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Giving an academic a panic button in 2026 is a good way to deplete the university's strategic antianxiety supply.

Maybe there is a kitchen table in the ballroom.

Some people know what they deserve :P

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

Chart showing support for gay marriage over time, from Gallup.

There is so much of the social and health politics of the 1980s and 1990s (and accompanying legal doctrines) that simply doesn't make sense without that context.

news.gallup.com/poll/646202/...

When teaching Dobbs, I sometimes show my students two graphs. One depicts public support for gay marriage, which went from 27% in 1996 to 68% in 2024. The other shows attitudes toward abortion, which remained more or less steady for decades until Dobbs.

I don’t think my students understand the depth of the AIDS panic unless they’ve covered it specifically in another course. They’re all born after the advent of the first successful antiretroviral cocktails. Such a different world.

One of these days Haidt will do something other than blame "the left." Probably.

The premise of everything that the administration does is that January 6th was legally legitimate, the Biden Administration was not, and crime in the sense of stuff meriting state punishment is committed by people of color and their allies.

Those smiles are just like EVERYONE THIS IS MY DAD, MY DAD WENT TO SPACE

Except the dog. The dog is like "why is the photographer waving a squeaky toy? Maybe she will throw it."

Astronaut in space suit surrounded by his beautiful family, including their dog

Astronaut Victor Glover, pilot of the #ArtemisII, and his family. They must be so friggin proud..

www.nasa.gov/learning-res...

A digital illustration of the shrine to the fictional saint of journalists and dangerous truths, the Muckraker, from my D&D campaign. It is a stained glass window set into cracked red stone. The arched window shows a purpley-dark skinned woman looking up and swallowing a sword. One hand reaches up and gently holds the blade of the sword while her other hand touches her throat like you would if you found you couldn't speak. Her fingers and the cuffs of her sleeves are inkstained black. Impaled on the blade of the sword above her are two newspaper sheets, the same sheets can be seen in the stained glass behind her. They show headlines written in a fictional language telling the Muckraker's story of revealing dangerous truths and how it cost her her life. The sword is framed by a halo of green rays of light while the background of the window shows a desert city in front of a red wall, and purple mountains. Below the window in the stone the word "Muckraker" is carved in the same language.

D&D's so fun, y'all. Fun enough I end up drawing a stained glass window representing the fictional saint of journalists and dangerous truths who's honored in one of the cities in our campaign.

. . .I totally didn't create another new alphabet just to make newspaper sheets for it. Not at all >.>

A digital illustration of the shrine to the fictional patron saint of the exploited, abused, unheard, the Kid, from my D&D campaign. She acts for those buried in shallow graves, and those the monsters thought so unimportant that they didn't even bother. The Kid straddles the line between reckoning and revenge, since that's as close as Bassuras' powerless ever get to justice. The shrine is a stained glass window set into cracked red stone.The arched window shows a figure striding forward menacingly in dark clothes and a wide-brimmed, tassled hat that leaves the face in shadow, their eyes glowing a strong red visible just below the brim. A threat to those they target. In each of their hands, they hold their signature weapons - smoking revolvers that are backed and highlighted by a sun design holding two bullets. The skin of the hands is dark and streaked with a glowing red like lava peeking through cracks in dark stone. The figure's cloak billows off to the side and the inside fades into a smoky texture.The figured head is haloed by green rays of light above a desert city in front of a red wall and purple mountains. Below the window in the stone the words "The Kid" are carved in a fictional language.

The Kid, patron saint of the exploited, abused, unheard, who's honored in a city in my D&D campaign.

This is apparently a series now :)

#myart #dnd #d&d

The problem with the data broker loophole is not that the government can buy the data, it is that anyone at all can buy the data.

I think there is a very short list of law schools that would be interested in hiring people with their records.

The Union was far too lenient on the traitors after the Civil War.

Happy Confederate Surrender Day (or whatever it’s called)

Donald Trump is completely unhinged. His statement threatening to eradicate an entire civilization shocks the conscience and requires a decisive congressional response. The House must come back into session immediately and vote to end this reckless war of choice in the Middle East before Donald Trump plunges our country into World War III. For years, Republicans have enabled and excused Donald Trump’s deeply dangerous and extreme behavior. Enough is enough. Our brave men and women in uniform have been put into harm’s way in the Middle East. Over a dozen have already been killed and hundreds injured. Gas prices are skyrocketing, the cost of living in America is out of control and billions of taxpayer dollars are being wasted on a reckless war of choice. It’s time for House Republicans to put patriotic duty over party loyalty and join Democrats in stopping this madness.

After Trump wrote, in reference to Iran, “A whole civilization will die tonight,” the entirety of the House Democratic leadership issued this joint statement:

Hopefully Ted Lieu isn't the only or even the first politician holding a prominent office to say this, but I think it's the first one I've seen, this explicitly, so I just wanted to highlight it.

Bragging about an intent to commit war crimes.

if you invented public libraries today, every opinion page in the country would be arguing for means tested subsidized Amazon Prime memberships

The nonsense case against birthright citizenship Meet the conservative legal minds telling the Supreme Court to side with Trump.

we said what we said @anthonymkreis.bsky.social

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

I know ppl on dunking on this, and you do not in fact have to ever hand it to Homan, but appropriation law is a complex area of law that we … generally don’t ask cops to enforce.

I think it’s good for ppl to admit “this area of law is not my lane.”

It’s a lesson SEVERAL law profs could def learn.

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

I thought the first two words made it clear he wasn't a contender.

I maintain that AI-aided writing has limited utility for anyone trying to generate novel analysis. You know, like a journalist (or most academics).

Texas Police Arrested This Journalist For Asking Questions. No Problem, Says the Supreme Court The justices’ decision sends a chilling message to journalists who report stories that powerful people do not like.

Cops in Laredo were tired of Priscilla Villarreal reporting stories they did not like. In 2017, they arrested her for texting two questions to a source in the police department. She sued, but a lower court gave the cops qualified immunity. The Supreme Court rejected her appeal this week.

The early responses to Wolf Worm are hatching! Highlights include “What is wrong with you?!?” “WHY?!” and “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, KINGFISHER!”

Hunter Biden's laptop is truly the Vince Foster of our age.