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Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.
March 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Yesterday, I fondly remembered my dear friend Leonard Nimoy, who would have turned 94. His legacy lives on in our hearts. Just days ago, Bill Shatner celebrated his 94th birthday — wishing him continued health and happiness. Live long and prosper, my friends.
Really feel like I’m losing my mind: government OBVIOUSLY cannot punish an individual law firm for hiring someone it disfavors! It’s ludicrously unconstitutional and I feel like without a day of law school I could argue the case. And yet the best paid lawyers in the country are folding?
March 28, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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There are many wild things in Trump's EO about History but one that especially caught my eye was the complaint that the American Art Museum promoted the view that "race is not a biological reality." It's not! That's a true statement! The idea that race is biological was the foundation of racism!
![Once widely respected as a symbol of American excellence and a global icon of cultural achievement, the Smithsonian Institution has, in recent years, come under the influence of a divisive, race-centered ideology. This shift has promoted narratives that portray American and Western values as inherently harmful and oppressive. For example, the Smithsonian American Art Museum today features “The Shape of Power: Stories of Race and American Sculpture,” an exhibit representing that “[s]ocieties including the United States have used race to establish and maintain systems of power, privilege, and disenfranchisement.” The exhibit further claims that “sculpture has been a powerful tool in promoting scientific racism” and promotes the view that race is not a biological reality but a social construct, stating “Race is a human invention.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:kok4aqdr3qnsj6ktfkq76kqz/bafkreiaggdzzsf6csdxcwtovgd6qm6o52ruewpebhpyqaehschmrdjokzq@jpeg)
March 28, 2025 at 2:30 AM
There are many wild things in Trump's EO about History but one that especially caught my eye was the complaint that the American Art Museum promoted the view that "race is not a biological reality." It's not! That's a true statement! The idea that race is biological was the foundation of racism!
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sure the stock markets looking bad and everyones grandparents won’t get their social security check but at least the white house is posting based memes
March 28, 2025 at 3:38 PM
sure the stock markets looking bad and everyones grandparents won’t get their social security check but at least the white house is posting based memes
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The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
March 20, 2025 at 1:14 AM
The only fair way to handle this is to appoint a team of teenagers to tear this company limb from limb until we find out what kind of financial damage they are hiding and where
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The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.
I’m told this is a real letter. It basically says, “We’ll destroy Columbia unless you destroy it first.”
March 14, 2025 at 12:22 AM
The federal government is attempting to dictate to a private university which departments it may have. If this flagrant first amendment violation doesn’t lead Columbia to grow a backbone and sue, I don’t know what will.
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It's clear Chuck Schumer is not cut out to lead the senate Democrats. There needs to be a vote of no confidence and he needs to be replaced with someone willing to fight. Trump and Elon are dismantling democracy while Schumer whines and capitulates.
March 14, 2025 at 2:18 AM
It's clear Chuck Schumer is not cut out to lead the senate Democrats. There needs to be a vote of no confidence and he needs to be replaced with someone willing to fight. Trump and Elon are dismantling democracy while Schumer whines and capitulates.
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This alleges that she had overstayed her visa. IF that’s true— and I don’t at all take that for a given — then a person in that situation has very few options to remain other than seeking asylum or another form of relief (if relevant) once placed into removal proceedings.
A second Columbia student has been detained by ICE. Leqaa Kordia is a Palestinian from the West Bank.
Exclusive | Second anti-Israel Columbia protester, Leqaa Kordia, arrested by Homeland Security for immigration violations
Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian who hails from the West Bank, was first arrested in April 2024 for taking part in one of the protests on Columbia’s campus while overstaying her twice-cancelled st…
nypost.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This alleges that she had overstayed her visa. IF that’s true— and I don’t at all take that for a given — then a person in that situation has very few options to remain other than seeking asylum or another form of relief (if relevant) once placed into removal proceedings.
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ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked
March 13, 2025 at 9:45 PM
ok sorry . my lawyer has advised me to say that drinking israeli diarrhea is good actually no matter how many kindergartners they murked
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"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
March 12, 2025 at 2:48 AM
"Car dealership that disappears political dissidents" really does feel like the form America has been building to this whole time.
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If Tesla's stock drops far enough, the bank loans Elon took out to buy Twitter lose their collateral and get called back immediately.
Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.
Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.
March 12, 2025 at 12:39 AM
If Tesla's stock drops far enough, the bank loans Elon took out to buy Twitter lose their collateral and get called back immediately.
Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.
Which is why Elon is panicking, Trump is panicking, and their shadow backers are all panicking.
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Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.
March 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Since it apparently needs to be said: As a Jew who works on a university campus, I am safest in a country that protects academic freedom and liberal values of due process of law. Anyone who supports extrajudicial detention of students for "wrong" ideological opinions is not doing it for my safety.
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The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...
Thrust into unemployment, axed federal workers face relatives who celebrate their firing
Scrambling to replace their health insurance and to find new work, some fired federal workers are running into another unexpected unpleasantry: Relatives cheering their job loss.
apnews.com
March 8, 2025 at 11:55 AM
The nature of a cult is that it will turn you against your own family. Your loved ones will cheer as you are led off to the camps because hurting even you is what is necessary to bring on the glorious nation. apnews.com/article/trum...
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From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.
March 9, 2025 at 10:22 AM
From the man who backed out of a fight with Mark Zuckerberg and an appearance on the Daily Show: "I literally challenged Putin to one on one physical combat". This is "my dad works for Nintendo" level stuff.
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I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
March 3, 2025 at 11:49 PM
I actually think the dems should attend the SOTU, wait till the 2nd sentence, and then walk out en masse, that'll do it, there'll be no address, he'll just have a meltdown on national Tv
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I think about this a lot, especially as I’m teaching college students, these days.
Sometimes the point of being alive is the people we are alive for. Sometimes we have to be each other’s reason and trust that doing so will lead us to other reasons.
Sometimes the point of being alive is the people we are alive for. Sometimes we have to be each other’s reason and trust that doing so will lead us to other reasons.
My 22yo keeps asking me what's the point of being alive.
She's not loving that there's so much work in it.
She's not loving that there's so much work in it.
March 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
I think about this a lot, especially as I’m teaching college students, these days.
Sometimes the point of being alive is the people we are alive for. Sometimes we have to be each other’s reason and trust that doing so will lead us to other reasons.
Sometimes the point of being alive is the people we are alive for. Sometimes we have to be each other’s reason and trust that doing so will lead us to other reasons.
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This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.
March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM
This is a blatant violation of the 1st Amendment but a lot of cowards in academia will use this as an excuse to crack down on campus protest.
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this makes jerking off an ethical nightmare
February 24, 2025 at 11:57 PM
this makes jerking off an ethical nightmare
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Whoever did this is going to get in some very serious trouble (potentially even serious criminal charges given who's running the DC US Attorney's office right now), but you can't deny that's a pretty good prank.
This morning at Dept of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) HQ in DC as mandatory return to office began, this video played on loop for ~5 mins on screens throughout the building, per agency source.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
Building staff couldn’t figure out how to turn it off so sent people to every floor to unplug TVs.
February 24, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Whoever did this is going to get in some very serious trouble (potentially even serious criminal charges given who's running the DC US Attorney's office right now), but you can't deny that's a pretty good prank.
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The official policy of the United States of America is that having values or believing in the rule of law is the equivalent to having a fetish for watching your wife get nailed by a stranger.
That’s Trumpism.
That’s Trumpism.
Can't imagine where they got the idea, but earlier in the week, the White House comms director posted (and then reposted) this.
February 23, 2025 at 9:25 PM
The official policy of the United States of America is that having values or believing in the rule of law is the equivalent to having a fetish for watching your wife get nailed by a stranger.
That’s Trumpism.
That’s Trumpism.
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While we are cutting costs it’s pretty clear that all of the Republicans in Congress could be very inexpensively replaced
February 23, 2025 at 10:39 PM
While we are cutting costs it’s pretty clear that all of the Republicans in Congress could be very inexpensively replaced