Richard Grusin
@rgrusin.bsky.social
Walker of woods, lover of forests, friendly with trees. Theorist of mediation. Arboreal nonhumanist. Zayde. Recovering academic.
Already at Yale Law Vance was known, in the words of my daughter, who was in the class a year behind him, as an “ambition monster.”
i think vance is only interesting inasmuch as he extremely unprincipled and thus a good guide to where the GOP is going (gift link)
Opinion | JD Vance Is Idling at the Edges of American Politics
www.nytimes.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Already at Yale Law Vance was known, in the words of my daughter, who was in the class a year behind him, as an “ambition monster.”
This is gross. But Lawrence Summers is gross.
The emails have Summers reporting to Epstein about his attempts to date a Harvard economics student & to hit on her during a seminar she was giving.
November 16, 2025 at 12:39 AM
This is gross. But Lawrence Summers is gross.
No matter what you think of MTG, this kind of thing is dangerous and totally unacceptable. MTG has already been victimized in multiple pornographic deepfakes. The confluence of sex and violence has been Trump's metier for most of his life.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she’s had ‘warnings for my safety’ after posts by Trump
One-time Maga loyalist diverges with Trump on issues including Epstein, so US president has withdrawn support
www.theguardian.com
November 15, 2025 at 10:44 PM
No matter what you think of MTG, this kind of thing is dangerous and totally unacceptable. MTG has already been victimized in multiple pornographic deepfakes. The confluence of sex and violence has been Trump's metier for most of his life.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The fascist takeover of higher education continues apace at Montclair State University.
Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous
academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
My colleague has captured what is currently happening at my institution. I have found the chipper rhetoric announcing it particularly depressing.
November 14, 2025 at 10:46 PM
The fascist takeover of higher education continues apace at Montclair State University.
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On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
The University Is Ruined (with apologies to Bill Readings).
November 14, 2025 at 1:52 PM
The University Is Ruined (with apologies to Bill Readings).
There is no "data" in my mind. Or yours either.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
There is no "data" in my mind. Or yours either.
I believe Google had always already chosen a side.
Choosing a side: "Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable group." www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
I believe Google had always already chosen a side.
So here's the thing. Billionaires gonna billionaire. JB "Richie Rich" Pritzker epitomizes what is wrong with the Democratic Party, which is beholden to (and in Pritzker's case embodies) the same billionaire class that funds the Banana Republicans. JB may talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk.
Pritzker absolutely opposed to Johnson’s Chicago corporate “head tax”
Gov. J.B. Pritzker told the Chicago Economic Club Oct. 21 that he absolutely opposes Mayor Brandon Johnson’s plan to revive the corporate “head tax” as part of his new budget proposal.
www.illinoispolicy.org
November 14, 2025 at 12:41 PM
So here's the thing. Billionaires gonna billionaire. JB "Richie Rich" Pritzker epitomizes what is wrong with the Democratic Party, which is beholden to (and in Pritzker's case embodies) the same billionaire class that funds the Banana Republicans. JB may talk the talk, but he doesn't walk the walk.
On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:42 AM
On top of its considerable destructive cultural and socio-economic impacts, AI is destructively extractive of energy and water.
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A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Environmental impact and net-zero pathways for sustainable artificial intelligence servers in the USA - Nature Sustainability
The rapid expansion of AI server installations in the United States poses sustainability challenges in terms of water usage and carbon emissions. A study now quantifies these potential impacts and out...
www.nature.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 AM
A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.
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Protest erupts at COP30 as Indigenous activists break into the venue in Belém, Brazil—chanting:
“Our forests are not for sale”
tinyurl.com/4d8r73hx #OurForestsAreNotForSale #COP30 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #Amazon #HumanRights #Forests #Activist360
“Our forests are not for sale”
tinyurl.com/4d8r73hx #OurForestsAreNotForSale #COP30 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #Amazon #HumanRights #Forests #Activist360
Protesters break into COP30 venue in Brazil
More than 200 delegations, including senior world leaders, are attending the UN climate talks.
tinyurl.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Protest erupts at COP30 as Indigenous activists break into the venue in Belém, Brazil—chanting:
“Our forests are not for sale”
tinyurl.com/4d8r73hx #OurForestsAreNotForSale #COP30 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #Amazon #HumanRights #Forests #Activist360
“Our forests are not for sale”
tinyurl.com/4d8r73hx #OurForestsAreNotForSale #COP30 #ClimateJustice #IndigenousRights #Amazon #HumanRights #Forests #Activist360
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His whole way of "governing" is on the model of rape and violent sexual abuse. He has groomed the Republican Party to be his enablers and codependents in abusing and assaulting Democrats, immigrants, and the American public. His method is to constantly push the limits of what he can get away with.
November 12, 2025 at 3:20 PM
His whole way of "governing" is on the model of rape and violent sexual abuse. He has groomed the Republican Party to be his enablers and codependents in abusing and assaulting Democrats, immigrants, and the American public. His method is to constantly push the limits of what he can get away with.
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“Clinton” brings up 756 results.
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Clinton” brings up 756 results.
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Interview with me about service sector stuff in advance of my book release next year! truthout.org/articles/imp...
Impending Strike in Las Vegas Exposes Labor Abuses in Service Sector Nationwide
Service work now dominates the economy. That changes how we build worker power, scholar Annie McClanahan says.
truthout.org
November 12, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Interview with me about service sector stuff in advance of my book release next year! truthout.org/articles/imp...
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The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
November 12, 2025 at 9:56 PM
The Kremlin disguised a nearly $100 mn payment to Trump in the form of a brokered real estate deal... and both Jeffrey Epstein and William Pulte were involved in the deal. That's very interesting.
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By any reasonable calibration, the two biggest assholes to afflict themselves on Harvard University in the modern era are Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz, and of course, Jeffrey Epstein collected them both.
November 13, 2025 at 1:26 AM
By any reasonable calibration, the two biggest assholes to afflict themselves on Harvard University in the modern era are Larry Summers and Alan Dershowitz, and of course, Jeffrey Epstein collected them both.
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Americans told us they need lower health care costs.
So Republicans ripped away their health care, jacked up costs, and handed over giant tax cuts to billionaires.
It's shameful. But I’m not going to stop fighting.
So Republicans ripped away their health care, jacked up costs, and handed over giant tax cuts to billionaires.
It's shameful. But I’m not going to stop fighting.
November 13, 2025 at 1:33 AM
Americans told us they need lower health care costs.
So Republicans ripped away their health care, jacked up costs, and handed over giant tax cuts to billionaires.
It's shameful. But I’m not going to stop fighting.
So Republicans ripped away their health care, jacked up costs, and handed over giant tax cuts to billionaires.
It's shameful. But I’m not going to stop fighting.
“Clinton” brings up 756 results.
For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files:
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
Epstein Document Search
splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app
November 13, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“Clinton” brings up 756 results.
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The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
November 12, 2025 at 11:23 PM
The attorney general and the FBI director, a manosphere podcaster bro, pulled into the situation room a member of Congress best known for getting kicked out of a Beetlejuice musical for drunkenly giving her date a handy, in order to pressure her about the president's child sex trafficking scandal.
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Savage
Donald Trump was practicing child rape the right way.
by Ezra Klein
by Ezra Klein
November 13, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Savage
Why are the Democrats so bad at messaging?
Every elected Democrat should refer to Trump as the Predator in Chief. Republicans should be characterized as Pedophile Protectors, and the GOP repeatedly called the Gang of Pedophiles or Gang of Predators.
Why is it so difficult for Dems to do this?
Every elected Democrat should refer to Trump as the Predator in Chief. Republicans should be characterized as Pedophile Protectors, and the GOP repeatedly called the Gang of Pedophiles or Gang of Predators.
Why is it so difficult for Dems to do this?
November 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Why are the Democrats so bad at messaging?
Every elected Democrat should refer to Trump as the Predator in Chief. Republicans should be characterized as Pedophile Protectors, and the GOP repeatedly called the Gang of Pedophiles or Gang of Predators.
Why is it so difficult for Dems to do this?
Every elected Democrat should refer to Trump as the Predator in Chief. Republicans should be characterized as Pedophile Protectors, and the GOP repeatedly called the Gang of Pedophiles or Gang of Predators.
Why is it so difficult for Dems to do this?
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Quit watching your trafficking documentaries and getting angry if you still support this guy .
Trump is in the files
Trump is in the files
November 12, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Quit watching your trafficking documentaries and getting angry if you still support this guy .
Trump is in the files
Trump is in the files