Chris Jones

AOC: And they are able to radicalize a generation of young boys in particular, away from healthy masculinity and into an insecure masculinity that requires the domination of others who are poorer, browner, darker, or a different gender than them.

the federal government is running ethnic terror pogroms executed by washed out skinheads

Prep soccer would be a lot more fun if dads could get booked

Same

Happy Residual Rapture Anxiety Day to all who celebrate

Wow!! I'm shocked you remembered after like three years. I don't know if that thread still exists anywhere or not. But the underlying idea is that 1) people love stickers and recognition and 2) use something that also allows your personality to come through. It makes you relatable.

Elizabeth Warren on people who say Dems needs to tone down their rhetoric: "Oh, please. Why don't you start with the president of the United States? And every ugly meme he's posted and every ugly word."

It would be pretty awesome for every professor in Texas to talk about how there are more than two sexes in class today.

They can pick you off one by one. But they can’t fire all of you at once. Solidarity is the only way through this.

Sparrows standing in a line on a roof

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

What do they think they're accomplishing? Our admins like to have us go to thinly-veiled PR events where they bombard us with data about how great things are (and then explain why we still can't have nice things).

i find this image so fascinating. it is both a literal example of authoritarianism but also a second-hand reproduction of the aesthetics of other authoritarian states. it's like a simulacra of authoritarianism whose purpose is to attempt to make the simulacra real.

At 8:22am, JD Vance tweets: "We’re at the WH monitoring the situation in Minneapolis. Join all of us in praying for the victims!" Then at 1:53pm, JD Vance tweets: "Amazing testimony from a very brave little boy. We hope his friend Victor is OK." There's is an attached Fox News clip of a little boy talking about how his friend saved his life at this morning's Minneapolis church shooting.

the obligatory second tweet after "monitoring and praying" to show you are very concerned. then maybe a third tweet before going back to talking about how some restaurant changed its logo or an M&M no longer wears sexy boots

A reminder that this is what the path to a full ban on vaccines looks like.

No one is banning vaccines for everyone overnight. Just like with abortion, they will carve off one group at a time and hope the those still eligible respond with gratitude and self-interest instead of anger and solidarity.

It's just...every time I have a real conversation with a woman about experiences at work, on the street, at shows, at parks, on trains, online, etc. etc., I realize anew that it's way, way worse than I thought it was.

Don't just "believe" women. Put a thumb on the scale every time a woman talks.

If you're a guy, and there are any women who *actually* trust you, treat that like the highest achievement possible.

You think a Nobel Prize is a bigger deal than that? There are a LOT of Nobel Prize winners who can't say that any women trust them.

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Whoopsy

The Clintons have always shown steadfast loyalty to the wrong people.

How are all the strong-willed children out there feeling today? Drop a gif.

much easier to understand the sheer bloody intensity of the civil war when you have a good grasp on just how terrible slavery was.

Do I have any academic friends who work specifically on American slavery who'd like to co-write a piece on this, fast and angrily?

"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.

It’s darkly funny to see what’s happening to techies who sneered “Learn how to code!” at people in other endangered industries.

Archie Comics presents Plato’s Republic

At least after tech bros wreck the economy we'll get to watch them suffer less than the rest of us

First day of classes! Today I just ask them all to pronounce their names, and then we break into small groups for content discussion. *Maybe* we get to the syllabus?

Students won't remember first-day content, but they'll remember how they felt about it.

I would very much love to see the year-by-year numbers around how much $$$ is spent on consulting companies in education over the past decade.

(I don't think it is a flat line.)