I'm going to give you $2,000... emotionally.

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

Hey Charlotte folks-Compare Foods has waived delivery fees for groceries, so if you know anyone who'd like to get groceries delivered rather than go out to the store while the nazis are in town, spread the word

New York City billboards are displaying the president’s 91 felony charges.

Repost this everywhere you’re active on social media. Send to your friends and family who aren’t.

Americans who look to Europe for what a better country might look like really should be comparing like to like and spend more time looking at Latin America. History, social structure, political system (presidentialism) all make New World countries much more like each other than any alike to Europe

Hey folks: I'm organizing my YouTube channel & just added the course I'm teaching w/colleagues David Blight & Beverly Gage, as well as my "What the Heck Just Happened?" conversations w/Heather Cox Richardson, & my Friday AM podcast "History Matters." Take a look! www.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

winters are definitely warmer than they used to be...here's the evidence

A potential prelude to military action against Venezuela—even though the FTO designation as such confers no authority to use force. (And this supposed cartel may not even exist.) A regime change campaign in the guise of counterterrorism.

From our recent @crisisgroup.org statement on the risks of regime change in Venezuela. www.crisisgroup.org/latin-americ...

Fundamental issue here is that countries are neither safe or unsafe. It is people who are safe or unsafe in countries. Simply declaring a country safe is not logical, at least until we know all people in it will be safe.

In this book chapter, some of the women used auto-ethnographic methods to describe the experience. Santos tried to have the book retracted. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

WTAF. I knew people were ignorant, but I didn't imagine it was this bad

At the launch of my book, I wore a gown that made from the duvet that was the favourite sleeping place of the dearly departed #cuddleUnit5, the cat who inspired a book and wanted only kibble in return. Link to book here: cuddleUnit5.com

This story of reproductive abuse/forced sterilization/hysterectomy is from 2020, & it's the same that the State performed countless times to Black & Native women, that Nazis did, so many eugenicists over time-- It wouldn't surprise if it's happening now, too. This is what's at stake, why we fight.

Bills...won? So confused. #longtermBillsfan

It’s Sunday, November 16, 2025. This is your reminder that: 1. We cannot make the United States a Constitutional Republic again unless we unpack the Supreme Court. 2. We cannot make the U.S. a representative democracy without expanding the House and banning partisan gerrymandering.

“Members of a church in east Charlotte, North Carolina, fled to nearby woods on Saturday after masked federal agents arrived and detained one congregant, according to a report from The Charlotte Observer, amid the ongoing immigration crackdown taking place in the city.”

asbestos...again

this story was reported on as a suicide three months ago. the family has now obtained evidence that Chaofeng Ge's hands and legs were tied behind his back at the time of his hanging. justice for Chaofeng Ge. www.pennlive.com/news/2025/11...

The next person who tells me that we “need” to train students how to use AI because “they’ll need it in the workplace” is going to need to block off the next four hours for me to toss small objects at them while screaming “AI LITERACY IS JUST LITERACY.”

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

And if you want to read a holistic analysis of what physics is and could be, socially and politically, grab a copy of my first book, which won many accolades www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chand...

Thread. We only hear how women are problems. We rarely hear that men are problems. Next time someone mentions a woman and says, "I've heard she's difficult or a problem," ask why. I've done this and have rarely gotten a legit answer.

What? "Border agents told him they needed to determine whether he and his wife were a national security threat to Canada." Former UN special rapporteur held in a 4-hour interrogation in Toronto. On his 95th birthday! Conference organizers learned of his detention when his wife called in a panic.

⚠️ Here's a look at the precipitation forecast for the next 7 days. A series of systems will keep conditions unsettled across the West, while a more substantial system brings a threat of heavy showers and thunderstorms to the south-central U.S. towards the end of the week. ⛈️

Folks, a famous author isn't ever going to contact you out of the blue to offer you literary services. It's always a scam. Also, speaking as an at least semifamous author, you wouldn't want any services we did offer, we're just barely handling our own shit, much less anyone else's.

The vulnerability of the U.S. government to criminal exploitation is just staggering. I mean, I can't wrap my head around how we can prevent the "sue federal government, friends and allies in the Department of Justice settle" racket.

I love history lessons on this website

Richard Falk was one of the American professors who challenged the Nixon admin's ideological exclusion of Belgian Marxist economist Ernest Mandel. The profs claimed his exclusion violated their First Amendment rights. The case is Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972). See Ch. 6 in "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️

British and Australian chemists have discovered a powerful new antibiotic called pre-methylenomycin C lactone, hiding in a well-known soil bacterium. This molecule kills drug-resistant bacteria without triggering resistance. buff.ly/YlXaONo #ShareGoodNewsToo

Keep sailing fellas.

If you are not in academia, you might not know this, but job interviews used to be held at conferences IN HOTEL ROOMS. Women candidates in a hotel room alone with often all-male committees. People sitting on beds! The horror stories I've heard.

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

Chicago baby

Favorite homer-in-classroom-setting remains this one, though: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GDOk...

I can reassure the New York Times that networks of mutual protection, and misogynist retaliation efforts that benefit abusive men at the expense of the young women they prey upon, are very much still intact post-Me Too.

I didn’t realize till today that it’s trans awareness week- so, hadïh!! I’m a tmasc genderfluid Wet’suwet’en artist who makes formline art <3 check out my stuff if you want!! I got cool stuff!! #transawarenessweek #indigenousart #transart

This is surely why we have an environment agency, and indeed a government, to deal with these kinds of disasters. Yes, to ensure that those responsible take responsibility, but not to let the damage compound

Is this losing? Feels like losing

Call for papers for the edited collection, Beyond the American Western: Picturing the Far West in Global Comics: williamgrady.co.uk/cfp/ The volume aims to explore the vibrancy and diversity of the Western genre in comics from around the world. Deadline for proposals: 14th December 2025

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

...look, I'm not saying that the Bills should give Fox Mulder to the aliens to get Cancer Man to lift the curse. I'm not saying that. I'm just saying that maybe it's time to consider it. #XFiles

This.

If you missed yesterday's talk, it was absolutely fantastic and I highly recommend catching this recording A fascinating discussion of Iranian history, decolonial Gothic, Iranian Gothic and her own work from Haleh Agar youtu.be/EILj1fKR5v4

“When her professor emailed her feedback on an AI-written paper, she refused to open it. She still hasn’t. “It’s wasting his time because he’s editing a fucking machine,” Gwen said. “Whatever he has to say is meaningless to me anyway, because it’s not my writing.”

Breaking news. Train worker who saved passengers from stabbings has left hospital. Samir Zitouni, the whole country has been willing you through. What fantastic news, a true hero. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This sweet girl is Gingersnap! Very sweet, and very rarely spicy! She’s about 7 months old and ready for her forever home! Near PGH? Here’s her application! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

So… that’s fun, I guess. Victims don’t need justice if the people hurting them are more powerful. They also don’t need justice when there are immigrants to terrorize and torture.

the guardian also had a White House correspondent weigh in and, ngl, I think our take is better