Episode 3 of The Caste Pod with Yashica Dutt! newbooksnetwork.com/coming-out-a...

Pres Trump told me tonight the US had identified possible candidates to take over Iran, but they were killed in the initial attack. "The attack was so successful it knocked out most of the candidates," Trump told me. "It's not going to be anybody that we were thinking of because they are all dead. Second or third place is dead."

complete insanity

The phrase “preemptive strike” is as insulting as when we were sold “humanitarian pauses” in the middle of a live-streamed genocide. The powerful looking you straight in the face and telling you your common sense simply doesn’t matter.

Inhumanity and insanity. The sort of thing a dying empire does.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Mass horror at the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti has DHS’s budget at stake.

And yet in the past week, agents left a blind refugee to die alone.
And lied about it.

They pretended to be police looking for a missing child, to detain a college kid.
And lied about it.

What does this tell you?

“Elite impunity is now an American national project…. This has been the priority for the wealthy and powerful, who have managed to convince a critical mass of Americans that they will be able to enjoy the same privileges. They won’t.”

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

behold, a sole repercussion

www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Summers To Resign From Teaching Appointments, Relinquish University Professorship Over Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest...

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
"Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year, relinquishing his University Professorship — Harvard’s highest faculty distinction — and remaining on leave until that time"

So I think it's fair to say that only a tiny, tiny percentage of the US population was tied up with Epstein. But weirdly maybe 70% of the people in the field of evolutionary psychology.

BOSTON!!! Looking forward to seeing you on April 27 at the Harvard Science Center! I will be in conversation with THE Evelynn Hammonds!!!

Can't make that? Don't want to cross the river? I'll be at Brookline Booksmith with THE David Kaiser the next day, April 28 :-)

Jeffrey Epstein helped fuel the campus culture wars The academics in the Epstein files aren’t all criminals, but they shared beliefs about whose work matters.

“What Epstein’s efforts to collect big thinkers, a longstanding panic about a crisis of campus wokeness, and current efforts to shut down study of gender, race and sexuality share is that all are expressions of backlash…”

www.salon.com/2026/02/19/j...

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

This is what a large proportion of the violence in internal conflicts looks like: a state relying on regular people for intelligence, regular people weaponizing the state within their own communities, and security forces not knowing/caring what’s motivating the sources whose information they act on.

Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people… |... Hi everyone, I earned my PhD from the Department of Child Study and Human Development. My studies, research, and professional work focus on how positive media use among children and young people ca...

DOCTOR Rümeysa Öztürk has earned her PhD!!

Yale AAUP launches campaign to enshrine academic freedom protections in their faculty handbook.

“There is a commitment to academic freedom here, but it needs to be made more meaningful at a time when there’s so much real risk around it.”

@yaleaaup.bsky.social

Prince Andrew's Arrest Across the pond in Britain, justice and accountability is a serious matter

Never in a million years did I ever fathom when I resurrected the Epstein story in 2018 that it would lead to first arrest of a British Royal in four centuries. Not since King Charles I was arrested in 1647.
open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Lifting up the life of civil rights icon Jesse Jackson. Hard to lay out the range of his work and contributions and how much he inspired. They are leaving us one by one, exhorting us to pick up the mantle with courage & determination. Justice work is a lifelong commitment. Thank you Rev. Jackson.

Listen to the second episode of The Caste Pod with the amazing Feminist Critical Hindu Studies Collective, aka The Auntylectuals! newbooksnetwork.com/feminism-and...

I'll take Frederick Douglass over Elon Musk

Absolutely infuriating. These grotesque, morally bankrupt men have broken this country.

Court Rules in Favor of the AAUP in Harvard Grant Termination Case In a case filed by the AAUP, the AAUP Harvard chapter, and the United Auto Workers (UAW) a federal judge ruled that the Trump administration’s termination of grant funding violated the First Amendment...

We are proud of our AAUP-Harvard chapter and the astounding membership growth they have managed to achieve following their successful lawsuit against the Trump administration's Department of Justice✊

One thing that's fun is that if you're black and you don't have much experience, it's woke dei if you get the job, and if you're black and you have all the experience in the world, you're an out of touch elite who is not really black and doesn't deserve the job.

Bovino advanced all the way to within eyesight of Paisley Park, but his supply lines were stretched too thin and ultimately his frozen troops were encircled by Will Stancil and wine moms with whistles

“If America’s university presidents believe that their foremost responsibility is simply to keep their institutions operational — collecting tuition and protecting endowments — they are mistaken… presidents and chancellors are stewards of intellectual freedom and democratic norms.”

4.5% is Caribbean plantocracy numbers

Mark Bray is Instructional Assistant Professor of history at Rutgers University & the author of Antifa: The Antifascist Handbook. After Trump’s executive order naming “antifa” a terrorist organization, Bray became the target of right-wing attacks, forcing him to flee the country with his family.

Opinion | This Is Just Who Trump Is

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)