Yale President McInnis and the trustees are out of step with their faculty, including the current and present deans of the law school, in seeking a settlement from the Trump administration. Students and alumni also oppose. Who does Yale leadership actually represent? www.nytimes.com/2026/07/07/u...

Good for the Upperman family.

I like hearing out of the box solutions to the rampant & escalating systemized racism in our country. Good for the Upperman family.

UNC chose bigotry. Glad they chose to disassociate.

Education at a university is starting to sound like a side-gig.

Makes the blood boil

there is infinite money for weapons, non-educator vice chancellors of nothingness, and tech-grift corporate welfare but zero money for teachers, libraries, tuition

Instead of changing the language in their legacy scholarship, the Upperman family has decided to pull their $1M endowment from a North Carolina university They plan to move the scholarship to a school where it is likely a Black student will receive it

Shout out to Robert & Brodie, the tech wizards at UVA/ITC, who just patiently walked me through, step by step, the process of renewing the certificate that provides access to the databases (and so much else) at UVA. I’m sure some of you can do this on your own, but I’m technologically challenged.

"The decision by the university’s AAUP chapter to retain outside lawyers is the latest example of faculty members and other groups choosing to fight settlements with Trump in ways that the colleges themselves often seem reluctant to." @aaup.org @yaleaaup.bsky.social

The reduction of Black feminist identity politics to mere commodified representational cardboard cut-outs. It's ironic that these grifters say that 'voters don't want vat-grown people', when their image of 'real people' comes straight out the vat of their own imaginary!

you might also say that identity politics takes many forms, and isn’t simply a euphemism for “black people and women in politics”

old enough to remember a few years back, when a book called Elite Capture came out, and a few people asked its author incredulously why it went so hard in emphasizing that elite capture was not a special problem of identity politics in particular

“When Janet Mills, his chief Democratic primary opponent, produced tough ads featuring his comments about women and rape, it did little to change the trajectory of the race.” Yeah, we know. It’s because hating women is popular across the political spectrum!

My mom was a really really really good Gardener and I am not. But I have done my best to keep this area of the yard looking good because I just know she would strike me down if not. It's really pretty. I think so anyway.

It's been like that for a while. They even lock up the ice cream.

I confess I have reached this stage of career without understanding the difference between Decline and Unavailable in review systems. Is it that the former implies prejudice (like, “No f*ckin’ way!”)? If not then what?

The sucky thing about the ambiguity regarding McConnel's demise is that we can't quite celebrate yet.

what if a French person who didn't know anything about Appalachia made a menu focused on what he presumed a Brit would eat there

Chow chow is poor folks food, and it will never not make me laugh to see suckers paying gobs of money for it. Bless their hearts.

what. the. fuck. is this although the prospect of hearing posh brits try and pronounce appalachia is mildly amusing

AOC: “We should never take impeachment off the table — where we see law breaking, we should never take accountability off the table”

Yep. pretty much every asylum seeker approved in 2026 is a white person from South Africa. These pasty dudebros are not being hired to defend anything that looks like actual civil rights as we know them. They're being hired to deport (or do worse to) people.

more people need to see this

Walked into a Duane Reade at Penn Station to pick up toiletries, which I forgot in my haste to catch the train this afternoon. To my surprise, every last case was locked. I had to press a black button so some attendant could unlock the floss, the toothbrush, the pumice stone, etc. Well I declare!!

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It's like men don't get how often women are holding water for & protecting their abusers & being kinder to their victimizers than they are to themselves & sacrificing for them. That's how much men have convinced us all we owe them.

Every newscast should begin with, “Good evening. Once again, we are reporting that the Trump administration is little more than a glob of criminally driven fuck ups. In sports, the…..”

Yes but our girl @darializaforny.bsky.social did it 🔥 💅🏼

I hopped on IG live to talk about Platner, working class wish fulfillment, and why the left and center are stress testing the civil rights electoral infrastructure. May we never speak of him again. God willing, we might end podcasts soon so that option is off the table.

Trump on Iran: "They're liars, they're cheats, they're sick people, they're scum." Sounds like a perfect description of Trump and his administration.

Happy birthday to June Jordan, who would've turned 90 today

And why are we are no longer allowed to know if a publicly elected official of the controlling party is alive or dead?

A class act as always!

Nice to see. Wasn't always her biggest fan, but this young woman has matured considerably over the past few years. She will be back!

"Yes...They Were So Similar In Ability, It Could Have Gone Either Way."

She is a class act. She has the game for grass. She will be a winner but it wasn’t today. Great game

If Mitch McConnell and his family want full privacy, he should step down. But if he plans to stay in office, the public is entitled to clear information about his condition and his ability to serve. Read More : bit.ly/44hvCrB

It's so hard to believe that we have such a stupid & uneducated president...omg he needs to GO

Sick Work is such a sick title. Can't wait to read Emily Lim Rogers's new book on chronic illness.

My Uber driver proposed to me because he mentioned that Du Bois beefed with another big shot but couldn’t remember the name and I replied, “Booker T. Washington.” He said his wife would definitely understand. Man, I miss DC.

Especially egregious in light of WVU’s recent cuts to real academic programs: “Lawmakers’ move to mandate the Washington Center followed a high-profile $45 million budget shortfall at WVU. It resulted in the axing of 28 academic majors and hundreds of jobs, including faculty members.”

This is so true.

1. RFK Jr. has engaged in an aggressive campaign to discourage the use of antidepressants. He also has an ongoing financial relationship with a Scientology-linked law firm that has spent decades suing antidepressant manufacturers.

We know what time it is: “academic freedom“ and “intellectual diversity“ legislation coming soon to force students to take these classes against their will.

A person can have leftwing views about class, poverty, inequality, etc. and still have regressive views about women, POC, immigrants, LGBTQ people, in an combination. They can even have (or pretend to have) progressive views on all the latter and then be shitty/hypocrites in their personal lives.

Daniel Moraff has screwed this up more than once. He needs to be off-loaded ASAP

The Platner story shows how political consultants should not parachute into a state and pick a candidate. There were a bunch of solid Democratic candidates in the state. Maybe the elites don’t know better than the people who actually live in the state?

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