Abolish the Death Penalty!

I think the correct take is that the vulnerabilities and weaknesses that the Yale report highlights were exploited by intolerant and illiberal agents and movements. Plenty of blame to go around.

It actually is Baal… and this after a dozen Iranian LEGO animations depicting Baal as his ally. This is hard to even process.

100 Dams Down: 2025 A Big Year for Reconnecting Rivers in the U.S. In 2025, the United States removed 100 dams. One hundred outdated, often crumbling, and frequently dangerous structures were pulled from our waterways across 30 states. In their wake, more than 4,893…

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FIFA faces new crisis as SoFi Stadium workers in LA threaten strike action The union UNITE HERE Local 11 has made a series of demands to FIFA and voiced major concerns about ICE agents around World Cup venues

Thousands of workers are threatening to strike at the Los Angeles World Cup stadium.

The SoFi Stadium plans to host two of the three US Men's World Cup matches, but now 2,000 cooks, servers, bartenders and more may strike.

Their main issue? ICE being present at the World Cup.

Today marks 78 years since the massacre of Deir Yassin, an atrocity that came to define the Nakba, the ethnic cleansing of Palestine in 1948 to establish the state of Israel on stolen Palestinian land.

If you want more innovators, reduce class sizes, fully fund higher-ed, eliminate contingency, and stop trying to treat a public good as if it were a goddamned business.

We doomed ourselves when we capitulated to the market value analysis.

Maybe she was letting you know that her next one could be you.

Only fair. Tarantino stole most of his shit.

I hate it when I read a good post, and then forget and read the comments.

MEMPHIS ABC 7 catches a DEEP SIGH from Stephen Miller as Trump peddles his ever-changing justifications about Iran

I’ve been beating this drum for years. Education is supposed to help people discern what they should demand, to shape desire, not satisfy it.

This video was deleted from Twitter by Elin Musk.

You know what to do ‼️

Black square.

Tinder: Let me scan your camera roll to determine what your into.

My camera roll:

I think you’re missing a key point here. While a u.s. house seat is a big responsibility, they are frequently filled by complete buffoons. An inexperienced person committed to an ideal of public service is preferable to a venal or ideologically undesirable pro. Character often trumps competence.

we now have an answer to “what if caligula had dementia?”

Dude can’t even spell halt.

But you know they won’t, and so you’re just supporting killing innocent people for show.

I’m assuming this is good faith so I’ll bite.

The University of Iowa just opened a right wing “intellectual freedom” center with state funding. The center can’t make classes and has hired a marketing firm to assess (and try to drum up demand). Students don’t want this.

I assume that all of them were abused as children.

Creating a computer that destroys an entire country's independent capacity for reason is some Bond villain-level shit.

Wood Storks CC-BY Chris Marcum 2026

In some encouraging news from the federal government for a change, the wood stork was removed from the endangered species list. They aren't the prettiest bird but they are beautiful. It's a great comeback and a testament to effective conservation policy […]

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The more baroque and perverse your text, the more evidently human it is.

The opposite would seem to be true. The mark of AI text is its obviousness and straightforwardness. I can’t recall ever seeing a semicolon in a piece of text produced by an AI, much less a series of them with some em dashes sprinkled in.

Masked, geared up. Looks ICE could be responsible.

Texas A&M claims it has “seamlessly completed” its Spring 2026 course review. That statement is false.

Multiple courses addressing race, gender, and sexuality are still under review with faculty facing pressured to censor well into the semester.

Texans deserve the truth, not spin.

Newsflash: Dumb people believe dumb things. Why would anyone, not to mention Forbes, care what this joker thinks about the situation?

This is a disaster for higher education in Texas.

It’s a sign of the times, but 1980s me is outraged that I’ve followed Bill Kristol.