Supreme Court oral argument this morning, in sum Sotomayor: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (derogatory) Gorsuch: you're asking us to destroy the foundation of government (complimentary)

this is just rank cowardice, the student very obviously disregarded the instructions and the assignment to antagonize her peers and instructors and provoke this exact reaction, society simply can’t function when the people in charge scurry like kicked dogs every time some troll bully says boo

NARRATOR: Roth quite clearly did not name call & we need our leaders to stop granting <every bad faith premise> of the far right authoritarians' lawless assault on higher education before we push back.

These are not serious people.

Get (administratively) fucked, buddy.

Assume all the yes and no votes from Dem senators are strategic and not sincere votes. The party caucus made a decision. No way to know how many were in favor. Then the caucus decided who would vote yes and no based on what would protect each of them politically the most. That’s how this works.

Everyone in the caucus who is up for reelection needs to be primaried if this goes through and Schumer/Durbin/Klobuchar remain in their leadership positions.

lol

@hamiltonnolan.bsky.social bringing in the garbage (= his cider donut take). "why eat the precious bounty of autumn when i can deep fry a croissaint?" "i only eat toroids that i've seen kim kardashian hold!" that's what you sound like, hamno. get back to the yogurt beat where you belong.

A bat flip on a walk?!??

People don’t grasp that Trump is actually a poster. He’s the only president like this so far, it’s fascinating Sometimes he just says shit because it will make a good post, he doesn’t mean it. Sometimes it still filters down into policy because he decides he believes it after it gets a lot of likes

Not afraid to stand in front of everyone, but afraid to stand for anything. The most contemptible cowards

Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time. All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner." It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.

An Ohio University professor was removed from teaching a MFA class a day after returning home from an Israeli prison where he was detained upon being illegally abducted from the flotilla. His students [solidarity!] walked out on the replacement prof in protest. www.dispatch.com/story/news/s...

Working on it!

A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach: Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone. … America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

ICE is not only chasing down every random brown person in Chicago, they have a cameraman following them to film this for social media. Cruelty and inhumanity as content.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Not in my name. I won’t work for a school, I won’t give a talk at a school, I won’t write a letter or a review for a school, that signs this.

JFC

nobody on earth wishes you more harm than the people in power and their financial backers

South Texas game cam catches a raccoon riding a javelina (Dicotyles tajacu). The deer feeder corn attracts a lot of other species, but maybe we should worry about them all teaming up against us? (📷: Jeff Davis, TAMU-Kingsville alumni forum)

I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm still always brought up short to realize how many people think "civility" means "white people speaking in relatively calm voices" no matter what vile shit they say.

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

The absolute lack of remorse shown in the article by the sniper responsible for these killings is somehow even worse emotionally than the description of the killings themselves.

Since all the news is bad again, here's a new release of a totally unexpected album that you will dig if you like good music strut.bandcamp.com/album/candy-...

one of the strangest dynamics these days is the insistence that everyone pretend they were born yesterday when evaluating the seriousness or sincerity of a public figure. i think that by his own past actions and rhetoric i can safely assume that peter thiel is not on the level!

Perfect encapsulation of the Trump administration: The guy suing Harvard for alleged antisemitism is a straight-up Hitler-admiring Nazi. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/02/m...

@chriswarcraft.bsky.social any memory of what it was like to face him down (e.g., @14:15 here)?

“Birthing person”: extremist, divisive “Poisoning the blood of our country”: normal, healthy

once again, i'll suggest that perhaps the reason the broad public thinks democrats are weak is that when confronted with situations that demands that democrats loudly and proactively stand up for their values, democrats shirk from the fight

countries which are operating within the parameters of the laws of war and international humanitarian law don't make sure no one is alive to report what they are doing

Signing up in support, but also to give examples to my own university administration. Someday soon we need "stand up for a coalition of universities"

a singular feeling you get when you study the history of fascism (cinema-free version) is contemporaries in the US going “oh yeah, absolutely could”

furthest i've been: north: Reykjavik east: Kazan, Russia south: South Pole Station west: Chongqing, China

I, for one, love to spend months working on an NSF proposal to stretch the bounds of human knowledge in astrophysics, only for the review process to be BigBalls2 checking it for "woke".

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

All the dire implications notwithstanding it is hilarious how evil this technology is. Billions of dollars spent on this greasy lying stupid thing that was literally built to replace people, and everyone that uses it gets weaker, lazier, dumber, and sadder for having done so. Well done all around.

1) it was always fascism and fascism was the right word to use 2) they are building concentration camps and concentration camps are the right words to use 3) they are banning books and book bans is a fine way to describe the myriad ways they are banning them

Herman Melville on moderates, all the way back in 1857:

I think malicious compliance with Mahmoud looks more like giving parents access to Powerschool--which many schools do anyway--and having some system where you have to file an opt-out form at least three days before the lesson and be able to come pick your kid up during that class period, etc.

First independent survey of deaths in Gaza reports more than 80,000 fatalities The results align with other efforts to count the number of people killed amid the ongoing conflict. https://go.nature.com/44nH0la

all of the Supreme Court’s jurisprudence about executive power - all of it - can be replaced with a simple flow chart. is the president a Republican? if so it’s ok. if not, it’s presumptively not ok.

"Nearly half of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 were legacy students or Dean’s Interest List—a list of applicants whose relatives have donated to Harvard, the existence of which only became public knowledge in 2018" and 75% of them would not have been admitted otherwise

el pueblo unido jamás será vencido

BREAKING: Judge denies NSF's 15% indirect rate plan. Like the DOE and NIH attempts, it too has now been rejected by courts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

[shai does the most blatant foul-hawking bullshit you've ever seen to create a slap of his arm from thin air, gets rewarded with free throws] [announcers] That's why Shai is so good!