But yes the short version is this is a right wing signifier implemented by corporate czars who sit on public university boards for LinkedIN clout making an administratively clunky decree by political fiat. they feel immune from public pressure because we don’t know how to apply any.

Weirdest thing is new argument: stopping construction a threat to national security A prudent plan would not be doing things ass backwards All this makes a mockery of heritage and historic #preservation standards. @Savingplaces is correct: immediate halt was only proper solution

Imagine if journalists were allowed to speak of "unexpectedly turbulent rainstorms" as the kind of predictable development in a world where energy intensive bubbles drive economic growth? www.wsj.com/tech/ai/core...

I am so moved by this man. Such courage, and a reflexive choice to act at great peril to his own life. I aspire to that kind of baked in moral clarity. It’s damned impressive!

Two victims of previous school shootings — Mia Tretta, who was shot in the stomach in 2019 at Saugus High School, and Zoe Weissman, who survived the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — are now at Brown. Gun violence is out of control in this country.

Automated license plate readers, DMV records, IRS data til a judge overruled it, TSA data. It does not end. And if you think this isn’t a problem for EVERYONE, not just our neighbors without papers, oh sweet summer child.

Yeah, dude, fascism in a liberal democracy isn’t conservative. There hasn’t been a conservative movement to speak of since Trump came on the scene.

Winterizing…

Best thing on the internet today!

Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and should be fired immediately.

Do not blame institutions, which are many things to many people. Do not blame the people who work there, who have little real say and are universally staunchly opposed. (Very often students too.) Instead: Blame leadership. Blame alumni with fingers on scales. Blame the media for normalizing.

Thing is, we DID hear about it at his confirmation hearing. Every single senator who voted to confirm Hegseth knew he held these views about the laws of war. They voted to confirm him anyway.

2/2 They found nothing, obviously, but they did destroy entire agencies and their dedicated staff, turned over reams of government data to Elon to train his AIs, dismantled our nation's soft power, and then slunk away with zero guilt, shame, or regret.

So much for all immigrants being criminals and freeloaders instead of hard working tax paying people. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/b...

If you have to ask "Is killing these people legal?" you've already answered your question.

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Can you imagine escaping from the Nazis only to find yourself shackled by Trump’s stormtroopers?

These are murders on the high seas. Trump may have ‘immunity’ here, but none of his minions do. And none of them have immunity from international courts, in spite of their claims. Nothing says acknowledgment of guilt like making up justification for criminality.

Spot on.

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There is always money for the consultants. No matter how much “austerity.” Always always always.

Both the authority and the imperative, as Toby Ziegler says

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

our neighbors are our caregivers: our teachers, our home health aides, our chefs, our deliverers, our builders, our nannies, our beautifiers - everyone who works to take care. and our neighbors are organizing because we HATE this attack on community fabric.

LINA KHAN is on Mamdani’s transition team???????? LET’S GOOOOOO

The Barstool Sports Guy spends 183 days a year in FL to get out of paying taxes in NY

Catholic Church stepping up!

This is like Drunk History meets This Old House

"Developing our linguistic capacities — to master diverse concepts, to follow an intricate argument, to form judgments, to communicate those to others — is the development of our capacity to think. Cognitive degradation threatens democratic processes." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

Everyone knew and people didn’t gave a f—

So looking forward to the hometown launch of my book at Rutgers later 💗

Every American’s blood should boil at the very idea T and his supporters are trying to shred the constitution and “try” for a third term. Every elected Republican needs to condemn this immediately or resign from office.

This would have been worth mentioning when quoting him. (Or maybe as a reason be be cautious in relying for him as an expert on trends in higher education.)

And all while building a ballroom.

I get the political urgency for a reboot of the Democratic brand for more media-savvy leadership. But a lot is built around their disastrous defeat in the 2024 elections. There is a danger of generalizing about an anomalous post-covid anti-incumbency year when the defeat was actually fairly narrow.

The absolute lawlessness of this administration. Blatantly illegal deadly stuff happening all over the place.

Lining up the weekend’s work…

Belgian AI scientists call on colleagues to keep AI out of the classroom. apache.be/2025/10/24/-...

It’s the most corrupt administration in American history and nothing else even comes close

Monsters.

The fourth paragraph is politically obtuse, framing this as a battle between Trump’s heartfelt desire to put an “imprint” on the White House versus “the sensibilities of many in Washington.” NO! This is an attack upon the citizenry at large and upon the basic principles of republican governance.

All week the pro-Israel and pro-Trump supporters screamed at us, in unison: why aren’t you celebrating the ceasefire?? Because we knew it wouldn’t last. But even I didn’t think it’d be over in less than a week. What a complete & utter humiliation for Trump, thanks to Netanyahu.

The president of the United States is destroying constitutional government and literally calling himself a king and the pathetic journalistic and political class of this country is busy winding itself into circular meta-debates over the correct way to perform their reaction or nonreaction to it.

Note the juxtaposition of the articles about the artillery display over an CA highway and one of the largest days of peaceful political protest in U.S. history.

@theguardian.com thank you for getting the crowd numbers right. Our newspaper of record @nytimes.com reported "thousands" marched. Stop marginalizing the resistance!

I am sharing this because people need to know that the majority of people polled know who to blame.

I feel that some of you need regular reminders of how unpopular this man is. And frankly I see him getting even more so as the economy worsens. Again, this doesn't mean that he will give up any power but it does mean that WE HAVE POWER TOO.