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This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
The admin is wasting no crisis... Sec. Kristi Noem said she is suspending the diversity visa lottery program (DV-1) after the Brown University suspect entered the U.S. through it in 2017.
December 19, 2025 at 5:10 AM
This is precisely how fascism works, by grabbing at and taking away a little more freedom whenever events lend themselves to it. Bit by bit you lose your rights, until you turn around and realize the road you're on has been long, and democracy is well behind you over the horizon.
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Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #WomensArt
December 19, 2025 at 6:10 AM
Christi Belcourt, contemporary Métis visual artist known for her paintings which depict floral patterns inspired by Métis and First Nations historical beadwork art #WomensArt
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I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
There is no national security logic that would impel the US to want to do regime change in Venezuela. It's simply not that important. I'm not even sure wag the dog is the right metaphor for what's happening here. Seems like an insane misallocation of US national security assets and attention.
Trump: "Venezuela is completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled ... It will only get bigger, and the shock to them will be like nothing they have ever seen before — Until such time as they return to the USA all of the Oil, Land, and other Assets that they previously stole from us."
December 17, 2025 at 12:47 AM
I keep saying this but no one is connecting the dots. The war is to satisfy legal preconditions for mass removal *domestically* of Latinos (i.e., suddenly a lot of people are going to be “Venezuelan” for purposes of removal). This is 100% Stephen Miller…oil claim is to make grandpa go along
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“Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
When It Happens
It’s been so long, you sometimes forget that eventually, IT will HAPPEN.
It’s impossible to say when IT will HAPPEN. But it can’t be too long until...
www.mcsweeneys.net
December 18, 2025 at 3:12 AM
“Of course, it doesn’t feel right to want IT to HAPPEN. And it’s obviously not okay to try to make IT HAPPEN. That’s not what this is ABOUT, just to make things CLEAR LEGALLY as far as VARIOUS AGENCIES are concerned.”
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/whe...
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This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.
December 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
This quote from the WaPo rocks. Artists with integrity are such badasses.
Maybe you could use a timeline cleanse right about now? ❤️
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Maybe you could use a timeline cleanse right about now? ❤️
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Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon?
The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.
www.chronicle.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Carnegie Mellon’s literature PhD is being liquidated in favor of “computation,” casualized labor, and AI.
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
That has profound ramifications for, students, faculty, and program alums like myself.
I wrote it about it (w/ Catherine Evans, a current PhD student).
www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...
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Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads.
No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it.
1/9
No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it.
1/9
December 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Earlier this year, the director of CalTrans presented this chart to members of the state Senate’s Transportation Committee, showing a dramatic rise in deaths on California's roads.
No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it.
1/9
No lawmakers asked about the chart. Or what CalTrans was doing about it.
1/9
Absolutely charming timeline cleanse. ❤️🐯
#WallpapeeWednesday :
“Petite Safari” Sidewall, 1963
Designed by William Skilling, Manufactured by Karl Mann Associates, USA
Screen-printed paper; L x W: 269.5 x 76.5 cm (8 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 30 1/8 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 1990-83-1 collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1863...
“Petite Safari” Sidewall, 1963
Designed by William Skilling, Manufactured by Karl Mann Associates, USA
Screen-printed paper; L x W: 269.5 x 76.5 cm (8 ft. 10 1/8 in. x 30 1/8 in.)
Cooper Hewitt 1990-83-1 collection.cooperhewitt.org/objects/1863...
December 10, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Absolutely charming timeline cleanse. ❤️🐯
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The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
New Orleans Is Watching You, Fuckers.
As the feds chase immigrants, a city chases the feds.
www.hamiltonnolan.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:48 PM
The people of New Orleans have created an incredible grassroots community intelligence service to track the feds as they hunt the city's immigrants. A real good cops vs. bad cops dynamic being replicated across the country right now.
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/new-orlean...
Flower vendors. Car wash workers. Elders on bicycles. Day laborers. The pointless cruelty & authoritarian assault on human beings in LA continues. 💔 It’s insane what this country has become, how this regime mocks our values of compassion & community. Fuck ICE & protect your neighbors as you can!
Daily Memo: A Thousand Confirmed Kidnappings in the Past 90 Days, Plus Two More Deaths in Detention
@eltragon.bsky.social
@eltragon.bsky.social
December 10, 2025 at 12:21 AM
Flower vendors. Car wash workers. Elders on bicycles. Day laborers. The pointless cruelty & authoritarian assault on human beings in LA continues. 💔 It’s insane what this country has become, how this regime mocks our values of compassion & community. Fuck ICE & protect your neighbors as you can!
This piece makes essential connections between the unfettered embrace of AI by American universities, its corrosive effects on critical thinking, and the appalling trade-off of cutting programs & delegitimizing the work of dedicated faculty, all so tech bros can rake in the $$$. Well worth a read.
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 9, 2025 at 3:49 AM
This piece makes essential connections between the unfettered embrace of AI by American universities, its corrosive effects on critical thinking, and the appalling trade-off of cutting programs & delegitimizing the work of dedicated faculty, all so tech bros can rake in the $$$. Well worth a read.
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why be alone with your own thoughts when the thoughts stolen from millions of others can keep you company
Tech bros shocked that normal human beings enjoy thinking
December 9, 2025 at 12:41 AM
why be alone with your own thoughts when the thoughts stolen from millions of others can keep you company
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Bears vs. Trail cameras
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Bears vs. Trail cameras
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good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 AM
good reminder that ezra notwithstanding, charlie kirk was and turning point usa is a vicious proto-fascist organization devoted to harassing and silencing political enemies and glorifying violence.
Glorious Exploits (Ferdia Lennon)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Bee Sting (Paul Murray)
Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
(+Dubliners & others but these came to mind first)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Bee Sting (Paul Murray)
Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
(+Dubliners & others but these came to mind first)
Introduce yourself by naming five books by Irish writers that you have read.
December 5, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Glorious Exploits (Ferdia Lennon)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Bee Sting (Paul Murray)
Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
(+Dubliners & others but these came to mind first)
The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien)
The Bee Sting (Paul Murray)
Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
Waiting for Godot (Samuel Beckett)
(+Dubliners & others but these came to mind first)
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Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt
December 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Landscapes painted on the surfaces of cut logs by US artist Alison Moritsugu #WomensArt
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Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
December 4, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him?
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.
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Insanely perfect: fantastic little bouquet of flowers in a glass vase by Daniel Seghers of Antwerp, painter & Jesuit priest, whose day is today.
December 3, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Insanely perfect: fantastic little bouquet of flowers in a glass vase by Daniel Seghers of Antwerp, painter & Jesuit priest, whose day is today.
Unflinching, righteous American hero. When you need courage to actively resist, even in small unsung ways, the atrocities we see our own government committing every day in this country, hold this man in your mind and your heart.
Abolitionist John Brown was executed by the state of Virginia on December 2, 1859.
December 3, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Unflinching, righteous American hero. When you need courage to actively resist, even in small unsung ways, the atrocities we see our own government committing every day in this country, hold this man in your mind and your heart.
Absolutely monstrous. The trauma this poor child must be suffering. (Think how terrified kids get losing mom at the mall for 5 minutes.) And Tricia McLaughlin’s claim, when asked about this heinous fuck up, “we don’t separate families” is just a callous fuck you to any person appalled by this shit.
A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social
ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say
The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.
www.thecity.nyc
December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Absolutely monstrous. The trauma this poor child must be suffering. (Think how terrified kids get losing mom at the mall for 5 minutes.) And Tricia McLaughlin’s claim, when asked about this heinous fuck up, “we don’t separate families” is just a callous fuck you to any person appalled by this shit.
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Twin Peaks: A red trafficlight.
December 1, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Twin Peaks: A red trafficlight.
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Chinese lanterns shine as darkness falls and the moon rises behind the trees ~ Charles Courtney Currran’s atmospheric ‘The Lanterns’ (1913)
November 30, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Chinese lanterns shine as darkness falls and the moon rises behind the trees ~ Charles Courtney Currran’s atmospheric ‘The Lanterns’ (1913)
Co-signing this entire 🧵. The ratio btwn truly engaged students & those described here grows more lopsided each semester even as enrollment drops=pressure to “meet students where they are” or risk furlough. Add AI & it feels like a compliant generation being prepped for easy techno-fascist control.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Co-signing this entire 🧵. The ratio btwn truly engaged students & those described here grows more lopsided each semester even as enrollment drops=pressure to “meet students where they are” or risk furlough. Add AI & it feels like a compliant generation being prepped for easy techno-fascist control.
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Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt
November 29, 2025 at 5:26 AM
Japanese embroidery artist Hiroko Kubota, known for her work highlighting cats #WomensArt