As an aside,"Born Fighting" is a such a perfect reference here, because it's a great example of how "whiteness" has been mythologized from pseudohistory. Hyperfocuses on decontextualized bits of narrative to support it's premise, and straight up ignores facts to romanticize the past

One of many, many infuriating angles of this era is how terribly sad it is that so many relationships are being irreparably broken. Like, I'll never have an honest relationship with my dad again. He'll most likely die racist. Sure, he was always susceptible, but not like this. And so many others

Did railroad companies also market their product by saying no one would ever need to know how to walk again? Did universities remodel their infrastructure around using trains as the primary mode of social functioning across all career paths? Do trains actively make people dumber when used routinely?

Question for #academicsky and/or #lawsky: does this development impact or potentially impact the specific anti-dei policies for states like Texas? (E.g., SB17)?

Okay sorry one more shot:

Ethics cancelled at TAMU. A little on the nose.

Texas A&M decided to publicly cancel my Ethics class, and share a false statement that I declined to provide information, which made it impossible for [them ] to request an exemption. See for yourself, if this statement is true. They are getting creative!

I am deeply frustrated and ashamed of my alma mater, Texas A&M. Ordering a professor to remove or alter course content violates core university principles. It is the behavior of a censorship-driven institution that undermines academic freedom, learning, and intellectual progress.

The FEDS drugged and shot Fred Hampton in bed. Philly cops blew up a building in the 1980s and most people don't even know the MOVE bombing happened. I think you're downplaying how normalized US death is.

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

The year is 2003. I’m 17 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil. The year is 2026. I’m 40 years old. I’m watching Democrats fail to appropriately oppose an illegal war for oil.

During the first trump admin, I worked on a project examining immigration detention center audits. The FOIAd docs had a lot of redactions, but so randomly and haphazardly that it was barely an impediment. I was expecting a similar kind of incompetence with this

1. Opening crawl explains that in the decade since the battle of exegol, the power vacuum left by the fall of the new republic and first order has seen the galaxy descend into anarchy. Sectors of space fall victim to despots and gangs, or seal their borders to all if they have the resources

"If we can salvage one bit of light from this moment—maybe even just a spark—it’s that while Trump’s rule is punishing, it is not impenetrable. We can extinguish his hate by being the light."

I deleted mine after a week when it became clear there was more work put into the ads to buy paid accounts than any actual teaching content

This 2025 AJS article further debunks the millionaire flight myth www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/...

GTFO with this mess.

One of the many bitter ironies in this is that they lumped prohibitions on teaching on race and gender into the same section as antidiscrimination policies. Half of the policy now bans the teaching of why the other half exists in the first place

My secret? I'm always boycotting Starbucks.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

And despite this clear bias, I only ever heard negative perceptions of NYT from conservatives in my field research during this time

Members of the public can submit comments. Deadline is 11:59am CT, include "agenda item no. 4.2" in the email to [email protected] www.tamus.edu/regents/publ...

Texas A&M University board of regents just approved a ban on academic instruction of race and gender

Vote them out Vote them all the way the feck out

Less than a week after shocking upset wins across the country by Dems Broad consensus that republicans are to blame for the shutdown and the associated harm Uncountable opportunities to capitalize on public sentiment And Senate Dems just give up entirely.

Nobody owns the libs like the conservative dems own the libs.

i’m ready for something different than whatever the fuck this is

There is nothing more flattering than someone taking time to read your work, except people taking time to engage your work. Thanks @amcneely.com and @contexts.org .

Failed country.

So glad to be able to write this. Thanks to @davidyamane.bsky.social for the inspiration of the original article, and big thanks to Contexts blog editor @elenavanstee.bsky.social for her help and guidance in the writing!

I'm hearing these SNAP benefit updates: -100% Washington state -100% Michigan -100% California -Partial Illinois -Partial North Carolina -1/2 Vermont (Note that not everyone in these states received money today because their typical day of the month for benefits may not have passed yet)

lmao

God this makes me so angry and sad. The fact that higher Ed is pushing AI into the lives of students at every turn is irresponsible and unethical in every way.

Call me controversial, but technology that leads vulnerable people into crisis and even holds their hand as they die by suicide should not be endorsed by schools and universities, we should not be giving discounted subscriptions to this monstrous tech to young people AT ALL

How is this not the story of every Democrat team right now? Literal low hanging fruit

Lectured on this as part of a unit on inequality and space/place. Really enjoyed talking about the "paradox of secular iconoclasm" wherein proponents of religious symbols in the public sphere have to actually argue for secular meaning, and secularists insist on religious meaning

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Given this and Trump's past comments about groceries (he calls the term "old-fashioned"), there is a legitimate, I'm-just-asking-this-as-a-factual-inquiry-purely-based-on-the-president's-own-rhetoric question to be asked: Does President of the United States know what getting groceries, like…is?

Creating civic spaces generates civic engagement...who knew???

Also of broader note: Leo says "many people who have lived for years and years not causing problems have been deeply affected by what's going on right now." That appears to be a reference to the large number of immigrants detained in the U.S. who have no criminal record.

NEWS: The Trump admin's decision to suspend SNAP benefits due to the shutdown has been blocked. In two cases, both judges found the government action is likely illegal. Although a judge in Mass gave the admin until Monday to reverse course, a judge in Rhode Island issued a TRO from the bench today.

They would never

For Natives in more rural areas, there are food distribution centers for commodities which low-income Natives rely on because they are situated in food deserts. These centers will also NOT be distributing food, so this isn't just a scatter of individuals in need but entire communities.

I love that this is literally just we realized we weren't connecting with Black people so we tried talking to more Black people and Black people like us much better now

starting to wonder if pod is really interested in saving america???

Oh (emphasis mine): “University of Texas at Dallas Professors Rosemary Admiral and Ben Wright endured violations of their constitutional and contractual rights due to the actions of the Defendants, which include *religious and associated ancestry discrimination*…”

Two professors at the University of Texas at Dallas are suing the institution, as well as Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton, over their arrest at a pro-Palestinian protest. Included in the lawsuit is a photo I took of one of the professors before they were arrested.