Courtney Hopf

YouTube video by Led By Donkeys TANK VS TESLA

The 98-year-old WWII vet driving the tank is what really makes this video shine. youtu.be/lw4ZjhOukwU

A lot of people want to separate the art from the artist, but I would settle for separating the artist from her money.

Photo of Senator Chris Van Hollen with Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I said my main goal of this trip was to meet with Kilmar. Tonight I had that chance. I have called his wife, Jennifer, to pass along his message of love. I look forward to providing a full update upon my return.

YouTube video by Senator Chris Van Hollen Headed to El Salvador to meet with government officials and discuss return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia

I’m about to board my flight to El Salvador, where I hope to meet with senior government officials to discuss the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

I also hope to see Kilmar and check on his condition — and remind him that we won’t stop fighting until he’s home.

Yesterday was incredible. The official count is in — 5.2 million people joined the #HandsOff protest nationwide. So many are asking: what’s next? Mark your calendars: 4/19 is the next nationwide day of protest.

A Letter to Columbia <i>Editor's Note: This op-ed was dictated by Mahmoud Khalil, SIPA </i>’24<i>. Spectator verified this with his Attorney Amy Greer and conducted its regular editing process. Khalil is currently detaine...

Mahmoud Khalil: Columbia’s “singular concern has always been the vitality of its financial profile, not the safety of Jewish students. This is why Columbia was all too happy to embrace a superficial progressive agenda while still disregarding Palestine, & this is why it will soon turn on you, too.”

Thank you, Senator Booker! @booker.senate.gov

Excerpt from Rutgers University Senate resolution calling for a Mutual Academic Defense Compact. The excerpt reads: "BE IT RESOLVED THAT, the Rutgers University Senate urges the President of Rutgers University to formally propose and help establish a Mutual Academic Defense Compact (MADC) among all members of the Big Ten Academic Alliance; BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT, under this compact, all participating institutions shall commit meaningful funding to a shared or distributed defense fund. This fund shall be used to provide immediate and strategic support to any member institution under direct political or legal infringement;"

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Bennet: Did you know the President’s Middle East advisor was in Moscow on this thread? This sloppiness, this incompetence, this disrespect for our intelligence agencies and the personnel who work for him is entirely unacceptable. It's an embarrassment

As top Trump aides sent texts on Signal, flight data show a member of the group chat was in Russia As top Trump cabinet members sent texts in a Signal group chat, CBS News analysis shows one of them, Steve Witkoff, was in Russia.

Unearthed flight data now reveals that a member of the unsecured Trump admin war planning group chat was in Russia during the time it was being used.

The Ones Who Sprint Towards Omelas

Post from Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard that reads: Any unauthorized release of classified information is a violation of the law and will be treated as such.

Circling back on this…

A French university is offering ‘scientific asylum’ for US talent. The brain drain has started | Alexander Hurst The Trump administration is cutting funding, while specifically targeting institutions like Columbia. No wonder academics want out, says Guardian Europe columnist Alexander Hurst

More of these schemes, please! Let's get as many American academics out as possible (but please someone do something for the Humanities and not just STEM) www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Elbows up, Canada.

Every mind-bending TV show:

"Opposing Fascism Is a Jewish Tradition"--JWP at Trump Tower today.

If Russia wants peace, they should end the invasion.

Please read—this is becoming serious!

It is 1939. Czech president Hacha arrives to see Hitler. He is kept waiting until 1:15am, then harassed & bullied until he faints; Hitler’s doctor is called. The relentless pressure continues until, at 3:55am, Hacha signs a prepared document handing his country over.

Tonight, Zelensky walked out.

The FAA is close to canceling a $2.4 billion contract with Verizon to overhaul the communications system that serves as the backbone of the nation’s air traffic control and is awarding the work to Musk’s Starlink. Follow the money and see where it goes.

Gold.

Staying at a White Lotus Resort or Getting a PhD in English? 1. It feels like you’ve been here way longer than you actually have. 2. You always have a book with you, but you never seem to get around to readin...

"They made a big deal greeting you on your first day, but the service has been a little spotty ever since."

Defiance in New York The acting US Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Danielle...

Defiance in New York: Acting US Atty resigns rather than carry out corrupt order from Main Justice talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/defia...

Gonna start signing my emails

All bets,

Loving the love for Canada - #vivelecanada - but does anyone know what hashtag we’re using to support Mexico? I want them in on this love-in too.

I’m so sorry you are going through this. You are in my thoughts.

Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time. For millenia, conservatism had no name, because no other model of polity had ever been proposed. “The king can do no wrong.” In practice, this immunity was always extended to the king’s friends, however fungible a group they might have been. Today, we still have the king’s friends even where there is no king (dictator, etc.). Another way to look at this is that the king is a faction, rather than an individual. As the core proposition of conservatism is indefensible if stated baldly, it has always been surrounded by an elaborate backwash of pseudophilosophy, amounting over time to millions of pages. All such is axiomatically dishonest and undeserving of serious scrutiny. Today, the accelerating de-education of humanity has reached a point where the market for pseudophilosophy is vanishing; it is, as The Kids Say These Days, tl;dr . All that is left is the core proposition itself — backed up, no longer by misdirection and sophistry, but by violence. So this tells us what anti-conservatism must be: the proposition that the law cannot protect anyone unless it binds everyone, and cannot bind anyone unless it protects everyone.

Frank Wilhoit seems very topical today: "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protectes but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
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A Mole Infiltrated the Highest Ranks of American Militias. This Is What He Found. Outraged by the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, a wilderness survival trainer spent years undercover climbing the ranks of right-wing militias. He didn’t tell police or the FBI. He didn’t tell family or friends....

This is an absolutely amazing story. John Williams (not his original name) infiltrated right-wing fascist militias for two years, entirely on his own steam. Someone get a screenwriter on this. www.propublica.org/article/ap3-...

Already said it in That Other Place but really want Bluesky to be a thing so will say it here too: I'm so sorry for your loss and your mom was a goddam legend.