"The Man in Me" playing, about 5 minutes in, over the opening credits of THE BIG LEBOWSKI

This is going to shutter so many academic programs. It's not going to free up spots for US students, it's going to kill the programs that would otherwise have spots for them

This summer, we kept the lights on all night, every night, at five soccer fields across New York City.

This was the scene at Calvert Vaux Park in Gravesend, Brooklyn Tuesday night.

I did not see this unhinged statement previously. These people really do not understand this country

I would like to reserve judgment but this really seems extremely embarrassing for all involved

We (faculty at USC) took on an institutional behemoth with all the money and clout on earth, and we WON. We won our union. We're the biggest private-university faculty union in US history. Trying to make people care about this, challenge level IMPOSSIBLE

I wrote about Texas A&M's fall course-review process @chronicle.com. Some top-line results: Rhetoric and Film? OK, as long as discussion of critical race theory is removed. Contemporary Sociological Theory? Don't advocate while teaching. LGBTQ Literatures? Not allowed. #HigherEd

The World Cup third-place match provides a platform for the "I see England, I see France" joke template not seen in decades

Dang they really got a category for everything

As a parent of a kid at summer camp I am not loving the utter lack of direction/guidance from the State of Wisconsin in the midst of a historic air pollution event. I guess we're on our own!

Hard to comprehend the juicelessness and omnishambles of the non-Hong cohort of WI Dem gubernatorial candidates

“Compared to what?” is always the essential question when asking about critiques of higher education & universities, whether we’re discussing declining trust, freedom of speech, viewpoint diversity, or any of the other things.

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS in Wisconsin's Democratic primary: Lt. Gov. Sara Rodriguez is suspending her campaign for governor.

Ditto every effort to diagnose and remedy declining trust in higher ed. It's like writing a report on smoke pollution in Wisconsin while ignoring every other state in the region.

Also: who was betting on it on the prediction markets?

AQI 500 and we're on our second water shutoff in the last 24 hours. Infrastructure Week comes to Milwaukee

Oops! urbanmilwaukee.com/2026/07/14/r...

What a great article not only on faculty workloads, but how little our salaries actually factor in to most university budgets. A few highlights. First, our salaries are falling:

I think we just witnessed the international soccer equivalent of Game 6 of the '86 World Series

Dear lord

There's an oblique reference to the pension scandal having launched careers, but no follow through to mention that it was Scott Walker who rode this thing to the County Executive's office and beyond

After all, who is Bojack but λP.P(Bojack)?

"Isn't it humiliating to not be able to answer this question?"

The a priori 9 o'clock theory, I love it (this would unironically make a good paper topic or exam question in an intensional semantics unit)

Relatedly, protagonists need limitations. R2-D2 can fly and Yoda can jump hundreds of feet in the air? No thank you

An incredible euphemism here for “the government is doing illegal discrimination”

MLB is like the Democratic Party in that they’re deeply concerned about popularity and all their actions seem to be aimed at capturing some mythical person who has never become a baseball fan and will probably never become a baseball fan meanwhile baseball fans are yelling PLEASE JUST PLAY BASEBALL

I don't watch a lot of televised soccer so I will just ask, tentatively: is the guy calling the World Cup matches on Fox considered… good?

I respect France's commitment to not working on a holiday.

4 seconds is an eternity. If you're first in line for a green arrow you need to be locked in. Part of the social contract.

“Your horror has been stolen from you” is a 10/10 sentence.

I pointed out last week that Title IX would be next on their list. The journalist I said it to was very angry at me. It's very predictable after reversing Roe, affirmative action, and allowing race based discrimination against Black voters, plus Thomas's concurrences trying out new arguments.

or to be even more specific it would be a story that took over the entire front page of every newspaper

McConnell gave Johnson up for dead and pulled late money from his race in 2016 and Johnson has despised him ever since

The thing about the gubernatorial primary here is that Hong seems to be the only person actually running. All of Rodriguez's emails get intercepted by my spam filter and no Barnes messages have reached me.

To say the Wisconsin Dem gubernatorial primary situation does not inspire confidence would be a huge understatement

In a sane world the findings here would be enough for a unanimous impeachment and conviction: the President attempted to steal nearly 2B from the US

There are only a few hours left to comment on the proposed OMB rule that would eviscerate American science. This is the single best summary, and guidance for how to write a comment, that I have seen. PLEASE submit something, even if it is only 2 or 3 paragraphs.

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Watching Trump try to do foreign policy in his second term has been kind of like watching Scott Walker run for president. Completely inept when off friendly turf.

Reporting on OMB's sweeping politicization of federal grants tends to focus on science / health research. But as I note in this piece for @crisesnotes.bsky.social, the rule is a huge threat to *intergovernmental* grants and state/local fiscal stability. www.crisesnotes.com/russell-voug...

functionally every single person on earth was seeing a night sky with brighter and clearer stars than basically anyone on earth can see today, until about 150 years ago, due to light pollution.

The Police (Outlandos comes closest)

This is like thinking Wayne Gretzky said you should skate to where the puck is now

There's a reason our union hasn't agreed to the university's suggested changes on academic freedom for our new cba

What's maybe most remarkable in retrospect here is that this was published well before the 2020 election

Former Committee A Chair here. The proposed change in this post and the following one is particularly egregious. No reason to do this unless you want to stifle faculty speech about what your admin is doing

Nor indeed that the Grand Jury wanted to indict Sen Graham for multiple crimes relating to the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election. bsky.app/profile/matt...

“Culture of impunity” is right. The demand is to never hold public figures accountable for wrongdoing, not even verbally when they’re already beyond the reach of human accountability and won’t hear the criticisms and jokes. The legacy must be sanitized, or current elites might feel less impunity.