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Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
Faculty discipline committees should really normalize de-tenuring/dismissal investigations for the sort of behavior described in the Summers case
A senior academic using mentoring as leverage to obtain sex is a contemptible abuser of power.
November 17, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Thinking about how Summers and Epstein both frequently manipulated the media into giving or withholding coverage when they wanted and how the same media mysteriously decided to wage a scorched earth jihad against Harvard's President Claudine Gay. It's a strange coincidence to ponder!
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November 17, 1973: In Orlando, Florida, President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
November 17, 2025 at 12:15 PM
November 17, 1973: In Orlando, Florida, President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
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There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.
The difference between the sociopathic and non-sociopathic takes is really quite stark
November 16, 2025 at 8:21 PM
There's a big argument to be made that Trumpism is a revolt of America's hereditary elites who are apoplectic that the beginnings of a true meritocracy threatened to replace some of them.
Today I learned there is an AI Jesus chatbot. But not just Jesus!
November 16, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Today I learned there is an AI Jesus chatbot. But not just Jesus!
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Religious leaders putting themselves on the line to protect immigrants is the first thing that's gotten me interested in religion in 15 years
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Religious leaders putting themselves on the line to protect immigrants is the first thing that's gotten me interested in religion in 15 years
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Lee Greenwood being at the bottom of it is icing on the cake.
November 15, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Lee Greenwood being at the bottom of it is icing on the cake.
I am seeing in my video scroll a lot of people mocking Trump's sexuality. These emails are having an effect and it was the Republicans on the Committee that dumped them. Things are getting weird.
November 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I am seeing in my video scroll a lot of people mocking Trump's sexuality. These emails are having an effect and it was the Republicans on the Committee that dumped them. Things are getting weird.
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One of the few positive aspects of this era in American history is that it's super-easy to identify the villains.
November 8, 2025 at 10:35 PM
One of the few positive aspects of this era in American history is that it's super-easy to identify the villains.
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Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.
Beneath Suluhu’s blackout, a blanket of violence
Tanzania’s Election Day erupted into protest, an internet blackout, and bloodshed. When the internet was restored, 37 readers told us what really happened. These are their accounts.
continent.substack.com
November 8, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Samia Suluhu Hassan ran all but unopposed in Tanzania’s presidential elections on 29 October. The only surprise came from the streets when protests broke out. Under the cover of an internet blockade, security forces met the protesters with force. Our readers recount what they saw.
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Leveraging a small portion of pandemic relief funds distributed under the Biden administration, Orange County announced this week that they’ve managed to wipe out more than a half billion dollars ($515M) in medical debt for 302,000+ residents www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-...
Orange County wipes out more than a half billion dollars in medical debt
The debt relief initiative, made possible through funds from the Biden administration, has relieved medical debt for 302,000 people.
www.orlandoweekly.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Leveraging a small portion of pandemic relief funds distributed under the Biden administration, Orange County announced this week that they’ve managed to wipe out more than a half billion dollars ($515M) in medical debt for 302,000+ residents www.orlandoweekly.com/news/orange-...
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ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
October 17, 2025 at 1:27 AM
ChatGPT gave a significant portion of my students the wrong answer to an easy quiz question that everyone used to always get right
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
I had two groups of students turn in annotated bibliographies that were ChatGPT generated - not a single citation actually existed
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"The utmost refined ugliness has become the beauty ideal"
Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936.
Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete
Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936.
Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete
Stephen Miller: "The scandal is how Democrats & the left scarred the landscape of our country w/grotesque so-called modern art that celebrates ugliness ... very importantly, President Trump is making sure it's in the neo-classical design around which our nation's architecture has long been directed"
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
"The utmost refined ugliness has become the beauty ideal"
Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936.
Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete
Adolf Ziegler, President of the Third Reich Chamber for Fine Arts and plenipotentiary for ‘Degenerate Art’ 1936.
Nazis blamed the "weak" Weimar leaders for promoting "so-called modern art," "so-called" so much they called it Entartete
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Call it by its name. Epstein Ballroom.
October 25, 2025 at 2:35 AM
Call it by its name. Epstein Ballroom.
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Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.
October 23, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Stefanik endorsed, campaigned, and fundraised for George Santos.
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Graham Platner's cover-up tattoo, via WGME (CBS 13 Maine) x.com/MENewsPhotog...
October 22, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Graham Platner's cover-up tattoo, via WGME (CBS 13 Maine) x.com/MENewsPhotog...
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As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
October 22, 2025 at 2:36 PM
As a Senate candidate, Fetterman guaranteed voters he’d be a reliable Dem, not another Manchin or Sinema.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
Constantly. It was his core promise to primary voters.
Liar.
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Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...
October 21, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Time to re-up one of the great quotes of all time...while the Totenkopf is in the discourse. www.huffpost.com/entry/attemp...
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I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.
Putting a Democrat with a Nazi tattoo in the Senate normalizes Naziism in our federal politics for a long ass time.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
All these recent stories about secret Nazi group chats? Anytime that happens going forward will be met with "But Platner."
It's not a purity test. Think through the consequences.
October 21, 2025 at 11:55 PM
I agree with this. There are a lot of people out there who think both parties are the same and if Democrats put a show of pushing out people with Nazi tattoos and shitty text messages and abused employees then all of a sudden you're making inroads.
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October 21, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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Yesterday in Shilling v. Trump (the 9th Circuit case about the military transgender ban), the government admitted that it has found no evidence to support any of the "traits" that the Secretary of Defense attributed to transgender servicemembers.
October 21, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Yesterday in Shilling v. Trump (the 9th Circuit case about the military transgender ban), the government admitted that it has found no evidence to support any of the "traits" that the Secretary of Defense attributed to transgender servicemembers.
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ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
October 21, 2025 at 2:45 PM
ICE is stockpiling arms, including chemical weapons, guided missile warheads and explosive components. The spending dwarfs anything we've ever seen in the agency - a 700% increase.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
The President is building an army to attack his own country.
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Friendly Reminder on why we should collectively loathe him
October 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Friendly Reminder on why we should collectively loathe him
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Thank you to everyone who showed up for the #NOKings rallies in #Alaska. Ya'll really showed what we can do when #AlaskansTakeAStand.
October 20, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Thank you to everyone who showed up for the #NOKings rallies in #Alaska. Ya'll really showed what we can do when #AlaskansTakeAStand.
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If one truly wants to see how far down the road of totalitarianism we have already gone, just scroll the Dep't of Homeland Security's Facebook page. It is the most Orwellian stuff I have ever seen, never thought I would see in America.
October 20, 2025 at 2:48 AM
If one truly wants to see how far down the road of totalitarianism we have already gone, just scroll the Dep't of Homeland Security's Facebook page. It is the most Orwellian stuff I have ever seen, never thought I would see in America.