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we're about to have a German scientific forestry moment, aren't we

James C. Scott is cackling from beyond the grave

photo of Leonard Peltier raising his fist, outdoors

This photo of Leonard Peltier, finally free, is giving me some strength today

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE WHY PLAINTIFFS’ ATTORNEYS SHOULD NOT BE SANCTIONED OR OTHER DISCIPLINARY ACTION SHOULD NOT ISSUE

so fyi this is not a good sort of order to get. well, if you're plaintiffs' attorneys. if you're defendants' attorneys it's the best day of your life.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

all the stereotypes about insurance salesmen are true

Anyone who happened to know that the White House would announce and then suspend tariffs within 24 hours just made a boatload of money.

“Why is Elon’s coup not on the front page of the New York Times???”

idk, probably because the NYT is a puzzle game app that happens to also release articles about how trans people aren’t real but are also somehow a menace. It’s like asking why there isn’t a sonnet printed on your toilet paper

turning up at the next legal academic conference with my laminated Wallet Inspector card, I reckon I'll do pretty well

If you take away one lesson from anything I've ever written, please let it be this:

You probably have too much respect for academia. You should probably have less.

sorta related, at one point a colleague told me about the concept 'communal narcissist' (someone who projects a not fully sincere pro-social disposition for very self-interested reasons) and so much of my experience in higher ed and NGOs made sense

this interview is full of bangers

I'm just a queer, in a CVS, tryna get my Controversial Medication

The left’s opportunity in this moment is to paint a picture of the future that people can get excited about, that folks would sacrifice to build. This is partially the job of artists and writers, enough with the future-dystopian shit

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There is another batch of bad abortion-related opsec advice going around, so I'm just going to link to Digital Defense Fund's guide to abortion privacy, which is realistic, practical, and explicit in its threat models: digitaldefensefund.org/ddf-guides/a...

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Apropos of nothing, I happen to have the email address of someone who would be very interested in your thoughts on the matter, a Gary Hewett, warden at Wakulla Annex, at which this terrifying Nazi shit is going on. That's gary.hewett@fdc.myflorida.com. (h/t @phobus3000.bsky.social)

obviously the now cadaverous CEO will be replaced -likely by some greater ghoul- IF this was the political killing those of us UHC has fucked over (and over and over) might find at least cathartic, the point was probably not to actually disrupt the operation of UHC, right?

unfortunately this all evokes the "Image Events" DeLuca discussed (poorly) back in the 00s

always nice to see ppl on about the propaganda of the deed

Mainstream (ie non-academic) discussions of American history don’t get into it quite so much, but bombings were quite common, and assassinations, while not openly discussed, remain relatively common.

the vibes are good tho

The disruption of popular knowledge and information practices with noise is intentional.

oops I Just now looked up what POTS actually is and not to sound like a hypochondriac but I for sure got the symptoms

wild how the entire legal system rests on the shoulders of underpaid pink collar girlies.
If we stopped maintaining our little spreadsheets and sending our little emails, the whole behemoth would grind to a halt inside of an hour

contains the #1 place to cry

trying out for the breakdancing team at the Paris Olympics, call me a phoebe-boy
(direct all complaints to @rosguil.bsky.social )

we're just gonna have to wait til the deputy that does this kinda admin BS gets to it tomorrow......unless it was leaked which I'm Almost willing to believe might be the case