John Scudder

From an email to one of our faculty members....

Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Lost Jan. 6 Rioter Still Searching Capitol Building For Mike Pence

Lost Jan. 6 Rioter Still Searching Capitol Building For Mike Pence https://theonion.com/lost-jan-6-rioter-still-searching-capitol-building-for-mike-pence/

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

Apple Photos Reminds Man He Was Nude In Capitol Building 5 Years Ago

Is Fortune still considered a legitimate publication, or is it more a self-publishing paid placement outlet?

“Traversed”?!?

(I suppose he means “transgressed”.)

my 75yo mother told me last night that she’s planning to delete Instagram and Facebook because she’s sick of not being able to tell what’s AI and what’s not, and I genuinely don’t think tech companies have reckoned with this kind of move as an actual possibility

Whoops

Let's break the Internet with this today.....

Oh great, now I’m thirsty.

A vintage coffee spoon from Middle East Airlines showing the MEA and cedar tree logo.

Not “hold my coffee spoon”?

On the face of it, the Venezuelan regime has played Trump for a sucker. The details are murky but it appears that now-acting president Rodriguez convinced Rubio that she would accept a US take-over and that the US was given the location of Maduro (and his wife).

The Epstein Files Transparency Act is a law, passed by Congress on November 19 with an overwhelming vote. Complying with it was not optional. The Department of Justice did not comply.

I want to make sure this is very clear.

"New York Times" headline: "Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel Mr. Mamdani, a staunch critic of Israel and its treatment of Palestinians, knew he would not extend the orders, but he had to decide how and when he would rescind them."

Mamdani rescinded every executive order issued by Eric Adams after Adams's indictment, but still the "New York Times" is focusing exclusively on two of those orders that had to do with Israel.

There is someone singling out Israel here. And it isn't Zohran Mamdani.

Oh wow. Ok, added to my mental list. I assume the origin is cast iron, but yeah.

“Something must be done!”

“Term limits are something.”

… “Term limits must be done!”

Inside Mamdani’s Decision to Revoke Executive Orders That Backed Israel

Every major free speech org has said the IHRA definition suppresses constitutionally protected speech. Every major human rights group has said it suppresses legitimate advocacy. The scandal is that Adams adopted the definition, not that Mamdani rejected it. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/04/n...

Although, if a lot of people believe the false etymology as I did, that’s still a reason not to use the phrase, as far as I’m concerned. See also, “calling a spade a spade“.

Wikipedia disagrees with me, so maybe I’m full of shit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_cre...

Yes.

“The good lord willing and the Creek don’t rise.”

Kind of dated but I still hear it. Turns out it has nothing to do with flooding.

Five Facets of the Attack on Venezuela by the Rogue Nation the US Has Become 1 They are saying it baldly: this is an oil grab. There is a history of oil grabs going back to British imperialism in the middle east in the late nineteenth century and murders of Osage Nation triba...

Wrote a thing:
The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

I’m reasonably sure that Robert Redford battered and deep fried would look better than that, even three and a half months dead. And even 3 1/2 months dead he’s still twice the man Trump ever was or will be.

But I see where you’re coming from.

He probably thinks it’s due to Marilyn Monroe.

DOJ is still in violation of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.

Laura loomer One thing I dont see anyone talking about is how @zohranmamdani had the AG of NY swear him in as Mayor on a Quran INSIDE A TUNNEL! This is 100% an homage to Hamas and the Globalize the intifiada movement He is signaling the beginning of his islamic conquest from a tunnel

Ok I really am working out the logistics of permanently shuttering my twitter account - but my god is this funny.

Tho in my experience the back of spoon whacking technique calls for (a) a whole tree full of pomegranates (because you’re going to lose more than if you carefully disassemble the fruit) and (b) an apron (or red clothing).

It’s the most cathartic way to prep a fruit EVAR though.

I am conflicted about naming the novel because it would be a spoiler.

This was kind of the plot of a novel I read a few years ago.

The wave of skeets about the FOXification of CBS are a little bemusing to me. I mean, yeah, it’s awful. But all you ppl who are professing shock — are you actually shocked? Because my level of shock would be accurately represented by the old Casablanca clip. This was both predictable, and predicted.