Joe Lonsdale is the key billionaire behind the Bari Weiss faux uni of Austin.

Food insecurity is high in queer communities, and the longest federal shutdown in U.S. history worsened an already untenable affordability crisis. This holiday season, LGBTQ+ groups are stepping in.

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Eric A. Vázquez's States of Defeat is out now! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...

Page One in Iowa.

Turner Classic Movies is airing an 11-film exploration of trans identities in movies hosted by the authors of Corpses, Fools, & Monsters (great recent history of the topic) starting tomorrow at 8

wonder if one of these interviewers is responsible for that article “how women ruined the workplace”

They asked a Google AI for Ed engineer “how he planned to enact his vision of the future, one where AI filled classrooms rather than emptied them. ‘The professors themselves,’ he said, would be responsible for figuring that out.” They promise utopian and make others responsible for delivering it.

Uh this is enormous

what’s not being said in some of the press about this case is that teaching this content is a *required* component of social work’s accreditation. this *is* work force readiness for a social worker, per the people who sign off on that credential….

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

The Des Moines school board is holding a special meeting now to discuss the situation surrounding Superintendent Ian Roberts, who was detained yesterday by ICE. Livestream: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKZL...

We’re very honored to announce that the editorial office of TSQ, the leading scholarly journal in trans studies, has found its new home at the Clayman Institute for Gender Research! gender.stanford.edu/news/leading...

this is an incredible exchange between bernie and RFK and I think everyone should watch it. bernie doesn’t allow RFK to claim the “anti-big pharma” mantle. he explicitly calls out big pharma as corrupt but also calls out rfk as a dangerous unhinged crank. this is the way youtu.be/GmGRDi1h6zs?...

"Community organizing is both a science and an art — a science because it is grounded in a systematic understanding of power and oppression, an art because it demands creativity, empathy, and adaptability in order to build relationships and trust." - James Forman

just a millennial college professor with a dream that my forgiveness will come thru next year 😭😭😭

Out now! Summary Report: Workshop on the Geopolitics of Critical Minerals and the AI Supply Chain www.ias.edu/sites/defaul... The report highlights how AI’s expansion is tied to critical minerals, energy, water, land, and labor—and why interdisciplinary approaches are essential for AI governance.🧵

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She was also endorsed by the state’s only LGBTQ advocacy organization. The consulting class can sit this one out, y’all

Congratulations to poet Eli Clare, who has been awarded Yale's 2025-26 Brudner prize. He will give two lectures in September in NYC & New Haven.

1) the claim these are “academic” terms is laughable bc many of them emerge in advocacy circles of grassroots, of which some academics participate. 2) they are terms that reflect community debates about the impact of language in shaping practice 3) dems are all lives mattering to election loss

This is incredible

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

"PEN intends to introduce several new initiatives[,] incldg rsrch + analysis of educational censorship in public libraries; public education campaigns to highlight the free speech implications of book bans...; + safety resources + trainings for librarians who face harassment..."

Despite and amidst everything we’re hiring in US history, nineteenth century careers.historians.org/jobs/2159497...

Save 30% on #NewBook "Interface Frictions" by Neta Alexander, which explores how ubiquitous design features in digital platforms such as playback speed, autoplay, and night mode, reshape, condition, and break our bodies. buff.ly/qGM7NVC

very much saddened to learn that bucknell university press will be closing. they took a chance on my first book when other presses said it was too short or too narrowly focused on minor authors. www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

These are your words of the week eugenics derecho persona non grata endangerment hypergamy absquatulate www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/the...

“Destroying a national seed bank is an act of erasure, intended to sever the generational ties between farmers and their land.” Israeli forces have reportedly attacked a seed bank in the West Bank city of Hebron, destroying equipment used to reproduce heirloom seeds.

Comrade card for 3/5/2025.

Students who are scared of judgement so they perform cynicism... I see this in some young organizers too. This is precisely why I constantly say that sincerity is A VIRTUE. Let's bring back EARNESTNESS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsGs...

There are less trans woman History Professors in the US than I have fingers on one hand, and one of them was just FIRED 🚨 Why? Anti-trans alumni/donors threatened to pull support form the university... substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is fucking terrible

FDA held a “hearing” on antidepressants today. Here’s one of their slides. Link to the entire meeting is below. Remember RFKJ’S MAHA report where he said antidepressants are need to go? He wasn’t kidding. Call your electeds and demand RFKJs resignation before he causes even more damage. He must go.

fucking hell

This is the proper framing. Stop thinking of these actions in terms of hypocrisy. This isn't just a system or institution acting badly.

As someone who works with incarcerated youth, this is terrifying. They are going to turn to "prison labor" which is really convict leasing. Even if they don't assign this work to juveniles, they'll assign it to incarcerated adults and have the incarcerated juveniles take over the labor adults did.

“Able-bodied poor” is a very specific term that has a history in poor farms, industrial schools, prison farms, and more, all in the history of the U.S. Hard to not emphasize how truly bleak this is…

Mamdani does what I've been calling constructive politics: appeals to identity as a building block of solidarity rather than a replacement for it. love to see it

A nice reminder of the immense power contained in saying “no.” When people refuse to comply, it raises the costs ($$$, political, social, etc) of enforcing authoritarianism. They very well might try anyway, but every person that says “no” is another point of friction. www.npr.org/2025/06/28/n...

IU admins and Indiana politicians continue to run this great public university into the ground. www.wfyi.org/news/article...

Currently imagining a parody of the muppets christmas carol, but scrooge is andrew sullivan & somehow the ghosts of queer & trans past present &future make him realize he’s made a terrible mistake &his so called trans friends that he collects for his curiosity cabinet actually really don’t like him

We didn't have social media in the run up to Iraq 2. We had blogs, live journal and the MSM. FebBook launched in Feb 2004 for Harvard students as just one reference point.

"The modernist beachscape yields a rich cultural archive and a generative space through which to think questions of emplacement, improvisation, and relationality." From our latest issue: Jules O'Dwyer on Hannah Freed-Thall's "Modernism at the Beach": modernismmodernity.org/forums/posts...

love to see all of the local pride event sponsors/organizations that couldn’t be bothered to lobby against state anti trans legislation

This from @samames.bsky.social is beautiful

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

The NAACP is planning to sue Elon Musk’s xAI over environmental concerns related to its Tennessee supercomputer facility.