Every ceasefire the IDF fire never ceases

@ryanenos.bsky.social and Steve Levitsky have been consistent voices against authoritarianism. Their latest: "American civil society has more than enough financial and organizational muscle to stop this authoritarian offensive. But it requires collective resolve." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

This is an absolutely terrific piece from @texastribune.org and reinforces my belief that the best coverage of right-wing cancelations occur at the local level, after years of the national media focusing on threats from the left. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

The Canadian government has finally recognized Palestinian statehood. But this symbolic gesture comes far too little and far too late. As @desmondcole.bsky.social and El Jones discuss, Mark Carney and establishment media remain complicit in Israel’s genocide. breachmedia.ca/canada-shift...

"Resolved: Debate is stupid" by Aisling McCrea in The Outline from 2018 "Wow, that is correct and there is no counterargument. Debate is indeed very stupid". theoutline.com/post/6709/de...

people pretend that debate signals and defends a commitment to high minded politics. what it elevates instead is performative dishonesty as a basic mode of politics www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

No one has been able to invent a technological innovation that is better for learning than simply reading books and getting together in small groups to talk about them.

To paraphrase @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social, if we want to rebuild democracy and society we have to make this kind of shameless lying politically and socially unacceptable.

Guy who doesn’t know anything thinks you shouldn’t either. ht @danhon.com

Excellent by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social in--irony aside--the organ of that elite panic. "Elite capture is a way for those with power to accommodate social progress through the performance of diversity while keeping their hold on political hegemony." www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/o...

Tenant unions are coming (VERY complimentary).

A horrifying statement published today by the Editorial Committee of the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency. "Without immediate intervention, the last reporters in Gaza will die" Translation from French to English by @cnorristrent.bsky.social:

Starting to feel like most humans aren’t equipped to deal with something that confidently lies and communicates those lies with a fluency almost no actual humans possess

About 84% of students attend colleges that are considered “non selective”. If these dudes really wanted to improve access they would push to make public universities free. These dudes don't want more students attending public colleges. They want universities to keep certain people out.

again, *feeding an occupied population* is one of the most basic responsibilities imaginable under international law. not doing so is an actual war crime*, as is using starvation as a weapon.

people come up with all kinds of fanciful math to justify billionaires' wealth but imo present political moment demonstrates conclusively that we need to tax billionaires at whatever rate will keep them focused on their own fucking business rather than our Medicaid and pediatric cancer research

This is what we teach in the advanced political philosophy classes.

“Campus leaders need to understand that their capitulations and concessions only further empower the greatest threat to higher education since the Red Scare, if not earlier.” (The AAUP contends that this moment is far worse.) Act Now. Never Cave. #DefendHigherEd

Anyone going to #APSA2025 and looking for affordable housing? Me and another grad student have two spots in a lovely 4-bed private dorm, 25-min walk to the Convention Centre. Just $350 for 4 nights! Feel free to DM or share

when do the checks and balances kick in

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

it cannot simultaneously be true that media outlets like the Times and the Post are the Fourth Estate, playing a vital Democratic function, and also that what occurs on its pages is harmless intellectual inquiry

we have an elite impunity problem and a lot of the people and institutions that nominally oppose Trump will burn down their own before admitting that this helped produce him

Fantastic interview with @davidrarmitage.bsky.social ! youtu.be/MaJmw8RVrOU

“Abolish ICE” is the moderate position. Radical is “prosecute every ICE employee under RICO.”

Today we wrapped up our 1st WHPT Conference – a fabulous gathering! Thanks to our wonderful contributors for inspiring papers: @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social @torreyj.bsky.social @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social

I try to be really careful about judging my colleagues too harshly in public. I know some of you laugh at that assertion. Heh. But what concerns me is the uptake of AI among education professionals signals, how much bureaucratic control the administration has usurped from the profession.

Fairly undeniable at this point that abolish ICE was always the only reasonable position

Very excited to share the program of the upcoming WHPT conference! It promises to be a wonderful couple of days, and we cannot wait! @maryjomacdonald.bsky.social @sophiecardin.bsky.social @abbsleblanc.bsky.social @rosscarroll.bsky.social @tmbejan.bsky.social

Not only did the president of Tufts University provide an excellent and strong declaration in support of a motion filed by Rümeysa Öztürk’s legal team in federal court. He providing an illuminating timeline of events around when she was seized by ICE. Sunil Kumar's declaration is worth reading!

jesus christ they want her dead

Even if you accept the premise and decision, which I absolutely do not, it is the simplest thing to phone the visa holder, tell them their visa is revoked and say they have a month to leave the country. Accosting someone on the street like a kidnapping is just a spectacle of terror.

The Massachusetts governor, the city, and the university needs to drop everything to locate and free this girl and make sure this doesn't happen again. This is DEFCON-1. If they do this to someone who wrote an op-ed in a college newspaper, they will do this to anyone they don't like.

The Canadian government needs to provide guidance to Canadian citizens living in, visiting, or considering visiting the United States of America if this is how they are going to run things down there.

so far I'm seeing a lot of universities respond to grant terminations with "oh I guess now we don't have that grant anymore" instead of "your assertion of a grant termination is executive overreach, see you in court" So, universities: respectfully, what the fuck?

I've been screaming it for years: the right in Canada is headed down an American-style path on almost every issue because the right-wing media plays that tune, and the right-wing pretend media plays that tune. It's headed in one direction, and we have never had a clearer view of where that leads.

I think people are mistaken when they say the chuds are "mistakenly" destroying real research in an attempt to target Marxist cultural anthropologists or whatever. Republicans are trying to destroy **universities** because they sustain communities where Democratic voters live.

Folks don’t want talk about this though

In today's think piece, Parker Cotton discusses how utopian fiction of the extra-terrestrial influenced emergent ideas of tolerance in the early modern era.

Canada is so fucked. Carney is truly a necessary evil because we all know PP would be a Trump puppet- but they are using this moment to deepen neo-liberalism and continue dismantling any sort of social safety net AND Indigenous Ppl are in the crosshairs.

So ICE has effectively disappeared a student for protesting Israel's genocide, separating him from his 8 month pregnant wife. Pure fascism

shameful and outrageous