Democratic fundraisers: I have adopted the strategy of deleting your texts and reporting them as junk. I have to do this multiple times per day.

Superman and Krypto flying - Being ice is Punk

www.instagram.com/p/DMGyIlQxcR...

How Empathy Became a Threat

Excellent article about what empathy is and what it is not, and what are the attacks on it. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/b...

Superman was awesome. I felt like a kid again. If you can imagine an ideal, you can get closer than you expected.

Evan is a friend. I trust this sober assessment. www.facebook.com/share/v/1G9K...

RIP Peter David. I had the fortune of meeting him at NY Comic Con circa 2007. He had written in "But I Digress" about people who asking him, a writer they didn't know, to do sketches. He would do a lightning bolt for Storm, or an X with a square scholar cap for Professor X. (I got one!)

A clearly insane and cognitively diminished President Trump rambled at length about a far-right conspiracy theory in front of the president of South Africa at the White House yesterday. Now here's eight articles about Biden's halting pauses and memory lapses.

Opinion | We Study Fascism, and We’re Leaving the U.S.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/o...

BARTIROMO: Will you be able to come up some more clarity on tariffs so that business has that confidence?

BESSENT: Wall St. people like instant gratification. The president's agenda is an agenda for the next one, two, three decades in the US of bringing back manufacturing

Senator Angus King (I-ME) reaching to history to recall Senator Margaret Chase Smith (R-ME) and her 1950 stand against what she called "Republican Fascists." (King does not hold Chase's seat; Senator Susan Collins (R) does.)

Trump, on Tariffs, Says ‘Maybe the Children Will Have 2 Dolls Instead of 30’ (Gift Article) At the end of a cabinet meeting, the president allowed for the possibility that trade war could disrupt supply chains.

"This, from the billionaire, crypto-salesman, golf-club-operating, Palm Beach-by-way-of-Fifth Avenue president with the golden office and the golden triplex apartment"

By Shawn McCreesh

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/30/u...

Is the U.S. Becoming an Autocracy? Other countries have watched their democracies slip away gradually, without tanks in the streets. That may be where we’re headed—or where we already are.

“There are things you could do or say—as a person in academia, or in the media, or an N.G.O.—that would get them to come after you. But if you know where the lines are, and you don’t cross them, you can have a good life.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

This is totally fair

uh oh what’s the fifth panel gonna be

The same picture of Stu's coffee shop setup, but with a hastily drawn Merry in the opposite chair, looking miffed.

You're never alone so long as phones have paint programs

Anyone debating or analyzing Kilmar Abrego Garcia's life or record is doing a grave disservice.

He could be El Chapo. He could be Charles Manson. He could be the Dalai Lama.

It doesn't matter. What has happened to him and others is clearly a violation of America's core laws and principles.

MyHeritage DNA Reveal with Pete Hegseth from Fox & Friends - MyHeritage Blog Yvette Corporon recently visited the set of Fox and Friends where she revealed DNA test results of Pete Hegseth and Rachel Campos-Duffy live on air. Yvette provided them with their DNA ethnicity resul...

Pete Hegseth is also proud of his Norwegian heritage. blog.myheritage.com/2018/10/myhe...

Andrew Weissmann on Substack If the Trump Administration cd send more plane-loads of people to an El Salvador prison (and be directed to stop by the Supreme Court in a 1 am order) it obviously has the complicity of that country A...

substack.com/@weissmann/n...

Terrorists belong in jail. Here is why I pardoned the January 6 rioters.

by Donald Trump

The innocence of Abrego Garcia, Merwil Gutiérrez, and an estimated 90% of the people sent to El Salvador proves this was never about “criminals”.

It’s about racism.

It’s about state terror.

It’s about dehumanization.

Fascism takes hold when people stay silent. It’s up to all of us to speak up.

Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. If my nephew’s ideas on immigration had been in force a century ago, our family would have been wiped out.

Stephen Miller's family fled Antopol. www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

JD Vance, Trump's running mate is 'Scots-Irish' at heart The 'Scots-Irish' Republican Senator JD Vance has been formally selected as the Republican Party's US vice-presidential nominee.

JD Vance is proud of his Scots-Irish heritage. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Governor Kristi Noem on Twitter “Uff-da!! Thank you Graysen for my awesome sweatshirt. As a proud Norwegian I have so many… https://t.co/NhCWzhB6M6”

Kristi Noem is proud of her Norwegian heritage. web.archive.org/web/20201116...

Never forget, even for those of us in the USA for generations, our ancestors all came from somewhere. And all those people have felt pride of their heritage, and others have vilified their heritage. #NationOfImmigrants

Opinion | To Understand Global Migration, You Have to See It First (Gift Article) These estimates, drawn from the location data of three billion Facebook users, provide a view of human migration in extraordinary detail.

Amazing article from NYTimes on migration patterns using Meta location data. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

It must be nice for brains to not have any cognitive dissonance when confronted with hypocrisy. I am jealous of you, Rep. Greene.

The Salvadoran Government could have had the support of more than 70+% of the USA population. We don't agree on much, but we do generally agree violent gangs shouldn't be on the streets. They fucked up, made it political. That was stupid. Due process and prisoner's treatment is important.

@djleftover.bsky.social wrote a beautiful piece on "Terrorism" in Collateral Language in the early oughts after 9/11. I would be very interested in a follow-up given that anyone deported to CECOT is de facto a terrorist without due process. Professor Collins, do you have recommendations on updates?

Collateral Language: A User's Guide to America's New War on JSTOR p strongThirteen essays contextualizing the new meanings around certain words and phrases in the post-9/11 discourse/strong Terrorism, jihad, fundamentalism, bl...

www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt...

If I had a boy I’d name him Jimothy Tames. He’d go by the nickname James. When people wanted to call him Jim he’d say “no, my nickname is James.”