say it again:

4 million people work in higher ed, the largest employer in 10 states, second largest employer in 10 more, and in 60 of the 100 biggest cities

demolishing higher education is economic sabotage

A breakdown of the seismic environment in New Jersey, breaking down the ramapo fault and the types of rock that make up the region.

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AP The Associated Press @AP BREAKING: The Trump administration is pushing an initiative for millions of Americans to upload personal health data to new apps run by private tech companies. Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @GeauxGabrielle Hi! Epidemiologist here! Don't do this. In the 80s and 90s this was done by Depts. of Health during the HIV/AIDS epidemic. "Somehow" the lists they created found their way into the hands of cops, landlords, & job sites to deny people human rights. It's partly WHY the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act exists

mariah carey is wearing trans colors and a jacket that says "protect the dolls" on the back at Brighton pride tonight 🤌

Political cartoon: Two characters representing Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Zeldin and a Big Oil representative stand in front of a building labeled “Earnings Protection Agency”.

"[P]eople do not want to spend billions to starve children."

The concept of governance that envisions a government that basically does not exist, so that individuals can reject equality for whomever they like and do whatever they like, regardless of who it harms, in the name of “freedom,” is every evil man’s fantasy.

This isn't a list of jobs that A.I. can easily replace.

It's a list of jobs that techno fascists don't think are worthwhile or meaningful and that they want to eliminate.

They don't want humans to try to make sense of the world, they want us to believe whatever we're told.

“I don’t know the extent that he believed in some of the things.”

Had been and continues to act as a catch-all for excusing bigotry.

Anyone talking about the 90s like it was a feminist haven free of a manosphere has clearly forgotten about what the 90s was actually like or never bothered to study it

Lummis, Tillis, Paul, and Murkowski. One of them is already retiring.

the voting rights act is, in its entirety, obviously constitutional under the 15th amendment, which gives congress broad and proactive authority to stop racial discrimination in voting. and you know it is obviously constitutional because roberts has had to invent entire new doctrines to gut it.

The question to ask here is: What would a Democratic Miller even want? Stephen Miller has a crystal clear picture of the America he believes should exist in his head. It motivates him. It determines the policies he prioritizes and the strategies he chooses. What would be the Democratic equivalent?

I agree that Axios et al often miss the forest for the clicks, but here they use language of "purging dissenters, rewriting history, criminalizing opposition" and say Trump "threatened to eviscerate the integrity of US govt data."

That is the kind of descriptive language we need more of from media

Just reading transcript of 7/24 hearing before Judge Boasberg in JGG—AEA case where govt sent Venezuelans to CECOT despite his orders. Even if DC Cir blocks criminal contempt proceedings, Boasberg says he’ll refer DOJ attys to bar authorities & court’s own disciplinary committee ...
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Seems an actress took ill in London and chose not to perform her musical's second act and her understudy adroitly took over and IT'S TABLOID HYSTERIA OH MY GAWD.

The second time I saw the 2018 revival of The Waverly Gallery, the intermission went on for an oddly long time, then it was announced that Maureen Anderman would take over for Elaine May. She was swell. And that was that.

(I'm pretty sure that E.M. was back the next day.)

eat your own food, guys!

Sickening.

Yes, indeed. And it's 2025 and Mississippi still leads the way on the desire to turn back the clock.

🧾 When Mississippi Tried to Ban Sesame Street for Showing a "Highly Integrated Cast" (1970) | Open Culture share.google/9r2y85vIjiSZ...

If you speak out against government suppression of speech, the government will investigate your speech.

Faculty Support of George Mason’s President Draws Federal Investigation

Faculty who wrote to defend their president and object to a DOJ investigation of their university...are now being investigated by the DOJ.
The most banal defense of free speech and academic freedom will trigger the full wrath of the US government now.
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As we wait to learn more about the shooting in Manhattan, keep any victims in your thoughts. We do NOT have to live this way. Our “leaders” can end this.

Harvard Is Said to Be Open to Spending Up to $500 Million to Resolve Trump Dispute

i literally don't understand what this money would be for and where it would be going and i also don't understand why that information doesn't appear in these articles. who exactly would be paying what to exactly whom for which precise reason? www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/u...

I cannot get over how no one in mainstream politics even disputes factual claims like this. Everyone admits that Israel is starving children and murdering desperate civilians. The only ‘debate’ is about what to call it and whether the motives of people protesting it are pure enough.

This is what Harvard is gonna do with all your resistance donations, congrats

*Beatles voice*

here come ol AI, she got
hair like vinyl, she got
not quite elbow she got
knees down to her knees

Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

People with guns proudly posing in front of the Emmett Till memorial shot up with bullets

A bulletproof Emmett Till memorial. Riddled with bullet dents.

All I think about when I hear people say that it’s bad taste to dance on Hulk Hogan’s grave is that Emmett Till’s monument had to be replaced with a 500lb steel bulletproof monument because white people simply won’t stop riddling it with bullets. So now it just has tons of dents. From bullets.