Thank you @unlawfulentries.bsky.social for doing this! So many egregious errors in the Trump v Barbara dissents.

This is a good piece.

New York, 1970. Gay Liberation Front Protest.

Aka reason #2752 that Black history is indispensable for understanding politics, rhetoric, and what universities are doing right now.

As William Chafe taught so clearly, “civility” is usually more of an obstacle to justice than a means to it.

A bit late for Father's Day, but I found myself remembering this piece today. Written in an earlier season of our discontent...

You probably think you know the dimensions of ascendent fascism, but without reckoning with this you really don't. I didn't. 30+ year sentences for making zines. No one is safe.

One HS grad about to launch. 🚀

To me, progressives ARE moderates. When you call everything you oppose political “radical” or “extremist” or socialist or communist, you will miss the moderates that are right in front of you. Makes me think moderates are not what they really want at all. Hmmm , Is moderate code for status quo? 🤔

A university that called the cops on its own peaceful students is now set to be represented by one of them in Congress

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

Did you, NYC? You still have this afternoon & evening.

A group of about twenty educators at my high school read and discussed this book over the course of a couple of months. We agreed: this is essential reading for educators.

I don’t know if he intended it to be this way, but Brian Goldstone wrote a book that every education policy person and every educator needs to read. This is why: 1) This is a book about children. They are there in nearly every scene, and every setback in their families’ quest for a home is…

Grad student heavy neighborhood makes for good home wifi network names. Today: IPA & APA What is WiFi? WutangLAN

The politics of white grievance doesn’t just unite the right. It also tames the not-right. In my world, for example, social scientists are THRILLED to finally bench critical scholarship. same stories from every profession , every club, every institution — they’re all enjoying this.

Super cute Father’s Day content, with a surprise Knkcks tie-in, too. From my forever-fave young journo @lilyericksonseltz.bsky.social

Élite NYC private school with part time fellowship for advanced grad students and recent PhDs. It’s complicated… but in this job market everyone should be throwing whatever they can at young scholars and I appreciate Chapin for doing that and recognizing what they can contribute to a HS community. 🗃️

Gloating a little bit.

“I am made to sound like an attachment to a vacuum cleaner,” CSK explained, “the wife of Martin, then the widow…all of which I was proud to be. But I was never just a wife, nor a widow. I was always more than a label.” So every day for the next year, I’m going to post a quote or fact about her.

More public childcare, Yay!! Calling it “2-K” as if everything kids need is school, Yuck!!

I am so sad to read this. Prof Pacheco-Vega used social media to model and mentor, on how to be a researcher and how to be a human in academia. I added parts of his blog to my research class syllabus just last term. Descanse en paz, Profe.

THEY ARE PLAYING RIGHT NOW, Y'ALL. RIGHT NOW. If you tune in RIGHT NOW, you will see them playing. This is not a drill. PLAYING.

I said no to a thing! Please clap! I am 52 as of last week and yet still, and again, and again, trying to make good habits of protecting my own time and valuing my own priorities. 🕺 🕺 🕺 🕺 🕺

Please join me and the amazing Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, Mia Bay, and Rosemary Ndubuizu for a virtual discussion of our books and the fight to live and move freely. May 7th at as part of the Schomburg's Conversations in Black Freedom Studies series. www.eventbrite.com/e/unequal-ho...

Headlines saying this Supreme Court decision "curtails the use of race" in voting are going to make me have a stroke. It empowers white supremacy. It does not curtail the use of race.

Charlottesville used bookstore’s got game

(June 2025) "Enslaved Black Children Were Educated Here. Now the Public Can Learn the History. The Bray schools were founded by the Associates of Dr. Bray, an Anglican Church missionary organization, to teach Black children to read and to follow the faith" #America250 www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/u...

a real honor to talk to @dailyyonder.bsky.social who do some of the best reporting around on rural political economy

1) You feed the machine a corpus accumulated from a racist society full of express bigotry and underestimation, 2) ⬇️

Happy birthday, love!

🔥 🔥 🔥 I am so excited about this appointment. Shawn(ta) Smith-Cruz to become our archivist, New Yorkers. What could be better than community archiving experience + commitment to activating the archive to help people "reclaiming their own position within New York City history"!

It seems that Yousof is being punished for doing exactly what we want social scientists to do: to use their expertise to improve public understanding of the world. His real crime seems to be to do that while also being Iranian. You can sign a petition by using the link below.

His wife: "We believed that the United States welcomed international students, professors, and academics from around the world....We believed that freedom of speech was real. We believed that the U.S. was moving closer to its democratic ideals. But now...none of this seems to be working anymore."

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

I want the discussion of “declining trust in universities” to incorporate some acknowledgment of the increasing number of censorship policies being enacted in higher education.

Today’s office view. Not bad, NYC.

Oh wow, this is huge. You used to have to go to the Library of Congress to get most of this.

I think before you build an Arc de Triomphe you should be able to identify at least un (1) triomphe

I don't usually follow the Popes too closely - I'm more of a Rabbis fan - but I gotta say, I can't remember the last time I saw them put up these kind of numbers.

Some universities are letting Republican politicians dictate what professors can teach in the classroom; others have faculty who mostly vote Democrat. "Polarization" is not an honest description of this situation. "Viewpoint Diversity" is a project to worsen it. Please don't use bullshit language.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

Good first step. Now keep increasing the tax until you hit 100% on everything over 10M.

This will make your morning better, all you teacher/writer/thinker people. 🎁 Don’t Use A.I. to Do This www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

Why do they usually look like they are trying to remember if they picked up the milk?

“What we need today in the onward march of humanity is a public sentiment in favor of common justice and simple mercy.” — Frances Ellen Watkins Harper #tdih 1875 on need to organize to challenge white supremacist violence. #TeachReconstruction Read ⬇️ www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/fr...

Best way to count down to summer!

En route to Chicago. I like American Airlines’ new marketing campaign. 😉

Chag sameach. Here’s a little reading that grew up with, in the Haggadah a family friend wrote. I thought this was a “standard” reading for Passover. Turns out it was pulled by that family friend as she compiled, from the original letter itself in a trunk or drawer somewhere.

April fools only works when reality isn't this stupid.