Brian

This is really concerning, not just the raid but that Indiana University has literally disappeared XiaoFeng Wang (a full professor with a named chair position) from their web sites.

The attacks on Chinese-born faculty were bad in Trump 1, but this I worry is way way worse.

The Man Nobody Killed: Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York Life, Death, and Art in Michael Stewart's New York

Incidentally, if you happen to be looking for my book at a Barnes & Noble, it won’t be there till next week. (😡) most other decent booksellers will have it, as well as these folks: bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

it's real folks

Days after immigration officers arrested a prominent pro-Palestinian campus activist, administrators at Columbia University gathered students and faculty from the journalism school and issued a warning. Students who were not U.S. citizens should avoid publishing work on Gaza, Ukraine and protests related to their former classmate's arrest, urged Stuart Karle, a First Amendment lawyer and adjunct professor. With about two months to go before graduation, their academic accomplishments — or even their freedom — could be at risk if they attracted the ire of the Trump administration. "If you have a social media page, make sure it is not filled with commentary on the Middle East," he told the gathering in Pulitzer Hall. When a Palestinian student objected, the journalism school's dean, Jelani Cobb, was more direct about the school's inability to defend international students from federal prosecution. "Nobody can protect you," Mr. Cobb said. "These are dangerous times.'

quite a thing to get out of Henry Fonda for President and see this horrifying shit www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/n...

Arrow Video’s V-CINEMA ESSENTIALS: BULLETS & BETRAYAL Unleashes Cult Genre Havoc Next Month! We're all gonna want these come next month. Get a look at Arrow Video's latest V-Cinema bundle: a total of nine explosive cult Japanese crime thrillers in limited edition Blu-Ray!

Arrow Video’s V-CINEMA ESSENTIALS: BULLETS & BETRAYAL Unleashes Cult Genre Havoc Next Month!

We're all gonna want these come next month. Get a look at Arrow Video's latest V-Cinema bundle: a total of nine explosive cult Japanese crime thrillers in limited edition Blu-Ray!

This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.

Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.

Real quick: there are a lot of people who are asking why more people didn't jump in to intervene physically

This is a place where Patriot Front will hold exercises outside your house if you piss them off enough. This is a place where the people on that stage control every government institution

Stealing the infrastructure we paid for. They're treating blue states and cities like we're conquered territory to be plundered.

Former NFL player Chris Kluwe arrested after attacking ‘corrupt’ Maga movement Former NFL punter Chris Kluwe was arrested in California on Tuesday after protesting against what he said was a tribute to the Maga movement

Hey, look, here’s @chriswarcraft.bsky.social out there walking the walk

www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/f...

I think most people are intuitively aware of this but something like the official White House account posting an “ASMR” video of shackled immigrants is not just cruel for its own sake, it’s intentional envelope-pushing to ramp up to desensitization over inhumane detention, camps, and deaths

Of all the things he could be focusing on he chooses this obvious troll bill

11-Year-Old Texas Girl Bullied Over Family's Immigration Status Takes Her Own Life A sixth grade girl took her life after classmates bullied her over her family's immigration status and threatened to contact ICE to deport her parents.

Trump and Elon have unleashed people become the worst cruelest versions of themselves. www.latintimes.com/11-year-old-...

In South Carolina, tonight: “I have an ectopic pregnancy. It’s on my ovary. They’re making me risk my ovary even though I don’t want to. They refuse to do the surgery.” #ForcedBirthNation

Original Post: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT2yCKENt/

Look I expect cruelty from this administration—but who exactly is the intended audience for this? People who skinned cats as children?

"Project 2025 approved SSA administrator steps down just 3 weeks into the administration, giving up a GS-15 career in the process, because she knew even one more week on the job would risk putting her in prison for decades" is a very good and comforting sign

(Musk's touching the stove)

UPDATE: It's happening now. German police entered the new venue to break up our meeting with Francesca Albanese and Amnesty International. The miss no chance to prove that totalitarianism is back in Germany even before the AfD has won gvt

democrats won’t admit it, but my family’s economic outlook has gotten a LOT better since Trump took office. but what do i know? i don’t have a fancy economics degree, i’m just a regular guy who runs an airplane scrapyard

The protests going on right now are not the same as 2016 or 2020. You are seeing a social movement in its Proto phases before we know what the final form looks like.This is something much bigger than anything We’ve seen probably since occupy much larger and angrier then 2016 or 20 time to turn it up

When America loses the Financial Times. www.ft.com/content/11f1...

Thus far DOGE operatives have have full read access to govt payments system at Treasury (yr tax refunds, bank info, etc); full access to all CMS data (anything tied to your Medicare or Medicaid); and now they are seeking full access to everyone's tax returns. Feeling safer?

Five months ago the NYT’s publisher wrote an oped insisting that he could clearly recognize, and was ready for, the authoritarian threat

This country has seen some bad moments in the 61 years, 5 months, 16 days I’ve been on this Earth. But it has never, ever before come close to the supertoxic level of stupidity, mendacity, narcissism, nihilism, and moral apathy that threaten to destroy it today.

Dan Osborn performed very well with little resources. Nebraska is ripe for change.

Poland is compromised. The PiS is aligned with Putin despite their public actions.

Books mentioning slavery, civil rights removed from shelves at Fort Campbell schools - ClarksvilleNow.com At an elementary school at Fort Campbell, home of the 101st Airborne Division, librarians are hard at work scrubbing the shelves for books that contain references to slavery, the civil rights movement...

This is where we are now: An elementary school at Fort Campbell has removed all books from its library that so much as *allude* to slavery or the civil rights movement.

The wholesale erasure of history in real time.

I still cannot believe this is real. It’s psychotic. There are many, many (SO MANY) more consequential heinous things they’ve done, but somehow the crassness of this seems like a new low. The White House shitposting like an especially mean and stupid 14-year-old.

History buffs will know that every authoritarian leader eventually converges on some version of: "I *am* the state. I can not break the law, I am the law, the law is instantiated in me."

Our march to authoritarianism so far has been excruciatingly by-the-book. Hitting every beat. No surprises.

Congrats