And hes gonna sign it and we're gonna change the lives of thousands of contingent faculty and the education of tens of thousands of students

A movie couple that would definitely have a podcast

"Every year since 1994 crime has gone down, and every year Americans think it is worse than last year" this is not true news.gallup.com/poll/697124/...

It’s that time of year!

This is NUTS www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

And which crossword puzzle author will have the guts to write the clue, "Queen Elizabeth's most dreaded sitcom?"

The longer I spend in digital humanities, the more I am obsessively drawn to analog technologies and convinced we must actively and intently teach them or the digital world loses its color, texture, and depth.

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto https://theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-cocktail-at-sam-altmans-home-claims-he-was-following-chatgpt-recipe-for-risotto/

I maintain that among the media's biggest mistakes has been continuing to ask Trump questions as if he's a normal guy instead of asking things like "Can you explain who Jesus is" or "Describe the process of pumping gas"

Delivery time from Arkansas to DC has got to be atrocious, no way she's getting a tip in the first place

This woman is a handpicked Trump supporter from Arkansas and she is less anti-trans than the median Atlantic columnist

Today, AFT and @aaup.org launched a National Higher Education Platform. Colleges and universities "drive economic growth, create new knowledge and expand opportunity for students seeking to build a better life for themselves and their families" — @rweingarten.bsky.social www.aft.org/press-releas...

Haven't updated this chart in a while. Seemed like it was time. Some takeaways: WI Dems have had 7 wins since 2018 with margins bigger than 10%. Compare that to WI Republicans that have had 4 wins... total! >>>

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

NPI "any" vs. free choice "any", the new schismatics

"Orban conceded so therefore Trump is no threat to US democracy" is quite the admission of not being a serious person. Similar to "Jan. 6 didn't work so the extended two-month campaign that preceded it was not an attempted coup."

I find most of what these guys have to say here pretty silly, but the recommendation that faculty should have a voting presence on governing boards is a serious and good one (also, sometimes a no confidence vote is in the entire board, and that's a good thing!)

Also, not to be pedantic, but "We operate under U.S. law" is not true because of any company rule

In general, (re)orienting education wholly or chiefly to specific perceived market needs is always going to produce disaster once the near term passes. It also eviscerates institutions that might otherwise help people weather change, intellectually and in other ways

Caves of Altamira, one couplet before the first chorus (after "on the sea and in the sky"), Purdie plays a fill that ends in a simultaneous open hi-hat and snare hit

Orban achieved a level of authoritarian consolidation unthinkable here and they still successfully got rid of him. Never let the doomers have the final say.

Orban was in for 16 years you idiot

"Democracy is a system in which parties lose elections" Again, I'll note how incredibly extreme the GOP is, not only in absolute terms, but relative to other far right parties in rich democracies, which quickly concede elections <all the time> w/o a fraction of the post-election nonsense we endure.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

Richard Thompson, who can somehow summon menace from a chorus pedal

“American higher education is facing down a process of authoritarian capture that threatens the long-term viability of our system of higher education.”

Listening to You? Me? Us?, whose two discs were more or less constantly in my 5-disc cd changer for a couple years of college, and realizing that I am now the same age Richard Thompson was when he made it

Trump: we will immediately begin the process of tightening the vise around our own balls

Self-Portrait in Three Colors is such a gorgeous tune

I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.

call me a liberal nationalist but I feel proud to export an American culture of space exploration, multicultural immigrant cuisine, the Black American music tradition, football basketball baseball, NY Jewish comedy, land grant universities, and social libertarianism

I saw this the other day and wanted to throw up

A corollary is that when allegations come out and numerous heavies immediately abandon the accused, it's because they all already knew

Me playing Super Mario Bros at age 10 when I lose all my lives on the Hammer Bros section of World 8-3

What triumph exactly are we celebrating with this arch, brainchild of a president who has torched every form of American power known in our lifetimes?

Again I feel we need to point out that she won EVEN IF YOU REMOVED DANE AND MILWAUKEE COUNTY VOTES

And in the rare instances where university leaders found peaceful, deescalatory resolutions to protest encampments, they were not so subtly forced to resign by since-terminated system presidents

I have seen one good example of this plate

There’s no possibility of “restoring public trust” until the far right authoritarian party stops lying constantly about us & the media stops stenographizing those lies in article after article about what happens on our campuses. This isn’t a problem <we> can solve ourselves bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Iranian negotiators explained to Trump that a toll is a kind of tariff, and he was like:

WE DID IT! Our illegal union @uam-umd.bsky.social is a lot less illegal today. 12,000 contingent faculty in MD just won the right to collectively bargain. Life-changing win for teachers and students. Only happened bc thousands of people worked together to beat our bosses in the statehouse.

Also grossly unethical for a public college trustee to accept such a large speaking fee from a public university in another state

Bitterly ironic to see outlets continue to mischaracterize Rothman as head of a "25-campus system"

Of those three, two have not sought reelection (Roggensack due to age, R. Bradley due to certainty she would get clobbered) and the third is up next year (Ziegler). Roggensack and Bradley now both replaced by liberals

Ben Wikler had a long-term, successful plan to flip the court, but what really set the fire under WI Dem activists was the court nearly throwing out enough ballots to steal the state from Biden. One GOP swing vote prevented that.

This is roughly double the margin of the SCOWIS landslides of recent years

What a result: A Democratic-backed candidate has won the mayoral election in Waukesha, the biggest city in the notoriously conservative Waukesha County. Alicia Halvensleben will be the next mayor. She defeated a GOP state lawmaker.

I work the polls in suburban MKE and usually there is a stream of people showing up in MAGA merch. I saw one person wearing a Trump hat in our polling place during my 14-hour shift.

If your last name is Davis and it is after 1865, there is one name you are absolutely not allowed to give your child

How many Republicans not named Donald Trump or Ron Johnson have won a statewide election in Wisconsin in the last nine years? Just one: Brian Hagedorn in 2019