one of the things that gets me about so many of the pundits who pontificate about "higher education" when they really mean a handful of elite private institutions is that most of them live within driving distance of either a community college or a non-selective public institution

This made me nostalgic for the glory days of FB and google search, ca. 2009-2015. Both now suck. Are You Experiencing Posting Ennui? www.newyorker.com/culture/infi...

Not sure anyone really follows this account, but I’m back yakking about dementia & knowledge collapse

The 19th century abolitionist movement utilized a diversity of tactics and engaged in constant critical internal debate in the mission to end slavery. The movement needed speeches, lawyers, lawbreakers, newspapers, and armed resisters. History teaches us that freedom requires all of the above.

"I believe ardently that nonviolent resistance is in the big picture and the long term the most effective strategy, but that doesn't mean it must be polite, placid, or please our opponents, not least because nothing ever will and they'll lie and distort no matter what."

Yes, that’s right. The <public> University of Wisconsin - Madison now receives only 15% of its funding from the state, even as the legislature retains near-total regulatory control over us. Unfunded mandates & the privatization of public universities are No Good & Very Bad & we shouldn’t have them.

www.zocalopublicsquare.org/how-real-id-... Powerful story with a 100-year-old hero

In times of collective sorrow we gotta have collective love: P-Funk tour 2025 with an 83-year-old George Clinton joyfully leading

Not something you see in every university parking lot!

This week’s yard sign

Full suite of projections seen:

khanna.house.gov/media/press-... Ro Khanna is your inspiration for today

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o... Yes

The worst part of the letter terminating the new IMLS grant my co-PIs and I had won: it “no longer serves the interest of the United States.”

If you, like me, are looking for firm details on what’s happened so far at NEH, here’s a list of programs that are marked as discontinued or cancelled on the website. This is a snapshot - I’m sure this the impacts will grow as more cuts unfold throughout the day. #NEH #DigitalHumanities

If the left had been indoctrinating people, MAGA wouldn't exist. They would have been shut up & shut out. It flourished because the left believes in democracy and people's freedom to think as they choose.

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Absolutely no reason whatsoever for this kind of behavior. They could have literally just handed her a Notice to Appear in immigration court. There is zero (ZERO) requirement to take her into custody. The law is clear that arrest for someone who isn't "mandatory detention" is a MAY not a SHALL.

“this future sense is missing from the president and his political movement. Set against it…is a “radicalized politics of apocalyptic orientation” that “happily sacrifices the prospect of a future for a present-tense ‘victory’ or redefines the sacrifice of the future as victory itself.”

This is who we sent. Never committed a crime. A soccer team logo and a single picture of the rock and roll horns sent him to be tortured in El Salvador.

The end run against this fascist attack on the opposition is: dissolve the Democratic Party and re-form the opposition. The party’s brand is shot anyway. Call it the Freedom Party, draw the red-state discontent around the Reps’ attacks on personal freedoms.

This is so good

This brilliant piece on the wreck of the public university by Pete Coviello www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

@uofcalifornia.bsky.social leadership, please take note. This is how it’s done. ⬇️

I’m still stacking, or what we used to call blogging, about caretaking two parents with dementia: a disease perhaps even more feared than cancer. #alzheimers #dementia #caregiving

Since the president has signed an EO making English the official language of the United States, here is the first non-English copy of the Declaration of Independence, printed in German just days after July 4, 1776. We have always been multilingual. cdm16274.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/coll...

“We can disagree and still love each other unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist” James Baldwin

someone else watches the preposterousness so I don’t have to

I’m not a graphic designer, but I made this anyway

a cube poem for today

At least someone with sense still works at the NYT

“If you are confused when you see Musk narrating a serious civic affair like a video game side quest, understand that you are not the intended audience. What looks like chaos to you is actually clarifying content to someone else.”

NEH also being forced to goosestep

My first Substack. It’s about this intense period of caregiving for two parents with ALZ at a moment when half the country seems intoxicated by lies and madness

liar liar pants on fire #f-elon

I'm starting $HumantiesCoin. It's a blockchain ledger keeping track of all the uncompensated labor involving "opportunities." One can just remit payment as a "token" of appreciation.

The word "systemic" is on the banned list, so if I study systemic inflammation & health, flagged. If I study political science, flagged. If I study trauma, flagged. Keep in mind that the largest mental health provider in the country is the Veteran's Administration, but we can't study trauma now?

They’re actually trying to cancel historicism ⏰

“Historically” is among the grant keywords flagged to pull federal $. Please share

That gutless vulture Stephen Miller is behind this

¡Adelante LA!

They do not want immigrants. OK, February 3, will be a day partially without immigrants, their family, or friends. Don't purchase anything and, if possible, do not work.

When is the March on Washington Against Dictatorship?

No foreign power has ever posed as massive and immediate a threat to the United States as the current administration.

Guys when Chris Rufo and Trump say "We're destroying DEI, we're salting the earth underneath it" and they're talking about regulations that reach back to 1965, they're not talking about corporate diversity trainings. They are talking about civil rights

Your heart is suspect. When people say “go with the flow” or “follow your heart”, run away. Our task is to train the heart, not follow it. The path of growth is always met with resistance. Worry not, there will come a time when the heart can be trusted.