NYers: Protesters will take to Times Square Saturday afternoon to oppose the United States and Israel’s attack on Iran. The rally is scheduled for 2 p.m. in Times Square pix11.com/news/local-n...

Analysis | With Stephen Miller running America's domestic policy, Benjamin Netanyahu running its foreign policy, and Donald Trump heading up interior decorating and bribe-taking, the executive branch has tripled its efficiency.

They are now recommending we eat the cats and dogs.

William Connolly’s “Appearance and Reality in Politics” and the entire Gibbons ‘Interpreting Politics’ reader were crucial in extending my understanding of the relation between hermeneutics and politics and shaping my intellectual trajectory. RIP to a great one.

Faculty union fights have been wildly successful; graduate student workers have voted to unionize at a nearly 90 percent clip in recent years. buff.ly/FgjaHvU

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After trying to bargain a first contract for over a year, the union for 1,000 full-time contingent faculty at New York University is voting on authorizing a strike. Contract faculty say NYU is refusing to budge on pay raises and job security protections.

We are off the cliff, folks. 🇺🇸 www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

If anyone wants to be Spelling Bee Champ of Assumption Grade School, please have your people contact my people.

Nostalgic for the old, crazy, meaningful and important New School for Social Research, which is currently under attack by it's own admin. (I showed my daughter this picture and she asked, "what did you take THAT with") Got an email from a current faculty who is encouraging alums to write 1/

A stat we don't talk about enough: Newspapers have lost 77% of their jobs over the last 20 year, more than any of the 532 other industries tracked by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

As I say to my students ‘Some of you will choose not to use ChatGPT, and the others who do will work for those people in the future.’

This isn't a new insight, but: the people who are always ready to put a Black teenager on trial as an adult sure do like extending the "youth will be youth" excuse in other contexts— not just to college students like Kavanaugh, but to, e.g., 35-year-olds on a Young Republicans group chat.

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Oregon's stubborn resistance to Texas National Guard troops invading reflects the elitist and closed-minded belief that the people of Portland have nothing to learn from the people of Texas --Ezra Klein, tomorrow in the New York Times

Another officer says, “They’re starting to resist more now,” to which an officer replies: “We’re going to end up shooting some of them.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

🚨 BREAKING: new video shows ICE is operating a detention facility on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza, where people are being held for days or weeks at a time without showers, medication or a change of clothes, sleeping on the floor, and with minimal food and outside contact.

“The fact that organized protest can break the spiral of silence, and correct our impressions of what other Americans think, is one of the most immediate and important values of protesting in the first place. Scientists have [shown] protests update our impressions of what other citizens believe.”

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

“We’re the good guys,” I tell myself as a 6-year-old leukemia patient pees his pants in fear. I adjust my black mask and sunglasses in the mirror, making sure to hide my identity. “I am not evil,” I whisper.

scholar of partisan violence/Latin American Dirty Wars here: there is nothing to distinguish this from how people were taken in Argentina, Guatemala, Chile, etc, except that it's all on camera

NYC people: “Rally to Bring Dylan Home" 5:00 p.m. tomorrow (Thurs., 5/29, 5:00 p.m.), 52 Chambers St.

They won’t stop until we stop them. Please leave your ‘institutions will hold’ fantasies behind.

Amazing. Right out in the open: "universities are free to do research as long as they're sympathetic to the administration." I want to personally play this clip in the face of every fucking clown who spent the last several years pretending that the left is the "real" threat to free speech.

Three things made the US a rich and powerful nation: the rule of law, its science & innovation system, and openness to foreign talent. Remarkable how Trump has taken a sledgehammer to all three. No enemy of this country could do more.

Hey all, I wanna dedicate this thread to free documentaries! If you know of any good documentaries that are online, please feel free to drop them in this thread.

Supreme Court Kills The Independent Agency. Trump Is King talkingpointsmemo.com/news/supreme...

I know that we’ve had a month worth of further constitutional crises but Kilmar Abrego Garcia is still in custody in El Salvador and that central crisis is a continuing fact.

Concise, beautiful, and effectively critical. @ansleyerickson.bsky.social in a voice that reminds me of the Montana sensibility my parents and relatives exhibit.

A 19-year old U.S. citizen was traveling from Albuquerque to Tucson. He was arrested and detained by ICE for 10 days, before his family showed a judge his identification & he was finally released. news.azpm.org/p/news-artic...

First time as farce, second time as history.

Rally NYC tomorrow: 3pm Washington Square 4pm Foley Square Hands Off! Scientific Research Education Students

What new hell is this?!? Enough is enough, @columbiauniversity.bsky.social! Say “see you in court!” and have done with this bullshit. The Trump administration respects nothing else. And no one the world will respect anything else either.

The $400m Columbia rolled over for is equal to around 1/3 of its return on investment for 2024 alone, and ~ 2.7 % of its entire endowment. Seems they sold out pretty cheap. Along the lines of points made recently by @prorogers.bsky.social www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2024/10...

interested to see what happens when the social security checks stop flowing

First time as farce, second time as history.

“There are currently four people remaining over there to do the work of 15 people. The danger to the national airspace can’t be understated." "This is a very real threat to the American flying public.” EXCLUSIVE ⤵️

Every union should be echoing this statement.

BREAKING: DOJ refuses to provide Judge Chutkan with any numbers regarding last Friday's firings. DOJ also refuses to make any commitment regarding what "personnel actions" the seven agencies at issue — OPM, Education, Labor, HHS, Energy, Transportation, Commerce — might take in the next two weeks.

For people that work in tech *only*. An important clarification on what federal employees mean when they say "probationary period." In tech, we're very reluctant to promote an engineer from say, level 5 to level 6, until we have enough time to know that the level 6 performance is sustainable.

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i am going to put a finer point on this: executive orders are not laws. and they certainly are not royal decrees. they are interpretations of existing law for the purposes of enforcement. the fact that so many people are treating them as laws is actually driving me a bit insane.

Guy Christensen restores my hope that my own generation tends to remove. I hate having to link to IG but until I figure out another solution for longer videos, it'll have to do. "Why Trump Saved Tiktok: His Secret Deal With Jeff Yass, a TikTok Billionaire" www.instagram.com/p/DF60fVVNt7T/

Top comment on the recent NYT story on DOGE’s young aides www.nytimes.com/shared/comme...

i will say that we have never experienced anything like an administration trying to essentially freeze the activities of the entire federal government while making a series of illegal power grabs. genuinely unclear to me what kind of response, if any, these guys are generating against them