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“we need to be nicer to men” bro they didn’t let women have their own credit cards til 50 years ago

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"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Many of the biggest problems America faces today have their roots in “forgive & forget” after the Civil War & the violent overthrow of Reconstruction by white supremacists. We can’t afford to repeat those enormous blunders this time. www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

YES!!!! 🎉🎉🎉

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We made it to another Friday. The Infant and I wish everyone health, safety, and peace

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I think about this kind of thing constantly

Time to move past the neverending trial stage. Yes, basic income reduces homelessness.

h/t @ecmclaughlin.bsky.social

observing in real time as an occupation declines in prestige and labor power solely because of its gender and racial make-up ie as a profession gets less male and white, and more female and black, it loses status and has its labor devalued

what if the plague was just an inevitable part of developing and adopting plague statistics

Just to review, in the last week the President of the United States: - Refused to condemn the rise of Neo-Nazis in his party - Tried to block the release of further evidence he sexually abused children - Encouraged the execution of Congressional Democrats Those are just factual statements.

listen to this king. a team with low morale is ineffective. relatedly, a team with high morale is effective. also relatedly: we are going to win

“To be sat there with this material in front of you that is just really not worth anyone’s time, when you could be spending that time actually engaging with something worthwhile, is really frustrating,” he said.

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Andrew's book on the politics of smallpox in the American Revolution is such a great book and his argument below about people articulating inoculation as a *right* of the people is so important! @bachynski.bsky.social

I present my review of "Unfettered," John Fetterman's memoir. In between petty grievances about doing his job, Fetterman asserts that he's feeling good. Two days after "Unfettered" came out, Fetterman fell directly on his face from ventricular fibrillation, a life-threatening heart rhythm disorder.

The Crimson = the GOAT in their coverage of this entire revolting saga.

This is my feeling and fear about people using generative AI for writing: it makes you less capable at that task. It’s muscle memory for your brain.

one thing i want to emphasize is these "illiberal" and "postliberal" authoritarians are just thieves and crooks! trump is thief. orban is a thief. putin is the biggest thief of them all.

ICYMI: other Harvard economists, as Larry Summers’s colleagues and protégés, are again defending him publicly just like they did in ‘05/‘06. Two of his most public defenders within the department, then and now, teach what is historically the largest course at Harvard. www.wbur.org/news/2025/11...

one thing i think is true is that republicans assumed that democrats would not respond in kind and that the forceful pushback spooked them (a lesson to learn here, perhaps)

The facts are complicated, but here’s a summary of what appears to have happened based on the filings and today’s hearing:

www.thecrimson.com/article/2025... Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties

h/t @indyfromspace.bsky.social

🚨BREAKING: Federal prosecutors admitted Wednesday that the grand jury handling the criminal case against former FBI Director James Comey never reviewed or voted on the final indictment used to charge him — a virtually unprecedented revelation that could topple the entire case.

"Trump II administration figures often speak the language of merit in order to contrast it to 'DEI' or 'affirmative action,' but in practice they only hire incompetent clowns—so long as they are also loyal clowns." - @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com

Got to show my American Religion class some 1980s televangelist clips (Jim & Tammy Faye Bakker, Jimmy Swaggart, the financial and sex scandals...). "You have to understand all of this in the context of the fever dream that was the 80s."

If I were sick, I would simply choose to be healthy. Bing bang boom bsky.app/profile/atru...

Obviously this is what they were going to do, but if this week is any indication, it will backfire spectacularly. Are they ever going to release the EFs when they OBVIOUSLY incriminates Trump? No Is the very fact of that going to cause massive, sustained public outrage and MAGA fracturing? Yes

"Trying to extract and analyze a concrete, coherent policy proposal out of these statements is pretty much impossible—or, as Harvard health policy professor Adrianna McIntyre put it to me, like 'trying to read tea leaves, only the cup is full of mud.'" www.thebulwark.com/p/not-so-imp...

“It represents a striking about-face for Republicans, who for years castigated the left for what they called “cancel culture” – the ostracism or punishment of those whose views were deemed unacceptable.”

This. This. This.

Check out this fascinating article about the work my Princeton Religion colleague, Garry Sparks, is coordinating focused on the Maya manuscript collection at Firestone Library.

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It’s book release day! And there’s a 40% sale at Christianbook.com

A Response from Yosefa Raz www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2025/11...

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I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

h/t @spqesq.bsky.social

New — I wrote about the myriad ways journalism’s moral rot manifests, and how our crumbling institutions have created the conditions for it to fester:

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