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I couldn’t tell you. Susan thinks this whole CLUP thing is fishy.

Someone on Ann Arbor Nextdoor said that exclusionary single family zoning was a myth perpetrated by the Koch brothers. So I got to link Richard Rothstein’s book.

Something that just does not sit well with me recently is most things

fellas is it gay to live in a city

At this point it feels like every major road other than Main has some kind of closure

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1 This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

Signs presents “Lesbian Studies, Now” — exploring lesbian feminism’s vital role in contemporary scholarship, from gender nonconformity to revolutionary fervor. Special issue out now! (sub. req’d): buff.ly/MxJWVvm

Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society | Vol 51, No 1 This introduction to “Lesbian Studies, Now” reflects on the affective, intellectual, and political stakes of invoking “lesbian” as a generative scholarly category in the present as well as the three…

Rejected everywhere, staged as a hoax, and finally published in a lesbian sex mag — Sarah Schulman’s “A Short Story About a Penis” has quite a history. Rachel Corbman uncovers its fascinating legacy in Signs’ new issue: check it out here! (sub. req’d):

I was a lifelong liberal Democrat. But then Neighbors for More Neighbors started tailgating at #a2council meetings.

They literally just fought a Supreme Court case for the right to racially profile. It was in the news!

That’s from the American Council of Learned Societies. Full statement here mailchi.mp/b218502be6b8...

Screenshot from statement “Universities and colleges have one mission: to advance knowledge. Faculty carry out the mission by conducting research and teaching students. The knowledge they produce and circulate is independently assessed by professional peers. Interfering with that process by forcing knowledge to pass through a political filter is a tactic adopted by the Soviet Union and other authoritarian states. The White House is dressing up its compact as a reasonable corrective to what it views as problems in campus culture. Let no one be deceived. This proposal imposes government censorship on academia. It is anti-American, and it weakens our democracy by devaluing academic expertise.”

ACLS statement against White House “compact”: THIS IS SOVIET SHIT

I was counting my piles of cash when my nepobaby banker son turned to me gravely and asked "Daddy, why did the library buy the Observer?" And when I told him "because the AADL is run by fascists," he started crying. #a2council

Someone used “Father Figure” as the soundtrack for a fan video about Phee and maybe I hate it slightly less now.

Which place is this? Tell me so I can avoid it.

I keep forgetting they’re a private school. Just boggles the mind.

This is adorable and hilarious and also an ATTACK

The NJ case is horrifying. He was supposedly stalking one of the victims. I don’t expect much but still…

wut

The MLM Presidency.

Besides the point but surely Syracuse doesn’t cost $100k a year

People talk about it like it *just* closed but it’s been ages

I’d definitely be interested. Have you reached out to do @danicasavonick.bsky.social ? I’m sure she’d love to contribute!

Democrats' view of American support for Israel •More likely to vote for them Less likely to vote for them No difference If you learned that your Member of Congress voted against sending billions of dollars of taxpayer-funded weapons to Israel, would that make you..? 57% 9% 34% If you learned that your Member of Congress sponsored the Block the Bombs Act, would that make you...? 55% 13% 32% Based on a survey of 1,221 registered voters who said they typically vote in Democratic primaries, conducted Sept. 11-24. MoE for total sample +3 pts. Chart: Marta Biino/Semafor • Source: Middle East Understanding Policy Project/YouGov SEMAFOR

71% of Democratic voters say they'd favor a 2028 presidential candidate who has previously "voted to withhold weapons from Israel."

55% say they would prefer congressional candidates who supported the “Block the Bombs Act,” co-sponsored curriculum by just a quarter of House Democrats.

Big agree. The guitar riffs feel almost Motown-y. It’s a good example of her poppy romp style

Earlier this morning, on President Trump's orders, I directed a lethal, kinetic strike on a narco-trafficking vessel affiliated with Designated Terrorist Organizations in the USSOUTHCOM area of responsibility. Four male narco-terrorists aboard the vessel were killed in the strike, and no U.S. forces were harmed in the operation. The strike was conducted in international waters just off the coast of Venezuela while the vessel was transporting substantial amounts of narcotics - headed to America to poison our people. Our intelligence, without a doubt, confirmed that this vessel was trafficking narcotics, the people onboard were narco-terrorists, and they were operating on a known narco-trafficking transit route. These strikes will continue until the attacks on the American people are over!!!!

Further premeditated killing by the Trump administration.

Labelling the victims of these strikes as "narco-terrorists" does not magically make these attacks legal.

Mia, small brown dog with big sad eyes making her “puppy dog” eyes at the camera

She was looking especially forlorn so hopefully they took pity on her. Example:

Back when I lived in Philly, I had tied my dog to a street sign while I grabbed a coffee onna nice fall day. Five minutes later someone had locked their bike essentially on top of her. Not even on the other side!

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

I love when student journalists break a crazy story, especially about their own school. This one is extraordinarily macabre. www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

UNC reinstates prof who had been suspended amid Charlie Kirk furor UNC Chapel is immediately reinstating a professor suspended in response to a dubious link to celebrations of conservative activist Charlie Kirk’s assassination.The university said in an email Friday m...

UNC admin realized that standing on the side of white supremacists and fascists calling for the firing of Dr. Dwayne Dixon is bad policy, bad business, bad optics, and overall unconstitutional.

‘A Crazy Moment’: Shock and Terror Spreads in Manchester Synagogue’s Community

Antisemitism is getting worse. We are on a scary path.

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