Letter from the TTU AAUP executive committee in response to the latest round of censorship and phase-outs of courses and programs. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Christina Koch being greeted by her dog after returning from space is the dose of Monday hopium we all needed 💕

Magyar won with an emphasis on corruption and the rule of law. Good lessons. It wasn't just "we will improve the economy". It was "these people are stealing from you and we will put them in jail."

I just saw an account named after Cicero complaining about "sophistry." Cicero was called "The Greek" because of his admiration of Greek rhetoricians such as Isocrates.

New NASA 'Earthset' photo from Artemis II echoes Apollo 8's iconic 'Earthrise' in historic lunar flyby https://aje.news/xeitb1

Claims we have no power to impact what happens are nevertheless an intervention in what will happen, by discouraging participation, by encouraging passivity, surrender, acquiescence. If you insist that a given outcome is inevitable, you are lobbying against resistance.

Keep in mind that Trump's threats communicated in his tweets are themselves war crimes.

Moon mission 🥺😭🥹 www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/s...

Writing about Black place-and-space-making this morning for an upcoming talk and thinking about the Black space-making happening right now, over 200,000 miles from Earth, as Victor Glover pilots the Orion spacecraft toward the Moon.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

Artemis II Commander Reid Wiseman took this picture of Earth from the Orion spacecraft after completing the translunar injection burn. There are two auroras (top right & bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun. 🧪🔭 #Artemis www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Idea: we should treat this place and each other with respect and care

This image of home just came down from the Artemis II crew. Taken after their translunar injection burn, there are aurorae at top right and lower left, and zodiacal light at lower right. Credit: NASA/Reid Wiseman

Harrow the Ninth coming in hot with an Epiparados!

Happiness isn't one of the options! Go work on your book or something

Excellent thread if you are SCOTUS-watching re: birthright citizenship today

It’s actually not okay to pay someone with a PhD $2500 to teach a college course

‘Rowling has been rich enough to pour cash into organizations like this for some time now because she continues to hold primary intellectual property rights to the entire Harry Potter franchise.’ Can’t separate art from artist when the artist is using their royalties to eradicate trans people.

Reminder that the reason you're seeing so much weird Chappell Roan news is that just a few weeks ago she fired her Epstein-adjacent agent, Casey Wasserman. Wasserman is still the chairman of the 2028 LA olympics, but has started stepping back from his ad agency.

Social movement scholar here to comment on No King again. a 🧵: These protests are important b/c: 1.) as sustained image events, protests offer evidence of continued disapproval of the direction the country is going and disavowal of the country's leadership.

OFFICIAL NO KINGS 3 VIRTUAL & ACCESSIBLE RALLY organized by Stand Up for Science! An inclusive rally for everyone, everywhere. March 28th, 12:30 - 2pm CT followed by live stream of the national flagship event from the Twin Cities (MN). Sign up here: tr.ee/nk3ar #NoKings #NK3AR

You forgot one of my favorite perks of libro.fm membership....you can pick a local bookstore to support with your purchases!!!!

2. We offer memberships, but you can also buy audiobooks à la carte (tip: check out our sale section) 3. Our audiobooks are DRM-free—you actually own them. Which in a world of book bans and subscriptions...is increasingly important

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If this passage from Harrow the Ninth isn’t enough to start reading The Locked Tomb series, why even read anything honestly

More frozen food products sold at Trader Joe’s are being recalled in 43 states — including Rhode Island and Massachusetts — because they may contain “foreign objects” including glass, according to a recent notice from the US Food and Drug Administration.

For your convenience, you can now access our Warehouse Tracker at tracker.projectsaltbox.com!

This article says the avg salary for profs at Utah 4-yr publics is $112,057. This number is not broken down by rank, role, or discipline. I'm a tenured associate professor in rhetoric & writing; my salary is less than this average.

Outrageous. Stripping Liam Conejo Ramos and his family of asylum is beyond cruel and indefensible. This decision must be overturned. Shame.

It’s a been a year since TTU’s green flames, so time to pass the trophy! 🏆 people.com/texas-tech-u...

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

Yuck! Pfaugh!

I’ve been trying to use my art to be more visible in the world as a trans person, I hope it helps others know they aren’t alone. Aspenhearted.com if you’d like this on a shirt or sticker ❤️🏳️‍⚧️

College writing teachers have spoken, y'all. The CCCC resolution affirming students' and teachers' right to refuse generative AI in the writing classroom passed by an overwhelming majority at the #4C26 Annual Business Meeting this past Friday, March 6. Link to the full resolution below.

This is how I access Bsky

Quote with the energy you bring to BlueSky 🦋

don’t forget to destroy your clocks tonight, walk away from your mortgage, just start driving, you’re free

Roughly 100 ICE vehicles are on their way to a warehouse in Western Maryland, as signs mount of an impending operation here.

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

it's 2016: north carolina introduces a bill to ban trans people from using bathrooms safely. there's a national outcry; companies withdraw business up to and including the NCAA cancelling a publicized game. the bill fails. it's 2026: kansas passes a law nullifying trans people's licenses. crickets.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

UPDATE: ACCORDING TO THE FEDERAL REGISTER IT IS SUPPLIERS, NOT NEW PATIENT ENROLLEES. This is still very bad, but less overtly bad. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-03971.pdf

last saved picture of a celebrity is your therapist. well—

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

“Joy is an act of resistance.” Or, as Rebecca Solnit wrote in Hope in the Dark, “Joy doesn't betray but sustains activism. And when you face a politics that aspires to make you fearful, alienated and isolated, joy is a fine initial act of insurrection."

The feds do not share how many agents are still in Minnesota or how many arrests are taking place, but anecdotal accounts show their activities moving from the Twin Cities (where they encountered strong opposition) to suburbs, exurbs & small towns. (3) www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...