The grift never ends. Most corrupt regime in history

The thing is, in music, you can win with the equivalent of the "both our protagonists are scarred" argument. See the "Blurred Lines" case. Record companies started settling all sorts of ridiculous claims because of it.

Actually, I think the Artemis II mission is right out of "For All Mankind" (Great TV Show) which posits that settling Mars and the Moon would be a nationalist, militarized, colonizing project that would carry the political debates on Earth into orbit.

This is just so gross. At what point do ALL people of faith denounce him?

Oh, yeah, that was the Obama Iran deal.

Gotta make sure to maintain the white patriarchy....

🎵 "A song isn't going to save us if all we do is listen to it." Professor Anna Celenza's new book, On the Record: Music That Changed America, traces U.S. political history through a musical lens. Her argument: music can unify, but change requires action. hub.jhu.edu/2026/04/03/l...

Every night Trump leaves the US and the world worse off than it was that morning

Dismantling the Lost Cause one license plate at a time.

The Generals are gone. The AG is gone. We started a war. Gas is up. Healthcare is up. Prescriptions are up. The rich are richer. The poor are poorer. Protesters have been killed. Service members have been killed. The law is a suggestion. The constitution is a memory. We. Are. Not. Okay.

The 12 year olds at the Pentagon had a cool new missile they wanted to use. It explodes a few feet above the ground & shoots out little tungsten pellets, killing everyone nearby. They used it to bomb a sports facility where girls were playing volleyball. Killed 21 people. In your name.

This is an excellent book--great writing, no jargon, perfect for course assignments, academics, and the general reader. @annacelenza.bsky.social @wwnorton.com

Don't know if they have raised the pay recently, but community colleges in NC routinely paid PhDs $1800 for humanities courses just a few years ago. These courses fulfill the gen ed requirements at all UNC system universities.

Our president is a racist.

A movement is always greater than one person. Men can help accomplish great things for a community and still be horrible people. Alas, Dolores Huerta and the other women who talked to the NY Times provide us with more proof for these truths.

This is such terrible news, and like @erinkmaher.bsky.social I had not heard of her death. Allison was smart, funny, and great at her job. May her memory be a blessing and I'll be thinking of her young children who have lost a wonderful mother today and every day.

Proposals for the Opera | Black | Queer conference at UCLA, October 1-3, 2026 are due on March 30. See: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Hundreds of EPA employees signed the Declaration of Dissent calling out the Trump administration's dismantling of the agency's science, a betrayal of the agency’s mandate. The consequences are real for every American: our clean air, water, and protections from pollution are under attack. (1/4🧵)

I’ve been presenting at conferences for almost 20 years and this is my first time attending with laryngitis. It’s a little ironic that my SAM paper tomorrow at 9 is about recuperating Black stock characters through operatic vocal timbre. My vocal timbre is distinctly frogish right now.

Another word you might use for it is "looting". "This appears to be the first administration to take such widespread advantage of taxpayer-funded military housing to accommodate political appointees who do not have a direct connection to the military..." www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

After the NEH grants were cancelled many people I knew couldn't understand the logic behind it. He makes it clear. If it wasn't exclusively about white men who were cast in a positive light, then it was "inherently discriminatory."

We are a rogue nation led by immoral men.

The glibness. The indifference. The carelessness. The utter lack of planning for a war against a country of 90M. The sickness of a man who acts on whim that will kill thousands not hundreds. The horror of a regime that enables this sickness. The broken body politic that votes in such malignancy.

I've given money to the "Save our Signs" project which is archiving pictures of NPS signs to preserve the information on them and hopefully aid in restoring them if (hopefully when) the government stops censoring history. crowdfund.umn.edu/campaigns/Sa...

This is what happens with the dumbest, most corrupt people in the US are leading the government.

How it started How it’s going @NikkiHaley edition

Truth!

“So called international organizations…no stupid rules of engagement.” We are a rogue murder state now, and positively proud of it.

And, of course, this is what Trump wanted. By going to war, he is forcing Republicans to get back in line for his whole agenda. He doesn't care how many people will die, or how it destablizes the region, as long as he can maintain control and feed his endless narcissism.

How can Hegseth talk about the deaths of soldiers for whom he is responsible in such a cavalier way? It is shameful.

Cover of The Lancet: @thelancet.com www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

If I was still teaching, I would use this as an example of why essentialism begets racism.

Oh for crying out loud. REALLY?? ARE WE NOT PAST THE NEVER-COMING “PIVOT?”

Thank you so much for the shoutout @slstalter.bsky.social! I wish that my book went to 1922 so I could have talked about Better Times, but I love the comparison to the Olympics. No one did spectacle better than the NY Hipp.

Someone explain to me how this is effectively distinct from what Russia did to the Ukrainian children they stole and put up for adoption to Russian families.

Perdue updates the Chinese Exclusion Act.

So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

Wow...Just one more institution that we're never getting back no matter what happens in the future.

On UNC campuses the damage has already been done. The Board of Governors used the BOE's directives as an excuse to end DEI iniatives, restrict course offerings, and dismantle programs. There's no turning back now and they'll continue their efforts.

White supremacy much?

“It’s gotten old” The Trumps are tired of people asking about them looting the country and making BILLIONS off the presidency so pls stop! 😬 (From @atrupar.com )

Welp—the page proofs are corrected. I think this book might actually get published!

What a "shocking" article -- there is waste, fraud, abuse, incompetence, self-promotion, and illegality at DHS. Seems par for the course for this administration.

The president is overruling science to eliminate measures that protect us from pollution and environmental damage, mainly to benefit multinational corporations that have thrown money at his campaign, ballroom, and family. It's simple corruption, and it will cost American lives and livelihoods.

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

A US Marshal who is part of Trump's surge of feds in DC shot and killed someone in DC yesterday evening and there is barely any coverage and not a single post on here yet about it? wtop.com/dc/2026/02/u...

Pam Bondi couldn’t even come prepared for her own staged temper tantrum. this is the nation’s “top law enforcement” official btw 🤡 maybe she became a lawyer because the acting career didn’t work out!!

I had no idea how many truly horrible people there are in the world until they all started working for this administration.

A picture is worth a thousand words. How does AG Pam Bondi sleep at night?