Update: The Professor was fired, the Dean and Department Chair who (rightfully) defended her were removed from their positions, and every course at the University is now being subjected to a state audit. archive.ph/2025.09.10-0...
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Briallen Hopper
@briallenhopper.bsky.social
Author of HARD TO LOVE (Bloomsbury) and GILEAD REREAD (Columbia UP, forthcoming). Teaching at Queens College CUNY. Repped by Rob McQuilkin at MMQ&A.
In an interview at @nytimes.com headquarters, Curtis Sliwa, the GOP nominee and one of the candidates facing pressure to exit the race, refused to entertain the idea. “No, no, no. A thousand times no,” Sliwa said. “I can’t be bought. I can’t be leased. I can’t be rented. I am not corruptible.”
Curtis Sliwa Vows to Stay in Mayor’s Race, Despite Push to Clear Field
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Mamdani was the only candidate who was viewed positively by a majority of voters, with 52% saying they have a “very favorable” or “somewhat favorable” impression of him. Only 36% used those terms about Cuomo. 56% said Mamdani “cares about people like me,” 8 points more than said it about Cuomo.
Times-Siena Poll Shows Where Mamdani’s Strong Support Lies
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Adams and Cuomo have relentlessly criticized Mamdani’s stance on Israel, calling him an antisemite and terrorist sympathizer. The poll’s findings underscore just how much Adams and Cuomo may have misread the electorate by expending energy to attack Mamdani’s views on Israel.
Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop
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If you can't criticize Susan Collins, how are you a competent candidate to run against her? www.pressherald.com/2025/09/08/g...
Gov. Mills, weighing Senate run, declines to criticize Susan Collins
Mills fielded questions during public events in Kennebec County that could easily have been mistaken for a campaign swing.
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“Because the court is not explaining its shadow docket rulings, judges lack any meaningful guidance about what to do in future cases, Georgia State University law professor Anthony Michael Kreis said.” www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
Judges vexed by Supreme Court 'shadow docket' rulings in Trump cases
An extraordinary spat is occurring within the U.S. judiciary concerning a flurry of Supreme Court decisions.
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Two green card holders and a US citizen. Not that it matters, constitutionally! But it’s interesting that Kavanaugh thinks this is a no-big-deal thing for people to experience in the course of a day
Christopher Webb@cwebbonline.com · 11mo agoOne day after the Supreme Court lifted the ban on racial profiling, federal agents swarmed a car in Van Nuys. Four masked agents with guns drawn yanked people out, slammed them to the ground, and pointed a weapon at a pregnant woman. There is no justification for this. None.
Texas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.
Houston Chronicle@houstonchronicle.com · 11mo agoTexas A&M University System orders audit of all courses after gender identity lesson goes viral Details: bit.ly/42jauQZ
Again, at worst, the appropriate response to course content not aligning with course descriptions at any university is to lodge a complaint with the relevant curriculum committees and get them to change the course descriptions, rather than to fire a professor, her boss, & her boss' boss.
Mike Boylan-Kolchin@mbkplus.bsky.social · 11mo agoUpdate on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
"Infidels MC was set up by US military veterans of the Iraq war in 2006 and members see themselves as modern Crusaders, using the Crusader cross as their symbol - a reference to the medieval Christians who fought Muslims for control of Jerusalem." www.bbc.com/news/article...
Anti-Islamic US biker gang members run security at deadly Gaza aid sites
BBC identifies members of Infidels MC gang hired as armed security at US and Israel-backed aid sites.
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Social media posts about the military mission in D.C. summarized on Friday were assessed to be 53 percent negative, 45 percent neutral and 2 percent positive, the documents say.
Nick Turse@nickturse.bsky.social · 11mo agoThe National Guard has assessed that its Washington, D.C. mission is perceived as “leveraging fear,” driving a “wedge between citizens and the military,” and promoting a sense of “shame” among some troops and veterans. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...
Here is a word cloud of the words that were missing from the noncompetitive renewal awards but had been present in the parent award. 3/4
There’s a gift link to the article below
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 11mo agoNew ad drops for Trump’s tourism campaign.
Well, look at this: Mamdani represents the views of a plurality of New Yorkers. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/10/n...
Gaza War Turns New Yorkers Against Israel, With Mayor’s Race as Backdrop
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"“It’s hard for me to understand why he [did that] and it also doesn’t really interest me,” Raab says in a video interview posted on X. “I mean, what was so important about that corpse?”"
Wesley Morgan@wesleymorgan.bsky.social · 11mo agoIDF sniper from Chicago who says he killed Gazan teenager just for trying to retrieve his brother's corpse: “They’re thinking, ‘Oh I don’t think [I’ll get shot] because I’m wearing civilian clothes and I am not carrying a weapon' and all that, but they were wrong. That’s what you have snipers for.”
This video should be required watching for every professor in the US
Francis Wilkinson @franciswilkinson.bsky.social · 11mo ago“According to our president, there’s only two genders.”
He might be able to corral another one quarter of one percent with Jeffries and Schumer endorsements.
Victor Asal @victorasal.bsky.social · 11mo agoMamdani Holds Huge Lead in Mayor’s Race, Times/Siena Poll Finds www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/n...
Not surprisingly, the A&M student paper gives more useful context
Nayab Warach@nayabw.com · 11mo agoTonight at #TAMU: The Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and English department head have been removed from administrative duties in response to a viral video showing lecturer and student arguing over gender studies. thebatt.com/news/dean-of...
“Young people who took to the streets to protest corruption and poor job prospects could face decades in maximum-security prison under a set of laws set up to combat al Qaeda” www.wsj.com/world/africa...
Kenya Uses U.S.-Funded Antiterrorism Courts for Political Crackdown
Young people who took to the streets to protest corruption and poor job prospects could face decades in maximum-security prison under a set of laws set up to combat al Qaeda.
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The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...
Oh no not this, I am going to have to take off my Bill Clinton Hat and return all of my Bill Clinton Coin and stop reading my Bill Clinton Bible
Philip Bump@pbump.com · 11mo agololllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll
Just brilliant negotiating strategy to give up leverage in exchange for a thing Republicans in swing areas already wanted
David Dayen@ddayen.bsky.social · 11mo agoDemocrats seem to have made their decision: they want a (probably short-term) extension of ACA subsidies in exchange for passing a budget bill. In other words, they want something Republicans need in exchange for something Republicans want. From me: