River_Tam
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To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Maths and physics are objective and humanities is subjective.
That's the difference.
That's the difference.
January 29, 2026 at 1:49 AM
To rephrase this slightly to make it correct - grading of assignments in courses for math and physics courses tends to be more objective than grading of assignments in the arts and humanities. That's not the same as the discipline itself being objective but it's also not nothing.
Heckuva job Bari
Below is the buyout offer all CBS Evening News staff received today.
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
"We hope you are excited about this vision, but we understand that some of you may not be, and we want to provide support. As such, we are offering an extraordinary chance to leave CBS News with an enhanced separation payment."
January 29, 2026 at 1:13 AM
Heckuva job Bari
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This is a response to Serwer’s article and it’s just completely divorced from any way a mentally well-adjusted person would think.
January 29, 2026 at 12:00 AM
This is a response to Serwer’s article and it’s just completely divorced from any way a mentally well-adjusted person would think.
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I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
January 29, 2026 at 1:02 AM
I've been listening to this English version of Bella Ciao on repeat all day while shoveling snow and it is a total banger.
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
"Someday the people who pick the flowers and they will remember my name."
Renee Good and Alex Pretti
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"I got divorced and my daughter hates me" is literally the most common mode of right wing radicalization in middle aged men
i love that rightwingers genuinely seem to believe that political ideology is a set genetic inheritable trait
January 28, 2026 at 10:54 PM
"I got divorced and my daughter hates me" is literally the most common mode of right wing radicalization in middle aged men
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Archbishop Paul Coakley, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounces the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti by the Trump-Vance administration & the death of an ICE detainee due to their actions.
January 28, 2026 at 10:45 PM
Archbishop Paul Coakley, the head of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, denounces the killings of Renee Good & Alex Pretti by the Trump-Vance administration & the death of an ICE detainee due to their actions.
Millennials were the generation least impacted by the pandemic but on the other hand we have an enduring belief that no one has ever had it harder than us
reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”
I spoke to a woman at the protest in minneapolis and she explained she wanted to be there in part because "i was a kid when george floyd got killed" and i nearly dropped my recorder
January 28, 2026 at 10:48 PM
Millennials were the generation least impacted by the pandemic but on the other hand we have an enduring belief that no one has ever had it harder than us
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Being under 35 on this website is literally illegal!!!!
January 28, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Being under 35 on this website is literally illegal!!!!
jfc
i wasn't alive for Clinton! (but also, his tenure was bad for the Democratic party imo)
January 28, 2026 at 7:30 PM
jfc
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Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
This guy *admits* he applied for "countless" tenure-track positions and ultimately had to leave academia because nobody would hire him. He claims, though, that Ivy League Cornell filled their position with a Black person who couldn't possibly be more qualified than him.
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
www.wsj.com/opinion/corn...
Opinion | Cornell University Discriminated Against Me
I was excluded from a candidate search on the basis of my race and have filed an EEOC complaint.
www.wsj.com
August 1, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Ok people are misunderstanding what happened with Colin Wright. This isn't just a regular grift. What happened is Colin Wright's PhD advisor was Jonathan Pruitt who got caught perpetrating massive academic fraud. Pruitt was a coauthor on virtually everything Colin had published.
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If this was something that his base actually *wanted* then he would be doing these high-profile ICE raids in, say, Alabama. But he knows that this way of doing things is a punishment, so he will not inflict it on states that voted for it. /2
January 28, 2026 at 6:42 PM
If this was something that his base actually *wanted* then he would be doing these high-profile ICE raids in, say, Alabama. But he knows that this way of doing things is a punishment, so he will not inflict it on states that voted for it. /2
Hey MAGA did warn us about importing petty old-world ethnic hatred
Absolutely crazy that Mehmet Oz is calling Armenian a "dialect" while trying to gin up a crackdown on alleged systemic fraud (which he blames on ethnic organized crime)
January 28, 2026 at 5:19 PM
Hey MAGA did warn us about importing petty old-world ethnic hatred
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I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
January 28, 2026 at 4:48 PM
I wrote about how studying Marx, the Black Radical tradition, and the Cappadocian Fathers led me to rediscover my faith, forgive the woman who killed my mother, embrace prison abolition, and champion the idea that none are saved unless *all* are saved!
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
www.commonwealmagazine.org/forgiving-my...
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Amusingly, Justice Stevens, who wrote the dissent for four justices, argued that Congress has the authority to compel local and state officials to enforce federal law in times of emergency (then, the gun violence epidemic), which some liberals would certainly hate if it had prevailed now . . .
In Printz v. United States, #SCOTUS held that the Constitution bars the federal government from forcing or otherwise compelling local or state governments to enforce federal law.
The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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The liberal squish who wrote the majority opinion in that case? Justice Antonin Scalia:
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January 28, 2026 at 1:56 PM
Amusingly, Justice Stevens, who wrote the dissent for four justices, argued that Congress has the authority to compel local and state officials to enforce federal law in times of emergency (then, the gun violence epidemic), which some liberals would certainly hate if it had prevailed now . . .
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ICE is in Ypsilanti waiting at bus stops for parents to drop off their kiddos
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
January 28, 2026 at 1:34 PM
ICE is in Ypsilanti waiting at bus stops for parents to drop off their kiddos
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
From Washtenaw Sheriff Dyer:
Using this to win my "Cleveland is not the Midwest" debate.
January 28, 2026 at 12:17 PM
Using this to win my "Cleveland is not the Midwest" debate.
Thomas Jefferson is the kind of dude who would do the kente cloth kneel with Nancy Pelosi while still owning slaves
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
Thomas Jefferson is the kind of dude who would do the kente cloth kneel with Nancy Pelosi while still owning slaves
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Oh man the Dem Tea Party is here
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 AM
Oh man the Dem Tea Party is here
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The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny
January 28, 2026 at 2:28 AM
The strictly business-brained NFL exec who months ago foresaw the February 2026 vibes and then hired Bad Bunny
Also, the number of lives. There are like 4 different winks to his group chats in this post.
Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it
January 28, 2026 at 11:23 AM
Also, the number of lives. There are like 4 different winks to his group chats in this post.
Bari Weiss is playing a very dangerous game when she reframes her job from "make CBS News more conservative" to "retooling a multimedia empire" because she has even less experience with the latter.
Weiss' full remarks to CBS News staff (1/4)
January 28, 2026 at 11:18 AM
Bari Weiss is playing a very dangerous game when she reframes her job from "make CBS News more conservative" to "retooling a multimedia empire" because she has even less experience with the latter.