‘Women were more often engaged in agricultural work – especially milking cows but also other forms of animal husbandry, along with weeding, sowing and harvesting crops – than they were in care work.’ @tomlukejohnson.bsky.social on early modern working patterns. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Adam means that she is the daughter of immigrants, but it is worth emphasizing that *every* U.S. citizen who has not been naturalized is a birthright citizen, either by the 14th Amendment or by statute.

Just came across some obviously AI-altered photos of Emmett Till during class prep & I cannot stress enough how truly grotesque it is that this technology exists in this way at all. It’s an attack both on knowledge & human dignity itself.

if you don’t like the process of writing then don’t be a fucking writer, it’s not that complicated

Who’s gonna tell him

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

"Mass immigration is good, socially and economically; is the single most significant factor in America’s current position as the global locus of commerce and culture; we’ve been lucky to have it; and we should want more," writes @felipedlh.bsky.social. newrepublic.com/article/2080...

I said this in replies elsewhere, but I want to say it loudly here. Anything other than a fullthroated affirmation of birthright citizenship in this country by SCOTUS is an act of treason. It is grounds for immediate impeachment. It is a violation of every oath they have made.

Supreme Court legalizes torture.

you notice this everywhere when you really start paying attention, and it’s totally infuriating

You can’t really learn much if you’re having AI generate your homework, your papers, and everything else you need to complete a class, but for some reason universities keep shoving AI into the learning environment on the assumption that it’s an improvement.

"Israel" doesn't start with a J.

The NYT quotes a young conservative operative without identifying him as such. On the left, the NYT quotes him wondering why anyone would think Trump is different from any other president. And then on the right, is that kid's Substack insisting that Trump is different from any other president.

In all seriousness though, elder millennial jokes aside, I think it’s important to resist the media framing of any mainstream resistance to the status quo as just the shrill nonsense of middle-aged women with nothing better to do. This isn’t the first time they’ve run out this playbook.

here’s my review prospect.org/2026/03/28/p...

Sweden, too. 15 years after Sweden began replacing textbooks with computers, they allocated over €100M to bring printed books back into schools for core subjects. Teachers, parents, and education officials cited concerns about reading comprehension, reduced attention span, weaker writing ability.

Today in AI: Canada rejected the PR application of a McMaster postdoc from the Sorbonne who works in the immunology of aging because the generative AI being used to process applications (😱) entirely hallucinated her credentials. Everyone involved should be fired. archive.is/ELrCI#select...

theft with a soupçon of fraud

"[R]ecent precedent tells us that principled, public outrage can make Trump back down...An antiwar movement could lead the way." Jeremy Varon on the war in Iran and the need for a re-energized antiwar movement. jacobin.com/2026/03/vide...

A really thoughtful, in-depth piece on my book THERE IS NO PLACE FOR US is now up on @cnn.com, by John Blake. It gets at what I've come to think of as the "shadow realm" of America's housing crisis: the vast, largely unseen world of the working homeless.

So he won but he cannot protect the Hormuz strait but the US doesn’t need it anyway and once he has won (which he already did) it actually won’t need protecting and in any case it’s an easy military operation that others can do (but the US can’t). Ok.

It is Trump who humiliates himself and the country he leads with his juvenile and offensive outbursts. To say that Takaichi emerged "largely unscathed" is to take the measure of diplomatic success from the standpoint of the middle school bully. And what kind of euphemism is "eyebrow raising"?

We as Americans cannot fathom how profoundly destabilizing Trump’s insane Greenland saber-rattling was to European allies. It was a rupture that will never be fully repaired — and yet America has already forgotten it.

The NY Times continues to erroneously call the SAVE Act a "voter I.D. bill." I did a deep dive into its history and explain that ID was only added this year and is nots it core. Stop spreading GOP talking points and focus on the facts. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/the-...

Welcome to the party, Britannica

Yglesias rewriting his same “Dems must moderate” take for the 5,000th time and Peters credulously advancing a right-wing, anti-left story/framing for the 1,000th time is almost boring. The real damage is that they launder their BS through the NYT, which gives it mainstream legitimacy.

Really powerful letter with lots of great passages, including this eye-popping one. Proud to see so many great folks at UCLA Law among the signatories.

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Deeply gratified to see this rich and surpassingly engaging essay/review of my The Second Emancipation, by the estmable Adom Getachew. www.thenation.com/article/worl...

2.5 million views

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I don't think grammarly should just get to do "sorry deleting now" after ventriloquizing living and dead people without their consent to make money

The March 18, 1890 issue of Wilmington's Evening Journal had a real nice preview of the future RFJ Jr. wants: Phrenological, nostril-inserted cream balm hay-fever cures GOFF'S GIANT GLOBULES a solution to both pregnancy and LOST or FAILING MANHOOD www.newspapers.com/article/the-...

"The Israeli evacuation orders signal a desire to make this whole world disappear: to displace a fifth of the country’s population, to unravel a dense urban fabric and to erase a history of struggle and dislocation."

Who could possibly have foreseen that war on Iran would (a) make Iran retaliate by closing the strait of Hormuz, which (b) could disrupt world oil markets, enriching Russia and penalizing most everyone else? Who, indeed, except EVERYONE WHO HAS EVER THOUGHT FOR ONE MINUTE about the situation.

For those wanting to know more about Iran and voices from inside the country (rather than the fash-y monarchists outside), Naghmeh Sohrabi has been translating pieces from folks inside on her blog: truethings.naghmehs.com

yep. and this isn’t a new dynamic. the political press loved bush for the same reason and before him, reagan. a professional culture defined by laziness and indifference to substance.

Cool timing, or not, while Times Guild members are currently bargaining over AI: newsguild.org/inside-ai-ne...

As a former union rep, I know how vital unions are to protecting workers and winning fair pay. But we're all tired of the backroom deals. We deserve transparent leadership and independent unions.

100% agree on democratizing unions. Should be a requirement when we pass the PRO Act. All power to the rank and file.

State media watch: The image of Trump saluting - without his baseball hat that you can buy at his website - is falsely labeled as Trump acknowledging the soldiers killed on March 1. This was not a mistake - its also on the Fox News website.

I'm no fancy political consultant, but, hey, if you're in Dem comms, you should notice that Fox News panicked over Trump wearing a cheap Trump merch baseball cap to receive the bodies of soldiers he got killed for no reason he can articulate, and you should absolutely lean into that.

Senate comity is going to destroy our country. These people are all in a little club together, and they care more about each other than they care about the people they serve.

finally watched Casablanca. wild in this day and age for something to actually live up to the hype

Please send a letter to your city council member and follow up with a call too! actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

even if this were not the US and Israel we were talking about and even if the last twenty, fifty or whatever years had not happened, preemptively attacking another nation is a war crime. that really should be enough to say. and yet.

EXCLUSIVE: At more than 30 installations, U.S. commanders told troops the war on Iran is a Christian war. The Military Religious Freedom Foundation has been “inundated” with more than 110 complaints. One NCO said they were told the U.S. war is to bring about Armageddon and the return of Jesus…

*unless in Minnesota