The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

New essay for @knightcolumbia.org that argues for why democracies must fund robust public media systems and begins to develop what I've been calling the "Public Media Center" model. I will be expanding on this work for @rooseveltinstitute.org in the months ahead: knightcolumbia.org/blog/reimagi...

Shout out @theliteratelizard.bsky.social who has a 15% discount code here for ordering my book and other great books to un-whitewash US history. Thanks for including me!

Honored that both @msmagazine.com and @dailykos.com listed my book The Instigators among those that are noted nonfiction reads! Daily Kos www.dailykos.com/stories/2026... Ms. Magazine msmagazine.com/2026/05/01/b...

This is a very common story within the African American community. We were writing novels about passing 150 years ago. Still, this version of the old story is a good read.

"'Rebel With a Cause' is not just biography. It’s a chronicle of race history in the late 19th and 20th centuries, with all the unpleasantness, and yet it is an act of poetic aspiration, resignation and bravura aesthetics." www.wsj.com/arts-culture...

A **majority** of those arrested for the Jan 6 attack were white small business owners with past histories of bankruptcy, liens, and tax problems. An attempted coup carried out by realtors, auto dealers, and former cops.

Google is transforming Search from a list of links into an AI-powered experience filled with conversational answers, autonomous agents, and interactive interfaces — a shift that could further reduce traffic to publishers across the web.

I've talked about this with a lot of different smart people lately but it is truly amazing to see how much the tide of public opinion has changed against the tech oligarchs and executives.

Not nearly enough reporting about what's happening in Cuba, which the administration is attempting to squeeze, punish, and coerce into submission and violent self destruction. This is so much worse than the embargo. It's hideous. Haiti, Cuba, ongoing boat strike murders: anti-Black foreign policy

“It is propaganda like this that has led men in the past to insist that history is "lies agreed upon"; and to point out the danger in such misinformation.” W.E.B. Du Bois “The Propaganda of History” from Black Reconstruction in America, 1935

At this point, journalists who still persist in declining to talk about racism and cruelty as key GOP motivators are essentially colluding in writing fiction about the present state of politics and of the country.

Trump doesn't care about the economic plight of the average American because he's too busy calling his broker His stunning 3,700 trades in just 3 months in firms like Palantir, Nvidia and Boeing should be another Watergate. Here's how to make it one My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/trum...

Welp just had to take my first Claritin of the year. And so it begins.

Good morning! A SECOND SIGHT made a publisherswkly.bsky.social Top 10 list omg! I am so honored by the company here including books by @esglaude.bsky.social, Ed Simon, Sharbreon Plummer, and more www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

What happens when an innocent person is freed from prison after losing years of their lives? Exonerees Leonard Mack and Ron Jacobsen reflect on their relationships with Innocence Project social workers, and how they helped them navigate their transition to freedom. Watch now: https://bit.ly/3PfNSh8

On June 13, @nycplan.org is hosting a Library Propaganda Fair! Would you like to share your library related art and propaganda with other New Yorkers? Our tabling application is open until 5/22: forms.gle/8yyADQGqV7jn... This is going to be such a fun event. Save the date!

Wonderful post to help us think about how we narrate histories of technology. Technically the cell phone was invented in 1973 but I doubt this is the meaning here, they didn’t become ubiquitous until the 90s or early 00s depending on where you lived so most adults were born before that.

“It’s just frustrating to see them come into our community and run all over us like the citizens don’t matter, and then they’re above the law when they do break it,” resident, James Clifton said. www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

MIT announces “the number of grad students will be 20 percent less than it was in 2024 — about 500 fewer students” www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

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this use of “traditional” is something else

The Barrio is now open Latinsky is up and ready to use. You can log in at latinsky.community and you can follow the link below to transfer your data to the Latinsky/Blacksky PDS and get a Latinsky handle.

Loved this conversation with Malcolm Burley at @thephilacitizen.bsky.social

Alito: mailing abortion medication violates The Fugitive Womb Act bsky.app/profile/stev...

If you are a corporation or law firm and stopped your DEI initiatives in response to Trump, you are a sap and a sucker.

It can’t be said enough how infuriating it is that Comstock continues to haunt us from the 1870s

BREAKING: the Supreme Court finally blocked a lower court's ban on telemedicine prescriptions of abortion drug mifepristone from taking effect, pending full hearing/ruling in Fifth Circuit. Dissents from Alito and Thomas, who claims that the dormant Comstock Act of 1873 bans mailing of mifepristone

Now that I have A Second Sight to add to the stack I did a little red carpet flashing lights photo shoot for all my book babies, and by “red carpet flashing lights” I mean office desk institutional lamp from the 80s. But aren’t they beautiful

Alright, here's my contribution to the Is-Bluesky-Dying discourse: Bluesky is a record store davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/bluesky-is...

AI companies are writing their own constitutions. Meanwhile, a shared vocabulary for contesting algorithmic power has been traveling across red and blue states, from legislatures to civil society. New from me in @science.org: "A Civic Grammar for AI Rights" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... 🧵

There’s a great book about the already pretty bad consequences of this kind of thing by Apryl Williams folks should check out

I am begging journalists covering Callais to think a LITTLE BIT about how covering only the partisan implications of Callais reinforces the batshit opinion's assertion that the VRA was only about partisan power

Now that I have A Second Sight to add to the stack I did a little red carpet flashing lights photo shoot for all my book babies, and by “red carpet flashing lights” I mean office desk institutional lamp from the 80s. But aren’t they beautiful

From the comrade card archives

"The project involved providing parolees with smartphones & smartwatches that would identify & reward positive activities, according to the report, while it monitored their behaviors & daily actions. The report did not describe exactly how the program would work, or what kind of data it would track"

In addition, Family Search frequently utilizes prison labor to digitize materials they make available so it's just a turducken of exploitation activehistory.ca/blog/2026/04...

I love librarians so I am geeked that the folks at @libraryjournal.bsky.social have recommend my book. Don’t take my word for it, just trust the librarians, they never steer you wrong!

Josiah Henson arrived in Canada in 1841 via the Underground Railroad after 42 yrs enslaved. But he returned repeatedly to the U.S. as a “conductor”, freeing 118 people from bondage. Free: archive.ph/2026.05.06-0... Stowe used HIS memoir to write her bestseller, Uncle Tom's Cabin. #Lit #BlackSky 🌱✊🏾

Like every Mother's Day today I am asking that you consider a donation to @nationalbailout.bsky.social to help free mamas who are separated from their families by the injustices of pretrial detention systems. secure.actblue.com/donate/freeb...

I often say that the fight for democracy is the fight of our generation. But let me be clear, if you aren’t fighting for Black voting rights right now then you aren’t really fighting for democracy.

Well I almost made it through this fifth Mother’s Day without my mom ok but then I decided to listen to the last playlist we made together and it’s all over

Join me in becoming a monthly donor so we can keep moms out of jail

I did this and if you have money to spare you should too

Reposting this with Dr Sarah’s message. Let a Black mama be with her family today. Grateful for all the acts of care that raise up our children with love and compassion and righteousness!!

Amazingly creative life here. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/09/a...

I’ve donated to this org a few times and I encourage y’all to do the same! 💐🫶🏾

my favorite Mother’s Day tradition Open those pockets, people! Let’s get some mamas out of jail today!