Adam Rodger, a historian.

I feel like people have been banging the "Don't Make Thinking Robots" drum for quite a while, actually.

🎶 You take the high road / and I'll take the low road / and I'll be in Scotland / afore ye

Well yeah, I bet you will / 'cuz I have to walk up a hill / and you've got it easy / all the while you're walking 🎶

"You take the high road, and I'll take the low road, and I'll be in Scotland afore ye" Yeah I bet you will, cuz you're making me trek up a damn mountain on the way, sheesh

Future historians will devote their entire careers to studying Trump's corruption, and they'll have to leave our enormous piles of sources for the sake of preserving college students' spine curvature.

Important to note that this isn't a professor, this is a graduate student, who I think (as a former grad student) is exhibiting uncanny care and tact in their response. The student wrote a terrible essay that didn't answer the question, cited no sources, and literally demonized her fellow students.

I cannot imagine how satisfying that must've been.

Welp, time to go buy a bunch of books I probably won't read but whose authors I want to do well.

He was in my YSA ward bishopric around the late 2000s, and I'll be pretty pissed if any of the church leadership knew about this at the time.

Took a minute of thinking "what did he say it do that was so offensive"

I live in Chicago, here are some tips for dealing with the Black and Tans: Keep whistles on you to alert the neighborhood of ICE activities. Distribute whistles if you can. Post signage where people are taken, "ICE kidnapped someone here" is a powerful message. Stand firm in crosswalks or use your vehicle to obstruct ICE movement. Invite friends and family from rural areas to enjoy your cities, show them the only violence there is caused by the federal government. Post signage to alert your neighbor of the ICE activity. Record everything they do. Ask for warrants. They won't have one, but making them admit it is important. If they are on your private property, firmly tell them to leave. Sell them nothing and don't let them use restrooms. Protests. Protest. Protest. Every delay is a life saved. Remember, people aren't being deported, they are going missing.

From a reddit post discussing ICE moving into Charlotte

"I have slightly improved the problem that I previously made much much worse. Nobel Prize pleeeeease??"

A "member" of something is a part of a whole, like a member of an organization. To me, this implies that to "remember" something is to make it a part of you again, at least while you're remembering it, which I don't know I guess is just a really nice thought, sponsored today by the movie Coco.

Maybe the new governor can reinstate him.

Oh my god it took me so long to realize that there wasn't some weird porn thing going on at the British Broadcasting Company 🤦🏼‍♂️

"ShE wAsN't SaYiNg It WaS fInE" well then what the hell else was she saying, what possible other reason could you have to talk like this

So, according to someone who is friends with Megyn Kelly & very involved with Epstein (something I wouldn't have admitted), Epstein liked "barely legal" 15-year-olds (not how that works) who could pass for much younger but also look much older (which makes no sense) so I guess it's all fine then.

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Turns out @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social was right about how explaining the difference makes you sound like a pedophile.

I think you've got that backwards; Buzz Aldrin punched that guy, not the other way around.

Who owns Teen Vogue, and how much of their budget is devoted to ballroom donation?

Breaking: Heil-Hitlerer Endorses Sexual Predator

Good lord, NPR has gotten worse than I realized. I almost wish I was donating to them so I could stop.

It'll also probably cause (absolutely justified) riots, which is exactly what they want to use as justification for invading.

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If the Young Republicans (where have I heard that name recently...🤔) pull this off, it will establish a dynamic where, at best, the majority party can force opponents off of any ballot in the country. More likely, it'll be Republicans who can do that, and never Democrats.
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TIL @samreich.bsky.social has a /dynamite/ The Cheat impression.

I'm confused; why is he still in there? This seems like it should be easy to get dropped, and as a retired cop, I can't imagine he doesn't know a good lawyer. Surely the @acluohio.bsky.social would be interested in getting involved?

Do you mean to imply that substantive mistakes warrant not merely correction, but also dickishness? That it is proper to be a dick about mistakes, so long as they are substantive? That seems to be your implication, but I thought I'd ask to be sure.

What a nut.

If you want to try it, go for it. If you don't withhold, I believe you're *also* required to pay quarterly, but you're def right that if enough people refused, they would run out of money, and I don't think the FBI could handle arresting, say, a couple million people... just a lot to ask of folks.