Tyler Quebedeaux

Famed NASA astronaut Jim Lovell, who commanded the harrowing Apollo 13 mission in 1970, has died cnn.it/40SWf4U

The thing about Leno is most working comedians view him with barely disguised disdain and contempt.

The only two people cited on Wikipedia as viewing Leno as an influence are two contemporaries who have both become pretty problematic in their own right.

What a dogsh*t legacy.

As someone who feels very vengeful towards this particular court, I might be seriously suggesting it.

This is the core problem with the Buttigieg "we have to find common ground" framing. The question isn't sports, it's whether trans people will be allowed to exist as trans in public. Everything else—politically and strategically—is downstream from that.

This is legitimately insane. It's not an exaggeration to say this is actually a full on bathroom ban for trans people because they're banned from using spaces of their sex assigned at birth too!

It seems unhelpful to me that whenever someone says “Trump proposal X would be clearly illegal” a thousand people all chorus in to say “yes but SCOTUS is in the bag, it doesn’t matter.” Sure, the corrupt majority might sign off on anything. But we need to ACT like the law still matters.

HEY! HEY! RFK!

HOW MANY KIDS HAVE YOU KILLED TODAY?!!!

The Republican governor of Texas has directed state police to arrest his Democratic opponents

Republicans complain about Texas Democrats “fleeing”—yet just days ago, they themselves fled D.C. to avoid voting on the Epstein files.

Why? To protect a convicted felon sitting in the Oval Office.

One side dodges accountability.
The other fights for democracy.

Repost @djmelodie

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton fled his home to avoid being served with subpoena, court record says In an affidavit, a process server said that the state’s top attorney tried to evade him as he attempted to deliver a subpoena from an abortion fund’s lawsuit against the state.

Abbott cites an opinion from AG Ken Paxton claiming that lawmakers who leave the state can be expelled.

So, chaser:

Gaza Starvation Photos Tell a Thousand Lies Hamas propaganda exploits seriously ill children, and Western media go along.

The editors who published this should go straight to The Hague. I mean literally, according to the terms of international law such as it exists.

Heritage Prez Tells Right-Wing State Legislators to De-charter, Take Over Blue Capital Cities No democracy for you, urban voters! Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts says the "second American Revolution" is renewing self-governance in same speech he tells right-wing legislators to de-c...

No democracy for you, urban voters! Heritage Foundation Pres. Kevin Roberts says the "second American Revolution" is renewing "self-governance" in same speech he tells right-wing legislators to de-charter capital cities and make them "state municipal districts." www.peoplefor.org/rightwingwat...

Getting in additional refresher education:

Me three months ago:

a woman with glasses and a stethoscope around her neck is smiling and says i 'm so happy to be here ALT: a woman with glasses and a stethoscope around her neck is smiling and says i 'm so happy to be here

It’s the second HBO series where I’ve watched a natural child birth depicted in graphic detail

During the Cold War, there was a cottage industry in the US dedicated to trying to figure out what the real numbers were behind the Iron Curtain because everything the governments put out was fake and I hope some of that infrastructure still exists because we now need it for our own government.

Looking East from the Self-Centered Countries

It is a genuinely lovely sport to just hang out and watch and socialize… it’s one of the many things that it shares with baseball

If you have power in your department or institution, now is a moment to follow through and remove them from your process.

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For years I have been saying we must get rid of course evaluations. Lots of good tools for qualitative confidential feedback. But the bureaucratic centralized course evaluation is a tool for replicating bigotry.

I would say the ethical approach here would be for faculty to deliberately refuse to publicize or encourage the filling out of evaluations.

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring.

Read it for yourself here:

www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

inside you there are four wolves

This is indistinguishable from 14 words, Aryan Nations discourse.

Senate Democrat opposes Muslim appellate court nominee Mangi Senator Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada late Tuesday became the first Democrat to publicly announce she will not support President Joe Biden's nomination of Adeel Mangi to become the nation's first Muslim federal appeals court judge, endangering his ability to win Senate confirmation.

The seat Bove just got confirmed to has been sitting vacant entirely because of this.

Every blue-haired they/them liberal arts grad living in NYC is tougher than this sad little bitch.

Louisiana had more total firearm deaths (1,222) in 2022 than New York State (1,044). Louisiana is a much smaller state.

Umm….

In two or three weeks, when Israel is freed from the obligation imposed on it by the Blinken and Biden administrations 15 months ago!!! to pour astronomical amounts of aid on Hamas. And a famine regime begins on Gaza, backed by Trump, it will be possible to examine and if to what extent Biden's policy delayed the release of the hostages.

This is Shlomo Filber, a Likud's pollster and former Netanyahu confidant, saying in February that Israel is about to impose a "hunger regime" on Gaza. Three weeks later Israel cut all aid to the strip.
This is starvation policy, planned and implemented.

Full tweet translation in alt-text.

Many people are saying this (me, I’ve been saying this)