Richard Heppner (see also id. @ 🐘, 🧵, ❎)

Been reading about the rise of Nazism. So many entities - businesses, right-wing parties, trade unions - struck deals with Hitler after he became chancellor, where he promised to preserve elements of the old system. Then months later he invariably broke them and jailed or killed those people.

So, is this a gift to Trump or to The President? I assume it would be illegal (as if that matters) for him to keep it after leaving office.

One Billion Americans (but not those ones…)

Ooh. That sounds fantastic. When Freud came to England and met Virginia Woolf, he gave her a narcissus.

Surely they had in mind the four-letter word for a type of (or going to) bed?

The incentives are even worse than that. Until fairly recently, the expected MINIMUM word count was around 20,000 words. Any less and law reviews wouldn’t really take it seriously, and if it was published it didn’t “count” as much for internal metrics and tenure as a “real” or “full” article.

Riley manages to be both super-bland and super-toxic at the same time. The worst of both worlds.

I do still wish it were clearer what’s being said by whom. Garber said it to one faculty member, according to “the three faculty members familiar with the conversation.” So, he said it to one, during a conversation with three? Or to two, because he is also a faculty member?

Prepping It's the end of summer, and maybe the end of other things

This resonates. open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

That sounds fascinating! Mine was about Yeats, Eliot, Woolf, and Wyndham Lewis—their relationships to psychoanalysis, and their depictions of consciousness/desire.

conspiracy theory that isn't a conspiracy theory: this is specifically to screw over meds and eds rust belt revivals because they threaten existing landed gentry power centers.

I mean, the gender demographics are pretty much the same.

In other words, the people complaining about this are either stupid or disingenuous (and are definitely racist).

The bulk of the argument in the SFFA v. Harvard anti-affirmative action case (which the anti–affirmative-action side won) was that affirmative action was unfair to Asian Americans. The (ostensible) goal was *increase* their Harvard.

Guess there’s not another opening on the mighty Third.

Yeah, it’s a Brit v. Yank distinction.

I hope they mustard up the wherewithal to get it cleaned up.

Weird. It’s like all subsequent psychologists were trying to kill their father. Huh.

Every. Single. One.

Every. Single. One.

Weird. It’s like all subsequent psychologists were trying to kill their father. Huh.

Freud is sometimes referred to as the father of Psychology. While not everyone may like or agree with his ideas, the process of trying to find 'better' ideas than some of his has triggered a huge amount of research within psychology. [I love this because it's basically just saying "his ideas were so crazy and awful that it motivated people to try and find any other explanation just o prove him wrong" like, so much research was done with the basis of "I fucking hate Freud" what a mood]

It’s a real psychological phenomenon. When you walk through a door, God opens a window.

Worried about AI taking your job? Here’s the list of the 40 most impacted to the 40 least impacted. First picture most impacted jobs second list the lucky ones. Think I’m retraining as a dishwasher…. #agsky #econsky

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

It turns out a fascist President can do more to crush free speech than Oberlin sophomores

I have no idea if any of my students are on here. But here is where I am, so here is where I’m wishing them all good luck on the Bar Exam this week!

I don't think most Americans realize how hard tariffs are about to hit them. The combination of 1) escalating tariffs, 2) companies slowly passing the cost to consumers, and 3) the repeal of the de minimis exemption in the Big Beautiful Bill, a lot stuff will be more expensive in 2027.

They’re at it again today.

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Yinz: Winter-like conditions reported in East Liberty near the Social Security office. Proceed with caution ⚠️