i think the funniest thing about the Trump in a catering truck story is that he left Rubio and Bessent behind but took Scavino with him. MUST SAVE THE AI SLOP MASTER
Poor Manske, whoever he? she? is, not even worthy of a headshot
This is an insane story. She, her HS age kid, and her husband are in ICE detention because her husband is the child of one of the Iranian hostage takers’ translators, something that happened before he was born. www.thenation.com/article/soci...
One Woman’s Message From the Hell of ICE Detention
My husband, son, and I have been locked up for months—despite being permanent residents with no criminal record. It is an unendurable, unending nightmare.
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Regent Paul Brown calls U-M’s not-a-data-center location what it is: environmental racism. It takes guts to call out your own institution in such clear terms, and I applaud him for it.
Reading a lot of hot takes on what Abdul has to do now, and I hope (and actually trust that) he’s smarter than McMorrow and stays away from the Dem consultant class.
that would be the quite ubiquitous guy who hasn’t read Carl Schmitt, who reserves the f/e distinction to groups who go to non-metaphorical war with each other
Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢@regimecpa.bsky.social · 5d agoGuy who has only read Carl Schmitt looking at any political disagreement between any two parties: wow, this looks a lot like the friend-enemy distinction, better post that so everyone knows I read Carl Schmitt
Every study ever has shown that. I just read a fascinating Ph.D. from the 1960s that looked at a group of Black radical left vs moderate Black students, and in the end, they were all moderates, somewhat dispiritingly. A few months ago, another study concluded everybody on average moved to the middle
Dan Silverman@dmsilverman.bsky.social · 4d agoNew study shows that — contra widely accepted narratives — there is NO EVIDENCE that professors change their students’ politics and make them more liberal through their teaching
i’d love to know what i’m tagged on but either op blocked me or i blocked them :)
From a member of the committee that nominated Abdul for the Rhodes.
this toxic dingbat asserts contrary to all evidence that AES is a “nutty” candidate. don’t understand why he hasn’t been run off bluesky.
“When the students booed the speakers who extolled AI, and only the speakers who extolled AI, they weren’t booing AI, you see, they were booing the people they weren’t booing."
Shaily Patel@vox-magica.bsky.social · 6d ago"Reconceiving the professoriate will mean altering tenure criteria and promotion incentives, and it will face fierce resistance from scholars whose professional identities are bound up in the research function."
guys, they’re HUGGING press will still go with “Dems at each other’s throat” because once they have a narrative in their teeth, they’re like our old dachshund (RIP) with a dead pigeon.
Haley Stevens@haleyformi.bsky.social · 6d agoFriends, I want to thank you for your support in this race. I’m so grateful for each and every one of you who stepped up to fight for a stronger Michigan. Now, it’s time to come together to make sure we beat Mike Rogers and keep Michigan blue. Let's go win!
Think back to all you have done and seen and eaten and smelled and felt the last five months, then imagine having spent that time in jail.
Jessica Valenti@jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 6d agoIn Texas, a woman was jailed after miscarrying in a public restroom. She spent five months there before prosecutors admitted they didn't have any evidence of wrongdoing
My kid is in South Africa, and the people she’s staying with are rewilding some giant area, but they also have to guard against poachers, so they’re taking the rhinos' horns off. I wonder what that’s like for the rhino (better than being killed by poachers, I’m sure)
After all the half baked hot take “analysis” of voting in the MI primary, I see that AES won Scholten's district by over 20 points and Stevens dominated Rashida Tlaib's district. I’m sorry but none of these internet analysts know what tf is going on (neither do I), have some epistemic humility
sandhill cranes, from when i discovered the clarity setting in photoshop raw camera #birdoftheday #longlegs 🪶
interesting polling failure in Michigan, even though it looks like he eked it out.
and of course Andrew Martin is right in the middle of this swamp.
Max Kennerly@maxkennerly.bsky.social · last wk.Time to add another formerly respected institution to the garbage pile, this time @aau.edu, which just worked with the Trump admin to endorse resegregation in high education, embedding MAGA fraudsters as faculty, and banning student expression. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
utterly disgusting. And what an opportunity to fuck these ghouls over by defeating the collective action problem.
absolutely horrendous. please consider helping in one of the ways suggested robindgkelley.substack.com/p/in-support...
In Support of Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Most academics in the U.S., as well as activists resisting the genocide in Gaza, are familiar with the case of Professor Tiffany Willoughby-Herard, a renowned Global Studies scholar at the University ...
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There are a lot of people who think the job of an academic, particularly a female academic, is to lick famous men’s balls. It’s a bit befuddling when it comes from women. Extremely odd to write “academics have always had seething jealousy towards x” in a post criticizing EW for being “dismissive.”
pure michigan. www.mlive.com/news/2026/07...
Epstein, 46 others linked to decades of sex assaults at Interlochen, over 70 victims
An investigative report two years in the making was released Tuesday, July 28, detailing decades of sexual abuse at Interlochen Center for the Arts by staff, trustees, visiting artists and Jeffrey Eps...
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