This sounds unbelievable but its true: since Bezos acquired The Post, his wealth has grown tenfold and the Post has been cut in half. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-trust-...

That drop is more than the entire NSF budget.

This really feels like an important question to be talking about right now! Gift link.

"This is a book about banning books in America, and so it is a book about America." From the introduction by editor @samcohen.bsky.social Just out from Bloomsbury. Maybe you should teach this book in your classes? Chapter 14 is a syllabus! #academicsky #bookbans

i've decided not to listen to the audio of a teacher reporting a kindergartender because frankly I don't want to become the person that that event would turn me into. but one thing I hope we are collectively coming to grips with is what it meant that we have lived among such people this whole time

Yep. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

Hey this reminds me of something...

Governments everywhere are realizing they can gut funding to higher education and the base won’t bat an eye. Faculty associations, faculty and staff unions, student and lobby groups need to coordinate and respond in meaningful ways if we want this trend to stop.

Almost bought a rain coat with faux leopard print that was on sale for $18. Probably going to regret this decision for the rest of my life.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

One of the many charges: "Discriminating against prospective students based on their nationality, as graduate heads were reportedly told that the Provost's Office would not support granting admission letters to applicants from China and many other countries."

Yep. That just about sums it up!

If you're looking for a great writing conference to get back into the writing game and build a community, I highly recommend this one in Muncie, Indiana. www.midwestwriters.org/mww26-summer...

The Trump administration, back turned and eyes averted from the truth about Epstein.

Making "AI caricatures" is trending again, so I though I'd share the trick I used to make my profile pic. I just followed these two simple steps: 1. I identified an artist whose style I wanted to replicate. 2. I *PAID THE ARTIST* to actually draw a portrait. (1/X)

More reporting (this time from CMU’s own student newspaper, The Tartan) on the end of the literature PhD at Carnegie Mellon—and yes, “cut” is the right word for what’s happening there

Hilarious to watch the NYT try to spin this as a strategy of some sorts rather than the act of a delusional madman who just loves bombs and violence

Just got an email from a student I had in an online asynchronous fiction writing class this summer. He wanted me to know that he can't stop thinking about "A Story About the Body" by Robert Hass. It's actually a prose poem, but I love teaching this gem. poems.com/poem/a-story...

It’s extremely important to put Elon Musk and Trump in the context of having killed hundreds of thousands of children in the last year

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 712: Male writers: if you're uncomfortable writing women characters, then write them as men, and flip them in edit. Too many otherwise excellent male writers seem distracted by boobs, and forget that women have exactly the same range of character types as men do.

I read the “SAVE Act” (the GOP’s new voter suppression bill) so you don’t have to. This is my one page summary. Jesus it’s bad. 1/

Tow truck driver offering free service returning abandoned vehicles to families of those abducted by ICE: "For the last three weeks, we have been getting nothing but death threats." www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

I think this is important too.

Someone who works where I work must have signed up for a conference, flown there, and vacationed instead of actually attending the conference--then submitted a request to be reimbursed. Thats why I had to take this picture of my AAC&U name tag today.

I regret to inform you that “1979” by Smashing Pumpkins was released in 1996, which is now 30 years ago. Meaning a similar song released in 2026 would be called “2009”

Definitely seems like they destroyed the country on purpose.

Reports are circulating about Craigslist ads offering $50 for people to watch the Melania movie 😂 and Snopes has confirmed the ad existed.

This idea that one can discern a technology is fascist and then still conclude "we need to collect data" is nonsense! www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/a...

I got tear gassed too. Totally peaceful protest, largely nurses and teachers. Elderly man near me couldn't open his eyes and a woman near me was comforting her baby. Right now I'm still in the OHSU parking garage nearby wondering why nobody seems able to leave... cars not moving at all.

Portland City Council member

How will Winthorp and Valentine get their revenge against the Duke Bros now?

Here’s Duke behavioral economist Dan Ariely asking Jeffrey Epstein for “the name and email of the redhead that was here with you.” This is four years after Epstein’s 2008 conviction for procuring a child for prostitution.

Judge Biery signed the order with a photo of Liam and two bible verses: The first is "But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven." The second is simply "Jesus wept." Astonishing thing for a judge to do.

Did you watch MRS. AMERICA back in 2020? Go back and watch it now.

The director of Melania movie

Surprised the ad doesn't say must have PhD.

Ds are demanding DHS stop "deporting US citizens," but deporting *US citizens* is not legal to begin with! So they're offering money to criminals if they...what, stop criming, I guess? It's basically 'hey stop robbing this bank and we'll give you a million bucks'. I swear I am going insane

WASHINGTON (AP) — Journalist Don Lemon is arrested after protest that disrupted a service at a Minnesota church.

I really urge you to not just shake your head at the headline of this but to read each word, to imagine each step these kids took, to sit with the terrible dilemma of the mother, to imagine the principal driving toward Whipple.

Went to a meeting I didn't need to attend just to bear witness to the shuttering of the philosophy department at my university. So: I teach at a college with no philosophy department or major, just a minor and six faculty scattered in other depts. Grieving too many losses these days.

Personally I think this is too much money for Donald trumps untrained heavily armed militia

A year ago today, Eric Kroczek passed away. We'd been married for 14 years. Separated for one year. Divorced for less than six months when he passed. My grief is complicated, but real. If you knew him, tell me what you remember.

Video from this morning shows ICE agents deploying tear gas outside a Minneapolis preschool as parents shout, “This is a preschool! There’s kids here!”

For any elected official who needs to hear this, I impart a lesson learned from the NFL: When the other team is tired and on the back foot, you don’t call a timeout so they can catch their breath. You grind their fucking face into the dirt until the final whistle blows and you’ve won the game.

Cardinal Tobin regarding ICE funding: "I think if we are serious about putting our faith in action, we need to say 'no,' each one of us. What saying ‘no’ looks like today is by telling the truth about what is happening and honoring those whose lives are upended.” www.ncronline.org/news/cardina...

You know what a bunch of women can accomplish? Women who work, parent, keep their house, their parents' house, their in-laws' house? Women who have made Christmas happen for hundreds of years? THEY CAN BECOME AN ARMY. NBD.

I am just gonna say it, these guys are completely emasculated by the knowledge that they have been out-organized by a group that is significantly made up of women, and all the bullshit call of duty nonsense is cope for their wounded egos bsky.app/profile/jeet...

THEIR morale is plummeting?!?!

Leave it to @haymarketbooks.org to meet the moment with free access to some important books! LOVED @silkys13.bsky.social's Unbuild Walls and can't wait to read the others. Thank you Haymarket. Now everyone, get you some!