I WONDER WHAT THE COMMON DENOMINATOR IS. SURELY WE MUST GET TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS TO PRESERVE THE LEGACY OF HIGHER ED.

Keyah 🦬@sapphic-film-nerd.bsky.social · 20h ago

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The Dems' desire to bring back the America of Camelot is the flipside of MAGA's desire to bring back the America of 50s sitcoms. Either way it's retrograde and out of touch with the America of the 2020s.

Opinion | He’s Young and Thoughtful, With Kennedyesque Good Looks. Can He Break the Republican Grip on His State?

Just shy of 44 with boyish good looks, Rob Sand is very much a moderate, but he has a withering critique of the political establishment in this country.

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I wrote about MAHA: How it’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right, how it channels vague grievances into a radical project – and why we must stop it. The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation:

The Assault on Public Health and the Self-Sabotage of a Nation

MAHA channels vague grievances into a radical project. It’s a form of extremism that stands in a long tradition of paranoid conspiracism on the Far Right. We must stop it

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If you are an estrogen dominant person you need to know if you coach, trainer, physical therapist or other athletic professional supports trans women. Even if you are a cis woman and not just because we don’t give money to bigots….

Immediately after Jan 6, Trump’s approval ratings tanked to the lowest point of his first term (to roughly where they are right now, in fact). It was only as time went on, and elite institutions signaled that maybe it hadn’t been such a big deal, that people stopped caring as immediately

Scott Lemieux@lemieuxlgm.bsky.social · yesterday

As silly as the whole "the right has no cultural influence" argument is, the whole edifice is indeed a depressing look into the mind of a typical American swing voter

the idea of relocating Paramount to like Starbase Texas or whatever is so fucking funny. go ahead man i gotta see this

ToonHive@toonhive.bsky.social · 5d ago

Paramount CEO David Ellison is threatening to pull the company out of California starting October 1. Paramount will stay if AG Rob Bonta agrees to settlement talks over the lawsuit seeking to block the Warner Bros. Discovery merger.

ICE agents give contradictory orders on purpose. “You f*cking move I’ll f*cking tase you! Get out of the f*cking car!” It’s a no win situation. The person being violently accosted in this video is a disabled veteran. Imagine if the agents had been wearing shock gloves? Abolish & prosecute ICE

The Dallas Express, which purports to be an independent nonpartisan local news source, currently lists only one reporter on its staff page. That reporter is the chairman of a Tarrant County GOP committee. The publisher and primary financial backer is a GOP mega donor.

this is both extremely disgusting and such a hail mary that it's making me laugh. there's no way this show makes back even a fraction of its insane budget

Omi Rhodes@omiswatching.bsky.social · yesterday

Warner Bros is reaching new levels of desperation to hype up the new wizard boy show. They’re actively seeking out trans influencers to do promo and there is no hell hot enough for these traitors.

According to the summit website, Mark Kelly is at this. jfc

Robert Downen@robertdownen.bsky.social · yesterday

Happening now at a “Democracy Summit 2026”: A debate between live streamer Destiny and Alex Stein, the internet troll most famous for calling AOC a “big booty Latina” who recently was pretending to be a poop-eating Indian at a Frisco city council meeting

"Ultimately, the gadflies don’t seem to actually understand how being a transgender athlete works. The idea that cisgender men like Enes and Royce would voluntarily undergo chemical castration to try to join the WNBA and make a minuscule rookie salary is farcical on its face."

Transgender athletes are a red herring

It's a non-problem meant to exclude people from public life.

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BREAKING: In a Truth social post, Trump posts language as his own that comes from an April DOJ brief that sounded like a Truth social post. The Friday night post came as SG Sauer is asking SCOTUS to let Trump build his ballroom now. Law Dork: www.lawdork.com/p/trump-trut...

One of the reasons I'm feeling so tetchy about some of the claims being made in the Tillie Walden / Rachel Cleves account is that the notion that the first person who compiles the information owns it is not something I'm willing to accede to for multiple reasons.

Yo, before you tag a rescuer about some cats you see outside, please watch this. And if you are going to tag a rescuer - tell us where the cats are! That’s how the project gets to the right person - www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8WFyaWM/

i love when they recover some 3000 year old clay tablet and its something totally relatable like “i hope this tablet finds you well but the group project is a disaster…”

Museum of Twitter@museum-of-twitter.bsky.social · 2d ago

> Cofnas’s plan is not to engage in rational dialogue with those who hold different views, but rather to drive them out of universities. Among other things, by curtailing their civil rights. reminder since this is getting longer, whole text here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/t47r5... 14/

In the wake of Arday's death, Nathan Cofnas (who led the X mob against him) states his motivation. Beyond whistleblowing, he states that after a 'revolution' removes professors like Arday, it will open opportunities for him to become 'head of the department of eugenics and race science at Harvard'.

Again, there is no way to make these people happy. The goal is not to enshrine “biological sex” into law, it’s to kill queer people.

Julie Rei Goldstein@julierei.bsky.social · 2d ago

“We can always tell.”

The older I get, the more clear it is that all our safety and well-being is intertwined. The same forces pushing racism are targeting trans people and immiserating the disabled and extracting everything they can from all of us. We gotta stand up for everyone because everyone is all of us.

arday was being used by these institutions as a symbol of their own goodness, and then he was used in turn by right-wing opportunists who wanted to smear them. he wasn't entirely a victim, of course, but he also wasn't the only one being dishonest.

Have you wondered why Donald Trump keeps calling his disastrous war on Iran an "excursion"? …According to close sources, it's because Trump is confusing the term “military incursion” with a "military excursion." @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social report:

The Dumb Reason Trump Keeps Calling His Iran War a ‘Little Excursion’

Describing his war as an ‘excursion’ is the latest way Trump is screwing things up, not worrying about the details, and refusing to correct course.

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A bunch of cops cheering at a political rally — in uniform — as the president and AG endorse a candidate and attack their political opponents is not normal. And it is not okay.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Newly confirmed Attorney General Todd Blanche is speaking at a Trump rally to endorse Bruce Blakeman

The amount of time I spend tearing down fliers in the subway about the sky being fake is fucking infuriating

One of the great shocks for Irish people is how White the top UK [Russell Gp] unis are, compared to Ireland. The relentless bullying of this academic & the failure of Cambridge to support him is a new low. He was absolved of the charges yet even here they are cited*

Jason Arday, who resigned from Cambridge University amid plagiarism claims, found dead

The Met Police said a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive at an address in south London today.

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An air traffic controller averted disaster when he noticed two jets were flying with the same flight number — and headed straight for each other

2 Planes With The Same Flight Number Avoid Possible Disaster Thanks To Quick-Thinking Controller

Potential disaster was averted when a Phoenix air traffic controller recognized two American Airlines jets mistakenly were flying the same flight number.

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Tonight's obvious vagueskeet: The worst harm social media has done us is the chance it gives too many people to feel it's okay to be *amazingly* cruel to others (dead or alive) if enough others agree with you... and if no one can be right there to respond to your cruelty by punching you in the face.

In light of some absolutely terrible news, I just want to say I’ve met two types of liars in my life - those trying to survive and those trying to destroy. And maybe everyone - including the media and social media - should do a better job differentiating the two.

Having the wrong hair texture for ballet class really is an anxiety that never goes away

So much discourse is trying to parse some hidden (and more rational) meaning when these are people who very openly say what they mean. In part because it feels unsophisticated for professional take-havers to just say, for example, "Elon Musk is a white supremacist." But it is actually that simple.

Alan Elrod@aselrod.bsky.social · 3d ago

Really glad @polphilpod.bsky.social is making this argument at length at @liberalcurrents.com The fascists really do believe what they say. That’s part of what makes them so dangerous. www.liberalcurrents.com/fascists-rea...

Stole this from the comments because this shit shouldn't be behind a paywall.

Jeremy White@jeremywired.bsky.social · 3d ago

POWER TRIP: ICE’s new electric shock gloves are designed to overpower subjects through intense pain. But it turns out there is a simple way to stop them working. Read the full story on @wired.com www.wired.com/story/the-pa...