1. Texas A&M has banned a philosophy teacher from teaching Plato because it has "gender ideology" in it. The banning stems from excerpts from Plato’s Aristophanes’ Myth of the Split Humans and Diotima’s Ladder of Love. Subscribe to support our journalism.

This changing room awaits FA Cup champions Crystal Palace at Macclesfield tomorrow 😲 Macclesfield FC are the lowest-ranked team left in the competition, playing in England's 6th tier, and are a phoenix club only founded in 2020 after Macclesfield Town folded 🪄

In order to put a bit of humor on your TL...

WATTERS: Have you been watching this New York Mayor Mamdani guy? JD VANCE: Heh heh heh. The guy who wants to take all property away from white people?

A potentially engaging distraction: watch me close out a conference on AI in LAM by talking about how all the vagaries of archival description and discovery that LLMs can't address www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Hm_...

Okay this article? I have to send it to some people. You want to know why I'm ARMY? THIS. This is why. This article has all the words for it that I can't express.

New in PN: Corporation for Public Broadcasting's patriotic goodbye "We’re in thrall to a con man who denigrates the very idea of truth and uses media only to distract and divide. And so the CPB board members broke their plowshares lest they be beaten into swords by a deranged demagogue."

On the 5th Anniversary of the failed January 6th insurrection attempt, we’re reminded how fragile democracy can be. We must remember the darkness of that day so it’s never repeated. As history is rewritten by some, we choose to speak the truth of what happened.

As a working historian, this is what normally gets filed under "Bad things done by bad people who the world has to fight."

Never let a single goddamned person on the Right ever claim again that they’re the party of law and order without laughing in their lying face.

Greenland belongs to its people. The Trump admin's reckless statements are destabilizing, dangerous, and undermine the very foundation of Article 5 and the NATO alliance. The American people voted for affordability at home, not threats to invade our closest friends abroad.

5 years ago our Capitol was violently invaded by supporters of our current president. All of them have been pardoned, and many have been empowered. This day will forever live in the memories of those who watched it unfold in absolute horror. Let it fuel our resolve to take our country back.

This is exactly what the Founders warned us about. www.alternet.org/msn-uk/trump...

Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄😏

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Wide vaccination keeps dangerous viruses away from babies too young to get vaccinated. But when many people try to free ride off the protection others provide, babies die. "Oregon.. record 1,475 cases for the year... surpassing the previous high seen in 1950... one baby died, first since 2012."

Everyone knows about Ahmed al-Ahmad, the Syrian Muslim migrant who took down one gunman. Another man, a Middle Eastern refugee, ran into a firefight and kicked the gun away from the other gunman. Police shot him, and bystanders kicked him in the head while he was down, thinking he was the terrorist.

If you're getting your health information from people who don’t believe that viruses exist, then consider perhaps not doing that...

Trump: “One year ago, our country was dead!” The Economist, one year ago:

Full on neo-Nazi conspiracy theories from the president tonight — the very same invasion and replacement conspiracy theories that have fueled a cycle of deadly violence targeting so many communities including immigrants, Jews, Latinos, the Black community, Muslims, and more.

1. A blockade is an act of war 2. The idea that Venezuela has stolen land from the United States is so laughably stupid on its face that even some of his base is like 🤨 3. It’s always about oil.

[email protected] : Were you satisfied with the answers you’ve gotten so far in this classified briefing on Venezuela? AOC: Oh, hell no. It was a joke. This was not a serious intelligence briefing. This was the communication of an opinion.

BREAKING: The House of Representatives just passed a bill that would subject immigrant children to invasive bodily searches and keep them in detention instead of releasing them to their families. The Senate must vote no on this horrific bill.

Read this. Then read it again.

He'll start a war to: 1. Distract from the Epstein Files 2. Steal oil 3. Justify emergency powers 4. Justify use of the AEA for deportation/internment 5. Help the drug lord he just pardoned

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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.

The biggest lie told to American farmers, and who profited from it.👇 www.jackhopkinsnow.com

Just once I’d like an athlete to say “hail Satan” at the beginning of a post game interview, is that too much to ask

It's been truly remarkable to see the grand jury system actually act as a real line of defense. Especially since--as I bet most non-lawyers don't know--the only legal person in the GJ room is the prosecutor: no defense, no judge. There is NO place more favorable to the state. And they keep losing.

Your daily reminder that the ACA is the ONLY Republican idea Republicans ever had for healthcare (see: Romneycare). Obama would've had a public option but Republicans killed that, and they just hate ACA cuz a black man has his name on it. Your Uncle Maga doesn't know this cuz he watches Fox News.

“The Daily Nebraskan found in the leaked spreadsheet that every program eliminated appeared to be profitable…every program that the chancellor proposed eliminating generated more money from tuition dollars than the department costs to run”

It starts with knowing the truth. Don’t allow yourselves to be gaslit into believing this is a real question.

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I’ve been nominated for the FIFA prize for literature, oh wait, I just found out I won. Imaginary prizes are it turns out, very easy to win.

This Shouldn't be happening in the greatest Country in the world Every American SHOULD HAVE Decent Affordable Healthcare. . . And now losing subsidies will make this number skyrocket and many will die Please call your Senators and Congressional Representatives 202 224-3121

Good front-paging.

Walmart and McDonald’s are among the top employers of workers who rely on food stamps. McDonald's CEO raked in $18.2M last year — over 1,000x the company's median employee pay. Walmart's CEO pocketed $27.4M — 930x the company's median employee pay. See the problem?

Alina Habba’s parents emigrated to the US from Iraq citing persecution.

Dimon on why JPMorgan Chase is not funding WH Ballroom: We have an issue, which is anything we do, since we do a lot of contracts with governments here and around the world, we have to be very careful how anything is perceived, and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it.

Imagine calling a decent person stupid or the R-word and getting cheered for it because “at least they’re being honest.” That is MAGA. What is wrong with these people? Who raised you?

“We most humbly beseech him to render our national government a blessing to all the people, by constantly being a government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed.” — Washington, First Thanksgiving Proclamation www.mountvernon.org/education/pr...

Wishing you all a happy Thanksgiving ! #JustSaying 👇🏻

Happy Turkey Day to those that celebrate! 🦃🍗🍽️

the hills are alive with the sound of fuck this shit

Mercilessly & endlessly: