Andrew J. Eisenberg

I’m sure there’s a very good reason why 75% of the work that I do every year as a professor must be done in the fall, but I haven’t figured it out yet.

Somehow the end of DEI has also meant the end of anyone needing any qualifications for anything. I'm sure the new CBS news division will help us understand how this happened.

We really need to retire "contrarian" as a descriptor for Weiss immediately.

The reason she is getting this job right now is because of her *non-contrarian* sensibilities.

She espouses views that the US's current power structure likes.

beardo solidarity

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

According to initial reports, the “compact” would compel a university to crack down on acts of “belittling” conservative ideas and enforce a specific (pseudoscientific) definition of gender. So in other words, the end of academic freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u...

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The Jedi should never have filibustered the continuing resolution

Everybody knows a government shutdown makes the president a dictator. That’s just civics 101.

I've never heard that, so I assume it hasn't entered the global Gen Z English vernacular that my students are exposed to. And my Gen Z-Gen Alpha cusper who spent last year in an NYC public school has never heard it either. So I'm gonna say it's regional.

So are all these new presidential powers going to apply to the next Dem in office or nah

Of cheese and bedsheets – some notes on correlation

RFK jr and Trump need to go after cheese next, bc too many people are being killed by their bedsheets

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Other, more serious countries, have actual supreme/constitutional courts. We, alas, have a 9-member super-legislature whose Wizards in Robes issue rulings that are now no more grounded in the law, Constitution, or history/data/evidence than the burning of entrails or the reading of tea leaves.

I’m just glad hypocrisy isn’t alive to see this

Another baby step toward the dissolution of the union

I wish there was a less cumbersome way to say anti-anti-fascism

Not really an overstatement to say that the test of a free society is whether or not comedians can make fun of the country's leader on TV without repurcussions.

I’m not entirely sure how China benefits from my 13 year old getting hooked on Boomer rock, but their little singy dancey app sure is good at it.

I don’t want to alarm anyone but there’s a lunatic in charge of the FBI

Not sure if this is part of your point, but I think its important that the virtual space in which most political conversations happen now is one in which you can never reach out and touch the whiskers of your interlocutor

WAPO is just the NYTimes doing a bad impression of the NY Post

Among the sad and disturbing aspects of the video is the students' unyielding belief that the US president makes laws by fiat, and that a presidential order can make it "illegal" to teach certain content in a class.

You must be a foreign country

Are we also back to freedom fries? Just trying to keep up.

Only the best people

This administration is putting US troops on US streets while insisting that these troops can only ever be used for killing people. Meanwhile, rightwing tinfoil hat wearers who have been warning for decades about this EXACT scenario are like, "meh, seems legit"

Everything is so stupid now

Simultaneously bringing back the "Department of War" and starting a new armed conflict with Venezuela will clinch the Nobel Peace Prize for sure

I’m sure Eric Adams will make a great ambassador to the Marshall Islands

This can't be real

Pangs of envy every time I see how Bolsonaro is being handled in Brazil

the Nazis literally tried to discover Atlantis because they thought Atlanteans were aryans and would prove German racial superiority

Fascism has always been anti-intellectual and full of pseudoscience