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submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

The NYT is inventing experimental euphemisms for "racist" like Edison in the lab in 1877

submitted 1 day ago • 16 comments

Oof.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

As the spouse of a federal scientist, I can say we’re ALL living in a state of constant extreme anxiety. How little these salaries take from the annual budget. What vital work these scientists/others do. And if he loses his job we lose our NPS housing too. The cruelty & the terror ARE the point.

submitted 3 days ago • 8 comments

i cannot imagine a more likely suspect for gambling a community's money away than a "successful, financially sophisticated banker"

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

submitted 4 days ago • 389 comments

So I know Vance has been Catholic for about 15 minutes so he probably doesn’t know this but being denounced by name by the pope himself is considered “not good” in Catholicism. Follow me for more insights into the complex details of papal supremacy.

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

A stunning example of how habits of absolute power rot your brain. Prisoners are in agony—surely a bit more agony will do the trick. “Beatings will continue until morale improves.”

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

make them make you

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

"President Donald Trump just announced that he is going to..." Me:

submitted 31 days ago • 1 comment

They are who we think they are

submitted 15 days ago • 607 comments

Feel like the same Chronicle would have been far readier to generalize from a single incident if a single professor had been told to knock it off with the n-word, or if a single undergrad had shouted during a talk, or worse pitched a tent. Especially if it singularly happened at an Ivy Plus campus.

submitted 16 days ago • 1 comment

NOT NOW, MELVILLE. READ THE ROOM.

submitted 18 days ago • 54 comments

Incredible to think how hard Merrick Garland worked for four years to avoid even the remotest appearance of partisanship or ideological commitments, and literally on her first day as AG Pam Bondi is like "Diversity is now illegal, we will be putting all the libs in prison"

submitted 17 days ago • 237 comments

The announcement that the CSUs will become the world’s first “AI-powered university” is the most disgusting betrayal of the public trust placed in our system. To say the quiet part loud, no private, fancy school is wrecking their students’ education for the sake of an experiment. They feel free

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Jokes on them, I’m going to use AI to come up with 8000 businesses for dipshits

submitted 90 days ago • 194 comments

Oh, you bought a house? Well I wrote 600 words that i'm thinking of deleting

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Join me in staring into the middle distance in quiet horror www.forbes.com/sites/danfit...

submitted 18 days ago • 31 comments

The announcement that the CSUs will become the world’s first “AI-powered university” is the most disgusting betrayal of the public trust placed in our system. To say the quiet part loud, no private, fancy school is wrecking their students’ education for the sake of an experiment. They feel free

submitted 18 days ago • 3 comments

Hear me out — If parents call colleges freaked about their FAFSA data being leaked, schools may have to issue statements — which would reach a whole lot more families about how warped this is. Organizing isn’t always calling electeds. Sometimes it’s just calling people with a bigger megaphone.

submitted 19 days ago • 77 comments

Small advice for educators dealing with ICE: the scripts floating around are accurate but assume the officer will stick to a few Qs and won’t lie, distract, or threaten. This hasn’t been my exp. It’s hard to stay calm, so I find it helpful to assume a persona. Be the most incompetent person to ever

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

It’s official: all funding requests made on Tuesday by postdocs for their salaries have been unilaterally rejected by NSF.

submitted 23 days ago • 73 comments

The NSF’s spinelessness feels like the last straw of spinelessness for me. We have all dedicated our entire lives to the principles of academic integrity, and it is so humiliating and demoralizing to have our flagship institutions trip over themselves to trash it all. IN ELEVEN DAYS.

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

Gabbard is many things (two-faced hypocrite, likely Russian asset, lifelong member of a virulently anti-gay cult) but even the GOP should see that meeting with a cleric who vowed to send suicide bombers against the US then lying about it should bar her from any federal security role. wapo.st/3WGaeIS

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

This breaks me.

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

Small advice for educators dealing with ICE: the scripts floating around are accurate but assume the officer will stick to a few Qs and won’t lie, distract, or threaten. This hasn’t been my exp. It’s hard to stay calm, so I find it helpful to assume a persona. Be the most incompetent person to ever

submitted 23 days ago • 2 comments

Jfc do not trade the fucking First Amendment for a goddamn merger www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/b...

submitted 23 days ago • 120 comments

The wholesale stripping of the country’s institutions for parts reminds me of Erdogan’s surprisingly candid admission: “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.” We’ve stepped off and lit the tram on fire.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

I want the public to hear from every university president by 12 noon tomorrow. I am so serious

submitted 23 days ago • 29 comments

Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

submitted 23 days ago • 2234 comments

Okay so I know this is beside the point, but wtf vestments is he wearing?? He’s “Continuing Anglican,” but those are not theirs. It looks vaguely Catholic, but he’s not Catholic. Is this some kind of cosplay outfit? Religion is just ✨fascism vibes✨ apparently

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

The wholesale stripping of the country’s institutions for parts reminds me of Erdogan’s surprisingly candid admission: “Democracy is like a tram. You ride it until you arrive at your destination, then you step off.” We’ve stepped off and lit the tram on fire.

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

It is a mistake to think of this as a lawsuit; it is a solicitation of a bribe, of protection money.

submitted 24 days ago • 75 comments

until things get sorted out, all law school constitutional law classes should be replaced with a psychoanalyst lecture about the death drive

submitted 24 days ago • 16 comments

Trump tried to turn off Medicaid and in response Schumer is out here saying republicans don’t love cops enough

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment