Get ready for Trump to tell SCOTUS that murdering Epstein was part of his official duties as president, and them saying "sounds good"

wtf

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

every woman acutely understands this face.

If only our society took major crimes by rich people as seriously as minor crimes by poor people. Ideally more seriously. But as seriously would be a big improvement.

"Christopher Newfield called for academics to 'seize the means of knowledge production' by working 'step by step ... toward direct control of universities.' ... I think the most imperative, but also the most apparent pressure point for academics looking to act upon his call is education technology."

I’m on @llassabe.bsky.social’s wonderful podcast, American Campus, talking about University Keywords and how the book orients us towards shared study. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/a...

unconvincing defence from Bailey - the real question is why is the Bank of England increasing the costs for government by actively selling gilts when NO other large central bank does it. www.ft.com/content/620c...

You can see why Bessent is floating coffee tariff relief today. ☕️

@latimes.com gives a UC Berkeley protest story to an Atlanta-based correspondent who helps the Right tell a liberal-anarchy story on a nothingburger protest at a TurningPoint USA event. A dumb diversion given what's actually happening to UC www.latimes.com/california/s...

Me to my boss: I can’t guarantee productivity. And don’t even ask me about quality.

Looks like the House will vote today or tonight on the continuing resolution spending deal. Use the link below to write your Democratic Congressperson to vote NO unless the bill protects crucial health care subsidies: actionnetwork.org/letters/5ae8...

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

I’m pretty sure my book contract with Oxford University Press (which grants me the copyright) did not include permission to feed my book into a proprietary AI database.

I keep seeing regular Americans taking more risks every day to fight tyranny, want, and cynicism than I see from the opposition party, and I imagine many of those regular Americans are asking themselves what the value proposition of such an opposition party is, really

Too dumb for words

Get in, everyone. Starbucks workers are gonna win.

New evidence on how ICE is affecting student learning https://drive.google.com/file/d/1erU5Oe0vJYdVjuqQi4sfhUGxS0BGjWl8/view?usp=drivesdk

Happy University Press Week! Have you told your university press how much you love them lately?? 🥰

Meranze's new post at the Remaking blog: UC officials are making technical changes in personnel policies in a way that could allow them to set academic freedom aside when they perceive it to conflict with their institutional interests. Know the fine print utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/uc-m...

"building class consciousness is encouraging individuals+collectives to orient themselves to a horizon beyond that of immediate selfdefence: to instill belief in the plausibility of alternatives. why the utopian impulse to abstraction can never be fully exorcised" newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

I don't want to be around when the owner of these glasses comes back to find them.

Historically, the theory that you reach the masses by running to the center is built on a candidate who won 43 percent of the vote in a three-way race

Schiff: "The president -- 'I'm going out to play golf.' One thing that is so shocking to me is that they're appealing to the Supreme Court for the right to cut off food from people. Who does that? Who works so hard to cut food from people who need it right now? The cruelty is part of the policy."

I know this is pedantic, but Kim Davis was not "jailed for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses." She was jailed for contempt of court because she refused to follow a court order (she had stopped issuing all marriage licenses). NYT makes it sound like the Woke Police broke down her door.

BREAKING: DOJ goes to SCOTUS trying to stop a district court order that USDA pay out full SNAP benefits this month. The First Circuit denied an administrative stay, but has not yet ruled on the stay request. And, CNN reported that USDA is already processing payments. DOJ went to SCOTUS anyway.

Dems bash UVA settling w Trump—“While we understand the tremendous pressure the University has faced…we believe UVA capitulated to legally dubious federal overreach without mounting necessary constitutional challenges.” www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

Elon’s forever legacy

If you are wondering what Labour plans to do to British universities, I wrote a piece for you! isrf.org/blog/labours...

Open UC Sytemwide Town Hall on Friday Nov 7!

A spooky listen, full of higher ed ghosts ‘n’ ghouls.. but also rich with fresh ideas & possibility for the humanities. Thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for having me on & @cnewf.bsky.social for his vision!

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

extremely same

The perfect Halloween vehicle doesn’t exi…

Wow. You have to love how electric the Rogers Center has been for every big moment this postseason.

In a lecture at UCLA on Wednesday, I discussed Michael Meranze's theory of communities of scholars. It starts with the scholar's charged bond to their subject, radically unlike market rationality, and ends with seizing control of working conditions. Here! utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/11/line...

It’s the first of the month. That means tenants in Los Angeles have officially been on utility strike for 6 months. They are refusing to pay their RUBS (ratio utility billing system) utility bills while they demand transparency for their high monthly bills.

On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.

Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them.

this unremarkable knob routinely sets unholy gobs of money on fire to pretend his boomer sneaker ad company is innovative and interesting, and the press just endlessly normalizes it

children no longer being safe trick-or-treating on american streets because of the president is where we're at

18. The number of people I took care of today. Many of which I had to coordinate care with other specialists and ancillary groups. 6. The number I discharged, many of which go to facilities that need very specific orders and doc to doc calls. 2, I admitted in between taking care of everyone else.

Solidarity with BL workers on strike

"Hispanic support for Trump is now cratering everywhere. The administration's goal is they avoid the polls for fear they will be brutalized or abducted by ICE." — @snipy.bsky.social

I made an image of all the art posted by US DOL on X since approximately Labor Day

Best summary of the Labour White Papers toxic recipe for UK higher ed. All hope of useful gov involvement dashed. The sector will need to save itself

"The right to culture is fundamental, and its revocation has grave consequences for the texture of daily life." #arts #artists #arteducation #artistsupportartists

Harvard's bizarre slashing of doctoral education does major cuts to the educational core. This piece has good data and suggests an (unconscious?) link to Trump's trade school vision. www.chrisbrunet.com/p/harvards-p...

Those with sharp eyes might detect a subtle difference in NYT play last month of an event in one city, w 100,000+ attendees, versus play this morning of some 2500+ events w many millions of attendees, in all 50 states. See if you can spot it! /s Then you can find today's story on p A23