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!!!!!!! They want to TAKE OVER universities: "The Trump administration is planning to pursue a legal arrangement that would put Columbia University into a consent decree" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

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I honor David Lynch every day by approaching a random stranger, saying something unsettling, and then disappearing from their life like a terrible nighttime specter

submitted 20 hours ago • 19 comments

The House just passed its budget resolution, so reconciliation is now officially underway. This is their bill to destroy Medicaid and SNAP while cutting taxes disproportionately for the rich. THIS IS VERY REAL and can be enacted even if all Ds vote no. Thread on what's to come and WHERE TO FIGHT.

submitted 8 hours ago • 359 comments

Discworld QOTD, from Reaper Man “It was amazing how many friends you could make by being bad at things, provided you were bad enough to be funny.”

submitted 5 hours ago • 4 comments

Bring back proper games journalism.

submitted 15 hours ago • 62 comments

History never repeats itself exactly, but it certainly rhymes… www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the...

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"Perhaps prison would have persisted this way forever. Perhaps our granite hearts and iron wills would have never crumbled. Perhaps the prison mentality, that we be cold and heartless, would have endured. Perhaps. But then there were kittens."

submitted 6 days ago • 8 comments

describing struggling people who need help as "playing video games all day"—all while giving $38 billion in gov contracts to elon musk to literally play video games all day—is vile on every possible level. failed state behavior

submitted 7 hours ago • 2 comments

trump take egg

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 1 day ago • 380 comments

The so called “SignalGate” scandal certainly got forced out of the news cycle and discussion.

submitted 1 day ago • 26 comments

same tbh except with like a long striped nightshirt, long nightcap with a pompom on the end, and a single candle in one of those little brass things

submitted 20 hours ago • 2 comments

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

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We already lost a generation of humanists to precarity and starving our disciplines of funding. I do NOT want to lose the work we did get. I do not want work on Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, women and gender minorities, and queer folx's work to disappear. I need this history. We all do.

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ELECTION RESULT: A team of city council members in Rolla, Missouri, have been pushing anti-LGTB policies, including a ban on drag shows and book censorship. Voters just ousted all three of these city councilors who were running for reelection, backing candidates backed by a local LGBT group.

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This is the literal destruction of knowledge. Mississippi libraries are being ordered to remove academic research on race and gender from library databases. mississippitoday.org/2025/04/08/m...

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Americans voted against the most successful economic recovery of any nation on the planet for this, because they were mad at their servants being paid more and listened to liars who made them feel good.

submitted 1 day ago • 130 comments

see, this is exactly what I’m talking about

submitted 1 day ago • 52 comments

If we're doing the 30s again you should be able to buy root beer with codeine in it at the drugstore is all I'm saying.

submitted 1 day ago • 19 comments

with apologies to @xkcd.com

submitted 6 days ago • 22 comments

We fired a bunch of park rangers and cancer researchers to build concentration camps.

submitted 2 days ago • 2 comments

Also, if your institution is laying low or trying to comply in advance ... they're still coming for you. Get your defenses ready and coordinate with other institutions.

submitted 1 day ago • 27 comments

my hope is that AI can empower the Dumbest, Least talented slobs i know to replace everything i ever loved with One Million Years of Content

submitted 2 days ago • 77 comments

I can no longer tell if I'm holding up surprisingly well right now because I did all of my grieving for the future back in 2024 or if I have just reached a state of emergency dissociation so extreme that I will not be feeling my feelings until 2026.

submitted 2 days ago • 50 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

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the media told us bill clinton having a conversation with loretta lynch on a tarmac was a major front-page scandal. they never cared about the principle of DOJ independence they just wanted Trump and republicans to win elections

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Worth noting that as the economy tanks, Fox is laser focused not on Trump’s tariffs, but on fomenting trans hate. Don’t ever say Democrats are pushing a “trans agenda” when it’s Republicans obsessively manufacturing panic instead of focusing on real problems.

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There are only around 140 coal plants still operating, with hundreds of retirements in recent years. Keeping them running costs more than actually building new solar and wind power — in 99 percent of cases. Oh and also coal killed half a million people in the US between 1999 and 2020.

submitted 2 days ago • 12 comments

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

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Adobe deleting their first BlueSky post because they realize that the artist community pretty much universally hates them now is extremely funny

submitted 2 days ago • 75 comments

Poignant letter by a mother: “Don’t worry love, they will never wrestle you from us. They could tariff the air we breathe, seas we swim, valleys we waddle upon. They may hunt us, chase us, imprison us.. and I promise that I will never let their greed corrupt our happiness. With you forever.”

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

Love that capitalism is the best possible system that can never be replaced and that we're all going to suffer terrible hardship because the winners of capitalism asked an LLM how to do tariffs.

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the emperor’s favorite concubine fired one of his top internal security officers while rumors abound that the household eunuch has lost the emperors favor

submitted 6 days ago • 146 comments

Trump supporters, 2016: Look at that jet! Donald Trump is an American success story who'll use his years of business experience to put more money in your pocket! Trump supporters, 2025: Listen to the leaves in the wind...the calling bird...the humble cricket...what possessions compare to these?

submitted 6 days ago • 64 comments

The University of California is actively cooperating with the government witch hunt against some 850 faculty members. cucfa.org/2025/04/cucf...

submitted 6 days ago • 36 comments

Today, approx. 135 of the 185 total NEH staffers woke up to the news that their positions were being RIFed. Then, almost all current grantees received emails cancelling their grants. I posted this on Fb, mostly for non-academics, but here's a bit about the impact of the 3 grants the NEH gave me: 1/

submitted 6 days ago • 7 comments

I'm never going to lose sight of the fact that letting the bankers get away with 2008 is a huge part of what caused the current political mess. I don't just hate them for robbing my generation of a future, I hate them for the fascism.

submitted 8 days ago • 29 comments

PSA Abroad #2: We appreciate travelers & scientists slyly wearing Canadian flag lapel pins, but your Nike Airs and Sketchers slip-ins give away your true origin. Best bet is to overthrow your Government so you can travel without shame.

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Expect to see much more of this in the coming weeks and months. Abortion providers have been teetering on the brink since Dobbs—and before tbh—so Trump winning and making them ineligible for programs like Title X and Medicaid will prove too much. www.mlive.com/news/jackson...

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