Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
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Melbourne Uni is killing the literary journal Meanjin. It's cultural vandalism. Australian universities are now deeply anti-intellectual places www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/04/m...
As a former Berean, this news makes me proud!
This may look like fighting back when your only vantage point is other Ivy League schools, but when you look at the small #colleges and #universities that cater to less advantaged students, they've stepped up a lot more: Even tiny Baldwin-Wallace College in my relatively conservative #Ohio hometown:
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
When are more journalists going to admit publicly that democracy under multiple threats from the Trump administration before doing their both sides of the issue spiel?
when they stop being funded by billionaires
New Mexico AG Torrez: One of the biggest issues we face is gun violence. We haven’t seen any surge of federal law enforcement agencies dedicated to helping us reduce gun violence. What we’ve seen instead is a lot of the performative stuff — DHS going down to paint the wall to make it hotter.
We’ve compiled a few essential tips, drawn from the experiences of on-the-ground activists and immigrant rights groups. Guide: lataco.com/documenting-...
punchbowl news is launching their new youtube show tomorrow with an “exclusive interview” with speaker mike johnson, in case you’re wondering how some media outlets are dealing with fascism
NEW: US Treasury watchdog finds that of the 7,315 IRS workers terminated by DOGE, just 43 were documented underperformers. Almost 50% of the fired employees had been appraised as working at or above expectations. www.icij.org/news/2025/09... via @icij.org
As @andykroll.bsky.social previously reported, a senior IRS attorney warned officials in February that using “performance” failures to justify the mass firings was “false,” because the administration hadn't conducted any assessments to make such a judgment.
Statement tonight from Alan Garber, 31st president of Harvard. Good for him. Good for Harvard. Good for standing up to defend "core values of American higher education." And (again) what about all those "Harvard about to cave" stories? Main point: Worth reading what Garber says.
The definition of “American” that Schmitt uses excludes Black Americans as well as immigrants from Latin America, Asia and anywhere besides Europe. That means that, per his definition, nearly half of all US residents aren’t “Americans,” including an average of about 4 in 10 residents of each state.
Another way of saying this is that the murderous strike was carried out without any legal authority.
Not only is America better because of global immigration, it’s dependent on immigrants in a way that the nouveau-fascists refuse to understand. www.pbump.net/o/america-20...
This is an extrajudicial killing
While some Front Range departments face scandals, Erie took a different path. Chief Lee Mathis points to a community first approach: early body cams, citizen review panels, anti-bias training. “The goal isn’t just to avoid lawsuits. The goal is to do the right thing.” #ErieCO tinyurl.com/2s3tp4wr
Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should
Ossoff on RFK Jr: "Absolutely he should resign. And he never should've been confirmed to begin with... in any normal Senate, he never would've gotten so much as a hearing. This is someone who throughout his public life has embraced just about every piece of quackery & pseudoscience he's come across"
"The war on science, on democracy, on constitutional norms, the war on immigrants—all of these things are branches of the class war, because losing the class war is what granted the bad people the power to pursue those things in such an unchecked manner." www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/all-the-th...
Ted Cruz is a truly deplorable person
How long til civilized countries with public health standards quarantine or bar anyone they can determine has recently been exposed to Florida.
They should've done it the day RFK was sworn in
why did the NYT print - repeatedly - that Harvard was about to settle for some gargantuan sum? Will they run a retraction on those stories? Discipline the reporters who reported inaccurate information to their readers? Out the sources who lied to them?
Sen. Mark Warner explains, "Here's why Laura Loomer is coming after me"; argues “Laura Loomer is basically a Cabinet member at this point. Trump and his entire administration are caving to whatever she wants.” bluevirginia.us/2025/09/vide...
Realizing this was the last straw of my time as a Republican consultant. I'd gaslit myself into believing that non-Christians were the senior partner in the party.
Pursuit of the "Republican but not totally insane" market has always proved elusive. I was one of the people who once pursued it. This market is almost nonexistent. It's vastly over represented in the economic elite though
NBA Japan sees chance for growth with Docomo, Amazon streaming https://asia.nikkei.com/editor-s-picks/interview/nba-japan-sees-chance-for-growth-with-docomo-amazon-streaming
Jesus fucking christ i am exhausted of people who refuse to take even 1 class that would introduce them to ideas like the social construction of rules, laws, tech, & definitions of "crime," & who continually learn the wrong lessons from every science fiction story they ever meet. I mean holy shit.
Nobody is “grooming” your kids to be gay or trans but people ARE grooming them to be Nazis.
i see today's distraction from kitchen table issues is the president ordering murder
Epstein survivors and members of Congress are currently holding their press conference.
Breaking News: Saying the CDC has become “a political tool,” California, Oregon and Washington announced plans to form an alliance that would coordinate vaccine recommendations for the three states.
Trigger warning. “In crashes, SUVs are more likely to strike vital organs in the core of adults’ bodies & heads of children. Hitting pedestrians above their center of gravity means they’re more likely to be knocked forward & down and then be driven over.” Plus more likely to hit in the 1st place.
NEW: We filed a public comment opposing the Department of Labor's plan to strip wage protections from millions of home care workers. Most home care workers are women of color, and many already live in poverty. This change will push them further into hardship and worsen the home care labor shortage.
Host: There are new calls this morning for RFK Jr.'s resignation, and those calls coming from inside HHS itself. More than 1,000 current and former HHS workers are making this demand in a letter released this morning. They say his leadership has "put the health of all Americans at risk"
i cannot overstate how extraordinary it is for federal civil servants to do this
The dictators are not huddling together in fear over “weakness” The dictators are unified because they hate freedom & sense how close some of the world’s greatest democracies are to toppling right over into the pit Statements like this just come from the delusion RU & China could ever be separated
"The campaign, including a book and radio series, aims to "spark public conversation about the way buildings make us feel" www.dezeen.com/2025/09/03/h...
The House Republican One Big Ugly Bill rips healthcare away from millions of people and is deeply unpopular. Meanwhile. Democrats continue to expose the White House cover-up on the Epstein files.
For the past three years, the city has been giving cash to some struggling renters, no strings attached. The first-in-the-nation experiment has been even more successful than researchers studying its impact expected.
"the typical black American has much deeper American roots than the typical white American. Trump himself, whose grandparents were all foreign-born, is an excellent example of relatively shallow white American roots." www.niskanencenter.org/logic-populi...
Decades before the famous Dutch "stop de kindermoord" protests of 1972-73, Canadians were fighting for walkable streets.
WATCH: “In 🇺🇸, 66.5% of all bankruptcies are because of medical debt. In other countries it’s lower or 0.” A “Surrounded” participant schools @patrickbetdavid on our cruel, broken health care system.🔥🇺🇸 #MedicareForAllNow (Tennessee is #1 in medical bankruptcies 😕)
The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of white supremacists
A former Fox News producer who was ousted from his school’s student government over accusations of racism, is working in the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s communications department. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/former-...
It’s not enough to destroy the government and set the country back to the era of segregation, republicans also want to laugh in everyone’s face while they do it.
The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of extrajudicial killers
Do we realize how insane this is? Obliterating people in international waters because they are *suspected* of crimes? We used to fight pirates, not operate as one. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...
Yep. "Make no mistake, RFK Jr. is coming for your vaccines, and people will die because of it." sciencebasedmedicine.org/robert-f-ken... by @gorskon.bsky.social
Everyone who is upset about the Nazi filth going on in Australia right now, have a think about your Twitter account. If you don’t like Nazis, stop supporting a Nazi.
"pushing the boundaries" he's breaking laws and ignoring courts, so he can use the American military to invade America in service of an eliminationist white supremacist agenda Increasingly being an outlet of mainstream journalism requires a main effort to not report things as they are.
A Georgia county judge temporarily blocked his own contempt order that would have fined Democrats on the county commission board $10,000 per day for refusing to seat two election-deniers to the election board.
The AI boom has created a new type of work: fixing botched AI. Designers are being hired to remake wonky AI art. Writers are asked to make ChatGPT’s writing sound more human. Even software developers are tasked with fixing buggy vibe coding. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...
This is why I think a serious theory of deskilling is how we have to think about the proliferation of apparent bullshit jobs. It's capitalism, it's a war over wages. That's why "Why We Fear AI" calls this Techno-Taylorism
“following rumors of his death donald trump held a press conference announcing extrajudicial killings of civilians and plans for a military invasion of an american city” is a perfectly factual headline that could be used to describe what we saw yesterday
Local man embraces fascism.
“I think we can have a crime-free city and civil liberties. . . . We can have it all.” Yeah, no. Dumping money into surveillance tech instead of programs that actually do work to reduce crime and recidivism is the opposite of maintaining civil liberties.
if they were making a claim about historical origins the logic would push towards the inclusion of blacks, natives and other peoples on the north american continent. but schmitt is fundamentally making a racial claim.
The Schmitt speech today is beyond reprehensible, but it’s also just such a weird moment in American politics where people like Schmitt have to reconstruct an alternate history where *they* are “Heritage Americans”. Bro you are German and Catholic the founding fathers did not want you on the team
The Turmoil Inside MAHA Is About More Than Just Vaccines
Thanks to everyone who spread the claim that "legal immigrants are fine" when that was so obviously not the case from the beginning
ACTION OPPORTUNITY: Public Comment Period for urging CDC to restore old guidelines that everyone get COVID vaccine access, opposing new restriction to high-risk only (which will reduce number of places stocking it & make it easier for insurance to deny coverage). Commenting takes literally 1 minute!
The largest SNAP cuts in history went into effect yesterday, eliminating or drastically cutting food assistance for millions of Americans. And it’s all to pay for more tax cuts that primarily benefit the super-rich. Trickle-down economics isn't just a hoax — it's cruel.
not unrelated: a recent study by the Tow Center for Digital Journalism found that modern “AI” chatbots not only provided incorrect answers to more than 60 percent of queries, the LLMs are TERRIBLE at accurate citations, misattributing sources 115 out of 200 times in one instance
For book tour, I just looked for a train between two U.S. cities about 165 miles apart. There's one train a day, it leaves at 6:50 PM, involves a transfer, and takes 16 hours and 20 minutes.
Columnist @ishaantharoor.bsky.social reiterates Joseph Nye’s point: “If Trump thinks he can compete with China while weakening trust among American allies, asserting imperial aspirations, destroying USAID, silencing Voice of America,” … “he is likely to fail.”
NEW: DC grand jurors reject more Justice Dept cases Former DOJ attorney: “Not only have I never heard of this happening, I've never heard of a prosecutor who's heard of this happening” www.cbsnews.com/news/d-c-gra...
saying that the grand juries “disagree with the justice department’s theory of prosecution” is a very formal way to say “fuck donald trump”
Technically they are not “errors” if they are lies.
The US ENERGY DEPARTMENT’s pants, like the planet Earth, is on fire. 🔥 🌎 👖 🔥
WTF? This is part of the ceremony of citizenship. These people aren’t against illegal immigration, they’re against legal immigration as well, and always have been.
Bloomberg: "US factory activity shrank in August for a sixth straight month, driven by a pullback in production that shows manufacturing remains bogged down by higher import duties." www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
In a decision in May, the Supreme Administrative Court ruled that the company's couriers were employees, not entrepreneurs.
The trajectory from Bill Frist to Bill Cassidy is emblematic of the dark GOP journey on science and health—from the Bush family to the Trump family, from American greatness to self-defeating denialism on everything from vaccines to cancer research. My latest: www.latimes.com/opinion/stor...
As soon as I saw the headline I wondered how many paragraphs it would take him to endorse the Great Replacement Theory and the answer is 10. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/o...
An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of naturalization ceremonies. /1
this is what annoys me so much when JD Vance does his anti multiculturalism ranting too. Like bro you are a Catholic convert married to a Hindu woman either stop lecturing me about how the founding fathers didn’t want a pluralistic society or stop living your life like pluralism is fine!
It is not that deep. Vance sees no contradiction between his claim to be a "heritage American" (lmao) and having a Hindu wife and mixed-race kids. The red thread is anti-Blackness.
"I shall neither fawn nor cringe before any party, nor stoop to beg them for my rights. You may expel us, gentlemen, but I firmly believe that you will some day repent it." --Henry M. Turner #tdih 1868 when Georgia legis. denied elected Black reps their seats 🧵⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/he...
And that the current SCOTUS is doing comparable damage to democracy as the Taney Court. Among the lowlights of the Roberts Court that will be remembered like Dred Scott: Citizens United, Shelby County, Dobbs, and so many more including a bunch on the shadow docket without an explanation.
The Republican Party is an international crime syndicate of epistemic irresponsibility
More than 85 scientists have published a lengthy joint critique of a recent Energy Department report that downplayed the effects of climate change, calling it riddled with "pervasive problems.”
“Over the weekend, conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer discovered the unpublicized, classified visit and launched a campaign of baseless attacks...for hosting what has always been considered a routine oversight meeting." - Sen. @MarkWarner bluevirginia.us/2025/09/sen-...
This is exactly why AI is being pushed. You can blame it for real shit and vice versa. Blur the lines of reality and purge the media of real reporters and this is like fascism 101 shit
Via "One First," my quick stab at the legal authority President Trump will likely claim allows him to deploy un-federalized Texas National Guard troops to Illinois; why such a deployment without Illinois's consent *ought* to be unlawful; and the options Illinois will have for litigating that issue:
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Great story by my colleagues on the constant political realignment of Grok, the generative AI chatbot over on the other site. This change to Grok’s answer about the greatest threat to Western civilization is particularly ironic/meta. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t...
Commentary: India and Japan are steadily deepening energy cooperation through investments, technology partnerships and policy frameworks to advance clean-energy cooperation and transition goals.
Venezuela says the US and Erik Prince have plans to stage an attack on an ExxonMobil off-shore platform as a pretext to invade it…and normally that would be an insane claim but… www.latintimes.com/venezuela-sa...
Uhm, important qualification. Your OP makes it sound like it was banned completely. Show some humility when you make a mistake, dude
Uhm, I live in Japan & I get a flu vax every year
"It is a glaring example of the rules of the road under the second Trump administration. All the powers of the state are unleashed against the people who displease the President. Full stop." talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-mag...
Interesting how one Democracy was able to figure out how to get this to trial, while the other.... www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/w...
Critical thread here. Congress has stepped up but they need to do more—they need to check the Executive Branch from running roughshod over their constitutional power of appropriation. They need to stop America from stagnating in the intellectual backwaters of a dictatorship
"The importance of saving others should not be dismissed—& we should recognize that, in these tumultuous times, none of us are far from needing saving ourselves. Our goal should be interdependence: to be part of a community where rescue is viewed...as something that we owe each other." - Chapter 2 🫂
Republican governors have sent National Guard troops to Democratic-led Washington, D.C., even though cities in their states all have higher rates of violent crime than the nation’s capital. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Xi-Putin-Modi backslapping, along with easing global condemnation for Russia's aggressive war of territorial conquest, gives a sense of what the post-American world looks like. Not some sort of peaceful utopia, but a playground for authoritarians, with aggression abroad and repression at home.