Tristan Schweiger

Of course, as agents of the ruling class, it's their mission not to understand to the contrary.

Listening to university administrators talk about the "crisis" in higher education, you really do see the hard boundaries of the bourgeois liberal imaginary. Material conditions are mysterious forces of nature to be pathetically reacted to, not things that can be changed via political pressure.

It was a catastrophic mistake letting the fucking MBAs run a public good like higher ed.

Whenever I start a class with Gulliver rather than Robinson Crusoe, I feel like students won't understand my benevolence in not inflicting Crusoe on them unless they've already read Crusoe.

The obstacle the Democratic Party faces is not "wokeism" or the "groups" or this right-wing fantasy that suddenly a supermajority of the country are fascists. It's that party leadership is far more committed to the interests of capital than workers.

That's it. That's all.

what a humiliating way for don jr. to find out his dad sends birthday cards.

I'm sorry, yes, all sports team owners suck ass. But if you root for a team owned by *Jerry Jones*, I cannot take you seriously as a person.

They have taken untold millions
That they never toiled to earn,
But without our brain and muscle
Not a single wheel can turn.
We can break their haughty power --
Gain our freedom when we learn --
That the union makes us strong!

Happy (US) Labor Day, comrades.

Based as hell.

Thank you, Johanna. Solidarity.

RFK Jr is such a great argument for setting the inheritance tax at 100 percent.

It should of course go without saying, but absolutely no one should be scabbing for Columbia.

You could read all these university presidents lining up to do Trump’s bidding just as all the severe weaknesses of his power base are exposed as stupidity and cowardice.

Or you could correctly read it as they’re all fully on board with the reactionary project.

Not that the old model of university president was, you know, “good,” but at least they did believe their core mission was research and education.

In retrospect, it was a huge mistake to turn over the public good of higher education to MBA dipshits. Who could have ever foreseen???

UChicago Arts & Humanities Division to Restructure Amid “Historic Funding Pressures” “The status quo is not an option,” Deborah Nelson, dean of the Division of the Arts & Humanities, wrote to division faculty on June 18.

University administrators would love nothing more than to have no students and no faculty and simply run the real estate investment firms of their dreams.

Twenty years later, David Harvey’s A Brief History of Neoliberalism continues to explain [gestures wildly] all of this shit better than 99 percent of texts out there.

It’s very annoying Larry Summers is considered a genius when it takes him years to figure out stuff that is instantly obvious to the median lefty shitposter

There is a direct line from Gaza to the brutal suppression of student dissent to the dismantling of US higher ed — which boards of trustees/regents and university presidents are enthusiastic participants in.

If you don’t see this is all part of a huge ruling-class power grab, you don’t get it.

The Times, like all of the bourgeois press, is committed to you believing that nothing will ever change and nothing better is possible.

IOF soldiers are now taking their official photos with their backs turned. Because they know. We know. They will be held accountable. The day of reckoning is coming

Absolutely incredible

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The capitalists' plan for the future is to use police to protect themselves from the justified rebellion of the working class as climate disaster kills and displaces us all while they consolidate their lives and property behind militarized walls and borders. Everyone is disapearable to them.

John Podhoretz tweet: "Trump bombed Iran. He can say Shylock 100 times a day forever as far as I’m concerned." https://x.com/jpodhoretz/status/1941185424174821558

Two decades of comics and he just tweeted it out

NYT reporter meeting in a parking garage with an anonymous source dressed head to toe in Nazi regalia

An opinion writer is not allowed to criticize the paper on social media for using a Nazi source but the reporter who worked with the Nazi source was free to leave a long social media trail being buddy-buddy with the Nazi in public

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

laundering an anonymous Twitter Nazi’s dirty work into print would get you fired from approximately 100% of the world’s high-school newspapers

The New York Times remains an absolute fucking disgrace.

Mamdani Identified as Asian and African American on College Application

You know, when I heard that all of our personal data had been hacked, I didn't expect the first major use of it to be the NYT trying to fuck over Zohran but maybe I'm naive www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/n...

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE.

This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined.

It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.