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- A police attack on a film screening is just one of the assaults on student freedoms that have turned UCLA into more of a fortress than a place of higher learning, write four UCLA faculty members.
- Pete Rose will no longer be banned from the Baseball Hall of Fame, writes Dave Zirin. The decision is likely rooted the sport’s surrender to the gambling-addiction economy.
- Many were shocked when Shiloh Hendrix raised tons of money for calling a Black boy the n-word. But, as @kaliholloway.bsky.social writes, racists have always rushed to fund those whose sole claim to fame is hurting Black people.
- The relevant paradigm for understanding Trump may be the pyramid scheme, a scam that is the origin of multilevel marketing, argues @bridgetgillard.bsky.social. This sector has closer ties to the president and his backers than even his most caustic critics understand.
- The Trump administration’s attacks on both news outlets and universities places journalism schools at an alarming intersection. “The threat is very high for non-citizen student journalists covering anything to do with Palestine.”
- In many ways, toxic masculinity is a kind of curdled male entitlement. Boys and young men simply have not absorbed the fact that certain privileges are no longer laid out on a platter for them, as they were for their fathers and grandfathers.
- “I am deeply saddened by what is happening in the Gaza Strip: may there be an immediate ceasefire! Let humanitarian aid be provided to the stricken civil population and let all the hostages be freed.” — Pope Leo XIV.
- Our June issue is here! Featuring @amylittlefield.bsky.social on what it would mean to defend all abortions, @johnsemley3000.bsky.social on what happened when sports betting went legal, @dan-sinnamon.bsky.social on the cult of close reading, and so much more.
- Qatar is essentially providing Trump a $400 million jet. This is the type of corruption that the founders targeted in drafting the Emoluments Clause, which forbids the president from using his office for personal enrichment.
- Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is terrible at every part of his job except the one that matters to Trump—a willingness to break with norms that keep the military in check.
