South River Forest would've still been one of the four lungs of Atlanta had officials followed the law and expert guidance. In retrospect, this was a dry run for Trump 2.0. Here's @nonmodernist.com's Atlanta Press Club Award-nominated photo essay for @thexylom.com about what we really lost:

In 2024, my "Cop City" reporting for @thexylom.com won me an Atlanta Press Club Award. Now, @wabe.org confirms what we knew all along: DeKalb County's parkland swap and open contempt of a judge's order to reopen said park has led to no new park but one emboldened Republican now running for Congress

As news breaks that a union leader just beat a billionaire + Trump backed Republican in a #Texas Senate race, let's remember that the state is attempting to bury anti-ICE protesters with decades in prison. Building strong movements means fighting repression. newrepublic.com/article/2041...

After a cop got shot, Prairieland ICE protesters face terrorism charges. Will Alex Pretti’s killing sway the jury?

at the end of the day i think stranger things had an interesting premise, a couple of iconic images, and a few moments of accidentally compelling writing… but not much else :/

Welcome to the Public Domain, STRONG POISON (1930) ☠️ 📚 With a cover like this, how could we not be intrigued? Read the first story starring Harriet Vane as she stands trial for poisoning her lover & meets Lord Peter Wimsey. Learn more ➡️ blog.archive.org/public-domai... #PublicDomainDay

A judge in Georgia has officially dismissed the bogus RICO charges against 61 defendants in the movement to stop Cop City

blocking this 🐈 so he can become a cushion !

The UNC system just released its final policy on mandatory syllabi disclosure, stating that syllabi are university (not faculty) IP and certain course info must be posted on new, publicly searchable databases before every semester. A thread about what's changed from the draft I reported on earlier:

saving this to send my dean

For those working on next semester's syllabi: www.aaup.org/about/progra...

if john podesta wanted to do anything other than vomit buzzwords, he would probably have learned that united auto workers represents over 36,000 academic laborers in the UC system alone

A huge proportion of the instructional college faculty doesn't have access to employer health insurance, let alone a special faculty lounge.

One argument I used to make to my students about why it was important to learn history (and historical thinking) is that someone was always going to be trying to tell you things were natural or had always been this way and that you needed to be able to see that as an exercise of power.

season 5 of macgyver has an episode about earth first-adjacent forest defenders with a faux judi bari who is trying to unite the loggers and environmentalists in a common cause???? also there’s a yakuza guy in the mix

HIRE BRADFORD NOW!!! literally one of the best sports journalists out there right now

someone should invent a thing that's like a university but it's goal is to facilitate learning

okay speaking of tubi, i have been watching macgyver on there and i am so hot for 1987 bruce mcgill, it’s embarrassing 🙈

Tubi is such a crazy streaming service. It’s like if the Criterion Closet was in a gas station

Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards

Our students are raising money to keep their magazines going after the University of Alabama suspended them for foregrounding the voices of women and African Americans. If you've got the means, please support them. givebutter.com/F0LNOA

in this episode, the @thedugoutpod.bsky.social crew sit down with members of the DFW Defense Committee to break down the state & federal repression facing the defendants beginning with who they are. they also explore how prosecutors, the DOJ, ICE & the media have misled the public. 1/2

bored at the airport pickup lot. let’s fight about the best bond theme song. it’s “the world is not enough”

how long till a rian johnson riff on mikey and nicky starring jgl and noah segan becomes viable

This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.

I hope our names are touching 🫶

“School officials have created a Microsoft Copilot prompt to review course descriptions with an eye toward avoiding ‘advocacy-oriented or prescriptive terms.’” Terms: “dismantling, decolonizing, interrogating, challenging, centering, combating, liberation, resistance, activism, justice oriented”

you’re in the heart of texas whenever you get an email from a stranger who saw your name on the news and it’s about his personal experience of kennedy’s assassination

You are ABSOLUTELY NOT going to regret listening to this bird:

oh my god yes

If you’re a lesbian, I suggest joshi puroresu.

“I believe in a world where there’s more kindness, care, empathy, and love.” #FreeDes, facing decades in prison and deportation for the “crime” of allegedly transporting anarchist zines, or what’s being called “guilty by literature.” See freedes.net DONATE: www.gofundme.com/f/get-artist...

In an exclusive interview, Daniel Sanchez Estrada says he was arrested for transporting anarchist zines after a protest against ICE in Texas.

If you have ever enjoyed or learned from a zine, would you join me in sharing or donating to this GoFundMe, for an artist who is a friend of friends and who is currently incarcerated and facing deportation related to allegedly having and moving some anarchist zines?

it happened to me: i watched three seasons of a show about if two people would kiss and they did not kiss

Not only is Bo French a white nationalist conspiracy theorist, but he has spent the last few months melting down about a university in my metroplex not being Christian enough, probably contributing to their decision to axe the ethnic and gender studies departments.

this is the man who successfully harassed my university into closing 2 departments :((((((((

i know that the universe loves me because it created the mid-2000s british television show “rosemary and thyme”

please toss my friend tex a couple of dollars, he’s taken “going through it” to hitherto unheard of levels and could really use the help

soon this will be a cat

hello and good day specifically to WEINGARTEN RIGHTS :)

😌

Jesus to his disciples:

@nlg.org Director of Mass Defense, Xavier de Janon, and members of the DFW Support Committee speak about the Prairieland Case and the Trump administrations ongoing threats against the left and "Antifa" thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11...

Perhaps Epstein killed himself because he was sick of Larry Summers’s shit.

Please read this update regarding the #PrairielandDefendants & the pressure the state has been using on them to accept plea deals Also visit dfwdefendants.wordpress.com & write to the defendants to give them more support & connections to the outside Fundraiser: givesendgo.com/supportDFWpr...

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Last week: There’s a particular kind of despair that comes from watching an institution abandon its principles in real time. It’s not the dramatic betrayal of a single moment. It’s slower than that.

Never forget that the greatest damage to higher education by the House Unamerican Activities Committee was voluntarily self-inflicted by universities against their own faculty. www.lawfaremedia.org/article/proc...