@jamiesonmckay.bsky.social
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It's impossible to overstate how horrendous this feels to most academics in the US, esp those working at state unis. Higher ed is busy slashing humanities programs allegedly b/c of a lack of popularity (tho they tend to make $$) while paying football coaches US$53 million not to work there
LSU terminates Brian Kelly without cause, clearing way for full buyout
www.nytimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:07 PM
It's impossible to overstate how horrendous this feels to most academics in the US, esp those working at state unis. Higher ed is busy slashing humanities programs allegedly b/c of a lack of popularity (tho they tend to make $$) while paying football coaches US$53 million not to work there
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If the executive can unilaterally shift all functioning out of an congressionally established agency, then what is left of Congress’ lawmaking?
Why should Congress authorize executive agencies to do anything at all, ever?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Why should Congress authorize executive agencies to do anything at all, ever?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
School Groups Sue to Stop Dismantling of the Education Department
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:00 PM
If the executive can unilaterally shift all functioning out of an congressionally established agency, then what is left of Congress’ lawmaking?
Why should Congress authorize executive agencies to do anything at all, ever?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
Why should Congress authorize executive agencies to do anything at all, ever?
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/u...
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Angry Staff Officer: “…Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure… to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg.”
November 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Angry Staff Officer: “…Thanksgiving as a national holiday has to do with the Civil War and not the Puritans or previously proclaimed days of Thanksgiving (of which there were hundreds) - so be sure… to give thanks for the victories brought by Union arms at Vicksburg & Gettysburg.”
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Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
November 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Good morning to Brazilian reporter Manuela Borges, who’s been waiting eleven years for this petty moment. ❤️ 🇧🇷
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When I was 12, in India, I was traveling overnight in a train with my mother. I slept on the top bunker. Mom was on a separate seat, across from me. A stranger sat next to me. He fondled my thigh. I didn't know how to react.
No wonder my parents were protective of me when we came here.
#Pinks
No wonder my parents were protective of me when we came here.
#Pinks
November 16, 2025 at 7:09 PM
When I was 12, in India, I was traveling overnight in a train with my mother. I slept on the top bunker. Mom was on a separate seat, across from me. A stranger sat next to me. He fondled my thigh. I didn't know how to react.
No wonder my parents were protective of me when we came here.
#Pinks
No wonder my parents were protective of me when we came here.
#Pinks
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This is brilliant!
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG
She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG
She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
November 18, 2025 at 2:02 AM
This is brilliant!
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG
She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
🧪“The Monster Slash”
By @ellecordova.bsky.social on IG
She performs a song about the cuts to the government agencies that impact our daily lives.
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VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
November 22, 2025 at 2:37 PM
VOTE! VOTE! VOTE!
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Breaking:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
November 25, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Breaking:
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
BRASILIA, Brazil (AP) — Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro begins serving 27-year prison sentence.
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Of all the explanations for why Pete Hegseth would perceive things being in reverse order, them actually being in reverse order is like the least plausible one
November 25, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Of all the explanations for why Pete Hegseth would perceive things being in reverse order, them actually being in reverse order is like the least plausible one
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the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power
Trump revives unpopular Ted Cruz plan to punish states that impose AI laws
Cruz plan to block broadband funding lost 99-1, but now it’s back—in Trump form.
arstechnica.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:35 PM
the corporate press softsells it, and "AI" gets all the attention, but this administration really is trying to impose a ban on all federal and state oversight of corporate power
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TLDR: Taylor Swift's silence in the facing of this administration's use of her music is LOUD (and predictable if you've been paying attention).
Taylor Swift is a Coward
Talking about Taylor Swift not doing something.
theneedledrop.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:54 PM
TLDR: Taylor Swift's silence in the facing of this administration's use of her music is LOUD (and predictable if you've been paying attention).
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The copyright and the public good
Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/t...
#books #publicDomainDayCountdown
Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/t...
#books #publicDomainDayCountdown
November 25, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The copyright and the public good
Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/t...
#books #publicDomainDayCountdown
Ross’s 1930 The Right and the Good introduced an ethics of balancing intuitive “prima facie” duties rather than strict rules or outcomes.
By John Mark Ockerbloom
everybodyslibraries.com/2025/11/24/t...
#books #publicDomainDayCountdown
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I got nothing better than this haha
Not family, but one time in grad school, my now-husband and I hosted a holiday party for friends. There was an apple pie, and rather than cut a slice like a normal person, one of the guests took the serving spoon out of the baked ziti and--without cleaning it--scooped the *middle* out of the pie.
yes, hello, I would like to place an order for everyone’s funniest stories of holiday food-related family grudges / drama / chaotic incidents / lore
I feel like we need this
I feel like we need this
November 25, 2025 at 3:11 AM
I got nothing better than this haha
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![[Scene is a MEDIEVAL PLAGUE PIT with all the bodies inside it. On the edge of it is a young peasant woman, in a sack cloth dress, covered in boils. She is lounging glamorously next to the pit. Her boyfriend is standing a few feet away, photographing her with an anachronistic mobile phone]
GIRL:
OK so I'll sit here...
With my hair like this…
Rubbing my cyst with the corpse's hand.
[She produces a whithered severed hand and starts rubbing it on her face.]
[We are treated to a revolting close up of her rubbing the severed hand on her disgusting massive cyst.]
[Her boyfriend takes a photo of her.]
SNAP
GIRL:
OK, now write this:
"Hanging out at the burial pit, rubbing my sebaceous cyst with a severed corpse hand from
#BurtsGraverobbers…”
And then: #selfcare, #metime, #BurtsGraverobbers…
... nails emoji, heart emoji, cyst emoji.
BOYFRIEND:
Um...
Should we really be promoting this?
I mean… does rubbing a corpse's hand on a cyst actually work?
GIRL:
Look, Burt's done research, OK?
And he's paying us four groats.
BOYFRIEND:
Hmm.
[Boyfriend dutifully taps out the post on his phone]
TAP TAP TAP
BOYFRIEND:
Cyst emoji?
GIRL:
Just use a fried egg.
[Ends]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:4m3we4apbjayclzcnhwe3pfp/bafkreifyvq2vzehtutrj7ild2dd7kkljmkbcby7yompicekbbpa2bqpluq@jpeg)
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
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I’m actually really enjoying this phase of my life where my teenagers go out on the weekend and I eat rotisserie chicken over the sink and go to bed early
November 22, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I’m actually really enjoying this phase of my life where my teenagers go out on the weekend and I eat rotisserie chicken over the sink and go to bed early
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This one officially wins as our favorite comment on the photo.
November 22, 2025 at 10:49 PM
This one officially wins as our favorite comment on the photo.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Eh, you can still push a wanton welcome in Pfalz duds, I don't know why I was grousing
November 22, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Eh, you can still push a wanton welcome in Pfalz duds, I don't know why I was grousing
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'Public deserves to know': Trump admin serves notice to Noem to save her texts for court
www.rawstory.com
'Public deserves to know': Trump admin serves notice to Noem to save her texts for court
twp.ai
November 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
'Public deserves to know': Trump admin serves notice to Noem to save her texts for court
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Yup. Just as much as Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin. Evil.
I feel confident in saying that Netanyahu, Putin, and Trump are war criminals
November 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Yup. Just as much as Hitler, Pol Pot, Stalin. Evil.
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Prayers up to that lamprey for whatever that man gave him 🙏🏾
The head of health services in the United States, letting parasitic lampreys bite his arms for some godforsaken reason.
November 21, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Prayers up to that lamprey for whatever that man gave him 🙏🏾
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don’t talk to me
November 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
don’t talk to me
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trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker
November 21, 2025 at 9:13 PM
trump is, first and foremost, a starfucker