One of the best to ever do it

This is exactly why you can't let neocons and Bill Kristol launder their reputation at the moment. They and MTG still enbody the Trump moment.

Now, Nicky, why would you say that as if it were a bad thing

Maarten Boudry's contract at the university is ending. He has declared to start a antiwoke org "451", after Fahrenheit 451. What does the book reference? Nazi book burnings, of Magnus Hirshfeld's pro-trans materials. Boudry has no decency, no respect for historical fact.

Now that Richard Dawkins has claimed trans people don't exist (read: are unnatural), can we declare the sociobiology debate over? Clearly the critics were correct in calling them bigots and biological determinists. It's done, right? It's over?

she just got the house to pass her bill criminalizing trans care for people under 18 years old. the only mention in this piece is about how she’s upset trump hasn’t done *enough* to harm trans kids. oh and a quote from her saying trans people are all “perverted”. what is going on at NYT?

Yarvin is as much a "tech visionary" as my shoerack

Cancel culture warriors should be up in arms over a college student demanding that a college instructor be fired because she taught things the student found offensive, but as I discuss in my new essay, Little Fascists Everywhere, their outrage is highly selective: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Where are the products? Where are the trillion dollar companies? Where are the highly valued startups with products/services generating returns? Where are the clear use cases being heavily used three years into this "revolution?" Where? Or is this just all make believe?

NRC, Nina Stefanovski. "Met een begeleider via de achterdeur de abortuskliniek in" --- Goed verhaal over de vrijwilligers die vrouwen helpen veilig naar de kliniek te gaan. En een explainer van de anti-abortus intimidatie tactieken en lobby, wat influencers als GJ Segers www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/...

"Covid is a good thing. It's a way of overcrowding that got out of hand. . . . When 5 million people have died, then nature will regain its rights." — Bridget Bardot

Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening. Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual. Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.

even beyond being camera-ready I know a few women who hate going on video podcasts because it ups the harassment by like 10x

Every time I see these pictures I remember two things - They were so scared so young nd they did it anyway… - so many people venerated today looked at this and said it was over kill - this are the pictures Arendt said made BLACK people look like dictators

Adrian Vermeule defending neonazis and antisemites in the republican party.

NEW: A prominent free speech group helped right-wing dark money score a legal win against an Ohio school board and its anti-bullying policy, which protected transgender and nonbinary students. www.importantcontext.news/p/how-a-free...

“Went viral” is an old stock phrase in journalism that really does not capture the dynamic of how X dot Com has been tuned to give people like the one specific legislator here the power to intentionally cause this kind of outcome

I was reborn as Julia Wise, GWWC pledger, who was annoyed that project Children Requiring a Caring Kommunity (CRACK) didn't sterilize enough people. Nifty.

"Three-year-old child forced to serve as her own attorney in Tucson immigration court" "The child, barely old enough to talk..." "Unable to reach the chair on her own, Lucy was lifted into the seat by Ana Islas" coppercourier.com/2025/12/05/c...

Fellow Massachusettsians: legislation has been proposed to prohibit fully driverless vehicles in the Commibwealth. I suggest we all support this legislation. It’s not merely a safety issue; it’s a labor issue.

We don’t spend enough time discussing how the entire MAGA movement is kept afloat by the constant threats of stochastic terrorism orchestrated by the president of the United States. Congress, the courts, much of the media … all kept in line by the mob boss and his army of anonymous goons.

The University of Oklahoma fired an instructor for failing a student who wrote a reaction paper without having read the text she was supposed to react to. By definition she failed to satisfy the requirements of the assignment—which she publicly disclosed before the decision to fire the instructor.

A small (personal) example of this book’s intellectual dishonesty: My father-in-law is reading In Covid’s Wake, and excitedly told me he found a passage where I’m quoted. The quote in question is me saying the FBI worked to censor speech on social media. Huh? When did I say that?!

The thesis of the book is that early COVID lockdowns weren't worth it and mid-COVID mitigation measures like masks, contact tracing and business closures don't work. This is laughably false and the authors have endorsed the people now running Trump's HHS.

This is genuinely horrifying. Fact-free far-right agitprop given accolades by credible media across the political spectrum.

Everyone involved in the publication and promotion of this book should be embarrassed. It's not a "harsh truth" that COVID mitigation was a mistake, it's ghoulish and false.

A farcical remix of drapetomania that nonetheless demonstrates exactly how our ideas around mental health are socially constructed and political.

Apache met twee artikels over pseudowetenschappelijk racisme nog net voor het einde van 2025. Wat een cadeau!

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

There's an audio recording of him, not an aide, asking for votes to swing a state in a Presidential election and that wasn't enough to get him locked up or even keep him from the White House

Another new a16z idea: giving letters of medical necessity to anybody so they can commit tax fraud Between funding social media bot farms, crypto, and prediction markets, this company represents the new era where tech is mostly just for fraud

This is an actual assertion in the Cass Report, designed to foster the "transing away the gay" conspiracy narrative

It's a good encapsulation of our media and educational systems when we know Fulnecky's name and can be fairly sure she'll make bank and prestige on a rightwing and evangelical press junket. Meanwhile the TA has lost funding through their position and likely can't release their name out of fear.

For non-academics: this means the student is likely done at OU because the TA gig is attached to tuition waivers for graduate school. Sunk time at OU will be lost and the options are to quit or start over somewhere else.

Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.

the people I'm maddest at in all of this are the administrators.

This person analyzes American politics for a living www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

I taught Philosophy of Disability for the first time at my institution this year and I was absolutely not prepared for the sheer number of students who were like "this course taught me SO much about my disability that I did not know" in their finals.

this was part of a plan the organized far right made to begin their attack on taking out trans people out of academia, what a disgrace of a university to give in to this

Society is failing these children.

Please share this widely. There have been 13 peer-reviewed critiques of the Cass Review, to the extent that academia regards it as pseudoscience, but so far all have been subject to organised censorship by mainstream media. This is the first time one has broken through. Oz Guardian only still.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

The "conservative Influencer Wars" are one group saying Holocaust-denying neo-Nazi style antisemites are unwelcome, and the other group saying that unity in the camp includes even the worst anti-Jewish racism. This tweet is the head of the DoJ Civil Rights Division backing the Nazi side.

The Crimson story sheds a lot of light on the outright Naziism that’s at the heart of the young Republican right wing radicals.

Color me shocked.

Highly recommended read about the politicisation of science in the US and how this will help the resurgence of eugenic ideology and scientific racism. “For the first time, there is a political appointee in the NIH communications operations” www.statnews.com/2025/12/18/t...

It is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. plans to end CDC recommendations for most childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

The British press publishes ten transphobic articles a day because it is deeply concerned about violence against women and girls, apparently.

Surveillance boosters and people who sell cameras are shameless in that any tragedy is an argument for more cameras. The actual number is irrelevant, rather it’s seen by them as an opportunity to increase the existing number until every square inch of the earth is blanketed.