Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed.
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Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.
My read on this is that, if there's anything at all to read into this (and I'm not sure there is), it's that the responses to this survey are *entirely* performative. "Conservative" profs saying they feel way more self-censored under Trump is because they feel they need to play the victim...
Bari Weiss somehow manages to be one of the most repellent people in an age dense with such filth
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans)
Mike Masnick
As expressed on the pod with @mbkplus.bsky.social, I have missed feelings about FIRE. They do some genuinely important work. But their surveys are unscientific and agenda-driven. This one of law faculty had a 6% response rate, with no apparent testing for non-response bias.
A new survey of nearly 2,000 faculty members at U.S. law schools concludes that law professors strongly support free speech but often struggle to put it into practice on campus.
“Congress's top bathroom sheriff Nancy Mace is on the ballot, and while not all of the votes have been counted yet, she is in a respectful fifth place,” Sarah McBride just said. “I don't like punching down and I believe in the politics of grace. So all I will say is happy Pride, Nancy.”
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Christopher Wiggins
"A big problem with people with Nazi tattoos is that they tend to have other issues besides just Nazi tattoos." -- @smotus.bsky.social
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The callous brutality of it all is stunning
The question is whether he's a good nominee, not a good person -- and a nominee you have to constantly defend and explain is not a good one
These decisions are being made by people who haven’t been in a classroom in 30 years. despite working (if being a trustee is “working”) in higher ed their opinions are shaped more by right-wing talking points than by the realities on campus
You guys, the White House accidentally ordered 10x the amount of Porta-Potties that they needed. The lawn is just acres of Porta-Potties.
It’s all fenced off and you can’t see, but I took this photo through a hole in the fence netting.
"The bigger problem, Lulu, frankly, is not any kind of political influence. The problem was the incompetence.."
Scott Pelley talked to @lulugn.bsky.social about "the Bari Weiss era and his last days at 60 Minutes:" www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...
“The Auburn University Board of Trustees on Friday gave itself complete control over course offerings, curriculum, degree requirements and academic credentials while eliminating shared governance at the Alabama land-grant university… The policy leaves many questions unanswered”
They came here fleeing persecution; rather than give them refuge, Marco Rubio’s state department will send them to die in countries they’ve never been to. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/w...
