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These clowns are such wusses. A few idiots get spanked in a Twitter thread, and they see it as rising to the same level of overreach as a literal government agency leveraging the threat of regulatory action to intervene in a multinational corporation’s programming decisions

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Arrested because a white woman demanded he change the way he was sitting and when he didn’t, she complained to the conductor about his posture. His posture.

Holy shit. The administration might be evacuating the ICE facility we've been protesting for weeks. If this ends up happening, it's a huge deal. Protests matter. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-ev...

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This is exactly backwards. From the beginning, Kirk was the beneficiary of a large and highly organized network of dark money donors who were looking for a spokesman. No way he would have done what he did without patrons like Montgomery and Uihlein. Kirk didn't make money - money made Kirk.

Nixon as tragedy, Trump as farce

TODAY from 5-7pm I'll be spinning tunes on Inhailer.com - show some support for independent media and fend off the Sunday Scaries with some songs that slap

okay AI controversy aside, just talking as a nerd for a second: this is such a cool paper

David Gahr's wonderful photo of Leonard Cohen & Judy Collins, at the Newport Folk Festival, July 1967

I think this skeet from 2023 comes before an era in which sites like Pluto have all become enshittified I tried watching something on there the other night, and I swear to God, there was another three minute ad break every two minutes

JFC makes that Vance meme from the summer seem flattering by comparison

I still don’t know who’s behind is behind the owner shell company, “JET BLACK MANAGEMENT GROUP.” Thank you again to my editors @rollingstone.com. They are still doing great work amid some corporate BS. Read the story www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

OT but every time Finland comes up in the news— usually for achieving some impressive metric with its social safety net— they use this exact same picture of plentiful, clean modern street cars chugging up a pedestrian friendly street You could literally swap it out for that utopian society meme

Just a reminder: The tenth anniversary editions of the original Southern Reach trilogy are still out in the wild, selling well. NYT bestsellers and on a lot of best-of-decade or this century lists. With new intros by Karen Joy Fowler, NK Jemisin, and Helen MacDonald. Buy from you favorite indie.

in education, creative industries, caring professions, and LABOR ORGANIZING, people are doing things, there's a movement against-a-i.com www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

Well worth reading. Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/20/o... Quote below is from Jamelle Bouie.

Me: I need more power Gf being cute: I’m stronger than 10,000 samurai😊 Me: haha..no you’re not. The strength of ten thousand samurai is immeasurable. [2 hrs later] Ten thousand. Wtf In tears as I bend the knee in servitude: Daimyo.. Her thinking Im proposing: ohmygodohmygod

Happy September 21st to those that celebrate!!! 😃 💃🏾🕺🏾

This chaos also speaks to the growing awareness of the profound corruption of the Supreme Court. The excessive H1B fee is clearly illegal according to the text of the applicable statute. But no one can have any confidence anymore that it will ultimately be thrown out.

Almost inevitably, a white liberal pundit who finds a way to “hear out” or “find commonalities” with white supremacists eventually starts saying depraved shit. I need to understand why that’s not the last strike for white people that it is for Black political observers.

Quote with your Spotify/Apple/YouTube search history

rewatching NETWORK for a project 👀 and it is absolutely shocking how prescient this film is. it’s like paddy chayefsky was granted a vision of america in 2025 and he furiously tried to turn what he saw into something intelligible to viewers in the 1970s

Vote with your dollars.

It’s a day of the week ending in -y, and so Shadi Hamid is punching left Or patronizingly browbeating the left, which is more his shtick New Yorker prose + decidedly mid views = abundant gigs for whichever pundits can pull it off

Again Bouie from the top rope

‘If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it.’ - Dan Gilroy deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

Canada could help mitigate the damage to US education and global R&D by massively expanding our post-secondary education sector. Unfortunately our leaders see government spending, esp on education, as inherently wasteful, to be minimized, not as investments that create new markets and opportunities.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Hakeem Jeffries voted for Charlie Kirk Day but still isn’t sure if he’ll endorse Zohran Mamdani. This is why the approval rating of the Democratic Party is lower than Trump’s or the GOP.

If it’s a good day, Stan Getz But he would also listen to Roger Whittaker, for which, well, your mileage may vary lol

Those on an H1B cannot return to the US from tomorrow (Sunday) unless paying $100K. This is an out-of-the blue presidential action. We’ll see software engineers stranded abroad. One easy to predict outcome: those on US visas will travel less… for work, for conferences etc.

I genuinely cannot believe that Ezra Klein said we should run pro-life candidates in Kansas, Ohio, and Missouri; three states that recently held abortion referendums where the pro-choice side won!

WGA WRITERS protest abc & disney : “Writers against fascism — this isn’t just about Kimmel, it’s about our ability to say what we want and not be punished by the state… a chilling effect… you don’t capitulate to bullies…” (from @moreperfectunion.bsky.social )

"By the end of the year, we aim to have 200 percent more dipshits writing columns for us. As long as you are a Ben Shapiro knockoff who can string together the words 'the intolerant left' and occasionally criticize Trump, you have a home here on our opinion pages."

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

This. No TT/non-TT/VAP job will be offered to an int'l candidate, since it requires an H1-B until the green card is issued. This process takes at least a couple of years.

George Retes was denied access to an attorney, wasn’t allowed to make a phone call, was not presented to a judge, and was put in an isolation cell before being released with no charges.

The people that voted for him are too servile to get mad about it but it is bleakly funny that Trump has won two elections as The Expediter Of White Vengeance and as soon as he gets into office the most important thing to him is getting Rosie O'Donnell digitally edited out of A League Of Their Own.

"Our industry faces the most sophisticated, venomous, creeping evil in America’s history. There’s no standing above this conflict. No impartial observers. If you’re on the sidelines you’ve made a choice and must live with it." deadline.com/2025/09/ando...

I think everyone thinks of these as exclusively tech visas, of a kind that perhaps some affluent venture capital darling could still afford if the price was raised to $100,000 But just to pick one other industry, in academia it is frequently used while someone is undergoing the green card process

In November I wrote about Trump’s obsession with the golden age of late night TV for @flaminghydra.com through the lens of his friendship with Joan Rivers. He hasn’t been invited back since 2016, but was once a regular; he appeared on Letterman more than 30 times. flaminghydra.com/the-trump-er...

It's very easy to mistake an unwavering commitment to cruelty and exploitation for moral fortitude — the mirror image of something looks an awful lot like the thing itself

One side comment is that this is another reason why it's bad to have 80 year olds leading the "opposition" - we've sadly reached the point where even nonviolent resistance is likely to involve physical risk, as we see in that Kat Abu video today

Just saw a university’s guidance about the use of AI that insists people have an “ethical responsibility” to use it It’s really staggering how completely inverted is the moral compass of our moment

Use this YouTube link to watch my opera-- 6 PM Pacific, 9/19! It will also work after that, but don't you want to come hang out with me? 🥺 youtu.be/e_A94tDTpWY

lmao no I would never get hoisted like that, I mean it's my own freaking petard

ABC News coverage, two months from now