Aspiring badass. Books, Detroit, judgment/decision research, social change, history, comparative religion, POTTERY, football/basketball, music/theatre/opera, historic clothing. Newly-retired UM professor. Your mom, if your mom swears like a sailor.
Damn there is some kind of big hazmat related evacuation in Toledo!
Sterling Pipe and Tube did some kind of chemical release and they aren’t saying what it is.
Currently the evacuation is a mile radius around Sterling Pipe and Tube. They have even shut down the railroad
BREAKING NEWS: Lucas Co. EMA expands evacuation zone to 1-mile radius from 1050 Progress Avenue after a hazardous materials release >> https://www.13abc.com/2026/10/21/hazmat-crews-responding-hazardous-materials-leak-north-toledo/
Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."
New working paper: the Norwegian wealth tax was a huge success. The "exodus" of wealthy people never happened (less than 100 individuals left). Tax revenue increased by 71.5%. No changes in business activity or investment.
www.nber.org/papers/w35854
“I would point out that there’s only one of us on this stage who has always been pro-choice, and that’s me.”
Republican Sen. Susan Collins went after Democrat Troy Jackson's record on abortion at Tuesday's Maine Senate debate.
What the actual goddamn fuck. Mr So Called President I was a religion major but then I was a business professor for over 30 years. You think we don’t need social workers and teaching aids and music? ??? You are a criminal.
Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/kQdKbY1
"RKF took money earmarked to provide health care for Black infants and spent it on his personal security detail" is a ludicrous headline.
Comic book villainy.
#MICHIGAN I voted! It is a great pleasure to vote right at the clerk’s office and drop the absentee ballot right in the box. No mail or disenfranchisement shenanigans may now occur
Fox 2 is hosting the first Senate debate for this year's general election in Michigan and Mike Rogers simply did not show up. Not only is this cowardly, it's disrespectful to the citizens of Detroit and Michiganders as a whole.
Honestly if you don’t show up for a debate, Mike Rogers, it hardly seems as though you want the job.
Not showing up gives 100% of the airtime to @abdulelsayed.bsky.social, which—we can see you are skeered—letting him speak without contradiction just seems like giving Usain Bolt a headstart.
"The University of Chicago’s undergrad social-sciences division will go “analog” this fall, implementing a blanket policy banning technology in class and AI assistance on coursework across the division’s core courses."
www.chronicle.com/article/u-of...
The messaging is so weird, that the federal government has enough money to just issue every American $5,000 today if the president wants to, BUT ALSO, no, he doesn't want to right now (only if the GOP wins).
PabloReports: What do you make of Trump saying Americans who oppose data centers are backwards and poor?
AOC: I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago? I love that. Let’s put a data center at Mar-a-Lago, and we’ll see how backwards and poor he is in response to that.
Dolly broke me in early to her raucous self deprecating sense of humor
when we began steel magnolias rehearsals 
i asked her - how long does it take to do a hair do like yours?
Dolly - no idea, i’m never there when they do it!
i started taking Dolly-isms notes on the back of my script after that
BREAKING: Everton Blair Jr. wins runoff for Georgia’s 13th Congressional District, meaning he will be the first Black openly gay Congressman from the South.
Congrats to Everton Blair Jr. on his victory.
Whatever you call it, you just made all the goods we buy that come across our border more expensive.
Michigan, he’s asking us to pay for his vanity trade war with our money.
They are NOT "conservatives." STOP calling them "conservatives." They are extremists. They are reactionaries. They are right wingers. "Conservatives," they are NOT. So friggin' stop using that word. Not for SCOTUS justices. Not for elected reps. Not for maga voters. Not for Fox News. STOP doing it.
“Representative Hakeem Jeffries, Democrat of New York and the minority leader, met privately in recent weeks with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and top outside adviser, and discussed potential areas of common ground, according to five people with knowledge of the meeting.”
BRUH.
Reporter on Bond Market: The yields have come back up since then. Have you talked to Bessent about another type of intervention.?
Trump: The ultimate intervention is our military. And if we have to use that, we will.
Also - also! - for my #Detroit people - how the hell would your favorite food ever make it to the bricks and mortar stage without a foodtruck stage first?
It’s the natural life cycle of a food start up.
Karen Bass is now the Marie Antoinette of Los Angeles - those eating from the taco trucks should just step inside the restaurants for maybe a tasting menu.
Qu’ils mangent du molé or something.
In the past, the rich used to pay higher taxes.
Now, the government pays the rich interest on a swelling debt, caused largely by lower taxes on the rich.
It's a big switcheroo that we need to talk about if we're going to talk about the national debt.
Basquiat seyde that "art ys how we decorate space, and musique ys how we decorate tyme." It doth followe that poetrye ys how we decorate thoughte and sense, and narratyve ys how we decorate memorye. And all are middel fingeres agaynste death. Make art, or else.
A Professor can be hounded to death by the media for alleged plagiarism but tech companies can plagiarise on a worldwide scale and they’re left alone, celebrated for their “genius”…
"The gloves must come into direct contact with the skin and are not effective through clothing or hair, the user manual states. The manual says no more than 2 gloves should be applied to a subject at one time & they should not be used for more than 15 seconds in many instances."
Oh Jesus. Oh fuck.
When progressives lose by half a point, establishment media such as the NY Times say it’s a huge failure. When they win by a full point, they also say it’s a huge failure.
Important: Trump’s executive order is NOT legislation. Though the executive order promotes more misinformation about vaccines, nothing has changed about the availability of childhood vaccines. For evidence-based guidance, please follow and share American Academy of Pediatrics recommendations.