There are other ways to get these skills, for sure, and we should be flexible in job requirements. But we got where we are now in part because public schools have been systematically destroyed and encouraging kids to not go to college means avenues for learning critical thinking are fewer. 3/3
Critical thinking at a high level is a skill we sorely lack as a society. The solution isn't only to say that some people go to college, some people to vocational school, but to ensure everyone can go to college if they want without it destroying them financially. 2/3
@thebrianlehrershow.bsky.social Just to say: a degree in theater might seem irrelevant to being a legal secretary but because the caller graduated college, there are some universal skills that are probably there: writing, editing, and time management at a certain level. Arts degrees build skills!
Let’s all toast the incredible Judge Sparkle Sooknannon and her clerks for being up since 2:30 in the goddamned morning to ensure this absolute dumpster fire of an administration didn’t deport 600 unaccompanied Guatemalan children. On a Sunday. On a holiday weekend. My god. #AltCitizen for real 👏👏👏👏
Happy Labor Day.
Can the media STOP referring to Jeffrey Epstein as a “financier”? The money he made came from SEX TRAFFICKING MINORS, RAPING CHILDREN, and BLACKMAIL. He was NOT a financier. I’ve seen at least five stories from three outlets refer to him this way in the past week. This is the latest from the Times:
My dream is for it to happen like it does to vampires. When the leader kicks the bucket, the rest of them burst into flames.
Jill Stein is like an opportunistic cicada. She shows up and screams every four years, just like clockwork. That she has the Green Party on lockdown is deeply disappointing. I had thought better of Cornell West but he may be similar.
Remember, kids: A real big goal of "AI" is to entirely sever capital from labor, and no, there will be no universal basic income, you can all just starve and die, thanks www.axios.com/2025/08/26/a...
Reminder: Most mass shootings are carried out by cisgender men.
See what a difference a headline makes? I far prefer @hyperallergic.com’s coverage. hyperallergic.com/1031310/home...
Donald Trump’s rumored death raises new questions about Joe Biden’s health
This firefighter arrived in the US at age 4, has been here for 19 years, was on track to legal status, and was on a crew trying to contain a major blaze (in Washington state, vs Oregon, fwiw.) h/t @joshuajfriedman.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Television legend Stephen Colbert has just signed a $13.5 million deal with Netflix for a 7-episode series.
Kennedy's $50m initiative seeks to fund studies on the causes of autism, while ignoring decades of research. In grad school, I learned that the rise in breast cancer incidence is in part due to more diagnoses. Same goes for autism. Autism is not an epidemic. 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Good.
I hope people realize how absolutely fucked this situation is. This isn’t normal. People are resigning all over the place because the government is mishandling our data, ruining our public health services, and generally making Americans less safe.
there is no question in my mind that rfk jr is the most dangerous person in this administration and that his eugenicist ideology threatens the lives of millions of people www.advocate.com/politics/dem...
It's extremely common in the art world as well
I keep saying this, but... ...punishing the homeless is how big-city and blue state liberals do fascism.
Art depicting “Sandwich Guy” now at the scene of the alleged misdemeanor.
Stop screaming into a pillow and start screaming in the streets 😱📢Find a protest near you on Labor Day, September 1st. maydaystrong.org The biggest part of this fight is not giving up the fight 💪✊
DAT'S EUGENEICS, BABY!
We keep telling you about Gavin. This is who he really is.
Don’t look away
A cult of personality. What could go wrong?
If this ends with a request for money, I swear to God... It will. E exactly what I expect.
AP livestream www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZ7Q...
"Literally no one thinks prayer is a substitute for action." Then why is prayer, literally, *always* the substitute for action, you willfully obtuse asshole?
A Pennsylvania art museum is suing the Trump administration after the government terminated a $750,000 federal grant for collection conservation earlier this year.
i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.
Gupta: Here’s why this matters: 1. Because the FDA indications have changed, if I prescribe it to you, I’m opening myself up to a lawsuit. He directly signals that… 2. A pharmacist is no longer able to prescribe and administer a COVID-19 booster that doesn’t meet indications.
Trump’s travel ban separates families and denies students opportunities to grow and give back to the U.S. and their home countries. www.usatoday.com/story/opinio...
Hey, the latest windows update turned Copilot on again*, so I had to turn it off again. In case the same happened to you, here's how to do it: *(I was working on a syllabus and then this shitty little notification popped up offering to "help" me with email. Bitch, I wasn't even writing an email!)
George Retes, a 25-year-old U.S. citizen and Army veteran, intends to sue the federal government following his violent arrest and three-day detention by ICE without any explanation.
Or whoever is left at IMLS.
IMLS is also pushing this.
Concert outside the White House! #cdnpoli
I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.
For folks not in DC: - There are full-on police checkpoints most nights - Gangs of 30+ federal agents roam DC - National Guard folks w/ guns patrolling a Harris Teeter - Every day, multiple friends see ICE kidnapping ppl - Daycares are scared to have kids go on walks due to ICE
"doing the work" but using the word woke the way conservatives do--ooookay
To Donald Trump and his administration: If you hurt my people, nothing will stop me — not time or political circumstance — from making sure you face justice under our constitutional rule of law.
My heart breaks into 10,000 pieces once again.
Pretty sure the President is Stephen Miller's lackey
What in the actual hell is he on about
@nytpitchbot.bsky.social
the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech
I think OP's original post is wrong but I think they are right to be concerned about the possibility, check out the article they linked to, which makes it clear that IDs for VPN is being discussed.
Statement from Illinois Governor JB Pritzker on reports that Trump plans to deploy the military in his state
A landlord turned off Tenant Client's family's heat upon learning Client was an immigrant. Landlord hired three different law firms to argue this was legal, then fired each one after they couldn't get our case dismissed. This week, landlord settled for enough that Client will buy a house.
The State of Illinois at this time has received no requests or outreach from the federal government asking if we need assistance, and we have made no requests for federal intervention.
You can’t make this shit up ……
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i think people need a refresher on what constitutes a Distraction. the cracker barrel logo thing (zero stakes, obviously invented controversy) is a Distraction. the ongoing military occupation of washington dc (ample footage of random delivery drivers being violently detained by feds) is not
Slavery. Wrote a song about it. Wanna hear it? Here it goes. IT WAS BAD, YOU DUMB FUCKS.
this is little more than a vendetta being pursued by the federal government against a man it unlawfully removed from the country and was forced to bring back
Someone in comments (and now I can't find the actual comment, sorry) said the best Star Wars trilogy is now Andor, Rogue One and Star Wars Ep 4, and you know what, I'm here for that argument, call it the "Death Star Trilogy"
Donald Trump raided the home of my UN ambassador as punishment for his public criticism. Out of respect for the presidency, I will say nothing and paint another picture of a dog. by George W. Bush
we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light
Burn in hell, MFer. www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/08/jame...
Illinois is launching a first-of-its-kind legal hotline for LGBTQ+ individuals — Illinois Pride Connect. As the only state in the nation that will provide free legal advice to protect the LGBTQ+ community, we'll help fight ignorance with information and cruelty with compassion.
it is genuinely maddening to see pundits and reporters say things like “well trump has an advantage on crime” while the public consistently says “we think this guy sucks on crime”
Here, fixed it.
"Unions aren’t just good for workers—they also benefit communities and democracy" — @epi.org 🔗 www.epi.org/publication/...
Trump is telling us his plan for 2026. Those of us who care about free and fair elections must take him seriously and literally. We cannot simply bring guns to a gun fight. We need to bring missiles.
Hitler sidesteps judicial norms with mass incarceration program.
I mean, they both probably think women shouldn't be able to vote
Because nothing says “you should feel free to come visit Washington” like standing in front of dozens of armed soldiers next to a guy who thinks women shouldn’t be able to vote 🙃
Heartbreaking For the crime of working
No offense, I feel like that's an album by the band Stickytoes. The next album is "The Long Slow Boil" and is the final recording.
Their CEO is a maga shithead. Unsurprising.
They also return $5 in tax revenues for every $1 in government funding they receive. Much like universities, museums are huge economic engines in addition to being amazing cultural institutions of learning (just like universities).
Last week, ICE arrested a six-year-old Queens public school student at her family's scheduled check-in. This morning, she was deported along with her mother. One of her siblings remains in detention. The cruelty of this federal administration knows no bounds.
White supremacist tropes and ironic viral jokes illustrate the administration's project of redefining who belongs in the United States.
you’re telling me the trump administration was lenient toward someone accused of sex crimes against children? crazy
Saying this again: there is a scammer out there targeting newbie authors, claiming I'm one of their clients. They use different names, and I'm already pursuing legal action. But I have never worked with a PR company, editing service, or book packager, so anybody saying so is lying, period full stop.
Mamdani has a nearly 20 point lead over the rest of the field, but his poor showing with gay ultraorthodox baby boomers hints at political weakness.
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It’s true and frankly? It’s not ineffective!
Everything is fucked but at least you can see Marco Rubio keep crumbling in real time.
I know it’s a small consolation given… *gestures at everything* …but Marco Rubio clearly hates his life and that’s something that can give all of us a little joy.
The guy who is whining like a child for a Nobel Peace Prize is the same one who's deploying soldiers on his own country's soil.
He's not the best option right now. People for some reason are just pretending he is. Why nobody is talking more about Pritzker, I don't understand.
But then he would have to actually do something instead. Yelling at Americans on BlueSky is so much better than actual protest!
Lol, thinking that as long as your rights are respected, it's fine. Newsome is a calculated opportunist and y'all putting him on a pedestal and pretending he is the only one fighting back is fucked up.
Newsome-the transphobe homeless-hunter who a few months ago was cozying up to fascists on his podcast because if only Harris had been nicer to the fascists and gone on their podcasts, she would have won--that Newsome. It is terrifyingly clear that not only Republicans get drawn in by empty showmen.
DO NOT CALL THE COPS FOR MENTAL HEALTH CHECKS IN DC. Now more than ever. Unless you want it to be the last call you make or the last time you see a person.
New York taxpayers. 60 million as of March, much more by now
laura loomer serving as president along with stephen miller and russell vought
And now you’re understanding why Hakeem Jeffries is receiving heat for doing it to the Democratic nominee for mayor of the city of New York. Now stop wasting my fucking time.
Victoria 📚 