As a lit professor, I just died inside a little bit

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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model

In 2022, Bari Weiss ran this viral first-person piece by a top Levi’s executive. She claimed she was hounded out of the company because of her vocal stance on COVID restrictions. There are no quotes from the company. Or her colleagues. Not even a “no comment.” www.thefp.com/p/yesterday-...

NEWS: Bill Clinton is demanding full transparency from the Trump DOJ on the Epstein files. Clinton’s spokesman says the DOJ’s selective release suggests someone is being protected. He calls on Trump to direct Bondi to immediately release all remaining materials referencing Clinton.

Reader Tom B. from Seattle is matching gifts to his GoFundMe for ProPublica up to $15K. We’re just over $4K so far. Help close the gap:

Three years and one month from today, I’m going to grab a pickax and pull those letters off that building, but I’m going to need help holding the ladder. Are you in? Applying for my carpenter’s card today, so it’ll be a union job!!!

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

Fuck this fucking guy.

NYT acting like it was no big deal Brooks was there, and then this final line from the Buzzfeed story: "After the event, they took the guest list and shredded it."

gonna talk about david brooks being in the epstein photos the next time i visit the applebee's salad bar* *this is an extremely deep cut for the real ones

My outfit for the day it happens

One small way to try to re-establish social trust would be to transparently disclose *in this very column* that you hung out with Jeffrey Epstein. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/o...

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In a profession of Lizzas and Nuzzis, be a Whipple

Rob Reiner: “Silence in the face of authoritarianism is complicity. Speaking out is a patriotic act. Democracy doesn’t defend itself. It requires participation, vigilance, and courage from ordinary people."

We will miss the laughter you have given us all these years. Rob Reiner goes to 11. youtu.be/HsFm6Yk_HkE?...

“Tell your children who the cowards were.”

Just saw a Parkland survivor post about being on lock down at Brown University. We've failed generations of kids with our gun fetish

As a group Black people more reliably support policies falling under "socialism" than any other group. Our reward according to the Atlantic guy should be putting up with racism. We look out for low-wage workers at the ballot box. We don't have to look out for those spewing racism in our faces.

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INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Senate Republicans reject new congressional maps in defiance of Trump’s redistricting push.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

We're like three days from the n-word

Wow -- Russia reportedly plotted last year to plant bombs on US-bound flights (gift link) giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

If I were one of the wealthiest people in human history, living in a country with ever growing wealth inequality, I might think twice about advocating ritual execution

The Nobel Prize committee should announce the World Cup winner tomorrow

U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

BREAKING: All House Democrats have signed our discharge petition to extend the ACA tax credits. That makes 214. We can protect health care and lower costs — if only 4 Republicans will join us.

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he's fighting for his life in this meeting

I am going to remind u now of my 2019 scoop: www.thedailybeast.com/fox-and-frie...

This is just my opinion, but I don't think departments need to change their strategy for reading or grading student work. Departments need a strategy for responding to harassment and attacks.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

With DC shooter now identified as an Afghan national not the antifa secret agent White House hoped for a good time to remember the Trump admin has gutted domestic anti-terrorism capacity and reassigned many to finding grandmothers to arrest at immigration hearings.

The dead Guard members could have been home in West Virginia, prepping for the holidays. Instead, they died in the cause of performative ass-hattery on behalf of a malign narcissist and his cronies.

NEW data I've received: Just 5% of people detained by ICE since October 1 have had violent criminal convictions, 3/4 had no criminal convictions at all. Most "criminals" had immigration, traffic, and vice offenses. Not the "worst of the worst"...

sucks to suck. they’ve killed hundreds of thousands of children. i won’t lose a second of sleep if they are sentenced to life in prison for violating every national security law in the book

A BLUE HUMANITIES job: jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinna...

EPSTEIN BOMBSHELL: my staff is releasing a new report showing JPMorgan Chase executives – all the way to the top – enabled Epstein's sex trafficking operation. You're going to want to read this.

Now THIS???? is a white man! this is how you white man!!!!!!!!!

Larry Summers discusses his “statement of regret” for his disturbing messages to Jeffrey Epstein with Harvard students

I would add "no Black person should kill or die for the American empire" to the list of reasons, but yes.

Let me tell you about the other Epstein files the Trump administration is STILL HIDING — records that aren’t affected by the bill Congress passed today.

I don't know why the "Piggy" thing is bothering me so much. It's one more unforgivable thing in a list of 20,000 unforgivable things, but I've been mad about it for like 12 straight hours.

Khanna: "There should be no buildings named after people in this Epstein class. There should be no scholarships named after them. They shouldn't be enjoying perks of being affiliated w/ corporations or universities. Many of the survivors will tell you some of these people still are celebrated"

Honestly, when the old guard refuses them, I hope they start their own companies. Make newspapers, television programs, schools, music. Unleash these new tools for themselves and tear down the edifices crumbling around them.

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