Every time a man kills his family I am reminded how little this country cares about children. Not here, and certainly not overseas, where we're bombing schools or supporting other regimes that also bomb schools and traumatize while generations en masse
How is “viewpoint diversity” not just affirmative action for people with bad ideas
Check your city budget and you will likely be shocked. By budget, most American cities are basically giant police departments with a library, street maintenance and parks barely hanging on like three starving lampreys on a giant shark
Much appreciated and I’m sorry to hear you experienced similar. I think it was a unique case- he was a rape prevention scholar, after all. It makes me hopeful to see reporting changing.
I appreciate this. It was upsetting at the time. This year, our lawsuit was dropped, after we nearly had to pay a fine to the professor (we had a conservative judge). The prof was eventually fired and stripped of tenure in like 2020 I believe (thx to the faculty senate).
I remember you writing an article for The Daily Beast about my professor who assaulted my colleague. You quoted him extensively but never contacted any of the six of us students for comment. And you never responded on Twitter when we reached out. What changed for you?
Do I find the spectacle of the Vatican beefing with American adult catholic converts very interesting? Yes.
Will it make me reconsider reviving my lapsed Catholicism? Absolutely no.
ICE loves hurting and killing women.
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Let me say this plainly: Iranian children have as much of a right to live and thrive as American children.
Their babies MUST be as precious to me as my 6 niblings and my baby grandnib are IF I want them to have a future.
If I want a future for my kin AND humanity, I MUST act like it.
So must you.
The 30 Rockification of real life is nearing completion
based on my experiences as a parent i genuinely believe that if someone is feeling irritable the first thing they should ask themselves is “have i pooped today?”
Big news: The AMA has formally requested the nyt issue a public correction to its false reporting on the organisation’s position on gender affirming care 🧵
"i'm on the struggle bus today" bro i am driving the struggle bus. and if it goes slower than 55 mph it's going to explode
This NYT article focuses on the theatrics of a judge tossing a DOJ official from his courtroom for speaking without permission, but the transcript reveals much worse govt wrongdoing:
DOJ cut a plea deal w/ a child sex abuse material (CSAM) defendant before the FBI finished searching his devices ...
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Pie chart showing that almost 88,000 people are confined for immigration reasons in the U.S.
Between 2025 and 2026, the number of people detained by ICE on any given day grew by nearly 60%.
Thanks to Trump's deportation agenda, expanded immigration detention accounts for almost all of the growth in mass incarceration since last year.
How can I assign this thread to my intro students as they learn about courts next week? Because this is amazing.
NEW: Even the strongest anti-abortion advocates don't want to punish people for pregnancy loss. Police and prosecutors are finding ways to do it anyway.
Here's what happens when miscarriage is recast as murder:
We'd all be happier if we lived somewhere walkable (The Deep Space Nine space station)
The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it
we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes
In the book White Women's Rights: The Racial Origins of Feminism in the United States, about the 1870s-1920s, historian Louise Michele Newman notes that it was when Black people started to participate more In the political sphere that discourse about politics became more preoccupied with fraud.
This was an episode of 30 Rock.
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
"'Protective presence' is a tactic utilized by a targeted group of people in which they get untargeted people to be a buffer so that they can go along with trying to resist their occupation and live a normal life."
And iiirc the woman who started it has raised something like $600k from it? That’s pretty good!
A male professor of sexual violence prevention assaulted one of my friends in grad school and that was my Joker moment 🤡
when i say bring that baby home i mean EVERY BABY
For context, organizers in Springfield have asked for support via donations and that no one travel there even to act as observers, and that anyone who lives/works in town should attend a training on how to protect neighbors and interact with ICE.
See the post about DIFA if you're in Dayton.
arguably, it had a lot to do with training, as in, this is what they are trained to do. however the idea this was a *lack* of training is laughable and any Dem who floats it as a solution should be laughed at.