The Speaker of the House is telling the Fox News audience that a peaceful demonstration by Americans on the National Mall will actually be a gathering of organizations the administration has designated as violent terrorists.

Seems bad?

"Academic freedom policies came from faculties, not the government. Governments are the enemies of academic freedom, not their protectors." Brilliant piece by @sivav.bsky.social about the Trump administrations' latest effort to censor universities newrepublic.com/article/2013...

The state goons are powerless before the awesome might of someone in an inflatable frog costume, and you seriously expect me to believe the situation is hopeless?

History repeats.

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Very Trump-era story.
1. The sword has no meaning for Charles, but matters for the Eisenhower Museum.
2. Illegal for the museum to give away US property!
3. Trump makes no distinction between personal/public property.
4. The person who did the right thing was fired.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/a...

Animal agriculture is wrecking the planet and the media is helping by saying nothing. Silence is complicity.

The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776.

Yup.
Give it a read…

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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This.

I have seven part-time/consultant positions at the moment. Any writing or peer review I do beyond those contracts--including work on my own book and public-facing project--is unpaid time.

Having to say I'm an Independent Scholar feels untrue. I'm just dependent on more than one institution.

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

🤣🤣🤣

He also would have never known that Earhart started with an E. 😆

Sadly, entirely true.

We’ve got people who have put themselves above the law, and alleged law enforcers who can’t be trusted with the law.

This is how you lose the rule of law.

And thereby how you lose democracy.

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Whether they're blaming vaccines and Tylenol, or selling dubious "remedies," what they're really doing is promoting the perception that families (and especially mothers) can prevent and treat Autism. And thus also the perception that people with Autism and their families don't need social support.

The US right claimed free speech was sacred – until the Charlie Kirk killing

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here.

I'm not denying the danger.
I'm not denying the threat.

I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration.

They don't have the power to work on that scale.
Tho they want us to believe they do

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There was no outrage from MAGA three months ago about this: