Greg Jaffe Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt on the byline with a source on background saying the dismissal was tied to refusal to comply with Hegseth’s directive to remove the 2 black and 2 female officers from the promotion list to one star general www.nytimes.com/2026/04/02/u...

Chag sameach! to those who celebrate

A federal judge has knocked down the core of President Trump's executive order barring federal funding for NPR and PBS, saying it violated the broadcasters' First Amendment rights on its face.

We are looking for a 3-year postdoc to work on a self-defined research project in environmental history that places electronic or digital technologies at the center of its historical inquiry. More details in the announcement linked to below. #envhist

“Web Archives and Historicizing Rhetorics of Science, Technology, and Medicine: Reflecting on Some Pragmatic and Ethical Considerations” — excited to have this article out with Dr. Miles Coleman ⁦‪@rowanuniversity‬⁩ and Dr. Emma Bloomfield ⁦‪@unlv‬⁩ pubs.lib.uiowa.edu/poroi/articl...

A mural on the Bellevue College campus depicting the city’s heritage as an immigrant community became a center of controversy in 2020 when an administrator censored references to the city’s white-supremacist past. Now it’s coming back as a permanent installation. open.substack.com/pub/davidnei...

It’s the one year anniversary of Binding Media!!!

Saturday’s joint US strikes with Israel against Iran cement a 180-degree turn from MAGA orthodoxy

Glad that my research is proving useful 🙃

The @InternetArchive x @GrayAreaOrg Trillionth Webpage Commissions bring new net․art to life from the Archive’s collections. Rodell Warner’s "Ghosts of the Internet Archive" creates generative “ghosts” from Web 1.0, layering lost materials. More ⤵️ blog.archive.org/internet-arc... #Wayback1T

This is my favorite part. Because the answer is one of the book's core interventions. The answer? Yes, both.

#studentpressfreedomday is coming up -- and it matters now more than ever: splc.org/2026/02/intr...

From @theathletic.com: The Milan Cortina Olympics were the most-watched Olympics since the 2014 Sochi Games, NBC reported. The average daily viewership was a 96% increase over the last Winter Olympics in Beijing in 2022.

This account of a scholar being targeted by a violent extremist group is chilling. Also chilling is the UNC System Office's lack of genuine concern for our safety. Because their real goal is to put academic freedom on ice. 1/ @aaup.org www.wunc.org/education/20...

I don't know who needs to hear this, but William Beebe was 55 when he made his first legendary descent in the Bathysphere.

Oh, the full coverage of this exchange is even worse: 19thnews.org/2026/02/epst...

Wow

Leaving aside the first amendment issues, I take it that any criminal statute worthy of the name would require evidence that he had reason to know that his license to be present expired at the instant his speaking time did...

"Societies are defined by their libraries — by what we hold, what we lend, what we borrow and return, the knowledge we create, values we defend. An attack on the library sector is an attack on public knowledge, and it includes the reading public — you, me, all of us." — @shannonmattern.bsky.social

March 27, 1936: Portraits of the Führer are raised on official buildings across Berlin. This one at the Potsdamer Railway Station reads "Freedom - Peace"

miss my PNW friends and family and mountains so much 🏔️

Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?