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Buying Hooters to turn it into the world's first pay-what-you-can food pantry with virulently sexual undertones.

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Just now picking up my daughter’s Claudia’s Corgi, Gracie, from her spaying procedure from Friendship Animal Hospital in northwest DC. It turns out they are doing something amazing for people victimized by the insane government purges 👉

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CNN: Do you think that calling Elon Musk "a dick" is effective messaging? Rep. Robert Garcia: "Well, he is a dick." I approve this message. 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

submitted 10 days ago • 558 comments

my general take on nicknames for musk or trump: we don't live in a 60s mad magazine and anything you come up with is almost certainly cringe and the only question is whether you recognize that or not. I will tell you this: the trick to growing older gracefully is to not become a facebook grandparent

submitted 11 days ago • 38 comments

meanwhile, in the provost's office:

submitted 12 days ago • 4 comments

This is a great piece.

submitted 12 days ago • 281 comments

Whenever you hear someone sneer about scientific research that seems useless to them — “they’re studying the spit of lizards?!” — remind them that’s exactly how we got Ozempic. globalnews.ca/news/9793403...

submitted 13 days ago • 530 comments

This is why they're attacking science and education: if you can only win with disinformation, data become a threat.

submitted 14 days ago • 195 comments

Under fascism, no one is safe. Universities stayed quiet as the admin targeted DEI & foreign aid, censored research, etc. Now, they face devastating cuts to indirect cost rates, threatening research & operations. Silence won’t protect institutions. It won’t protect people; it never does.

submitted 15 days ago • 358 comments

I don’t have to fend off the desire to comply in advance. Anyone who knows me knows that, fortunately or unfortunately, I would rather die than let someone I don’t respect tell me what to do.

submitted 15 days ago • 82 comments

I'm struck by the near-total failure of leadership across civil society, in a country that fetishizes the concept. Whole sections of leadership books at every bookstore. Named, endowed "leadership" institutes and curricula across higher ed. Awards and special recognition for "leaders." AND YET

submitted 22 days ago • 186 comments

Girding myself for four years of “call your representative and tell them not to just sit there, staring blankly into orange headlights, as the country is dismantled from within”.

submitted 23 days ago • 55 comments

The fact that this exists around us but we got stuck on this stupid planet with a bunch of man babies trying to work out their grievances is just so annoying.

submitted 23 days ago • 113 comments

It is simply not enough for universities to say, “Our grants & research offices are looking into how research will be affected by the latest directive.” University leaders must actively and very publicly make the case for the kind of work many of us do. The silence on this front is deafening.

submitted 23 days ago • 4 comments

Happy 5th "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" anniversary! #Geology ⚒️

submitted 27 days ago • 69 comments

I'm not teaching my grad course 'Civil Resistance: How It Works' this semester. But here is an abridged version of the course schedule, readings, and films I used the last time I taught it (in 2022). Just in case it's useful. drive.google.com/file/d/14RRJ...

submitted 28 days ago • 902 comments

The speed with which companies are abandoning DEI is a clue about how shallow their commitment to it ever was.

submitted 29 days ago • 60 comments

What actual "war" has the US "won" in the last 3 generations? I'll wait.

submitted 28 days ago • 225 comments

For @slate.bsky.social I wrote about why I'm suddenly scared to read the news (even though writing it used to be my full-time job). But this piece is also about how we might reevaluate for the better our relationship to news — and to the act of living — under Trump 2.0 slate.com/life/2025/01...

submitted 29 days ago • 6 comments

seems fine

submitted 29 days ago • 330 comments

@teenvogue.bsky.social please consider “verifying” the bluesky way. bsky.social/about/blog/4...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

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I’m just going to say that AOC is the acting leader of the Democratic Party until someone proves otherwise. At least insofar as she is responding to the moment with leadership.

submitted 33 days ago • 623 comments

What are you going to do? Save your money? For the Future?! store.theonion.com/p...

submitted 34 days ago • 15 comments

I didn’t really post on tik tok, but I learned a lot from folks about my neurodivergence, perimenopause, parenting, mental health healing, rebuilding my self worth from how damaging the patriarchy is, anti racism, about the issues trans people face, etc. It gave voice to those people and topics …

submitted 35 days ago • 1 comment