Marie CCS

I think this moment of people feeling nervous about something and doing it anyway could prove quite liberating and profound

Not being even vaguely sarcastic:

At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

I feel like I had a good teaching day. Teaching is the best. We should not do things that make teaching harder or worse, I think.

Let me strongly emphasize that you should not give someone money for committing a gross breach of professional ethics. You also shouldn't hire them for a prestigious new job but our industry is garbage, alas!

Screenshot of a Facebook post featuring three of the Portland protesters wearing inflatable frog costumes with the following text: Episcopalians on Facebook Elizabeth Rose Elrod • 22h • Exodus 8:2-6 "But if you refuse to let them go, I will plague your whole country with frogs... The frogs shall come up on you and on your people and on all your officials."

you fucked around and now the Episcopalians are doing memes. are you happy now. are you

They are terrified of the No Kings rallies and doing everything they can to discredit them.

If you're on the fence about going, just think of how much it'll piss off these assholes.

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

It’s the Portland way.

important to remember that no matter how unpopular you think the regime is currently, this is actually the most popular they will ever be between today and any dat you pick in the future

Paying $2000 for a yorkie that’s locked into an open adoption agreement is one way to get a dog, I suppose!

Imagine being a dying WW2 veteran and the last thing you see on earth is your great-grandson invading Portland for fascism and losing to a frog wizard.

this man's name is written in the book of life

The collaborator class seems serenely confident that the Trumpenreich will last a thousand years while the House GOP is in complete meltdown. Look, I’m not *promising* comedy gold by any means, but the possibility is there.

I like the drive-by ruling that Kendrick Lamar also won the beef as a whole.

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

What is it about female pop artists being funny/flippant/ironic that switches off so many people's media literacy? I'm reminded of the time I saw a tweet from someone who thought Olivia Rodrigo was 100% seriously calling her ex a sociopath in "good 4 u".

I think it's sexist and stupid.

I love showing this to my students. Freaks 'em out good.

I guess if we are doing Dumb Fascism, we might as well go whole hog and do Dumb Stalingrad.

In news that's exciting only to me, today's NameThatNovel answer was the book I just finished teaching to my honors freshmen. Nice.

It’s an exciting time for me, an English major and English teacher, as I wait for people to say that Taylor Swift doesn’t understand Hamlet. She very much does! Don’t worry, girl—I got you.
(I’m not even a Swiftie; I just like fighting.)

Years ago, we made fun of Taylor Swift for not knowing how Romeo and Juliet ends, and now she’s like, “I DID read Hamlet, ok?!”
(This is not a criticism of her, btw.)

“Ew this is cringe and she’s too horny for Travis Kelce.” SHE’S AN ADULT WOMAN, AND SHE’S ALLOWED TO BE HORNY!
Also, her lyrics have always been earnest and cringe, and you know what?

It has never been more important to stay in the military if you have any values including that fishermen should not be executed without a trial.

If part of their "doing nothing" includes not following those orders later then I'm extremely good with them doing nothing!

Chat, is it a good strategy to make an authoritarian power grab while actively alienating every military leader?

AG Nessel wins case blocking DHS from withholding emergency funds Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel has announced a legal win in a major lawsuit that challenged a Trump administration policy threatening to withhold billions in federal emergency funds from…

Trump and his cronies tried to blackmail states by withholding funds that help prepare for and stop emergencies from terror attacks to natural disasters. @DanaNessel.bsky.social and Democratic Attorneys General fought back and won. www.wilx.com/2025/09/25/a...

Whaaaat! I love her work!

If I have to go march in the streets for that motherfucker, I swear…