This week is Climbing World Champs, and thus I will be posting a lot more Jock Content for the next seven days.

tune in after the break for medical advice from a reanimated bog body

I am *begging* everyone to read the article. I cried laughing. I'm still laughing.

Very funny that Donald Trump hates the one vaguely likeable thing about republican mayoral candidate Curtis Sliwa.

Did Trump win in November because he showed grace and empathy to people who voted for Joe Biden in 2020? Politics is not an Afterschool Special. You put out a strong message about what's wrong, propose a compelling policy agenda, hope the economy cooperates and that's it. None of this mush.

Please do this if you did not long ago. Delete everything. Agree to nothing. The people who run this going concern despise academics, are likely very illiquid right now, & will show now compunction about selling all your data, as their revised user agreement makes clear.

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

The version of covid currently circulating at my school seems significantly worse than versions from the recent past. Young people who I know wouldn't miss class otherwise have been out for two or three weeks. They can't get out of bed, can't stop coughing. Please get your covid booster if you can.

The address to target is: Disney-ABC Home Entertainment and Television Distribution 500 S. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91521-3515

They are literally canceling culture

::primal scream::

Got my COVID vax, and now can't wait to get some challenging mitochondria! Any minute now!

Do not assume that everything they set out to do is inevitable. They have been successfully fought on multiple fronts, from courtroom wins that have actually stuck to city and state governments that haven't backed down, to activists in the streets organizing against their violence.

it rocks that my profession is so dedicated to lying about Kirk that his gutter bigot friends like Jack Posobiec get uncritical CNN spots, while Attiah gets fired for accurately quoting Kirk

*deep sigh* I get that this is clickbait, but Janja Garnbret is objectively a better competition climber than Jakob Schubert. And it's not particularly close! Yet Janja gets the "world's best FEMALE climber" title, and Jakob is just the "world's best climber." Fuck off.

Replacing "transgender is like ferrari" with "transgender is like microwave" from now on after this great bit

It happened to me: I went bouldering twice in less than 24 hours, and my shoulders and hands went on strike.

I've said it before but people in the future are going to have a better understanding of the 17th-19th centuries than the 20th-21st centuries. Why? PAPER [the most durable technology invented by humans]

When Tramell Tillman wins an Emmy

What if we kissed under the no context nordic noir subtitles

My partner is incredulously reading the song list for current version of Moulin Rouge out loud. "They've got the song Firework - this is NOT a medley. They're just including the song Firework. They're also including Rolling Stone's Gimme Shelter? You can't use Gimme Shelter like that!"

Reporters talking with everyone who has ever met the shooter asking if the shooter knew any trans people. Healthy society we have here for sure.

no noah, i wrote that post because i think you are a weird antisocial loser and i want you to know that

One of the ways I scold my cat is by telling him a stern voice "you know better" even though he absolutely does not know any better.

Rarely does this regime give such a compliment to the folks fighting back. Please work to make this courage contagious: nokings.org

kirk's murder violated the ultimate rule of America's punditocracy; nothing they say or do should ever result in negative consequences for them. (the bitterest irony here is that there's every chance his shooter was just a meme-poisoned fascist who picked him for convenience.)

Finally an AI project I can get behind.

“It’s chilling that a person we thought was a normal, unhinged campus shooter was actually a political assassin. You see a deranged guy with a rifle on the quad every day. I suppose it was a little suspicious that he wasn’t shooting droves of students.”

land of the free, home of the brave

We have to stop this refusal to live in reality bullshit, using the mans own words to show what type of person he was isnt cosigning murder.

Would Klein say the same thing about, say, David Duke? George Wallace? Were they also "practicing politics the right way"?

It's not lost on me in the midst of this eulogizing and memorializing a monster that my home state, Florida, has made it a crime to commemorate or remember the victims of the Pulse massacre. In America, only some deaths are considered grievable. The rest of us are just "collateral damage."

Kirk waged a national campaign to tarnish MLK's legacy. This was last year.

“Black women do not have the brain processing power to be taken seriously. You have to go steal a white person’s slot”. -Charlie Kirk

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

Were the announcers on Radio Rwanda telling people to murder their neighbors "practicing politics the right way" because they did not pick up a gun? Were the 1920s propagandists of the Nazi party "practicing politics the right way" because they never personally murdered a Jew?

The night after the murder of Melissa Hortman, the Democratic legislator in Minnesota, the Yankees were at the Red Sox and neither team requested a moment of silence. For an actual public servant. Who we choose to hold a moment of silence for and who we do not are silences that speak volumes.

I guess this has probably already gone viral somewhere but I am simply dying at this picture of a bear that looks like it hired a photographer to do a glamour shoot

oh god what an unutterably depressing list of people I used to like

Last year I represented college kids arrested, suspended evicted, and expelled for bravely protesting against genocide across this state. I was one of many lawyers doing that work pro bono across the country. You know what kind of mass material support they got? Zero.

"It thought for a spit second..." 🫠 Stay tuned for Josie's next piece discussing ChatGPT romance as a radical act of end-stage feminism.

This is a really good point. TT faculty can’t protect NTT faculty, so the idea that if push comes to shove “good” TT faculty can just intervene is a fiction by which management divides the academic workforce. I’m in a union, can you tell

Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor said that for those of us who “thought the academy was some sacrosanct space to idle about and contemplate the meaning of life, please wake the fuck up. It is a workplace with bosses and workers.” As workers, we're especially vulnerable now and need to be better organized.

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

I already said I’m voting for him

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.

Riley Gaines, O Great Protector of Girls and Women, awfully quiet on Epstein news

"The department of justice has acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating." Coming to a classroom near you.