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My kingdom for a shred of intellectual consistency

If I were editing a college president’s guest essay about the importance of colleges hosting “difficult speakers,” I would ask her to clarify how her argument squares with her history of expelling students for protesting, and why speakers should be treated better than her own students.

now more than ever is the time for colleges to open a red lobster on campus

I had to check the date that this isn’t from like 5 years ago or something

What’s notable about the Liberal Currents crowd is that they believe in liberalism — actually believe in it, genuinely, as a creed and world they’re willing to fight for — as opposed to the reactionary centrists, who don’t believe a goddamn thing

lady WHAT are you on about. surely this will go over great with the students at the women’s college she runs…

six isnt a particularly round number but it's my six year tranniversary and i always like to spend the day reflecting. my life is so much better after transitioning and considering how much time we spend talking about regret and how few of us there are its good to remember that i did this for love

Incredible Coates essay. A testament to not having to write a hot take every week. Just a series of hammer blows here.

At least 17 states have taken steps to ensure broader access to the COVID-19 vaccine since last month, when the federal government significantly restricted eligibility for the shot. via @stateline.org www.newsfromthestates.com/article/more...

question I don't feel like looking up myself right now: Which came first, Charlie Kirk's Professor Watchlist, or Bari Weiss's at Columbia? Probably hers, right? She's old.

Jerry Greenfield said that he felt the independence the brand had to speak on social issues was lost to parent company Unilever. He said Ben & Jerry's “was always about more than just ice cream; it was a way to spread love and invite others into the fight for equity, justice and a better world.”

People in JD Vance's hometown are having to clean their cars with toilet bowl cleaner because of air pollution. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7HB...

Thread here. I think we CAN get to a point where millions of Americans are doing more direct action style protests (rather than rallies) but we need orgs and leaders who promote that as a strategy.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, who survived Donald Trump's attempt to end his career after 2020 election, enters Republican primary for governor.

Rep. Jake Auchincloss says he won't challenge Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey in next year's Democratic primary. Markey, 79, previously announced his reelection campaign saying, "It’s not your age, it’s the age of your ideas."

10k plus people thought this was real, it seems. (And why pick Adam Sandler? Was the author of this fake news ashamed of Rob Schneider or something?)

Elizabeth Willing Powel: "Well, Doctor, what have we got, a republic or a monarchy?" Benjamin Franklin: "A republic, if you can keep it." On this Constitution Day, let us remember how powerful "We the People" should be. May we never have to fight (again) to keep it.

Children are children. This is awful.

ICE has said it's rare for people to be detained inside its Burlington field office for more than a few hours, but a new WBUR analysis finds that hundreds were detained for more than a day this past spring and summer.

SGURD YADSENDEW

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 10,1946

Nancy By Ernie Bushmiller August 11,1945

Fritzi. Ritz By Ernie Bushmiller October 28,1938

What is happening with this Reddit ad. Everything from the content to the font choices…baffling

This is as good as the hype said it was. Best band in the world. www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAOH...

I feel like Gina McKee got to have the most fun in the Borgias. She got to ride around on Francois Arnaud, fly falcons and flash her junk as a flex.

I’ve been doing this thing lately where I blanch potatoes in hot water, then airfry them unseasoned to dry them. Then I oil and add spices and do them for a good 20 minutes on 400. It’s achieved a nice textured outside and fluffy inside.

tapping the sign / #ReminderToSelf

The protest outside the MDC is very close to Union Station, the 101 and is at the intersection of the Civic Center/Little Tokyo/Arts District. Major transit area. You'd think authorities would respond to the accident....

1. Lions Led By Donkeys 2. Failure to Launch 3. Majority Report 4. & 5. I don't really listen to many podcasts and also have a partner already, but these first 3 are really good podcasts you should listen to

There is no human alive who looks more like a basic emoji 😳 than Kash Patel

If there was a fish detective, he could be named Hercule Poisson

Listening to Inside because that’s where I’m at right now.

Ohtani should stick with baseball, see where it takes him

Battle doomscrolling by posting 5 small pleasures in life. Listening to: 1. The Byrds 2. The Flying Burrito Brothers 3. Gram Parsons solo projects 4. Chris Hillman / Desert Rose Band/ Souther-Hillman-Furay Band/ Manassas 5. Gene Clark solo projects Wait! Come back! I’m not done!

The billionaire former republican who ran as a conservative democrat for L.A. mayor went to an event with Carlson and Gabbard and falsely claimed Gabby Giffords was there. And he's almost certainly going to try to run for mayor again.

In Los Angeles a fire at a homeless encampment in 2019 got major attention, people blamed the homeless and it turned out it was actually started by the son of a chamber of commerce member in an attack on unhoused Angelenos www.theeastsiderla.com/neighborhood...

Happening now in L.A.!

this is also a little something called FASCISM

Brandon Marsh’s hair has made me uncomfortable for like a decade at this point, I deserve compensation for it.

At least all of the transit NIMBYs stay in the sauna where they gossip like apparatchiks because they think there are no listening devices.

Wake up babe, new Times euphemism for blatant corruption just dropped www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/u...

I have reposted this for like three different games in 5 days, we should build the whole airplane out of Ben Rotvedts

you know things are fucked up when health insurance companies are like "we would love to cover medical care for americans"

I need to go swim and just avoid interacting with anyone because the e drop part of my cycle is making me *edgéd*.

go stros, go for the sweep tomorrow so i can gloat to my girlfriend's dad

Unclear whether the issue is “baselessly” or “deranged way”, I’d ask them to revise and resubmit. #refereeTwo

When Asians claim spaghetti is actually an Asian dish

Every clown car nazi* wants to get in on censorship. Higgins speaks in high dudgeon and commands: "the authors of these posts are to be identified and banned from your platform." Just because Trump makes illegal demands, doesn't mean a Congress Dude can. *Based on him being a David Duke lover.

The ultimate "I mean, c'mon!"

Business Insider —> Bullshit Insider

We still don’t know if Collins is running again, right?

“George, the sea called….”

I can be wrong, but if you're shitty with me and you expect me to fix it for you, you are now wrong.

i want to get off Bryan Abreu's wild ride

conflating “crimes” with “wrongful acts” is not freedom

Off the top of my head, I can't think of a peaceful and prosperous country that has been successfully taken over by fascists

*shotgun cocks* *wolf howls* you're now entering *guitar riff from bad to the bone starts* the bryan abreu experience

I realize too late that I should have commissioned a piece arguing that people who did not adequately praise Robert Redford's career today should be thrown in an industrial thresher

It cannot be happenstance that after I have overindulged at dinner, restaurants invariably accost me with delicious desert options. RICO.

In less than 24 hours ...

Slop Insider. What really sucks about this is that whether you use it or not, now if you write for BI anyone can dismiss your work as AI generated because they’re not gonna label it.

OK maybe LA isn’t quite ready for the Olympics yet

Zuckerberg probably was going for Risky Business but ended up with Groucho Marx I feel like the diemenswear guy needs to weigh in on why wearable tech often looks so bad

@hrw.org: Investigate Death of Mexican National During ICE Stop An ICE officer shot at Silverio Villegas-Gonzalez, a 38-year-old Mexican migrant, near Chicago. CCTV video calls ICE’s account into question and highlights the need for the Dept of Homeland Security’s inspector general to investigate.

Yeah

Democrat Xp Lee has easily won the special election to replace slain MN state Rep. Melissa Hortman, 61-39. Kamala Harris carried the district 63-35 last year, so it's a rare Dem underperformance (just the 6th this year, vs. 34 overperformances). The MN House will now return to a 67-67 tie.

IMHO there is no need to register for a protest. I have never done that and find it a very weird thing to ask people to do

I just watched a 9-minute TikTok video about a ridiculous but fun fan theory that puts Indiana Jones in Star Wars. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8SPLKMe/

what's the funniest world series matchup this year

hey guys family guy coming up next

He was great indeed but

Rookie would send out the signal to the Confederation Of Cats and I’d be dead within 12 hours but I really do think this solves the “how do I hike with my cat” question.

During aself-help course, classmates shared stories and formed deep bonds while they worked on improving themselves.

Despicable. If their 14 year-old got into trouble, it would be all, "He's a good kid. Promising athlete/student. Don't hurt his future/scholarship chances. Boys will be boys." If you wouldn't do the same for someone else's kid, you're a bad person. Shameful vote aligning with the fascist regime.

Got to see their tour earlier this year and was blown away. Closest I'll get to seeing REM live. Cannot wait for this. www.brooklynvegan.com/michael-shan...

btw there’s no single group more fucked by this than the Virginia GOP. November is going to be a bloodbath.

im just googling that a bunch actually

nobody panic im actually just googling that a bunch of

“I find it somewhat ironic that a person can learn to live life in a place where they were sent to die.”

💥🗑️ BANG BANG 🗑️💥

Knowing it’s Noah Hawley hard not read a lot of Coens into Alien Earth, especially this episode with the two dumbshits trying to dispose of a body.

AJ Blubaugh is a beast dude

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT. My friend Chad (also best natural filmmaker in my film school class) once talked himself and his roommates on to Ricki Lake. It is now available on YouTube.

I just preordered through Bookshop.org, which supports whatever local indie you want to support 🎉 And boy is this longtime activist looking forward to reading a book of letters from experienced organizers & thinkers about how to navigate various kinds of heartbreak & disaster, because: yes.

the last one would sting were it not the logical endpoint of everything Democratic consultants are doing bsky.app/profile/toda...

I just watched this again with my family on our TV, which is to say, not far from life-sized, and I really don't know what to say about it other than that my heart just shatters over and over and over again.

The pink zone contains the cuisines of the entire planet

the plot twist is that these people love the marketplace, not the ideas no idea can be banished because that ruins the fun

folks, I want to remind you that a ton of federal workers are about to get their last pay check at the end of this month and this stuff is going to get much worse

I will take your perilous wine

Yessssssss (I made this)

Jeremy does not give a single shit

The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea protects deep sea beds that, like the moon, are designated “the common heritage of mankind.” Scientists have learned oxygen is being created in undersea beds; but they still don't know how. Now corporations want to mine the beds for metal for EV batteries. 😬

Has any reporter asked a Trump official, acolyte, sycophant what they mean when they talk about “free speech” and then show them examples?

BTW my piece for tomorrow is a bit lengthy, giving my take as a long-time reporter covering the right-wing marketplace, talking about how Charlie Kirk fit into it. I perhaps suggest he was a grifter. THEY CAN’T HAVE ME FIRED WHEN I AIN’T GOT NO JOB

Live Tucker “America After Charlie Kirk” special starting in moments

So who’s the designated survivor while they’re all in Phoenix for this?

I get buying stop on the cheap but the assumptions would be that it has *some* value??

I’ve had this phone for more than three years so it’s pretty worrying to just now find out that I don’t know how to turn it off