Christmas is NOT over! Today is the second day of Christmas!

It's a great ruling... Requires police to record interrogations. Then there is this... 'The Hawaii Constitution’s due process clause “offers safety to Hawaii’s people that exceeds the federal constitution’s suddenly fluid protections,” Eddins writes.' Quite the turn of phrase.

What if Mar-a-Lago was the real Comet Pizza basement all along?

AI is a lack of consent machine and it’s design and use are mostly just normalizing us to us ticked cruelty

Congrats again to everyone for pretending the far right authoritarian party’s assault on higher education was really about fighting antisemitism

Mensch.

Earlier this year, ProPublica found that the sepsis rate in second-trimester pregnancy loss hospitalizations increased by more than 50% under Texas’ abortion ban. Here’s how we did our analysis. (Published Feb. 2025)

The new UCLA Hollywood Diversity study finds that almost 92 percent of streaming show runners are white, and 85 percent are male. h/t @sorayanadiamcdonald.com socialsciences.ucla.edu/wp-content/u...

A deeply dangerous — and blatantly retaliatory action against Colorado — by the Trump administration. NCAR is one of the most renowned scientific facilities in the WORLD — where scientists perform cutting-edge research everyday. We will fight this reckless directive with every legal tool we have.

The racism is blindingly white here, friends

I cried when I heard that Ahmed al-Ahmed, a Muslim man, stopped the shooting. Because that's how we stay safe - through solidarity, not adapting the violence of the oppressor.

this is a general warrant and it's specifically the kind of warrant the framers passed the 4th amendment to outlaw

Breaking - National Trust sues to stop Trump ballroom wapo.st/4oRY378

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Colorado and Hawaii Thursday in the latest lawsuits by the administration seeking to force states to hand over their unredacted voter rolls.

Their closing message to Indiana: change your maps to artificially benefit the President's political party or 'roads will not be paved' as punishment. They are openly saying this. Who would want to live in a country that works like that?

Isn’t this the government overreach GOPers always scream about?!? Good lord this is an evil administration.

An academic disliked an Oxford Very Short Introduction (145 pages) in his field so much that he wrote a 200 page book review attacking it. www.pierre-legrand.com/ewExternalFi...

Via Andrea Tinker: A University of Alabama alumni group has hit a fundraising goal for two student magazines -- one covering women, one covering Black culture and lifestyle -- to resume publication. UA suspended them last week, claiming they ran afoul of the Trump administration's anti-DEI polices.

Side note: There will soon be more actual academic literature! I invited every academic I know with any interest in Schedule to contribute to this forthcoming symposium issue. I didn't vet anyone's topic or demand any sort of artificial "balance." I just found smart people & gave them space.

a restaurant tried to ™ “aloha”

The darkest hour is just before dawn #Hawaii

Sorry, gonna be spamming this daily. I already buy so much out of pocket for my students, anything helps!

holiday view #Hawaii

This man spells culture with 3 Ks

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

Killing boatloads of poor people for *alleged* drug offenses while pardoning an elite trafficker...is the Drug War in a nutshell. www.cnn.com/2025/11/28/p...

sharing here b/c fam is deep in snow & ice and would not appreciate #sunnyMonday #Hawaii

Happy Unsubscribe From Every Marketing Email List Day to all who celebrate!

Finally getting some theological clarity on the ethics of reclining in one’s plane seat

One of the biggest barriers to implementing pro-housing policy is the folk wisdom that building new market rate/mixed-income housing increases rents even though study after study shows that the opposite is the case: building more housing lowers rents

From Dec. 2–6, 2025, more than 1,000 fourth graders and teachers will join 11 voyaging and sailing canoes from throughout Hawaiʻi along with education and community organizations for an immersive week of voyaging-based and ʻāina-based learning. #PVS #voyaging

Oh good. The wag the dog begins in earnest

This year we're adding to our portfolio and hosting the contingent philosophers list as well! Since they're just getting started, we're collecting submissions through our form as well. Just tick the box so we know that's where you want to be listed.

Now here’s the kind of news you drop going into a long holiday weekend. Maybe no one will notice. 🤡 @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

I once asked a bookseller at a large indie store how many people would have to buy a book for it to get the attention of the store buyer and cause an additional order and they said: Three.

9NEWS has obtained a copy of the Trump DOJ's request to take custody of Tina Peters. Colorado's Department of Corrections redacted a large portion of the request, claiming its disclosure would be "contrary to public interest."

tiny girl digs big hole #Hawaii

NEWS --> BBC confirms to me that they did edit a line out of historian @rutgerbregman.com's speech. It called Trump "the most openly corrupt president in US history." BBC also confirms this was done on the advice of lawyers. So Trump's threats worked. New piece: newrepublic.com/article/2036...

"I think all of these people should be tried for treason and hung. I think Jared Polis should be hung. I think Jena Griswold should be hung. I think Phil Weiser should be hung. I think they should hang by their neck until dead," said MAGA activist and Tina Peters ally Joe Oltmann

Had a dream that I was at a carnival & forgot to go to class … that I am teaching.

Infuriating to think that in just two months, Conde Nast's Vanity Fair hired Nuzzi while Conde Nast's Vogue absorbed and neutered Teen Vogue, laying off a number of talented writers who can write, and think, circles around Nuzzi.

…and then the rest of the White House press corps pushed back against the president’s gratuitous insult aimed at one of their colleagues? Oh wait! There’s no sign that anything like that happened! Because access beats out solidarity, every day of the week. people.com/donald-trump...

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

If this picture was of Obama, you know @FoxNews would do three weeks solid on why the flag was on the ground. At least three weeks

"we can't let Larry give speeches to venture capitalists anymore but he can keep issuing grades and 'mentoring' female students" wtf Harvard?

Keep cranking the tunes!