screenshot of WashPo editorial board August 20 2025 "The Texas Gerrymander freakout What's happening in the Lone Star State is not a threat to democracy"

screenshot of April 21 Wash PO editorial board: "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss The redistricting scheme was always a power grab by Democrats. Voters went along with it."

listen hun if you can't handle the Washington Post editorial board at their the Texas gerrymander "freakout" is "not a threat to democracy" you don't deserve them at their "Virginia plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss"

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

‘Heartbreaking reality’: Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston Globe The announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school.

Breaking news: Hampshire College, the liberal arts university in Amherst, announced that it would close after nearly six decades.

Hampshire College announces transition to closure - The Boston Globe The announcement marks the end of another tumultuous chapter in the ongoing saga of the liberal arts school.

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/14/m...

Getting local reports that Hampshire College in Amherst, MA is closing.

Jennifer has been my friend for well over a decade. Please consider donating. Fuck cancer

The Left Needs Bureaucrats - Dissent Magazine After MAGA, the left will need to be ready with a theory of how to rebuild the federal administrative state—not as it was before Trump, but as something better.

I found this very interesting from @dissentmag.bsky.social written by @resnikoff.bsky.social. I respect anarcho-leftists (a lot in the academic anthropology field) but I found this article a good reminder of my own personal beliefs on the administrative state.

dissentmagazine.org/article/the-...

Abolish ICE. Really.

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This is an interesting abstract. If I am reading it correctly, a city's (potential) dynamic, heterogenous population and cultural difference inside itself is more citizenship forming than a large state(?). Fascinating argument

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ST PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Tim Walz, Democrats' 2024 vice presidential candidate, says he will not run for a third term as Minnesota governor.

Another good practice for the New Year would be for all the non-fascists in America who want to opine about politics to really begin believing that urban America is Real America & that its denizens are The Authentic People. Get some self-respect & drop the volkish nationalist view that they're not

Dyslexia and the Reading Wars Proven methods for teaching the readers who struggle most have been known for decades. Why do we often fail to use them?

Are American schools teaching kids to read in an effective way? Some researchers say that many methods for instructing students are deeply flawed, and particularly harmful for children with dyslexia. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

The Fragility of Body Positivity How a radical movement lost its way.

Today with our last post of the year: @freeblackgirl.bsky.social on the fragility of body positivity, and what happens when a radical movement gets co-opted.

I'm so sorry Jennifer. I hope for a healthy new year for you. Keeping you in my thoughts.

Bari Weiss is killing stories the right way.

by Ezra Klein

Trump Uses ‘National Security’ To Freeze Offshore Wind Work The administration has already lost once in court wielding the same argument against Revolution Wind.

Breaking news: Trump is citing “national security” to halt all active work on offshore wind projects

Five giant energy projects, countless jobs at risk

My story explains how the argument has legal weaknesses and comes from an anti-wind policy doc I reported in January

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

So Bari Weiss’s first real editorial intervention at CBS is to repress coverage of American concentration camps.

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the vice president is a klansman

That Facebook ad where a co-worker looks at their other co-workers Facebook account to discover she likes KISS so he can give her a KISS themed gift for the office Christmas party is really creepy.

Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.

The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.

www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...

Trump pauses green card lottery program after Brown University, MIT shootings Kristi Noem said she's "immediately" pausing the program that enabled the suspected shooter to live in the U.S.

As soon as the news broke about the suspect and the investigation, I knew Trump would probably do this. And now look

www.axios.com/2025/12/19/t...

The most remarkable and disturbing thing about Trump/Hegseth's campaign of murder in the Caribbean has been the almost complete failure of other nations to vociferously object to the U.S.'s patent violation of the most fundamental of legal and moral norms.

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@justsecurity.org

House passes bill to criminalize transition care for minors The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related medical care

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors.

Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote.

www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

"Changes to centers and institutes were initially projected to save $4.8 million."

Bill Belichick's annual salary is $10 million.

Just now, a national trans healthcare felony ban for youth has passed the US House, with 10 year prison terms.

3 Dems crossed party lines to vote to jail providers.

4 GOP crossed party lines to vote against.

It is not expected to pass the Senate, where Dems hold filibuster power.

Story to come.

Fondly remembering when David Graeber said Trump would be "wrapping up the imperial program."

I also want to start a DJ show on Mixcloud