Billy Shakes

This whole thing is an example of degenerate Trump thinking. Vought had references to the law deleted from OMB shutdown guidance. It's still the law.

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

Do CBS News executives understand that MAGA will not be in power forever? I genuinely think this is lost on a lot of people. They've gotten scammed by bad actors into believing Trump's 2024 win represented something seismic and even permanent. I predict they'll look back on this as a serious error.

very cool that if you are working on behalf of right-wing culture warriors, you no longer need standing to have your claim adjudicated by the supreme court

On thing that really makes me trust my commitment to liberalism is that whenever anyone ever describes their vision of a "post-liberal" order it ends up being the most insane thing I've ever heard.

Lindsay is incredibly stupid but also seemingly the only one who realizes the cumulative radicalization of the Christian right and the NatCons doesn't end well for secular intellectuals, even right wing

People like Rufo and Yarvin have said explicitly -- and rightly -- that academia would be naive and weak enough to fall for something like this. They told us it would be a rude with a goal of tearing it all down!

“U.S. universities were and are the envy of the world,” Mr. Rowan told Bloomberg Television. “We can destroy that. We can lose it.”

well, he's correct about this www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

its truly remarkable, you have to really take the measure of it and it's almost hard to comprehend it, but the president of the united states is having texas invade illinois and oregon just to make twitter content

Why I’m Excited About the White House’s Proposal for a Higher Ed Compact Now we have a chance for collective action

Genuinely remarkable to see seemingly serious academics fall into the same trap that people like jennifer pahlka did when DOGE was announced

comic from webcomicname.com, "different" panel 1: pink blob creature: "I want things to be different" panel 2: creature smashes everything panel 3: creature stands in wreckage: "oh no"

as always, the most accurate summation of modern politics ever created

I truly don't understand what people thought was going to happen

Can’t stress hard enough that you should distrust and interrogate every history claim made by someone in VC/PE

If there is one emerging trend in British politics I hate, it is the trend from across the political spectrum of attacking universities. This is rich coming from a political class almost entirely comprised of university-educated politicians. It’s all well and good for their kids to go to university…

I FUCKING TOLD YOU THIS WOULD HAPPEN (as I speak to the ether angrily)

Apparently, some progressives still believe working class kids should be told to stay in their lane when it comes to education, long before they're even allowed to drink in pubs.

It’s so funny that “you’re overreacting to Trump” is/was a thing that people who soldier themselves serious said. Assume that he drops out of the primary in 2015: I literally cannot think of a single way in which the country is not better off, no matter which of the possible paths things go down

Imagine being in charge of nuclear weapons, in charge of developing the weapons systems of the future, of battleships and tanks and bombers and fighter jets and you spend your time mad about whether people are shaving.

Watchdog journalism’s future may lie in the work of independent reporters like Pablo Torre Underground reporters could be among the last bulwarks against unchecked power.

Podcaster Pablo Torre’s investigation into NBA salary cap circumvention shows the impact citizen reporters can have. A journalism researcher explains why this is a clear example of the growing need for bottom-up, citizen #journalism – particularly given media industry trends:

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WHY DID CHINA STOP BUYING US SOYBEANS, KEVIN???????

i think the key to understanding a lot of establishment discourse is that basically only the left and liberals are capable of being viewed as subjects capable of judgement which is why GOP rule is essentially treated as a force of nature

I used to get a chuckle out of the Third Amendment, ha ha what quaint 18th century tricornered hat problems to have, not so much anymore

I'll say this about Bari Weiss: she is the exact person for this moment.

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

perfect detail

From a fellow Floridian (I assume), amen

The new Supreme Court term starts today, meaning that -- in a novel twist -- the justices will hear oral arguments in some cases before they issue rulings that actually explain what they are doing.

The fundamental nature of the Trump regime: they are so driven by what they think will make people cheer for them on social media

for whatever it's worth the applause died the second these words left his mouth.

If any other president was 57 minutes late to an event addressing service members, there would be wall-to-wall coverage on all 3 major cable news networks addressing whether or not the president cares about the military.