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"The petition to disband our Turning Point chapter is blatantly defamatory," Ava Kwan, outreach coordinator for the Turning Point USA chapter at Rutgers, told Fox News Digital in a statement. "The accusations of 'inciting violence' and 'making threats' are complete lies," Kwan said. "The same people claiming we're suppressing their free speech are actively trying to silence us for speaking the truth. It's not just ironic, it's hypocritical and absurd."

tpusa_rutgers Do you want to become a socialist? If so, make sure to pay this professor a visit!!!! All jokes aside help us report this professor who has ties to Antifa which now is designated as a domestic terrorist organization. DO YOUR PART AND HELP MAKE RUTGERS A PLACE FOR ALL STUDENTS TO LEARN WITHOUT BECOMING A RADICAL SOCIALIST

We never incited violence, we just called this guy a member of antifa who funded terrorism and told our followers to pay him a visit ha ha and then a totally unrelated group of people threatened to murder him in front of his students ha ha

Rarely in the wild does one see a phrase so perfectly capture the essence of someone as perfectly as "this sweaty twerp."

A staffer on Stephen Colbert's show wanted to ask the first ever Muslim candidate for mayor in the history of New York City to play a game of thumbs up, thumbs down about an ongoing genocide.

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems... SIMON: What? SHAPIRO: ...Or saying... SIMON: You imagine that? SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over. SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level. SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this. SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Interesting.

Exploring the Anne Frank Exhibit at the SC State Fair WIS's Intisar Faulkner explores the new Anne Frank exhibit at this year's SC State Fair.

Our university is home to the Anne Frank Center, the official partner of the Anne Frank House for the United States & Canada. Our Anne Frank Center is hosting an exhibit at this year’s SC State Fair.
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Trump: “We took the freedom of speech away.”

CHICAGO — Outside an elementary school during dismissal… horrifying. What have we become?

Pritzker is everything Newsom wants you to believe Newsom is, including both actually brave and seemingly in possession of an actually beating human heart.

I suspect that's right, but the (unintentional) easier breakdown of components might be "dick" and "traumatized," which I don't think is what she's going for.

Sigh. Portmanteau-ing is hard.

I remain convinced that in a better world posts like this would be about 80% of social media

I don’t know who it’s going to be, but it will NEVER be this sellout cornball bitch.

ooooooffff....that there is a preposterous list

fwiw, I wholeheartedly agree. Those taking the "It's not yet fascism here" line are, in a narrow and technical sense, correct, but the point isn't "OK, we're good then" but "OK, but what will keep it that way? In what ways do we reverse the trend toward an (as yet) unfinished project"?

Legacy media has done a lot to earn this level of mistrust, an am not especially hopeful of them earning trust back; at the same time, I think too few people are sufficiently mistrustful of people whose entire ethos is instinctive, unwavering, and unvarying mistrust of legacy media.

It's The Matrix week in my class, one big takeaway: only 2 of 18 had seen the film before, but everyone else knew it through memes & vague references to "living in the matrix". Memification of the film's central moments kinda trivialized them, they were watching through the lens of memes.

Do you even hear yourselves?

25% of the political and social culture of the modern American Right is being upset at the Super Bowl halftime show.

Remembering when Chris Rufo insisted that Disney was a thoroughly corrupt institution because it had a small number of employees arrested on CSAM and sex trafficking charges and I replied, well, let's use that standard for Republicans, and he blocked me before I could finish the thread.

Article from the FP by Tyler Cowen. It's called "My favourite actress is not human" and the by line reads "Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI."

How much of right wing politics would flat out just disappear if men didn't have weird sexual neuroses?

I should also note that like pretty much all of the self-proclaimed "rationalist" types, Cowen does not do debates with people who criticize him strongly. He's a coward who cannot support his ideas in argumentation--while also pretending to care about open debate.

We continue to live in hell.

The only thing a book should smell of is 1940s-1960s era paper. They should invest money into making new books smell like books from this era.

A screenshot from Publisher's Lunch: Jennifer L. Armentrout and Hellmann's In a promotion designed for BookTok enjoyment, Jennifer L. Armentrout’s just-published THE PRIMAL OF BLOOD AND BONE is available in a special, limited-edition "garlic-scented copy, infused with Hellmann’s Garlic Aioli to create a one-of-a-kind, Craven-proof book." They explain: "This exclusive edition is printed with garlic-infused ink, designed to ward off Armentrout’s bloodthirsty monsters, the Craven. While humans may dread garlic breath, Hellmann’s has cleverly transformed this social faux pas into an unexpected – and delicious – form of supernatural protection."

no no the publishing industry is doing fine, why do you ask

JD Vance presents as being exactly as Catholic as Joel Osteen.

Sean Connery is a red strapped outfit. He's very hairy.

William Shatner as Captain Kirk. He's in a black strapped outfit and has a smooth chest.

before and after hegseth's directive

SPs so far today:

Kittredge 1 IP (opener)
Bello 2.1 IP
Mize 3 IP
Cease 3.2 IP
Bibee 4.2 IP

FBI Director Kash Patel & @ @FBIDirectorKash X.com James Comey wrote "love letters" to the ADL and embedded FBI agents with them - a group that ran disgraceful ops spying on Americans. That era is OVER. This FBI won't partner with political fronts masquerading as watchdogs. FBI Patel cuts ties Comey's FBI made with ADL as organization faces backlash for TPUSA criticism That era is finished. This FBI formally rejects Comey's policies and any partnership with the ADL, Patel said By Rachel Wolf • Fox News 3:32 PM • 10/1/25 • 758K Views

Posting this three hours before the start of Yom Kippur is quite a choice

So at the same time the Trump regime claims it's fighting antisemitism (which was always a lie) it's now saying it will deny citizenship (or visas?) to "globalists" which is mostly used in their crowd as a barely coded euphemism for "Jews"

"Stupid babies need the most attention"