There are exceptions, but many of the "conservatives" who a decade or two ago wanted universities to teach more Western Civ both (a) had no idea what universities are actually teaching, and (b) had no idea about the content they purportedly wanted to be taught more.
We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.
NEW: We’ve identified the man who runs the far-right troll account on X “HowlingMutant,” whose jokes about rape and the Holocaust have earned him nearly 200,000 followers, which include Vice President JD Vance. His name is Alexander Norden, from Rockaway Park in New York City.
Grotesque: In a dispute over a will, two brothers including a retired Alabama state trooper now working at a federal courthouse, appear to have gotten their mother-in-law arrested by ICE.
Using the state to remove disfavored family members is the sort of thing that happens in totalitarian regimes.
What remains after 113 firings isn't a neutral immigration court system. It's a system reshaped to produce a predetermined outcome.
More analysis: austinkocher.substack.com/p/the-asylum...
Read:austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-deportation-judges-...
This Tax Day, every American should know:
Because of Trump, Amazon avoided paying over 90% of the taxes it owed.
That's $17.5 billion that should be going to health care, schools, child care, and more.
But instead, Jeff Bezos gets wealthier.
Congress needs to tax the rich.
Amazon will pay $20.5 million to settle allegations that two of its Oregon data centers helped contaminate groundwater.
This is exactly why communities across the country are organizing to stop data centers — and winning.
Never doubt your power to change the system.
We just won our trial against Live Nation and Ticketmaster.
A jury ruled in our favor and is holding the companies responsible for their illegal monopoly that cost consumers millions of dollars.
This is a landmark victory to protect New Yorkers from harmful monopolies.
Trump heard the phrase “suffer the little children” and said hold my Diet Coke.
TurboTax and H&R Block spent $7 million lobbying the Trump administration to kill Direct File.
Both companies donated to Trump's 2024 campaign and inauguration committees.
They are counting on racism to carry this argument. They are killing seniors, disabled, and veterans but want you to think its immigrants and "fraud."
🇺🇸🇺🇦 “Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I’m proudest we’ve done in this administration.”
-JD Vance
Vice President of the United States
😡JUST IN: Ukrainians are still trying to survive.
Lots of good sense here. Notable that as so often Sen. Chris Murphy is an elected official willing to speak hard truths.
www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-lose...
Hard not to wade into “political waters” when the State wants to intertwine religion and politics by talking about a Holy Just War and claiming God’s protection.
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto
Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...
For everyone who's like "Trump is too stupid to be the antichrist" I'm not a biblical scholar but I do think that, in general, and apologies for being a dork: we should stop thinking of evil as Darth Vader and start thinking of it as Kylo Ren. Evil is small and stupid almost always
ai has a “pr crisis” because we’re being told that it will replace everyones jobs and the plan from there appears to be to have to deal with not having a job or money. no one believes that the tech billionaires will bestow UBI or anything at all onto the “permanent underclass”
Our version of Skynet will nuke hallucinated cities so we don't even get to die quickly.
An mRNA treatment for PANCREATIC CANCER was in trials, among many other uses. Choosing to end this research is choosing to sentence millions to an early, painful death
People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god
I wish I could be surprised that the "why didn't you report it at the time" shit still persists. Especially as we continually see that cops don't take these reports seriously. Rape kits are still on massive back logs. And well... the President is still in office and not in jail.
Iran closes all diplomatic and indirect channels of communication with the U.S., suspending the exchange of messages, following Trump’s threat to kill Iran's "whole civilization." -Reuters
The relationship between statelessness and atrocity is a major theme in Hannah Arendt; I make a specific argument about the Holocaust in "Black Earth."
“He has endeavoured to prevent the population of these States; for that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners…
“He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.”
If immigration judges can be fired for deciding independently, they aren't judges. Congress *could* create a genuinely independent Article I immigration court, but it has chosen not to. There are no immigration judges left: only deportation judges.
austinkocher.substack.com/p/no-deporta...
taylor lautner and her husband taylor lautner have the opportunity to do the funniest thing
NYT on Feb. 13, 2026: The visit also demonstrated the relative foreign policy inexperience of Ms. Ocasio-Cortez, who has made a few overseas trips since taking office but does not sit on any House committees devoted primarily to world affairs. She struggled at times to formulate succinct answers at a nighttime panel session, during which she was asked probing and specific questions about how to respond to international crises. Questioned about whether the United States should send troops to defend Taiwan if China invaded the island, she stalled for roughly 20 seconds before offering a substantive response. “I think that, uh, this is such a, a — you know, I think that — this is a, um — this is of course, a, uh, a very longstanding, um, policy of the United States,” Ms. Ocasio-Cortez said, before saying that the country should try to avoid reaching that point with China in the first place.
NYT on March 26, 2026: Mr. Trump is correct that Sharpies are cheaper, but he overstated the cost of past presidential writing instruments. (Whether Sharpies are better is in the eye of the penholder.) A.T. Cross, which is based in Rhode Island, said it had manufactured the penspreferred by Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack Obama, all of whom used the Townsend model. The pen, described by Cross as possessing a “bold profile, intricate detailing and superior writing performance,” now retails for about $200. (The classic black version costs about $265.) President Joseph R. Biden Jr. preferredCross’s Century II model, which the company says brings “modern flair to a time-honored design.” That model is slightly less expensive, ranging from $99 to $270 a pen. Luxury pen enthusiasts, it should be noted, often describe Cross pens as relatively affordable alternatives to other famous pens made by Montblanc and Nakaya, which can retail for over $1,000.
NYT quoting AOC when she says “um”: This dumb girl can’t talk
NYT quoting Trump after sticking a fork up his nose into his brain and rambling about sharpie pens: Doth thine lion howl with instincts known not learned by man, or sound his sonorous roar as prophecy to gaze back upon history itself?
To all the people that voted for this
Fuck every last single one of you
In the annals of criminal history, no one ever imagined corruption at this scale
The most corrupt Administration in history.
Not even subtle about it.