Saying "no man, you don't get to win this time" to evil people who have the power of the entire corrupt government behind them has to feel pretty fucking good

Collins said the new InfoWars won't only poke fun at the far right. He sees it as an opportunity to go after all the "stupid" stuff on the internet and beyond — like influencers pushing beef tallow, van lifers who "shove 80 kids into the back of an RV and call it a house," and AI guys who "have the very mind virus that they think everyone else has." "We want Infowars to be a place where you strive to be instead of a psychopathic website where they sell supplements for your broken penis," Collins said. In his view, there was only one good thing Jones did with Infowars: "It's a great logo. It's a great name for what's going on, unfortunately."

Our plans:

www.businessinsider.com/onion-ceo-pl...

If a college education did nothing but prevent you from ever acting like you were 100% sure about something ever again, & made you feel like you always needed to learn more & question your assumptions, it would be the best education money could buy, & worth the government providing it free to all.

This is a call for measuring teaching effectiveness that ignores the most meaningful criteria we could use: What percentage of your faculty makes a professional wage and has a teaching load consistent with disciplinary norms? I taught college for 20 years and never achieved either.

feel like if they sent out covid stimulus checks they can send out tariff refund checks

The eyewitness. How a prison fire and a charismatic inmate revealed a waiting audience for compelling radio news on CBS.

To mark the passing of CBS News Radio, I wrote about how it began—with a forgotten broadcast from a Black prison inmate.

I came across this incredible story while researching my biography of Edward R. Murrow, and you can read all about it @columjournreview.bsky.social. 🗃️
www.cjr.org/feature/cbs-...

Sometimes you walk into class with virtuosic understanding of the text and sometimes you bring in a weird poem you read recently and collectively poke at it with a stick.

✨️ pedagogy ✨️

“That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.”

― Octavia E. Butler, Parable of the Sower

Yale Report Finds Colleges Deserve Blame for Higher Education’s Problems

Begging your finest pardons, but what in the actual hell are these poncey idiots on about? The current administration was on TV for months openly mocking research projects and stripping funding, but sure…in this hostile, toxic environment, we should articulate our mission better.

the basic theory of DOGE was that if powerful people said it was fine it didn’t matter what the law said.

I think proving that theory wrong is worth significant effort

If everyone got a receipt for their taxes breaking it down like this, I think our country would look totally different

Two Lessons from Hungary for 2026 and 2028 Unity and accountability.

“Rather than let a crowded field enable Orbán to retain power, parties stood down their candidate to maximize the vote behind Magyar and his Tisza party.” www.liberalcurrents.com/two-lessons-...

Seven Theses Against Viewpoint Diversity Demands for “viewpoint diversity,” a pillar of the Right’s strategy to remake higher education, collide with the pursuit of truth.

calls for “viewpoint diversity” are little more than demands for a quota system for political conservatives who otherwise could not hack it www.aaup.org/academe/issu...

Pope Leo: "The world is being ravaged by a handful of tyrants, yet it is held together by a multitude of supportive brothers and sisters.”

I have started blocking people who refer to *choosing not to use AI in academic or pedagogical contexts* as denying or fearing “progress”

my ability to find things out, think about them, and write about them hasn’t suffered one bit

if someday there’s a global text shortage, I’ll rethink my policy

To combat DEI, universities must practice affirmative action for conservative hires.

Some universities are letting Republican politicians dictate what professors can teach in the classroom; others have faculty who mostly vote Democrat.

"Polarization" is not an honest description of this situation. "Viewpoint Diversity" is a project to worsen it.

Please don't use bullshit language.

Green Castle - a promontory fort at Portknockie in Moray. Excavated in the 1970s, the fort dates from the Iron Age to the early medieval period. 📸 My own. #HillfortsWednesday

Imagine if I published a book on economics where the most recent economic literature I cited was from 2003!

It was a pleasure to chat with @karanthir.bsky.social about my recent article on Local Identities!

I know, right!?

Yes! & so poorly managed at some places that the best any of us overworked people can do is say "sorry, we're going completely analog and you can't see pretty pictures b/c I'm not allowed to show them to you without jumping through a few hours' worth of hoops."

I know of at least one institution that told its faculty about this over a year ago and planned how to make it happen. Mine? Only got around to telling us a month ago and now is bombarding us with "make sure you do this in time!" emails. Sorry, no, can't happen when you've already overloaded us all.

It's so funny to me that right-wingers love to pretend to love the Middle Ages and the Crusades and all that and then complain that the Pope shouldn't get involved in politics.

If you think Trump depicting himself as Jesus is blasphemous, wait until you hear how he cut food assistance and healthcare to poor children.

KERNEN: We'd never be able to send anyone back if you needed a judicial warrant every single time

RAND PAUL: Well, I don't think that's true. Obeying the 4th Amendment of the Constitution shouldn't be too difficult. It's something we fought the revolution over.

Authoritarian Aesthetics and Youth Appeals – AHA

Dr. @amycking.bsky.social and I wrote a teaching module on "Authoritarian Aesthetics and Youth Appeals" in Fascist Italy for the American Historical Review's "Authoritarianism 101" project. See below! And please share widely.

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

Something like this will have to happen in this country once Trumpism is defeated. In the absence of accountability, the world will rightly assume that it will happen again.

It's the 7th month of the US bombing random ships in Latin American waters they claim are drug smugglers (reminder that two survivors who were rescued were repatriated, not charged), and the death toll is 150+, and it barely gets discussed.