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I never thought that the road to totalitarianism would be paved with flowcharts.
December 6, 2025 at 3:16 PM
I never thought that the road to totalitarianism would be paved with flowcharts.
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Wouldn’t want any “interrogating” or “challenging” in education now would we
“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”
To Root Out Wokeness in the Course Catalog, This Texas University Is Turning to AI
“The AI was upset with my use of the phrase ‘women's rights movement.’”
www.texasmonthly.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Wouldn’t want any “interrogating” or “challenging” in education now would we
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There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
Trump Administration Says Europe Faces ‘Civilizational Erasure’
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:50 PM
There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
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“More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year…
predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...”
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...”
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
University to cut or pause 23 programs next fall amid restructuring - The New School Free Press
This story was updated on Dec. 4 at 5:45 p.m. More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year, according to information shared with faculty in an email from the provost’s office sent No...
www.newschoolfreepress.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:33 AM
“More than 20 academic programs will be cut or paused next year…
predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...”
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
predominantly at the New School for Social Research (NSSR) & Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts...”
www.newschoolfreepress.com/2025/11/26/u...
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friday evening gifts 🎉✨
December 5, 2025 at 11:30 PM
friday evening gifts 🎉✨
It’s so clear what happened and it’s silly for the NYTimes to force readers to read between the lines to see the horror.
The details in this story are horrifying and the reporting is solid -- but, my god, they continue to give deference-bordering-on-reverence to the military's interpretation of events, despite them being caught in lie after lie, including in this very story! www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/u...
Video of Boat Strike Shows Survivors Waving Before Fatal Follow-Up Attack
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:01 PM
It’s so clear what happened and it’s silly for the NYTimes to force readers to read between the lines to see the horror.
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For those unfamiliar--she is a MD/PhD but her expertise is in sports medicine. Prior to the pandemic she had 7 pubs on eye issues in athletes. She has zero expertise in infectious disease or vaccination, but coauthored a bunch of papers with Prasad on COVID and rose to prominence as a contrarian.
Tracy Hoeg is a fraud. She advertises "orthobiologic" therapies on her website, ALL unapproved by FDA. Now she's in charge of CDER. She is a joke. Unqualified. Full-stop.
Tracy Hoeg: Voting to stop universally vaccinating newborns against hep B vaccine would "put us in line with peer countries."
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
Note: Which peer countries is she talking about? Taiwan began immunizing all babies on first day of life 6 years before the U.S., with huge success.
#ACIP
December 5, 2025 at 7:40 PM
For those unfamiliar--she is a MD/PhD but her expertise is in sports medicine. Prior to the pandemic she had 7 pubs on eye issues in athletes. She has zero expertise in infectious disease or vaccination, but coauthored a bunch of papers with Prasad on COVID and rose to prominence as a contrarian.
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The logical end of a project based on fictional victimhood that has spent considerable time complaining about participation trophies in sports.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
Trump awarded inaugural Fifa peace prize at World Cup draw in Washington
US president receives new Fifa honour as scrutiny grows over Infantino’s political alliances and Trump’s disputed record on global conflicts
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The logical end of a project based on fictional victimhood that has spent considerable time complaining about participation trophies in sports.
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
www.theguardian.com/football/202...
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📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
December 5, 2025 at 7:04 PM
📣Did you read someone's great first article from either 2024 or 2025? Is the author a NAPS member? Would they like cash money?
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
Nominate them by sending a PDF of their piece to [email protected] by January 31, 2026
Best First Article prize and a cool $250 awarded at the NAPS annual meeting!
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I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
December 4, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I don’t know, I still randomly trip out over the fact that the President told states to specifically gerrymander for him. And they did.
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I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
I can't stop thinking about the purported drug smugglers being murdered by the US military. The punishment for drug offenses isn't the death penalty. This is just bloodlust and men in suits playing with lives they don't care about. It's truly grotesque and gravely compromises this country.
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ACIP member Meissner is honestly beside himself after Attorney Siri’s utterly contemptible presentation.
Meissner says that Siri doesn’t understand correlation vs causation (AGREED!).
He says that Siri quoting Plotkin is a gross distortion of the facts.
Meissner says that Siri doesn’t understand correlation vs causation (AGREED!).
He says that Siri quoting Plotkin is a gross distortion of the facts.
December 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
ACIP member Meissner is honestly beside himself after Attorney Siri’s utterly contemptible presentation.
Meissner says that Siri doesn’t understand correlation vs causation (AGREED!).
He says that Siri quoting Plotkin is a gross distortion of the facts.
Meissner says that Siri doesn’t understand correlation vs causation (AGREED!).
He says that Siri quoting Plotkin is a gross distortion of the facts.
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Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
An End to Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Breaking: After contentious debates and three failed attempts at a vote, a federal vaccine committee decided on Friday to end the decades-long recommendation that all newborns be immunized at birth against hepatitis B.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...
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The Times clearly discusses the larger question.
“It is difficult to find people knowledgeable about the relevant body of law and not working for Mr. Trump who think the United States is really in an armed conflict.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...
Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:46 AM
The Times clearly discusses the larger question.
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cool now things get to be so white they’re pantone white
December 5, 2025 at 5:43 AM
cool now things get to be so white they’re pantone white
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“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
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Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
What's changed is that the Court has become more transparent in its corruption. There's not even an argument here beyond the implicit one which is: how do you expect us to hold the House without those seats?
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Agree: change is that the "institutionalists" have stopped pretending
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
-Thomas/Alito: They're the equivalent of "Trump +35" safe House district
-Gorsuch (in Garland seat) equiv of "Trump +22"
-But Kav, ACB, and mainly pious 'just call balls and strikes' Roberts wanted to be seen as open to facts
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This extra long semester that started in March of 2020 is a real bummer
December 5, 2025 at 12:59 AM
This extra long semester that started in March of 2020 is a real bummer
As a resident of TX, I’m really really sick of the Bevo dung.
December 5, 2025 at 1:00 AM
As a resident of TX, I’m really really sick of the Bevo dung.
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Again, it's not just the blatant disdain they have for you & me as citizens. It's also the blatant disdain they have for their own colleagues.
We should all start treating them with exactly the same disdain they show for us, their colleagues, the law, & the Constitution.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should all start treating them with exactly the same disdain they show for us, their colleagues, the law, & the Constitution.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
I don't think the Justices understand the extent to which they are playing with fire. The more they do this, the more District Courts will engage in open disrespect of the Supreme Court, because what other response is there to open disrespect directed at them? That's bad for the Judiciary, period.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Again, it's not just the blatant disdain they have for you & me as citizens. It's also the blatant disdain they have for their own colleagues.
We should all start treating them with exactly the same disdain they show for us, their colleagues, the law, & the Constitution.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
We should all start treating them with exactly the same disdain they show for us, their colleagues, the law, & the Constitution.
bsky.app/profile/mcop...
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Certainly not the most important part of the opinion, but the "dummymandering" reference was entertaining. As well as Kagan's just general disdain for the entire situation, which couldn't be more clear in her description here courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
December 5, 2025 at 12:24 AM
Certainly not the most important part of the opinion, but the "dummymandering" reference was entertaining. As well as Kagan's just general disdain for the entire situation, which couldn't be more clear in her description here courthousenews.com/supreme-cour...
No b surprise I guess, but also, how is this 2025?
The 5th Circuit grants a Texas father the right to deny his daughter access to birth control, holding that Title X does not override parents' "right to consent to their teenagers’ obtaining contraceptives" under state law. (via @mjsdc.bsky.social) s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24...
December 5, 2025 at 12:35 AM
No b surprise I guess, but also, how is this 2025?
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Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
December 4, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Kagan with more dispositive proof of Roberts Court Calvinball
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As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?
December 4, 2025 at 11:08 PM
As Justice Kagan begins her dissent by pointing out, what is even the point of trial, of fact-finding, of clear error, of standards of review, when the Supreme Court simply ignores every single part of that and decides everything purely on the papers without any real consideration of the facts?