Larissa Werhnyak

The Fullcast is effectively our sixth-largest and by-far-most-prolific American Studies department

Frankfurt School / Birmingham School / Psychoanalytic-Lacanian

Why universities must flatly reject Trump’s ultimatum Universities need to form a large and powerful bloc to resist attempts to illegitimately remake higher education.

Universities must unite to reject President Trump’s partisan “Compact for Academic Excellence” which threatens academic freedom and diversity. Only bold, collective resistance can defend higher ed from ideological control and preserve critical thought on campus. wagingnonviolence.org/cnv/2025/10/...

Suddenly your cat has developed a nuanced and sophisticated sense of solidarity

I'm never ever gonna forget all the furrowed browed corporatist Charlie Kirk hagiography and sportsball halftime memoriams for a race baiting brigading zealot

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Ben serves the essential social function of reminding us that it’s somehow still possible to fail as an anti-trans grifter in Donald Trump’s 2025

Someone’s reading the president bedtime stories from the Illustrated Abridged Don Quixote again

Obviously signing Trump’s compact is the death knell for a university, but the fact that any of them are even *considering* it exposes something deeply rotten at the heart of their leadership. It should disqualify them forever.

Rewinding this bear’s origin story by five minutes:

Hiring Bari Weiss to bring down the temperature of the discourse is like hiring Animal from the Muppets to reduce workplace noise

"Ok sure it's the post-apocalyptic commune and chickens are our currency but on the other hand they're finally acknowledging the vital role of Gen X in American society"

You know what was weird last week? I didn’t see anyone fired for quoting words actually spoken by Jane Goodall.

To a Pittsburgher, that’s a quiet car

Stephen Miller @StephenM The issue before is now is very simple and clear. There is a large and growing movement of leftwing terrorism in this country. It is well organized and funded. And it is shielded by far-left Democrat judges, prosecutors and attorneys general. The only remedy is to use legitimate state power to dismantle terrorism and terror networks. 1:59 PM · Oct 4, 2025 · 1.3M Views

This is a declaration they will use federal resources to deploy violence against judges, prosecutors, and attorneys general. There's no other coherent interpretation of the phrasing, including "only remedy," "legitimate state power," and connecting those people with "terror networks."

Don’t show this kid 2001: A Space Odyssey until they’re 40.

I read this as “emotional safeties” and the more I think about it the more convinced I am that my subconscious was onto something culturally significant

Some days they express startlingly acute insights re: Gramscian hegemony and other days they forget to bring a pen

One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people.

It seems pointless even to say this, but the Fourth Amendment does not permit federal agents to kick down every door in an apartment building just because *some* people in that building are allegedly undocumented. Even in the unlikely event they had a warrant, warrants have to be specific.

Went to see him speak when I was in law school; during the Q and A he yelled at a student who asked a question he thought was disrespectful.

Like “googling ‘tax penalty early IRA withdrawal’” cooked

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

Texas universities launch course reviews amid push to limit gender identity instruction After a viral video stirred controversy at Texas A&M, Texas Tech ordered course adjustments while UNT and UT launched reviews. It’s unclear what the reviews will look for.

After a viral video stirred controversy at Texas A&M, Texas Tech ordered course adjustments while UNT and UT launched reviews.

It’s unclear what the reviews will look for.

UT System audits gender in courses as GOP targets 'LGBTQ ideology' The University of Texas System is reviewing all gender identity courses at its institutions to ensure courses taught "are aligned with the direction and priorities" of regents, law.

Ominous…

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AI will be permitted in my home when it can fold my fitted sheets.

Rapture

gas station hot dog roller is the only medbed i’ll ever need

imagine your HOA seeing one of these magnificent beauties on your front lawn

The Magnetic Stephen Field(s)