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This is a very likely scenario and blue-state govs need to be prepared for it.

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

Once again, I am willing to put factually wrong ideas in writing on a bi-weekly basis for half of whatever the NYTimes is paying people like Ezra Klein.

My semi-annual reminders about the FIRE annual “free speech” rankings on college campuses: 1) FIRE has promoted highly punitive and restrictive positions on free speech in higher ed. They lack credibility as a source of information. 1/

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan

Trump take chocolate (9/7 vs 9/22)

This has got to me a bit today so here we go. No Rebecca we can't have a calm discussion for the way forward when one side's intention is to eliminate us, secondly the heat is coming from one side, it's the side accusing trans people of being paedophiles, rapists, cheats and predators. 1/26

Dems should use the next year to plan a counter rally called "The Promise of America" or something equally sentimental and use the event to lay out their vision for the next 250 years.

Jordan Davis - Chariots.mp3

You can't cancel Gwar you'll only make Gwar more powerful do you know anything about Gwar

l'shanah tovah all. may the old year depart with its (innumerable) curses and the new year come in with its blessings.

My department is hiring an associate/full professor of Early Modern/Modern Jewish History. Please apply and please share within your networks. I have been told to say we're very interested in the early early modern. Note: I am not involved in the search but am happy to answer general questions.

The world may be terrifying, but some things you can rely on. It’s officially decorative gourd season, and we have a new mug. Blammo. store.mcsweeneys.net/t/categories...

"He was nice to meeeeeee" No, he immediately pegged you as a gullible mark.

this exists it is called thinking

Good gracious

If you were waiting for a tipping point into fullblown authoritarianism, that happened. It's not actually an interesting debate /when precisely/ that happened, and I don't think it mattered. It's happened.

I'm concerned the Dems do not have the stomach for, say, using the FCC to break the power of companies like Nexstar into a million tiny pieces much less making DC a state, reforming the Court, etc.

"We want to change the perception of journalists away from the elitist East Coast Democrat of yesteryear to the rabid logical fallacy machine of tomorrow. And at the Times, that dream isn’t too far in the future."

"any school that refused to participate in a moment of silence and/or lower their flags for Charlie Kirk is currently under investigation"

Shout out to @mcsweeneys.net for letting me treat a certain kind of article with the level of respect it deserves. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/the...

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Tonight at 11:30

This really gets to the criticism for me: Klein may have disagreed with Kirk's views, but he was comfortable with those views (the misogyny, the racism, the homophobia, the transphobia) being part of the public sphere and, importantly, with how Kirk expressed those views.

Frontier. Midnight flight, Vegas to Minneapolis at the end of my bachelor party. Middle of August and the AC on the plane was broken. I'd have preferred the sulfur fires of hell.

You want to be alive, but they want you dead. We’re a new, well, funded democratic group that thinks you can meet them halfway.

Will Barnard's president be welcoming flat earthers to campus? Vaccine conspiracy theorists? Alien abductees?

Calling peoples' employers in a rage because their tributes to Robert Redford weren't horny enough

this would theoretically provide power long enough to play the monorail episode of The Simpsons, which is all we really need electricity to do these days anyway

He is free to argue that because he is not a stakeholder in ANY of it. If the GOP has its way, what will be taken from Ezra Klein personally is nothing more serious than a good night's sleep. I sincerely await the essay in which he acknowledges that, and the limitation of vision it causes him. x

Coates nails it with the Lost Cause analogy. "The rewriting and the ignoring were done not just by Confederates, but also by putative allies for whom the reduction of Black people to serfdom was the unfortunate price of white unity."

The Democrats make an active choice not to involve themselves in the arguments that currently shape America. The party has utterly failed to represent and defend the millions of people who vote for it.

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

idk if you've seen this south korean editorial that ran a few days ago. google translate version scorched my eyebrows www.hani.co.kr/arti/opinion...

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

We did not have this wall-to-wall national coverage, nor did we have witch hunt litmus tests about random Americans’ social media posts, when Democratic Speaker Emerita Melissa Hortman & her husband, Mark, were assassinated a mere three months ago.

We’ve been living through 72 nonstop hours of this exact tweet

Had a similar conversation with a colleague yesterday. There's no possibility of debate (in the Kirk sense) when one side is a college professor who has published dozens of books on a topic and the other side is a 19yo who...has not.

We are told that Charlie Kirk was "doing politics the right way" by going to universities to speak his mind. We are told that universities do not allow people with Charlie Kirk's views to speak their minds. It is odd to be told both those things.

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

I am so tired of the scapegoating of higher ed. No group that have had their speech rights more obviously curtailed, by the government, in the couple of years than college students. The govt is engaged in an obvious viewpoint discrimination lawfare campaign against campuses. But it’s not enough!

Show me any other industry that not just tolerates but invites is most virulent critics to its workplace, often paying hundreds of thousands to cover security costs. The Free Press does not want free speech. They want to control campus speech. In this, they are no different from Trump.

The mendacity is breathtaking - blaming universities, which bent over backwards to host Kirk’s hate-speech TPUSA events, spending thousands on extra security with minimal student interest, over the objection of the many targeted by his attacks & forced to watch him pocket their student fees… 1/

The actual audience for these performances was not the aforementioned undergrads, but right wing donors whose grandkids no longer speak to them. The product he sold wasn’t persuasion but the vicarious fantasy of schooling the whippersnappers.

The Uncertainty of the Poet, by Giorgio de Chirico, 1913