Ok I'm kind of into Canada's scarf coats

I do want to shout-out my fellow sociologists, who have collectively created a discipline so woke that not a single one of our introductory textbooks can make it past Florida's censors. Great work everyone.

Watching the Olympic opening ceremony and my people are weird af

This thread is honestly everything great about the internet. Replies and all.

Regarding the Discourse, lemme just say that if you can't draw, yes you can. Everyone can draw, and folks will almost certainly respond more positively to your stick figures than some generic "A.i." slop. Also, there are LOADS of resources for free images. Like this! 🧵 www.nga.gov/artworks/fre...

“At the peak of the adoption boom in the 2000s, one in 100 Guatemalan children was put up for adoption abroad.” Some parallels here to what’s come to light about Korea’s adoption program. As in Korea, the Guatemalan state has begun to acknowledge historical problems and abuses. The US has not.

This is one of the best visual representations I have seen of how Italy is actually a bunch of smashed together societies (as are all nation states because borders are very pretend and also enormously consequential).

This Friday is Fridaying hard. I have actually gotten ahead of a lot of tasks this week and am having so much trouble getting the last 5 or 6 little ones across the lines. The ADHD brain fairy is like "you have done enough this week" and also "you need to stress all weekend about not doing enough."

And notice, really REALLY notice, how every single aspect of our society is designed to keep us constantly overwhelmed with awful information. That doesn't mean close your eyes and pretend it isn't real. It does mean know the difference between staying aware and repeatedly traumatizing yourself.

One of the dangers in attributing the Epstein horrors only to conspiratorially networked power is the inability to confront the ways it has (and does) happen in our own communities, with comparatively much less power. As Derrick Bell and George Carlin taught us- consider interest convergence. (1/9)

Honestly, the info system is so overwhelmed and broken right now between the enshittification and just complete brain breaking horrors. One good indicator of this is that I can't remember another time in which a famous news anchors' mother being kidnapped and ransomed wouldn't be inescapable news.

The Guthrie family is pleading to whoever may have their missing mother as the first purported ransom deadline passes. The FBI is offering a $50K reward for info. Anyone with info should contact the Pima County Sheriff’s Dept at: 520-351-4900 or call 911. www.ms.now/chris-jansin...

Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist

He's racist, we been knew that. That's what the conniptions over "woke" and "DEI" and immigrants and everything else has always been about. You wanna be useful? Rebuke this shit with deeds and hire us. Stand with us. Respect us and our leadership. I don't need pity or condolences. I need a job.

20% of the students at Justice Page Middle School in SW Minneapolis are attending remotely b/c they're terrified to leave their homes. Their families can't work & rent is past due. Parents at Justice Page are trying to raise 100k to cover the needs of 50+ families — can we raise 10k of it? ⬇️⬇️⬇️

I have good coverage with my employer subsidizing plans at 100% for individuals and I only have a spouse and 1 dependent and I pay almost 1500 a month (pre tax out of my check). With a pretty big deductible.

Exactly! Don’t worry about why I’m mad, why aren't you?

I’m damn near 40. This is about to be a whole damn lifetime dealing with this. My nephews are just reaching high school; they’re going to spend their lifetimes dealing with this, after my parents and grandparents spent their whole lives dealing with this, and that fact should make more people angry.

I have watched this 4 times already

People are saying that Bluesky is requesting an official Wright Museum handle to cross-post this content…

I teach this every semester.

Sharing this resource, as I do every so often, from @jfrejnyc.bsky.social on understanding antisemitism. Important resource for separating the stuff from the stuff. www.jfrej.org/news/2017/11...

these conditions are horrifying. this is an amazing story of community organizing strategy and commitment, as well as another example of the criminalization of mutual aid @lataco.bsky.social

The public made noise for Liam Ramos and it got him released from Dilley. Now we must make noise for 7 year old Diana Crespo. Her parents were taking her for emergency medical care when ICE grabbed them, and she’s rotting in the camp sick and exposed to measles. Get them out!

HELP FOR SOMEONE KIDNAPPED BY ICE! Oliver Aguillon is the nephew of one of my mom's friends, and his family is raising funds to help fight for his freedom. Please consider making a donation! If you can't, hit repost and/or share with comrades by email/text. Thank you!

All these men driving women out of their fields with giggly idiot grabassery and then bloviating to the public about how the lack of women is proof of male intellectual superiority... I hate them all. I hate them so much.

Fact that he keeps suggesting this is needed in cities with Black leadership and large voting blocs really ought to factor into the coverage much more than it has.

I think often of the women in the Louis CK story—how they all left comedy and never went back, but he’s still going. It’s everywhere and it’s such a loss for them and for us—for things they’ll never make that we’ll never see.

This pup found a stick shaped like an old timey pipe earlier today and has already solved three mysteries. 13/10

So they laid off dozens of people yesterday and still managed to use two people to write this?

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What a useful resource for organizing.

Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.

In case it isn’t obvious, “switch ICE to night raids” was never on the list of demands from the people of Minnesota. There’s something uniquely cruel in telling people to expect that they will be abducted in their sleep.

Consistently students are the ONLY thing keeping me in the professor game.

How the Daughters and Granddaughters of Former Slaves Secured Voting Rights for All. Historian Martha S. Jones takes a look at the question of race versus gender in the quest for universal suffrage www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...

The full clip, including McKellen's setup of the scene, is here, along with info about the riots (Evil May Day) and the text of the speech itself. kottke.org/26/02/the-st...

I'm president of my synagogue and I am way behind on figuring out how to top last year's Muppet Purim Schpiel. Meanwhile, my Catholic-raised Pagan mom has been running lines with her friend a couple times a week so that they are feeling ready for their schpiel. "It's for Purim, right?" My mom asked.

This morning at the Minnesota State Capitol. An ice sculpture that reads "PROSECUTE ICE". I'm told the organization behind the sculpture is Common Defense.

Really enjoying Colbert's final season of "fuck it, we're going down swinging" tour.

Every time you hear that such and such major is being eliminated because it isn't popular or it doesn't make money or it doesn't serve the streamlined mission of the institution, you should think about the WaPo cuts. What is a paper without books and sports? A college without history and languages.

Swinging for the bleachers this morning, my friends, asking my students to reconsider the game they are playing (GPA and CV values) and reclaim what they came here to grow. I made a list of one-minute moves to practice these goods below - would love your suggestions ⬇️

Tonight's easy dinner- about 10 brussel sprouts shredded in the food processor and sauteed with garlic, olive oil, lemon, quinoa in the rice cooker with veg broth and adobo, pan fried "not chicken patty." 25 minutes and very filling.

quick, someone help, we've got a vegetable situation

We gotta come up with a better system than “everything rests on whether these twelve billionnaires are nice”