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Good morning. The government is shut down because Trump wants to act like a king and steal from you. Democrats have no obligation to support a budget that funds the destruction of our democracy - and DOUBLES health premiums to fund a tax cut for billionaires.

A good reminder not to take any of the GOP crocodile tears over the shutdown impacts seriously. They were busy hacking away at these programs already, now they just think they can blame someone else.

The Democratic livestream on the Republican shutdown is now in Part 3: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2wQ...

Hatch Act Schmatch Act, I guess

8/ Governor Kathy Hochul just posted this statement on X.

They chose universities as a venue to attack democratic principles, and while Boards collaborated, faulty fought. Food for thought. bsky.app/profile/fish...

The GOP knows their policies are unpopular. People, including in rural areas, like healthcare. So rather than own up to the effects of their policy choices, they lie and blame Dems. Americans hate the GOP agenda. The GOP propaganda machine is working furiously to pretend it's not their agenda.

@madsweeneyhh.bsky.social it is not “targeting the military” to not give medals of honor to men who committed a massacre. Remarkable to QT and then block replies to make a point like that

I think undergraduates students in that class should organize a lawsuit against Cornell for enabling a hostile environment. That’s actually what a Title VI investigation should be looking at. This is ludicrous.

The GOP knows their policies are unpopular. People, including in rural areas, like healthcare. So rather than own up to the effects of their policy choices, they lie and blame Dems. Americans hate the GOP agenda. The GOP propaganda machine is working furiously to pretend it's not their agenda.

Multiple unhoused people were assaulted in Bloomington IN over the weekend. One of them died bloomingtonian.com

It's decorative gourd season, motherfuckers

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas." This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

Live from "war ravaged" Portland

You can read digitized primary sources that detail the violence at Wounded Knee here 🗃️: dp.la/primary-sour...

What's eventually going to kill AI is the fact that it's really expensive and it doesn't work. hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

🗃️ For the "What's History" Feed.

1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that

Why are they erasing history?? www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/u...

Everyone involved in committees and policymaking around genAI in universities should be required to listen to at least one episode of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 with @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social before every meeting. www.dair-institute.org/maiht3k/

This left wing political correctness is getting out of control. bsky.app/profile/pete...

Got the most beautiful email from a former student who was in my "Clothes, Costume, Culture" class in the 90s. Need to take my time to respond. It was amazingly detailed about learning that clothes send messages & gender is construct--and how that helped them in life. WE ARE DOING GOOD WORK Y'ALL.

Bravo to @cnn.com and Sara Sidner for having @karenattiah.bsky.social and her attorney (!!) @katiephang.bsky.social on to talk about the indescriminate firing of Attiah by the @washingtonpost.com for doing her job. Karen's should be given platform to share what happened and we should stand for her.

I am pleased to report that Hawaii Supreme Court Justice Todd Eddins has dropped another total evisceration of the Supreme Court. He says originalism is a fraud—and the Republican justices are shamelessly making up facts and history to impose radical Christian nationalism: slate.com/news-and-pol...

Hard to take seriously proclamations of enduring strength of U.S. democracy that don’t take race into account. The U.S. was a “democracy” w/ slavery, Indian removal, Jim Crow, Japanese internment. But “we’ll survive as a white ethnostate”doesn’t have the same ring www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Getting better orcanized every day

This evening in Chicago…

Ah yes, who can forget Saul’s conversion on the road to Damascus when God demanded “Saul, Saul, why don’t you persecute black people”?

Crypto is one of the most dangerous techno-economic developments to come along in a while. It has the potential to destabilize and effectively destroy the global economy while leading us into a whole new stratosphere of graft.

Fellow white folks - multiracial democracy is not just the only viable route, it is the *best* path. It will be liberating and vibrant and awesome. ✊🏿✊🏾✊🏽✊🏼✊🏿✊🏻✊🏾✊🏽

This could not be more correct. It's easier to censor media that is consolidated. Repeal the Telecommunications Act of 1996.

Yes. And. Even if he had, the government doesn’t have a right to intervene. The use of the FCC to regulate protected speech is textbook anti-constitutional.

This was a word AND he cussed 😂

Includes a large number of titles of possible interest to #medievalsky and #earlymodern folks: 👇 📚

🗃️ (posting to the What's History feed).

Here @dalhousie.bsky.social, we should be starting our 3rd week of classes today, but instead, we're still locked out -- a lockout the Board initiated on Aug 20 'to not prolong the uncertainty'. No one can make this make sense, but they can at least make it end. #KeepDalStrong

Great piece by @pastpunditry.bsky.social, who should be one of your go-to reads for understanding the conservative movement. Her first book, Messengers of the Right, needs more readers. It brilliantly complements @rickperlstein.bsky.social's tetralogy on conservatives from 1960 to 1980.

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

But one frustrating thing is that I've been trying to get people who actually have resources to fund progressive media and no one's writing checks. So a few of us with platforms say these things and get brigaded because there aren't enough of us and we have to absorb more threats as a result.

Just because I saw someone mention it: There’s no reason to think that TPUSA/Kirk had a significant effect on the 2024 election. The turnout operation was non-existent and claims that they/he are the central (or even a major) cause of young voters moving right aren’t backed by any actual evidence.

Current monomania, men (playing father?) as the guardian of the teapot in seventeenth-century paintings. Both Roelef Koets c.1680, Netherlands Institute for Art History

yeah; I didn't RT this when I saw it before because I don't know this guy and mainstream media is just not reporting this. it's still very early; we don't know much yet.

Sharing it as required, but normies should also know that this is what Republicans want to take from us

last night as i was trying to wind down for bed i had a unified theory of what the fuck just happened, and i wrote it down, and filed it under "well, i can't talk about this on main without sounding insane until and unless the perp gets caught and is provably a groyper" anyways, great news! (1/X)

The Prospect's @emmarjanssen.bsky.social is at a protest at an ICE detention center in Illinois where ICE agents are forcibly removing protesters. Video here: