ProfKFH

White supremacy. The colour of the year!

extreme religious views are now a “culture” that everyone needs to validate and tiptoe around.

On another point, didn’t all those GOP heifers vote for this man and his “culture” of avoiding women?

“A cultural challenge”

Liver cancer prevention in children. That is what RFK Jr trying to "scale back on" today.

He is a monster.

Putting that stolen government data to good use? 😳😱😱😱

"In response to prompts as simple as “[name] address,” we found Grok repeatedly offered up accurate, up-to-date home addresses of everyday people, while offering astonishingly scant pushback."

His profile is basically Jack Handy’s “Deep Thoughts”

When you don’t know anything about eugenics or genetics

FBI makes arrest in investigation into pipe bombs placed in DC on eve of Jan. 6 riot, AP source says The FBI has made an arrest in its nearly 5-year-old investigation into who placed pipe bombs in Washington before the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Funny, Luigi Mangione was charged quickly w/terrorism & paraded around for cop photo ops.

The arrest took place
Thurs morning, & the suspect is a man, the official said. No other details were immediately available, including_charges the man might face.”

apnews.com/article/pipe...

Pentagon Report: Hegseth Risked Endangering Troops With Signal Messages The inspector general finds that the defense secretary violated his department’s policies.

Update on Signalgate: "The Pentagon’s top watchdog has concluded that the information Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth shared in the chat could have put the mission, U.S. personnel, & national security at risk had it fallen into the wrong hands."

Gift link (I hope)

If after we blow your boat up you still float, you are a witch, so we can kill you. If you drown you are not a witch.

RFK’s Anti-Vax Team Readies Its Next Moves “Their game is, let’s really destabilize trust in the vaccine, and make people really anxious about it.”

To be very clear, Kennedy's team is messing with a vaccine which has led to a 99 percent drop in the incidence of hepatitis B, which kills, early and painfully, 25 percent of the people who get it as children. lnk.thebulwark.com/3Xt957M

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students “Abbott Elementary” creator and star Quinta Brunson is teaming up with the School District of Philadelphia to create a fund to provide free school trips to students.

‘Abbott Elementary’ star Quinta Brunson launches fund to provide free field trips to thousands of Philly students

I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice

So, as a dual citizen, let me just say with the fullest of feeling and clarity of expression:

Fuck Moreno and the far right grift bullshit he rode in on.

I didn't mention it in my bit on this story from earlier this week, but one of the most dispiriting things about this, beyond how predictable it was, is that all these elected officials care much more about doing shit like this than they do about the University of Oklahoma continuing to exist.

If I hated my eyeballs I would dive into
this genre “memoirs by women of bad taste & worst judgement”
starting with the Nuzzi book & Jasmine Ray’s tell-all about Eric Adams.

Imma send this to my therapist instead of trying to explain why reviewing and teaching aren't really part of my measures of "productivity" across the field

More Than 170 U.S. Citizens Have Been Held by Immigration Agents. They’ve Been Kicked, Dragged and Detained for Days. The government does not track how often immigration agents grab citizens. So ProPublica did. Our tally — almost certainly incomplete — includes people who were held for days without a lawyer. And near...

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents.

They’ve had their necks kneeled on.

They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear.

At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

I have not sought out exerpts of Olivia Nuzzi's book to stab myself in the brain with, but in the ones that have somehow made their way to me, she seems to routinely do the hack thing of mistaking sentence fragments for profundity

See also: university presidents/administrators, editors/journalists at the papers/networks of record, CEOs, etc. etc. The skills that secured peak elite status in every societal institution pre-2025 are precisely those least suited for countering a far right authoritarian threat to the Republic.

Get in the habit of bringing up accessibility at meetings, in stand-ups, and in demos. Bring up things you've done to address accessibility. Likewise, don't be afraid to ask, "Have we tested this on a keyboard?" or "What's the experience like on a screen reader?"

My Letter to the Modern Language Association (MLA) Refusing the Prize for my book — Tithi Bhattacharya Dear colleagues on the MLA Executive Council, I am writing to express my deepest gratitude to you and the members of the Aldo and Jeanne Scaglione Prize for South Asian Studies Committee for honoring...

Tithi Bhattacharya also turns down the Scaglione Prize

“by declining, I can contribute to the urgent conversation about the ethical responsibilities of professional academic organizations when facing colonialism, brutal state violence, and genocide.”

www.tithibhattacharya.net/new-blog/202...

MLA and BDS 9: Letter by Liron Mor Declining 2025 Scaglione Prize for Comparative Literary Studies (Guest Post) MLA Convention, New Orleans on January 11, 2025    By Liron Mor, Comparative Literature, UC Irvine To Executive Director Paula Krebs, and Me...

Liron Mor turns down the Scaglione prize: “I am unwilling for my book to serve as a fig leaf for the Association’s leadership, to cover over its failure to address Israeli violence in the region or its attempt to foreclose any discussion of this violence.”

utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/mla-...

Van Hollen was already one of the leading critics of the Israeli state in the Senate but you can really tell Mamdani's victory has emboldened him, among others.

I cackle every time the picture I tweeted like 4 years ago of a page from a Lindy West book that made me scream with laughter, which subsequently exploded on like nineteen different platforms, recirculates past my eyeballs again

my brother sent it to me on Instagram once not knowing I took it 😂

At This College, the English Dept. Is Out. ‘Human Narratives’ Is In.

Arguably they already are. Look at the “restructuring” at Montclair State

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

New School has been one of the most important humanities and social science universities in the world for the past 70 years. The humanities are collapsing at all of the pillars, and it won't be long until less prestigious institutions feel validated to call open season upon a number of departments.

“ It diverts attention from Israel waging an uninterrupted war in Gaza backed by U.S. veto power at the UN, as if pro-Palestine students on American campuses also have that power to stop the war. Those activists couldn't even secure a Palestinian speaker at the DNC.”

Check it out. At The New School, you could've studied composition with John Cage, social science methods with John Dewey, cultural history with Lewis Mumford, or photography with Berenice Abbott