the story that the right wanted to tell here is about DEI run amok - institutions so obsessed with diversity that they embraced an obvious fraud. that story gets it backwards. to Cambridge et al Arday was a PR stunt. they hired him as a symbol, meant to shield them from criticism.

After winning Teacher of the Year award at a conference in TX, UMD Professor Kibret was detained by ICE at the airport. 3 weeks later he’s still in custody. He’s not the “worst of the worst” & detaining him isn’t making communities safer. He should be released, now. www.wbaltv.com/article/mary...

Maryland professor Berhanu Kibret remains in ICE custody

ICE confirmed Kibret is being held at Diamondback Correctional Facility in Watonga, Oklahoma, more than 250 miles from the airport.

wbaltv.com

just heard some remarks from That Man about "beautiful, young girls" he was making at a police event(?) and it's time for a new reaction

do romulans all wear shoulder pads or do they have square shoulders

Funny diff

The fecal finger of fate

"meep meep ass location" i cannot breathe omfg 💀

*snerk*

Ah, Republican never-trumpers' favorite "Democrat." The warning is OK, but he should be DEpersonalizing the issue. Instead, he stands at the head of that (dying?) faction of the party that is fine with soft totalitarianism (oligarchy) as long as the "right people" remain on top.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2d ago

Ossoff: "They see the rebuke that is coming and fear the accountability that will follow it. They recognize the president is deeply unpopular. He's reviled. The public is awake to his corruption and self-dealing…The truth will come out. Mark my words. The truth will come out.”

you should be allowed to rip the pervert glasses off their pervert faces and stomp them on the ground like a spotted lanternfly

Andrew Pope@andrewpope.bsky.social · 2d ago

I hate, hate these pervert glasses. Listen to this guy interrupting the filming of Cunk on Cinema. What an entitled dick.

Now debuting at the Silent Hill theme park concession stand: Pyramid Head: The Burger

Autumn Goat 秋ヤギ@autumngogogoat.bsky.social · last mo.

Triangle burgers

I can’t believe they’d do Spider dirty like this… 🤣

i'm a simple man. i see this, i laugh and repost.

again, the only way this dishonest whining works is to ignore what happened: a dam broke and the routine police murder of Black people mobilized some white people, and that was scary to other white people

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d ago

finally reading the Atlantic piece on “Woke 1” and it’s interesting how even in their attempt to list the movement’s sins they struggle to identify anything significant

slow horses rewatch underway! good characterization: sad boy Min listening to "Yellow" on repeat in his sad little car

Desecrate the grave anyway

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 3d ago

ICYMI, the Dobby grave story was completely fake. Like, just, totally not true in any way.

very good piece

David_j_roth@davidjroth.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

Gas prices are up 24.6% from a year ago and still significantly higher than they were before the Iran War. Meanwhile, the world's 8 biggest oil companies have made a $93B profit windfall in just the last three months. Big Oil is raking it in as the world burns — and we're paying for it.

Kind of on this point: it’s very important to MSM diversity discourse that the Left critique of DEI is deliberately ignored. Similarly, it’s very important to MSM higher ed discourse that the Left critique of universities is deliberately ignored.

Corinne Blalock@corinneblalock.bsky.social · 3d ago

So mad that we live in a world of incredible critiques of the worst versions of DEI & identity politics (e.g. Taiwo’s Elite Capture and Asad Haider’s Mistaken Identity) and somehow huge swaths of the left seem to be picking Tyler Austin Harper and Vivek fucking Chibber

I hope AOC finds love BUT “hot single president” would incite some of the most insane content ever produced by human beings

i'd be so good in a sleeper cell, i'm very sleepy

The fact that the same Taylor Farms products sold at Walmart are packaged under different names and sold at Whole Foods proves that Jeff Bezos is scamming you into thinking you get superior produce a his far more pricey Whole Foods.

Abolish and imprison ICE needs to be the minimum for anyone running. No more pussies. This country isn't gonna make it otherwise. And I don't think that's hyperbole.

The pledge. The turn. The prestige.

our age of bronze is collapsing sarah@scgriffith.bsky.social · 4d ago

wHat??/ what????

i saw Blue Sky's no. 1 recurring Main Character say something like "I need them to know that i'm right" and it's like, yeah man. There's your problem!

it's necessary (for americans) to say the name "Fackham Hall" aloud in a terrible british accent

Whenever someone tells me they use AI I’m going to say “Oh, honey.” In the most condescending tone possible. They’re going to regret ever telling me anything.

LMAOOOOOOOOOOOO, omg *deep breath*: LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Matt Steinglass@mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 5d ago

No, the Economist does not own stocks. The Economist does not have a financial interest in any of the companies it covers. When it covers a company with a financial relationship to a member of its board (which has no editorial influence on the paper), that is disclosed in the article.

"hustle culture" addict: if i can just get through this life, then i can start living

“For fun, we asked the plagiarism machine that’s poisoning your neighbors and making every electronic in the world more expensive its thoughts on a story” - a Moron