Dolly Parton on supporting the LGBTQ community: “We are all God’s children. We are who we are and we should be allowed to be who we are. If you’re the fine Christian that you think you are, why are you judging people? If you’re gay, you’re gay. If you’re straight, you’re straight.”

This is a microcosm of practically all federal spending under Trump: delays, uncertainty, empty promises. It is in fact why there is a shutdown right now: unilateral decisionmaking on spending appropriated by Congress is intolerable.

So far we are totally able to ignore the catastrophic event happening right now. Once the gulf stream tips or other major disruption happens we'll see that everyone had in fact always understood the science.

Oops, here’s the link: open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

I am under 35. All of my higher-ed teaching experience was within grad school so fairly recent. I am not some crusty boomer. And I have seen this. It has gotten worse! Far worse!

20 paragraphs down in the NBC News story that broke the information that the administration is considering invoking the Insurrection Act is the report that Stephen Miller is driving the issue.

Please join me in raising funds for medical cargo buses and trucks with electric jamming for brigades of Ukraine's Khartiia Corps. These automobiles make the difference between whether people survive or not. We can do something very specific and meaningful to help.
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“Trump’s energy policy also weakens America’s global standing by giving a competitive edge to China. For years China has meticulously grown its clean energy industry…Chinese companies now produce 60% of the world’s wind turbines and 80% of solar panels.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/09/o...

Huge, huge swathes of *Trump voters* will effectively have no health care available except for emergency ER.

It is simultaneously a) the worst way to maintain public health and b) the most *expensive* way to do it.

Idiocy from moral degenerates. That's our country now.

Nach vier verpassten Terminen sollen künftig Regelleistung und Miete komplett gestrichen werden. Auch wer mehrmals ein Jobangebot ablehnt, soll totalsanktioniert werden. SPD und Union ignorieren damit die eindeutige Rechtsprechung des Bundesverfassungsgerichts von 2019.

We are doing politics with version of America in our heads that doesn’t really exist—or, at lest, not fully.

Trump’s portrayal of American cities as war zones is, of course, not based in reality. But neither is the persistent belief among many we have not already hurtled into authoritarianism.

Ich erwarte von Unionspolitikern, dass sie die Faschisten bekämpfen mit allen legalen Mitteln - und nicht, dass sie uns erzählen, dass sie abhauen, wenn diese die Macht übernehmen. Emigrieren kann nämlich stets nur die mobile Oberschicht, nicht das gemeine Volk.

„Wenn aber eine Ministerin und ihr Staatssekretär Tipps geben, wie noch effektiver lobbyiert werden kann, dann ist das ein Skandal. Das ist keine Politik für die Bürgerinnen und Bürger, sondern ganz offensichtlich eine Politik für Milliardärsfamilien.“

‘Syllabi and course information are becoming increasingly public and Texas institutions are scrambling to scrub them of controversial topics like gender identity.’
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Scalise: "When a good day for you is defined by how much suffering you can impose on other people, maybe you need to look in the mirror and check yourself at the door and wonder what it is you're up here trying to accomplish."

Have the Trump psychotics found the leader of antifa yet? Are they aware that Gen Eisenhower, that noted anti-fascist, is no longer with us and can’t be arrested? Perhaps they can dig up Winston Churchill & bring him to ICE HQ?

C-SPAN caller to Mike Johnson: "Hearing you say that 'everyone is smiling' in cities where troops have been rolled into feels dystopian and insane watching the response to it."

A Cornell University researcher has been developing an artificial heart for children for more than 20 years. Now, his research is on hold and his lab is shut down. n.pr/3KIfcSn

We had die-ins and pro Palestinian protests in campuses in the 00s-10s, but nothing anywhere near this binary, absolute, and too often (not always) tolerant of open antisemitism.

...other representations stopped engaging with JAS productively. As the JAS programs aged, they became The Man, associated with power and status. Add to that some (!) shall we say interesting investments into departments, and you have fertile ground for latent antisemitism in student circles. ....

I have a pet theory that it has to do with the timing in academia's history. When I started in the 00s, Jewish American Studies was one of the strongest demographic subfields. Over time it became "establishment" and as cult stud and CRT came in, many young students who wanted...

"Just as police tracked civil rights, Black Power, feminist, and anti-war protesters in the 1960s and ‘70s, today they snoop on organizers taking a stand against ICE, Israel’s war on Palestine, and Atlanta’s Cop City."

Read more: www.teenvogue.com/story/police...

Pope Leo XIV: "I often wonder, even though the teaching of Sacred Scripture is so clear about the poor, why many people continue to think that they can safely disregard the poor."

"Dilexi te"

Red triangles get a block. It's not cute or clever or daring. It's the equivalent of a CSA flag or other hatred symbols.