Next up: they'll confirm Area 51 really does have aliens 🛸

Rex Huppke@rexhuppke.bsky.social · last yr.

The White House is just gonna release the files on every conspiracy theory ever cooked up to run cover for the Epstein scandal. "QUICK, WHAT DO WE HAVE ON BIG FOOT? PUT OUT LITERALLY ANYTHING ON AREA 51. AND SOMEBODY GET ME THE FILES ON CHEMTRAILS, STAT!!!"

I'm not loving a country that pays its adults half as much to teach children to spell as it does to kidnap them.

Here is your reason to stop doom scrolling for a moment: Clio's eyes 💙💙

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

WGA standing up for writers 💪✍️📑

Writers Guild of America West@wgawest.bsky.social · last yr.

WGA statement on Paramount’s decision to cancel the Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

Very excited to share the beta test, soft launch of SEL's new graduate student partner publication, Marginalia! Check it out for book reviews, interviews, and essays about what studying literature writ large means and the countless forms it takes ✍️📝📑✍️

SEL Studies in English Literature 1500–1900@sel1500to1900.bsky.social · last yr.

Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 presents our new partner publication Marginalia! Our aim is to craft public-facing, somewhat informal meditations on the work of studying literature writ large. 📖 Book Reviews 🎙️ Interviews 📜 Archive Meditations 📝 Critical Essays and Op-eds Link in bio!

superman was so very good but i’m still wondering what CMS gunn had the Daily Planet publishing from

This is not a budget bill, it is a debt and deportation bill—and one built on the fascist foundation laid by the Heritage Foundation’s now-notorious Project 2025. https://trib.al/1biZ06X

The Republican Plot to Un-Educate America

Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is an extinction-level event for higher education that would annihilate the country’s intellectual potential.

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What, exactly, are we celebrating tomorrow? Our cutting off healthcare to the needy to enrich the greedy? Our new concentration camps? Our dying economy? Our ditching due process? Our corruption? Our broken legislature? Our corrupt SCOTUS? Our ridiculous buffoon president? #FourthOfJuly

“From The Depths,” William Balfour Ker

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John Pavlovitz@johnpavlovitz.bsky.social · last yr.

Our current President is a traitorous, convicted felon, and a court-adjudicated rapist who lacks the intelligence, character, decency, and cognitive ability to lead. His presence is doing us irreparable harm. We should not normalize him, but normalize stating the truth about him.

Congress, Now More Than Ever, We Need Your Cowardice

HUGE NEWS. A cure for HIV is much closer 🙌🏼

The Guardian@theguardian.com · last yr.

Breakthrough in search for HIV cure leaves researchers ‘overwhelmed’

😂 #austenshade

Dr Andrew McInnes@drbeard79.bsky.social · last yr.

Other people when they read Persuasion: ‘elegiac’, ‘mature’, ‘superlative’ Me: wow Austen really hated this dead sailor she made up

We are moving the cat tower out. They have staged a sit in. #weprotest #hellnowewontgo

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The Lincoln Project@lincolnproject.us · last yr.

Reminder: the Taylor Swift and Bruce Springsteen posts are just to distract from the Qatari "gift" or the fact that he's trying to rip Medicare and Medicaid from millions of Americans right now.

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

Two British academics discovered that a "copy" of Magna Carta, held in Harvard Law School’s library for 80 years, is one of seven originals dating from 1300. Read more: nyti.ms/4dkc3ma

Yep. What methods are folks developing to respond to students when they push back like this?

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last yr.

The weaponization of therapy speak and accommodation is really going to tank the whole endeavor

It's not enough for this administration to defy the Constitution. Now they're willing to ignore the Magna Carta 😐

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last yr.

Klobuchar on Stephen Miller saying the administration is considering suspending habeas corpus: "He's doing it because they don't want to focus on what's really in front of them, and that they have created havoc in our economy ... no, they're not gonna reverse habeas corpus in the Congress."

What a shock, said no one ever 😒

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · last yr.

🇺🇸 “Rolling Stone reached out to all 53 GOP senators after the president said he didn't know whether he needs to honor the nation's founding document. None replied.” www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

A pope joke I can appreciate as an editor 😏

Say goodbye to Sesame Street, PBS News Hour, Masterpiece Theater 😒

NPR@npr.org · last yr.

In an executive order, President Trump directs the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to stop funding NPR and PBS, the nation's primary public broadcasters.

Separation 👏 of 👏 church 👏 and 👏 state 😡

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · last yr.

“This is taxpayer-funded, state-sponsored religious indoctrination. You’ve just got to call it what it is.”

Robert DeNiro, always a mensch.

CNN@cnn.com · last yr.

Robert De Niro is expressing his love and support for his daughter Airyn De Niro, after she recently shared publicly for the first time that she is transgender. cnn.it/3EY1msu

Booker: Do you think we got the right to vote for women because a bunch of men on the House floor got together and said “on the count of three, women get the right to vote..” That’s not how it happened… Change doesn’t come from Washington. It comes to Washington.