Remember the Year of the MOOC from a decade ago? The one where tech bros predicted the end of all but 3-4 universities because who needs campuses when everyone can just take MOOCs and learn everything? Hits a little different now after pandemic pedagogy, huh? The tech hype cycle is a helluva drug.

We’re making fun of her, but it really is beyond the pale at the White House press secretary would say this in public and it would not be a scandal.

This is Johnson saying the GOP Nazis had VIP tickets to Trump's inauguration. As proof there's no reason to be concerned about Nazis in the GOP. What a time to be alive. bsky.app/profile/atru...

2017 conservatives: dumb libs think words are violence 2025 conseratives: words are literally violence omg bsky.app/profile/atru...

Update: The government remains closed while Republicans protect Trump and his pedophile posse. Release the #EpsteinFiles

“I’m not worried about nazis in the party because this is a Nazi party that uses Nazi methods to achieve Nazi goals and I’m a Nazi. Does that make sense?”

If you think that professors exist as repositories of knowledge that students ask for answers, you’re missing the entire point of a college education. We’re here to teach students how to do research, how to analyze and argue, how to think for themselves — how to find the answers on their own.

The thing about Nazis is their speech is all hate speech, all of it, not free speech, because Nazism is predicated on violence and contemporary Nazism is predicated on knowing about genocide and approving of it and wanting to do it again.

This is how The Boston Globe chooses to frame the kidnapping of a local teenager.

That’s $5 billion more than the entire annual USAID budget. All to one country. To rescue one friend of the president’s.

Meanwhile, Justice Gorsuch is nodding along to oral arguments at the Supreme Court about how there’s no racism in politics anymore

Remember, brown 13-year-olds are hardened menaces to society, but 30-something Republican Hitler afficionados in positions of power are just li’l guys.

The New York Times should hire someone who understands how laws work.

would love to know where vought got the authority to shutdown a government agency established by statute

Feels quaint, almost cliché, to say this about a Trump action, but just for the record: This is all illegal, the President can't simply disregard the laws passed and agencies created by Congress, and both Vought & Trump would be impeached if the Constitution or the rule of law mattered to the GOP.

started / going

Trump and Vought are now breaking both sides of spending law. They’re illegally not spending where the law requires them to spend, and they’re illegally spending where they don’t have the money to spend. What we have is an appropriations king. Spending “deals” are meaningless under that setup.

the president using the office to punish americans that didnt vote for him should really be one of the biggest scandals in americas history

very funny that JD Vance has so little to do with his time that he goes on podcasts to defend 30-year-old men for saying how much they love Hitler

Important: this is exactly how propagandists operate.

Now that Trump has delegated his preposterous politicking for a Nobel Peace Prize to sycophants, he can finally get around to declaring unilateral war on Venezuela, a war crime, as he murders Colombian civilians at sea, another war crime, and endorses collective punishment in Gaza, another war crime

When college kids publicly say "Israel's war on Gaza is bad" that is full-blown anti-Semitism that requires the federal government to crack down on all colleges. When Young Republicans in their 20s and 30s privately praise Hitler and "joke" about the Holocaust, well, that's just freedom baby.

Notice he said “Antifa-types,” not “Antifa.” Why? Because he knows Antifa isn’t an organization — no members, no leader. So they use a phantom label. Classic authoritarian move: invent a vague enemy to justify cracking down on protests.

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WHAT THE FUCK FENTANYL IS NOT EVEN COMING FROM VENEZUELA

Holy shit. This is Angelo Elia, a legislative correspondent for Congressman Dave Taylor. According to @rooster.info, during a Zoom meeting today, he had an American nazi flag displayed in the background.

Terrorized an entire apartment complex, pulled people from their beds, trashed the residences within it, zip tied young children, detained U.S. citizens for hours, and they only got one “gang member”?!

Reminder: the House recess isn't because of the budget, the House adjourned before the shutdown because the GOP doesn't want to hold a vote to release government files on a pedophile because everyone knows those files implicate Trump. Republicans are doing this to protect their pedophile President.

Bessent’s friends have huge investments in Argentina. Elon Musk does too. Bessent is sending $40 billion of our money to Argentina with more to come. There is zero oversight. Congress not involved. One unelected man is sending a fortune to Argentina and nobody will stop him,

This entire argument by Louisiana and the conservatives questions are premised on an erasure of Congress’ enforcement power under the 14th & 15th Amendments. Literally swinging for the fences to wipe out the premise for the legitimacy of Congress’ power to enact civil rights statutes.

this man's marriage would not exist if not for a previous generation of people marching for their rights.

A few of my thoughts: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-13-yea...

Asked my students yesterday if they'd heard about the protests happening on Saturday. These folks are generally well-informed and interested in politics. Only 20% said they'd even heard of the No Kings protests. How did the organizers fail to get on the radar of these 18-22 year olds?

these people have the self-reflection of a vampire

1)You may remember the articles criticizing liberal students for their hesitancy to make friends with conservative students—alleging that they were less open-minded than their conservative counterparts.

Welp—CDC’s entire data team for its legendary national health and nutrition survey (NHANES)—our health census—has been laid off. Now we are flying blind to nutrition and chronic disease status in the U.S.—is this supposed to help us be MAHA? www.statnews.com/2025/10/14/c...

Tim Walz: "Here's what I'd challenge Trump to do: find three soybean farmers who will stand with you and say that's okay. Just three. I challenge you to do that because you're not gonna find them."

GOV. WALZ: "The biggest myth is that this guy understands business. He's an absolute abject failure at business — the irony is calling Democrats socialists when I am begging for free markets here to allow capitalism to work. Trump’s the one with government interference." (From @atrupar.com )

This used to be grounds for resignation/dismissal from the Party. But as we saw from the GOP chat messages, it's just a day ending in y for Republicans.

Walking away with $20 billion of US taxpayer money so Scott Bessent’s Wall Street cronies don’t lose their investments in Argentina.

I wrote about a new Nazi party that seeks to criminalize all human virtue, and how that means that human virtue is the greatest weapon against the new Nazi project. www.the-reframe.com/the-crime-of...

Read the whole thing. "Fascists punish humans for their humanity, because humanity exposes the fascist project for what it is."

If we write off all news media, we’re playing into Trump’s hands. Some outlets are doing well while others stink. In this installment of my free Stop the Presses newsletter, I give letter grades to major media outlets. See if you agree.

So to be sure I understand the MAGA position on this: •Saying Happy Holidays = War on Christmas •No teacher led prayer in public schools = War on Jesus •No 10 Commandments on Courthouse = War on Christianity •Shooting Christian Pastor in the head = Not Crossing The Line Got it.

If you see any post online saying that the #IRS is sending you inflation/stimulus payments, that is absolutely untrue. We are shutdown. There will be no checks coming from the IRS. #skytax #scamalert

Last week, Sen. Mike Lee, chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced he had introduced a new, intentionally deceptively-named piece of legislation: the Outdoor Americans with Disabilities Act. The bill is also sponsored by Sen. John Curtis. More: suwa.org/conservation...

If Kamala was elected people wouldn't be kidnapped off the streets, fisherman wouldn't be murdered off the coast of Venezuela, her family wouldn't be grifting constantly, she wouldn't send troops into US cities.

Something something bipartisan solutions something something heal the country something something radical liberals