Stu F.

That’s what it’s mostly meant until now but it’s meaning seems to have immediately expanded to encompass this too

It has had a slightly different but at least equally vile connotation in Ukraine where it has been a timing thing for Russia to then get the rescue workers.

Universities: investing millions so students ”develop literacy in the language of AI”

Also universities: defunding the humanities so students are illiterate in ordinary languages

Sure the sport may be known to the rest of the world as FOOTball, but they were justifiably confident that a bunch of hands reaching up for a planetary soccer ball would never strike Trump as deeply weird.

The MAGA Cultural Revolution in action.

I'm not joking, this is a level of intellectual vandalism comparable to the restrictions placed on content at universities in totalitarian states in the middle of vicious mass purges.

From an earlier piece:

yaledailynews.com/blog/2025/10...

The scale of the terror going on in Sudan right now has completely broken my ability to comprehend it tbh

Many people are saying

bsky.app/profile/sdfs...

Democrats Need to Treat the Supreme Court Like the Villain It Is The Court is out of control, and we'll never see reform unless we build the case for it. Starting now.

Democrats need to lay the groundwork for reform by attacking the villains on the Supreme Court - loudly, angrily, personally, relentlessly. And they should start now.

paulwaldman.substack.com/p/democrats-...

YouTube video by Russian Media Monitor Vladimir Solovyov calls for assassinations of European officials

This evening on Kremlin TV: state TV host Vladimir Solovyov called for assassinations of Ursula von der Leyen, Kaja Kallas and others. Solovyov notes that Trump’s national security policy is copied directly from Putin youtu.be/ELu3gHgofBI

CBS News Special Senior Correspondent Olivia Nuzzi

this is really it — this case isn't about the legitimacy of birthright citizenship or the 14th amendment, it's about the legitimacy of the court, and any ruling that doesn't uphold the former decides the latter

Every word of this thread.

🎶 I don’t care if I never get back 🎶 (the land you gave away to an aggressive imperialist power in the name of a false peace that won’t last)

The intelligent design “scientists” of legal scholarship

ACB and Roberts concurring in part and pretending to be reasonable on something purely nominal or that as you suggest will kick the can down the road.

“Let’s pull it out of Philly and maybe Atlanta.”

Sir, as always that’s brilliant sir, but there is a wee, well, sort of important election just a few months later so

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.

"groceries" is an interesting word in the dictionary that not many people know, while "affordability" is a plot by Big Webster to implement full communism

lol not sure how I put "viewers" rather than "readers" in there

Some of our viewers approach our reporting with the unshakeable belief that the earth is round, while others are convinced that it is flat. How do you make sure that we challenge rather than validate these assumptions?

Many of our viewers approach our reporting with the unshakeable belief that the earth is round, while others are convinced that it is flat. Our job is to challenge these assumptions rather than to validate either one of them.

Going to be really disappointed if it turns out the British guy didn't actually have his foot shredded by the riding mower for art's sake.

we are well past the point at which anyone who cannot identify bad faith like this is disqualified from commenting on it

the girl and her mother are basically screaming THIS IS A BAD FAITH ATTACK ON TRANS PEOPLE at the top of their lungs and if you can't see that you're stupid or lying

… seeing that the student's mother is a known MAGA media figure who defended Jan. 6th-ers, yeah, this was absolutely & unquestionably a provocation.

💯. This also has the feel of provocation* — student backed by TPUSA aware of what they were doing and who the instructor was looking to get a reaction. The “0” was hitting the wingnut jackpot: aggrieved christian victim of elite lib tyranny.

(*not at all incompatible with how you put it.)

… but reading more about it and seeing that the grad student was apparently solely responsible for teaching the class, whew. Should be getting full throated support from faculty in their department no matter what.

Man as someone who uses reaction papers sometimes (in a different field), I would never have a prompt this *long* for a short assignment, even if I were desperately trying to find ways to prevent their using an LLM to do it (they can still do that with some of these options anyway).

Every interaction he has with female reporters now has him charging in with unchecked, increasingly unhinged misogynistic belligerence, just itching to bully & insult them and the outlet they work for, no matter what they ask him.

AFAIK not a single male reporter has objected to this, it just is.

The New Deal wasn’t built on a promise that there would be “no ceiling” for the richest Americans.

Quite the opposite, in fact. FDR knew its politics could only work if he singled out the rich as villains and knew that its policies could only work if the rich paid their fair share in taxes.