Emmanuel, a 15-year-old with intellectual disabilities, walked away from his mom’s fruit stand in October. She reported him missing, but Houston police turned him over to ICE. “In front of the entire world, they tried to make others believe I was a bad mother.” thebarbedwire.com/2025/11/24/d...

You don’t have to like Nuzzi or approve of her conduct to understand that Lizza’s choice to publish the material that he is publishing is meant to sexually humiliate her in public in retaliation for disappointing him romantically. The term for that is revenge porn.

Very simple lesson here: Faculty governance will defend academic values, like academic freedom, even when it is unpopular. Political appointees who serve as Regents will blow with the ideological winds, which in Texas are anti-speech.

there‘s a bunch of discourse going on on my side of tiktok rn because a new-gen porn star was invited to speak in conversation with a human sexuality prof at the university of Washington, as part of the prof’s intro class. people are losing their minds about it??

I’m dead. This generation lmao

really funny thinking comparatively about how little trump was successfully charmed by elon or jd vance

center left nation with electoral structures that generate center right results

I saw someone comment yesterday that between this and the constant crying on the tour—shit has been happening on that set

the gutter antisemitism I am seeing online right now is CRAZY.

🧵 NYmag has a big story about declining academic performance, and bc the author is in NJ, a state that is always up its own ass about its public schools, the logline is that “liberalism failed public schools.” the article summarizes many current issues well, but ofc that dx is simplistic & wrong

this is so funny

today I got my students to admit they like Shakespeare (in comparison to Milton, but still)

the “anti-fascist popular front” is big enough to include actual fascists (MTG) but not the most vulnerable targets of fascism (trans people, migrants), because they’re not actually trying to construct an anti-fascist popular front.

this genuinely breaks my heart

zinesters & novella writers……it’s our time

I’ll say what we’re all thinking. ”nuzzi” sounds like a crude sexual euphemism & ive never liked to say it out loud

these people were supposed to be the cream of the crop of the industry, btw

satanic country

be soothed by knowing there are many more intellectually curious and contented sluts out there with much more compelling memoirs waiting to be sold

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

This is of course not shocking but fuck these clowns

I tell you what, if I was Jeffrey epstein’s brother I’d be changing my name and living a quiet life right quick

your last saved meme is your moral philosophy… (this one may be too niche)

What perfect album came out the year you turned 16?

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

seeing some hate for these posts and I have to say, the woman is right!!!! and it’s okay to admit you can’t hack LA! we lasted 10 years; couldn’t hack it! & I am better for it and will love it forever

When is Chicago Pope going on @blankcheck.bsky.social

this rips actually

this isn’t the most pressing issue rn, but as someone who is a longtime indiehead and a also pophead, it’s crazy how often the former looking down at the latter is just baldfaced misogyny lol

Teens Take Texas

“When did pedophilia become a partisan issue,” asks Talarico at #TribFest, when asked about the latest trove of emails re: Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump. “No one, including the president of the United States, should be able to cover up crimes against children.”

this is exciting to me bc it’s what I experienced in the zohran events I organized. Texas Is Different ofc.

teehee that’s my church!!!!!

there was a good essay on lithub recently abt Pynchon & one thing it said is that TP’s conspiracies always point to a ruling class that literally, sexually gets off on all forms of exploitation & exhaustion of subjects. this has stuck with me!

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meaningless beauty and truth annihilating enslavement culture. fuck everything

im in a fucking spiral about epstein

Really wild how all these Harvard scientists and mathematics guys constantly talked about how Jeffrey Epstein was this brilliant, "misunderstood" man and then you read his emails and he's clearly a barely literate lecher, extremely easy to understand

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

A reminder that the crises routinely treated as separate—housing, food, climate, healthcare, electricity—are anything but. This moment in America makes it glaringly clear: each feeds the other, driven by the same rapacious, profit-maximizing forces.

a must-listen.

The best way to show that MAGA is not part of some dark authoritarian movement is to remove professors who suggest that it is

Apologies to Variety, but Letterboxd should have gotten this scoop

it’s obviously reprehensible for other reasons but shit, & the higher ed Trump deal, seems so short sighted to me! Like, ok, my kid’s not going to A&M then! Same for UT if they take the deal! The sheer amount of $$$$ lost seems like it should be a no brained

remember brat summer? now it's time for Temporary Secretary fall.

primary every last dem senator

me rn

every sunday, from pulpits in megachurches across america, white evangelicals cry out about some imaginary persecution of christianity. but i can’t stop thinking about the pile of rosaries collected by a janitor at a border crossing or the priest turned away at the gates of the detention camp.

This is an excellent piece about the State of the Humanities lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...