Senator Lucas posted this reply to the Trump/K$H retribution aimed at her

You do not have to respect this court. You do not. In fact, respect = enabling. This is an ILLEGITIMATE institution. Full stop.

If you want to see what most “professors” make.

More and more colleges and universities are cutting Religious Studies, just as current events make it more and more obvious how necessary Religious Studies education is to understand today's world.

We know, but I'm typing anyways: Doing well in the REF will not save our programmes. Being good at teaching students will not save our programmes. Being diligent and agile employees will not save our programmes. Merging into the intellectual equivalent of hospice care will merely delay matters.

yeah man, we’re all just dummies who don’t understand that you’re just judicial monks operating in a sphere of pure law [puts finger to ear] what’s this, clarence thomas gave another speech blaming progressives for hitler?

I assigned a Philosophy paper as one of this week's optional readings and I have Regrets.

The school is also banning official medical material, including the American Medical Association's documentation on "Best practices for sex and gender diversity in medical education." It's not like the AMA has relevance to a school that doubles as a hospital, right?

Lots of other pre-modern texts have been struck as well. Metamorphosis (by Ovid), The Aeneid (by Virgil), Beowulf, the Code of Hammurabi, anything by Catullus. If "gender ideology" only came about recently, as many MAGA politicians say, then how come they're banning so many ancient texts? 🧐

Individual consultations because they fear meeting us as a group; Teams because they don’t like being in the same room as us; 30 minutes instead of the 45 afforded to earlier colleagues, which doesn’t scream impartiality and equity to me.

After years of union-busting and no contract, tens of thousands of REI members have pledged to boycott REI’s Anniversary Sale May 15-25. Solidarity with @reiunion.bsky.social in their fight for a fair contract. Stand with REI workers and don’t shop during the sale!

This week! Albuquerque, please tell your city councilor you support $500,000 of *recurring* IT funding for the library, as well as fully staffing the library system without leaving vacancies open. www.cabq.gov/council/find...

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

I still hear people say they are hesitant to give their kids the HPV vaccine because it’s “too new.” It’s been approved for 20 years. It’s older than the kids who are receiving the vaccine. This new report reviews 274 STUDIES confirming it’s safe and extremely effective.

My university will be doing major program elimination next year because of a budget deficit. But the good news is that we were able to create yet another upper admin position and hired someone with experience using AI to evaluate program effectiveness and profitability!

Wtaf.

“It is difficult to take seriously the admin’s concern about Americans’ mental health…when it has made/advocated for cuts to Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration, Medicaid (which covers a disproportionate share of those with mental illness & substance use disorder) & the ACA.”

Join the amazing Digi team at @manchester.ac.uk!!!

Don’t talk to me about cheap until you can talk to me about fair and full compensation. Because without fair and full compensation, it’s just enslaving women to save a government money. We are the defacto social safety net because this nation racist & greedy. Do not make us the de jure one.

Any attempt to move all caregiving in-home just moves that under- and unpaid labor deeper into women’s work, and further entrenches a pink collar underclass. The work falls on women now, both in organized care and in in-home care. And In home is socially isolating for dependent AND caregiver alike.

Caregiving is female, it is VASTLY undercompensated, and every government agency and male taxpayer benefits from women’s unpaid and underpaid work. Caregiving is a Feminist Issue, it’s an equality issue, it’s an equal justice issue, and it’s a racial justice issue.

I need to go to the library and get started on a new series, or a new season of an old series. But this requires getting to the library when it's actually open.

Fiiiiiiiiiiine I will work on my Kzoo paper some more instead of reading all the discourse

It would be fun to teach a class based on political Manifestos over time as a way to revive some political imagination...

I don't only think that college should be FREE but I think young people should also receive living stipends while in school. Finally, I do not care what they major in because education needs to actually BE DECOUPLED from a future job. You are welcome. You should have 4 years to study anything.

FYI: You can get the Shingrix vaccine series if you are under 50 and immunocompromised 😏 ... especially at CVS+ Walgreens. Do what you need to do to protect yourselves and talk to your doctors of course.

⁨Kaden shared his story with our team last month. Before Republicans refused to extend ACA tax credits, his monthly health insurance premium was $467. Now it’s $1,448. He’s just one of the many farmers screwed over by Trump’s policies.

NEW: The Robinson plaintiffs in the original Voting Rights Act case that led to the order creating a second opportunity district in Louisiana filed a motion at SCOTUS asking the Supreme Court to recall the Callais mandate b/c Monday's order, they say, was based on an inaccurate claim.

There's always some risk in antiquities, but you minimize that by making sure that the description is as solid as possible--and now that they can be confected so easily, find out who the describers are. In the end, it's the cataloguers you're trusting.

More info here: www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Dunno what's going on with my router, as my internet is on but not connecting for the second time in <24 hrs, but sabotage by the fiber rep who knocked at my door last night doesn't seem out of the question. /conspiracy

Help, #MedievalSky! There's an opening on our #IMC2026 Panel on Abbatial Identities within and without the Cloister. Do you like abbots/abbesses or another kind of 'monastic leader', and are you having second thoughts about skipping the IMC this year? Let me know and we might have a session for you!

When are we gonna start calling “unpaid labor” like this slavery again? Because tbh thats what they want.

If you are the editor of a journal and you have received a submission from me that looks a bit weird (weirder than usual) please assume it is a LLM-generated paper from a ghost author. This has happened four times in recent weeks. In each case it is possible to see how a genuine published paper 1/2

There are only about 30 women's colleges left in the U.S.. Just like other anti-trans laws, this will hurt all women.

This is partisanship at its rawest. SCOTUS has clamped down on lower courts for rulings that could alter maps many *months* before an election—even when those maps have been judged illegal. Here, it's rushing to let the Louisiana GOP change a map *while an election is underway.*

"Clergy with the Greater Boston Interfaith Organization Monday withdrew $1 million from an account with Citizens Bank as it urged the institution to cut ties with two companies that finance and operate immigrant detention centers..." www.wgbh.org/news/politic...

do you like having to pay significantly more money for computing hardware to justify performative xenophobia by corrupt autocrats? well do I have some good news for you

I’ve been looking into my employer’s policies on ownership of course materials in the wake of the Atomic debacle (🙏 @chrishanlon.bsky.social) and while faculty generally retain copyright, there are two important exceptions. +

This is for *your* kids, you understand. The tech elites send *their* kids to private, screen-free Montessori schools. They know exactly what they're doing.

Don't click on that, bc it's substack, but you can click on this to see that BS fisked to all heck and back (Jews don't believe in Hell) --> In which I cite extensive actual biblical scholarship to blow that bullshit out of the water --> PS "Judeo-Christian" is a 19th c. term for "convert Jews"

He's already had them water down the bill he intends to sign after pressure from lobbyists, etc...and he's already stripped control from local governments to stop the data centers so he's no hero on this. www.orlandosentinel.com/2026/04/23/d... gift article.

the specific AI education will be outdated in 6 months, but the skills unlearned will last forever!!

"The Editor has decided to retract this paper owing to concerns regarding discrepancies in the meta-analysis. These issues ultimately undermine the confidence the Editor can place in the validity of the analysis and resulting conclusions."

As such, we should never ever listen to him, ever. And we should impeach him and actually take all the wealth he’s hoarded and put it into funding vaccines and actual gold standard cancer research.

I mean, that fucker is threatening to end Medicaid funding for hospitals that serve jello. This fucker doesn’t care about nutrition, he cares about ending Medicaid. www.the-independent.com/news/world/a...

This means that hundreds, if not thousands of labs all over the country will close. Tens of thousands of jobs will be lost. This is in defiance of Congress's will and in defiance of good stewardship of the US economy. This is entirely because Russ Vought hates science

Ok. #Kzoo2026 paper. Here we go, gonna make good progress like, right now.

I laid the cement board today (not as well as I had arrogantly hoped) and three hours later, my hands are still tired

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