Liz (Dr. Elizabeth Horton)

Literally the only thing I missed about living NOVA was access to the Ethiopian places in DC. Found a brilliant place when I moved to RVA but they closed a bit back (RIP Nile) - this is good reminder to go back to Buna Kurs here in RVA and try Addis as well!!!

anyway god speed to the good folks at cbs news who will now be taking editorial direction from this genius bsky.app/profile/oliv...

i want to remind people that the free press does not publish "journalism" in the way that someone who works in an actual newsroom would understand it

This is exactly the kind of thing that Timothy Snyder is talking about in the essay I reposted earlier this week.

Thank you! I’ve been kind of sporadic on all social media platforms and lost the thread in this!

Wait. May also involve post about Kirk…I’m confused. Sorry.

Something about Jessie Singal as far as I can tell. Which, like, if it involves him - probably involves him saying something offensive and then whining when people get in his comments.

The DC Circuit is set to consider whether Trump violated the First Amendment by expelling the Associated Press from the White House press pool. @knightcolumbia.org's brief, just filed. knightcolumbia.org/content/knig...

It's a pretty big deal that the NYC Bar Association--one of the most prominent and respected bar associations in the country--is accusing the President of ordering the "unlawful summary execution," i.e. murder--of civilians in violation of US and international law. www.nycbar.org/press-releas...

wrote this line yesterday:

"If President Trump were, in other words, trying to instigate some kind of national divorce, it is hard to imagine what he would be doing differently than this."

Judge Immergut has issued her written TRO prohibiting the Trump administration from relocating or deploying federalized national guard troops to Oregon.

Here it is:

That this administration is mobilizing ANG from states largely controlled by Rs to states largely controlled by Ds is incredibly alarming. It’s not just the misuse of the ANG…yeah it’s alarming.

for any UVA folks that follow me you should circulate this among your networks balkin.blogspot.com/2025/10/the-...

State Terror A brief guide for Americans

"State Terror: A brief guide for Americans"
Revisiting a piece I wrote in April 2025
"In the history of state terror, the escape from law into coercion takes three forms... the leader principle; the state of exception; and the zone of statelessness."
snyder.substack.com/p/state-terror

We've had fuckups in the White House before, but never a president who seemed so deliberately intent on being a fuckup.

It's been said before, but if these people were actual agents of an enemy power seeking to divide, dismantle and destroy the USA they wouldn't be doing anything different.

WTF? I dint even know why Im saying that. More like. Of fucking course.

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

there are almost certainly more people — more blue collar laborers, specifically — involved in the cultivation and production of chardonnay grapes and wine than in coal

In case there was any doubt about the anti-DEI sentiment is actually about…

What Will Academia.edu Do with Its New Rights to Your Name, Likeness, and Voice? (updated) - Daily Nous Users of the Academia.edu service are cancelling their subscriptions in response to perceived overreach by the firm in its recent update to its terms of service. Catching users' attention was a new pa...

dailynous.com/2025/09/22/w... Academics with publications on academia edu need to look at the new terms and the permissions it provide to AI farm your work and identity

It’s Decorative Gourd Season, Motherfuckers First published on October 9, 2009, this classic by Colin Nissan is our most-read article of all time. We’re celebrating the 16th anniversary of th...

IT IS TIME.

Some ICE officials call Sheahan "Fish Cop" behind her back because of her previous stint running the Department of Wildlife and Fisheries in Louisiana. Sheahan knows there are people who think that, without any law-enforcement background, she isn't qualified for a job usually occupied by veteran ICE officials. "I absolutely think Im qualified for the job," she told me. "Because at the end of the day, what really makes anybody qualified for any job?"

The whole administration in one quote

When one of your journalism crushes strays into your botanical world 🌱🩷

In case you were wondering the “I’ve read some obituaries with great satisfaction” quote was not Mark Twain.
More fittingly - it was Clarence Darrow
“ I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." Clarence Darrow 1932.

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In addition to scraping your uploads for "generative AI" training, Academia dot edu is going to start claiming rights to your personal info— *including your signature & voice*— for anything they see fit.

So now'd be a good time to remove all of your uploaded works, & then delete your whole account.

In which I beg archaeologists to sign up for the fall semester of Skype a Scientist, because we're getting buried in requests for your area of expertise.

Sign up here:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations.

The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

You know - it was good long run here after leaving Twitter before I saw these kind of completely idiot reply guys - guess they’ve finally realized their favorite demographic to “well actually” at is largely here now. Sigh. But also Lmao at reproductive justice “can only be realized” via communism.

Me clicking down far enough to learn that to my shock it’s not Chomsky being discussed here. But also I know an “anti-capitalist” who is the most capitalistic money obsessed person I know - so yeah tracks.