It is. Trump NEH NOFOs explicitly ban funding for any research on “gender ideology” or “DEI” among other restrictions www.neh.gov/sites/defaul...

I saw chaos inside and outside of the ICE detention center Delaney Hall today. Detainees protesting the lack of due process, the disgusting food and poor treatment while their families and advocates stood outside calling for help. 1/4

they’re shooting crowd control munitions at crowds that include multiple members of congress, the governor, and a sitting united states senator. they fired pepper balls at the senator. they cannot and will not be reigned in by democracy, whatever’s left of it.

Again, straight from Delaney Hall in Newark NJ: ICE just tear gassed Senator Andy Kim.

I kid you not - none of the places in this travel checklist involve Native American-relevant events or attractions - Indigenous is mentioned once in reference to a “Patriots of Color” exhibition. Lol but the NYT is the paper of record I’m told.

As @hypervisible.blacksky.app says, “inevitably” is the language of abusers

Sadly, we are already here.: www.edhat.com/news/why-cre...

Not only did two neo nazi teens attempt to copycat the Christchurch mass shooting, the world's richest man falsely blamed trans people for it. Not a single outlet covered that he spread that disinformation.

Many of the rationales for my AI course policy appeal to students' self interest (say no for your own sake). But I also stress (& they find it eye-opening) that inputting anyone else's work into a chatbot is unethical because it "turns over" that work w/out consent to for-profit tech companies...

So depressing. I guess it is common since our Dean of the Faculty advised department chairs to indicate in our requests to external evaluators that they should not feed dossiers into AI and/or use it to write their letters. Depressing.

conservatives are being pretty clear that they see anything more than a token black presence as tantamount to "anti-white discrimination," and even then, they view that as suspect

Pay a fortune to attend matches, but instead end up as a foreigner in ICE detention without trial. Or stay at home for nothing and watch them on TV. That's a pretty simple choice. www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

they're the same picture dot meme

the Producers but make it electoral politics

1. 1100 words is only very long if you’re an amoeba. 2. Asking an LLM a question is not a skill. 3. One dead teen is actually too many unless you are a sociopath. 4. You’re welcome.

This is fucking bullshit and everyone involved needs to die in prison.

The Trump administration will not rest until every elite institution has purged itself of black people. ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

omg the utter truth of it next let’s do “publications” and the flaming, glorious lie of scientific authorship

h/t @siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social (It's a great thread.)

An attack on Black America is an attack on all of America. Remember: if they come for us, they’ll come for you next. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/u...

Too many young people are pushed towards seeking knowledge, skills, curiosity, learning, living, bettering, says UK government adviser

Jesus Christ this is the most chilling thing I've read in ages. The "new understanding of truth" described here is not new in any way, it is basically a return to pre-literate dark ages & the inevitable result is going to be fascism.

Walmart selling these plates, which I think is hilarious, as it reads as a very apt tombstone. I definitely feel that the America that was imagined by the founding fathers---especially a secular and balanced government guided by the Constitution---is indeed dead. (also, flag upside-down lol)

happy I can only hear “graduation” as sung by Andre 3000 weekend

It’s 2026, in Oklahoma has finally made child marriage illegal. Congratulations? Also WTF.

Holy shit the Counterterrorism operating strategy--with its tagline, "We will Find You and We Will Kill You"-- is explicitly targeting pro-trans rights groups. Trans rights are human rights. There's no radical pro-trans ideology beyond "let them live".

co-sign

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

The Supreme Court just ended the project of multiracial democracy, as we know it. In Tennessee, they have already moved to decimate Black political representation, and other states are not far behind. Listen to what we do next on The Intercept Briefing. theintercept.com/2026/05/08/s...

in 10 years, college could be where you go to be smarter than AI, but no school is brave enough to trailblaze here.

actually not everyone is an author end scene

I have metastasized breast cancer that resulted in two brain tumors, since removed. I've lost vision and get chronic migraines. All my books are written solely by me, with 10 fingers and 85% of a brain. No AI needed. The answer to disability isn't AI, it's community.

again, stop acting surprised it’s intellectually immature and boring

the absolute impunity so far

thread I understand “elite” can mean more than just money & the degrees are a thing but it never doesn’t mean money professors, save a handful at the fanciest places, are not getting rich from being professors

cool

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

four parallel jobs (teaching, admin, research, peer service) across different global academic calendars

once again, it is great that the president is a klan-level racist

they did work that’s the premise of this system, you cadre of wet newspaper

someone make an ad of grandma working in a coal mine

Some people say we don’t build beautiful things anymore and, like, lol. Motherfuckers, we built this:

Jim Crow Didn't Die. It Went to Law School. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...

"Black Religion in the Madhouse: Race and Psychiatry in Slavery’s Wake" by Judith Weisenfeld is "a well-researched discussion of race, religion, medicine, healthcare, and the development of psychiatry in the...U.S.," writes Evan C. Rothera. Read more here: tinyurl.com/47sz23u2

NO 👇 LIES DETECTED

stop being surprised challenge 2026

he thinks he owns the country and rules us as king

officially official: I’ve been promoted to full professor. with sneaky desk-based celebratory paraphernalia from @tomborchert.bsky.social

This is a man-made crisis.