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It is 100% carrying water for the opposition to participate in this collective delusion that Dems for some reason need to answer for every teen who throws a rock rather than hold the Trump admin accountable for intentionally creating chaos and breaking the law to stoke violence. They are in charge.

submitted 7 days ago • 504 comments

The LA protests will trigger a drumbeat of "law and order" messaging from the White House and their media allies as a prelude to invoking the Insurrection Act. This is entirely predictable, and any Dem or media outlet that facilitates this narrative will be aiding Trump's authoritarian project.

submitted 10 days ago • 88 comments

Remember when this pic of Elián González was a national scandal instead of a daily occurrence?

submitted 14 days ago • 514 comments

The real scandal in 1930s German politics was Kaiser Wilhelm’s cognitive decline

submitted 19 days ago • 65 comments

I know some people who could have written this. And they’ll go to their graves making excuses.

submitted 21 days ago • 0 comments

Now that SCOTUS gave Trump a permission slip to misapply the Enemy Aliens Act, does anyone doubt that he’ll try the Insurrection Act very soon? Does anyone doubt that the justices know the signal they’re sending?

submitted 70 days ago • 0 comments

Judging by the texts I’ve received today, the best thing democrats can imagine doing with Booker’s speech is fundraiser off it. They truly seem to be allergic to any action that meets the moment.

submitted 76 days ago • 0 comments

Peter Thiel ally Curtis Yarvin recently accused the Trump administration of failing to understand that “regime change”, requires that “Every existing institution of science” be “fully cremated” & replaced w/ a “new scientific establishment.” Soon after, RFK Jr guts HHS & announces a new division 1/

submitted 77 days ago • 213 comments

This is an utter disgrace. This man has debased our election system to new depths.

submitted 78 days ago • 41 comments

This is the government the right-wing in the US wants to copy.

submitted 78 days ago • 21 comments

I think a lot about this quote from Anaïs Nin’s diary from 1939-1944: “America is in even greater danger because of its cult of toughness, its hatred of sensitivity, and someday it may have to pay a price for this, because atrophy of feeling creates criminals”.

submitted 181 days ago • 230 comments

Elon doing the “straight armed salute”

submitted 80 days ago • 121 comments

Yes.

submitted 82 days ago • 101 comments

It will never be enough. The goal is to break the University, not have them meet demands. Taunting Columbia with the hope of compliance just sweetens the pot with humiliation.

submitted 86 days ago • 146 comments

In some countries this position is known as a Political Officer.

submitted 88 days ago • 156 comments

"On October 8, 1931, a law went into effect requiring every Italian university professor to sign an oath pledging their loyalty to the government of Benito Mussolini. Out of over 1,200 professors in the country, only 12 refused. All of them were immediately fired." www.chronicle.com/article/what...

submitted 88 days ago • 330 comments

I’m not hearing the words “arbitrary & capricious” enough these days. There are laws protecting us against the actions of agencies that are irrational in this way. The funds would come through an agency, like the Education Dept, not from Trump’s pocket. We need Maine to sue and NOT settle.

submitted 87 days ago • 68 comments

so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?

submitted 88 days ago • 36 comments

And it seems to be happening with less of a fight here, in spite of the much larger variety in our decentralized system. Higher ed has sustained itself on grant overhead charges. Now they’re easy prey for the bitter, power-mad extortionists in the White House.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

I’m fascinated by the way politicians and pundits keep saying we’re on the verge of constitutional crisis. Apparently that verge is constantly receding. As far as I’m concerned we’ve been in a crisis since Merrick Garland decided it would be too “divisive” to protect the Constitution.

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

This week feels so much darker. It’s mostly the lawless thuggery of ICE and CPB, but it’s also the feeling that too many in the center left are still counting on institutions that are actually failing.

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

What Vance is doing here is ENORMOUS disinformation. International students at the undergrad level typically pay full tuition, which subsidizes tuition for American students on financial aid by keeping tuition costs lower. At the grad level, domestic students are harder to recruit!

submitted 88 days ago • 90 comments

Remember that this is where his discussions with El Salvador began. The migrant detentions there are the dry run. He wants to ship U.S. prisoners to El Salvador.We cannot sleepwalk through this.

submitted 88 days ago • 1346 comments

I hope Democrats learn from Merrick Garland’s mistakes and the failure of Obama’s “move on” strategy vis-a-vis Bush era war crimes, and understand that all these people ultimately need to go to prison.

submitted 91 days ago • 21 comments

This power grab is unprecedented, unbounded, and unconstitutional.

submitted 93 days ago • 1321 comments

“Schmidt being “violently interrogated” at Logan Airport for hours, and being stripped naked, put in a cold shower by two officials, and being put back onto a chair.” Whatever happened to #abolishICE? It needs to be abolished. This is torture.

submitted 94 days ago • 966 comments

My Lyft driver in Milwaukee was an Obama-Trump-Biden-Trump voter. She hates Trump's misogyny, racism, affinity for Russia, and economic incompetence—all of which she saw coming. But there was no way she could vote for Kamala Harris after her uninspiring performance on The View.

submitted 95 days ago • 73 comments