Our Reporters Reached Out for Comment. They Were Accused of Stalking and Intimidation. Our journalists reach out to people they’re writing about to ensure fairness. But in this environment, they’ve found their efforts to do so are more likely to be vilified than appreciated.

“You are not entitled to a response from us, or anyone, ever,” is what an Education Department spokesperson wrote to one of our reporters,
@megomatz.bsky.social, after she repeatedly tried to get comment from the department and its officials.

(Published Dec. 2025)

There is time for all of us to change how we live our lives.

Good time to remember that rich people are okay with this in exchange for tax cuts

Events & Pogroms

Poetry is a last resort.

THIS TUESDAY 6-8PM #Rochester #threeheadsbrewing
Hear/see MICHAEL FLATT read @senecareview.bsky.social

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Always good to be with friends.

Well, la dee da, Ms. I Still Have Ten Fingers.

I'll have to keep tabs and unfollow as soon as you get there.

Universities Must Defend Their Independence by Rejecting Trump's "Compact" The Trump administration has proffered a “compact” to universities that would require them to surrender their independence and academic freedom. How many First Amendment violations can we identify in ...

New from me at Cato: I go through the numerous and massive First Amendment and academic-freedom violations of Trump's proffered "compact" with universities and then talk about the mechanism by which it would be enforced, by way of what I describe as a "retroactive push-button guillotine."

Absolutely. Deny first, ask questions later.

MDST Graduate Programs Recruitment University of Colorado Boulder Media Studies Department Recruiting Graduate Students for Fall 2026! The Media Studies Department at the University of Colorado Boulder is now accepting applications fo...

we, @cumediastudies.bsky.social, are still recruiting new grad students to begin fall 2026! We are also hoping to see apps for our PhD program from individuals with a secondary interest in obtaining training in digital humanities #dh. details here and pls share---> docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In this economy?

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

AI data centers are sending power bills soaring throughout America. Bloomberg analyzed consumption rates across the US and found that wholesale electricity rates had risen as much as 267%over the past five years in areas adjacent to AI data centers.

So Hegseth was definitely going for the "Patton" thing here, right?

To skeet? I've never known you to wait.

So tired of Klein's knee-jerk passivity.

I always think of Hallie Steinfeld in True Grit for this.

The pure products of America/ go crazy--
(William Carlos Williams, Spring and All, 1923)

Embarrassing. Serious egg on his face.

The year is 2059, and the word "definitely" is marked "archaic" by the Oxford Dictionary as it has long been subsumed by the dominant spelling, "defiantly."

One fun thing about working with older people is they talk into the phone like it's the world's first telephone.

Mannequin Pussy has the edge that Wet Leg pretends to have.

All of a sudden, people seem to be saying "Overton window" a lot.

Local news is like, "Five cute new breweries in your area and also a toddler fell fifty feet off a bridge into the river that runs behind your house. Please look for his blue jacket on your way to the Boozy Floozy."

Video game console ASMR & sounds 77 - 01 YouTube video by Xtr3m3z

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They keep making shirts stretchier and stretchier like we all just want to be Mr. Fantastic or some shit.

The Mission: Impossible marketing campaign is all about how Tom Cruise does his own crazy, death-defying stunts. Where that loses me is having to care whether or not Tom Cruise dies. #missionimpossible

the revealed position of the republican party is that it thinks broad expansion of higher education — and especially its expansion for certain americans — was a mistake that must be rolled back

Visual Studies Workshop Submission Manager Visual Studies Workshop nurtures experimental and expansive approaches to photography and media arts, and builds community among artists and the public through exhibitions, publications and residencie...

Artists, come visit my city. The Visual Studies Workshop does amazing work in the avant space, and lives around the corner from my workplace. We could have lunches! vsw.submittable.com/submit?goal=...