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Not proud of my sticker skills, but why does this seem so right?

submitted 16 hours ago • 1 comment

RIP, legend.

submitted 19 hours ago • 8 comments

Starting to think Covid gave us too much practice at carrying on in cataclysmic times.

submitted 22 hours ago • 12 comments

They’re the same picture

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A propos of nothing (but striving to have a non-political skeet): Amy Irving would’ve been amazing in a Lauren Bacall biopic. It’s all there: the look; the Jewishness; the “cast cause you’re prettier than talented but still kinda great.”

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

It's official. Proclaiming that "[consequence of right-wing thing] is the point" has lost its force. It's dead.

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WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

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Maybe we’d get somewhere if we stop thinking in capitalist terms like “branding schemes.”

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Geminis (like me) already get a bad enough rap without Google’s AI piling on. 😭

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Judge Ana Reyes held two of three scheduled days of hearings in a case challenging the constitutionality of Trump's anti-trans military executive order. The final hearing date isn’t until March 3, but here’s what we learned this week.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Someone tell Trump that Christians call Jesus the King of Kings so he turns against the religious right.

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

This part needs to be widely known: Musk has “received almost a billion dollars worth of new contract money from the US government in 2 weeks.”

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

“Education and justice are democracy’s only life insurance.” —Nannie Helen Burroughs Nannie Helen Burroughs, educator, entrepreneur, activist born 1880 to formerly enslaved parents. A staunch advocate of women’s rights, she established a school in the nation’s capital.

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The Department of Education is too small for a label.

submitted 13 days ago • 6 comments

Objectively funny that Musk won’t take his calls.

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

List of new Fulbright Award opportunities came out today. If anyone out there wants me to teach for them for a while I’m more than happy to leave the US next year!

submitted 9 days ago • 3 comments

Discredit the gold, credit the crypto.

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Oh, god. NEVER in my life did I imagine I’d say something negative about Parker Posey, but her (and Jason Isaac’s) North Carolina accent is AWFUL and condescending. It’s—

submitted 10 days ago • 10 comments

Never want to hear about "red states" from a New Yorker

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Tried Valley Girl (1983) as a distracting (?) lark, but yikes. A good reminder that a film directed by a white woman =\= progressive.

submitted 10 days ago • 2 comments

Colleague noticed the land acknowledgment and statement of commitment to all students (written after the NC board banned use of “diversity” last year) were simply gone from our department’s homepage. No notice; chairs weren’t notified. Awful.

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As a reference, the $46B that Meta spent building this shit is about the same amount of money Spain used to built its WHOLE high speed rail network. All 2469 miles of it. Zuckerberg got that money selling shitty ads and destroying democracy, and gave the world this.

submitted 11 days ago • 89 comments

A narrative tic worth noting: When Biden pardoned Hunter, lots of ppl erupted saying “this empowers Trump to do the same.” But when Trump says he is above the law, no one replies “this will empower a future Dem to think the same.” And not bc “there won’t be one.” It’s deeper than that.

submitted 11 days ago • 9 comments

Um, I know this is weird (but also shouldn’t be), but Hugh Grant in the new Bridget Jones movie is A+ supporting actor stuff. Fearless, thoughtful,

submitted 12 days ago • 2 comments

In light of recent events, it's just SO FUNNY that we get the "first as tragedy, then as farce" bit from Marx's The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte.

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If there's a distant future, I pity the scholar who pores through his social media on the hunch that his capitalization kink is some sort of code to crack.

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"If Tesla declines as a company, Musk’s money weapon becomes corroded. And between the years-long overvaluation and the decimation of vehicle sales, Tesla stock has a giant 'kick me' sign on it. What is to be done?"

submitted 12 days ago • 80 comments

At the stonewall monument rn

submitted 13 days ago • 50 comments

This is where you go to tell the National Park Service to restore the word "transgender" in its entry on the Stonewall monument. (Scroll down.)

submitted 14 days ago • 519 comments

The white/gold blue/black dress brouhaha was TEN years ago. I don't understand time.

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we want a more free press. we should be thinking now about paying for our common services which will guarantee proper freedom to those who actually provide the service, while protecting them+us against a domineering minority. there are ways, if we really believe in democracy. Raymond Williams, 1958