A poster with a colorful stack of books on the left and this text on the right: “Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.” ~ Jeff Zentner

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

"Hey, Teenagers: Pay close attention to the books people try to ban. Then, make a beeline to read those books, if you can. Find out for yourself why those people want that book banned. Find out for yourself if they can be trusted to know what’s best for you.”
~ Jeff Zentner

My colleagues look at me with blank expressions whenever I say, "The Chronicle of Higher Education is not a trade magazine for colleges & universities. It is a trade magazine for Higher Education managers." Even when they include faculty voices its always edited from the perspective of the managers

He's telling on himself if he thinks his practice is just elevated googling and a confident tone of voice

Fascinating how the narrative in the 90's was that nerds were the downtrodden good guys, and we come to the present, and a handful of male nerds are perhaps the most powerful and dangerous bullies in human history.

I'm in this boat. Was against Biden in the primary, viewed him as a stick in the mud. The level of miracles he was able to make happen turned me into more of an optimist about how government can work and how the Democrats can govern. Even now that has not changed.

This should be front page news. The longer the Iran war goes on, the Trump family gets richer. Corruption at the highest level of government.

The Donald Trump Presidential Library: The only library in the world to have two sets of books.

YO 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 KA$H

SEN. @ossoff.senate.gov : “The faithless president depicts himself as Christ while he plunges the nation into wars of choice… Remember — While you pay more for everything, the First Family’s wealth is growing by billions. Because they’re crooks, and everybody knows it.”

Ford government insider says Ontario government planning to spend $100M dollars on TV commercials to try to sell $29M private jet.

From Brexit to Alberta: How The Fringe Goes Mainstream | Canada is Boring When Jesse falls ill, Rhys steps in for a rare solo episode.

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“Homelessness is a social phenomenon and the number of homeless people depends on social conditions – not on the characteristics of individuals.…

We know exactly how to make homelessness decrease again. It is a matter of choice: do we want to do it?”

The right thing AND saves money. #HousingFirst

Boston Globe mock front page from April 9, 2016. Date says April 9, 2017, with giant headline “DEPORTATIONS TO BEGIN” and “Markets sink as trade war looms.”

Ten years ago today, in April 2016, the Boston Globe printed a satirical front page imagining a future Trump administration. The page was called "alarmist," "hyperbolic," "dystopian." But we’ve put up with so much since then it now looks like . . . a slow Thursday?

@repstansbury.bsky.social reports that 2 individuals allege that Donald Trump raped them when they were minors.
While we’re holding people accountable for alleged sexual crimes, let’s start with the pedo in chief.

Don’t stop talking about the #EpsteinFiles.

🧐 Right wingers are furious this week that Orban is out. That’s because their favorite grift is about to run out. Turns out CPAC was paid for by Hungarian taxpayers and it’s about to get cut. @CaolanReports

"they caught a picture of the bullet in flight that didn't kill the president" is some goddamn cyberpunk shit

The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

NEW: The 2016 Supreme Court memos and the mess that John Roberts has made of his court.

The New York Times scoop about the Clean Power Plan case SCOTUS memos highlights the conservative justices' brazen disregard for their own rules — both then and now.

Tonight, at Law Dork:

holy shit

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business.

WE Pay for

Just a thought: How about we stop shaming the poor for buying things that may not be essential, and start shaming the rich for making a profit off things that are essential?

Blom also directed an early erotic horror film titled The Vampire Dancer (1913). It only exists online through a very grainy paper print version, but there are stills from the film that give you a sense of how lush the original would've looked.

There should be a law passed, and enforced, that we will no longer have for profit prisons of any kind! Ever again! Incentivized incarceration should be a crime against humanity and should be retroactively enforced! They know what they are doing is wrong!

Dudes. As a society we taught young women to walk with keys between their fingers in dark parking lots and to carry pepper spray in their purse.

So yes. I’m asking you to be responsible for the actions of other men. After all, that’s what you’ve asked of women for centuries.

It’s your turn.

📌MEDIA: Stop calling Jared Kushner a "high-level negotiator." He's a damn thief operating in his repulsive family's best interests not ours.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

💯😠✊

It is easy to blame many others for their roles in nightmare, but Roberts had the greatest opportunity to arbitrate fairly and decisively if still from within his proportedly conservative perspective.

Instead he has consistently taken the role of a procedural and constitutional hypocrite.