Bill Wooters is legitimately the kindest man I've ever met. Just an absolute delight to be around, and a brilliant physicist.

Campaign finance data is now available for Somerville ballot question 3. I was interested that the anti-ballot group running the campaign "Focus on Somerville" raised so much money from outside Somerville. They can tell Somerville what to do, but we can't care about broader issues?

Wow. Harvard nuking its PhD programs - Science PhD admissions reduced by more than 75% - Arts & Humanities reduced by about 60% - Social Sciences by 50–70% - History by 60% - Biology by 75% - The German department will lose all PhD seats - Sociology from six PhD students to zero

This was a clever troll of congressman Seth Moulton, who also spoke. Moulton is challenging Markey for the senate seat. Crowd loved to see Ed and people were shouting at and booing Moulton.

Fenway Health cutting off access to medical treatment for trans youth is shameful and unnecessary. There is no need for this. Cis folks, please use these numbers below to tell Fenway and the AG what you think about abandoning trans youth.

PRA's @fredclarkson.bsky.social speaks with @jodi-enda.bsky.social in @msmagazine.com about the New Apostolic Reformation movement's link to the killing of Melissa and Mark Hortman. Learn more in this four-part series on the rise in anti-abortion violence under Trump: msmagazine.com/2025/09/18/r....

One reason to support @aaup.org in this case is that they are not Harvard the institution, even as they are defending Harvard faculty and student rights. AAUP will not stop if the administration and Harvard leadership come to an agreement that still undercuts those rights.

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

I would love to name names! The SMFA at Tufts (art school), after months of contract negotiations, is still refusing to pay visa expedition fees for international faculty as a matter of policy. More about what faculty are facing & how folks can help fight back: link.seiu509.org/savetheSMFA

another case of people reading a headline and either not reading or misreading an article. the actual reporting does not say anything like "all trans people are being classified as terrorists" i understand why people are scared. i also feel like reading comprehension is at an all time low

*watching innocent people rapidly acquire the cursed knowledge that has driven me to madness* oh no

Anecdotal, but: trust in Dem politicians who aren't pro-union is also crumbling. Pro-union means more than paying lip service to working people. It means making policy that supports them & not slashing gov't budgets for essential services for & staffed by the working class. Happy Labor Day!

Entire group of feds couldn't outrun this lollygagger. Slow ass drunken polo ad boater out for a jog vs four FBI agents in urban tactical uniforms

We've had a perfect experiment in ending rent control: Massachusetts abolished it in the early 2000s. Rent in Boston did not go down at all, and in fact kept shooting upward. All that happened was working people being driven from their longtime homes.

LAPD fucked us all up, multiple journos bloodied, aggressive push, video when able

"Mr. Mamdani’s Jewish supporters said they resented the implication that they should back a candidate for local office based on how strongly that candidate supported the Israeli government." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/n...

Not for nothing I think this is precisely why @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social’s encouragement to find people who are DOING something rather than telling you to BELIEVE something is pretty right on. Tenant, rank and file worker, pro-Palestine, etc organizers are on the move & seeing real opportunity.

you absolutely cannot cross the nonbinary farmer's market workers, they run those stalls all up and down the east coast. only bigger mistake you can make is insulting the mushroom farm trans femme which is basically a death sentence

If you want a weird but true fact to talk about: Dexter Holland, lead singer of The Offspring, was instrumental in this. His doctorial thesis in molecular biology was sequencing mRNA in HIV. The paper was also heavily cited in creating the COVID-19 vaccine.

fellas, i am gonna be rectify this. the keys: 1- gotta look good, so engage in preening 2- need to be a provider, so gather nesting materials 3- to get her attention, point your beak at her 4- gotta be healthy, so raise up one foot to show it’s vibrant blue color, the lower it and raise the other

Another one for my "SEIU is the most important union in the US" file

I’m super annoyed by how much press Avi Loeb’s latest bit is getting It’s not aliens, no one agrees with him, and he’s only getting this attention because he’s a Harvard professor

These three paragraphs are so spot on

You can watch this Green Beret describe this experience in his own words to @vanhollen.senate.gov, and for us, and I cried. I’m not sure how you could watch this veteran tell this child’s story and not feel all of the emotions at once.

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"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke." www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

incredibly funny to try to claim that mamdani is inserting activist language about freedom into his Passover messages when the entire holiday is about freedom

American Jewish institutions will never wash their hands clean of this sanctioning of the murder of children. Of men. Of brothers. Of women. Of aunties. Of grandfathers. Of mothers. Of people. Shande shande shande on all of you

For those who asked. The link tree for the Sameer Project is here: linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

What the United States government is letting Israel do to Gazans is monstrous. A grave crime against humanity. Shame on everyone who is enabling this.

Zohran's freshman class at Bowdoin was 63% white, per the Common Data Set www.bowdoin.edu/ir/pdf/commo...

That is how newspapers work, yes.

For Kuhn's Bday resharing this paper on Kuhn's philosophy of data & fundamental constants, coauthored w/ my recent PhD student @federicabocchi.bsky.social, which has the cryptic title "Kuhn’s ‘5th Law of Thermodynamics’: Measurement, Data, & Anomalies" #philsci bokulich.org/wp-content/u...

there is a certain liberal anti-affirmative action scholar who has insisted, like a rube, that once racial preferences are gone we can build support for class-based affirmative action. but the people who oppose affirmative action also very obviously oppose redress for class inequality!

My mother called me which is a rare enough thing so I was already like uhoh who died and she said Luke in a tone of voice I hadn’t heard in a long time and my heart sank. She had just gotten a call from someone claiming to me be who sounded like me she said www.welcometohellworld.com/even-god-can...

I really encourage everyone to read Rümeysa's account of her detention. #FreeThemAll www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2025...

According to IBT VP-At-Large John Palmer, the Teamsters HQ recently hired (then allegedly fired) Peter Cytanovic, one of the most prominent faces of the 2017 Nazi hate march in Charlottesville. Now Palmer is publicly pressing IBT Pres Sean O’Brien for answers. www.facebook.com/story.php?st...

A worker was killed. Dozens detained. Dr. Jonathan Caravello, A CSU faculty member and US citizen, was brutalized & disappeared by ICE for observing. Trump’s ICE thugs are escalating terror in our communities. Release them ALL. seiuca.org/press-releas...

This is a tragedy that could have been prevented, but not by training or putting even more resources into the police. We need investment into community-based mental health resources—public health providers who treat people in crisis with care rather than as threats to be exterminated.

the most toxic gay man you know after a disastrous night of drinking in Hell's Kitchen causes a stir in several group chats:

it's so funny for him to say all the files were democrat created. your people didn't document anything around his detention and death in custody? weird!!!

The Alexandria Declaration is an indication of serious trouble inside the agency. The decision to pull it for fear of retaliation is a five alarm fire.

Something @gabrielwinant.bsky.social noted on the latest episode of @thedigradio.bsky.social which resonated with me is that many people are turning to left leadership right now because at a time when so many liberal institutions have nothing to say about the rise of fascism, we're fighting back. 1/

The future belongs to the workers of the world, not the billionaires!