BREAKING: FIRE is suing Secretary of State Marco Rubio, challenging the laws he is using to target lawfully present noncitizens for speech protected by the Constitution. No administration should be able to deport lawfully present noncitizens for their opinions.

2/ FIRE’s suit seeks a landmark ruling that the First Amendment bars the government from deporting noncitizens for protected speech. Rubio has invoked two immigration laws—one allowing him to revoke visas, another letting him target speech seen as a threat to U.S. foreign policy.

Excited about this, the MWG does good work, check ‘em out

I’d just like to say I appreciate Aaron Gwyn ‘s willingness to start shit on here.

“I am well-nigh resolv’d to write no more tales, but merely to dream when I have a mind to, not stopping to do any thing so vulgar as to set down the dream for a boarish Publick. I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman” —HP Lovecraft, 1925

HP Lovecraft’s first submission to Weird Tales, in 1923: “If the tale cannot be printed as written, down to the very last semicolon and comma, it must gracefully accept rejection. Excision by others is probably one reason why no living American author has a real prose style...

Between Pokrovsk and Kostiantynivka, I mapped 3 200 russian 🇷🇺 airstrikes in 3 months, including 1 400 new ones from july 11th to august 11th. Russian airforce is launching massive strikes at ukrainian 🇺🇦position, supporting a large offensive. 🧵THREAD🧵1/23 ⬇️

Seriously, if the entire humanities is supposed to answer for every random grad paper titled "The Poetics of Queering University Land Acknowledgments" then STEM sure as hell should answer for DOGE and their ideological ransacking that was infinitely more damaging

Hesiod’s Theogony

Ezra Klein's interview with Philippe Sands is very good overall. But I want to reiterate that the ICJ has never said that the definition of genocide requires a "single intent." Nor does the ICJ's standard of proof preclude a finding of genocide in cases of plural intent. 1/🧵

James Stewart is number three, behind Foucault and Shakespeare, and while I’m guessing a simple search would reveal it’s not this James Stewart, I’m going to choose to believe it is anyway.