Just wanted to let you know that the IRS has audited every president annually for decades now to ensure there was no corruption and the reason you didn't know that was because only one president found that to be a problem

There has never been a clearer instance of "Measure Twice, Cut Once" vs. "Move Fast, Break Things"...

Just want to make sure we’re getting this right: WHO is indoctrinating students?? 🤨 www.kcrg.com/2026/05/20/i...

This is why the work of citizen archivists and archival organizations is paramount. Assume everything will be deleted and figure out how to save it.

Nothing promotes individual liberty quite like a state-mandated indoctrination.

Does anyone have recommendations for publicly-available digital primary source collections in African American History? I put together a list for class this past term, which students clearly found helpful, & want to add to it if possible.

Yeah, y'all: we told you it would. LLM based "AI" concatenates strings of next-most-likely tokens. It bullshits. It makes shit up. An inventory situation where the systems need to "count" & "report" doesn't *change* that fundamental architecture; so why are these people continually surprised by it??

This is why the Democrats' current obsession with tax cuts is so dangerous. They're paving the way for more extreme proposals like ending progressive taxation altogether. Again, we don't need "Republican lite." We need a party that affirms that paying for the things government does is good.

I don't want to talk to my search. I want it to search.

There should be more screaming about all the corruption. And a corruption-watch/tally/list updated daily. Plus projections on DC federal buildings and airplanes trailing banners. Also Trump in jail.

If you're a Democrat and you confirm someone who refuses to unequivocally say "Joe Biden won the 2020 election," you should lose your job.

The number of times that the MS office suggestions are just straight up incorrect continues to go up. I don't need to CLOSE MY QUOTATION MARKS??????

The Onion should do a satire with a good outcome just to see if they can manifest it.

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.

AI is apparently so useful that, rather than just not use it, we must create a new step in the peer review process using money that doesn't exist solely to police its hallucinations.

The president of our local community college’s faculty union wrote this and it really nails something crucial a/b the problem of AI in higher ed that we’re not talking about. I wish every admin, dean, & chair would read this. (Link should be public) 🗃️ www.facebook.com/share/p/19n2...

Since Callais came down, Democracy Docket has published 81 pieces of redistricting content: 74 news stories 4 analysis pieces 3 op-eds I challenge you to find another news outlet with more detailed coverage. Support independent and pro-democracy media. bit.ly/4qmEiFz

I’m tired of the dishonesty of this entire debate. The folks calling for “perspectives different from their own“ are shutting down Women’s and African American studies because they hate differing opinions. Marginalized folks had a small foothold, and powerful people decided to push them out.

This is good news for free speech rights in Texas. Professors should not lose their jobs because administrators and politicians disagree with their opinions. Isn’t this a basic American value?

Judge orders Dr. Idris Robinson reinstated at Texas State University. “Professors do not give up their constitutional rights when they accept a job at a Texas public university,” said Dr. Aimee Villarreal, President of the Texas State University chapter of Texas AAUP-AFT. 👏👏

#politics #vote I'm going to say it again, because it seems we all have very short memories. Polling. Doesn't. Mean. Shit. We've been let down repeatedly. Voter turnout is what matters. Stop watching polling. Start planning to get your ass to the actual polling places. We only win by showing up.

I reject austerity. There's enough for all of us. I reject the "commonsense" scarcity bullshit espoused sometimes even by people who call themselves Leftists. There's enough for every single person to live in dignity.

I'm not saying generative AI is useless, I'm saying it should be kept away from children like the measles, from college students like cocaine, and from the masses like assault weapons. Oh, and with the environmental costs and the rampant plagiarism, annihilated like Nazis on Omaha Beach in '44.

AI guys: "Actually AI is a TOOL." Tool guys:

"This will transform historical research!" Cool but it's already being transformed out of existence by the same forces pushing these transformative technologies. Forgive us if we're skeptical of a moment that's telling us "This will help you do your work--which we despise--faster and better."

*laughs in archivist* It always amuses me at how little historical material is actually not only digitized but also made available online compared to what lay people think.

“Saying ‘this is not a golden calf’ as you put up a golden calf doesn't cancel that fact out,” one user on X wrote.

We need to seriously consider boycotting The Chronicle of Higher Education. This piece is the latest in a long line of increasingly neoliberalist and pro-AI trash. The days of CHE being a robust and practical source of discourse on higher ed is now over.

Because of course. newrepublic.com/post/210174/...

The hantavirus outbreak is currently being traced internationally. Human-to-human transmission cannot yet be ruled out. Learning how epidemiological tracing works is a good thing. If you are not already following #PublicHealth accounts on Bluesky, I'll list a few here that I rely on. 🧵

I always tell students in my early Christianity class that if they can make it through Gregory of Nyssa's On the Holy Spirit Against the Macedonian Spirit-Fighters on their own, no document or dossier a boss can throw at them will *ever* be challenging and it's true

No public service (education, health care, public transit, postal service etc.) should be run like a business. Business only serves investors. Public services serve the people. All of them.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

Grateful to have a good number of students who who get what’s happening and are resisting. Yes it’s dire, but if you teach, make the case and keep on making the case. It’s NOT inevitable.

We don't have Canvas, but I'm old enough to have taught high school when computer grading was new and remember being told to download grades every week in case the system crashed. We had paper gradebooks issued as backup. You bet I went straight to D2L this afternoon and downloaded!

gotta love when a whole education system makes itself vulnerable by making a large number of institutions dependent on a proprietary lms whose continuity or reliability they have no control over *chef's kiss* now let's do it again, but bigger, with ai

Canvas, the Strait of Hormuz for American education

While it's hard to tie directly, one of the downstream consequences of the Trump admin gutting CISA and the FBI cybercrime division is that hacks like this will become more common and widespread. Trump put a giant open for business sign for cyber crime orgs on US cyber infrastructure.

Nika! Now this is why you support the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and MLA! Hell yeah. Judgement (all 143 pages) here: www.acls.org/wp-content/u...

Okay, hear me out: Or maybe, maybe, Americans are not as dumb as you think.

I grew up on food stamps. I know unexpected expenses can mean painful choices, like gas to get to work or heat at night. Trump doesn’t get this. He raises your costs and acts proud.

JCK is wrong & this article is ridiculous, but universities need to emphasize what makes higher education different than AI / tech companies, and the answer to that question is that which they have marginalized for decades: curiosity-driven, rather than market-driven knowledge.

Could there be a timelier book? I think not.

I completely agree that Democrats should run on ripping out the diseased roots of corruption.

If your baby bleeds to death because of your ignorance, you should be charged with manslaughter. You anti-vaccine idiots can ruin your own lives, but not other people’s. www.propublica.org/article/more...

No, they are not. And instead of faffing about pretending that they are, we need a proper policy or failing that comprehensive review that encompasses HEI finances, teaching, research (including innovation) and civic functions.

It is my duty to inform you that there are baby capybaras at the Sacramento Zoo

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...