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A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.
NM ACA premiums to go up 35%, some as high as 52%. A devastating blow to hard working New Mexican families so Trump and his friends can pay less in taxes. From the Albuquerque Journal: www.abqjournal.com/business/art...
"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."
Manfred Weber, “We cannot allow Orban to turn the EU into a foolish organisation” #SOTEU2025 “The nationalists applaud America First" “The reality is the nationalists are not patriots, they turn the Europe into a colony of Silicon Valley, and even worse, of Moscow"
Blasphemy or canon?
A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.
Like I just said on CNN, it’s absolutely evil that people are sleeping on concrete floors at the ICE detention center near Chicago. Join us to protest this Friday at 7 am at the Broadview Detention Center.
The image that inspired my most popular comic.
it’s crazy how Alien gave us two films so perfect that every future plot in the franchise could only work by featuring the stupidest fucking people left in that universe
let's go girls
Timeline clense. Supposedly there's a bunch of these hilarious Thai Chaindrite commercials. I needed this.
I love the 100% certainty the New York Times can tell you to not use a certain dishwashing detergent but heaven and hell forbid if they point out a politician is being racist, authoritarian or even genocidal.
You ever use Excel? How about Gimp? Are you a Bonzi Buddy? Do you even know Clippy? Ever surf Usenet with a T3 Modem? Can you run DOOM on an ATM? You ever download an AIFF file of the Night Rider theme off IRC, & then play that on loop for like 30 minutes? Yeah I didn't think so.
... they would have complied. When were they taken away in cuffs except as an act of performative cruelty. Stephen Miller's campaign has also targeted many with legitimate visas, using the slightest pretext to deport them. The goal is not to make us safer. I am really not exaggerating to ....
ICE is a supercharged ethnic cleansing campaign, selectively enforcing one "law" to the exclusion of others with excessive force and no due process. Take the Hyundai/LG plant. Those workers were there for one job and had homes to return to. You could have served them notices, and I bet ...
They are trying to kill us.
Mores Likes for the one you forgot to add the link!
What’s happening to CBS News is neither complicated nor subtle. www.mediamatters.org/cbs/how-cbs-...
I'm so sick of saying "it's all connected, man" without the benefit of even being on psychedelics but it is! IT IS ALL CONNECTED, MAN!
#Burquesky
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced the state will provide free universial childcare.
"Given the President's extensively documented history of lying, why should anyone believe him or you now?" is a completely legitimate followup question. And if it's the last question the reporter who asks it is allowed to ask in that room during this administration, then that reporter did their job.
No one would be confused about what is happening here if they saw it in another country.
I would pay good money to see @mehdirhasan.bsky.social interview everyone in US politics.
That didn't look all that hard-hitting. She didn't go along with everything he said, but she let him get it all out without really challenging him
Decades? More like centuries.
Some of them don't want to be there. But it is important to make this the most miserable and humiliating experience of their lives regardless. Sorry.
Two months ago? Omg these people are slow. Next they will say Murdochs have become influential in the past year or two.
This is my great Congresswoman Melanie Stansbury.
The talk now will be about how the Gulf States react to this, but Ankara will be the most alarmed at the national security implications of the Doha strike.
If she’s going to use the defense that her “uncomfortable” questions are of journalistic import, why is she excluding the Black actress from her discussion of such matters?
"Federica Polidoro is her name and racism is her game." — @pixelfish.bsky.social Seem like the interviewer put up some crappy woe is me response but reddit has some receipts of her rightwing politics so she's still trash to me. Love Ayo Edebiri, Julia and Andrew here. #BLM #MeToo #Blacksky
If police writing tickets and the power company doing "random" maintenance checks is too heavy handed then we're dead dude. They are putting people in concentration camps.
Aaron.... Aaron! What do you think the stakes are? If a politician isn't willing to get arrested then we are going to die dude.
Leaving aside his contempt for taking domestic violence seriously, please remember that DHS has repeatedly argued that Kilmar Abrego Garcia was a dangerous menace to the nation because of allegations of domestic violence. Is it not a crime? Or is it a crime so serious it merit deportation?
Cast your vote and get in a fight.
This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.
the casting, the lighting, the framing, the direction....
Just sitting back, eating some popcorn, watching people attempt to make the Supreme Court’s decision that racial profiling is ok for the purpose of ethnic cleansing about something else that makes them feel more comfortable.
I don't know exactly how and when we'll get there, but there will come a time when the Roberts Court era and especially from ~2024 onward becomes treated as an irredeemably tainted anti-canon, when citing them as a favorable precedent joins the ranks of invoking Dred Scott, Plessey, or Korematsu.
SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool
The Supreme Court just ruled that ICE can target people based on their race. Can we get a “Fuck ICE” in the chat?
This isn't an exaggeration for the sake of mockery, it is objectively and 100% accurately what they just said.
Ayo handled that with such ease even though that was irritating as hell. Funny how Julia Roberts was like, Repeat that so I know we all heard your ignorance correctly! Lol
I want more information about this whole interview and who specifically asked this question!
The Supreme Court bans affirmative action in university admissions but is okay with racial profiling on American streets. That pretty much sums up white supremacy--heads I win, tails you lose, all legal.
"He had to save The Black" I'm sad this wasn't used in a tag line from a white savior film. 😂
Weiss is being specifically hired by a right wing billionaire nepobaby to turn CBS into another right-wing friendly propaganda mill. but you genuinely wouldn't know that from reading the U.S. media industry's coverage of itself:
Folks in this mode of analysis need to grapple with the fact that while most voters know they agree with Democrats on issues like healthcare subsidies, campaigning exclusively in this register also contributes to the impression that they're boring and institutionally-minded, which voters don't like.
The morning’s bright the sky is blue and we have a teaser trailer! WAKE UP DEAD MAN the new Benoit Blanc mystery, in theaters Thanksgiving and on Netflix 12/12
There is going to be so so so so so so much scamming of old people with AI slop.
Blanch
Space... the final frontier. And it can be dark, cold, and very, very scary. Happy #StarTrekDay!
They'll never forgive you for being right too early. They'll smear you as hysterical and a doomer. Then when they change their mind to acknowledge reality, they expect all the credit for doing so.
I wouldn't put it past JD Vance to do this so he could spice up the autobiography.
Icymi, I’ve got a new gig
*NEWS*: Asawin Suebsaeng and Andrew Perez of Rolling Stone are joining Zeteo’s political team as new staff reporters, plus Peter Rothpletz will be helping me launch a progressive politics morning news letter. We’re also hiring a breaking news reporter.
I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?
the most controversial statement you can make in this world right now is that it’s bad that israel is committing a genocide
It’s pathetic that liberal and leftist journalists, organizations and politicians are still on this white nationalist website. It’s pathetic no one organized a boycott, and that individuals care more about clout than promoting white nationalism.
What we're seeing here is the exercise of Carl Schmidt's philosophy of the friend enemy distinction that made him so popular with the Nazi party. They want führer Trump to have the right to declare anyone he wants outside the protection of the law.
Under this logic countries that are the most affected by climate change can just start killing CEOs of corporations that have huge carbon footprints.
Considering how billionaires engage in oligarchy, bribing, propaganda, and destruction of the environment, the door has been open by the Trump administration to declare them enemies of the country and to engage them with the military. If selling drugs is equivalent of terrorism...
These are criminal kidnappings and people need to resist the best they can. Easier said than done but we're reaching a point of no return.
Still trying to understand the Hyundai ICE raid. Supposedly a months-long investigation that... picked up people here on visas, permanent residents, and U.S. citizens? I also haven't seen anyone charged under 8 USC §1324a for hiring undocumented employees. 🤔 www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/u...
Since we all know my Republicans friends respect the Constitution, and want peace and prosperity for all Americans and US allies, I have to say I don't think their good faith efforts to reduce crime, grow the economy, and stand strong abroad are the best approaches to achieve those mutual goals.
Do you think more independent journalists and writers need to just group together?
Does everyone ever ask him if this applies to trans health and reductive rights?
This is the best episode of Star Trek ever in my opinion, and sadly the exact emotion I'm feeling almost every day.
Stupidest fucking people in britain
My god…
Tapping the sign
It's becoming clear that the complexity of the modern world and the disinformation age requires a huge cultural shift to foster civic virtue, art and education or democracy will not survive.
But seeing the video makes me feel broken 😭
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Any amount of tension is seen as resisting yet going limp is also seen as resisting. ACAB
The world is so bad right now that bad Italian films, like the knockoffs of Escape form New York, are not over the top in their premises as much as they are just crappy & hilarious in their execution. Maybe Mbembe's work isn't as difficult to understand for some as it is just too bad to be true.
I wish Achille Mbembe's NECROPOLITICS were easier for laypeople to read, because it sorta has all the answers for why we're in this fucked position today:
The world is so bad right now that bad Italian films, like the knockoffs of Escape form New York, are not over the top in their premises as much as they are just crappy & hilarious in their execution. Maybe Mbembe's work isn't as difficult to understand for some as it is just too bad to be true.
There's another guy who once said he has the absolute right to kill suspected drug dealers, and he's locked up in The Hague right now, waiting for his tribunal on charges of crimes against humanity.
Malcom Gladwell's writing can be intelligent and thought provoking. Thus his transphobia is not just an admission he lacks empathy and courage, but it poisons his past work as sycophantic and dishonest.
It's obviously dishonest on some level to call it the Defense department because America is obviously not always defending itself. Yet, none of these pundits suggest War is also a disingenuous term for murder and waste.
theyre just torturing some random guy bc of where hes from, its sick
Is it just me or are FBI informants people who would be implicated in crimes who then become informants to protect themselves?
Rattled? What actions have they done to tell us that? Might as well be Cory Booker owning the news cycle but doing nothing as a result. He also makes the story more about himself.
Y'all, please tread lightly with this one. James O'Keefe is a known liar who routinely edits his footage to showcase his narrative. So now that James has honey-trapped someone on a story that the Left would desperately love to be true, y'all are just gonna believe him? This may be just speculation.
Attacking trans and homeless people on rightwing media seems pretty Trumpish to me too.
Graham Linehan and JK Rowling often share strikingly similar views, it’s just they have different ways of saying the same thing.
Which lowers the quality of the conversation and dumbs down the electorate thus bringing the GOP another win. You can be clever and direct without lowering yourself.
I already beat another guy who cut Medicaid, gave tax breaks to billionaires, and hounded multiple women who accused him of sexual harassment — might as well debate the one actually calling the shots.
Pritzker should declare a state emergency (federal invasion) and activate the Illinois Guard. I am not being brave with other people’s blood. This is not about wishing for armed conflict, but about peaceful deterrence of occupation, which is its own kind of violence. bsky.app/profile/bren...
Pritzker: It appears they are amassing ICE officers… It’s been reported that about 300 officers are planning to come in and do what they did in LA — terrorize neighborhoods and cause mayhem. Their plan is to create enough chaos on the ground that troops will have to be called in
The media is going to frame this as part of the horse race, so I think it is worth noting the actual substance of Pritzker's words -that the federal government is actively planning on destabilizing an American city and endangering its inhabitants as a pretext for a military crackdown- is a BFD.
They are going to declare "Gender Ideology" a terrorist organization to legalize arresting trans people as either insane or enemy combatants. I wish I was joking.
Only wish is they used Vimeo or some other service. Fuck Google/YouTube.