Chris Gross

All antisemitism is as bad as any other antisemitism.

This is a bit cringe and embarrassing to admit but I can’t stop bawling when I hear ‘do you hear the people sing’ not because I’m a theatre kid, but, you know…

American media publish pro-Pahlavi material bc it’s easily found in English and it’s secular. It’s not too much to ask for the country’s premier newspapers to think critically about which figures they promote during a moment that could determine the course of another country’s future

Really leaving it up to our imaginations smh

Congress would be so ashamed if it were alive to see this.

I'm begging my fellow politicians, Illinoisans, and Americans to realize that right now, we aren't fighting over policy or political party.

We're fighting over whether we're going to be a country rooted in empathy and kindness — or one rooted in cruelty and rage.

Book covers for "Combat Liberalism" by Mao Zedong and Rush Limbaugh

Horseshoe theory

The problem with adopting the terminology "late stage capitalism" is that it becomes progressively more and more funny to cite your work as time goes by, like "as has been shown, late stage capitalism is hurtling us towards rapid collapse (Smith, 1974)".

Shit is really bad!

The case for... optimism, or hope, or grim determination? Whatever you want to call it. Has to be that tyranny can never win a final victory, that (to borrow a phrase) so long as men die, liberty will never perish

Can’t believe an editor at an out dedicated to the Young Turks would engage in prejudice against an ethnic and religious minority in order to gin up pogroms /s

What civilization? What interrupting? I’m eating fruit right now

WTF kind of Minnesotan are you anyway Amy?

Are you having a stroke? Remember: BE FAST
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Time: call 911

We would never countenance the idea of the high being made low, anyway time to take a big bite of transubstantiated flesh during the eucharist

It's Just a Shame, That's All

MAGA easy lovers could feel it coming in the air last night, but Donald sounded like a man on the corner in his S-S-SOTU. Will his invisible touch be enough to save a Senator Collins who's older than Phil Collins?

by Maureen Dowd

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

I earned a cert from this department and my doctoral committee were all members (my PhD was in an adjacent field)

them doing this proves that the establishment really does fear critical theory, something that people continually tried to convince me wasn't true. "it's all just BS!" but they fear it

Me after snuggling with my cats:

If I ever go back to teaching, all assignments will be written by hand with a feather quill. Discussion boards will be post-it notes

He supported the Adelaide Uyghur community even before that. Even when he was on the good side, it was clear he wasn’t a good guy

Yeah, you want us to believe you DHS? Ok just send us a list of the names and badge numbers of all of the ICE agents who were here, and highlight the ones who left. Easy peasy.

You have fish AND plants? And your life is awful!? How is this possible

Not to be that guy, but they’re kinda cute when they’re mad

Now I know fish can be grumpy

Nobody’s making you order the poutine Matt

This is my religion now

I honestly think one reason Millennials are so angry about all this is that many of us grew up during the brief period in American history where the official line was that we had won history *because* of our values, and most of us actually internalized that.

I will note stancil talked to the press to let them witness ice atrocities up close and the people mad at stancil talked to the press to tell them they were mad at stancil. I ask you, which one is the Better strategy for victory?

it is not interested in plot, it is not interested in worldbuilding, it is not interested in anything except throwing random disconnected snapshots of nostalgia at you

rise of skywalker kicks over the sandbox and leaves you uninterested in star wars in a way the prequels never did