In honor of National Poetry Day, the greatest parody rewrite of all time:

The dodgers bullpen 😩😩😩

basically the reason they can’t make conservative LLMs is the reason they can’t make conservative academia

Blake Snell 🙌

Utah Sen. Mike Lee has railed against spending on foreign aid. Now he's silent on the Trump administration's plans for a $20B bailout for Argentinian president Javier Milei, who Lee has said he idolizes. champ.ly/sqUCiI16

1. Explicitly states that he knows Dems want to help people and he only wants to hurt them. 2. SCOTUS has already approved rescission, so no deal will matter and Vought will have Trump cancel any legislated funding he (Vought) doesn’t approve of. 3. They’re going to do all of this, anyway.

Watching him ramble through this nonsense and thinking about who the audience is is kinda mind blowing. Just like with the UN, he treats the US’s top military personnel like they’re a rally of dupes or some goofy fox call-in show

pete hegseth, who you will recall has been accused of domestic abuse and sexual assault, has announced a new policy by which you cannot file anonymous complaints of mistreatment. sex criminal solidarity.

This ICE ad during Monday night football is grim as fuck. They really are trying to hire only the most unscrupulous power-hungry weenies they can

NPR just cut “for the first time” from “Schumer said Trump was hearing of the healthcare and hospital cuts for the first time” (paraphrased). They’re miss-framing it as Schumer thinking Trump is hearing HIS (Schumer’s) concerns, instead of what Schumer actually said

Starting a petition to have Adam O’Neal interviewed by Isaac Chotiner

Speak out on the redrawing of UTAH’s Legislative MAPs. You have until October 6th. Share your story! Make your voices heard! You can make a difference. #utpol Here’s how: betterboundaries.org/publiccomment/

Everyone should read this. Because every word needed to be said. (gift article). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/m...

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

Cat for sale

I just wish politics could be boring again I want to not engage with it and instead argue about the minutiae of tabletop games while important things are handled by highly qualified nonpartisan federal employees who know what they’re doing

"The GAO analysis, which does not include all the Pathways administrative expenses detailed by the news outlets, shows that as of April the Georgia program had spent $54.2 million on administrative costs since 2021, compared to $26.1 million spent on health care costs."

The next few generations will be victims of the success of vaccines in the prior few generations

Hard happy dad seltzer 🤔

One is impossible! The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) High and Low (1963) Night of the Living Dead (1968) Roma (2018)

What are the chances a foul ball would land here

DOGE was a failure because its entire premise was flawed, and, on top of that, the people who ran and implemented it were both arrogant and ignorant.

Without inherited wealth or the family name, these fellas would be stood at the side of the road shouting nonsense at passing traffic.

NPR laundering the meandering, silly, chaotic UN speech is disappointing, but not surprising

Any journalist or commentator who writes a wrap-up of this speech that suggests that any of it was normal, worthy of respect, not absolutely deranged, not an insult to the audience, not an embarrassment for the US, should be relieved of their jobs.

It didn’t have to be like this. And I genuinely think most of the people who ostensibly voted for it to be like this are just information-resistant voters who weren’t actually paying attention to anything but inflation headlines or their zero-context equivalents from horse-race coverage

I did not want to replace scientists and public health experts with conspiracy theorists. I thought that was an absolutely terrible idea. But the American people in their wisdom wanted it, or didn’t care. What a horrific embarrassment, imposing a lot of avoidable suffering and confusion.

The land of the free and the home of the brave.

“The institutional forms through which violence operates compell us to ask: whose life appears as a life, and whose loss would register as a loss?” Judith Butler, The Force of Nonviolence

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

An influential arts + culture magazine that only publishes people who went to public schools

What the fuck is this

We’ve always had cancel culture, it’s just when we started canceling the perpetrators instead of the victims that it became a problem.

Got fired from my job for saying that Samantha on Bewitched didn’t really wiggle her nose, she was just kind of twitching her mouth back and forth.

May all hills bring you as much joy as Fiona-May Aylward at the 2016 UK National Hill Climb Championships 📷 Dan Monaghan

Judith Butler responds to Berkeley's sending names: "When Universities Become Informants: A Practice from the McCarthy Era Makes an Ugly Return" www.chronicle.com/article/when...

It's been a rough year for humanities in Utah. But Weber State's free humanities course in Ogden is starting again Sept. 16, and its funding model is largely to thank. www.kuer.org/education/20...

www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty... The free speech crusade will continue until complete conformity and submission are achieved.

Health risks associated with dust pollution continue to kick up interest in the Great Salt Lake, and new research shows Utah’s youngest residents may be the most vulnerable to its fallout.

Petition to officially replace Roman de La Rose

@npr.org rebroadcasting gov Cox’s “there was a trans person in the shooter’s life” and then following it with a piece about the engravings without doing any research at all to contextualize the messages (and even miss-contextualizing the helldivers reference) is pretty shoddy journalism

Putting away all the "CIVIL WAR NOW" banners at the news station and bringing out the "Mental Health Crisis in America" banners with a heavy sigh

I’m about to be silenced by the government for casually bringing up that the geneva conventions do in fact still exist

Parsley having a carrot snack

This is also political violence.

“—the em-dash is the music of disruption.” / more punctuation love

Re today's fatal shooting: 'Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.'

In June, a Democratic state rep in Minnesota was murdered, and a state senator was shot. And a couple of days later, Trump said he wouldn't phone Gov. Walz, calling him "whacked out" and "a mess"

Political violence is emblematic of our societal failings