Cornell agrees to include Bondi's anti-DEI/anti-trans memo as a "training resource to faculty and staff" (see: www.justice.gov/ag/media/140...)

Farmers' Almanac says it will cease publication after 208 years, citing financial challenges

For perspective: There were 8 special elections for Mississippi Senate yesterday and 2 for Mississippi House. Mississippi Democrats flipped 2 of the 4 GOP-held Senate seats that were on the ballot and the sole GOP-held House seat that was on the ballot. Democrats held the other 5 seats.

"This win was only possible because the Voting Rights Act ensures fair representation. If the Supreme Court dismantles these protections, we risk silencing the very voices that made last night’s historic outcome possible."

"The surveillance tools are still operational. The war authorizations haven’t expired. The emergency powers remain open-ended. The only difference is tone. Trump made no pretense of national security. He ran the presidency the way Cheney designed it — only louder, and without the lawyers."

my parents were in town this weekend and I played catch with my dad for like 30 minutes and just talked and it was the absolute best time.

"In almost every situation, faculty members and administrators responded to outside pressures for the dismissal of dissenting faculty members in accord with what they believed would best protect or enhance their school's reputation." Chile, the more things change, the more they stay the same

To prep for the higher ed policy class on censorship next week, I'm rereading Schrecker's No Ivory Tower. Buddy this intro has it all! SCOTUS jumping on the bandwagon, disregard of first amendment rights, why congressional hearings played such a key role, how private companies aided the government.

closing thought: yamamoto is a wizard

see y’all in the spring. baseball is this fun all year.

lol, damn biebs.

Bieber, Straw, Gime, and Ernie in the game at the same time 🥲

myles straw walking this off would be the funniest thing

me too, Ernie.

cranked.

😮‍💨

Cleveland legend* Ernie Clement *😏

Let's remember that earlier this year, the Trump administration canceled 94 million pounds of aid that was supposed to go to food banks. Soon after, the USDA abruptly ended its 27-year practice of collecting national data on hunger. Again, there's nothing "accidental" about the suffering to come.

Just so we're clear: This administration's blatant, unapologetic choice to deny food to 42 million people—to have the money sitting there and say, "No, we'll let them go hungry"—is simply a more overt display of why homelessness and poverty keep worsening in this country. Because it's *decided.*

This is the year. Go Spurs Go.

I had such a meaningful night in Chicago with Eve Ewing at the National Public Housing Museum, and I'm grateful to @katieprout.bsky.social for this piece on the event and THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US—about housing, state violence, political imagination, and refusing the myth of dispassionate journalism.

i have more to say on this, but for now: what a doozy.

And yet had the nerve to cut this ad calling Abigail the sandwich bsky.app/profile/adam...

BREAKING: SCOTUS defers any ruling for now in DOJ's request in the Nat'l Guard deployment case out of Illinois. Instead, the court asks for briefing about the term "regular forces" in Section 12406 — a matter raised by @martylederman.bsky.social. The means the TRO stays in effect for now.

The White House has fired all six members of the U.S. Commission of Fine Arts, the independent federal agency that reviews design plans for monuments, memorials, coins and federal buildings. www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...

“Real working-class politics does not assume the worst of working-class people’s impulses. It does not launder their concerns for political points. It certainly does not argue, directly or indirectly, that a little racism is a good thing for reaching them.”

Folks need to understand what it did to Black enrollment after year ONE. I laid it out in the forthcoming book… And READ Adam’s The State Must Provide. We didn’t need to guess the impact. Black folks HAVE KNOWN, HAVE LIVED IT and the pages of history do not lie unless you move to scorch the record.

it’s almost as if all of the things folks argued would happen after race-conscious admissions were limited - precipitous declines in Black enrollment, among them - are happening. weird how looking at history can tell you a lot. who would have guessed it.

denial could only last so long. broke down and bought league pass again. go spurs go.

Thank you all for tuning in for Dr. Banks's lecture and our panelists for their compelling discussion! We'll be sharing the recording on our YouTube and website soon. #AERABrownLecture

With millions at risk of losing SNAP in the coming days, a reminder: hunger doesn't happen in isolation. When food assistance disappears, families use rent money to eat. Then come evictions and homelessness. Housing, food, healthcare—it's all connected. Cut one thread and the whole thing unravels.

"The college closed abruptly. “It felt like a death,” Ms. Burnes said. Not just for a community, but for a vanishing kind of education." www.nytimes.com/2025/10/22/o...

not good linkst.dallasnews.com/click/421473...

re-upping my conversation with @jemelehill.bsky.social from last July on all of the things the cozy relationship between *legal* betting, networks, and sports has changed www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/arc...

this was one of the single greatest performances I’ve ever seen from a spur. the all around impact. i’m in shock.

This is Spurs culture 😭😭

he’s the greatest player to ever touch a basketball.

Look at this shit 👽

I have run out of words for wemby and it’s game one

The Spurs are objectively playing _good basketball_. I could cry.

I’ve seen enough: once we shake this free throw curse, I’ll see yall at the parade.

victor wembanyama oh my god

NEW: Lauren Stokes, the University of Mississippi employee who lost her job for resharing a social media post criticizing Charlie Kirk, is suing Chancellor Glen Boyce. After her firing, she says she and her husband had to close their restaurant and flee Oxford for weeks due to threats.

This is the year. Go Spurs Go.

It is an absolute scandal. An embarrassment. A tribute to the long history of state terrorism that codifies power. Shame, shame, shame.

In response to anti-DEI legislation in the states, universities have started to hire more white male faculty. This increase starts before bills are signed into law. Universities appear to be anticipating anti-DEI legislation and preemptively hiring more white men.

"This is the executive branch trying to circumvent and go around Congress, plain and simple … to change the agreement with higher education.” — @adamhsays.com

“Ayers’ true legacy lies in what it reveals about power. From the beginning, plaintiffs insisted that equity required more than dollars, that without a voice in governance and autonomy over programs, any remedy would fall short. They were right.”