Richmond Eustis

Abolish ICE has a +11 approval — which means it is *32 points* more popular than Donald Trump

Ask yourself: does corporate media portray that accurately?

Seriously! I am a scholar of medieval literature and *I* foresaw these consequences!

It's amazing the way these people can speak with such brazen confidence while revealing that they are scrambling for a solution to a foreseeable problem they've obviously never thought about before. Guy who demanded to fly the plane trying to sound cocky on the PA while asking GPT "how do i land."

The numbers are staggering:

Rent is now unaffordable for a record *half* of U.S. renters.

Some 30 million jobs pay less than $15 an hour. The average wage needed to afford a one-bedroom apartment has climbed to $28.17 — nearly four times the federal minimum wage, which hasn't gone up in 16 years.

Some Incredibly Inconvenient Data For College Republicans Right wingers on college campuses don't actually feel persecuted

Two percent of college Republicans say they “feel they don’t belong on their campus due to their political beliefs.”

Someone tell The New York Times.

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Law School Tells Students, 'You MUST Be Aligned Politically With President Trump,' For Summer Job - Above the Law 'GPA is not a strong factor.' No kidding.

The meritocracy!

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And they should go much harder, to keep this administration on its heels.

Right now, public support is heavily against the invasion, but the White House and their media outlets are going to be pushing the propaganda hard and a lot of their base will rally around Trump again soon.

well, DoD absolutely was

the problem is there's no interagency, and even if there was state is 3 marcos rubio in a trenchcoat

I am reminded that a startling number of people believe that if you’re a member of the military and you don’t like something your government did, you can just throw up your hands and quit the next day like any other job.

It Does Not Work That Way

Obscene.

The law firms that "caved" didn't cave. They made a clear-eyed choice to ally with this administration, and we should regard it as such. And let the stink adhere to them until they demonstrate it shouldn't.

You people are insane. The U.S. government did it because it wanted to do it, not because Israel manipulated us to do it.
You are absolutely delusional and normalizing terrible views that could lead to terrible things.

Side note: we've bombed schoolgirls, accidentally shot down three of our own F-15s (call DOGE), gotten at least six servicemembers killed, and have yet to articulate a coherent endpoint to the war... and he starts off bragging about his plans for his new grand ballroom.

Already doing this with whether we are doing a “war” on Iran

Also I’m not going too hard on this but if another nation invaded us with their missiles that killed our leaders, I’d be ok calling that an Invasion not just of our airspace but of our country

Trump says Iran war to last four to five weeks but could go ‘far longer’ President says he ordered attacks to thwart Tehran nuclear aims – and abruptly pivots to talk up White House ballroom

Only utterly incompetent amateurs could possibly imagine this omnishambles might render Iran incapable of retaliation in about a month.

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Results so far:
✅ hundreds of school kids killed

✅ three planes shot down by own air defence

Exclusive | Trump Administration to Drop Defense of Law Firm Sanctions The Justice Dept. plans to abandon its defense of the president’s executive orders that targeted Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

Breaking WSJ:

The Trump admin plans to abandon its defense of Trump's executive orders sanctioning several law firms.

DOJ — as soon as today — is expected to drop its appeals of four rulings that struck down Trump's actions against Jenner & Block, WilmerHale, Perkins Coie, and Susman Godfrey.

FCC infographic announcing the approval of the cox charter merger, with perks listed as "creates American jobs" and "no DEI discrimination"

the FCC rubber stamped yet another merger between two of our biggest cable companies and is clearly excited about the "more racism" part of the program

IDF accepts Gaza Health Ministry death toll of over 71,000 Palestinians killed in the war Although Many International Experts Have Accepted the Health Ministry's Data as Reliable, and Even Conservative Relative to the True Death Toll, Israel Had Refused to Accept the Health Ministry's Coun...

I cannot tell you how much doubt was consistently directed at the Gaza Health Ministry’s casualty numbers and how much pressure was put on news organizations to couch those numbers as unreliable.

Biden himself said they were fabricated!

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Iranians Who Seized U.S. Embassy Release 4 Women and 6 Black Men (Published 1979)

In 1979 when Iranian students seized the US embassy they eventually let go all of the Black people working there because they understood that the US would only care about white Americans. Iran understands our society far better than we understand theirs or our own.

In 2026, colleges must teach students that this is not the end of the world. We must teach hope. Current undergraduates can barely remember a time before the threats of climate change and authoritarianism loomed to catastrophic scale. Since 2010, the future depicted in TV, books, and games has been dystopian or apocalyptic, so for our current students the end of the world feels more familiar and realistic than a future with hope. Now we are asking them to choose majors and life paths when the desirability, indeed the very existence, of whole sectors of employment are in question, due to the overwhelming promises of LLMs and machine learning. As young people hear daily that vocation after vocation may vanish into automation’s maw, and that democracy, liberty, land, sea, and sky are all in jeopardy, despair is growing. Despair is very emotionally tempting. It means freedom from the responsibility to shape the future. This is a terrifying turning point, but many generations before us have faced such turning points, and met them. We can offer our students perspective. Only a few dozen institutions on Earth are more than 900 years old, and the vast majority are universities. The university system is not a house of straw to buckle in this storm: We are the rocks that have sheltered the knowledge, hope, and truth through tumults which have toppled kingdoms while classrooms endured. We can endure this, and be a guiding light through it, but only by recentering, by teaching citizens, not workers; power, not PowerPoint; aspiration, not apocalypse. Despair is how we lose. The classroom is where we battle it. All other battles flow from here. Ada Palmer is an associate professor of history at the University of Chicago.

This, from Ada Palmer as part of The Chronicle's survey of 11 scholars on the future of higher ed, is what I needed to end the week.

We are run by malicious, incompetent, idiots, and a lot of people in this country think that's better than trusting actual experts.

My sink sponge is smarter than Markwayne.

“Every Republican president comes to office, cuts benefits for the poor, cuts taxes for the rich, raises prices, and then bombs a Middle East country.”

@mehdirhasan.bsky.social explains how Trump’s ‘anti-war’ campaign was a lie, noting the president has bombed seven countries in his second term.

why would you not come to our camp?

meanwhile, war rages on at home.

I wish I knew Russian!

FIFA to 'monitor developments' in Iran ahead of 2026 World Cup FIFA will "monitor developments" in Iran following the outbreak of military action by the United States -- the co-hosts of this summer's men's World Cup -- against the Middle Eastern nation.

Lots of comments about Trump's "FIFA Peace Prize"...

... meanwhile Iran is scheduled to send its national team to the US in a few months for the world's biggest sports event.

Hard to imagine the World Cup proceeding in the US.

Except the only thing more notoriously corrupt than Trump is FIFA.