Kevin is not exaggerating, VDARE was not white nationalist in the sense of "well if you get right down to it the modern GOP has always been white nationalist" VDARE was white nationalist in the sense of "yeah those Nazis sure are white nationalist"

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

Gonna go out on a limb here and say racist cranks who write for extremist white nationalist websites like VDARE should not, in fact, be confirmed to top roles in the Department of Justice.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 20h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

A thought I've had is that a struggling rust belt city should go all in on becoming this. "America isn't Amsterdam" is true but in a rich country of 350m people, if you become the ONE city that is Like This, you will attract 100,000 people who love this shit.

Hackney Cyclist@hackneycyclist.bsky.social · 6h ago

The 1,700 capacity bike parking garage at Beursplein, Amsterdam, provides parking for the area's shops & other destinations. Open 24/7 and always staffed, it's free to park here for up to 24 hours. Bike parking isn't allowed on the surrounding streets or squares, creating more space for pedestrians.

We're literally just letting the richest man in the world commit vandalism on an extraplanetary scale.

SpaceX rocket thought to have crashed into the moon in unintentional collision

Four-tonne piece of SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket believed to have hit lunar surface on Wednesday at 5,400 miles an hour

theguardian.com

This plane landed in Myanmar about three hours ago. This is the third ICE flight to Myanmar this year. Burmese deportees in 2025 were immediately sent to a torture facility next to the airport, according to Myanmar Now. Weeks later, not all of them had emerged.

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · yesterday

This likely ICE flight operated by Journey Aviation has taken off and appears to heading for an Asia removal. In May, this aircraft deported people to Myanmar.

Just passed the season’s first spirit Halloween, can’t wait to stop by to buy the most terrifying costume of 2026: bagged salad mix

Even the things like taxes that Americans think aren't about Native people actually were. Why did Britain impose taxes? To pay for the French & Indian War and for future anti-Indigenous garrisons and wars.

Rebecca Nagle@rebeccanagle.bsky.social · yesterday

For generations, Americans have learned that the Revolution was fought over liberty, taxes, and representation. But what if the struggle for Indigenous land was just as central, and what if leaving Native people out of the story changes everything we think we know about the U.S.?

There is no way that betting on wildfires should be legal. www.oregonlive.com/wildfires/20...

As Oregon burns and gamblers bet, lawmakers push back against wildfire betting markets drawing millions

Wyden and Merkley are urging federal regulators to crack down on prediction markets that allow users to wager on how long wildfires will burn and how much damage they will cause

oregonlive.com

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

The largest funeral in Gaza history is being held today as the remains of 112 people from a single clan are laid to rest after being buried in rubble for three years. More than 300 people were killed in the strike by Israel, including 44 children and 37 women. The others were vaporized.

Gaza families bury 112 people recovered nearly three years after Israeli strikes

Remains recovered from beneath the rubble renew grief for families still searching for thousands missing in Gaza

middleeasteye.net

@tressiemcphd.bsky.social: Fight back vs. big tech? Data center revolts are happening across the country getting to the heart of our greatest political problems. AI's not just a product or a scientific si-fi achievement. It's a political theory, gobbling up democracy. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/o...

Opinion | Want to Fight Back Against Big Tech? Start Here.

A.I. is a political theory. And it is gobbling up our democracy.

nytimes.com

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids The lack of data collection will leave harm to the children left unreported. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/depa...

Department of Education will no longer track the bullying of trans & non-binary kids - LGBTQ Nation

The lack of data collection will leave harm to the children left unreported.

lgbtqnation.com

This is how they get you to feel okay about diarrhea lettuce. Reminder that paying a monopoly to eat literal shit is not okay. And yes, this is eugenics.

Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d ago

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

extreme income inequality is bad for a lot of reasons but today the one i'm mad at is people having the wealth and power to force me to live inside their delusions

correcting myself: writer of this piece is trans. she is ex-lds, tho. and i checked to see if she’d signed the nyt contributors’ letter along with the rest of us because she’d written for them in the past and she sure did not. which makes this even more fucked

Them@them.us · 2d ago

The ‘Jeopardy!’ host made it absolutely clear where he stands once again.

Four university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...

Trump Has Released a New ‘Call to Action’ for Universities. 4 College Presidents Helped Draft It.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter Monday imploring colleges to adopt a series of familiar-sounding reforms — this time, in partnership with leaders in the Association of American Univers...

chronicle.com

I know “don’t obey in advance” has become a cliche but it is really appropriate when university leaders are ready to sell out higher ed to appease the Trump administration.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

“The letter, which was reviewed by Bloomberg News, asks schools to publicly pledge to make sweeping changes that include reexamining admissions practices, hiring more conservative faculty, cracking down on student protests, combating grade inflation, reducing foreign donations and lowering tuition.”

Liam Knox@liamknox.bsky.social · 2d ago

Scoop: The Trump administration is sending a letter to college presidents asking them to pledge a series of policy changes by the end of the year. Unlike last year's Compact, this effort was devised with input from higher ed leaders. Free link to my exclusive: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Me on the AAU "The AAU claims to be comprised of America’s leading research unis...But if the member presidents choose the guise of institutional neutrality as a way to gain political cover, they may now be leading higher ed toward greater authoritarianism." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

How Elite Colleges Aided Censorship During the Red Scares

Powerful organizations during the Red Scares crafted a world where “academic freedom” was conditional on political allegiance.

insidehighered.com

Just finished an advance copy of Emily Ruth Capper's Happening Pedagogy: Allan Kaprow’s Experiments in Instruction, which is such a smart, heartening complement to Rachel Sagner Buurma + Laura Heffernan's The Teaching Archive, reminding us that so much impt thinking happens in the CLASSROOM...

Happening Pedagogy

How Allan Kaprow’s happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art historian Emily Ruth Capper argues that Allan Kaprow’s famed invention of the happen...

press.uchicago.edu

First came framing loan caps as protecting students by pressuring universities to keep costs down, with the likely outcome of pushing low-income students out of school. Here’s another policy framed as “helping,” but again premised on exclusion-- protecting students from "low-return” jobs

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

Gonna need public power and universal electricity service to make it through the climate instability era :)

Harvey J. Miller@mobileharv.bsky.social · 3d ago

Cincinnati has developed a Climate Migration Readiness Plan to absorb as many as 525,000 newcomers by 2050. It calls for building much denser housing, expanding public transit and decreasing the city’s reliance on fossil fuels.

The schools that stood up to Trump thug demands—first Wesleyan and Princeton, then Harvard, then many others who were emboldened—have won in court and earned honor in history and support from alums. Columbia showed that appeasement always loses. It's never enough. Don't do it, Yale.

Gregg Gonsalves@gregggonsalves.bsky.social · 3d ago

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

Need to have some frank talk about #Yale President McInnis, General Counsel Alexander Dreier and the trustees. First, they keep saying that they are compelled to enter into a settlement with the #Trump administration. Untrue. 1/

When I interviewed David Milch for The Deadwood Bible, I said that parts of Deadwood felt like a horror movie, and he said the entire series was one, because of this:

Dr. Bucky Isotope, PhD, BOFA@buckyisotope.bsky.social · 4w ago

It appears building an entire country over an ancient Native American burial ground has caught up with us

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

640 homes burned to the ground. Indian Trail rd hit hard. House after house destroyed. 70,000 without power last night. New acronym-PDS Particularly Dangerous Situation -As in Red Flag Alert

Cascadia(PNW)@cascadiarevolting.bsky.social · 3d ago

Spokane: #washingtonstate #fires #spokane

I only just learned of this story and I’m so disgusted that this barbarism is still a thing

Susinpgh@susinpgh.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Kronvold’s daughter Zammi was taken away from her when she was two hours old and placed in foster care in Nov 24 after Kronvold was subjected to a FKU (parental competence) tests. At the time she was told that the test was to see if she was “civilized enough”. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

99% of self proclaimed two staters in US politics effectively support this and yet wonder why the two state paradigm is dead and without ability among a wide swath of young people.