Going on tour next week! Come say hi please don’t make me read to myself and that one guy who’s actually got earbuds in

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Spent the afternoon writing a grant application. Six pages at 1.15 spaced. What I wanted to write was: Gimme this money so I can do my thang. It's a good idea and it will work, I swear. #academicsky

Every crisis is an opportunity. This is the moment for Dems on Capitol Hill to call a news conference and make clear: Not one dime to fund the federal government until Trump withdraws his unlawful orders and agrees not to send troops to occupy Democratic-run cities

Help us, O' Beau Bayh! You're our only hope.

Hey #AcademicSky friends, hope you enjoy my essay just out from THE EDGE newsletter at The Chronicle: "College is Not an Identity Store." www.chronicle.com/newsletter/t...

“ABC7 spoke to Pertissue Fisher, a woman who lives in the building. She said ICE agents took everyone in the building, including her, and asked questions later….’They was bringing the kids down, too, had them zip tied to each other.’” It can’t happen here, you say. But it is happening.

Indeed!

Military officials say that Marine Corps Base Quantico will be closed to nonessential personnel tomorrow between 4 a.m. and 12 noon, as President Trump and Defense Secretary Hegseth make addresses to an extraordinary gathering of hundreds of generals.

The biggest divide is not between “right” and “left." It’s between democracy and oligarchy. The billionaires who control our economy and democracy seek to divide us. They want us to turn on each other so we don't look up and see that they have all the wealth and power.

Lots of data points. Here's one: "One-third of hiring managers say recent graduates lack a strong work ethic, and one in four say graduates are underprepared for interviews." www.insidehighered.com/news/student...

It’s interesting how we are asked to justify why there is an English Department at a college but not why there is an athletics program I think both are valuable but it’s interesting which one is more likely to be on the ropes, again, at a college

This is the last item I brought home from my ex husband's apartment the day after he died. A bin of old towels. It sat in the garage for 6 months, until I set it down in my bedroom for another few months. Now it's in my kitchen. When I finally put it in the basement, that's it. No more Eric.

Jackson is so patient.

“This is what happens in Iran, this is what happens in Cuba, this happens in China and deeply repressive states in which, if you have the courage to stand up and speak truth to power, you are silenced.” trib.al/NLeAgzW

I was going to have a party tomorrow night. First one in like 7 years! But the city of Muncie decided that was *the day* it was going to pave my pot-holed and patched street. Damn. I got corn-hole boards, wine, and fancy outdoor lights!

I was going to have a party tomorrow night. First one in like 7 years! But the city of Muncie decided that was *the day* it was going to pave my pot-holed and patched street. Damn. I got corn-hole boards, wine, and fancy outdoor lights!

Imagine one of those campus interruptions that the right denounced as an assault on free speech, only the president of the university personally set aside some seats so activists could heckle a conservative speaker. Also Yasmin Williams is a phenomenal talent and you should go see her live.

BLAMMO! It's fucking fall!

Good. But I'm not going to resume my Disney+ Hulu subscription, mother effers.

We really can’t understate the psychic toll of knowing that the United States government is trying to kill as many people as possible

I have a degree but work in ye’ olde low paying human services. These blokes with five degrees never come knocking at my residential homes for folks with IDD, TBI, etc because we got jobs for them, we always do. Too many degrees to wipe some backsides I guess. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/15/b...

New from @insidehighered.com: "Ultimately, it’s not about what the employees said. It’s about the political outcomes." #academicsky www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Please see our official statement regarding the termination of BSU employee Suzanne Swierc. Click the following link for the full statement: bsuaaup.com/response-to-... @aaup.org

These are precedented times and the precedent is a loud ass warning www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/a...

Fuck yeah, shadow government Dems are learning. Here, they seem to be adopting an approach to opposition that's common in parliamentary systems, whereby the opposition offers their own concrete alternatives to the incumbents

These are terrifying times. Corporate media is caving utterly. Support non-profit media, public media, local media, and the last few old MSM companies with good owners. We tick at least two of those boxes and so if you value our reporting, you can give here secure.motherjones.com/flex/mj/key/...

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

Trying to remember this tonight.

Brubaker (1980) kind of rocked my world when I saw it as a teen. And Redford was the only filmmaker Norman Maclean trusted with A River Runs Through It. RIP.

I feel so upset by the fact that so many of these same people fetishizing mourning right now have ignored the gun deaths of thousands of children, have just allowed their memories to disappear like smoke in the public mind

I’m really curious how the MSM is going to continue sanitizing Charlie Kirk if he was, in fact, killed because he wasn’t enough of a bigot.

Media discovering groypers for the first time reminds me of when they first encountered incels. Those of us who study misogyny or followed Gamergate had been screaming about incel culture and violence for years. Coverage of hate groups is far too reactive.

With the Kirk assassination becoming clearer, we need to talk about the radicalized, Right Wing subculture that carries out terrorism and mass shootings. They’re an essential part of MAGA and so people really don’t want to see what is undeniable. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/the-threat...

Yesterday, this news made me very upset. And then I heard about the assassination of the man who created the Professor Watch List, which sort of started this whole mess. Yesterday was my birthday. It was not a good birthday. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The New Yorker asked me “how bad” today’s Supreme Court ruling was. I boiled it down to one paragraph: link.newyorker.com/view/5bda429...

The South, North, East AND West of the Black community in this country remembers the 1994 Crime Bill.

But even worse than ignoring the facts, he is saying that "living in Los Angeles and having brown skin" constitute reasonable suspicion justifying being hassled by federal authorities. This is a recipe for turning every American city into a "show me your papers" state

Justice Sotomayor, joined by Kagan and Jackson, in dissent: "We should not have to live in a country where the Government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish, and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, I dissent."

Chairs, deans, and provosts, take note!

"For America is full of people like the Hoosiers. America is a larger Indiana; and if we knew what had gone wrong--and right--with Indiana we might well know what has gone wrong--and right--with the nation." -- from Indiana: An Interpretation by John Bartlow Martin, 1947

I know people are overwhelmed by too much news from every angle, and maybe people are distracted by the "terrorist" language, or just plain exhausted. But this is the President of the United States saying he is going to go around killing people because he thinks they're criminals. And already did.

Kavanaugh's statements make the problem worse, not better. If the reason SCOTUS is using cryptic shadow docket orders is because "five" of them can't "reach a consensus or a compromise on a particular issue that might be difficult," then that order should not be precedential —there's no majority.

Amen!

Woke up this morning from a horribly vivid dream that felt like a message from my departed ex husband. But the day got better, thank god.

I can

This statement may be one of the most dangerous statements ever made by a Presidential Cabinet member. You have to hear RFK Jr say it to believe he actually said it.

Jesus.

Stupid. Stupid. Stupid.