Lara Schwartz

"Intellectual diversity."

"America first."

This statement is appallingly bad--like, the administration *illegally bombed a school.* It's mind-boggling to me for this to be the reaction from a human, much less a purported leader of the Democratic Party. I need a new senator stat

leading the charge against antisemitism by endorsing the criminal actions of a deeply unpopular president in pursuit of a war deeply unpopular with the american people on behalf of a country that interferes in u.s. elections in support of right-wing extremists

A judge just tossed out Columbia University's disciplinary actions against 22 students over the 2024 Hamilton Hall occupation, finding the school relied on sealed arrest records and held individuals responsible for group actions, violating its own rules.

iapps.courts.state.ny.us/fbem/Documen...

What's a faculty lounge?

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

i know the situation in kansas right now is dangerous and terrifying. that said, i'm hoping to speak to someone who's had their license invalidated. i will do absolutely everything to protect your anonymity and maintain your safety.

i can be reached securely via signal at marisakabas.04

Because of the National driver register, since their licenses are suspended, trans folks cannot move to another state and get a new license until they remove the suspension on their existing Kansas license.

They can't even escape this by moving to another state.

personally if I were sitting behind a man proclaiming that my entire job was meaningless and my power was as dust in his eyes I would not smile and clap and nod and stand but that is one of many ways Mike Johnson and I are different

UK: Prince Andrew arrested.

South Korea: Former President Yoon sentenced for life.

Brazil: Former President Bolsonaro serving a 27-year sentence.

USA: President Trump demands $10 billion payout from taxpayers.

Sorry to get radical but I don’t think it’s my job or yours to embrace, accept, understand - and certainly not to use - the thing being sold to us as AI. I don’t like any part of it, so I won’t. I’m missing out? Good, that’s what I want. You’re worried about me missing out? That’s fuckin weird, man.

...when trans ppl tell you they won't vote for Newsom, as a Democrat, your first reflex shouldn't be to berate trans ppl. if you think that way, then you are either a transphobe or a BAD COALITION PARTNER. seriously if you want Dems to win, THEN WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO ALIENATE PART OF YOUR COALITION?

MAGA Influencer: We need more quaint small towns like the one in this picture I found when I Googled “quaint small town.”

*Picture is of a town in Vermont that Bernie Sanders wins by 58 points. Lesbian couples own every store.*

If Stephen Miller switches parties to become a Democrat, wins the dem primary, and is the candidate vs. Trump in the next election, I will not vote for Stephen Miller.

He is awful, his policies are awful, and it doesn't matter if he'd be "better" than Trump.

This is a post about Gavin Newsom.

A screenshot of an article header from The Atlantic, dated February 12, 2026. The headline reads, "The Tide Goes Out on Youth Gender Medicine," with the sub-headline, "American doctors are no longer united on the wisdom of medicalizing gender dysphoria in minors." The article is by Helen Lewis. Below the text is an illustration by Matteo Giuseppe Pani featuring a row of four stylized profile silhouettes of a face, transitioning from a dark, solid purple on the left to a faded, grainy white on the right.

Helen Lewis is back in The Atlantic with "Youth Gender Medicine Is Indeed Up for Debate". It is a masterclass in manufacturing consent, framing the capitulation of medical bodies to political terror as a calm "return to reason."

@ifbookspod.bsky.social this looks like it's straight out of The Millionaire Next Door.

Immigration judge terminates removal proceedings against Tufts student detained by Trump administration, attorneys say | CNN An immigration judge terminated removal proceedings against Tufts University doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, who was detained for over a month last year as part of the Trump administration’s effort t...

In response to yesterday's news, Elly Brinkley, Staff Attorney at PEN America said, “Writing an op-ed is free speech, plain and simple, and that right applies to citizens and non-citizens alike. What happened to Öztürk was an unthinkable miscarriage of justice.” www.cnn.com/2026/02/09/u...

Except for a nice MLT.

Mutton lettuce and tomato.

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Woke up this morning to the sound of the whistle at the ol' consent factory. Wonder what they're manufacturing over there.

Perry: When is it OK to compare aspects of what’s happening in Minnesota to Nazi Germany? Gov. Tim Walz has made some such analogies in relation to ICE and has been criticized for it, David M. Perry writes.

Historical analogies are arguments. So when someone makes an analogy between today and the Holocaust, or today and anything, think about they are really arguing for. What is the analogy trying to get you to do?

New at @startribune.com

"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect. There is nothing more or else to it, and there never has been, in any place or time.”

1. I think most liberals are probably familiar with one part of what has become known as Wilhoit’s Law – that the true goals of the right are inequality, injustice, repression and control. This is how composer Frank Wilhoit put it in 2018:

crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/l...

Are these Democrats in the room with you now, Senator?

(The overwhelming majority want to abolish ICE)

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

If many people hold a left-wing opinion they are a mob and should be ignored; if few people hold a left wing opinion they are fringe and should be ignored. The substance or correctness of the opinion is irrelevant. This is the reactionary centrist credo bsky.app/profile/eliv...

crazy that basically every person complaining about "woke overreach" over the last 12 years is also in the epstein emails being like "thanks for the pussy, jeff ;)"

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/culture/q-an...

They’re taking kids from Minnesota and sending them to detention camps. They’re shooting American citizens in the street and locking investigators out of the crime scenes. The world is watching what happens next.

--Phonetics and phonology
--A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu (a seminar where we read the whole darned thing and nothing else)
--Introduction to music theory
--The Earth, Moon, and Mars
--America's Longest War (which was Vietnam. They'd have to rename the course if they taught it today).