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Chemistry professor, lute-song singer, chorister, amateur glassblower, gay husband, cat daddy

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Wow -- Fanone coughs "go fuck yourself" to Trey Nehls as Nehls blames Capitol Police leadership for January 6

22.01.2026 19:22 πŸ‘ 38450 πŸ” 9739 πŸ’¬ 2631 πŸ“Œ 1300

Can you people be serious about a national crisis for even one single minute? Your fanboi squee isn’t helping a goddamn thing.

Complicit

22.01.2026 12:32 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did not see #1 coming, that’s for sure

30.11.2025 23:10 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

An important reflection on this perilous moment in philanthropy and the struggle for human rights and dignity, from someone deep inside the work of liberation. That work is the result of sustained labor by skilled and dedicated people like Ian, and it is under threat.

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08.10.2025 19:02 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I think you've cracked the case -- hope your back feels better soon

18.09.2025 14:33 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hearty congratulations!

08.09.2025 21:50 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

🀞that New England gets its act together around this soon

04.09.2025 16:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He was greeting people at the door as we filed out. I managed to get out a more or less discernible "thank you," but I was kind of twitterpated!

28.08.2025 22:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Mine is also Sturgill, at the Iron Horse in Northampton (about 180 seats) right before Metamodern went big.

28.08.2025 21:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

What is wrong with you?

13.08.2025 13:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Incel pickup line

05.08.2025 19:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Official Music Video)
Salt-N-Pepa - Push It (Official Music Video) YouTube video by SaltNPepaVEVO

Alternative soundtrack

youtu.be/vCadcBR95oU?...

05.08.2025 15:23 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

youtu.be/SwYN7mTi6HM?...

05.08.2025 15:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

University administrators who engage in this anti-scientific, anti-rational cruelty do so not because they are afraid, but because they are morally reprehensible people who feel liberated in the current moment to take off their masks.

31.07.2025 00:07 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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UCLA to pay $6.45 million to settle suit by Jewish students over pro-Palestinian protests UCLA agreed to settle a lawsuit by Jewish students who alleged the university aided a 2024 pro-Palestinian encampment, which the lawsuit alleged illegally discriminated against Jewish people.

1/ I represent 5 anti-zionist students and faculty challenging the outrageous claim that the Palestine Solidarity Encampment was a "Jew exclusion zone". UCLA refused to defend. Today they agreed to pay millions instead. I can't overstate how dangerous this is. 🧡

www.latimes.com/california/s...

29.07.2025 21:35 πŸ‘ 649 πŸ” 325 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 43

This thread gives me joy

25.07.2025 21:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Really? You’re going to hide behind MLK while betraying your profession? No hell hot enough for you.

25.07.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-QuΓ©bec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied.

The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory.

β€œI said, β€˜No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. β€˜You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled.

Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard.

β€œThey’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said.

Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. β€œI never saw somebody so angry,” he said.

He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a β€œdirty” blanket.

Lallemand said he borrowed his friend’s boat and was fishing near Venise-en-QuΓ©bec, which is roughly 15 kilometres north of the U.S. border at the northern tip of Lake Champlain. He says he has been fishing for decades and is adamant that he was in Canadian waters when the Coast Guard showed up and told him to turn off his engine, to which he complied. The three officers told him he was in U.S. territory. β€œI said, β€˜No, I’m very sorry, I’m in Canada.’ And I said I’m polite enough to talk to you guys but you cannot arrest me. β€˜You can’t come across the border and pick me up’ but they did,” he recalled. Lallemand started his engine and said he wanted to talk with the officers by the shore, but the Coast Guard followed and tried to push him into the U.S., which is what caused him to go overboard. β€œThey’re tying my boat to their boat. They’re not even taking care of me. The third time I went down, coming out with water in my mouth, spitting it out, I said throw me a buoy,” he said. Once on their vessel, he said he was aggressively put in handcuffs. β€œI never saw somebody so angry,” he said. He was then handed over to U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, who fingerprinted him, put him in a jail cell with his clothes soaking wet, and gave him a β€œdirty” blanket.

A Quebec fisherman who was fishing 15 kilometers north of the US border was essentially kidnapped by US Border Patrol, who capsized his boat and dragged him to an American prison cell.

In any normal time this'd be quite the international incident, y'know?

www.ctvnews.ca/montreal/art...

24.07.2025 15:47 πŸ‘ 7046 πŸ” 3770 πŸ’¬ 167 πŸ“Œ 528

^ Artist's impression of me, listening to Woody and Dutch on the Slow Train to Peking

22.07.2025 15:29 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NYT and WaPo collaborating with Steve Bannon? Wow, what a wholly unprecedented abandonment of their staunch journalistic principles.

archive.thinkprogress.org/steve-bannon...

22.07.2025 15:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

What is wrong with you?

14.07.2025 23:24 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Golly, if only there existed a profession whose practitioners could help us sort out the truth value of the claims made by public figures

13.07.2025 16:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I’m not going to be ignored, Dan

12.07.2025 13:41 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

bullied lol did not expect this level of bootlicking from you but go off

11.07.2025 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Thoughts and (imprecatory) prayers

11.07.2025 14:46 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

He's not mad. Please don't put in the newspaper that he got mad.

11.07.2025 12:21 πŸ‘ 32 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It would be irresponsible not to speculate

10.07.2025 20:52 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A glass rondel with a rainbow pattern against a clear background hangs outside, surrounded by trees, grasses, and golden hour light

A glass rondel with a rainbow pattern against a clear background hangs outside, surrounded by trees, grasses, and golden hour light

The evening light is right

06.07.2025 22:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is right up there with Clinton Cash as evidence that you have no journalistic standards you are not willing to break in the service of White Nationalism

Your preening self-regard is unearned

05.07.2025 13:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A lot of you don't understand how itchy an anus can get when you're constantly pulling facts out of it.

04.07.2025 17:41 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0