One of the more important stock-taking moments to watch a bootlegged news program censored in your country.

Absolutely right. AI might be able to summarize (poorly) what we currently know, but a major goal of historical research is to find the hidden surprises out there. Let me illustrate …

The academic jobs crisis can only be remedied through organizing and building power. The path of white grievance is not only racist and wrongheaded; it’s counterproductive, as it emboldens the reactionary forces that seek to demolish higher education altogether.

Not sure I have it in me to watch The Voice of Hind Rajab, but I'm so glad it's been made and that @ahmedmoor.bsky.social has written this beautiful, gutting review www.thenation.com/article/cult...

I just listened to this, and the Susannah Glickman segment, just, wow. This is a person I will be paying a lot of attention to in the future.

"Faculty and staff—who have given decades of their lives to the university—have been given less than two weeks to accept insulting “offers” and pack up as early as January 2, 2026." Please support our colleagues at @newschoolaaup.bsky.social actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...

A+ work here from Penn's student paper.

This is fantastic — one former student of mine on the podcast of another former student of mine. Check out @m-r-glass.bsky.social chatting with Dylan Gottlieb on Who Makes Sense?

Proud to be part of this effort @lpeproject.bsky.social/@lpeblog.bsky.social! Check out the great lineup for the upcoming ALPE conference and register! And pls consider joining the new org. All info is in the linked post: lpeproject.org/blog/lpe-2-0...

After my dad’s health forced him to retire, I spent a decade organizing his research and uncollected writing, finishing after he died in 2018. Now @tomsugrue.bsky.social has edited this volume of it (and written a great intro) for @uchicagopress.bsky.social. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Couldn’t Sam Altman just ask ChatGPT how to make itself profitable

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

"'It speaks volumes about what happened at this restaurant that, given the challenges that the NLRB is facing, that they have chosen to act on this issue,' said Benjy Cannon, Local 25’s communication director, referring to the gridlock the agency has faced since January."

Philly-area grad students (regardless of institution) -- I have 1-2 spots in my spring seminar, Readings in the History of Capitalism. We'll meet on Wednesdays from 2-4:20. Email or DM if you're interested.

After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts www.nber.org/papers/w34524 via @florianederer.bsky.social

Volumeheads: A new Q&A with the one and only Solvej Balle in our newsletter today newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/autumn-cam...

My new Intercept piece on the NYPD’s targeting of MLK is up today, with never-before-published police surveillance photos of King.

Feds suspect arson: "Two days before an apartment complex once hailed as a shining example of Philadelphia’s urban renewal went up in flames, its owner, embattled city landlord Phil Pulley, transferred the vacant property to a New York investment firm." www.inquirer.com/news/phil-pu...

🚨We analyzed 138 million geocoded property tax records to quantify how municipal boundaries spatially overlap onto economic segregation in every US metro area—creating disparities in localities’ ability to fund public goods. And we made an interactive map of our results! [1/16]

worth reading the whole thing but here’s the quote about the EndTimes coalition. @susglickman.bsky.social

Oh hey, @jamellebouie.net is starting a book recommendation series— OH HEY! 🗃️

We are all so screwed because the entire global economy has bet on an industry that can’t make money. Read about the massive fraud: open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...

The thing that these instructors most appreciate about this format is having 1-on-1 conversations with all of their students Can confirm re: check ins I had with my class yesterday & today. They may be humoring me, but these meetings were invigorating (for me at least). I know this doesn't scale...

My seminar tomorrow is talking about modernism and neoclassicism in the Trump administration, centered around the amazing “regional car dealership rococo” essay by @katewagner.wehwalt.net. mcmansionhell.com/post/7810945...

We're open for pitches of any length! press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/se...

Philadelphia—I make monthly donations to Nationalities Service Center, a century-old immigrant services agency here, and to Juntos, a community-led immigrant rights organization in South Philly. If you have & to spare, these orgs are essential infrastructure.

Hard, good reading by Jeet Heer www.thenation.com/article/soci...

this story is the perfect one to share with anyone who extols the virtues of big tech and big data to improve our lives or address our problems. this is what these tools are for, built by bad people who want to hurt us. and I don't think we get to liberation using them. I think we get to hell.

I spoke to @lkatfield.bsky.social about her new book, Furious Minds: The Making of the MAGA New Right www.unpopularfront.news/p/talking-to...

photos of Trump sleeping through yesterday's Oval Office event via Andrew Harnik of Getty

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

An excerpt of my @pennpress.bsky.social book -- on school bonds in Levittown -- was just published in FINANCIAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. 🤑 Freely available here: fhmagazine.org/tRDd/p18/p18.

If you liked the 2008 bank bailout, you're going to LOVE the 2026 AI (and crypto) bailout garymarcus.substack.com/p/if-you-tho...

Faculty are the primary stewards and enactors of the mission of research and teaching; knowledge creation and dissemination. The administration exists only in its capacity to forward that mission.

Johnson’s refusal to seat Grijalva feels like a foreshadowing of this GOP plan to stay in power post-2026 regardless of the outcome of the election. This thread is about a well connected Oregon MAGA activist who just podcasted it out.

Very helpful public good here

Read this @gregsargent.bsky.social piece on a super important @rooseveltinstitute.org report coming out today, which draws key lessons from the Biden experience for how our side can do better the next time we have the reins of power. newrepublic.com/article/2023...

I think if you want a theory of how Democrats “decide to win”, you need to begin with the organizational substructure of the party. My @catalystjournal.bsky.social article from July lays it out: www.catalyst-journal.com/2025/07/why-...

Trump's "friend" who donated $130 to pay (a small portion of) what's owed to troops moved to Wyoming to escape taxes, complained that Black people were “even more belligerent” after social programs were expanded in the 1960s and ’70s, and described social safety net programs as “slavery redux.”

One of the better takes on the Platner episode. Further proof of the excellence of @defector.com and the importance of independent platforms. Thanks @davidjroth.bsky.social Gift link: defector.com/what-job-is-...

“If you’re a moderate party and you are talking about what we call cultural issues – migration, integration – in a way that is dictated by the rhythm of the far right, that’s the whole idea of agenda setting.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

This article is so very much my kind of shit

I’ve come to understand that a lot of it comes from deceiving senior citizens open.substack.com/pub/data4dem...

@geraldo-cadava.bsky.social with an amazing piece on what it's like to be in Chicago in the age of ICE www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

I don’t know how to make it matter but I want to pay a lot more attention to the people who refuse along the way than the little fascists destroying everything. The student editors, this fired director. People who rise to the ethical challenges before them, for no glory.

Give this piece a few minutes. The water is nearly boiling. www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-... Emergency Triad: The Chicago Rubicon and What Comes Next

And another beauty just arrived! Congrats @m-r-glass.bsky.social!

A blistering piece by Penn historian Ben Nathans on the dangers of Trumps’s Faustian compact www.thedp.com/article/2025... Benjamin Nathans | Autonomy or obedience | The Daily Pennsylvanian

OPINION: "Signing on to the Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education offered by the Trump administration would end the school's ability to determine its own future." — The Inquirer Editorial Board

good read even if you are not in uva networks