Climate change is bringing us new hybrid species www.earth.com/news/climate...

“The AHA has sent a letter to Texas State University president Kelly Damphousse registering strong objection to the university’s decision to terminate the employment of Dr. Thomas Alter without due process.” www.historians.org/news/aha-sen...

Nothing says “land of the free” like armed agents of the state saying “show me your papers if you want your daughter back” bsky.app/profile/nbcb...

“The Final Notice is thus a restriction on artists’ speech, and one that is viewpoint based, because it assigns negative weight to the expression of certain ideas on the issue of gender identity.” www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Cambridge is *hiring* in post-1920 US political history and/or history of the US in the world. Closing date October 27. Please spread the word or, if you're an early career scholar in those fields, TELL NO ONE but please apply! networks.h-net.org/jobs/69140/u...

they’re putting Kimmel back on the air. I would now like to see the same amount of outrage for the firing of professors for their statements

Did you know Reverberations of Racial Violence (2021) is available in Spanish and FREE to download? ¿Sabías que Rebrotes de Violencia Racial está disponible en español y se puede descargar gratis? ➡️Download: libros.uanl.mx/index.php/u/... ➡️Learn more: refusingtoforget.org/1919-canales...

#OpEd: "We can’t bury the deeper, driving forces behind why this is happening. This phenomenon is only possible because of the outsized power that state agents — ICE, police officers, prison staff — have always had to abuse and control women and victims' bodies." Read the full story here. ⬇️

Thanks to the Texas Tribune for this comprehensive, fully reported account of the firing of the Texas A&M Instructor for teaching “gender ideology.” www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

60 years ago today, the Senate passed the Immigration Nationality Act of 1965 by a vote of 76-18. 16 of the 18 ‘no’ votes came from the South.

Good question

At the Nuremberg trials, Karl Dönitz was convicted of war crimes for the sinking of civilian vessels. This is not a complicated question, it's been illegal for centuries.

The ethics of extra-judicial killing aside--a phrase I never thought I would write--if these boats are really carrying drugs, why not capture one and unravel the entire drug network rather than killing the crew and destroying all the evidence?

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

"Gender studies scholars and experts on domestic violence have long known that gender-based bigotry is a gateway to violent extremism. It’s time for national security officials to catch up, says @milleridriss.bsky.social" 19thnews.org/2025/09/how-...

Check out Justice Eddins’ complete repudiation of the Roberts Court here. It’s worth reading in full. It’s quite brave—and exceedingly rare—for a sitting judge to speak so candidly and scathingly about SCOTUS’ partisan contortions of law, history, and fact. www.courts.state.hi.us/wp-content/u...

Maria Ressa going on the Daily Show and being like, "we tried to warn you [colonizers] this shit you created is bad and self-destructive [but you never listen brown people and women]" is basically the story of "western civilization" in a nutshell

One person familiar with the federal investigation said that “thus far, there is no evidence connecting the suspect with any left-wing groups.” www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Protesting UC Berkeley handing Names of Faculty and Students to Dept. of Education

Important story! Gift link! The EPA's Office of Water has been told to stop publishing its research. They're studying PFAS and microplastics, how to best test drinking water for lead, and to test for naturally occurring arsenic in groundwater. By Amudalat Ajasa and @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

He fired the JAGs for the services in the first week of Hegseth's tenure. This was always where it was going. They don't want lawyers stopping their war crimes.

Bad diagram alert

How can we convince children that education is important when a large sector of American society, including our president, rejects science, historical evidence, and a basic respect for knowledge and expertise? www.theguardian.com/education/20...

Historians, community leaders, activists and Philadelphians gathered Saturday at The President’s House, located at 6th and Market streets, to oppose potential changes to the historic site’s exhibit on slavery during George Washington’s presidency. whyy.org/articles/sla...

Man follows National Guard around D.C. playing “The Imperial March” from “Star Wars” bit.ly/46wjEem

Does this mean that the University condones the theft of academics’ work by companies training LLMs?

How is the university planning to offset the environmental impact of its AI use?

Might as well just sell the entire Bodleian to OpenAI so Sammy Altman can burn it to feed his monster machines, and then build a moated castle with the spoils to keep out the plebs and enjoy that dosh

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Pretty clear illustration of "you may as well stand up for what you believe in, they're coming for you anyway."

This is what it looks like when ICE violates our First Amendment rights.

outside the detention/“processing” facility in broadview, illinois: a crowd of protesters, some of whom showed up before 5 am, is heckling ice agents arriving to work. a few minutes ago, special response team agents came out to push protesters away from the driveway. pepper balls already flying.

We’re protesting outside the Broadview ICE facility and an agent came out to tell us to go away. We said we’re exercising our First Amendment rights so he shot the ground with pepper balls and said, “Your First Amendment rights are on the sidewalk.”

Whenever someone says "I'm all about free speech BUT . . ."--they're not about free speech.

The USD keeps falling against the Mexican peso daily chart and 4hr chart

Finally, the last witness to testify is Robert Lynch, a professor of economics, who has carefully studied previous large-scale deportation efforts and determined that they do not lead to job improvements for Americans — in fact, it's the opposite; they lead to FEWER jobs.

My effort to call into question the right of the Trump administration to dictate how the Smithsonian teaches history, given its governance structure and that not all its funding comes from the federal government. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

🧪 New National Academies report concludes that rising greenhouse gas levels imperil public health and the 2009 endangerment finding “has stood the test of time.” Game on. Gift link: Top Scientists Find Growing Evidence That Greenhouse Gases Are, in Fact, a Danger www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/c...

This.

We are supposed to replace teachers with AI, and it turns out that Meta's LiveAI cannot even deliver a simple recipe.

OK, you can't watch Kimmel tonight, but this is every bit as funny.

For the second time tonight, I must ask: is this real?

The House is holding hearings on a bill that could give Sec of State Rubio the power to revoke US citizens’ passports based on their political speech. The bill’s vague language includes anyone who “has knowingly aided…

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

If you're anti-antifa, doesn't that make you fa(scist)? www.axios.com/2025/09/18/t...

No law authorizes the president to designate something as a domestic terrorist org (only a foreign terrorist org), so it will be interesting to see what law he invokes here (if any). “Domestic terrorism” is more of a concept than anything with a legal underpinning.