Andrew Tobolowsky

16 Mar

This is basically me

bostonglobe.comSteve Bannon urges Trump to turn the heat up on universities - The Boston GlobeEven after funding cuts, visa restrictions, and other challenges to higher ed, the MAGA media influencer thinks the right has "missed a golden opportunity."

Again one of the most frustrating things about all of this is the GOP gets that a college education makes you more likely to vote democratic but democrats themselves don’t do much to prop up universities. And I promise you the occupational training uni won’t do this as well as the liberal arts one

Ryan Enos@ryanenos.bsky.social

Wild and revealing interview with Steve Bannon about Trump's attack on universities. ""Universities, Bannon said, are the only reason that Democrats are “able to compete with us.”" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/10/27/n...

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

I emailed Patrick Healy, assistant managing editor for standards and trust at NYT, to ask why their story about a House report with new details of rape allegations against the President of the United States included neither those details, nor a single use of the word "rape." archive.is/1s9AM

18h

Started the three on season with @verydumbidiot.bsky.social against a mob of young people and managed to get the dub, I have no regrets about the dark powers I committed terrible crimes for in order to be able to hit some threes

I think it's totally true that conservatives (among others) think sex assault claims are usually made up but that the main thing that's going on with the disastrous Vivek ad is that most ppl at the forefront of conservative politics are completely lacking in empathy. They don't, and sort of can't

care that that happened to her, so that frees them up to be like whoa dude, her OWN MOM called her a LIAR? What an EPIC SLAM. And it's why their defense has been "context? Whoa, we never meant it to have a context lady, get real"

"You're asking me to take someone else's human experience into consideration and I don't even know what that would mean"

Billionaire republicans trying to latch on to something Obama said to try to claim he's an elitist when they really mean "Black," it's 2012 again baby

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Denny Carter

@dennycarter.bsky.social

Wow. Liberty Biberty just released a statement backing Vivek Ramaswamy. Just wow.

It could have been worse, they actually hid him on Skyros for two years

Bill DiFilippo@billdifilippo.bsky.social

a 14 year old is the new youngest player in the history of the greek basketball league and i promise you are not prepared for just how much this professional basketball player looks like a normal ass 14 year old

Night time hoops

The other thing about this is they do it bc they think you are going to say I understand why they’re doing it, it’s Iowa, go ahead and do this to trans people so you can win. The only way to get them to stop is to make them feel that isn’t true

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centredaily.comOhio Wesleyan gets $40 million gift for faculty salaries, arts and humanities collegeToo many college students are expected to have it all figured out by the time they arrive on campus. That's just one of the issues that Ohio Wesleyan University President Matt vandenBerg takes with hi...

I’ve been telling you people Sergio deLarrea is legit and for this I have been cast out but I have been proven a true prophet

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Cas Mudde

@casmudde.bsky.social

This is amazing! Most endowments go to buildings, sports, or students. Very few go to faculty… almost as if they are not really important. 🙄

What!!!

thehandbasket.coVivek Ramaswamy and the Grand Old Rape PartyAs Election Day closes in, the party's values have never been more clear.

The keenness of my insights and perceptions

Michael Druker 🇨🇦@mdruker.app

Social media loves talking about how everything is getting worse. But what’s something that you’ve seen get _better_ in your lifetime?

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Marisa Kabas

@marisakabas.bsky.social

New — I wrote about Vivek Ramaswamy’s weaponization of Amy Acton’s childhood sexual abuse and how it’s only the latest symptom of a Republican party flush with rape apologists, led by an adjudicated rapist:

"The point is, her OWN MOTHER said she's a liar, nothing else." "But like - about what specifically." "Her OWN MOTHER"

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Bryan Harvey

@bryanharvey.bsky.social

Replying to @andytobo.bsky.social

Ah, famous scene from Good Will Shooting where the custodian is secretly a baller

Your Friend Temporary Southerner

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@trt311.bsky.social

Yglesias has been canceled in my mind for a very long time but one thing I will never forget is his criticism of The Episcopal Church when our Presiding Bishop decided we weren't going to partner with Marco Rubio to facilitate the racist "White Afrikaans Only" refugee policy.

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social

A helpfully clear exchange here Hasan: "So your argument is that [Minnesota ICE protesters] should stay at home because immigration is a salient issue for Donald Trump. Opposing ICE is only going to help Trump. Wait until we win the election in 2028." Yglesias: "Yes that is what I would have said"

As these things go this is probably decent news in the sense that this is almost certainly going to fail and is likely to galvanize turnout for Peltola - people don't like being told the gov plans to steal their vote. But, normalizing this stuff is simultaneously very bad

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: The Trump Justice Department has moved to preemptively block certification of the results of Alaska's Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

Dems do have to do something, if they can, to vastly disincentivize this sort of nonsense but the more insidious nonsense is just the House or Senate refusing to seat people which you can't do anything about unless you're really committed.

The endless credulity when it comes to Musk in general. It's a byproduct of the media's self-fantasy about reporting from nowhere, no bias, which means, no memory, but weren't we supposed to be on Mars by now

Andrew Lawrence@ndrew.bsky.social

if you ever write an article about a guy saying hes done with politics and then a month or so later hes making the largest political donation in history then you need to quit and find another line of work

That's right, Warby Parker

One thing I really like about the NBA right now is how many of the best players are not particularly high draft picks

Tyrese Maxey was 21st, in the same draft that Tyrese Haliburton went 12th, SGA was 11th, Jokic was 41st, Giannis was 16th, and so on

If Trump and Vance share one thing it is the belief that you win debates by refusing to ever back down for any reason which luckily they share with hundreds of thousands of young fascists in the US but the Vivek thing is a good example of why it'll take a lot more social engineering to get their way

It is genuinely one of the most disgusting things that has happened this campaign season, it's not going to stop being one of the most disgusting things no matter how much Vance and Trump try to back him up, everyone can understand "if your mother whose husband raped you says you're a liar" -

there is only one person that reflects badly on, while also revealing the intense tragedy of your life that you have had to overcome

people.comAmy Acton’s Stepfather Was Charged with Raping Her When She Was a Child. Now Her Ohio Election Opponent Is Using That Against HerAmy Acton, the Democratic candidate for governor in Ohio, has previously publicly discussed being sexually abused by her stepfather between the ages of 9 and 12. Her opponent Vivek Ramaswamy recently ...

I started off pickup hot than tapered off a bit so you know what I had to do (go shoot around after dark until I made a few)

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Kevin M. Kruse

@kevinmkruse.bsky.social

It's bleak that Serious News Outlets will tie themselves into knots writing headlines that obscure the horrors of a story while @people.com just waltzes in and calls it like it is.

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Madeleine Bonsma-Fisher, PhD

@mbonsma.bsky.social

Far too much of this going on in the neighbourhood chats at election time

I always think that there's this bind the dem party in particular has been in since, let's say Clinton, where the political instinct is to affirm American values in a way that cuts against leftier approaches in order to appeal to the middle. As a political instinct it certainly had its day but

e.w. niedermeyer@niedermeyer.online

nobody stopped Musk before he broke the state monopoly on violence, so now either he goes or the nation-state does

it always had this flaw. You don't want to seem, say, anti-religious, so you make sure to affirm religious liberty, but then you can't do anything about illiberal tendencies in certain religious groups. You don't want to seem impractical about education so you don't defend the humanities etc.

And obviously, you don't want to seem anti-business, so you don't say anything about huge accumulations of power and wealth in the hands of just a few people but it turns out all of these are real problems, not just discursive problems that only matter in terms of campaign rhetoric

Stay tuned for my follow up “Dorotheus works in an open plan office, there are no doors”

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Max Christie is like a really talented Josh Green in the sense that he never does anything but he has a talent in theory

You don't hear the name Risacher much anymore

The Mavs have all these great complementary players because they got them to play with the best offensive player in the game but without him they are all too high on the depth chart by 3 spaces

KEVINWAYNE STUMP@stump.bsky.social

Mavs looking deadly tonight.

Who does he think is pulling the strings of literal congress, although I know the answer

Tom Hearden@followtheh.bsky.social

Elmo threatens Congress.

I think even worse than this is the constant barrage of emails raising shit by 2 dollars, there's something about it that's so demoralizing. But they should for sure should hurry up and finish reinventing cable

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Mavs are playing real hoops

Boooo rank trickery, witchcraftttt

lottie "scary evil puppy" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️@vaporlight.bsky.social

YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING is very divisive right now, but there's one trick it uses that even its most ardent haters would have to concede is very effective. Fielder displays his shots in rapid succession, 30+ per second, which makes it seem like Elizabeth Holmes and him are really moving on the screen

The other thing about this that drives me crazy is they all have a conversational style now but that does NOTHING if I DON’T KNOW WHO THESE FUCKING PEOPLE ARE. Hey Andrew, it’s Frank, time for us all to pull together. Who are you!!!

Molly Knight@mollyknight.bsky.social

Do they even understand how much they’re pissing people off by doing this. Whatever research that convinces them that spamming everyone is all upside is bullshit. It is like they’d rather have all my contact info to sell to other campaigns forever than receive my donation. It sucks.