How did I not know until today that Thomas Paine lived in James Monroe’s house while he wrote Age of Reason and started his beef with George Washington??

IMO it’s being significantly underreported that James Van Der Beek, despite all his success and earnings, was so thoroughly wiped out financially by his cancer that by the end his former costars were holding fundraisers to support his family and fund his treatment.

Like a full 30% of the current US was Mexican territory until the mid-nineteenth century, that culture and heritage and language didn’t up and vanish after the Alamo or whatever, acting like Spanish isn’t a huge part of the American tapestry is super short-sighted and ahistorical

Pretty sure one was consulted, definitely was for the album news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

“those other ai will take MONEY for ADS to give you answers. we hallucinate responses out of the pure love of the game*”

Dumb question: This scandal, considered seismic in Britain, is really about Mandelson leaking confidential, market-moving govt information to Epstein amid the 2008 financial crisis, which Epstein in turn passed to JP Morgan, including advice to Jamie Dimon. Why is this not hitting Jamie Dimon?

Giving an open book blue book exam with an actual paper textbook and the students are so adorable referring to the book and writing their answers. The energy is somehow fun.

This one resonated. As NTT faculty, only systematic raises are merit raises which range 0-<3%. I am not eligible for retention raises- food workers can get retentions, but not me. Also, different rules for different TT people- some people get retentions, others told similar offer doesn’t count.

Even my carefully cultivated Instagram puppies and turtles and bunnies feed is now like, “This dog was abandoned when ICE kidnapped his family” and “our beloved dog walker got deported.” The people who are witnessing these horrors first hand and saying “this is not okay” are everywhere.

Once again, I ask, in good faith & without trying to be overly alarmist, what anyone has seen in the last year to make them believe that the 2026/28 elections will be free, fair, & democratic by any traditional meaning of the words?

You walk into this bar and show your ICE mugshot, you don't pay a dime.

Enjoying the internet reacting to learning that single issue gun voters are still single issue gun voters. I mean, you have no idea and there just isn’t a way to explain it with words.

US Dollar share of global foreign currency reserves have fallen to its lowest level this century as investors around the world aggressively dump the greenback following the Trump/Bessent show in Davos

I log off for a few hours and you people have lost your minds. Go to sleep.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

I think a good strategy for your non-leftist social media presence (ie everywhere but here) is to give this photo - the remains of Danish soldiers returning in coffins after being killed in America's war in Afghanistan - as wide an audience as possible. Remind people who we're betraying

What the U.S. really needs is higher prices and more enemies.

😂 Reading this while thinking I cannot tell anyone I am starting a new project because, all the unfinished projects 😂.

This checks out. I have been in Colorado almost 20 years and I will never get used to how expensive pizza is, and also how blah. Originally from Ohio with lots of Italian-American pizza for reasonable prices.

So, if I'm following all this correctly, a bunch of internet shitposters who spent years screaming "don't tread on me" and warning about federal agents stomping out people's rights... have been hired as ICE agents to go around breaking into people's homes, kidnapping & shooting them

Oh great, they are channeling Special Agent Oso. Seems about right for foreign policy in 2026.

I’m feeling very Howard Beale right now and it is only Monday so that is bad. Does not help that I am ill.

Did we have to lose Bob Weir now?? This is the worst timeline.

This one hits hard.

This is horrifying. This is not something that happens in a free country.

Incredible that president has unilaterally invaded one country without any input from Congress, is saber-rattling with at least five other countries including a NATO ally, and Dems would rather change the subject to prices than jump up and down and say this is illegal and insane and must stop now.

I will read this more closely later. Lot of people called out here. I mostly agree with this critique of empirical political science but am not quite comfortable with the way the author conceptualizes ideology. But that is a widespread issue I have with much of contemporary political theory.

This is terrifying. Imagine what will be left of knowledge if these people stay in control. This is not something that happens in a democracy.

I took 10 days off work which is the most days in a row for at least 6 years. Trying to maintain a positive attitude but classes start on Thursday and so far this week I have thrown up and broken into hives while trying to get caught up. Send positive vibes, please!!

Just a reminder that many of the people Trump pardoned for rioting on January 6th have since been arrested again — for gun crimes, sexual assault, child sex crimes, domestic violence, kidnapping, and threatening lawmakers.

NEW: Mandatory evacuation order for the South Pointe neighborhood in Boulder County. Wildfire at 287 and Dillion (SE of Louisville)

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Mocktails?? Really people. Read the room.

Their messaging is so fucking incoherent. Maduro was an illegitimate leader who lost in 2024, which is why we're replacing him with his VP instead of the person who won in 2024. We did this to stop fentanyl, which is why he's indicted for cocaine. We're also occupying Venezuela via Zoom call.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Trump’s actions are blatantly unconstitutional. There is no dispute that Maduro is a brutal dictator — but only Congress has the power to declare war. If Congress does not begin reasserting itself — immediately — our constitutional order will be permanently transformed.

Well, the governor of Colorado is at it again with the hot takes.

Feels like real potential for this to turn into something like the U.S. war against the Philippines.

I feel like I haven’t even been properly lied to about the purposes of this war

Three questions: What news outlets are most-reliable right now? Are any countries going to come to defense of Venezuela (actual not verbal)? And, is this going to be the end of the UN? I am still trying to process this, I am still in disbelief.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Uh oh.

Peace on Earth, friends 🕊️

I just cannot.

In the span of four days, we’ve built a coalition of over 80 lawmakers — including several Republicans — to stop the dismantling of NCAR. I’m grateful to them for their efforts as we work to secure language protecting NCAR in the upcoming CJS appropriations bill. We will not back down! 👇🏽👇🏽👇🏽

"We also are sitting across the street from families who are being torn apart, and if there’s a way for us to help them, I’ve told my staff, do anything possible." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/how-...

May almost be more impactful if not leaked. Bari has managed to Streisand effect what was already known - we are sending people to be tortured in a foreign gulag.

In other news, Yule y’all!

This is not how it is supposed to be…

And our power is out again…sunny day and no wind. Went out just after 9am. #Boulder