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"Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty." -Hannah Arendt

submitted 6 hours ago • 35 comments

Impeach and remove!!! I don’t care if she said this out of complete ignorance or maliciousness

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

To line his pockets while censoring news. five-alarm fire, indeed.

submitted 6 hours ago • 0 comments

Which will get more attention in tomorrow’s papers: the former president being old and frail, or the current president arresting members of the opposition party

submitted 20 hours ago • 56 comments

👇🎯 Also, people need to internalize that they are <contracts> & this entire nonsense is not only an assault on research & higher education, but an attack on the very foundations of property rights & the rule of law in the Republic. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

THREAD: We recently heard that the Trump administration was leaning on the government of Gambia to help Elon Musk. For weeks, our team made phone calls, wrote letters and knocked on folks’ doors to try to confirm it. But we were stuck. So our reporters got on a plane to Banjul. 1/

submitted 4 days ago • 115 comments

"Moderate cultural positions" = "Come on, guys, there's certain types of people we all hate, right? You know the ones."

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

Wonder if there’s an example of what happens when you accept an adversary built piece of infrastructure. 🤔 “The team was stunned when over the course of a few months, they discovered that the Soviets had put permanent eavesdropping systems into the actual structure of the building.” 🙄 #GiftLink

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

"Masked security forces captured an opposition leader in the coastal province of New Jersey as regime officials continue their months-long crack-down against pro-democracy elements in the embattled United States. The arrest comes as the regime issued calls for summary detentions without trial."

submitted 10 days ago • 631 comments

The same kind of folks who spent years complaining about masks that slowed the spread of disease are now wearing masks to facilitate the spread of fascism

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

"I've trained 1000s of soldiers..." Trans man says, stunned, at being let go in the military. Nick, a transgender man on Tiktok, is going viral today after his video shows the impact of the trans military ban on his 18 year career. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism.

submitted 11 days ago • 24 comments

It shouldn't have to be said but if you're law enforcement and you have to cover up your face while doing your job, you are not the good guys in this situation.

submitted 11 days ago • 144 comments

This woman has no idea what the Library of Congress is or how it works.

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

If kidnapped, what would you post that would alarm your followers without the kidnappers knowing you're asking for help? What's the point of the Oxford comma?

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

It sucks that the military is so central to our society, but it is. And while this is a very American thing that our government is doing, I'll note that in 1935, Germany expelled Jewish officers from the army.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

2018 retweet from the now Pope on Trump's family separation

submitted 12 days ago • 6 comments

Behold the best pope joke so far

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

We understand the risk that comes from ignoring the science on vaccines or food safety. We take a greater risk when we ignore the experts on how to combat authoritarianism. Most university administrations have chosen self preservation as a strategy. It's a bad one. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/o...

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.

submitted 13 days ago • 636 comments

So, apparently it was DEI keeping our jets on carriers? wapo.st/3GGko7n

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

How many jets fell off carriers before they kicked trans people out of the military and fired the most qualified women generals?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

Amber Thurman Candi Miller Josseli Barnica Porsha Ngumezi Nevaeh Crain Their deaths could've been prevented. Their lives should not be forgotten.

submitted 14 days ago • 5 comments

Between this and 60 Minutes, Paramount is engaging in massive, consequential censorship to curry favor with Trump.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Keep resisting!!

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

They keep willfully misunderstanding the issue to confuse good people. Trans people don’t think this series will be loaded with JKR’s bigotry. We KNOW the money from this series will be funneled by JKR directly into attacking the trans community in the media and courts.

submitted 17 days ago • 24 comments

Also, all dudes.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

The first crime is that all of this wildly illegal & unconstitutional & requires immediate impeachment & removal. The second crime is that we, the richest country in world history, only spend $9 billion in a $1.7 <trillion> budget on the NSF. But that’s a discussion for once we stop the fascism.

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

authoritarians (and corporate power) hate publicly-funded media because (when implemented correctly) it can untether journalism from all the perverse financial incentives you see demonstrated daily by our feckless and endlessly exploitable ad engagement-based infotainment economy

submitted 18 days ago • 6 comments

The premise of all the concern over pediatric transgender medicine is that it's being given too quickly to too many children, and I continue to find it odd that every scrap of evidence I can find suggests that this isn't happening and never was.

submitted 18 days ago • 90 comments

The NYT opinion section is having a rough day.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Great one.

submitted 22 days ago • 9 comments

Look, if AI wanted to be useful for academic writers it would stop making up citations and instead learn to format them in whatever style the journal requires at touch of a button.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

This is fascinating! Puts my "donate sweaters you haven't worn in two years" version of spring cleaning to shame.

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Every now and then I just pause and think that … we could have just elected Kamala Harris, and we’d still have an economy that was the strongest in the world; we’d still have an American-led trans-Atlantic order; we’d be assured that our universities would remain the envy of the world; … (1/x)

submitted 20 days ago • 223 comments

Trying to explain that Chinese people do not want to buy Ford F-150s, but do want to pay a huge premium to consume higher education in the US. We are mostly a service economy, and Trump is trashing those services.

submitted 21 days ago • 26 comments

We should all be teaming up. Higher ed has the leverage, the talent, and the mission. Democratic capacity building is literally in our job description. Public universities should be leading this fight.

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

This feels a lot like that early period of Covid when some people were shouting about how bad it was going to be while guys like Trump and Musk were predicting it would be over by April.

submitted 23 days ago • 173 comments

University leaders need to understand: they are holding INCREDIBLY good cards. It is so rare in today's polarized era to have the support of 70+ percent of the public against the Trump admiministration on anything. Universities have that—AND winning legal arguments.

submitted 23 days ago • 49 comments

Thanks for this 🧵, @gailsimone.bsky.social !

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Over on X, a tale of the madness currently playing out with student visas is currently going viral on the basis of an astonishing quote from a judge calling what the Trump administration is doing “Kafkaesque.” The lawsuit is one of Banias. law’s emergency TRO cases and the quote is from 5 days ago.

submitted 28 days ago • 46 comments

People spend a lot of time wondering why the left is worse at using independent media to control the national narrative. A useful exercise is to ask why the left is also worse at selling snake oil and pyramid schemes, because I think the reasons are basically exactly the same.

submitted 29 days ago • 1021 comments

Public universities may be this nation's single greatest domestic resource (The McRib notwithstanding).

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

Great news! I wonder how many rogue "law enforcement" cosplayers there are roaming the streets and terrorizing random people.

submitted 29 days ago • 1 comment