I was so surprised to hear that Alan Dershowitz was switching from Democrat to Republican because I thought he was already dead.

I do too lmao

my mom just said "alan dershowitz is like a minor shakespeare villain who thinks he's the main character". devastating

i'm not saying that the Democrats should immediately announce a Universal Basic Pierogis campaign but I'm not not saying that

Current hostility (on the part of politicians and institutional leaders alike) to even looking at the past is strikingly blunt. It touches many disciplines, but denying history is the key issue.

The backlash against Bouie’s piece on Enlightenment and then the 1619 Project were public turning points

but like maybe i should find some concerts to go to that week too lmao

my parents moved nearby, so at least this year i'll be able to drink anxiously in the same room as them as opposed to while crashing out on the phone with them with like forty tabs open

As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means

You know what, let’s try sending Liam Neeson and Ewan McGregor to mediate. Just to see what happens.

Viktor Orban to join Harvard Institute of Politics.

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

I guess I'm obligated to post this incredible IWTV fic for those who haven't read it archiveofourown.org/works/629763...

New to BlueSky, huh?

Every election post tonight is like "Wow the Democrats won the mayoralty in Racismville. Trump didn't just win Racismville but all of Klan-Guntruck County by 42."

I’m not necessarily going to judge him in the context of the quote but it’s often used by the same kind of people who like to say “music is above politics” or “music is a universal language” lmao

Leonard Bernstein said right after JFK got shot: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Unfortunately there was a while in like 2015-2020 when every orchestra trotted this out like “thoughts and prayers”

gotta back out of the gig. i'm kidding but also

much like going on a date with someone and then discovering dirt on them while going down the google rabbit hole (which is maybe an overly apt analogy given how much i've been doing that lately lmao), i am about to play chamber music with somebody and their website...features the bernstein quote

somebody alert ao3, new omegaverse just dropped

‘I am deeply sorry.’ Boston University president pauses Pride flag removals following backlash. - The Boston Globe BU has been under fire in recent weeks over its enforcement of a signage policy that some professors say was meant to keep the spotlight off of the university as the Trump administration pursues anti-LGBTQ+ policies.

Boston University is pausing its removal of Pride flags from office windows amid a national backlash over its controversial free expression policy, President Melissa Gilliam announced.

oh you’re so right! I will go to extreme lengths to commit to this bit tbh

I’m gonna become like the 101 Dalmatians guy “oh don’t mind me honey I’m just up in the attic loudly writing diss tracks about your annoying friends”

maybe shouldn’t have subtweeted that one guy on main now that I’m one degree away from him but I couldn’t resist

The Unbearable Lightness of Being Tricked Into Thinking He Might Be Dead

honestly if i had to pick being known for an ai article or the tom bombadil porn i would pick the tom bombadil porn

😁: I’m getting huge recognition for an article I wrote

😬: it’s about people using AI and is basically straightforward reporting but I was not getting paid to write an opinion piece so what if people think I approve of any of this lmao

Adoption, Belonging, and the Question of Citizenship Adoptees are proof of the cruelty and carelessness at the heart of Trump’s assault on birthright citizenship.

I am adopted. Like many adoptees from my era and before, I have no information about my biological parents and access to my original birth certificate.

This is my contribution to the birthright citizenship debate:

www.liberalcurrents.com/adoption-bel...

Unfortunately formatted hand written sign at the March 28th No Kings protest in New Haven saying "War crimes don't hide sex crimes", but it also can be read as War don't sex. Crimes hide crimes"

WAR DON'T SEX

CRIMES HIDE CRIMES

first principles, clarice. simplicity. read marcus aurelius. of each particular thing ask: what is it in itself? what is its nature? what does he do, this man you seek?