Just learned that gun fetishist influencers--I don't mean just gun owners, but the people whose politics can be summed up simply as 'guns'--have an awards ceremony called The Gundies. And they hold it in--these rat-turd-hearted asses--in Uvalde.

Count the victories when they come.

Jeff Sharlet Yes. Once had a student protesting over a wrong answer on multiple choice. One answer was x is white collar crime. The other choice was x is NOT white collar crime. He marked the second. The first was correct. He argued vehemently that the difference “was only one word.”

To be blunter: I don't think the Jewish advocacy organizations are as interested in protecting actual Jewish students as they are in quashing anti-Zionist speech, even if the anti-Zionist speech comes from Jews themselves

A smaller scandal, I realize: I teach at an 'elite' college. Most seniors don't know dif between a hyphen & an em-dash, or how to punctuate quotes. Many aren't clear on indentation, or when to spell out numbers. Which means their profs have just been passing messy work along...

I've never been part of a mass protest that didn't include some people w/ atrocious views. Anti-Iraq War protests had folks who adored Mao & Stalin. So? There are fools in every crowd. They don't define it. Same time, only fools insist that there are no fools in their crowd.

The arrests are wrong, AND there is some ugly shit being said, AND it is not said by most, AND it is said by some, AND the main issue here is genocide, not US college students, AND don't be the one, whichever side you're on, who insists that all on your side are perfect.

If I tell you this story hurts on so many levels will you still believe me when I say it's also lovely and bittersweet? And that you should look up VanCampen's reviews?

Totally effective way of rebutting my charge of fascist aesthetics in the GOP is scream about me being a Jew. Very persuasive.

Jesus, @cnn, no he did not. He did the barest effing minimum of his job of governance. He declined to go out of his way to take part in this particular slaughter. He's no damn hero.

Wow. Trump routinely at the top of his rallies remarks about high winds and bad weather (even when it's fine) and then quips about demanding his pilot land regardless. It's meant to be a sign of his devotion. The energy of this move is different. Some might say ... it's low.

Your rules, not mine

'The gloves are off,' 'scorched earth.' Fascist rhetoric, fascist pants, fascist silhouetted hat, fascist flag. Fascism is an aesthetic. This is it.

Deleted post about NYT saying Trump Juror # 2 gets news from Truth Social & Twitter. What juror apparently actually said: '“I read basically everything. I am on Twitter. I follow Truth Social posts from Trump on Twitter. I do follow Michael Cohen, Mueller She Wrote...”

I've heard smart, usually very well-informed, compassionate people speculate that Trump just might be better on Gaza, or at least that we 'can't know' what he'd do. Ok, forget his record. For starters, going forward, there's this... (cc Doug Henwood):

Curious about this: seems a polling pattern is emerging that while RFK on the ballot generally helps Trump, in Michigan and Wisconsin it might help Biden. What's that about?