Kevin Bruyneel

Thanks so much, Mary! Deadline 10/10 to apply for the free seminar for junior faculty and grad students on Native peoples and the Constitution.

The "I would never be at peace" part is really telling. Work addiction has always been encouraged by capitalists as a way of productively weaponizing our own misery and loneliness for their profit. Don't fall for it

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Trump administration illegally targeted pro-Palestinian protesters, judge rules. ICE reasons for masking “squalid, disingenuous, and dishonorable.” Free Palestine! 🇵🇸

This OR GOP activist, who was indicted for his actions in DC on January 6, spoke at an anti-political-violence/Charlie Kirk vigil last night in a Portland suburb.

What it’s like raising trans kids in Trump’s backyard Families in and around Washington, D.C., are navigating the White House’s crackdown on gender-affirming care and a growing assertion of federal power.

I spoke with five families in the D.C. region about what it's like raising trans kids in Trump's backyard.

They shared fears about being personally targeted by the federal government and their joys in raising kids that are learning to express themselves authentically in a difficult world.

Lefty influencers don’t go on college “debate” tours because lefty podcasters aren’t fucking given bags of cash by Foster Friess or the Mercers to go on very expensive tours

Also: those debates aren’t fucking debates. They’re slop-generating machines for the hogs

Got it now, Ross?

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No? Okay

Also, there are SO MANY progressives who literally live in these spaces and spend a lot of their lives advocating their positions (be it through direct political action or casual conversations with co-workers, friends, and neighbors) in spaces hostile to those ideas.

cato institute analysis of murders by political ideology since 1975, excluding 9/11

Cover of Time Magazine all in red, photo from the Charlie Kirk event where he was killed.

Screenshot of all the 2025 Time Magazine covers.

Time Magazine's cover this week is "Enough. The Killing of Charlie Kirk and the Epidemic of American Political Violence."

They did not do a similar cover when 2 Democratic politicians were murdered earlier this year.

Why does this seem to be so consistent?

she said that “black” with a hard r

The U.S. government is hiding Öztürk records. Its rationale is insulting If the government was really concerned about protecting privacy, it wouldn’t have abducted and detained Öztürk for writing an op-ed

Charges against Rümeysa Öztürk aren’t true, and U.S. government records can prove it.

That’s why we filed a FOIA lawsuit.

But the State Department is using FOIA exemptions as an invisibility cloak to hide potentially damning information.

We’ll keep fighting.

The NYT in the same spiral as CNN, freaked out they're being abandoned by their longtime subscribers and chasing the Fox News crowd that's never going to accept them as anything but a liberal rag

Today's Politics Are Not Trapped In Amber Americans did not speak for the final time in 2024. Some high-profile Democrats don't seem to understand this.

Gavin Newsom fell for the idea that the country had permanently lurched to the right in 2024. Not sure he can recover from that miscalculation, even with that hair. badfaithtimes.com/todays-polit...

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Newsom has proved that he will set aside every liberal ideal you think he holds for the sake of power. You simply can’t trust him. I don’t object to him forcefully opposing Trump where he can, but the reason people qualify their support is that he’s a snake.

"The DOJ’s wholesale abandonment of Black people under Donald Trump—refusing to protect us from police abuse, refusing to protect us from voter suppression, refusing to protect us from employment discrimination, and more—has left Lexington’s residents feeling afraid and alone once again."

Trump really has Bowser figured out. She's never been comfortable with the more left-wing politics of the council; she vetoed fare evasion decrim, delayed the sweeping reform bill so that Congress could kill it. And all she cares about is her football stadium legacy item.

It is important to note that the police did NOTHING to prevent or stop the mass shooting in Manhattan. We need other strategies than sending SWAT teams after everyone (including the shooter) is already dead.

Even New York’s Strict Gun Laws Couldn’t Prevent the Midtown Shooting New York City has some of the toughest gun laws in the nation. But Monday’s mass shooting showed their limits, security experts said.

Alternate Headline:

"Even the $5 billion NYC Spends on the NYPD Couldn't Prevent the Midtown Shooting.

NYC has the highest per capita level of policing in the US. But Monday’s mass shooting showed policing's limits, security experts said."

Why not go with that headline? Why not? WHY. NOT?

This is like if you combined the Israeli government with a health insurance company. Just the absolute worst. Do not give this company money. Hey guys, did Anne Frank have any pre-existing conditions? Jesus christ.

Nathan Kalman-Lamb Never have never would But calling this genocide Is a blood libel and if I had standing I’d be serving you with defamation papers as we speak Stop spreading lies !!!

May I present Edward Lake, a Democrat lawyer threatening to sue me for saying it’s a genocide

Senators are Van Hollen, Welch, Schatz, Murray, Kaine, Durbin, Merkley, Sanders, Warren, Smith, Baldwin, Markey, Warnock, Heinrich, Duckworth, Klobuchar, Hirono, Alsobrooks, Lujan, Ossoff, and Murphy. Both GA Senators and Baldwin from WI but no one else from a Trump 2024 state. No NY, NJ, or CA.

Pathetic and disgraceful, if unsurprising

Brilliant!

The thing that stands out here is so many Dems run campaigns terrified of (and thus buying into) the Fox News framing.

Mamdani is rightly mocking that framing as ridiculous and it resonates. He's not running scared. He's running proud of who he is and what he stands for.