The Onion Has a New Plan to Take Over Infowars The Onion, a satirical news outlet, wants to convert the right-wing Infowars site into a parody of itself. Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times A new deal, which would allow The Onion to use the Infowars name and website address, must be approved by a Texas judge. When Infowars, the website founded by the right-wing conspiracist Alex Jones, came up for sale two years ago, an unlikely suitor stepped up. The Onion, a satirical news outlet, planned to convert the site into a parody of itself.

The Onion is actually America’s finest news source

Well just speaking for students w whom i interact, they seem barely aware that Israel is “Jewish” or for that matter, Bernie Sanders is (many of my students in ‘20 were sanders stans). But yes I agree on the whole legit crit of Israel is increasingly merging w antisemitism

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I teach at a small rust belt college w few Jewish or Palestinian students. They do not know much about settler-colonialism, holocaust etc - they simply see a US supplied, modern military bombing & shooting civilians, & stealing land. It’s v simple to them, & they aren’t wrong

everything’s fine w the weather

Never-Ending Blame Game The Cultural Marxism Conspiracy, by A.J.A. Woods

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that as Richard Wright mused can produce movements of human emancipation & human misery simultaneously & in eye-aching contrast. One gets the sense that the unwieldiness & contradictions of the concept are perhaps what produce so many refracted mirrors & uncanny hauntings of its own categories

Btw the Rockhill debate & the “cultural Marxist” conspiracies, it is interesting to think how so many anxieties abt “the West” itself are cathected through the figure of Herbert Marcuse. To me it suggests as much about Marcuse as it does about the impossible contradictions of theorizing “the West,”

Capitalism works well in theory, but in practice just leads to colonialism, authoritarianism, national chauvinism and poverty

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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mRNA technology may be THE most underrated and unfairly scrutinized (fuck you COVID antivax crew) medical breakthrough in my lifetime.

Like... The things this is already showing it can do in the last 5-7 years is incredible.

Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel.

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Polling is down for Israel in every demographic, even white evangelicals, who poll the highest of any group

The big picture: Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel, according to recent Pew polling. For every other group, Israel's favorability has collapsed since 2022. • I Down 31 percentage points among older Democrats (ages 50+). • T Down 22 percentage points among both younger Republicans/GOP leaners and younger Dems/Dem leaners. • T Down 14 percentage points among Protestants, 23 among Catholics and 20 among the religiously unaffiliated. • T Even white Evangelical support, which was at 80% in 2022, has slid by 15 points.

Bibi torched U.S. support for Israel for a generation Andrew Solender,

“Torched” is a very carefully chosen word

= AXIOS The big picture: Older Republicans and white Evangelicals are the last groups to hold majority favorable views of Israel, according to recent Pew polling. For every other group, Israel's favorability has collapsed since 2022. • I Down 31 percentage points among older Democrats (ages 50+). • T Down 22 percentage points among both younger Republicans/GOP leaners and younger Dems/Dem leaners. • T Down 14 percentage points among Protestants, 23 among Catholics and 20 among the religiously unaffiliated. • T Even white Evangelical support, which was at 80% in 2022, has slid

Listening is what history from below tries to achieve - never prescriptive or directive, like a pamphlet. Unless ofc one prescribes & directs only to put one’s ear to the ground, or the page, & very quietly, hear what ghosts whisper through the grains of sand or paper.

Models for Left Jewish Politics and Culture? On Benjamin Balthaser's New Cultural History | In geveb Balthaser’s book is rich with detail and personal stories, modest, even self-effacing in its presentation, but far-reaching in potential inspiration and implica

Very grateful & humbled by Zackary Sholem Berger’s review of my book, for the simple if sincere reason that he listened to the voices of earlier revolutionaries as I listened to them - w generosity & curiosity, even when I didn’t necessarily always agree w them ingeveb.org/articles/mod...

I mean, yes, in the ashes, we'll have reading groups, pol education in radical organizations, & those are great - I participate in some of these now. But they aren't a substitute & w/o a public, accessible liberal arts university system, they prob also aren't sustainable. 4/4

If we fail to do this, if we lose accessible, public liberal arts colleges, then that is it: we live in a society w/o public, accessible, liberal arts universities, & face the many consequences of this loss.

There really isn't a plan B. 3/4

in the process of struggle perhaps also can change the university into a more democratic, representative, diverse, labor friendly institution.

The first task however is simply to get restoring public education onto the agenda of the left as an urgent priority 2/4

As the humanities are rapidly de-funded & dismantled across the country, I hear a lot of talk of “post universities” or “open universities.” At the risk of sounding dire, we have only one choice: we fight back & maybe win back some of what we lost; 1/4 🧵

in the process of struggle perhaps also can change the university into a more democratic, representative, diverse, labor friendly institution.

The first task however is simply to get restoring public education onto the agenda of the left as an urgent priority 2/4

The CSU is currently being decimated by cuts especially to humanities - on top of ofc 40 years of cuts, tuition hikes in response to cuts, and TT faculty attrition. It’s nowhere near as bad as Indiana or TX but nowhere is safe atm

Thanks Steven, I completely understand. It is not easy to be a “premature anti-fascist” precisely bc on the off chance we win, you know that these folks will come after the left next. Still, I want to win; I want a democratic Palestine, a democratic America. So I am trying to keep eyes on prize ❤️

Khan wants us to marvel that after a reading an assignment, Khanmigo may engage a student by asking "What is your opinion of this essay?" I can testify that this is not an effective way to engage students in a learning experience because this is what I was doing in my earliest days as a TA in graduate school when I knew nothing and had no experience with teaching. My students would look back at me, blank-faced until one of them had mercy on me, raising their hand and saying, "Uhh, it was alright."

OMG too real biblioracle.substack.com/p/an-unserio...

There have been few public institutions so wholly and resolutely defunded as public higher ed - it’s staggering & at the same time, rarely discussed or acknowledged

It’s a question I ask myself - & while I can answer on a case by case basis (in CA prop 13, in MA lobbying by Ivies that didn’t want competition) that rapid defunding & privatization was nationwide, even global, & simultaneous, means that there was elite consensus on the question 1/2

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