The University of Alabama chapter of AAUP stands with students against the closure of [alice] and Nineteen Fifty-Six magazines.

I’m old enough to remember useful news conferences, but just barely. @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social is on target:

Sign, please! sign.moveon.org/petitions/re...

These are two of the best student-run mags in the country-- on the same campus, no less-- and the university is cowering on them. Cowards, the lot of them.

It’s a sad site to see one of the alma maters standing in their own schoolhouse door.

You would be correct if you guessed the school is protecting equity by canceling two publications serving female students and black students. Because Orwell. thecrimsonwhite.com/125358/news/...

Bondi released her memo in July. Why did UA wait until the last week of fall classes—when students are maximally stressed, focused on final papers and exams, about to disperse for a month-long break—to surprise them with this announcement? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/u...

The Crimson does it again. Harvard can't stop tripping itself up over Epstein.

Yes, Northwestern and @medillschool.bsky.social, go hide in shame. You realize that no one will want to give you money to turn around and give it to Donald Trump. My alma mater is dead to me.

Hey cable news -- the White House press secretary is lying. You don't have to take this live.

Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.

We need to follow the money. JP Morgan CEO Jaime Dimon and those Wall Street bankers must testify under oath about their financing of Jeffrey Epstein.

Wizened Millennials sneering at Gen Alpha: I told you the old ways are best (Gen X, petting its moldering set of the 1983 World Book Encyclopedia: Soon. Soon.)

Amazing Gallup finding reported by @jonathanlarsen.bsky.social today: “The U.S. is stronger as a nation because it has people from different races, religions and cultures: 84%.” MSM can’t get enough of “concerns” about multiculturalism. So how bout reporting this?

Quiet, Piggy.

the Harvard Crimson called Epstein a “child sex offender” while the Chronicle of Higher Ed called him a “disgraced financier” and that pretty much sums up where we are with higher ed journalism

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

This could also be about journalism. The idea of fighting back against the smears was rarely taken seriously, capitulation was widely accepted and treated as both inevitable and right

At the other place, we all put #BLM in our name-thingies, which is still a good idea. For the moment, I’m going with the pig. Would love to see so many that we get anguished MSM takes about whether it’s fair and smart and going low.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

As they say, every accusation is a confession. The man is a pig.

I admit I clicked fearing NYT would somehow normalize this. I am happy to say these reporters met the moment. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/u...

I mean, look, I'm not a reporter, so who am I to talk? But on a day where the president both just called a woman reporter "Piggy" and is celebrating someone who had people bone saw apart one of my colleagues, I might just be a little ready to defend my colleagues and profession. But that's just me

"Quiet, piggy!"

“… Summers cannot be trusted to advise our nation’s politicians, policymakers, and institutions — or teach a generation of students at Harvard or anywhere else,” Warren said. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Ladies and Gentlemen, may I present Karma?

New at Media Nation: The Plymouth Independent names a Pulitzer winner as its next editor. dankennedy.net/2025/11/07/t...

What happened, @nytimes.com? Why not stand by your original headline? Because it’s absolutely an accurate representation of this trash conversation. To publish this at all should be a fireable offense - but to publish it as women’s rights are being decimated is deeply immoral, bordering on evil

Pulitzer Prize photo right here.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

When my youngest was maybe 3, he had Martian friends and “knew” some astounding “facts.” When we asked how he knew something, he would say, “I know it in my brain!” It was funny. Then.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

China Agrees To Purchase 11 U.S. Soybeans

“I’m Bill DeBlasio. I’ve always been Bill DeBlasio"

Speaking as a dude who has a yearly family reunion, "aunt" and "uncle" fill a role, what the fuck are you supposed to call all those other older people you're vaguely related to, do you think there's someone running around with an org chart saying who's a second cousin thrice removed or something

Iconic source of R.E.M.’s “Automatice for the People.” www.redandblack.com/eat-drink/we...

Can you imagine covering Sports the way we cover Politics? "Both team claim victory in Sunday's game. "Coach disputes referree's defintiion of 'Field Goal.'" "Analysts differ on whether ball crossing goal line constitutes a touchdown."

Democrats should run a TV ad in Mike Johnson's district, thanking his constituents for taking the hit on the SNAP shutdown and other government services they use all so Mike could keep the Epstein Files from coming out? "America's Richest Pedophiles Appreciate YOUR Sacrifice!"

🔥 🔥 🔥 from @aoc.bsky.social

An upside!

And I would like to challenge this person to get a real job

I have a very bad feeling about this...

Profiles in cowardice. “Behind the scenes, however, CPB and PBS officials signaled they would not object to pulling funding for NPR, which has drawn the lion's share of Republicans' accusations of liberal bias.” www.npr.org/2025/10/27/n...

Prosecutors gonna ham it up sometimes, but journalists for Pete’s sake don’t need to use these quotes about the gambling busts. “Your winning streak has ended,” Nocella said … “Your luck has run out. Violating the law is a losing proposition, and you can bet on that.”

At least the correspondents dinner would be fun again. From @jefftiedrich.bsky.social

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

If given the chance, I'd lose my legs all over again to serve in our great military. The leader of your party is a five-time draft dodger who has fired more Veterans than any other president in our history. Square that circle then tell me who really hates our military.

For sure some of the legacy media outlets are downplaying the protests because they’re aligned with Trump, but I think an even bigger factor is how many elite journalists have a patrician disdain for the idea that politics can happen in the streets and not just the CNN green room.