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And also, the protests clearly excite the MAGAites, like resister porn.

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I have to think that one factor is that mass protest has literally never worked in living memory. The Iraq War, Occupy, the Women's March, the George Floyd protests -- even "nice" US leaders take protests as a signal to do the opposite, much less Trump.

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Trump: Zelenksy is a dictator, war-mongerer, and idiot. Zelensky: I am not. Media: They are aggressively fighting each other, equally, on both sides.

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The Trojans won, the Christian Crusader states thrive, it has ever been Constantinople, the North lost, and Vietnam started it.

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Last spring I was asked to write a piece with tips on how to suss out AI-generated images. I countered that that premise weakens democracy by promoting the idea that everyone can claim expertise regardless of their credentials, a key tenet of anti-democratic technoutopianism. What strikes me now…1/n

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"[For the Right], D.E.I...is the mere presence of a woman or nonwhite person or disabled or transgender person in any high-skilled, high-status position. And their alternative isn’t some heretofore unknown standard of merit; it is the reintroduction of something like segregation." (gift link)

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Calling for colloquium proposals for SAC 49 (2027)!

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We've landed on BlueSky! (A Chaucer finger puppet "stands" before the front cover of SAC)

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Trump ventriloquizing Musk's views ever more explicitly.

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So many versions of It's your fault we voted for Trump, You made us do it going around. Such childish bullshit.

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Donald Trump’s new State Department appointee.

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➡️ January 20: FAA director fired ➡️ January 21: Air Traffic Controller hiring frozen ➡️ January 22: Aviation Safety Advisory Committee disbanded ➡️ January 28: Buyout/retirement demand sent to existing employees ➡️ January 29: First American mid-air collision in 16 years Making America Great Again!

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I wrote for The Contrarian about my decision to leave the New York Times contrarian.substack.com/p/departing-...

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Now ys not the tyme for California to reduce the budgets of the CSU and UC: two systemes of public higher ed that have been and kan be a beacon to the worlde for excellent and accessible research, teachinge, and learninge edsource.org/2025/uc-csu-...

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This sample came with my Penzey's order. Note the instruction to "season liberally."

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White supremacist, violent sexist, and alcoholic who's mismanaged every company he's touched. Yes, please.

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Not a popular opinion maybe, but it seems like the firefighters are doing pretty well.

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Please stop with all the Greenland and Panama panic. This is what Trump does. He throws out these insane non-proposals so they'll take all the media attention and his actual policies will be left uninspected. Did we not learn this from President Let's Drink Bleach?

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From @deadder.bsky.social in support of @anntelnaes.bsky.social 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

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Because the internets are struggling with the name of the New Orleans killer, Shams (sun) al-Din (of religion/faith) Formally, Shams has a case ending, u, so: Shamsu al-Din But the u overpowers the a in "al" so: Shamsu-l-Din And the "l" in "al" assimilates to the "D" in "Din": Shamsu-d-Din

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At least for the moment national publications are radically understating the contents of Matthew Livelsberger's political minifestos which call for a violent, militia-backed "culling" of Dems from and national rebirth of masculinity under the rule of Trump ... talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/why-a...

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This is, or should be, a big deal -- Ann Telnaes, an absolute legend, quitting WaPo due to censorship of a cartoon criticizing billionaires anntelnaes.substack.com/p/why-im-qui...

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Sending love out to every author who learned that their publisher’s marketing plan for their new book was to have an intern visit a remote woodland in winter, dig a hole in the frozen earth, and whisper their book’s title once, ‘neath the crescent moon.

submitted 55 days ago • 138 comments

Someone just referred to the Gaetz report as the Pedo Files, and now I’m dead.

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NYU Admin is completely out of control, arresting faculty and community members for peacefully protesting for disclosure and divestment, declaring some of those faculty "persona non grata." Just wild.

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Policies from Notre Dame when it was young.

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Can this cropped top trend please end?

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The earth's axis tilts 23 degrees, and so medieval philosophers, when they placed an upright earth in the middle of cosmos, made everything else tilt 23 degrees, and that is my favorite illustration of human self-importance.

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What anyone who works at a university already knows, but for a nice, short, well-written assessment of their non-woke mission: epaper.bostonglobe.com/infinity/art...

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Perhaps 2024 will be the year when Bluesky lets us have videos.

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@shaneduarte.bsky.social got an NEH!!!

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One more of Mammoth, with photogenic tracks.

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Mammoth Lakes, CA. Stopped panting long enough to take this--the final climb was brutal, and worth it.

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Romeo and Juliet.

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ND just banned all electric vehicles on campus, anywhere, and the students are 😡

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