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A federal prosecutor quit rather than help the Trump regime railroad Kilmar Abrego Garcia for political purposes.

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We don’t need to back off the American Gestapo and we don’t need to respect its agents. People exercising state violence are not entitled to anonymity. Nor are the people directing the state violence.

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There’s $150.3 billion in military spending in the GOP megabill, and nearly all of it will go to private companies. This is wealth redistribution — just not the kind that either party likes talking about. www.stephensemler.com/p/how-much-d...

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Where I got my PhD! Good stuff, Queen's.

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“There are only two kinds of society in which armed agents of the government routinely conceal their identities: (1) Lawless failed states… (2) Authoritarian states… Stable democracies do not allow agents of the state to operate under cover of concealment.” www.thebulwark.com/p/the-secret...

submitted 6 days ago • 111 comments

Too many books? I think what you mean is not enough bookshelves.

submitted 6 days ago • 274 comments

Tim definitely has a Twitter burner and I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s got a Bluesky burner too

submitted 8 days ago • 9 comments

"Evil" is an insufficient word to describe the racist fascist Nazi fucks causing this devastation.

submitted 8 days ago • 25 comments

These are the people who look (and act) like foreign invaders.

submitted 8 days ago • 17 comments

Seven-game series against the 2025 Rockies, WHO YA GOT?????

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

Just a reminder that there is still an ongoing coup against the Constitution, in case you were wondering...and it's broadly succeeding.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments

We were likely years away from making HIV a thing of the past. Humanity triumphing over one of its worst diseases Instead we'll live in a world where people continue getting sick because of a greedy few who didn't want to pay their fair share of taxes

submitted 8 days ago • 49 comments

brian was starting to think that maybe his mom wasn’t coming back

submitted 9 days ago • 496 comments

I’m not saying this story is false but I am saying it is totally in the interest of the Trump White House to have a story out there suggesting that some universities are looking to acquiesce.

submitted 8 days ago • 87 comments

My high school age son has a classmate just seized by ICE and she is now in a cell in Louisiana, her phone seized. This is High School in the USA in 2025. More Au Revoir Les Enfants than Ferris Bueller. School and community response already in motion.

submitted 9 days ago • 140 comments

This is such a good example of "turn every page" journalism - nothing less fun/glam than clicking through every footnote. And it's roughly 10,000x more newsy than the thumbsucker RFK profiles reported with big travel budgets.

submitted 10 days ago • 90 comments

this rules "I am old, and I am a legend, and fuck you all I'm going to use my platform to support trans people" good for him

submitted 10 days ago • 38 comments

These are positions for senior scholars who are relinquishing tenure at their current institutions to move to UNC. The board must know that these options are non-starters.

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New terror level just dropped for if I ever do another move

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Superman is the story of an illegal alien living under an assumed identity and paying taxes

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

"A funny thing is that I tend to give all my novels the same title to begin with — Wrestling with God. Then while I’m writing, I realize, Oh, that’s not quite it..." Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o in this excellent @theparisreivew.bsky.social interview by Namwali Serpell www.theparisreview.org/interviews/7...

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Years ago, a co-worker who knew I was a big RATM fan gave me a USB key with Street Sweeper Social Club on it. Time has doggedly passed, and I listen to less Rage than I did once upon a time, but I still love "Promenade." www.youtube.com/watch?v=teq0...

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i’m here you fuckaas bitch

submitted 11 days ago • 730 comments

these numbers are a decent indication that the whole "the left is ostracizing young men" thing is, if not entirely fictional, at least very overblown

submitted 11 days ago • 94 comments

boy canada and europe are about to get a surge of grad students

submitted 11 days ago • 19 comments

“In prison I began to think in a more systematic way about language,” he told the Guardian in 2006. “Why was I not detained before, when I wrote in English?” He decided from then on to write in Gikuyu, that “the only language I could use was my own.” RIP

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I said to Spencer Strider last night: "I know you've been booed in Philly before. What did you make of tonight's version?" “I love pitching here," he said. "I mean, where else do they chant your name? Ask how your family's doing? They seem very interested in my well being, and I appreciate that."

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Kathleen David has posted a remembrance of her late husband Peter A. David, at the GoFundMe that's helping with the family's medical expenses. gofund.me/615410da

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I am not built for this. My cold heart does not melt. I just smell worse. Is it possible to send the heat back from whence it came?

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It's surprisingly heartwarming to hear Lou Reed be this sincerely kind and enthusiastic about someone.

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International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students. They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase *Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

submitted 12 days ago • 57 comments

The technical assessment is that it will be a complete fucking nightmare. Foreign students are a big part of those campuses as well.

submitted 12 days ago • 37 comments

This is a deliberate attempt to crash the US economy by destroying higher education.

submitted 12 days ago • 51 comments

Kind of thought refusing to release innocent people while simultaneously continuing to pardon guilty people might cause a bigger stir in the press.

submitted 12 days ago • 299 comments

I'm happy about all the love Peter David is receiving after his passing, and I'm assuming he had some sense of fans' goodwill toward him. I'm one of many whose childhood was richer for his work. But I'm haunted by the extent of his medical debt and how that must have coloured his last years.

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