Leon Botstein absolutely has to leave Bard College

Every second he is still in the presidency is an abomination. Come on @bardcollege.bsky.social

I think the people at Columbia who enabled this, including the admin that Mahmoud Khalil implored to protect him and who at best did nothing, at worst entrapped him, should be ostracized.

ICE is currently holding around 80,000 detainees. Nazi Germany didn't reach this number in its formal camp system until 1942, nine years after seizing power and three years into the war.

The U.S. currently has more prisoners and a more sophisticated system of concentration camps than Nazi Germany had on the eve of World War II in 1939

Y'all, we did it. 💕 This crew of chaotic nerds has sent half a million whistles to people requesting them, for free. With your help! Need whistles? linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

Hi how’s it going? Find everything alright? Do you have an account with us? Last name? Do you need a bag? Will that be cash or card? How about a receipt today?

Miriam* fled enslavement in Mauritania in a heroic middle of the night escape - she found out she was pregnant with her enslaver’s 5th child here. Denied schooling she is illiterate. Today she lives in fear of being targeted by ICE. I’m raising money for her. Venmo is @Heba-gowayed.

I’ve been thinking a lot about this part from MLK’s Letters from Birmingham Jail; how so many “good” white people don’t want to think about race, don’t want to think about politics, don’t want to work for justice, and all the harm that negative peace has done

“We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality … Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds.” Letter from a Birmingham Jail

@littlepuss.net & @twodollarradio.bsky.social y’all have a fan here at Inquiring Minds

I could not even fathom a reason why a governor of a very blue state with pockets of red would be against measures to combat book bans. www.nyclu.org/press-releas...

Martin MAUSer and Howard RATner… c’mon

if only there were a well-known and oft-cited line from Shakespeare to express this sentiment

Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere

Announcing the National Book Critics Circle 2025 Longlist for the Gregg Barrios Book in Translation Prize

There’s a direct line from ‘just asking questions about women’s sports’ to criminalizing our health care, we warned you it was coming, you said it would be fine and you just had a few more questions.

New Yorkers, did you know Gov. Hochul could sign into law protections for school libraries any time she cares to? We don't need to wait. Let her know you want this done now. Come to Union Square on Monday and join me, @authorsabb.bsky.social and other orgs to remind her what's sitting on her desk

definitely should not have commuted in a blizzard but at least it was cozy at the store

idk man, must we?

humanities scholars today

humanities scholars today

the Sudan Solidarity Collective has partners in El Fashir distributing aid. give what you can bsky.app/profile/nisr...

forgot to post this

A Bard College student was kidnapped by ICE and Bard’s administration is advocating for his release and has created a website to assist the rest of the community in joining them. That’s what academic leaders should be doing for their students right now. www.instagram.com/p/DQKSTDJkeF...

Today I met by chance a customer who turned out to be the President of the @spencerruchti.bsky.social Fan Club — a contested and coveted position

taped this to the register and sharing the quoted post with the staff so everyone is prepared

yesterday a couple from Birmingham AL came into the store when I was wearing my @thankyoubooks.bsky.social hat ❤️

I took this picture of Olga and László in London in 2018. Congrats to Krasznahorkai and his translators, including George Szirtes and @ottiliemulzet.bsky.social, and long live a Central Europe free of dictators (foreign and domestic) and full of magnificent minds like these!

yesterday a customer came up to the counter with this book and I said “it *is* such a con,” and he said “yeah, it is. and I work in AI…”

Wtf. Two of the victims at the Manchester Synagogue were shot by the Greater Manchester Police. One of them died. www.irishtimes.com/world/uk/202... www.theguardian.com/uk-news/live...

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.

On this day in 1940, Walter Benjamin took his own life in the town of Portbou, after being denied entry by Spanish officials. “If the killing of Lorca was Fascism’s first crime against literature, Benjamin’s death was undoubtedly the second.” - The Listener

This is a disgusting, horrifying weaponization of the courts to continue the administration’s persecution of Mahmoud Khalil for free speech

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

if you read one thing today, make it this absolutely devastating piece from a fact-checker who quit the New Yorker bidoun.org/articles/hou...

A friend of mine co-owns this bookstore. This is not great. www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/d...

i sent an order their way and you can to: loyaltybookstores.com

Wild how political alliance with Zionism sweeps all sorts of wild statements about Jews under the table

In case you're still wondering how vile Sylvan Adams is on multiple fronts, this article has a run through of some of his grossest hits. 😬 And yes, it really is that simple. You can race as shiny happy PR for a genocidal regime OR you can race uninterrupted. Not both. 🍉 defector.com/you-can-adve...

"No bookstore that PW has reached out to has been as adversely impacted as @loyaltybooks.bsky.social, which specializes in diverse and intersectional literature ... Sales are down 65% since August 11." you can shop at Loyalty at loyaltybookstores.com or through Bookshop bookshop.org/shop/loyalty

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

got an @asterismbooks.bsky.social account for the store and I’m going on a spree. everyone what are your favorite books from asterism publishers??

I wrote something about writers from Chicago. open.substack.com/pub/meltedch...

I hope so

Hi hello we are finally on here! In lieu of introductions here’s a picture of our turtle, John. 🐢

Sally Rooney vows to support Palestine Action with BBC royalties despite terror ban