Yet, Like eggs, food corporations will hike grocery prices for consumers and blame the fertilizer shortage. They'll do this because they can.

This is Harley. She's never rolled down a hill before, but she's super proud of her first attempt. 13/10 nailed it (TT: jesskoselke)

really cannot be emphasized enough that the drafters of the birthright clause very much considered cases analogous to undocumented immigrants and *included them too*

Expectedly abhorrent decision by the US Supreme Court enshrining the dehumanization of trans athletes. All arguments about ‘fairness’ aside, what happens in sport *never* supersedes the basic right of trans people to exist. This is a shameful day for the US. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Really psyched to see that the @liberalcurrents.com Reconstruction Papers have just been released! Congrats to @adamgurri.liberalcurrents.com and this whole team of great writers and thinkers for imagining how to rebuild post-Trump with ambition: www.liberalcurrents.com/the-pdf-of-t...

Slaughter is an earthquake: SCOTUS has overturned a 90-year-old precedent that facilitated much of modern governance by granting many agencies meaningful independence from the president. Now SCOTUS crushes that independence ... for seemingly every agency except the Federal Reserve.

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that President Donald Trump could not fire Federal Reserve Board Governor Lisa Cook — at least for now. Here's more about Cook and why Trump is trying to remove her from her post:

Beyond the Legend: Clive Davis’ Complicated History With Black Artists www.theroot.com/beyond-the-l...

SCOTUS once again kicking their garbage into the street, and in one case into the faces of their own literal children. The fact that Amy Coney Barrett has adopted and raised Black Haitian children and then did This really indicates lot of things.

Gorgeous cover art by a'driane nieves: www.addyeb.com

Damn... this sucks abc3340.com/news/local/m...

Excellent episode! I often think about how car dependence drives demand for policing (enforcement, surveillance, directing traffic, etc.) But this convo takes the analysis much further, decentering criminal punishment in responding to the systemic harms of motonormativity & road violence.

Your Prime Day reminder that half of Amazon warehouse workers struggle with food & housing costs. A third have had to rely on government assistance like SNAP — which was gutted last year. If Bezos can spend $500M on a yacht, Amazon can afford to treat its workers with dignity.

The Cost Of Losing Black Teachers Is More Than A Just A Number Research shows the impact of Black educators can last for years. A Kansas City organization is helping more of them stay in classrooms. www.forbes.com/sites/yasspr...

The Whitney Humanities Center (WHC) at Yale invites applications from humanities scholars working at select HBCUs for a Faculty Fellow position for spring semester 2027 (January 1–May 31, 2027). Details here: apply.interfolio.com/186520 #hbcu

The new panels shift attention away from enslaved people and instead focus on Washington's theoretical opposition to the institution. This strategy is nearly as old as the nation itself, used by Americans with very different political aims. Wrote about it here. johngmarks.beehiiv.com/p/george-was...

Fox Corp. will buy streaming platform Roku in a cash-and-stock deal valued at approximately $22 billion.

Explore the first two parts of our Feminist 250 project—uncovering the history we weren't taught about our nation's founding, and the continual struggle for democracy:

Happy Pride, Boston 💜🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Thank you to Boston Pride for the People for this weekend’s powerful and joyous parade. This weekend we chose joy, and now we get back to organizing.

Saidiya Hartman said “critical fabulation” requires “Narrative restraint.” It’s not just “make stuff up.” Right there in “Venus in two acts” — restraint is “a requirement of this method” (p.12). Before you go all fabulating pls re-read the part about it being “critical.” Thx!!!

New: this company will add tech to track phones, AirPods, smartwatches, pet tags, and more to license plate readers. The idea is to link devices' identifiers to specific cars and where those people were. It "bridges [LPR] data with sensor-captured device identifiers" www.404media.co/this-company...

Report: Child poverty is down in Kentucky, but education and health lag From @sarahelizabethladd.bsky.social kentuckylantern.com/2026/06/08/r...

"The very leaders who are complicit in this decision are the same ones who consistently remind us about the University’s values and the perpetual importance of adhering to them" @princeton.edu shame on you!

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:

Over 550 men in California have fallen ill after cutting natural or factory-made stone countertops. But epidemiologists say this isn't just a California problem. n.pr/4tRh1O0

“In 2023 Mexico’s birth rate fell below that of the US for the first time — as, subsequently, did those of Brazil, Tunisia, Iran and Sri Lanka.” www.ft.com/content/fba3...

A 2023 lawsuit made rape allegations against Jermaine Jackson, who now has to pay restitution after not responding to the victim’s complaint. www.pastemagazine.com/music/jermai...

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/... 🧵

www.thenation.com/article/soci... The Dismantling of Black Studies

This happened today and I hadn’t heard about it until I looked it up just now

A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday during a cyberattack. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Canvas.

Today is a good day to pitch your local outlet something about the canvas hack. Put TIMELY in the subject line. Describe yourself as an educator in a few lines (two sentence!). Then make an argument.

“Fabricated” citations that do not reference real papers are spreading in the literature, polluting the public record of science, a new study published Thursday in the Lancet shows. Tools using generative AI are likely to blame, say the Columbia University researchers who authored the paper.”

this is a really good read www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

New: Trump's OMB is withholding more than $2 billion Congress approved in February for K-12 and higher education. Advocates and experts weigh in on what this means and whether it's time to panic: www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

It’s relatively common for artists to use real people as references, but this is different — it’s using a real Indigenous actress to create an imaginary Indigenous character, coloring her blue, turning her into IP, and building a franchise around her without ever hiring or paying that actress.

COVER REVEAL 📚 How to Close a Camp: Dispatches from the Fight Against Immigrant Detention by @jwashing.bsky.social Releasing July 21st wherever good books are sold (or borrowed). Available for pre-order now.

Publishers Weekly calls it a "Meticulous study . . . A fascinating overview of a dynamic time and place." It's pub day for A PROXY AFRICA by Russell Rickford 👏

I am submitting materials for promotion to Full Professor. I am also starting a new project that feels like a heavy undertaking intellectually. And yet the most exciting part of my day is my baby running to give me a hug when they get home. Motherhood is really different.

Fort Lewis College has spent years taking stock of its history as a federal Indian boarding school and collaborating with local tribes to make amends. Now its first indigenous leader plans to continue the work she helped launch.

And none of us is surprised about this. It's basically reflecting the racism, antiblackness and colorism of the wider culture. It's automated bias. I wouldn't subject myself to it by using their tools. Also, just imagine the impact to impressionable Black kids using it. So damaging. Meta is bad.

“Faculty members do not surrender their rights to speak as scholars and citizens when they participate in university forums—whether in classrooms, public venues, or ceremonial settings. On the contrary, such occasions are among the most visible expressions of the university’s core commitments . . .

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

Preach Preacha!

Pre-print now available! If race is socially constructed, we should study how. We do so by asking who counts as Black. Parentage, skin tone, party id, neighborhood, & spouse's race all shape perceived blackness. Who is doing the classifying matters too. A labor of love. osf.io/preprints/so...

Kevin O'Leary's massive data center was approved by a county commission in Utah last night. At 40,000 acres, it would be 2.5x the size of Manhattan. The commission approved the proposal despite opposition from hundreds of locals.

Researchers looked at whether a tried-and-true poverty alleviation effort that gives cash and coaching to households, and is typically implemented in rural areas, could work in an urban setting. n.pr/3QREdO7