BREAKING: Following DOJ's defense earlier this week of its attorneys' actions in the Rhode Island Hospital subpoena case — www.justice.gov/opa/pr/state... — Judge Mary McElroy has referred the DOJ lawyers involved for disciplinary proceedings. Background: www.lawdork.com/i/198583977/...

I am late in marking the anniversary of the dedication of the Robert Gould Shaw 54th Massachusetts Memorial, 31 May 1897. Whenever I visit the Boston Common and State House, I make a pilgrimage to this greatest American work of public art (IMHO). links alt text

The House for the first time approves a war powers resolution to halt military action against Iran in rebuke of President Trump's war.

Pediatric flu vaccines provide significant protection against influenza among kids. For every 100 kids vaccinated, as many as 14 fewer catch the flu. That adds up to as many as a million cases of flu that could be avoided. www.healthday.com/health-news/...

Rep. Madeleine Dean: "What is true is that the president has lied about being on Epstein's plane, and the unredacted files prove that. There's a lot in here. It's all covered up."

Connecticut just passed a major AI law. www.ctinsider.com/politics/art...

DeLAURO: So the blanket immunity for the Trumps is not something you're going move back on? BLANCHE: It's not blanket immunity. That's not true D: It is! B: No it's not D: ..... B: Nothing has changed with that D: Friends, listen to what is being said here. This is really pretty extraordinary

DeLAURO: The Save America PAC paid you nearly $10 million in 2024 to serve as President Trump's personal defense attorney! My God, do you not find there's any conflict of interest in what you are doing here as the acting attorney general of the US? BLANCHE: I don't understand what you're saying

Thousands protest Ivanka Trump's and Jared Kushner's real estate development proposal in Albania youtu.be/PlhITbfWMVk?...

36. No true son of the working class can pretend like that. He knows that if he fails, he fails *downward*. (And if he gets a second chance, he’s *lucky*.) There is no time for such childish make-believe. He can’t afford it. www.editorialboard.com/why-graham-p...

I loved meeting @ajcampbellma.bsky.social in person! I had seen her speak at W. New England Law School about initiatives the @massago.bsky.social is taking to protect LGBTQ+ rights.

It remains baffling to me that we have a clear constitutional requirement that the president can't enrich himself on the job, something we had no problem enforcing strictly for hundreds of years, and then this sweaty conman came by and the nation just sorta shrugged it off.

Putin likened Armenia's EU bid to Ukraine's at an EAEU summit, warning of a "Ukrainian scenario," and vowed to raze any country attacking Kaliningrad The threats come days after the US signed a strategic partnership with Yerevan and Trump endorsed PM Pashinyan euromaidanpress.com/2026/05/30/p...

Just mind-blowing. elizabethginexi.substack.com/p/summary-of...

The description of how we used to do research when we went into the stacks and looked around at what else was on the shelves is really well done here.

This plan is actively *insane.* Airlines cannot divert large numbers of international flights from one city to another; they'd just have to cancel flights en masse, causing enormous economic damage that splashed waaaaay beyond a few big cities that were the target.

It's so easy to forget that people, even elected officials, can at any moment simply choose to do the right thing.

Woman fired by Indiana university over Charlie Kirk post to receive $225,000 legal settlement | Click on the image to read the full story

Why is this just so crazy to read from him. Explaining how the robots are not human. Just spelling it out

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Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...

Encountered this rhetoric locally today in a chat with somone post-Memorial Day ceremony. We had a civil and friendly discussion but wow it caught me off-guard.

Stumbled on the best ep of the A-Team. Murdoch pretended to be an East German reporter to goad the big East German honcho (Ferris Bueller’s dad) into a football match against a Texas oil tycoon (Hannibal) who ALSO owns a team. No, I don’t know why, this is just the plan.

Historian of slavery here the Pope is single handedly showing us the best of America in these very troubling times and needed on the 250th of the republic, to see the virtues that made the U.S. admired all over the world, the ability to admit a mistake. apnews.com/article/pope...

Thanks to all the leaders who are speaking out. Your voices matter but stronger actions do as well www.kyivpost.com/post/76765

In 1923 we knew that the best path to safety was not to rebuild cities for fast driving but to make driving less necessary. In 1923 we knew that the best path to economy was not to make gas cheaper but to make gas less necessary.

On Defining America. Now is the time to reclaim and defend America’s rule of law, American freedom, and American patriotism.

I am glad that the editors for Communication Education's Forum offered the opportunity for communication scholars who are in academic administration to share reflections on higher education. I offered some thoughts on educating for democracy. share.google/ed7NauvhKO8g...

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com “The midterms are critical to the president’s agenda. MAGA moms are important to his midterm fortunes. And the moms are not happy,” our columnist Tressie McMillan Cottom writes.

"What a time to be alive! We are finally freeing you from the rat race and placing you on the rat unemployment line.” Read @petridishes.bsky.social's pro-AI commencement speech that 2026 grads will definitely not boo: theatln.tc/39O6Wr1c 🎨: The Atlantic

Across Massachusetts, residents are pushing back against their new neighbors: data centers www.bostonglobe.com/... Similar challenges in Europe, which seeks to triple capacity in 7 years: www.politico.eu/arti... but different geographic pattern www.msn.com/en-us/mo... #AI

Will they be paying restitution for the damage they caused to the building out of their rewards??

"The deepest offense here is not the legal violations—grave as they are—but the unconscionable affront to the American people. That affront operates on two distinct levels."

#HigherEd #Massachusetts

#HigherEd #Massachusetts

Something I've been working on since 2020 (and will get back to it once my dissertation is complete) is Russia's inversion of Soviet internationalism to court far-right and white supremacist groups from the US and Western Europe.

"education worthy of democracy 'requires that the flow of public funds be tied to these democracy education goals.' That’s why the Massachusetts BHE/DHE decision to eliminate funding for the sole position dedicated to civic education in public higher education is so concerning." tinyurl.com/3awszd2z

Everyone’s calendars are filling quick but just wanted to give you a heads up

CNN: Would you be okay with people who were convicted of hurting police, getting taxpayer money? Blanche: Just to be clear, people that hurt police get money all the time.

Dear god it’s good to see someone demonstrate how to come for Reagan. It’s not hard! But there’s been no will.

Five hours later, this staggering, perverted act of gargantuan corruption is not even one of the top 10 news stories on the NYT homepage. NYT has normalized Trump’s degeneracy.

BREAKING: Hours before the deadline for RI Hospital to hand records over, a RI judge has blocked the DOJ from getting the medical info and names of transgender children in Rhode Island Judge Mary McElroy said the subpoena was issued in "bad faith" www.bostonglobe.com/2026/05/13/m...

BREAKING: Judge McElroy quashes DOJ's Rhode Island Hospital subpoena in full, calling out DOJ's conduct as "misrepresent[ing] salient facts" under oath. "[T]he Court GRANTS both Motions to Quash and enjoins the DOJ from seeking or receiving any documents related to this now invalid subpoena."

Heard a song I'd never heard before and bought tix for a concert almost before the end of the song. Never happened before.