Lots of great comments from students, parents, and faculty in “The End of College Life?” thread about how they’re thinking about the changes to higher education in the US under the Trump regime.
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Timothy Snyder: “The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not...
Timothy Snyder: “The American imperialism directed towards Denmark and Canada is not just morally wrong. It is strategically disastrous.”
An E-Bike Transformed My Family’s Life. “I felt connected to our neighborhood...
An E-Bike Transformed My Family’s Life. “I felt connected to our neighborhood in a way I hadn’t ever experienced.”
Margaret Sullivan on “the need for straight talk right now. Enough with...
Margaret Sullivan on “the need for straight talk right now. Enough with soft-pedaling from the media. Clarity! Courage! The truth!”
This ProPublica story about ICE deportation flights, with intel from flight attendants...
This ProPublica story about ICE deportation flights, with intel from flight attendants who work them, is horrific. “Don’t talk to the detainees. Don’t feed them. Don’t make eye contact.” The Trump admin is treating these people like animals.
Oh man, rest in peace to Val Kilmer....
“Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his more than 25-hour long...
Hands Off! A Day of Action and Protest on April 5.
On April 5th, a group of prominent national organizations (including 50501, Indivisible, Hands Off, MoveOn, and Women’s March) and many local organizations are all coming together for a day of nationwide action and protest.
This is a nationwide mobilization to stop the m...
A two-part online training event on the Fundamentals of Organizing. It kicked...
A two-part online training event on the Fundamentals of Organizing. It kicked off tonight at 5:30pm ET and part 2 is on April 8.
The record for the longest individual speech in the Senate belongs to...
The record for the longest individual speech in the Senate belongs to segregationist Strom Thurmond. He spoke for 24 hours & 18 minutes in a racist and futile attempt to prevent the Civil Rights Act of 1957 from passing.
Mercator Extreme is a fun tool that you can use to choose...
Mercator Extreme is a fun tool that you can use to choose any point on Earth as the pole and then view the resulting ultra-distorted Mercator map.
With a headline this this, how can you resist? On the Best...
With a headline this this, how can you resist? On the Best (Worst) Best Man Speech Ever (at My Super Mario-Themed Wedding). “After he finished his speech, he received applause and cheers from one and a half tables and dead silence from the rest.”
“A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the...
“A fragile 13th century manuscript fragment, hidden in plain sight as the binding of a 16th-century archival register, has been discovered in Cambridge and revealed to contain rare medieval stories of Merlin and King Arthur.”
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore. “Immigration agents...
No One Is Safe From America’s Abusive Immigration Authorities Anymore. “Immigration agents are increasingly using the full statutory powers that they always had, choosing to detain, abuse, and deport these tourists & workers instead of working with them.”
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her...
Historian Heather Cox Richardson says that Facebook is removing her posts. Her two most recent posts, both critical of the Trump regime, are not on the platform anymore.
Here’s What Life Was Like Before the Affordable Care Act
From Aubrey Hirsch, It Could Be Much, Much Worse, an illustrated guide to what health care and insurance was like in the US before the ACA.
You can also find this guide on Instagram.
Tags: Aubrey Hirsch · comics · healthcare · politics
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Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They...
Of Course Trump Will Tank the Economy. It’s What Republicans Do. “They screw up the economy. Later down the line, Democrats get elected and have to fix everything.”
John Lithgow Reads 20 Lessons on Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
In this 10-minute video, John Lithgow reads each of the lessons from Timothy Snyder’s On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Bookshop).
Number two: defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do no...
Tressie McMillan Cottom: AI is mid tech for mid tasks. “The use...
Tressie McMillan Cottom: AI is mid tech for mid tasks. “The use cases for artificial intelligence across every domain of work and life have started to get silly really fast.”
Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says...
Senator Cory Booker is holding the floor of the Senate and says he “will speak for as long as I’m physically able to lift the voices of Americans who are being harmed and not being heard in this moment of crisis”.
If you need a distraction: 368 Chickens. Line up the chickens to...
If you need a distraction: 368 Chickens. Line up the chickens to rescue them.
The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or...
The United States Disappeared Tracker is “tracking persons politically arrested, detained, or disappeared by the Trump regime since March 9, 2025”.
The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be...
The view from Europe, courtesy of Zeit Online: Thanks America, That’ll Be All. “Now that lunacy has installed itself in Washington for the next four years, the time has finally come for Europe to once again try its hand at hosting the spirit of the age.”
What Will America Look Like in 10 Years?
With the election of Donald Trump in 2016 and, especially, again in 2024, the adjacent possible of American society has shifted dramatically. For the Washington Post, Philip Bump asked a number of people who study systems of government and the erosion of democracy the follow...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While...
White House Correspondents’ Dinner Scraps Host In Favor Of Terrified Silence. “While we respect the legacy of a presidential roast, if you so much as cough, you will be forcibly removed.” Please enjoy each autocratic shift equally.
A thread from Berkeley political science professor Omar Wasow about how protests...
A thread from Berkeley political science professor Omar Wasow about how protests are effective actually. Cites research about the Women’s March, BLM protests, the Muslim ban protests, etc.
The End of College Life?
I have one kid entering college this fall and one a few years away, so I’ve been thinking (with fury and sadness) about the effect that Trump’s authoritarian regime is having on American colleges and universities. They’re pulling funding from schools; schools are cancelling ...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and...
DOGE Plans to Rebuild SSA Code Base in Months, Risking Benefits and System Collapse. This will not work — ok, actually it will totally work to achieve the long-time conservative goal of gutting the US social safety net.
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are buying The Rumpus. “They are committed...
Roxane Gay and Debbie Millman are buying The Rumpus. “They are committed to staying true to the magazine’s core mission of publishing both emerging and established risk-taking writers and artists…” Gay was a founding editor of the magazine.
“The federal government isn’t just pressuring universities over speech — it’s literally...
“The federal government isn’t just pressuring universities over speech — it’s literally disappearing students for their political expression. If you support actual free speech, now is the time to speak up.”