Abdul El-Sayed’s younger and higher-educated base drove him to victory in Michigan’s Democratic Senate primary, according to an analysis of county results.

How Abdul El-Sayed won in Michigan — and how the results illustrate his challenges ahead

Demographic analysis of the county results show how Abdul El-Sayed pulled off a Senate primary win, as well as weak spots he’ll have to shore up for the general election.

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ordering Domino’s and then blaming ChatGPT when nobody wants it

we must recover the old wisdom

Everything is big in Texas. Including the racism, bigotry & law breaking across Texas’ public universities. And the resistance. The lawsuits are here. First one hit Tech. This one hits A&M. UT just matter of time. @texasaaup.bsky.social @aaup.org

Gautam Hans@gshans.bsky.social · yesterday

Another banger from @aclu.org @aaup.org www.aclutx.org/press-releas...

The Trump admin is back with version 2.0 of its higher ed compact. The reason is simple: The first one failed. Compact 2.0 lacks egregious elements of its predecessor. That’s a victory & affirms that the answer to authoritarianism is organized resistance—not compliance. www.aaup.org/news/new-com...

New Compact Shows Resistance Works, but Fight for Higher Ed Isn’t Over

The Trump administration is back with a second version of its higher education compact. As with its predecessor, the best path forward is for higher education workers to organize and demand that their...

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It's us! #BTHOcensorship #LetUsTeach

Texas A&M sued over teaching limits on race, gender

This is the second Texas university system sued over teaching restrictions in recent weeks.

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Anticipatory obedience will 👏 not👏work👏. Extremists attacking higher education in Texas will not be pacified. ⬇️⬇️ www.texasobserver.org/university-o...

University of Houston Nixed Its Gender and Sexuality Classes. That Won’t Stop Texas’ Crusade Against Higher Ed

College administrators wrongly hope that anticipatory obedience will satisfy a GOP-run Texas Legislature that is increasingly hostile toward education.

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Texas Tech Prof. Deena Varner on the Creighton memoranda and the administrative takeover of higher education. 👏👏⬇️

How to Occupy a University

Project 2025, Texas Tech, and the Administrative Remaking of Higher Education

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If you want to be friends, you have to stop expelling and terrorizing and harming and killing my friends. That's just a rule I have about friends. www.the-reframe.com/if-you-want-...

If You Want To Be Friends, Then Why Aren’t You Friendly?

A look at one of the most alarming and pressing problems of our age: the much-lamented fact that "the left" won't be friends with "the right," over "political views."

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Many say this leaves no path to redemption; I will note that paths to redemption exist, but they are for the offender to walk, not for others to deem it walked on their behalf. And a Nazi isn't walking a path of redemption if they remain in the Nazi party. Nothing stopping them. Path open.

bring back shame www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together?

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d ago

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

"saudi arabia owns EA" is going to be the headline you see basically everywhere for this one but "jared kushner is about to use EA as a vehicle for trump administration bribes" is equally relevant imo

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · yesterday

EA Announces Completion of Acquisition by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners www.ea.com/news/ea-anno...

Don't let anyone gaslight you. Tonight was a HUGE win and represents a seismic shift in Democratic politics.

Abdul El-Sayed has won, NBC News says. And there are other wins for the left in Michigan: —William Lawrence wins his U.S. House primary. —A DSA-backed candidate is leading a Democratic incumbent for state House. —Abbas Alawieh, co-founder of Uncommitted, leads for state Senate.

LOL. Abdul El-Sayed WON the Democratic Primary in Michigan despite being outspent 10-1! Amazing gaslighting here.

Politico@politico.com · 17h ago

Progressives didn’t get the big election night they wanted

I cannot emphasize how much of a non-issue this is. I use the women's. Doctors ask when my last period was. Airport security looks back up at me when I hand them my passport. I have navigated life smoothly as a woman for years, and I am only endangered by the ideological fixations on denying that.

Rose Schmits@roseschmits.bsky.social · 17h ago

Anyway i will just continue using the women’s toilet cause I am a woman and over my dead body will you deny who i am

Something I've noticed happening more and more lately are trade reviews that barely review the book. Publisher's Weekly and Kirkus will have a review that's 90% a description of the plot and characters, then 1 sentence at the end to aid librarians in deciding if it's worth adding to a collection.

BOOM. The AAUP is suing Texas A&M University System over their censorship policy that prohibits faculty from discussing topics & viewpoints related to race, sexual orientation, & gender. www.aclutx.org/app/uploads/... 1

and look - I’ll take a boy who has mildly annoying takes on modernist novels, noise bands, and Leonard Cohen over a boy who cares for no one and nothing but meme stocks and anabolic steroids ANY day

can’t believe our current all-ages literacy crisis is making me a little nostalgic for the pretentious “we publish experimental poetry chapbooks and have strong opinions on Melville and the 1800s fur trade” Literature Boys of my college years in the late 2000s/early 2010s.

The kids are out here getting looks mogged when they could be getting books mogged, is what I’m saying

yes, the Tiresome Literature Boy could be exhausting at parties when he tried book mogging you while looking down his nose at you over his bottle of Vermont craft beer but you could feel reasonably confident he wasn’t going to unhinge his jaw and attempt to devour you in the name of proteinmaxxing

It's made explicitly so that it can be tracked, policed, and censored. No more, no less. Especially because you can already know this about anything your kid is watching. You can google it. It's easy to figure out. I'm serious, watch She-Ra for about six seconds, you'll know what's in it.

Mike Stabile@mikestabile.bsky.social · 2d ago

But I can't stress enough, this is NOT in good faith. "Parents should know if their children are being taught gender ideology, and you can make sure that they do. The government has a profound interest in protecting children from adult content."

Unintentional blissful week away from social media and what the orange man is doing in office…

Like imagine someone defending their doctoral thesis while they *and* the panel are all dying from powerful hot sauces the entire time.

I've never watched Hot Ones because I don't give enough of a fuck about what celebrities think about basically anything, but it *would* be interesting if there were a version where they have on like, academics and researchers and grad students and such.

The Shout Factory YouTube actually does a great thing with this where they have episodes of absolutely heinous stuff like Bonanza or ALF in Italian constantly running live so you get that feeling of turning it on and being like what the fuck am I watching?

Shout! Studios

Shout! Studios, a Radial Entertainment Company, specializes in film and TV distribution, development, and production. The company has evolved with the changing entertainment landscape to excel in all ...

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to take an actual crack at this: requiring effort to access entertainment (set schedules, physical media, rare reruns, limited home access), often meant you proved yourself a fan by dint of the consumption itself, and I think that’s been replaced by toxic fandom to prove your bona fides.

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better

Evergreen for women

NPR@npr.org · 4d ago

For decades, ADHD was viewed as a childhood condition that mostly affected boys. Researchers now know ADHD manifests differently in girls, but many still go undiagnosed until adulthood.