harpers Ferry. wouldn't be no Harpers Ferry National History Park _without_ that part of the nation's history, you revisionist shits

Joy Reid. Karen Attiah. Gene Robinson. Jonathan Capehart. There are lots of others. Circumstances differ. But really sad to see new organizations not keeping super-talented Black staffers. The news industry spent decades talking about diversity, improved some from 2014-2020 and is now going back.

better things are possible!!!!

Kavanaugh has just said it: if you say "I'm a citizen", ICE has to immediately let you go.

It's the end of the world as we know it

Five— five!!— grafs until the NYT suggests to readers it might not be lawful. Complete and total abidication of their responsibility to readers to inform and not parrot propaganda.

RIP, Joseph McNeil, civil rights hero. My students are always amazed and inspired to learn about the brave actions and innovative protest of four college freshmen. myfox8.com/news/north-c...

it is a real problem that none of the people who interview these guys are equipped to ask a question like, “what gives this president greater legitimacy than a law passed by a democratically-elected legislature, signed by a previous president and affirmed by subsequent legislatures and presidents?”

yo this guy is cooking

there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...

That's the thing, he asks the follow up questions that cable and broadcast news interviewers never do. Why don't they ask them anymore? Because they value access and have been taught it's rude to embarrass a public official by holding up a mirror showing them their answers suck.

Trump says he likes the idea of starting a war so he can declare “no more elections” and stay in office forever. (video: @factpostnews.bsky.social)

need people to understand that accepting or conceding that he has the authority to do these things is tantamount to giving him the authority, and so your preemptive dooming is actively counterproductive

This logo literally looks like it says KMS NOW!

so anyway I've been thinking about how Chicago style is the historian's secret weapon in a war of AI slop and the blithe, social media spread of unattributed misinformation. CMS requires attribution of quotes, paraphrases and any fact not commonly known. 1/?

Firing and demoralizing feminized jobs as enemies of the state while brazenly bribing men with violent jobs that almost instantly puts them into the middle of middle class is very basic gendered warfare. Fulfilling the manosphere’s promise.

Judge Katsas, useful idiot, this morning on left. AG Bondi this afternoon on right.

The adamant elite refusal to call bullshit is a big part of How We Got Here. The prevailing cultural attitude for years is you must not, under any circumstances, treat anything as bad faith. You are obligated to find some reasonable idea and engage with that, even if you distort to get there.

Obama needs to look in a mirror when he says this because he's the prime example of a person becoming complacent.

What's it called when big corporations & an authoritarian government start effectively merging? Someone should come up with a word for it.

If I were the Atlantic, I’d simply not let a fascist Manhattan Institute weirdo keep writing the same article about how all cities (by which he clearly means Black Americans) are scary

Yet the Republicans in Congress who for years banged on about how much they love the Constitution line up and kiss the ring of the dictator instead of enforcing separation of powers and checking unconstitutional actions by a president run amuck

“Demanding a bipartisan process” means you want to collaborate with the autocrat!

"We might as well require a man to wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy as a civilized society to remain ever under the regimen of their barbarous ancestors." -- Thomas Jefferson Sticking with that image, this country is basically a 350 lb. man still wearing clothes from middle school.

I was into Heinlein at 13. Stranger in a Strange Land was a formative text for my adolescence, but also The Moon is a Harsh Mistress and Starship Troopers. I got out from under the latter 2 texts' tanstaafl libertarianism and pro military propaganda, but the former's views on love and religion stuck

We stopped expanding the House in the 1920s, decided the Supreme Court should freeze in the 1930s, added the last states in the 1950s, amended the Constitution only once in the last fifty years. The USA and its government continued to grow, but almost all that growth came in the executive branch.

There just isn't a set of laws that will hold if the president, the majority in both houses of Congress, and six votes on the supreme court want the president to be a dictator

29. Footnotes that are just the URL and nothing else look untidy and should provide more information.

A "team of Ph.D. level experts" is a university. This man is describing a university, but a shitty mass-produced version that's devoid of creativity or original thoughts or human interaction or life, that allows the pocket owner the pretense of learning while wallowing in sad solipsistic isolation.

Replacing nuanced critical thinking with "slightly better autocorrect that uses hundreds of gallons of water to work" is what we in the field like to call a Bad Idea™ Sincerely, A Ph.D. level expert

Let me qualify what Josh is saying. It is quite clear that the Constitution requires a census of all persons. It’s quite clear that past Supreme Court cases support this proposition. (For instance, the recent census question case makes no sense if persons doesn’t include immigrants.) /1