I returned this week to Boulder, Colorado after my sabbatical in Cambridge, Massachusetts this past academic year. It's going to be a wild sprint the next few weeks but I'm looking forward to reconnecting with people here!

these companies need to be strangled to death with the full force of the regulatory state at the soonest opportunity

Remember this the next time you read another idiotic piece asking "wHy dO pRoFesSorS aLL vOtE foR DeMoCraTs?" It's a real mystery why more faculty don't back the party that's actively working to destroy them and their work.

Rest assured, the driver will still have his license after running a red light and striking children in a crosswalk.

When most white Christians talk about 'God' or 'Jesus' or 'Christ' or 'Heaven' or 'Christendom' or 'the Church', they just mean white supremacy. This has pretty much always been true since the dawn of modernity.

Weird that Donald Trump's message is that people who are being assaulted can stop it all by giving up and submitting to the aggressor, so weird, so so weird

I also whispered "fuck you" as I filled out some of the initiatives. Fuck you, trans hating assholes. Fuck you, "right to natural gas" jerks. Fuck you, people who hate progressive taxation.

Ossoff is acting like Trump/MAGA/GOP and what they’ve done to the country is Actually Bad. Charismatic and well spoken, which sure helps. But no “my friends across the aisle,” no acting like the imaginary “Baileys” are the only ones who matter, no “don’t talk values, only kitchen table.” That’s it.

“If we censor the talk of the world-renowned scholar we invited to keynote our conference, that should definitely keep our name out of the headlines”

My personal improv comedy group posted my bank details on company Slack. It's made me rethink how I use it

[Lord I've seen what you've done for others and I want that for me dot jpg]

Here in Boulder, Colorado we’re just skipping fall’s 70-degree temperatures altogether.

whoa whoa whoa, you’re already making a big leap calling them people, let’s try to keep this civil

It's so weird, because--and I know I'm a broken record on this--I was told in no uncertain terms this would not be happening, by one of the NYT's brightest stars.

The Trump regime is going to try to steal the midterm elections—and they will use X as part of their disinformation and propaganda campaign. It’s really dumb that Democrats and progressive groups still use X as their primary source of sharing news and information.

raise revenue and undercut right-populism with One Weird Trick (capitalists HATE this)

And 175 years later, remains one of the most powerful forces in modern American politics.

oh they dead dead