The undergrads at the Crimson has consistently done a better job at investigating stories--big and small--than some of the legacy papers. Go college journalism.

Americans really have no idea how badly things are going or much of what is actually happening outside of the increasingly sealed American unreality state. The increasingly clear collapse of collective sense making is breaking containment fully.

everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

For the Disability community, losing Alice Wong is like losing Ursula Le Guin or Octavia Butler. She was a powerhouse, a pioneer, and a mentor to many. She taught me so much. And always reminded me what we were fighting towards, as well as against. I miss her clarity, bravery, and joy.

I've now heard from 3 authors targeted on X by a scammer impersonating Lois McMaster Bujold. Bujold impersonator refers author to "Eleanor Wood at Spectrum Literary", also an impersonation. Goal: to sell editing svcs. Scam is impersonating multiple authors & agents writerbeware.blog/2025/11/14/i...

Titles from P.E.C.’s French Line, the publisher’s gay imprint. One of the reasons I can’t find much about P.E.C. is that, unlike their competitors Greenleaf and Milton Luros’ Parliament empire, they weren’t involved in any legal battles that I can find.

For all that I love George Romero's first three zombie movies, it's the fourth, LAND OF THE DEAD, that seems most apropos for our time: a wealthy elite hides away, thinking they're safe...

It's like the world's most obnoxious science fiction writers were turned into billionaires.

A lot of y’all were relying on the news to be your daily reminder that anti-Black racism and transphobia are bad and now that the news is doing a lot of normalizing of the perpetrators of both, it’s like out of sight and out of mind

If you have heard me or other observers talking about the "Orbanization of the media system" in the U.S., but you weren't sure who Viktor Orbán is and how he operates, I can recommend this article by a Hungarian journalist, Iván Zsolt Nagy, who has lived throught it all. www.cjr.org/opinion/vikt...

Oh, what fun — 1940s.nyc is an utter joy!

Let them fight is praxis. Some people don't seem to recognize this.

Rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/u...

ONLY ON ASSIGNED MEDIA: Fenway Health's annual gala Friday drew protests and cries of "Shame!" after the LGBTQ community health center ended care for trans people under 19. @evanurquhart.bsky.social was there. (repost with updated thumbnail) www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Farewell to singer-songwriter Todd Snider. One of those gems of an artist who never seemed to be appreciated enough. But those who knew his work appreciated it mightily, and I guess, in the end, that's what matters.

Academics who have advised a graduate student from China over the past years would be banned from federal funding. This would give the federal government one more lever to attack scientists. And how long before they expand the list of "hostile foreign" countries?

Republicans want to be Nazis. Democrats want to be Republicans.

It's transgender awareness week, and if you ever wanted to learn more about the history of transness in cinema, you could pick up our book CORPSES, FOOLS AND MONSTERS at your local library or purchase a copy. We wrote this book for trans people like us. Thank you. bookshop.org/p/books/corp...

One of the most important lessons you have to learn about what a university "is" is a very vulgar marxist distinction between its *managers* (directly or indirectly appointed by capital and/or state government) and its *labor,* who come to the university out of love and idealism.

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

Lolita is an utterly horrifying view into how disgusting and depraved pedophilia is, it’s meant to make you feel nauseous, and it is incredibly revealing when certain people read it and come away with anything other than horror

Rich people always break their promises.

More Chinese students in US universities = better aid packages for US students attending US universities. That's the actual math. The people arguing otherwise are either profoundly ignorant or want to dismantle higher education -- especially public education--anyway.

I'm excited that my story "Queer Horror, and Other Stories" will appear in this charity anthology alongside the work of lots of other wonderful writers, all raising money for RAICES and the Trans Law Center. Something to look forward to in the bleak months of winter ahead!

This is what happened to me: a few students in a course called “Sex and the American Empire: Journalism and Frames of War” thought the class should not include discussions of sex at all or the war in Palestine. If you were silent on anti-Palestine speech, you helped bring this fascism to everyone

I was a faculty member at IU in 2016, and after the election that year, I had to change the way I taught my 200+ student Intro Sociology class, because a handful of students started flooding the class whiteboard app by posting "MAGA" over and over again.

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

Look, Vance knows this is false. He doesn’t actually believe it. He has said this outright. For fascist filth like Vance, factual correctness is irrelevant. All that matters is whether it is symbolically correct. It’s vice signaling. Does it accurately represent your imagined fears?

"I consider Robert Trivers one of the great thinkers in the history of Western thought." —Steven Pinker

“A professor who showed a graphic labeling the “Make America Great Again” slogan as covert white supremacy has been removed from teaching a class under a new Indiana law meant to foster “intellectual diversity.”” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

My friend Ian has been to hell and back to defend the right of educational technologists to speak critically about the tools of our trade. Today, @linkletter.org gets his life back. He deserves so much more, but he gets this now. Finally. Ian's courage and tenacity is an inspiration for my work.

For every surveillance state to function, there must be a critical mass of people who willingly act as snitches to further the regime's ideology. I lived through this firsthand, money isn't the motivating factor for these people, it's the satisfaction of seeing people they hate suffer

Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"

Plenty of things to give Bluesky a kicking about regarding moderation and 'open' labellers, but the private school labeller now having an 'Epstein Connection' label also shows it can be extremely lmao.

"There is, of course, still brilliant queer theory and scholarship being produced—but most of it does not arise from the elite institutions that are uniquely complicit in the ongoing destruction of the world."

So when the aurora borealis is faint enough, you can capture its glow with the Milky Way 😍 Berthoud Pass, CO last night

Harvard prof of American lit. Beyond parody. Beyond words.

"minerals like the ones found around Hudson Bay are necessary for solar panels, batteries, and other technologies... But in the process of mining them, we may just destroy a crucial climate regulator." (Makes me think of when forests are cut down for solar farms.)

A frustrating article because despite scare quotes & hedging it presents "intelligence" as if as easy to measure as height. Authors admit using "educational attainment (taken as a proxy for intelligence)". But this contributes to the idea that there is a measurable thing called "intelligence".

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

The Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights has launched investigations against school districts for teaching lessons on systemic racism and hosting empowerment gatherings for students of color.

New: Google has chosen a side in Trump's mass deportation campaign. Google is hosting a CBP facial recognition app to hunt immigrants; no indication Google will remove. At same time Google takes down apps for reporting ICE sightings “Big tech has made their choice” www.404media.co/google-has-c...

Lots of twistes and turnes yn thys headlyne. It reallye hath scale.

The New York Times should apologize to the country and just close in shame. For the last 10+ years, everything they printed was two-faced shit. There's great work there — all tainted by shit. These emails are shittily written and so gross and repulsive as to be near unreadable. Bring them all down

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.

A classic example of the inversions of settler colonialism: the settler becomes the native and the Indigenous person becomes an outsider on their own land.

Oh you rich conspiring pedophiles & all your smug weaselly defenders, please lecture me again about how my trans kid is a threat to American family values

Donald Trump was practicing child rape the right way. by Ezra Klein

The value of reading history is you know that in 1860 there were abolitionists who were so demoralized that they thought chattel slavery would be permanent. 5 years later those still alive had lived to see its end.