I am shooting my shot. I love writing op-eds. @teenvogue.com was my main outlet, but if there are any others (especially independently ran) that are looking for a contributing writer on race, gender, and the economy, I'd love to work with you. Signed, A Black woman who writes for the public

The Speaker of the House shut the chamber down for two months to block the release of the Epstein Files and the president is huddled in the Situation Room of the White House to formulate a plan to keep them from being released, and I don't know why you crazy libs think there's some kind of cover up.

If you are writing an opinion piece about higher education and the three example institutions you use are Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, please just throw your writing in the trash. You are not writing about higher ed, you are writing about a tiny elitist unrepresentative sliver of higher ed.

In case you missed it over the weekend, my op-ed on the federal budget.

Brilliant idea - when you're a tiny community group it can be so hard to cover those boring but essential costs like insurance!

WTF cc @hypervisible.blacksky.app

NEW: As a wise Supreme Court justice (Robert Jackson) once said, "emergency powers...tend to kindle emergencies." www.thebulwark.com/p/which-cons...

What is the posing as an ICE officer compared to being an ICE officer?

"It's part of a fascist project to offload the work of thinking... If we can offload that cognitive work, it's far too easy to become reflexive and hateful, while having a robot cheerleader telling you that you were right about everything all along.”

Whew. They really made this actor look and sound like Michael. This is going to be an interesting one to see.

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Billionaires are a menace to society.

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

One of the great joys of Zohran's victory is that NYC finally has a mayor who doesn't give a shit about what the New York Times thinks of him

Right on. And humanities also teach skills & dispositions which render those trained in them less susceptible to the kinds of propaganda by which powerful interests seek to control populations. They also teach you to write & speak intelligently, which Mamdani is very good at. Come study humanities!

This is as big a deal as Mamdani actually? In forever fascist ass MS...??? Like....

The nerve of this guy to (checks notes) insist on the rule of law.

Mamdani: "My message to ICE agents & to everyone across this city is that everyone will be held to the same standard of the law. If you violate it, you must be held accountable. There is sadly a sense growing that certain people are allowed to violate that law, whether they be POTUS or ICE agents."

Last month I interviewed @readywriting.bsky.social about their new co-edited book. It's taken a while to edit the audio and the transcript but it's almost ready to be published. If you are on my newsletter list, you'll be the first to know. jovanevery.co.uk/newsletter

Fun fact: it has been 56 days since I notified the editors of Neurology about glaring statistical errors in this peer-reviewed study on sweeteners and cognitive health. No expression of concern, no correction, no retraction.

Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?

Next in our Creatively Critical Tech virtual speaker series is Audrey Watters @audreywatters.bsky.social on "AI Grief Observed: On the Death of Education." Don't miss it on November 12, 2025, @ 6:30 pm CT! Register today at tinyurl.com/CreativelyCr...

Interpassivity

My take on the transformative gift that is MacKenzie Scott and her almost $1Billion in giving to HBCUs since 2020, and why what she is doing goes far beyond philanthropy--it is protecting the future of Academic Freedom, and Diversity. READ: www.forbes.com/sites/sophia... @forbes.com #HBCUs

Title says it all: "Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat: Cheating just got a lot easier with AI agents." elissawelle.bsky.social shows that the companies could do something, and so far they don't want to. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia... 1/

“Workers said the exercises have included squatting, doing the ‘Chicken Dance,’ acting like a gorilla, pretending to vacuum, sprinting for several yards, pretending to golf, and twerking.”

As DH grows, it’s increasingly important to publish conference papers, but there hasn’t been a clear venue for that. So I’m thrilled to share this new home for DH proceedings, which will include CHR papers & more. Thanks to @taylor-arnold.bsky.social for leading this effort! bit.ly/ach-anthology

Academics in Assyria in the 7th c BC complain that admin is preventing them from doing research and teaching

I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote: "To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace." No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.

This story keeps getting worse. www.latimes.com/california/s...

I think this gets to the heart of a serious problem in the technical approach in marketing: you can A/B test two bad options and one will still "win". There are a lot of vendors out there that will give you everything you ask for when testing creative and not give you want you need.

Remember when AI* was being sold as the technological bridge to curing cancer, ending hunger, and mitigating climate change?

It’s not for everyone, but as someone who is OBSESSED with Almost Famous, the new Cameron Crowe memoir, read by the author himself, is a treat and a delight.

I wanted to sew, but instead I have to sit here and wait for a FedEx package to show up so I can sign for it because the husband broke the doorbell. This weekend, the husband can take the daughter and the dog (who are both going stir crazy) and I can sew without interruption.

It's a Ponzi scheme. And these people at our universities have got us involved.

If you just banked that coffee money every week and denied yourself every other instance of life’s gastronomic pleasures, however small and ordinary, you could save enough to make the down payment on that starter house in [checks notes] five hundred and seventy three years

I deleted a couple of posts. Not knowing the full back story, I wasn't getting it right because it was hard for me to follow retrospectively. (Also because it's so infuriating.) Just read @jessicawluther.com's posts on this. She knows what's she's talking about.

Stephen Miller has found the perfect shiny object to distract Trump while the administration destroys the country.

ISLAND IN THE SUN IS MOST DEF NOT THEIR GREATEST SONG THIS IS GOOD LIFE ERASURE (although I think the Green Album is the most underrated in the Weezer discography) collider.com/weezer-islan...

OTTAWA, CANADA—The Vatican Museums will transfer several dozen Indigenous belongings—including an Inuvialuit kayak and ceremonial items—back to communities in Canada via a church-to-church process. Read more: buff.ly/UIuejRk CBC coverage: buff.ly/7wbXCfS

Me a year ago: "I guess grammarly is fine, if you have to use something like that" Me today: (Burns grammarly logo in the street)

Sorry, I’m still thinking about this. Did you know that, when taking an English literature class, the job of the college student is to NOT to read and think about the books on the reading list. But to pound out a very generic essay on James Joyce. And well, ChatGPT, does it better.

What an embarrassing thing to say out loud.

Please pay attention to what Grammarly actually is/does/tells writers before recommending it to your students.

JFC, how is this even constitutional? Why is no one working this through the courts to get this to stop? WHY ARE WE ALLOWING THIS TO HAPPEN?

If you come to my house on Halloween, kids will get candy and adults will get a candy with a free zine illustrated by @meganpiont.bsky.social

Gonna talk in entomology class today about how Jewish scientists forced to work in Nazi concentration camps secretly sent fake vaccines to the eastern front and managed to kill 4,000 Nazis with typhus.