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Bracing clarity and much needed badassery.

Experts agree: you can choose your parents with these three simple tricks.

Sometimes you just have to lay down the law

You do sort of have to laugh, a bit, at the US government going 'it says here "funding to secure a second American century" - we can cut that, right? Sounds pretty woke, right?'

What kind of fool sneers at these projects?

According to too many, there is white and then there is political there is male and then there is political there is capitalism and then there is political there is straight and then there is political there is cis and then there is political there is non-disabled and then there is political

Oh you starve one kid and all of a sudden this Jesus guy gets on your case talking about farm animals and outer darkness

It’s distinctly American that we would have such a lazy coup, but that the perpetrators would put cots in the office and leave their cars in the parking over night lot so everyone thinks they’re working overtime to coup.

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.

Not to sound glib, but I think the point is to then protest against martial law. It’s the future of the country, after all, not a waterpark in Scottsdale.

soon enough, the mere presence of black and latino students on campus will be illegal racial discrimination against white students www.insidehighered.com/news/diversi...

It's very important that you tell someone in your life that might not know how cool the B-52s were. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl_E...

Still is.

View count confirms we are headed to End Times.

Musk’s personal, private commodification of women’s bodies is coextensive with his political philosophy and its very creepy.

I always knew a guy named sinner was not on the up-and-up.

What these nihilistic vandals are doing to dismantle science & medicine—generations of expertise & public service & life improving benefits—is cultural revolution level national self harm. No foreign foe could inflict such brutal damage & senseless suffering on US so fast & effectively & unresisted.

A Trump-Musk memo telling US government employees to hide what’s happening from the public is a sign that: 1) Public legitimacy is a constraint for them, they know it, and will at times alter their behavior accordingly 2) Reporters should focus on it, revealing more of what they’re trying to hide

Holy— This guy is so wholly unfit for life outside of Munich circa 1940!

Make your calls. Go to your town halls. Ask your state and local officials what they are doing under state and local law. Rest. Hydrate. Make soup for the hungry. Don’t let people tell you that you’re doing it wrong. Not a sprint. Not a marathon. A relay. Find your team. Thank you.

Finally, some good news.

I voted! Figured it might be my only chance to vote in a democracy for the foreseeable future.

This was one of RFK Jr.’s first orders after being sworn in. Just an astonishing denial of science and will cause so much pain to the 45 million Americans facing mental health challenges.

It’s an endless cycle of alarming news from what increasingly looks like a fascist regime (and I don’t use this word lightly, but what is happening in the US is off the scale).

So like an MFA?

Dude, we are about to have a slew of amazing novels. This is great news for Literature.

Just want to emphasize that in the eugenic worldview of Musk and co, spending money on special ed is not just a waste of money, or something that can and should be borne by parents. They believe special ed is actively bad, because when disabled people thrive, it weakens the human race.

Everybody needs to put their head between their knees, take some deep breaths, and bust out the Neil Diamond. The level of despair y’all’s panic is causing me is terrifying.

Why would someone go out of their way to make me feel this bad on the morning of a teaching day?!?!?! And with charts!

Banalisation de l’extrême droite, épisode numéro 18020162. Cette mouvance politique n’est plus seulement traitée « comme les autres », elle est carrément valorisée et récompensée !

Via Robbie Gramer at Politico, in a legal filing a USAID employee details trying to leave Kinshasa, Congo with their family and leaving their possessions behidn amid panic created by Trump and Musk's sudden shutdown of the agency

Infuriating. Not surprising, though.

I mean, someone has to have the goods on this. Right?

This is correct. In order to qualify you must liquidate *all* of your assets. With this there will be no long term or nursing home options for children, the severely disabled or disabled children who need round the clock care

Great idea!

it is genuinely incredible that all you have to do is scratch the surface and it becomes clear that each of these guys is a huge piece of shit

The key words here are “then-wife”

I swear. Have received three emails “from Harris” asking me to donate to the DNC, while she’s completely shrunk from public life. She lost by a hair and could be a credible leader of opposition. Instead of saying anything principled, it’s the usual fundraising emails on autopilot.