Men ruined women’s lives setting unobtainable beauty standards, now that more women won’t stand for that bullshit men with influence have turned the same weapon against other men.

🎯BUT...I think MORE than this is needed. Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction & give it to a new court, drawn by lot from the federal judiciary & state supreme courts as #1 example. We also need to integrate citizen assemblies into our governance structures as France & Belgium are starting to do.

The most important question for Americans right now is whether the 7th Republic is going to be the Roberts-Trump Republic or a Third Reconstruction. Those are basically the choices. Half-measures might make the Roberts-Trump Republic less oligarchic and authoritarian, but we'll still live in it. /🧵

[IMHO, the 6th American Republic has ended: 1. Articles of Confederation, 2. Philadelphian System, 3. Reconstruction, 4. Redemption/Lochner, 5. New Deal, 6. Second Reconstruction. But YYMV. My main demand is that people include the Articles in their numbering]

The answer is, and was, immigration. But the GOP and the far right (I repeat myself) don't actually care about American vitality and power; they just want racialized patriarchy.

This is absolutely correct. Most politicians cared a lot about their reputations for honesty; they would of course spin and sometimes go over the line where it couldn't be backed up at all but very few politicians and no previous presidents would just outright lie all the time.

I protested in front of this Tesla dealership every Saturday for a month and a half. Our numbers increased every week. People power can defeat the fascists.

Once again, California appears to be targeted solely for political reasons. The Trump Administration is planning to defer over $1 billion in Medicaid funding for vital programs that helps seniors and people with disabilities remain safely in their homes.

Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah, Australian sociologist, lawyer and writer— #auspol #BondiRC #Whitewash

Legacy media: Who could have predicted that this thing that was always going to happen would happen

In 20 years of university teaching I have had one Jordan Peterson fan announce that she would not read any “sociology” I assigned, on principle, and one self-described “conservative” ask me to reprimand a classmate for her choice of t-shirt. That’s all the student-driven cocooning I’ve encountered

Importantly, the Diocese of Venice is the diocese Leo's brother is in.

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Not to mention, HE DIDN'T WRITE IT! 🙄

I don't really have much to say about the NY Times covering that NYU students don't want Jon Haidt as their graduation speaker beyond the fact that the paper has not covered this case (or more like it) which involves state censorship of faculty speech. It is monumentally more important.

But truly what's most remarkable is that Haidt teaches (or whatever he actually does) at the very university where the students who are rejecting him as the commencement speaker go to school.

Notice these guys never criticize "cancel culture" or "dangerous groupthink" at Hillsboro, Liberty, etc.

I kind of just realized what the real complaint is: Haidt et al dont want college kids boycotting their talks or protesting them b/c that's their speaker fees at risk. This is all self-serving. None of these pundits is really interesting in free speech, liberalism, 'conversation.'

What’s funniest for me is that we talk about issues of race, class, gender, labor, economics, health, technology, governance, all of it…in a sportswriting class. Because that’s what’s required to teach the class in a way that they’ll actually gain anything from it.

Different perspectives: The Heart of Darkness is LONDON!

All Business students should be required to perform a manual labor job at minimum wage at least 10 hours/week for full time students. More for part time students. MBA candidates should be required to hold down a service job & live only on that pay for a full year before being granted their degree.

Different perspectives: Middlemarch is not The Great Victorian Novel. That’ll show ‘em.

Looking forward to taking a civil engineering course that focuses on differing perspectives to reinforced concrete. Maybe sandcastles?

No one should get a college degree without a pottery class, a medieval class, an economics class, and a philosophy of science class. All are essential for advanced understanding of the world.

Here is Haidt being uncritically cited in another context—the Yale Report. bsky.app/profile/larr...

If ANYONE has been cocooned from ideas, it's Jonathan Haidt. His "moral foundations theory" has gotten TONS of press & a distressing amount of pickup despite obvious and perhaps-not-obvious, but well-documented holes. But none of that has bothered him. TL/DR: They rationalizations >> foundations.

The kids are alright. www.tmj4.com/news/dodge-c...

I’m sorry, I thought The Onion was satire.

ok you joke but I'm now tickled to remember the get your booty to the polls PSA, featuring poll dancers doing their thing and talking about the importance of local elections www.youtube.com/watch?v=eTlv...

Basically: ‘Democrats have no representation Republicans are bound to respect.’

...literally a news story featuring the highest dollar-raising Democrat in the House explaining why this matters

saw this photo of Burbank this morning and I hope I am not the only person who thought of Poly Styrene (RIP)

I recall journalists on NPR and PBS •scolding• listeners and viewers who refused to accept Bush v. Gore as a legitimate ruling because SCOTUS explicitly disenranchised voters by leaving valid ballots uncounted. Subsequent to this, did Dems pursue electoral or USSC reforms? We're living the answer.

literally no difference between what happened then to John Willis Menard, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 1868, and what's happening now to Calvin Duncan, a Black man who overwhelmingly won New Orleans in 2025 ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

If you're not familiar with the Paradox SCOTUS has created with election cases that favour constitutional protections, minorities, and Dems always occurring "on the eve" of an election, and therefore impermissible meddling, but GOP-favoring results are always acceptable, read Dennie.

BREAKING: Immigrants detained in the notorious Chicago apartment raid last fall have filed claims against the federal government for trauma, injuries and lost property. The 18 tenants, including children, are seeking $5 million each. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

That was the goal

"Allowing Carr to muzzle the ladies of The View would be a mistake akin to handing CBS News over to Bari Weiss. And since Trump is loyal to no one, it would only win them a temporary reprieve." By @lizdye.bsky.social in @atrupar.com's latest PN: open.substack.com/pub/aaronrup...

///BREAKING/// Federal tort claims filed today against DHS allege 18 people were illegally arrested and brutalized in a controversial overnight raid in a South Shore apartment building during Operation Midway Blitz last fall. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/13/s...

This can work if we all pitch in and don't get sick for the next six months. Thank you!

I genuinely believe much of what we’ve seen in politics has arisen from people being forced by COVID to abruptly confront their own mortality and vulnerability, and the consequential desire to reject that vulnerability and anything that reminds them of it or invokes it.

NYT desperately trying to pivot back to the real threat to free speech, opinionated college students

Someone AGAIN has posted on another platform that "reading is elitist" and I am sorry but NO. That's ridiculous and it's actually INSULTING. The end.

John Fetterman's descent into political toxicity will be studied by neuroscientists for a long time to come. Not kidding, not being flippant. The brain's role into who and what we are - what we do and don't stand for morally - lives in the grey matter, and the damage to his was extensive.

I forgot the funniest part of tomorrows event is going to be that the mayor will be there talking about how great libraries are like two weeks after he cut millions from the library budget but added police funding. Everybody is STEAMING MAD at him lol

This would make it so Jim Clyburn would be the only Black Democrat to ever represent South Carolina in the House of Representatives. One guy ever.