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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue

"Someone" has to be held accountable? Why are they so unwilling to name names?

People who can afford airline tickets are more important to elected officials than people who need ACA subsidies.

That South Park episode is brave, which is such a sad truth considering it’s nothing more what they’ve been doing since 1997. How far American freedoms have fallen

While the gospels say that Judas led the Romans to Jesus, a new theory is gaining traction with some Biblical scholars. There is evidence, some say, that Judas merely shared Christ's location on an insecure group chat that accidentally included several Roman officials and journalists.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

This might be the most beautiful, tragic, and insightful piece I've read about the US.

The America I loved is gone It was a nation of dreams, built for the screen. Then it shattered

This is my love letter to an America I can no longer visit, an elegy in the form on an essay. So glad the @guardian published it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

Trump supporters have put Trump in the position that used to be occupied by "God". What would it take to cause a person to turn against God? A lot. So their reasoning is, "I am a person of faith. This is Trump's will. I do not question it."

I’m a pediatrician in Texas. Things are dire and we need your support – not your condescension | Seema Jilani Nothing I have done is more impactful than a day’s work in this battleground in the south, the graveyard of politicians’ abandoned promises

Read and act.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The root that tears apart your foundation begins as a seed of distrust, hate, and blame.

The seed that grew into a dictatorship in Europe didn’t arrive overnight.

It started with everyday Germans mad about inflation and looking for someone to blame.

Same. I was 14.

This was my nightmare on inauguration day and it all came true immediately, in ways far worse than I imagined. People simply refusing to see or acknowledge what is happening in front of their noses.

Mama bear wrestling with her cub. She's got him by the rear paw, nibbling on his toes I guess. They're in spring grass with a tree on the left.

Musk's censorship algorithm on Twitter reduced our audience by about 95% since he bought it.

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Yes, it would be nice if states supported this but they don't. And it isn't going to happen any time soon.

Internal grants for faculty in areas where it's hard to get federal funds. Faculty computers when your budgets are so strapped you have no budget anymore. Faculty travel funds. Student research travel funds. The list goes on.

Yes, it is a massive problem. Indirects help pay things like: startup costs for new faculty who have not yet gotten grants, bridge funds for faculty between grants, undergraduate research grants (including for students in the humanities where grants are rare), staff in the research office.

Poor Elon. Someone needs to change his nappy.

Ok. As anyone who has worked children can confirm, you say, "Why don't you go calm down and we'll talk when you can behave like a grownup". Do not engage. Unless of course, you want them to melt down, totally (not a bad idea). In which case, you smirk and say, "Looks like someone needs his binky."

Because, you know, weather doesn't cross national borders.

Absolutely.

Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government? Over the course of the last two weeks, I’ve tried to drive...

Who Can Stop Elon’s ‘Team’ Wilding Its Way Through the Federal Government? talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-c...

Remember they want you scared. They are desperately trying to terrify us into submission.
Federal employees? Yep.
Opposition? Yep.
Their own Congress? Yep.

Figure out what you stand for and stand the fuck up for it.

"Oh, geez! I've got a mind like a sieve!" is also a good response.

All of his frocks have been given.

I think it's a meta-exhibit.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

My state introduced something similar a number of years ago. I haven't posted a syllabus online in at least 4 semesters. Guess what happened? Nothing. Faculty are the good kids in class who always obeyed. Just don't. No one has time to monitor it.

Denmark should sell an acre of Greenland to Mexico. Just for the LOLs.

Colombia's Petro will not allow US planes to return migrants Colombia's President Gustavo Petro will not allow planes from the United States carrying migrants on deportation flights to land in the country, he said in a post on X in the early hours of Sunday morning.

For anyone wondering what the real story is: no, Trump did NOT get his way. The Government of Colombia has only agreed to accept Colombian citizens, and they will be flown back using the Colombian Presidential airplane— as Petro demanded

www.reuters.com/world/americ...