Ashanti Van Buren

The people on here who LARP the hardest about being compassionate are inevitably the least serious.

'Sweet' FIT student who was fatally drugged, raped, moved to NYC alone to pursue fashion dreams

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My grandmother was a member of the charter class of Delta Delta Delta at Cornell. Here she is with some Tri Delt sisters (lower left) in 1912, pregaming.

A college student who fatally overdosed on fentanyl was raped in her Manhattan dorm room in March by the man who gave her the drug, federal prosecutors said.

Five years ago, an important miscarriage of justice occurred. The story began in April 2018 when David Sabatini, an MIT, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), and Whitehead Institute scientist and professor began a consensual intimate relationship with Dr. Kristin Knouse, a (cont in image...)

Denying police protection to an unpopular person targeted by an angry mob is how thousands of black men were lynched in the South during Jim Crow. Not very progressive.

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TRANSPARENCY UNFASHIONABLE? As DOJ Omits School Name As It Charges 2 With Fentanyl Death and Rape of College Women, Transcript Cites FIT, Fashion Institute of Technology- Inner City Press story innercitypress.com/sdny101astei... Transcript on Patreon www.patreon.com/MatthewRusse...

Weird that this doesn’t seem to be getting much attention on Bluesky. nypost.com/2026/10/15/u...

RAGE! Against Something. How A Generation That Wasn’t Allowed To Hate Found The Loophole.

FAKE ACCOUNTS: White incel “@KevinMKruse” making a mockery of Black people. On Bluesky, “Kevin” poses as a Black woman; on Twitter/X, he's an "Autistic black five-year-old Afrochemist" mocking "Disabled Black Lives." #blacksky

If Putin stops fighting, the war ends. If Zelensky stops fighting then his country will be occupied, leaders murdered, language banned, businesses stolen, children kidnapped. That's what happens in Russian-occupied Ukraine.

Commies fucking over other commies is the #DSA way.

Shane Gillis’ headline-making third SNL hosting turn delivered his best ratings yet.

Angry mob confronts Michael Tracey at "Jane Doe" protest www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZl...

We’re all behind you Will. Don’t let them get you.

Conservatives for 60 years: “Blacks don’t study enough or do well enough in school, and don’t have stable families.” Conservatives now: “Indians study too much, do too well in school, and are boring.” They have proved their worst leftist critics correct. www.richardhanania.com/p/should-rep...

A prehistoric basalt steatopygian figurine, often called a mother goddess, dating back to 4th Millennium BC from Saudi Arabia. The figurine known for steatopygia (exaggerated hips and thighs) and stylized facial features, reminiscent of other ancient Venus figurines. (H. 22cm) Private Collection

“Not every problem can be solved by growth… But while economic dynamism isn’t the solution to everything, it is the solution to most things, climate change among them.” www.richardhanania.com/p/climate-ch...

The institutional failures that elevated Jason Arday to Cambridge without vetting his work are what demand accountability, writes Sarah Ditum.

The new Carob prize awards $1 million each to as many as five social scientists a year who have demonstrated intellectual independence, published findings that were attacked rather than answered, and been validated by the evidence—despite the professional cost.

Yeah, coding in the sense of 'get XYZ working' is near-saturation, but models lack the ability to write clear code, know when to refactor refactor, and design Ousterhout abstractions — key for maintainability, even for themselves — so that's the next frontier, if we can figure out how to verify it.

An old Italian woman shows her gratitude to one of the American soldiers following the liberation of Italy, 1945.

An altar dedicated to the water goddess Coventina by Aurelius Crotus which was discovered at Coventina's Well near Carrawburgh Roman Fort on Hadrian’s Wall. The stone is now on display in the site museum at Chester's Roman Fort 📸Kevin Wilbraham #History #HistoryMatters

At the beginning of the Civil War, Southerners were open about the fact that they were fighting for slavery and white supremacy. When they lost, they began to pretend that slavery wasn't that important. The lie continues to this day on the right. www.richardhanania.com/p/defending-...

The paint.net controversy summed up.

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Solitude, 1933 by Maxfield Parrish

"If the government decides to point its finger at you, there's really no question that they're going to try to ruin you," said the late James Larkin, founder of Backpage + bunches of alt-weeklies reason.com/2026/08/31/w...

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Is hiring Americans a form of DEI? No, it's much worse. DEI tries to make minorities represented, affecting around 25% of the workforce. Nativism wants to exclude all the talent that exists among 8 billion foreigners. It's not even close. www.richardhanania.com/p/high-skill...

The NYT magazine has published an extract from The Castle! The book is out Sept 1 in the US and now in the UK. All details - including speaking dates - link in bio! I love this extract. He Was a Top Lawn Care Influencer on YouTube. Then Everything Went Haywire. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/30/m...

This is the most pathetic thing Republicans have ever done, and I remember Freedom Fries. The most loser shit I’ve ever seen.

Insisting the late Cambridge University professor Jason Arday was not a fabulist “is an emotional position rather than a rational one,” Helen Lewis argues, “and its very indefensibility makes it a greater demonstration of tribal loyalty”: theatln.tc/tB2QJZzp 📸: Vuk Valcic / SOPA Images / Getty

They’re trying to blame the flooding on climate change to deflect from the real cause, which is racism.

After 17 years of teaching science at West Point, a professor says he was suddenly ordered last year to cut from his curriculum information about the human causes of climate change, according to a new lawsuit filed against the U.S. Military Academy.

A civilian geography professor was fired from West Point for pushing back after department officials barred faculty from teaching that humans contribute to climate change.

“It is more than a metaphor to describe the price system as a kind of machinery for registering change.” — Hayek “The social machine is literally a machine, irrespective of any metaphor, inasmuch as it exhibits an immobile motor.” — Deleuze and Guattari 🔄 @vincentl3

Sex definition: Science is not a political prop Scientists Chris Pook and Julia Schaletzky challenge an article contributed to Newsroom that they believe moved a political position into a scientific conclusion newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/26/s...

Gold and garnet ring, Georgia, 2nd-3rd century AD from The Georgian National Museum

Chico Marx is sitting casually with his daughter and wife at the Agua Caliente Racetrack in 1933.