Vanderbilt AAUP press release about the Vanderbilt Faculty Senate voting overwhelmingly to adopt a resolution opposing the President's proposed Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education as an unconstitutional & illegal infringement on rights & freedoms.

vanderbiltaaup.org/2025/10/09/v...

Pope Leo Calls on U.S. Bishops to stand up for migrants rights
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Curious if folks are getting the impression that those around them are unaware antifa is not an org? We know this admin is dead set on pretending it is & many media are uncritically perpetuating that. Feels like we’re watching an elite disinfo campaign move in both a rapid and absurdist fashion.

Trump only really wanted to win the Nobel Peace Prize for one reason – and you guessed it: it’s Obama

Statement from the Nobel Peace Prize Committee 👏 🙏

Oligarchs are going to oligarch. Trump may love him, but we don't have to. He is a pernicious figure and should be scorned and mocked. Without his billions, no one would care what this man says. 3/ www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/u...

Here is the tale of how he ran one hospital chain into the ground. It's gruesome reading. He is not a good person. 2/ prospect.org/power/2023-1...

Once again, less than Barack Obama 😜

Picture how big the Hoover Dam is. An absolute unit. The Hoover Dam has a power capacity of 2 gigawatts (GW).

The solar farm that the Admin just cancelled could have produces 6.2 GW of power. That's more than 3 Hoover Dams.

This is very poorly coached football team at the moment, & there's no escaping that. Right down to having you best defensive players still in the game now, to do nothing but get hurt. 🤷‍♂️ You're not gonna fire Sirianni 6 games after that Super Bowl, but it's really, really, really ugly right now.

Most Americans say Trump has improperly used his office to:
💠Punish those who say things he does not like (66%)
💠Encourage federal investigations of his political opponents (62%)
💠Enrich himself or his friends and family (61%)

new @pewresearch.org findings

Agree and you know the city will let them know just how much

I know this case is all over - & it should be - but Turning Point USA has waged a harassment campaign against faculty for more than a decade. I know of at least a half dozen other faculty, personally, who have received death threats and several of those who felt so unsafe they too left their homes

It really does and people forget that Catholics are not evangelicals

Yep!!

Ikr?

It sure did, and some of us said so; some, like Susan Faludi, in her book The Terror Dream, wrote brilliantly about such language. More said we were being hysterical. My point isn't "told ya so"; it's that language really matters.

somebody please have the birds and the bees conversation with our duly confirmed HHS Secretary Robert F Kennedy Jr

Trump’s economic policies are hurting his supporters. He’s cancelled investment in red-states, slashed health care spending, and ruined the market for farmers. “Trump won’t rest so long as there is a single MAGA voter left employed.” From Ryan Cooper: trib.al/uGwl968

Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

the most interesting part of "Dilexit te" published by Pope Leo XIV today - for me, as a message to the debate on the role of Vatican II in the church today

We're launching our latest report on researching the far-right at 6pm UK/1pm US east coast time today.

The webinar will be chaired by @lizzypearson.bsky.social & feature author @antoniavaughan.bsky.social & discussant @audreygagnon.bsky.social.

More info.: voxpol.eu/events/new-v...

#PleaseRS

As I observed in my Substack Round Up this past week, the endgame of the military strikes against drug cartels in international waters is to lay the groundwork to use lethal military force against Americans at home. Pay attention open.substack.com/pub/asharang...

The most stunning thing about Belichick's career collapsing and his reputation for anyone under 25 being recast as "horny old dude flaming out in six weeks at North Carolina" is that the football team that made the best decision to keep itself clean throughout this saga was the Atlanta Falcons