Which is EXACTLY why Congress has exclusive constitutional authority to impose tariffs. But Trump wants to be an autocrat, and unilateral tariff authority forces CEOs to come to him begging, then he can extort what he wants from them personally. www.cnbc.com/2025/09/25/k...

Been one of my favorite bits for years. Posting now for no particular reason

"Yeah, it was clearly illegal, but what are going to do?" becoming the defining legal mantra of the Trump era. All of this conditioned by SCOTUS refusing to act with any sort of urgency until the damage is done *except* when Trump asks them to jump in to facilitate the damage.

@kenklippenstein.bsky.social with the receipts, actually talking to the shooter's friends. Surprise! Not the left, or even MAGA. Another white kid who spent countless hours online and "was an edgelord who wanted someone to get blamed … to rile people up.” www.kenklippenstein.com/p/the-ice-sh...

Disney/ABC put Kimmel back on air. Sinclair & Nexstar are blocking him. These are state-licensed stations funded by ads, not Disney. Pressure advertisers, file FCC complaints, and push back on corporate censorship. #FreeSpeech #NoKings #Kimmel

"Criminals make up a shrinking share of ICE arrests" www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Bucknell University has announced it will close its press in 2026 because it "only" publishes scholarly books and doesn't serve undergraduates. The press's students disagree. @bucknellupress.bsky.social @aupresses.bsky.social #feedingtheelephant networks.h-net.org/group/discus...

I’m working on a column about faculty motivation in the current landscape where -new jobs can be scarce -academic publishing is messy -grants are being axed -merit pay is spotty If you have perspective and experience you’d care to share, please let me know. (1/2)

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

First time all week the kiddo hasn’t come in in the middle of the night, and there was a fox screaming outside our open windows for like twenty minutes 😫. I wonder what it’s like to sleep

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Just a reminder before the “big announcement” today. Autism was discovered in 1911 and the modern definition of Autism came in 1943. Tylenol wasn’t widely used until the 1950s. Anyone trying to tell you that Tylenol causes Autism isn’t someone that should be taken seriously.

Absolutely terrible, terrible news. Trinity University has announced that Trinity University Press will close at the end of the fiscal year--described by one author as a "South Texas outlet for stories and culture" for which there is no replacement frankly. Awful. www.tpr.org/arts-culture...

Call for abstracts! Special issue of the journal Arv – Yearbook of Nordic Folklore. We invite articles that study changes in the interaction patterns between human beings and beings that are more than human. #folklore #academicsky #monsterstudies

So um. This is what's been up with me for the last year. I hate hate hate asking but very much appreciate your support. www.gofundme.com/f/fund-me-if...

And they shouldn’t be!

We are fast becoming a banana republic, with two standards of justice. If you oppose the leader, you go to jail just for speech. If you're a loyalist, you get immunity for your crimes. That's what happens in Iran - not the United States. This is a decision moment for America.

If you needed more incentive to contact the advertisers on your local Sinclair station, let me remind you of this:

this, too, is political violence

There was a podcast years ago about protecting nuclear waste sites by breeding cats who would glow in proximity (but be fine) and encouraging folklore warning people away from glowing cats. Can’t remember what it was but I swear I’m not making this up

Between this & zero traffic deaths in Helsinki last year.... The simple truth that's somehow utterly unintelligible to capitalism & those in its thrall is that doing the right thing by the vulnerable (be they houseless, pedestrians, or anything else) makes the world BETTER FOR EVERYONE.

Think FDR. The modern regulatory state didn’t exist in the 1930s. The New Deal basically reinvented the entire concept of the federal govt. Whole agencies brought into existence. It’s okay to think big. It’s okay to tune out the pundits and consultants who seemed trapped in thinking small.

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Mohammed. Mohammed is 25 years old and had recently completed his studies in mechanotronics engineering. He lost his home and work and is struggling to survive in tents with his three small children Zakaria, 4, Mohammed, 3 and Elias, 1.

I think one additional reason that time feels so full right now is that people not paying attention have not fully grasped how bad things could get *and* at the same time the people paying attention are often forgetting how many "good" paths remain open -- both depending on choices still to be made.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

Last week, Israel targeted and massacred 34 newspaper reporters in Yemen. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists, it was the second deadliest attack on journalists ever recorded.

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

So much this!

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

HARDEST PHOTO OF 2025 JUST DROPPED

I hate telling this story, but when tear gas is in the news... telling always feels importantm Tear gas is an abortifacient. When I was tear gassed, we were trying for a baby. The following day, I bled in a way I never have before. Like no period of my life before or since. Horror movie stuff.

Harriet Tubman was born while John Adams was alive and died when Ronald Reagan was alive. Adams: 1735-1826 Tubman: 1822-1913 Reagan: 1911-2004 When Adams was born, Hydrogen had yet to be identified. When Ronald died, he could’ve been listening to Hoobastank.

I think this abbreviated version conveys the practical implications of the longer one: Draft Bill Would Authorize Trump to Kill People www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/u...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Riley Fanning. #NewYorkerCartoons

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

Trump is launching a full blown attack on free speech while his harem of billionaires buys up every media platform. This is no coincidence. It’s a coordinated attack on your fundamental right to speak freely without worrying if you’ll lose your job or worse.

I say this with my whole entire chest, as the mom of a toddler: THIS IS BULLSHIT. This will make lifesaving vaccines less available, confuse ppl, decrease vaccine uptake, and KILL CHILDREN. Everyone who supposed this has the blood of children on their hands. SEND SKEET.

Because you showed up outside Tesla dealerships Musk was forced out of Washington. Since then he’s been busy shitposting & trying to resurrect his flailing empire via xAI grifting. This deep dive is a great look inside just how badly that is going. Spread the word: xAI is falling apart, as is Musk.

Any Yiddish folklorists on here?

On Tuesday 7 October the team from @nfsengland.bsky.social will be giving a free presentation at 7.30pm about the National Folklore Survey for England at Crediton Library in Devon. Come and learn about the project and chat with others. Refreshments available Free tickets from bit.ly/flaevents

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it. Medical justification: none. Consequences: catastrophic. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

Canceled my Hulu/disney subscription. They ask for a reason- chose Other and wrote in canceling Kimmel and that they are bowing down to the authoritarian administration

Where the separate divisions of ANTIFA landed on the beaches of Normandy on June 6, 1944:

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

there's a whole Amendment about how theyre allowed to do that

Blue iguana climbs back from the brink. Grand Cayman’s blue iguana, once down to fewer than 25 individuals, now numbers more than 1,000 in the wild. Captive breeding, habitat restoration and community engagement reversed what was nearly a Caribbean extinction. CNN buff.ly/GKiJpcz #ShareGoodNewsToo

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The #AAUP recently shared guidelines for how academic workers can protect themselves online, Incliding first response resources Please check them out (no library puns intnded.)

But no matter the motivation one thing remains constant. These folks wouldn’t be able to kill so easily if they didn’t have such easy access to guns. You can’t shoot someone if you don’t have a gun in your hand. You just can’t.

Every major talent that works for ABC and Disney should refuse to show up for work until Jimmy Kimmel is reinstated. Marvel movies need to shutdown. Ditto the sitcoms. Collective boycott. Corporations love money more than anything,& this will harm them and force them to do the right thing.