Anil Kalhan

In response to our YaleAAUP campaign to get codified academic freedom protections - which shockingly we do not have - Yale has created a committee to make a "statement." A sign that we are making progress. But nowhere close to where we need to be. More here --> yaledailynews.com/articles/pro...

The American political class is utterly delusional, adrift in a dream of normality, unable to process the actual reality of events on the ground, where the US just launched a completely unprovoked war against a massive country, murdered its leadership, and demanded its conversion to a vassal state.

A DOJ source says FBI agents found the woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child to be credible:

"They would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying."

Let’s talk about Graham Platner’s Big Lie, finally. In 2009, at the height of the Gulf War, the Marines barred him from active duty. Platner claims it was his forearm tattoos. But his one forbidden tattoo was the Nazi symbol on his chest. He knew - and he left the Marines rather than give it up. 1/

CPAC Head Says Iranian Schoolgirls Are Better Dead Than “in a Burqa” Leading Republicans don’t seem to care about the bombing of a girls’ school in Iran.

Matt Schlapp has attempted to justify the killing of more than 100 young girls at an elementary school in southern Iran, by claiming they were saved from religious extremism. trib.al/mpzZynt

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
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I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though it’s quite literally the original incarnation.

the New York Times practically created an entire "leftist campus antisemitism" vertical. I will be very curious to see how much attention it pays to this, and how clear it is about what it means.

It implies that we are visitors in someone else’s country.

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

GOP senator joins police in ejecting anti-war protester from Capitol Hill hearing A Senate Republican assisted several police officers in ejecting a man who interrupted a Capitol Hill hearing on Wednesday to object to the U.S. and Israel's war with Iran.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

They’ve already seeded the next few generations.

"I've asked God to forgive me, which he has" — Oh okay I guess that clears things up

Come for the questions about "special" government employee Corey, stay for the Coast Guard blankie

And the Preston Brooks Award goes to

[TW: graphic fracture, sound of breaking bone]

Sen Tim Sheehy (R-Montana) badly breaking the arm of a Marine veteran protesting the war Iran.

"I've asked God to forgive me, which he has" — Oh okay I guess that clears things up

Come for the questions about "special" government employee Corey, stay for the Coast Guard blankie

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National Endowment for White Nationalism

Starting in 2026, the National Endowment for the Humanities will only fund research on "Western civilization"

Journalist: What do you think of Western civilization?
Gandhi: I think it would be a good idea.

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So... A friend was supposed to give a PURELY SCIENTIFIC talk at NIH within the next couple of weeks and it was cancelled because of a "new process" where all speakers/talks have to be CLEARED BY A POLITICAL APPOINTEE.

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

Screenshot of an X post by Senator Tom Cotton saying Iran has been an imminent threat to the United States for 47 years and that the president was right to act. Below is a Fox News segment with Cotton speaking while footage labeled “U.S. Central Command – Unclassified” shows a strike.

“Imminent.” You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Republicans can’t sort out why they went to war – or even if they did.
Trump: ”We’re doing very well on the war front.”
Sen. Markwayne Mullin: “This isn’t a war.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson: “We’re not at war right now. We’re four days into a very specific, clear mission and operation.”
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In addition to using vague language & unclear timelines, the CPHE plan states that the accreditor will be accountable to the states.

This is at odds with any notion of a self-regulating community of scholars & permits state politicians to wield outsized influence over university operations.