Happy Trans Day of Remembrance. I'm glad you're here.

If the AI is bored and needs some more reading material, I have a suggestion

I was talking to my students yesterday about how much we lose when we simply think of college as something to be got through.

Great reporting drove this policy reversal. Well done @taracopp.bsky.social & colleagues.

*maximum alpha at 1.25x speed* continuously lives on in my head, unfortunately.

This absurd oversensitivity about professors having sex with minors procured for them by sex criminals shows that campus cancel culture is out of control. by Alan Dershowitz and Larry Summers

A crucial point.

Well, this will make trying to explain the 1970s to my students easier.

"Cato Institute ranks Texas 50th in personal freedom" "10 states with poorest quality of life" "Texas Is Among The Most Difficult Places To Vote" "Texas has highest maternal mortality rate in developed world" Higher overall taxes with all state taxes and fees (property taxes double California's)

Badge of dishonor: “Among the universities recommended to remain in the program are Columbia University, MIT, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Virginia and University of Texas at Austin.”

This is rampant in the Virginia political media, where they simply won't just say glaringly obvious stuff like "Youngkin's campaign rhetoric in 2021 was RACIST" (as opposed to anti-"CRT," anti-"DEI" blah blah blah) bluevirginia.us/2025/11/wedn... h/t @karlbode.com

I refuse to lose our Republic to a guy with swollen ankles and a tribble on his head.

“Elite” is a pretty contested term and seems to shift between referring to a fairly small group to referring to anyone with a college degree and white collar employment. But Larry Summers really is a useful exemplar. There’s people like him that just get to sit at every single table somehow.

🚨Using any kind of chemical weapons at this range is aggravated assault against peaceful protesters. They have no weapons, they pose no threat. ICE is the enemy. 1/2

How often do I have to keep reposting this strip? #cloudflare

Meanwhile, back at Cloudflare headquarters...

it is almost as if accommodating and conceding to far right ideas legitimizes them and signals to voters that the far right is a legitimate choice for governance

WTF??????????????

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

John Oliver reacts to Megyn Kelly seemingly downplaying Epstein's sex crimes by arguing that “there’s a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old.”: “Look, I am clearly no stranger to sharing upsetting numbers with my audience, but please do kill me if I ever start doing pedophile math”

WTF.

I am a convert from Reagan Republican to Obama Democrat and can say that converts don't need coddling. Our bitterness at our own gullibility is far worse than any insult you can muster. And their vote isn't something you can manipulate; They will make their own decision regardless of your words.

The republican has an action. No, you can not vote for mayor of NYC IF YOU LIVE IN KENTUCKY!!!!

Yes! This is what I'm saying slightly differently - women's and girls' pain doesn't matter! (@BeijingPalmer has had the best insight into this that I've seen.)

I don't have nightmares still about showing up for a test I haven't prepared for, but I do dream, occasionally, that I have a term paper due in a few days, in a subject that's NOT my major, for a class I forgot to attend.

Honest to God, I once said "This book will be on the exam, so you must read it" and a student handed me back a blank blue book that said only "You win"

Weird that we have a planet-wide magnetic defense system that self activates when the sun decides to attack but it is very pretty

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P.J. O'Rourke called it a "Loser Mutiny." And it's very gendered. Hence Trump gaining increasing #s of votes from men of color (incl the Proud Boys led by Enrique Tarrio) in the past 3 elections--a bizarre effect that should be impossible under any normal understanding of voters' self-interest.

With genuine shame, recent years in politics have given me my first taste for what it is to have moralised contempt for my opponents. Not hatred, not fear; contempt. There's some core element of the right wing coalition at the moment which seems to me best described as a revolt of the loser men...

Yes yes JD, ibuprofen is part of the vast (((elite))) conspiracy to pollute your bodily essence. Very insightful, Mr. Yale law grad.

Profound waste of resources and time. No one will stop being a fascist because you showed them Hitler was a hypocrite. All fascists are conscious hypocrites, they don’t care. All the public will take from this is that morality can be extrapolated from genital size and polygenic risk == diagnosis.

This valuable @newyorker.com profile of Laura Loomer is a good example of why a certain kind of access journalism can be useful. Also? I hate rhetoric that dismisses fascist figures as "crazy." Mental illness is serious. But Loomer definitely seems genuinely unwell. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

She does. I always thought she had to have something on Trump to have as much influence as she has but after reading this it just seems that she's the kind of crazy he can relate to.

This seems like the most straightforward and also basically accurate message.

Now on MSNBC: Epstein emails. Now on CNN: Epstein emails. Now on Fox: It's Pete Buttigieg's fault that air travel sucks. The more you watch Fox, the less you know.

This is the whole thing I dont get, like, these are kids and the press is casting it as tee-hee, how naughty

"Empires burn because of small men who think they’re divine. It happened then. It’s happening again. And once more, the rest of us will be left to sift through the ashes, wondering how the world ended with a tweet instead of a trumpet." @snarkyfaith.bsky.social

Found the tweet that Joyce Carol Oates bodied Elon Musk with and it's so beautiful in its eloquent, simple take down. So much so he's crashing out trying to prove he reads books now. Put this in the Louvre.

The Heritage Foundation should go hang out with the Taliban, they’re kindred spirits

"In a Western democracy, that's unheard of. It's every day in Russia and China." Patel withdraws collaboration with Five Eyes in order to focus Trump's repression at home.

For The Seattle Times, I spoke with the fabulous @travisbaldree.bsky.social about the latest installment in his "Legends & Lattes" series, "Brigands & Breadknives," out Nov. 11 from @torbooks.bsky.social! www.seattletimes.com/entertainmen...

🚨 I pledge to NEVER step foot in a Walmart again. If I cannot afford it or find it elsewhere, I do not need it. White people MUST take a stand. This openly hostile contempt for black people cannot be tolerated or dismissed. I am not waiting for a national strike - I am DONE. Who will join me?

An evil woman

"The dawn came late and the breakfast had to wait When the gales of November came slashin' When afternoon came it was freezin' rain In the face of a hurricane west wind." 50 years ago today... #OnThisDay #MaritimeHistory #EdmundFitzgerald #GordonLightfoot 🗃️⚓ (cc: @thelongestjohns.bsky.social)

This V&A one-day conference is devoted to the Lumiere company's Autochrome, an early C20 colour technology that yielded fragile but luminous three-colour glass transparencies. Monday, Dec 1st, in person or online, programme and ticketing info on link below. 📜📷📸🗃️ plus digitisation and conservation