I dunno about everyone else, but this admin feels significantly deflated now compared to the beginning of the month. The election & the big Epstein emails release I think had a lot to do w that, but its noticeable that they seem palpably weaker now &, imptly, most of them seem to grasp that.

Really important to stress that the Crown Jewels of the US higher education system were never the Ivies or elite SLACs (other countries have equivalents of these) but the well-funded, large, cheap, and excellently staffed public state university systems bringing high quality education to the masses.

okay so here’s the actual bad part of the article “oh it never affected my coverage” horse and also shit and what the fuck is Lizza doing sitting on this while RFK takes a buzz saw to American health so he can sell substack subscriptions ghouls, the lot of them

Luigi Mangione was a disturbed asshole with incoherent politics who murdered someone on the street in cold blood, and if he looked like Clint Howard instead of kind of fuckable nobody would care.

while I’m being cranky, access journalism needs to go. When the president does his “I’m alpha because I insulted you” thing somebody needs to fall on his sword and say “what the fuck is wrong with you, old man?” on a hot mic. the hero of the wizard of Oz is Toto.

the 'conventional wisdom' is correct. parent's SES explains ~20% of SAT score variation. how much variation in "being able to found a non-profit in high school" do you think parent's income explains?

I’m howling.

Chat, is it good when a lawyer sees what you did and says "dawgggggggg"?

Abortion bans have killed another woman in Texas. www.propublica.org/article/texa...

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: Killin' Nazis Historical Suspense/Horror with Obsessive Attention to Accuracy The Coen Brothers are Being Silly Geese The Coen Brothers are Being Very Serious Critically Acclaimed Horror Mockumentary Heart of Darkness with a Twist

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

Chat is it good or bad for their coalition that republicans are polarizing the US Conference of Catholic Bishops specifically against them?

i’d be more comfortable with the olivia nuzzi coverage if every story was headlined something like “seduced by a guy who eats roadkill: the story of an extremely stupid lady”

Warner Brothers describing Wuthering Heights as “the greatest love story of all time“?

if you hate the writer, do not share the writer's articles. people clicking on the articles is how the writer gets paid. "how do THEY still have a job in journalism, when so many talented people are being laid of?!" you, because of you. you are why.

Summers Lovin' Epstein emails reveal that Harvard prez Larry was hopelessly devoted to grease ball Jeff. Did some of Summers' nights involve a hand jive from a beauty school dropout? And did he lose interest after girls went through those magic changes? by Maureen Dowd

I lost my job, my kids have measles, and it is now clear to me that the President of the United States is a pedophile. But at least I know that the Cracker Barrel logo won't be changed any time soon.

The parent comment the confounds me the most is, "You know, [title] is a VERY challenging book. *looks at me expectantly*" Like...I don't know what to do with that. Ok...and? It's an honors class with an honors curriculum. Some of the books are tough. I don't...????!?

Here's my honest advice as a teacher: Parents, do whatever you can to prevent your children from becoming reliant on AI in their academics. Within the next decade, when schools finally clue in to the fact that allowing AI use diminishes learning, your kids will be miles ahead.

"Hey so how come your reporters got a bunch of emails from Epstein over the years wanting to share dirty details about Trump fucking young girls and sat on them?" "....." "Well?" "...SYDNEY SWEENEY BIG BOOBS AMERICAN EAGLE MILLENNIAL JOB MARKET AVOCADO TOAST QUIET QUITTING POLYCULE DEM DISARRAY"

Unironically this.

it's not 'performative' if you're taking pictures of random fucking strangers reading. they're just reading! you're the creepy one!

My chef tip (I am not a chef) is that if you take three minutes to make some form of crunchies (like sautéed nuts or pepitas with panko and salt), you can make any salad taste profesh.

Looking at the GOP acting electorally suicidally and saying “they’re not acting like they’re planning on having elections” is like watching someone driving 90mph at a brick wall and being like “wow they must have figured out a way for this not to kill them.”

imagine a podcast that switches to video and you realize it's been recorded like this the whole time

thomas jefferson wrote some vehement denunciations of people like thomas jefferson

Richest nation in human history

I giggled and kicked my feet.

I wish everyone who insisted Trump would fuck elections by posting ICE agents at every polling place, or even just a few key ones, would grapple with what it means that they were wrong, why they wanted to believe it, why they pushed back so hard when disagreements happened.

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

It’s genuinely hysterical how fast we went from “hah, dumb libs can’t possibly counter our map redrawings because they’d never be able to do it in states like CA” to CA voters being like “yes Gavin, crush the red swine into the dirt with your map”

Curtis is like the Punisher in Marvel teamups where everyone is like “well, Frank is crazy and has too many guns but bro can hang sometimes.”

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

I’ve seen enough (just in general).

Just wrapped up a day-long AI training for teachers. Highlights include: *AI making an "innovative lesson plan" that just asks kids to draw a fence and find the perimeter *AI asking me to use the Frayer Model to complete a task and then showing me something that wasn't the Frayer Model Cool!

Mike Johnson: ‘My Christian Faith Is More About Not Jacking Off Than Feeding The Poor’

Around Chicago ICE/Border Patrol are mostly just driving around looking for landscaping crews. It’s not targeted by threat or criminal background. It’s just Kavanaugh sweeps of brown men in work clothes operating landscaping equipment to hit quotas. They’re not investigating, they’re hunting

I like belittling them like this, nice effective way to neutralize their new favorite acronym

Chicago Auxiliary Bishop José María Garcia-Maldonado at ICE detention facility: “Being here is an act of holiness…soon we will seek access to the facility to bring the Eucharist to our brothers and sisters; if they say no again, we will keep praying.”

Literally every form of government that isn’t fascism inherently has to resort to violence against fascism because fascism will otherwise violently defeat them.

Between this and the Louvre prosecutor describing the suspects’ statements as “minimalist” while bragging that they had worked on the case over a weekend it’s an absolutely incredible week for Frenchness

I'm kind of freaking out right now, because I could have sworn Noam Chomsky died within the last couple of years, but he's still alive. I have false memories of Twitter reacting to his death?? What is happening?!

Feel free to use this whenever you see a vague reference to Graham Platner’s tattoo.

Why is he such a whiny, entitled little bitch?

man you get yourself tattooed with one SS emblem for eighteen years and everybody gets mad at you for some reason

it's crazy that if you're a cat, your only two life outcomes are eating out of a trash can or getting treated like a little baby

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone