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"the president defied a Supreme Court ruling to return a man mistakenly sent to a gulag... and spoke of sending Americans to foreign concentration camps. This is the beginning of an American policy of state terror, and it has to be identified as such to be stopped" snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

submitted 20 hours ago • 559 comments

Emergency video: it’s time to start making plans. Either the house steps up to defend the constitution, or our generation does. adamkinzinger.substack.com/p/emergency-...

submitted 1 day ago • 1176 comments

Pirate: "What be the pirate's favourite programming language?" Landlubber: "...R?" Pirate: "Aye, ye may think it be R, but a pirate's true love be the C" #rstats #sorrynotsorry

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Trump supporter yesterday told me he had no problem sending American citizens who are violent criminals to that El Salvador jail. I started in on the law & the Constitution, but he didn’t care. He just loved the idea of that El Salvador jail. Tho not surprising, the conversation just bummed me out.

submitted 23 hours ago • 161 comments

The right: take over universities, rewrite curriculum, force everyone to study christofascist ideology. The left: STEM STEM STEM (but only the stuff you can apply we actually don’t care about abstract math lol that’s practically poetry)

submitted 23 hours ago • 13 comments

"Remember, you need a lot of time to get through your entire atrocity to-do list. If you tank the economy once and quickly, people’s attention will surely return to your cruelty, no matter how effectively you’ve impoverished them. So take your time and do it right."

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

owning a small business in 2025…

submitted 4 days ago • 210 comments

If the president can spend a quarter of his days in office golfing, corporations can give workers a four-day work week.

submitted 2 days ago • 275 comments

Finally pre-ordered my Pebble Core Time 2. Will receive w/ Batch 2 in January. It'll be a while but I can't wait... 😙

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Has anyone else found that games they used to have no problem playing are now giving them motion sickness? Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life 2 and Carmageddon TDR 2000 have all made me feel super nauseous.

submitted 2 days ago • 5 comments

My cartoon for this week's @newscientist.com

submitted 2 days ago • 69 comments

I've got the final episodes of DS9 on in the background, and I hate how much I see the US in Cardassia. The arrogance, the militarism, the exceptionalism, the treachery, Gul Dukat leading his people down a path of destruction while they celebrate their return to strength and greatness.

submitted 4 days ago • 10 comments

I haven’t taught in a couple years but I second this. Intro comp courses were a struggle for many—having to really start from scratch in many cases to ground learning in reading/study skills More and more students asked for basic grammar/reading lessons in evals as the years went on

submitted 4 days ago • 2 comments

Has anyone done a cost benefit analysis of investing versus paying off a mortgage in the current Trump regime?

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Ambassador Spock modeling the proper “fuck you, make me” response to intimidation tactics. Our current-day institutions could learn a lot from him.

submitted 5 days ago • 374 comments

Want to read something about the stock market that won’t make you nervous about your 401(k)? I got you covered: tedium.co/2025/04/10/s...

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Look, I’ve been in higher ed for close to 30 years. One thing I’ve learned is that thinking your sacrifice will be rewarded is a losing game. If you don’t stick up for yourself, your colleagues, your students, your department, your college, and your mission, you will be strangled to death.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

The Society for Historians of the Early American Republic is asking the public to help them track changes the Trump Admin is making to history-- in national parks, websites, wherever. Please share-- and please contribute! thepanorama.shear.org/2025/04/09/t...

submitted 5 days ago • 6 comments

Ok sorry but getting on my soapbox to say that this isn’t a u-turn or a 180 or even a pause on tariffs. The MASSIVE tariffs are gone but BIG tariffs are still in place. And more so than before last week. Frame it right.

submitted 5 days ago • 26 comments

why is every newspaper/programme running with the headline "tariffs are paused" when they haven't been. What's happened is that every country (except China) gets a flat rate of 10% for 90 days.

submitted 6 days ago • 523 comments

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

submitted 6 days ago • 394 comments

My friend, who knows about economics, warns that those in charge have no idea what they are doing. My friend, who knows about history, warns that those in charge know exactly what they are doing. Oh, my friends, I am not sure which of these assessments is more frightening.

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

You have to work pretty hard to be this profoundly wrong about everything

submitted 6 days ago • 74 comments

Friends, my very good friend, @mikesacks.bsky.social, is running for Congress in the NY-17th (Putnam Valley area). I vouch for him personally, and while we hardly agree on everything, he is a true believer Supreme Court reformer. And his opening ad is fire. :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=20U5...

submitted 6 days ago • 55 comments

Not enough Americans, even academics, understand this distinction.

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote about this a bit in my last book but it really shakes me that a defining feature of this catastrophic era is that we just keep going to work. We work through pandemics, we work through natural disasters, we work through economic calamity, we work through coups, we work, we work, we work.

submitted 6 days ago • 380 comments

Also, if your institution is laying low or trying to comply in advance ... they're still coming for you. Get your defenses ready and coordinate with other institutions.

submitted 7 days ago • 27 comments

As the author of a history of concentration camps, I would like to emphasize that this is a very bad idea, and we should definitely not do it.

submitted 7 days ago • 396 comments

“History repeats itself, first as a tragedy, second as a farce.” — Karl Marx

submitted 7 days ago • 284 comments

So the tariff fun really gets going in 7-1/2 hours. Let's sell some of my books about tyranny. Why now? No reason at all, of course.

submitted 7 days ago • 8 comments

Been listening to It could Happen Here with @iwriteok.bsky.social and I just realized I worked with James Stout for years... Apparently I'm not good with voices.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Rand Paul: "The whole [tariffs] debate is so fundamentally backwards & upside down. It's based on a fallacy & the fallacy is this: that somehow in a trade, someone must lose. That somehow when you trade with someone, someone is taking advantage of you... I have a trade deficit with my grocery store"

submitted 7 days ago • 1851 comments

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

submitted 8 days ago • 263 comments

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

submitted 8 days ago • 530 comments

'How do you want to see your city?' This short animation film shows how our choices have a big impact on the city we live in. And what it could look like if we make different choices. A production by @gemeentedenhaag.bsky.social and Den Haag Duurzaam.

submitted 8 days ago • 8 comments