The irony being that this double standard is the direct result of the reigning journalistic standards for “fairness” and objectivity.

“Independence Day” but it’s the president who’s blowing up all the monuments.

It would be nice, but the core tenet of Platner’s brand of Avenging White Man politics is “a white man is never wrong.”

Meanwhile, the local paper, its moral and political compasses oriented to the nearest billionaire’s rectum, says we should learn to love them.

Need immediate screenshots of every email this president has sent demanding faculty do more on behalf of students.

Lowe’s Home Delivery Powered by ✨Ai✨ going about as well as expected.

These really are veering into wholesale fabrication. Notable that, whatever the right wing has become, it can no longer sustain any of its tenets with actual evidence from the past.

Can’t wait for the day my search engine gets mad and shuts down if I forget to say thank you.

Missouri only loses this because it has to divide its spite between two large cities.

It must be emphasized that we need powerful, robust ACADEMIC history IN universities to sustain history OUTSIDE universities. If we can’t employ people in higher ed to train future generations of public historians, we will not have future generations of public historians. 🗃️

Oh, then how high should we go?

Oof, Midwest.

Legit the only two Roman Empire things I ever regularly think about are 1) they thought foot-related perfume bottles were hi-larious and 2) all the flying penis art.

Kickass double rainbow

Seems to me applying these constant constitutional exceptions to St. Louis and Kansas City serves as legal acknowledgement from the legislature that these cities are no longer part of the state and therefore free to be annexed by any other legislature pending approval of Congress.

Because like moths to a flame the press seeks power and they think “people stuck in Youngstown with no Plan B” are the highest authority in our land.

Always helpful to be reminded how dumb you have to be to believe in white supremacy’s core argument that “if you kinda look like the creators of great works you must be equally great.”

His move to Springfield makes him the immediate Dem frontrunner for the 2028 gubernatorial race.

Grateful that finals week is also student thank-you note season because god do I appreciate those more than anything right now.

Welp rushing over to Blackboard right now to get these grades in…

Bluesky culture makes more sense when you stop reading it as a social media platform and start reading it as a cloistered monastic order contemplating the sins of a fallen world and seeking the most creative punishments to atone.

Love to be told every day that I’m an elitist because I believe in making a complete education accessible to everyone.

Listen, pal, give me a few million of those consultant $ and maybe I’ll accept some responsibility for party messaging. Otherwise fuck off.

“I advance it therefore as a suspicion only, that the blacks, whether originally a distinct race, or made distinct by time and circumstances, are inferior to the whites in the endowments both of body and mind.” Yeah, “Notes” is definitely the way to 100% prove that Jefferson was not racist.

Kind of surprised not to see more on this article given how the particular anxieties of this fading petit bourgeoisie shape so much of the institutional collapse we Blueskyers spend all day discussing.

“In short, America is a land of contrasts.”

But, bro, pizza boxes can’t be recycled. That’s a terminal destination, bro. Bro, are you sure about this?!

“The mayor’s white again so we’ll stop actively rooting for the city’s destruction,” part five of our ninety-six-part editorial series….

Slightly diminish a book The Annoying Lightness of Being

Post your warning sign.

On the newsworthiness scale “Ex-smoker looks for a reason to light back up” is well south of even “dog bites man.”

Anyone saying this should immediately google “Peter Jennings final broadcast”

Without downloading anything new, where are you mentally?

Always repost the Popple.

The AFT has bought into some bullshit.

The Times knifing St. Louis right in the ribs.

“Right wrongs no man.”

Faculty! Share a pic of your lounge!

Throw off the niceties of liberalism and Enlightenment and those same old stubborn 1600s are still under there, stewing.

The local paper is soliciting bribes for the police chief via the laundering operation of a local university and explain to me again how my teaching the history of slavery is the trust problem in higher ed?

I’ll just pop this up again since Andy Beshear is a white Gen X dude.

Tom Waits jukebox musical when?

The lesson tech finance learned from 2008 was you never have to face the crash so long as you can keep moving the money from rapidly deflating assets into rapidly inflating assets. Like Wile E. Coyote, you’ll be fine so long as you never look down.

This is true and also gets at the core of the conservative project though: any approach that (factually) portrays conservative belief as human, fallible, contingent, subject to criticism is “left-leaning” and must be banned.

White Gen Xers entering the workforce were told every day of the 1980s and 1990s we were going to be worse off than our parents and that it was because of unions and civil rights. And a lot of us believed it in the face of all evidence.

They are also fundamental to the research process itself. It’s like telling a cellular biologist they can’t use their centrifuge because it looks bad to the general public.

St. Louis leadership: always desperate to be the last people to do the wrong thing.

It irritates me to no end when I review fellowships how the apps from the same schools are consistently (but not universally!) stronger, at least according to the rubrics I’m given.

My most committed take is Toyota needs to re-release all their 80s trucks and vans (complete with the burnt rainbow styling) as EVs.