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submitted 20 hours ago • 11 comments

New preliminary injunction barring DOGE from Treasury data systems requires govt to provide, by 3/24, proof of DOGErs' training in relevant laws & regs, security clearances, *and* full explanations of their chains of command.

submitted 20 hours ago • 22 comments

Your periodic reminder that if s.o. wrote handwringing books/articles/Substack posts warning against “woke” and “DEI” over the last five years, THIS WAS WHAT THEY WERE ENVISIONING. This is their project: an illiberal, anti-intellectual state attack on higher education. www.thedp.com/article/2025...

submitted 19 hours ago • 2 comments

"Other than a dateline reading 'Updated Feb. 21, 2025, 10:37 a.m. ET,' the story does not indicate what was changed. There is no correction notice. The Times’ stealth edit significantly alters the impact of the section on Evans and calls into question the article’s overall credibility."

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

If I had a band or a label, I would do a punk cover of "No More Kings" from Schoolhouse Rock. And then I would gather a bunch of people to write a whole album of next-generation Schoolhouse Rock songs, with songs about Social Security and Medicaid and NOAA. I am not kidding in the least.

submitted 3 days ago • 407 comments

For some reason, the same people who understand intuitively that making fun of Trump's weight hits more people than its intended target, really can't understand how the glee at "leopards eating faces" and people "getting what they voted for" does the same thing.

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Trump is now fully positioned to declare his opposition “antifa terrorists” and proceed to use the apparatus of law enforcement to silence his critics. That’s what the Kent selection means. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Violence Deconstructed: Dehumanizing immigration policy is being justified to protect white women

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

Astonishing crowd inside Manhattan Criminal Court two hours before Luigi Mangione’s follow-up appearance. Organized chaos, people are in cordoned-off gaggles down the full length of the hall, chatting casually. Feels reminiscent of fans waiting for a concert ticket line to open.

submitted 1 day ago • 78 comments

Wrote about not letting The Atlantic tell you what fights to pick. www.findinggravity.net/p/go-ahead-p...

submitted 3 days ago • 13 comments

Here is an old post Those of us who are academics who study the far right and authoritarian movements like the fascist movement w/in the Republican Party tried to warn you so many times Biden’s genocide was setting the stage for the collapse of American democracy. You told us we were terrorists.

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

As a political scientist who studies countries that managed to stop the slide into authoritarianism, I can assure you that ***refraining from provoking the authoritarian*** is not how it works. Without further ado, I will now go tear out another chunk of hair.

submitted 6 days ago • 275 comments

Tapping the sign

submitted 6 days ago • 18 comments