One of the things we <actually> teach students at universities is that you need to support your arguments with data & evidence. When you don’t, or when you lie, your “arguments” are not taken seriously. Maybe that’s what these folks don’t like about universities. The marketplace of ideas is tough 🤷‍♂️

“I realized early on that successful women either had a husband that was obsessed with them, or no husband. Those are really the only options.”

The only Rapture we acknowledge:

This like the 3rd or 4th Rapture I missed the cut on, starting to take it personally.

I’d pay good money to see the faces of people who sold everything just to wake up and realize they didn’t make the rapture.

Come bloom scroll with me 😘. #gardening #gardensky

Yes

I wanna learn how to do this but worry that it’s not prudent at my big age! This feels like one of those things that if I haven’t already learned, now isn’t the time!

Word! 💯✨

Ain’t NOTHING in Burlington worth them doing any of this shit

Education is more than job training.

Finally, another use for the wedding dress

In the middle of football season??? This the worst rapture ever

I need the rapture folks to go ahead and trust their faith.Lean all the way in baby.Give up that bank account.Give up that house give up that car, go ahead

I always say so many of these people don't see authoritarianism as a bad thing because they were raised in authoritarian households. It's like a warm hug to them

Stephen Miller is not a psychopath. That’s not what this is. Stephen Miller is a regular, homely, not particularly brilliant White guy who has been given unlimited power. Why are folks always pretending that bullies have some sort of special mental illness when said bullies are just lowdown?

It’s amazing to me how shocked very nice White folks are that all this vitriol is out on Front Street now. About half of the country’s White folks were waiting for permission to act this way. They are not being led astray, not in the least. Now, I *do* remain confused why some POC voted this way.

There’s something particularly annoying about people—of any racial background—making “mental health” excuses for horrific folks when it’s simply human nature for some to bully others—while others are just too cowardly to stop it. That’s why we ALL have to remain vigilant about how we treat folks.

95 democrats, including @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social voted to "honor" the life of charlie kirk, who called for joe biden to be killed and said black women like justice ketanji brown jackson are unqualified affirmative action hires. shame. clerk.house.gov/evs/2025/rol...

To put this in perspective, Prince released 18 albums in 17 years from 1979-1996, almost an album a year except 1983 and 1993. This doesn’t include The Time, Vanity 6, Sheila E, and other songwriting and producing credits. Warner Bros, aka The Plantation, signed Prince to the worst contract at 19yrs

absolute pleasure!

when I wrote for @chronicle.com about mental illness & academia all my sources who went on record were young, female faculty (often of color) w/o tenure or job security. the tenured profs I interviewed wanted anonymity. tenure doesn’t make you brave if you weren’t before. speak now.

Harvey Milk and Medgar Evers...both assassinated for their beliefs...were actual veterans unlike career podcaster Charlie Kirk and Hegseth is actively scraping their names off anything he can.

Had an engaging conversation with @polphilpod.bsky.social today. Looking forward to the episode release

if only Black people went to Klan meetings to debate their humanity

We've only moved deeper into the pattern of excusing polite racism, so I'll just repost this piece from the weekend: campaign-trails.ghost.io/the-white-ci...

Flagging the deadline again: Nonprofits are urging people to submit comments by *Sept. 17* explaining how upending Public Service Loan Forgiveness would specifically impact their work and the communities they serve ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

Maybe it thinks govt lawyers in sanctuary cities are aiding and abetting violations of immigration law, so all municipal employees are ineligible for loan forgiveness Who can say? ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

the most suspiciously malleable part of the rule imo is it would withhold loan forgiveness from workers if the Dept of Education decides their employers are “aiding or abetting” violations of federal immigration law & antidiscrimination law like.....wdym by that ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

specifically, the proposed rule would exclude borrowers from loan forgiveness if the Secretary of Education determines “by a preponderance of the evidence” that their employers “engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose” that seems...flexible! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

In that sense, the modern celebrity is often an ambulant mannequin or advertisement, which is very distinct from these men, whose sense of taste was a reflection of them as people.

Few celebs today wear classic style; even fewer wear tailored clothing. If they do, it's often a designer piece that reflects "la moda." Some wear trendy clothes well, others less so, but their choices are almost always steered by professional guidance, sometimes in conjunction with $$$ brand deals.

The passing of Paul Newman (2008), Sean Connery (2020), Sidney Poitier (2022), and now Robert Redford (2025) signals the slow disappearance of a certain type of 20th century figure: men who embodied classic style in a way that reflected their taste, rather than a professional stylist.

Since we’re talking about political violence, know this: “The murder rate for Black politicians in Reconstruction was 2,317 per 100,000. This rate is 20 times greater than *any* *other* demographic in the United States as of 2020, where the highest homicide rate was less than 105 per 100,000.”

The Political Theory research group will organise a Democracy in Crisis seminar and workshop series during the Fall Term. We open this series with a movie night on 23 september, with a screening of Starship Troopers - one of the best cinematic depictions of the emotional appeal of fascism.

Pretty cool that some people warned, hey they don’t actually support free speech just their own temerity, and a lot of other people were like, awww give ‘em a chance to cancel everybody while feigning the victim everyone deserves the old college try, except colleges, which they also want to cancel.

It needs to be said that by rebranding Charlie Kirk's views as moderate by both right wingers and liberal cowards resets the extremist views he held as normal and pushes the Overton window to the far right

Still on a high from last night’s Falcons win! (And in disbelief)

This feels so right. And small. And sad. But mostly, right.

Watching a British detective show and there's a museum director who murdered a colleague so that he could make the front cover of Paleontology Today

We need voices like Karen Attiah. The bigoted claims about Black women's cognitive abilities must be called out and stopped. The disgraceful Washington Post needs to realize that they are supporting white supremacy by firing a Black woman journalist of her caliber.

Statement from @postguild.bsky.social on the firing of Karen Attiah:

Karen Attiah, opinion columnist at the Washington Post, was fired for sharing a statement made by Charlie Kirk insulting Black women. They fired her for reporting his OWN WORDS.

This appears to be the post that got Karen Attiah--the Washington Post's last full-time Black opinion writer--fired from the paper.

@disavowtrump20.bsky.social This is journalist Karen Attiah, the only Black opinion columnist at the Washington Post. She was just fired for sharing a statement made by Charlie Kirk insulting Black women. SHARE if you stand with @karenattiah.bsky.social !

This is journalist Karen Attiah, the opinion columnist at the Washington Post. She was just fired for sharing a statement made by Charlie Kirk about Black women.

Hearing Saquon Barkley call Bijan Robinson "the next one," after himself is high praise. Nobody can cut the way Bijan does. Hopefully the #Falcons don't take him for granted.

Besides the fact that Jamaicans speak English, the second funniest part of this video is that we spose to believe a random Jamaican just walked up to Eric Trump 😂