I'm just going to point out that this has already happened to 4500+ trans people in the military, except there's no happy ending for them. No acquittal. Just a rigged separation board and a discharge code that guarantees they will never work again.
Lara Schwartz
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Professor who actually likes my students, free expression advocate who actually means it. Some jerk impersonates me in web contact forms. The real me wrote: https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691240008/try-to-love-the-questions
Today, in intellectual diversity.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump: "Any country with windmills is a loser"
It's august, the Sunday night of academia.
Booo Princess
Alt: Scene from The Princess Bride. A woman shouts "booooo"
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I'm old enough to remember when the moral panic of the day was about "coddling" sensitive students. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...
Professor Fired for Teaching “Political” Story Sues College
English professor Vinita Prabhakar is suing South Florida State College after she was abruptly fired for teaching a story the college president deemed “political,” according to a complaint filed Wedne...
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When you slow down and think about it you realize it's ten times worse than it seems. Sure it's farcical, but it's also a brutal legal attack on a man they knew to be innocent, done to distract from their own thievery and incompetence and as a flex to terrify anyone who might make them look bad.
Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 5d agoIt is very weird that they just lie about normal people and then it’s not a scandal when they admit it
look. nobody here likes paying consultants. but the only alternative is paying *instructors*
Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
the president refusing to defend a state against the nation he started a war with is, like, kind of the biggest thing, you know? kinda sails right past "impeachable" and into darker territory.
Lindsay Beyerstein@beyerstein.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is a crisis of federalism. Tim Walz is asserting as fact that Iran attacked water infrastructure in Minnesota and several other states. And Trump is saying it's Minnesota's own fault they were attacked as part of a war he started.
People need to start getting disbarred for this shit.
CNN@cnn.com · 5d agoThe Justice Department is admitting that a $14 million renovation on the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool in Washington, DC, was flawed, and is dropping the criminal case against a former Olympian that accused him of damaging the pool, according to a new court filing. https://cnn.it/3RJJnwj
Apparently the road to eternal Happiness is paved with mansplaining.
They're calling it the University of Austin of investigative journalism.
I could be wrong, but @theatlantic.com seems to have hidden my reply with this article. So here it is again.
If The Atlantic Wishes to Honestly Understand the Origins of MAHA, They Need to Investigate The Atlantic.
The Atlantic has some of the best writers around. But they were also eager to launder right-wing talking points under the guise of a being liberal, reasonable, and moderate publication, able to see a
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The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w agoA lot of people in public health believe that MAHA is “nothing more than a subversive anti-vaccine, anti-science syndicate,” but the movement is an opportunity that the public-health sector “cannot afford to squander,” Craig Spencer argues:
What’s noticeable to me is how in the midst of an election year when people had a lot to say about one particular candidate’s history with racism, another candidate’s Islamophobia has been treated as unremarkable and not a crisis
Kriste Kline @kristekline.bsky.social · last wk.🧵 This constant stream of *very* thinly veiled Islamophobic, racist crap from Stevens is awful. I'd thought we (Dem Party) had gotten better about this. Sadly, I was wrong. Hope it blows up in her face...& anyone else's who thinks it's okay. Racism is wrong, don't care what letter is by your name.
It is genuinely bizarre that we’ve become acclimatized to right wingers throwing a tantrum every time a black person (particularly a black woman) is cast in something, but are also supposed to pretend that this is not racism but related to some other substantive concern.
Just saw Hadestown at the local movie theater. Go see it. Why are you still sitting there? go!
Very Serious Opinion Writers think that we need more college professors who support this.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump suggests Kaitlan Collins looks similarly to Dylan Mulvaney and should smile more: She never smiles. I thought Kaitlan had made it big with a major new Bud Light sponsorship, but I noticed it wasn't her. It was actually Dylan Mulvaney.
My response to Appiah's "field report" is up: please repost www.chronicle.com/article/kwam...
Opinion | Dear Critics of Literary Studies: Do the Reading
The philosopher’s report on the state of literary studies is a shambles.
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Is the First Amendment under an unusual amount of pressure and the free press’ endurance at risk? Why is that?
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 2w agoThis quote sounds like it came out of a time machine from George HW Bush’s presidency nymag.com/intelligence...
The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.
It's so weird -- and frankly unacceptable -- that few academics donate to the party of "Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "We had transgender for everybody. Men in women's sports came ravaging through our cities."
It was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use.
Secret Drug Addict@scrtdrugaddict.bsky.social · 2w ago
here’s my offer, The Atlantic magazine, I will read the next “reactionary pretends to give honest advice to Democrats” take if you let me write a piece where I, a DSA member, pretend to give honest advice to Republicans
The Atlantic@theatlantic.com · 2w ago“Democrats appear slow to recognize that ideologues on the left are attempting a hostile takeover of the party,” James Kirchick writes. In looking for a way to reclaim control, he argues, they could find inspiration in British history:
People are always going to complain about anachronisms, but I loved that they put all of Matt Damon's crew in red Starfleet uniforms.
like, I know people get mad when you say liberals prefer fascists to leftists but they keep saying it
Rav@rvbdrm.com · 3w ago⛔️ Democratic socialists who want free healthcare, better transit, human rights for all, and a government which works for the people 🫂 Republicans who orchestrated or supported the slaughter of over 1 million Iraqis
The US built the greatest talent magnet ever, attracting the smart, skilled, and striving. They’d come to study, then stay and build things here, or leave with positive impressions and fruitful connections. Helped make the US wealthy and powerful. Then America chose to throw it away. And for what?
Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w agoCongrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...
I have grown tired of Prof. Wurman’s defense of his own bigotry by claiming I “lack reading comprehension.” I will waste no more time on him and his evidence-free dreck after this. Yes, his blanket moral claim is racist. Yes, his “evidence” is ahistorical. His arguments are sloppy and confused.
Next government should immediately destroy it, maybe after destroying the militia movement. But we won't. We never dismantle brand new tools of oppression, like the DHS, shit that didn't exist when I was in high school.
"I’m hateful, now, too, just like the people who spent years torturing me. Maybe not in kind, or in degree, but hatred wasn’t there before, and now it is." On the moral injury of the past 10 years.
Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · 3w agoMagdalene Visaggio was once in seminary, training to become a Catholic priest. Now she's a snarky online trans girl like the rest of us. In a challenging new essay for Assigned, she writes about the toll being hated for who she is has taken on her psyche. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...