"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Someone's gonna have to explain to my kids why fascists took their ability to watch Frozen away.

“ABC and CBS are making a serious miscalculation. Their servility to Trump will not earn them peace, only greater pressure.” That’s the German professional association of journalists, @djv.de, calling on major US media to support their journalists instead of preemptively silencing them.

Absolutely disgraceful.

Jeff Sharlet is smart and we should listen to him.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Sherbert has decided my work day is done.

Our pediatrician has been telling us they are “forbidden” from ordering shots so hopefully this means we can get our kids (and ourselves!) vaxxed now.

Parents, teachers, students should be outraged that their right to an excellent education is being exchanged for this slop.

I love this idea and also want a list of academic murder books. Please reply with recs

I hope Musk throttles the Twitter account of the DC sandwich guy so that he can start a podcast entitled "They Tried to Shadow Banh Mi!"

If anyone is organizing at the school/school board level against the use of AI, especially for elementary/middle school, I'd love to chat.

It's not every day that an editor gets to be a true hero to her clients, but today is one of those days for me.

This!

I love my city.

I don’t feel old very often, but today I learned that the lifeguard who’s been watching my kids swim all summer and I went to the same high school…he just graduated TWENTY SEVEN years after I did.

Smiling cat

Furthest I've been: N: Bergen, Norway (very slightly edging out St. Petersburg, to my surprise) S: Coiba, Panama E: Tokyo, Japan W: San Francisco, CA

Isn't joking with their spouse one of the things most people...like to do? Why would I want a robot to do that?

I've gotten two really excited emails from first-time book authors in the past week who received generous, positive reviews on their manuscripts. I'm SO excited for the world to read these books. Reviewers who spent their summers writing detailed, supportive memos? You owe yourself a drink.

Playing a version of Whamageddon with myself where I see if I can make it to the end of this news cycle without learning a single thing about Sidney Sweeney. So far, winning.

Really excited about the Interborough Express, and this NYT article is gorgeous

I don't want to sugarcoat anything but it bears acknowledging loudly that day in & day out, despite literally everything, scholars keep researching, writing, & publishing work that, in ways big & small, implicit & explicit, via its sheer existence, is a defiant F U to the current administration.

No, no, nopeity no.

This is what lets my husband and I work for ourselves. This will totally fuck us financially.

Many commentators say that vigilante groups are never the answer. But they clearly don't know about the masked Ecuadorian trio named “Acción Ortográfica Quito,” who roam the streets at night with a singular purpose: to correct all the spelling and grammar mistakes they find in graffiti.

the NYT doesn't address it but one reason why everyone w/eyes could see the antisemitic smears against Mamdani were BS is that the last two weeks of the campaign was just wholesome content of him hugging, riding bikes and petting good dogs with Brad Lander—the most Jewish uncle candidate of all time

This is a great, hopeful, victorious article and you should read it and let yourself feel happy for New York City and for progress 💙

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander REALLY love New York City. I was unprepared for how much it would mean to me to see a campaign based around love for a place that I also love.

I got to work at the Nixon Archives in 2006. It was an amazingly cool job, and I was so lucky to learn from archivists who thought of information as vital to democracy. This is horrible.

Spare a thought for NYC poll workers today - these unairconditioned school basements are like saunas today.

Movies my kids are really into right now: ET The Parent Trap (Hayley Mills era) Free Willy (we've talked about the true story of that poor orca) and now they're watching A League of Their Own. So fun! Such a nice break from the 7 millionth rendition of Frozen!

Marjane Satrapi, author of Persepolis, a superb graphic novel about her family's and society's fate after Iran's revolution in 1979.

This is not the New York that any actual New Yorkers I know want to live in.

Oligarchy, baby.

Love Rebecca Traister love this post substack.com/home/post/p-...

This is a vital message: one of the larger reasons BlueSky is refreshingly free of alt-right shitlords is because in the early days we made a gentleperson’s agreement to starve these fuckos out and it worked. No likes, no quotes, no engagement. They got bored and left. Please keep the Old Ways.

This week is the one-year anniversary of my book! I've spent the past year trying very hard to take my own advice from the book: stay mad, be annoying, find local community and deeply engage there. And it's been very fun to see groups of people reading the book as they start to get involved.

Popping in here quickly to say that the courts do not have first or final say. Ever. Trans people [of all ages] deserve every single thing that everyone else does. The illegitimate court is illegitimate.

RCV has led to a positive, substantive campaign with Lander and Mamdani acting as if they're in a buddy comedy about who loves New York more and Mamadani encouraging his supporters to donate to A. Adams. And then there's Cuomo, set apart from it all, fear mongering about a city in decline.

My mom and I spent a few hours at the rally to free Brad Lander today. Was really inspired to see dozens of public officials show up to talk about how NYC is a city of immigrants, made better by immigrants...1/x

This is horrible.

Hey so back in March I got mad about everything and decided to run for school board (called CECs in NYC). I won! Along with one other buddy, and a whole slew of people endorsed by the Moms for Liberty-adjacent group PLACE. If you too are mad, maybe you should run for your school board!

One of my favorite editing projects of the past few years and the book that has the most explanatory power for answering the question of why well-meaning people are always having their time wasted by fools. Read it!

Just can't imagine anyone listening to Cuomo and saying "yup. He's my guy."

One thousand times yes - do not obey in advance.

Know what’s nice about the NYC comptroller’s debate? I have a clear favorite, but I know it’s going to be alright either way. Both of them would do a fine job. Such a nice, civil conversation over fiduciary responsibility.