memories of Scientific American, and testimony to the destruction of publishing by these godawful asset-stripping media companies www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/06/good...

"Tributes Pour In for Senator Lindsey Graham", then a dramatic blank space on the landing page of NYT.

Jeffrey Lawrence has the evidence for @annieabrams.bsky.social & @mattseybold.bsky.social sense that post literacy is esp a US problem—the Spanish are reading like mad. avenuesofamericas.substack.com/p/people-in-...

unionize chicagomaroon.com/53110/news/u...

Lindsey Graham spent his career delaying and eroding human rights for LGBTQ people. He co-sponsored DOMA, voted for the federal marriage amendment, against the repeal of DADT and the Respect for Marriage Act, opposed employment nondiscrimination, and compared gay marriage to polygamy. What a life.

'Several disciplines including Arab & Islamic Studies, drama, education, modern languages, English, history, film, politics, philosophy, religion and theology could all see teaching staff reduced by up to a quarter. Anthropology teaching provision could halve.'

Our Grok version of 19th century straight imperialism

deskilling in professional school, you can ban it www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

It is something which is being done to us by a long, purposeful dismantling of institutions that support mass literacy. I have essay coming later this year, but basics are covered in this talk. Deliteracy is not symptom of algorithmic tech, the tech is being developed to assist deliteracy.

Second, Rose Horowitch has written an essay which is decidedly about U.S. literacy. And that’s fine & good. The Atlantic has always been a decidedly nationalistic magazine. American deliteracy is a BIG DEAL! But the framing makes it seem like this is a stage of human development. It isn’t. 4/

I’m especially interested in students who are choosing to write their own papers and artists who are supporting one another and organizing against AI-generated art.

great piece by Rebecca Solnit about why Graham Platner must go - rape as 4x combat as source of PTSD, rape as crime against democracy, rape as obvious terrible crime, rape as. www.meditationsinanemergency.com/pod-save-pat...

American women won the World Cup 4 times....

✊QM UCU supports branches currently on strike!✊ All over the country, the sector is facing mass redundancies, mergers, and deteriorating working conditions. But they don't take on an isolated group of workers! We stand together and support each other across branches! (1/2)

A handful of universities are determined to destroy all the others. It's that simple. That would end the Burnham regionalism agenda before it'd even got going. Unfortunately, no-one even seems to know this and our governance structures are so pitifully weak there's not even anyone to tell.

I'll say it again, as I do almost every day in some context: the way policy is set up right now, most British universities will either radically downsize or close in this Parliament or the next. Only a small elite of c.10 to 20 will be recognisable as univs at all. How do people not know this?

The UK has now said it will actively harm or damage: *Chemistry *Nursing *High-end physics *Languages *Astronomy *Creative arts *Theatre and performance *Cultural industries *Europe-level science The UK has lost its mind. 🇬🇧

The Cape Verde national football team given a heroes' welcome back in Praia after their historic run in the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Cape Verde became the smallest nation by population to ever reach the knockout stage of the tournament, all without having a single yellow card rescinded. #worldcup

“After it ended, the Belgian team’s social media account had a message to the U.S. on Twitter: “Overturn this.” Perfect. #WellPlayed #Belgium

".. the small Quebec town ... has become the first municipality in Canada to officially recognize trees as living beings with inherent rights ... declaring that trees deserve protection, including the right to life, natural growth, integrity, and regeneration" www.facebook.com/groups/29053...

Ellman: You want to fire people over DEI? You know that disabled combat veterans are DEI hires? Did you know there are people I worked with who couldn’t work other jobs because they had tbi, or were missing limbs, or had chronic health issues caused by their service to this country?

today in destroying higher ed, the country's second largest export (not for long now!), the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties economic sabotage AND epistemic warfare www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...

They hate him because he’s wildly popular and, more important, because he’s doing a great job.

More women have nearly bled to death during miscarriage under Texas’ abortion ban. Experts say the trend paints a troubling picture of the harms of unnecessary delays in care. “This is striking,” one doctor said. “The trend is very clear.” (Published July 2025)

On America's 150th anniversary, Kahlil Gibran sent a message to young Americans of Levant origin (Greater Syria): "And what is it to be a good citizen? It is to acknowledge the other person's rights before asserting your own, but always to be conscious of your own."

All of this. This is why the vanishing of material support for reading and thinking is such a massive crisis for the historical profession. 🗃️

Absolutely insane that Cape Verde — a country of 500,000 — played Spain, Uruguay and Argentina…and lost to none of them in regulation. Easily one of the greatest performances in World Cup history.

getting ready for a marathon of classic films celebrating America's independence: Master and Commander, Barry Lyndon, Braveheart, The Duellists, The Draughtsman's Contract...

really very good @vtfeminist on the sociopathology of the SCOTUS anti-trans cases @TheProspect prospect.org/2026/07/01/s...

Remember: this will *not* help the big university names currently getting into trouble, where the blastwave is surprising people + which will increasingly shock non-experts over the next 2 years. Most of them have few staff in the teachers' pension scheme. This is a lifeline thrown to the post-92s.

Oh, now suddenly people notice! Absurd, pathetic. It's been going on for years. Wait until the Big Names suddenly piling in see what happens next - and where it happens. Serious failure of journalism on almost every front of the university crisis. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Sam Altman's opening bid for a government bailout of AI. www.ft.com/content/7c80...

ProPublica and @startribune.com interviewed 20 people who said they were sexually abused, almost all as children, in OALC communities, along with parents of victims as young as 3. Many of the victims said church leaders pressured them to keep quiet.

Hundreds of careers were affected by the grant cancellation, and restoration 2 years later can't reverse the effects of their loss. The NEH staff is now less than half its 2025 size, and the survivors have to process new grants and restore the canceled ones. www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...

As called on TV Trece in Paraguay:

The arm on NBA star Kelsey Plum, who throws a rolled-up jersey to her dad sitting in the upper bleachers. www.reddit.com/r/AbsoluteUn...

New York City residents are celebrating the reopening of public pools — including Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who jumped into the water while wearing a suit at an East Harlem pool on Saturday. Outdoor public pools will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. every day through Sept. 13.

Little did we know, this was the direction in which the whole world was headed.

Yes, a key Tory mistake that enshittifies British universities

I think we just passed oops.

What the Vought OMB proposes to do to the federal grant process is the same as what conservatives want to do with ”viewpoint diversity” in higher ed: substitute political ideology in place of peer-review in the evaluation of knowledge. open.substack.com/pub/asheeshk...

When I first spotted this butterfly a couple of hours ago, the first thing I had to do was stop my hands shaking. It's one of the rarest butterflies in France, a vanishing species in much of Europe. It's the mountain Apollo (Parnassius Apollo). Just in time for #InsectThursday #lepidoptera

The ICE agent who killed Renee Good is named Jonathan Ross, and he should be indicted. www.syracuse.com/news/2026/06...

Very true. #BookSky

Here I am on the corner supporting the woman rally in Tehachapi 6=24-26. I am on the corner of the famers market every Thursday and I attend all the rallies I can. I just don't have the resources to travel far. However making a statement here in a small red town is at least something.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court rules 6-3 in favor of the Trump admin on Temporary Protected Status, blocking the lawsuit on jurisdictional grounds, allowing DHS to strip over 350,000 people of legal status even though they utterly failed to follow the required legal procedures.

Peter Navarro on Maria Bartiromo's show lies with impunity that "it's an indisputable fact" that Fauci "created that virus" and "killed people"

So jealous of the lawyer who had this walk into their office..