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We knew exactly what this administration was going to do because it was written in Project 2025. Folks can be surprised at how quickly it has moved, but no one can act like they didn't know.

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"You must hire us at your universities & pretend that our fantasies & bullshit are as credible as actual scholarship." In addition to be all the usual things -- unconstitutional, etc. -- this is just SO FUCKING WEAK AND PATHETIC. How could you say this & not feel deeply, deeply embarrassed?

submitted 19 hours ago • 15 comments

total clarity here from @edwardluce.bsky.social www.ft.com/content/4c4b...

submitted 6 hours ago • 133 comments

The great thing about fighting back against this stuff is that if you end up losing anyway you get the same outcome you’d have gotten from complying but you don’t have to fucking hate yourself too.

submitted 17 hours ago • 47 comments

My dear friend is the development director here. It's a small shop punching way above their weight ensuring a critical history is public. If you can support, do!

submitted 6 hours ago • 1 comment

JD Vance isn't even the kid whose idea it is torture a neighborhood cat. He's the guy who knows it's sick but will do anything as long as he can pretend the cat-torture club members are his friends.

submitted 5 hours ago • 11 comments

I was teaching about repression in dictatorships last week. I suggested to my students that ICE is on track to become a secret police force. It already meets a majority of the criteria (green) and even the remainder (red) is questionable.

submitted 19 hours ago • 5 comments

This feels like the worst time to consider posting some postive news about oneself, but I guess if not now then when? Honored to be nomiated for @publisherswkly.bsky.social Rep of the Year award. Good luck to all the other nominees and the nominated #indiebookstores as well. bit.ly/42cmDHR

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

Here is how WaPo handled Dem's 10-day long effort to count every vote in PA vs. GOP's 5-month long effort to throw out thousands of votes in NC. Support independent, pro-democracy media.

submitted 1 day ago • 483 comments

Fascism and the unreality state it needs to exist are going to really accelerate their attacks on sensemaking and history. More specifically our ability to understand the past and its consequences on our present and future. Ai and digitization are knowledge destruction and monetization engines.

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

Very happy that @aaup.bsky.social and its chapters are bringing these lawsuits. Absolutely shameful that universities and their highly paid leaders are not stepping up to do so themselves.

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"Look, we’re not going to pretend like all our dreams have just come true. But we did just make an absolutely enormous amount of money by pushing stock prices down, buying, and then bringing the prices back—wait, sorry, um, forget that part."

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‘Magnetite found in the beaks of migratory birds is thought to act like an internal compass, enabling them to sense the strength and alignment of the Earth’s magnetism in the way humans feel the push and direction of the wind.’ @jjvincent.bsky.social on direction: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

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I was on WGBH today at the Boston Public Library to talk about #TeslaTakedown and the state of modern media. I laid out the political stakes of the battle ahead: Oligarchs vs. Fascists youtu.be/pagjozs8dAA?...

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Unprecedented violations of constitution, international treaties, US law, & all the norms, now happening daily, & yet he is still in office. We are a deeply unserious country.

submitted 2 days ago • 6 comments

This week's Book Club newsletter: • Historian T.J. Stiles decries Trump's assault on history. • Penguins can make you happy! • Kurt Vonnegut's lost board game. • A celebration of Black bookstores. And more here: s2.washingtonpost.com/camp-rw/?tra...

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“Appeasement right now is a disastrous policy,” Roth said in a recent Globe interview. “What’s at stake here is freedom. If you give up your freedoms to someone who wants more power, they’re going to take more of your freedom.”

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

Small indie publisher with some very quirky wonderful books.. 😍

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

#HousingFirst is the only way to solve homelessness & is much cheaper than what the US is doing now aka just paying cops overtime, destroying the property of America's poorest folks, shifting the problem around a little, causing huge expense at emergency rooms, and letting folks die in the street.

submitted 6 days ago • 4 comments

Next time it’ll be FEMA money for a disaster because the blue state wont change its election laws. We’re deep in Mad King territory here, just a few months in.

submitted 3 days ago • 7 comments

US rule of law straining at the seams. US science infrastructure choked and reeling. Academic freedom squealing like a pig. Global economy teetering on the edge of meltdown. Wall St CEOs self-censoring on earnings reports. It took them 81 days. Talk about American exceptionalism.

submitted 3 days ago • 17 comments

If anything should make you want to follow and learn from Sarah, it’s that she hates that she was right at least as much as anyone else on the planet ❤️

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Salons are like the Waffle House of retail--if they're being affected by something, pay attention!

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ICE is also in the American tradition of the KKK, masked mobs in the street, terrorizing and hiding their identities. This is America, and it’s our duty to push for what could be instead of this.

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At this point it shouldn't even be news, it's so obvious. If I lived outside of the US, I certainly wouldn't be traveling here right now, would you?

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This sounds like something out of a wacky George Saunders short story and yet...

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Fascism places a limit on critical thinking by banning books that make you see the world differently.

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Tomorrow is the first night of Passover. And we still need an exodus from Zionism. Now more than ever. This was last year... www.youtube.com/watch?v=U75K...

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

If you want to win a trade war, you gotta have something to trade that other side wants. And we're in a trade war with the very people who make all the things WE want. You're not going to win that.

submitted 4 days ago • 631 comments

If Ted Lasso were a documentary it would look like this.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

WHO THE FUCK CARES WHAT THIS DIPSHIT WOULD LIKE TO SEE HAPPEN??! I am so sick of these WHITE MALE insufferable losers.

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The world knows about climate change mostly because of great American researchers, and that work has been largely centered at NOAA. Trump and Musk are now shutting down that brilliant work. They are contemptible, short-sighted, and sold out www.science.org/content/arti...

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

"The fact that no one is questioning his mental acuity or fitness to serve is beyond wild to me, right?" said Representative Jasmine Crockett on MSNBC. She is 100% correct.

submitted 4 days ago • 186 comments

Please make time to watch this stunning 17-minute talk from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social "This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like" Then share it with all your networks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...

submitted 4 days ago • 16 comments

One thing I think we really need to drill down on is that these cynical weaponizations of the rhetoric of combating antisemitism and sexual violence are themselves antisemitic and misogynist: they mock the suffering and desire for justice of people who have experienced these.

submitted 4 days ago • 8 comments

This is exactly why we need to be organized in our defense of the freedom to read. The book banners are organized & we'll funded. But they are also unpopular. Our numbers can beat their money

submitted 4 days ago • 88 comments

The thing about this guy is that he’s a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal.

submitted 4 days ago • 246 comments

This is the correct response for every university to take with the Trump administration, as the latest demand of a consent decree on Columbia demonstrates. They intend to kill you anyway. Do not cooperate.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

Every reporter that claimed Trump "paused" tariffs failed their readers.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment