Historian here this dude posed with a Confederate flag on July 4th and recited the Declaration of Independence. Someone send him Alexander Stephens Cornerstone speech to recite next time. And oh yeah Alaskans send @marypeltola.com to the Senate! www.ms.now/news/dan-sul...

GOP senator recites Declaration of Independence — next to a Confederate flag

As he stood a few feet from a Confederate flag, Sen. Dan Sullivan noted that everyone is guaranteed the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Ms Brown is entirely right here Every word of this 👇🏻❤️👇🏻

MY MAN. Knicks fans are allowed to hate him for obvious reasons but he is our French Woke Alien and I love this dude. Doesn't give a fuck about upsetting the league. Spoke out on ICE and the murders in Minnesota when he wasn't 'supposed' to.

Mike Finger@mikefinger.bsky.social · 21h ago

Just asked Victor Wembanyama if he’d ever consider promoting a sports betting company. “Absolutely not. I will never do that. Honestly, I think it's very sad to see some players promote it. .. Everybody does whatever they want, but without me.”

Historian here this dude posed with a Confederate flag on July 4th and recited the Declaration of Independence. Someone send him Alexander Stephens Cornerstone speech to recite next time. And oh yeah Alaskans send @marypeltola.com to the Senate! www.ms.now/news/dan-sul...

GOP senator recites Declaration of Independence — next to a Confederate flag

As he stood a few feet from a Confederate flag, Sen. Dan Sullivan noted that everyone is guaranteed the right to “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

Latest WSJ poll: "63% want to pause AI development 61% want a billionaire wealth tax 59% want Medicare for All 57% want a $20 minimum wage 58% want to end U.S. military aid to Israel" This is the center of the country politically. it is time all adjust to this political spectrum, esp. media.

“I know it’s against the law, but I just think that non-white voters should have to guess how many bubbles are in a bar of soap.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

MN GOP House candidate William Beck: "I am personally in favor of a poll test. I know they were ruled unconstitutional, but like, everyone voting, if you have no idea what you're voting for, like, why vote? Like, you clearly don't care if you don't understand what's going on, you know what I mean?"

CA passed a law Tues banning local, state and federal law enforcement officers from using shock gloves.The ban will take effect in 2027 and remain in place until 2030. “Trump has put his political interests above American families.” -Gov Newsom. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

California bans officers’ use of electric-shock gloves after ICE reveals plan to equip agents

State passes law banning local, state and federal officers from using gloves that deliver painful electric shocks

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Greetings from Redlands California where I am looking forward to this 250th symposium today sponsored by the Watchorn Lincoln Memorial Association. For some reason they added my brothers middle name to my name! And the NYT published my highly edited letter today! www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/o...

Circus Performers, by Walt Kuhn, 1978, 📸 via @marisakabas.bsky.social

"'If you can’t be nice to girls, you aren’t really a nice person.' And I was like, 'Yeah, that’s exactly it, isn’t it?” And he was like, “It’s so obvious.' And I didn’t have the heart to tell him that apparently it isn’t."

Raising a boy in Trump's America | Men Yell at Me

On Monday, I was reading about the alleged 2024 rape of a Cornell student. Several fraternity brothers allegedly drugged and raped her when

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Something remarkable is happening: James Talarico is running an expansively pro-immigrant campaign in Texas, a state Trump won by 14 points, speaking in Biblical terms about our duty to "the stranger." And it's resonating. That's seismic. 1/ (new piece) newrepublic.com/article/2160...

In Texas, Something Seismic Is Happening—and It’s All Trump’s Fault

Thanks to the economy and ICE, Trump has lost Texas Latinos. And James Talarico is developing a humane pro-immigrant message that’s resonating—even in this ultra-Trumpy state.

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Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance...

It was just a little misunderstanding that led Schmitt to baselessly accuse Smith of perjuring himself

Just a reminder that this is the same Sen. Schmitt who repeatedly claimed that Chief Judge Boasberg was receiving a disproportionate share of Trump-related cases because he confused the D.C. Superior Court (which has 62 judges) with the D.C. district court (which has 15).

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

🤡 Schmitt beclowns himself 🤡 Schmitt concocted an elaborate conspiracy theory that Smith traveled to Atl for a Hawks game and to collude with Fani Willis, & flashed his "evidence" before accusing Smith of perjury. There's just one problem -- his facts were totally wrong. Here's the whole sequence:

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101

“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...

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Before calling someone a “dirtbag,” the Senator should have had his facts straight. An apology is in order. Glad one of us knew the difference between the Atlanta Hawks and the Iowa Hawkeyes!

Academic here, yeah I know it’s September still!

"The Indian Question" now joins "The Jewish Question" as a shorthand for a dream of ethnic cleansing. As with the mass purge of Haitians, Christopher Rufo again seeks to play a central role in this descent into ethnonationalist fascism.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Here’s Chris Rufo and his podcast co-host addressing “the Indian question,” a reference to “the Jewish question.” That question was whether Jews could be incorporated into European society, and the Nazis were the ones who claimed to have developed the “final solution” to that “problem.”

"The sources added that Patel consistently kept Bailey at arm's length and cut him out of meetings the deputy FBI director should attend because Bailey was constantly flagging things that were unconstitutional." www.cbsnews.com/news/top-fbi...

Top FBI official Andrew Bailey, who was once widely seen as Patel successor, resigns

Bailey was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.

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“We’re finally going to finish Reconstruction & do what we should have done after Watergate, Iran-Contra, & January 6”

Kevin M. Kruse@kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4d ago

This is absolutely correct, but I worry that "truth and reconciliation" will sound too foreign to Americans who have long been allergic to truth and/or reconciliation. I'd just say "we're finally going to hold people who broke the law and violated the Constitution accountable for their crimes"

Never sell anyone out. In fact, if you're asked about banning 12-year-olds from softball, just say, "You're asking me to sell out kids for my political career. I'm not going to do that. Let's stop demonizing people in tougher circumstances than you or I will ever experience. They have guts."

VoteHub@votehub.com · 5d ago

NEWS — Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear criticizes fellow Democrats who say transgender athletes should be barred from women’s sports. “That is not the party that we are. We start as a party of compassion and empathy.”

We're witnessing the Rapist-to-President and/or Rapist-to-Supreme Court Justice pipeline with this Cornell scandal.

NEW: Tompkins County District Attorney Matthew Van Houten says his office is reopening the investigation into the 2024 gang rape of a student at a Cornell University fraternity abcnews.com/US/district-...

District attorney reopens case of alleged Cornell University 'gang rape'

Prosecutors in central New York say they are reopening the case of alleged gang rape at a Cornell University fraternity.

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I don't believe it! The woman who put Ross Douthat on TV can never be replaced.

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 3d ago

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OMG Guinea Guinea @jeopardyofficial.bsky.social !!

Remember the random dude who got 49020939 articles of uncritical media coverage in the space of two days because he quit anthropic based on his fears of existential AI risk? Yeah..........he's a climate denier. So is the whole AI industry. www.crikey.com.au/2026/09/22/a...

One reason to learn about things outside your major is so that you have something to talk about with people at parties and on dates. No amount of money will make up for you being a crushing bore. History majors learn this early but I guess it takes other people longer.

Indian American here the pile on against Indians after Bo French’s misbegotten tweet is a thing to watch on Twitter!

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 4d ago

Interestingly, Chris Rufo is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a conservative think tank led by Reihan Salam, the son of Muslim immigrants from Bangladesh. manhattan.institute/person/chris...