Today would have been Carl Sagan's 90th birthday. He wrote this in 1995. Carl was absolutely right. #CarlSaganDay

We know that many of you, like us, are trying to wrap your heads around what the next few years will hold. These are a few titles that have helped us think through what we are up against and the resistance we need. Please read them, share them, use them. https://t.co/sC5Rz6UHx0

#CancelStudentDebt #CancelDebt

1/5 We feared they would try to subvert the election. It's worse: They didn't need to. We asked how, given his obvious unfitness & fascism, the election could be close. But it wasn't even close. We deplored the injustice of the electoral college. But he won the popular vote, too.

White Democrats, Black folks can’t save you from yourselves—so stop expecting it. And stop using Black men as the scapegoat. FACT: White men and women determined the greatest impact in the 2024 election.

The apparent election victory of Donald Trump, has consequences for the world, that I'm sure, very few people, have ever thought of. The world has just been sent, in an incredibly dangerous direction. 1/🧵

People who say this election could be the "end of democracy" are so extra... Or maybe they know the TRUE history of the election-denying white supremacist who led a violent insurrection, overturned a presidential election and ended democracy in America. A thread

This cartoon. 🥺

There were literally 3 MAGA people outside of Steve Bannon's press conference 🤣💀 So I sang to them my hit song "My MAGA Side Girl" til they went away! We defeat MAGA by laughing harder at them!🌊 Pls rt so Elon has to pay me TWITTER AD revenue money! 🌊💙

The greatest New Yorker cartoon of all time.

https://t.co/tlXOk4a60Z

Here's the Washington Post's front page on January 7, 2021. Four years later, the paper, famous for its tagline "Democracy Dies in Darkness," doesn't want to take a stand on who is fit to be president.

https://t.co/iaZEZKmsny

Does the Constitution even apply to Donald Trump? If he wins, probably not

@AsheeshKSi I mean that’s part of it. But even popular majors get starved and admins disparage fields and programs they don’t like. There’s no meaningful faculty governance at all when your deans office is like the ass dean Twitter account.

Despite the many problems with the Electoral College, an embarrassing number of Americans continue to defend it—as a protector of rural interests and small states, as a counter to the power of coastal elites. Here @ElieNYC dismantles the myths.

Rashid Khalidi is retiring from @Columbia “I have been both disgusted and horrified by the way higher education has developed into a cash register… a money-making, MBA, lawyer-run, hedge fund-cum-real estate operation, with a minor sideline in education” https://t.co/MeUaukuq1R