the insubordinate professor

it's not new, either. we've been this way.

not for nothing, there's footage in michael moore's "fahrenheit 9/11" documentary of american troops in iraq joking about the music they listen to in order to get "pumped up" for "patrol" and then driving around shooting at people looking exactly like they're playing a video game.

*hospitals and schools

...are you new here? this seems like an extremely credulous take. i'd love it to be right, but this administration doesn't *have* to do anything, just ask the SCOTUS they bought. we still don't even have the freaking epstein files.

she was thinking, jesse jackson would have approved of this and people who don't like it obviously didn't know much about him or what he stood, cared, and fought for.

jesse would have loved it. were you familiar with him...like, at all?

this!

you think *jesse jackson* would've minded? did you know anything about him at all before he died???

WAR IN THE GULF: Antiwar Rallies; DAY OF PROTESTS IS THE BIGGEST YET (Published 1991)

he came home a militant pacifist. took me to my first gulf war protest in DC when i was 15. he wasn't proud of having served & spent the remaining 60ish years of his life encouraging others to reject the idea that veteran status, his included, is inherently honorable. www.nytimes.com/1991/01/27/u...

my dad was a marine in korea when he was 18 and of the 4 tattoos he stupidly got, the most objectionable was the marine corps flag. he wasn't even a history buff -- he just wasn't a nazi.

"i'd like if the head of a cabinet-level agency had had the chance to spend 4 years developing critical thinking skills" =/= "hegseth went to princeton so he's obviously right for this job"

elite = highly skilled, best in class

if it's "elitism" to want the people RUNNING THE COUNTRY to be highly skilled and have more education than the average idiot, then color me elitist

getting on this website and stumping for markwayne mullin was certainly a choice

I’m sure if Biden posted late one Sat night that he wanted the governor of Louisiana to rush a hospital ship to Greenland for a serious medical emergency in their populace at a time when we had no hospital ships available and there was no emergency the media would also ignore it.

this is the most louisiana story i've ever read

it’s like flowers for algernon over here 😭

i became vegetarian many years later and spent the first 3 years apologizing for it, e.g., "oh, no thank you, that looks delicious but i'm not eating meat right now, just trying out a new diet," lest i come off as judging anyone else's nutritional choices. life is too short for that, y'all.

used to work w/a sanctimonious vegetarian. she'd sit at the lunch table & say things like "my tofu not only tastes better than your lunch, but no animal had to die for it." she offered to host a party for a co-worker, told us all to bring a dish, & said "remember, my house is a meat-free house!" 🙄

excellent points. i am certain if i were IQ tested today i'd fall ~20 points short of my childhood scores.

my younger brother's handwriting (he's 40) has always been atrocious and we blame it on the teenage girl who babysat/did his handwriting homework for him when he was in 3rd grade 😆 fewer geopolitical impacts of that, however

this

mate, Stephen Miller is Jewish

Jared Kushner is Jewish

fucking Benjamin Netanyahu is Jewish

i'm honestly embarrassed by how surprised i am that a princeton grad could be so blisteringly stupid

haha no, thankfully, i was already married and living in another state. but that would be quite the meet cute 😳

Because housing assistance is drastically underfunded, only 1 in 4 eligible low-income households receive it.

Providing it to all who qualify would cost $118 billion a year—a tiny fraction of the proposed $1.5 *trillion* defense budget for 2027.

Poverty would fall 13% overall and 23% for children.

my dad donated his body to "science" & got used for anatomy dissection. i know this bc i got emails from the med students assigned to his corpse. i guess it was trying to humanize body donors, which is cool, but was also wild to be email chatting up people who were dissecting my dad's corpse.

POLL: “Dems' real problem isn't being too liberal — it's being seen as too weak… The path to 2026 doesn’t run through the center. It runs through the fight.” www.gelliottmorris.com/p/new-poll-d...

in the case of quakers, literally!

Tennessee Wants to Let Schools Ban Immigrant Kids, Threatening to “End Public Education as We Know It” A Tennessee bill would take the right to education away from undocumented children. The Heritage Foundation is pushing it in other states.

Tennessee wants to ban undocumented children from access to a free public education, and turn school administrators into immigration informants. The Heritage Foundation wants to take that plan national. Read my latest for @theintercept.com:

It’s actually FEWER Misérables