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Opinion | Trump Is Not Afraid of Civil War. Neither Is Stephen Miller.

Nothing revelatory here, just disturbed to see it all laid out and had to share.

Sure was!

Increasingly clear they are both giddy and psychologically unprepared for war and that any conflict we enter will escalate rapidly to large-scale war crimes

Infuriating how many imaginary harms have sculpted the electorate’s fears and behaviors over the last couple decades when this shit seems endemic to evangelical and conservative power networks

@govpritzker.illinois.gov

37 and Kedzie, East Garfield, Illinois.

This is assault.

So glad Apple moved expeditiously to protect these helpless thugs from the evil of sharing basic information about their thuggish activities

Hit word count today, which was nice, but the most pleasing thing I did was find and replace "crossbow" with "arblast" because I'm a nerd

Two books in one day is crazy! You are a beast. Congrats!

Yes! YES! The tigerS are OUT!

Now the only thing left to do is decide…will you read Fate’s Bane first? Or The Sovereign?

I made a handy flowchart that can help you decide which if you aren’t sure!!!

Court-watchers confirm this cruel ICE agent has been reinstated.

Last week, in the briefest moment of decency, violently throwing a woman to the floor was “beneath the men and women of ICE.”

This week, it’s back to business as usual. The cruelty, after all, is the point.

It’s real! Someone really published my mother/daughter/divorce/moody teen/crystal lady story!

Early last semester, Droubi said, students began approaching Cheyfitz with complaints that a graduate student in the “Gaza, Indigeneity, Resistance” class appeared to be recording them, possibly to “gather their names and comments” and intimidate them. “We believe that a student came to the course for the sole reason of surveilling and potentially harming students in the class,” Droubi said. “That ended up proving itself to be true because multiple students came forward and shared their concerns with Professor Cheyfitz.” Cheyfitz said one Palestinian student quit the class after telling him she felt upset and frightened. Current Issue Cover of October 2025 Issue October 2025 Issue According to Cheyfitz, the graduate student often steered conversations away from the assigned readings—which at that point mostly focused on definitions of genocide and international law on Indigenous rights—to defend Israel’s conduct in the war in Gaza and argue with others in the class. “He clearly had not done the readings,” Cheyfitz said. “It was disruptive.” Cheyfitz said he met with the graduate student in late January and spoke to him about concerns from his classmates. During the conversation, he asked the graduate student to drop the course, and by the next class, he did, Cheyfitz said. The graduate student, Oren Renard, a PhD candidate in computer science whose identity was confirmed by other students in the class, previously served in Israel’s elite military surveillance agency, Unit 8200, according to his LinkedIn profile.

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

Sure seems like a Dem opportunity, if only their party leaders weren’t boneless puddles that deliver canned lines when you prod them with a stick

We’re so proud of you, Patrick

Pleasantly shocked they can be shamed still. This should encourage more elected officials and journalists to put themselves in these spaces and bear witness.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

I teach at Clemson. It shouldn’t have fired faculty for Charlie Kirk comments | Opinion Mike Gregory, an assistant professor of philosophy at Clemson University, says it “has just shown the country what happens when a university forgets what it is.”

Well said. Glad to see the dangerous implications of Clemson’s cowardice laid out.

The (self-) Gleichschaltung of American society is accelerating.

This is how 21st-century authoritarianism operates, spreads, consolidates power.

INBOX- State Superintendent Ryan Walters says after investigating reports that came in through Awareity, they've identified 70 certified teachers from 44 districts who've made statements regarding Charlie Kirk's murder and 12 school districts who did not participate in a moment of silence. #oklahoma

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

Or I might just be settling into middle age. Definitely more creaky and crotchety lately.

Enshittification sure seems to be accelerating. Cynically wondering if it’s a sign of the coming AI bust as companies try to wring more out of their products in anticipation.

Hahaha yeah guys just stay out of the Caribbean or we might drone strike you rofl wait, I’m sorry, I hear a teacher quoting Charlie Kirk and I need to go arrest them for inciting violence

JFC I seriously just reread this chapter in The Coming of the Third Reich last night and was like "damn, at least we're not quite there yet"

He’s gonna send SEAL team six to exfiltrate Bolsonaro, isn’t he?

Writing feels irrelevant but also all this relentless evil is making its way into my fantasy novel. The broad canvas of fantasy feels right for discussing abuse of power and naked greed and the misguided or cynical reasons it is abetted.

No one shown was undocumented—though that wouldn’t excuse their treatment. As the video suggests, this is a direct result of SCOTUS giving the green light. What was it frat boy Brett said? Assaulting people with weapons is fine if it’s relatively brief?

Screenshot of reddit post from user Wang_Lung_1921. Begin quote: I understand that ENG 360 is Children's Literature, and that's what has been reported, but she's not in the Course Schedule for 360. Instead, look at ENG 394, which does show as her course. If I'm wrong, I'm wrong. But that's what my search pulled up. You can still find her syllabus, with a detailed course description, that falls within the range of the general description given in the Catalog. "COURSE DESCRIPTION Did you read what we now call “young adult literature” as a young adult? What exactly is a young adult? Does the term refer to an age category or a marketing tool, a personality type or a genre? What differentiates adult from young adult from teenager from child? How do we understand the genre of literature for and about this blurry, shifting group? In this course, we will explore a range of young adult or YA literature in English, including poetry, contemporary fiction, graphic memoirs, historical fiction, and fantasy, from a diverse group of authors with many varied perspectives on race, gender, sexuality, disability and other realms of human difference. Our task is to think critically about what these books can tell us about how we (and others) understand adolescence, how those definitions have changed over time, and how these books participate in larger movements of history, culture, and literature." End quote

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature.

*As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

The professor has been fired and senior administrators removed from their post. No mention of this in the New York Times, The Free Press, The Atlantic or other outlets who drove the campus speech moral panic.