We talked about running these numbers at UM soc when it became so obvious that women TAs got more complaints for the same classes. Glad someone tested it formally.

The government doesn’t let this version of White Christmas get a lot of commercial play in retail because it’s simply too good and people would get down too hard in public

Merry Christmas from Yoshi and his new squirrel plushie that Santa Paws brought him

Robert Reich's observations about Walgreens are all pertinent and grounds for boycotting the chain. Here's another reason: The store sucks. Spotty inventory. Understaffed. Auto-checkout doesn't work. No thanks.

“Get vaccinated—right away—no matter if you were vaccinated 6 months ago—the theory is, keep doing it—for if it takes it shows you needed it—but the only safety is to apply the test, once a year. Mine takes splendidly—arm right sore.” - Mark Twain, Christmas, 1871

That frustrated me too, so I found it elsewhere. Here you go!

Clues: Wizard of Oz (new movie): Aug 1939 Red Ryder BB gun: 1940 Decoder ring: has 1940 date Dad is a war vet but WWI not II

Looking for a Christmas miracle for a kitty (aging parent situation) for Baltimore pals: (1/2) ""My mom can no longer keep Angelo (alas!!!) and we are looking to rehome him. Angelo is a total sweetheart. He is 6 years old, gentle, playful, friendly, and a lovebug."

All dogs are good dogs, but these are REALLY good dogs. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/24/w...

Merry Christmas to all who are celebrating! Best wishes from me and this tiny bundle of joy and feathers who reminds us to appreciate the little things

Have a good one, News Eaglets.

All I wanted for Xmas is a print copy of @aurspiers.bsky.social's *brilliant* new book, ARCHIVING THE PAST -- which is the #1 must-read film studies monograph of 2026!!!! Congrats Aurore!!! 📚😍🎁 @ucpress.bsky.social www.ucpress.edu/books/archiv...

You will be visited by three spirits

As a Jew, it’s fun watching the administration post Christian nationalist messages while also saying they are doing everything they can to curb antisemitism.

My greatest gift to myself this year was realizing that “writing retreat” can literally just mean finding a hotel room for yourself to write in, so I found one during T-giving, packed a cooler full of food and wrote for four days straight, barely leaving the room. It was incredible. Happy holidays.

Merry Christmas!

A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle

Wishing you and yours a happy Winter Solstice, with many Yule blessings. Here's to the returning sun! #yule #solstice

THIS. THIS, THIS, THIS FOREVER.

That article has brought the bitter white male academics to my page. It’s the day before winter closure and I don’t have time for them, so I’d like to just refer them to the below post.

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Ladies, do you like Having a credit card Going to college Wearing pants Voting Leaving a man who hits you Not worrying that divorce means leaving your kids Not being called sugar tits in the workplace THANK FEMINISM

Great discussion with historian Rusty Hawkins, author of The Bible Told Them So: How Southern Evangelicals Fought to Preserve White Supremacy How white Southern churches declared school integration “defied God’s design.” Decades later, many of those congregations champion “color-blindness” instead.

Even though the board just voted to approve the name change yesterday, this illegal defacement has been in the works for weeks.

I posted my latest DAME article on FB. Basically no one seems to have seen it. Pretty sure the algorithm is already de-boosting links and anti-Trump political content. techcrunch.com/2025/12/17/f...

I made an Instagram post about the Levy recommendations. It’s long, so I’ve only put a few slides on here. As always, there are organisations better placed than me to respond @transactualuk.bsky.social @transsolidarity.bsky.social @goodlawproject.bsky.social www.instagram.com/p/DSchXjZDPe...

I’ve been thinking a lot about how Twitter was a place that helped a lot of journalists careers, that was a place where the most random interaction between a celeb and a fan could happen, where artists got a shot at being well known for their craft. Elon Musk deserves all the hate for destroying it.

📢 Chose promise chose due ✨ Je tirerai au sort parmi les follow + repost quelqu'un qui pourra choisir parmi mes pièces disponibles Tirage au sort le 19/12 au soir 𝘗𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘢𝘶𝘹 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘴 𝘴𝘪 𝘦𝘯𝘷𝘰𝘪 𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘴 𝘍𝘳 𝘮𝘦𝘵𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘦 bsky.app/profile/alud...

In 2014 during the net neutrality wars, Obama voiced his support for net neutrality. Republicans REPEATEDLY, for YEARS, (falsely) claimed this was an illegal, unethical affront to FCC independence. 11 years later they now insist the FCC has no independence and serves at the whims of our mad king:

The U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights at the DoJ is recruiting second-rate racist lawyers.

In this #newblogpost, I discuss the relationship between Afrofuturism and Africanfuturism: how they help us understand and respond to law's inadequacy, dystopia, racial injustice, appropriation of trauma and the algorithmic racist bias of digital technologies. folukeafrica.com/afrofuturism...

In a moment of intense pressure for the BBC, Roger Mosey makes a timely and thoughtful case for why impartiality remains one of public service broadcasting’s most important purposes. 🔗 ukandeu.ac.uk/impartial_ap... 🧵👇 #impartiality #impartialityproject #BBC #accuracy #mediastandards #mediaethics

Brilliant doc director Christine Choy came to more screenings than any other filmmaker I can think of. When she came to see your film, you were going to get A LOT of thoughts, expressed enthusiatically. RIP Christine. LEGEND. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/m...

This has the votes to pass with bipartisan support, but Johnson is going to adjourn the House again to delay it as long as possible just like he did with Epstein.

We rarely do book reviews, but this is one that we made an exception for. 5/5 Stars :) buff.ly/avuXhtl

A 35-year-old man was stabbed on Tuesday near the Chabad Lubavitch World Headquarters in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, in what the police are investigating as a possible hate crime.

my latest is on the odd confluence of unitary executive theory with a president who is mostly AWOL from the business of governance (gift link)

And in 2014, they did the same to Obama www.theguardian.com/us-news/2014...

You'll remember that when Biden delivered an address in 2022, networks refused to air it because they said it was "political" www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/0...

Trump regime violates law and congressional power by refusing to acknowledge independence of agencies ground.news/article/fcc-...

“Chairman Jordan made an excellent decision in not allowing Jack Smith to testify publicly, because had he done so, it would have been absolutely devastating to the President and all the president's men,” says @raskin.house.gov. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Patriarchy is the actual menace to children that conservatives pretend queer people are.

I am reminded of Toni Morrison's essay On Whiteness which appeared in this collection of essays which was published by The New Yorker in the aftermath of the 2016 election. www.newyorker.com/magazine/201...

It's a slippery slope from "illegal aliens" to legal immigrants to naturalized citizens to people whose parents were born somewhere else to anybody who learns a forbidden concept or searches for the wrong phrase on the internet. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/ana...

I am reminded of Lincoln's famous letter to Joshua Speed in 1855 quod.lib.umich.edu/l/lincoln/li...