Marking a blow to federal prosecutors in Minnesota, artist and activist Isabel “Isa” Lopez had five federal charges with a possibility of eight years in prison reduced to one misdemeanor and was sentenced to time served and a $25 fine on Tuesday.

Forgive me for my extreme skepticism: " Amazon and Microsoft ..Bank of America and Eli Lilly, [are] coming together to develop a new “people strategy” for the artificial-intelligence era. " www.wsj.com/lifestyle/ca...

It was a full house last night! I left with an invigorated sense of purpose and a nourished heart. I really think Daniel’s book “Unions of Our Own” gives unionists the tools they need build a better world!!!

Liz Soto and Savanna Batten are 2 of those sentenced to 50 years in prison for Prairieland. I visited them in a north Texas jail—11 months into their incarceration over a July 4 noise demo—to meet the Trump admin’s “Antifa terrorists”. from behind glass, Soto said, “They didn’t like my book club.”

California people, Unions of Our Own events start this evening in San Francisco with my friend, the extraordinary @veenadubal.bsky.social + @dsasf.org @haymarketbooks.org @sununion.org Tomorrow I'll be in Berkeley, LA and San Diego later in the week Details/RSVP: unionsofourown.org/book-events/

I read this interview w/Intizar Husain, one of South Asia’s most celebrated writers, & I think of the tragedy of generative AI. Not only do the LLMs steal his words-but so they also create a structural reality in which too few people will pick up the pen in the form & w/the imagination that he did.

UPDATE: Zohran-backed Brad Lander ousts Rep. Goldman in NY house Primary

“"There's a palpable sense of unease in the air," Catalina La Grande, a student & activist.. "Such a narrow margin also worries us, because it reflects how divided the country is & .. challenges we face in defending democracy, peace, & people's rights."” www.bbc.com/news/article...

I can’t believe that this needs to said, but children are not little minions to turn into profit maximizing machines. We educate them, nurture them, love them so that they may live full beautiful lives full of culture, community, joy, knowledge.

For @veenadubal.bsky.social, mentorship from Catherine “KT” Albiston meant more than academic guidance. It meant permission to pivot, confidence to keep going, and a model for scholarship grounded in care and public purpose: bit.ly/4oze6bm #BerkeleyLaw

In 2017 I taught a course at Berkeley on computational text analysis in history. KT took that course. And she *took* it. She did all the readings, did all assignments, was super active in class. And since then we've had a really close relationship. I also aspire to be KT. We all should.

@veenadubal.bsky.social AAUP legal update: "We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good" academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...

“She is an incredible mentor and a really critical thinker. She inspires learning, has produced impactful scholarship … just all the things I admire. And she’s fun and nice! I’m really blessed to have been her student and lifelong mentee.” www.law.berkeley.edu/article/berk...

““[Rosen] talked that people were being prosecuted for their acts, not their thoughts, and then recited their thoughts — somebody posting that we need to become ungovernable.” Nestor said. “What’s wrong with being ungovernable by a fascist government?”” www.startribune.com/us-attorneys...

This is collective sociopathy.

When the World Cup comes to town, we aren’t just watching for fouls on the field — we’re tracking fouls in the workplace.

“They are trying to push people into the shadows and encourage people to just give up and leave.”

"Courts cannot build chapters. Courts cannot restore shared governance on campus. Courts cannot make a university president brave. Courts cannot save academic freedom. Courts cannot make a faculty organized enough to resist. That is OUR work." - @veenadubal.bsky.social

“We have shown that when the government tries to turn fear into policy, the AAUP will answer with law, with organizing, with solidarity, & with the oldest commitment we have: the defense of academic freedom for the common good.” 💥💥💥

Here are the notes from my @aaup.org Legal Update, delivered by the incredible @sbagen.bsky.social at the Biennial this last week! academeblog.org/2026/06/15/a...

As someone who does not live in NYC and has never lived there, I have never been prouder to be a New Yorker!

Finally, a little legal sense: “A German court has ruled that Google is directly liable for what its AI search overviews say. Previous case law shielding search engine operators from liability doesn't apply to AI overviews.” the-decoder.com/landmark-ger...

Incredible.

"Substituting 'viewpoint diversity' for 'peer review' as the criteria for evaluating scholarship would, simply put, destroy the possibility of producing credible knowledge at all. Indeed, the destruction of such a possibility is likely the unspoken goal of 'viewpoint diversity.'" shorturl.at/XIn5U

My favorite right wing harassment headline is “leftist who is not poor cares about ending poverty!”

congratulations to our colleagues at USC! shame on their university for their shitty, union busting response

Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car https://bit.ly/4viG6Cj

So we’ve been cooking up some thoughts on Gen AI at @amnesty.org and I’m ecstatic to finally see it out in the world! Our 🗝️ conclusion: standalone gen AI systems, built on unlawful web scraping, constitute mass invasions of privacy by design & should be prohibited www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

An 87-year-old Florida man died after a Tesla on Autopilot mode crashed into a pond, according to multiple reports, citing Florida Highway Patrol.

They are a scourge. I want this coverage to focus on the environmental, labor, & public good devastations that will be wreaked on our lives. If we define “public safety” in those terms, AVs are the least safe forms of transportation out there.

Among the recommendations in the white papers: 1) increase the use of unpaid undergrad “learning assistants”; 2) use AI to augment TA labor; 3) award control of TA allocation to central admin; 4) ask administrative units to take over TA pedagogy classes; 5) “decouple” grad employment from education

This was an amazing AMR #lsa2026 with Aziza and Neville. If you haven’t read their books!!

If Arsenal and every other football team doesn’t start selling kurtas tomorrow, then please stop talking about rationality and markets.

Really looking forward to our joint AMR at @lawandsociety.bsky.social ociety.bsky.social tomorrow with so many amazing scholars. Please come! @jiseonsong.bsky.social @libbyadler.bsky.social Jamelia Morgan @darrenrosenblum.bsky.social @swethaa.bsky.social and Kathy Abrams #LSA2026

Hands down, one of the most exciting moments of my life. This is a HUGE step forward for academic labor in MD and in the U.S.

Guys it’s not a thobe. It’s a kurta. Thobes are long and loose.

““It’s time Texans play Cowboys and invaders,” he posted in January. “It’s time we remove foreigners from our soil.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

Zohran is wearing an Arsenal Kurta at bakri Eid celebrations in NYC. I wish I could send the photo to my brother!

Nothing like starting the week munching on the marshmallows from the Lucky Charms box.

Today, the AAUP Yale Chapter releases our report on The State of Academic Freedom at Yale. Uncertain that university leaders will protect academic freedom when tested, Yale faculty are managing risk alone and making changes that narrow what Yale teaches, researches, and communicates to the world.

Instead of just flipping a switch: “we’re capturing the data of the various members of that household and their daily activities and movements, we’re getting more and more smart about being able to have the house be responsive to their personal needs,” he said.” sfstandard.com/2026/05/25/l...

“Two-thirds of pregnancy-related deaths in the United States happen in the year after giving birth, and more than 80 percent are preventable. A mother and her newborn’s health are inextricably intertwined” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/o...

I am writing an essay and just noted that I used the word "increasingly" 19 times in the first 3000 words. Everything is increasingly!

Horrific shit

“The American Psychiatric Association, at its own annual conference, cut the microphone of its own human rights award recipient, in a room full of its own members, because he was going to talk about Gaza.” muslimmatters.org/2026/05/21/t...

While many current and former Meta workers are fighting to build better worlds, I keep seeing posts about recently laid off Meta workers going to another “AI venture.” Guys. This feels easy & has a get-rich-quick feel to it…but this is not the way!!

Arsenal won and my brother is smiling from the heavens! ❤️

You may have read about the woman who gave birth in a Brooklyn courtroom Friday night while waiting to be arraigned. I spoke to an attorney who saw the whole thing, and says it was much worse than has previously been reported, a scene of "complete violence." hellgatenyc.com/birth-in-bro...

RFK Jr. shuttered this lab and fired the director last year. should be a scandal

Worth reading as well the lengthy Science investigation into the FBI's shift to targeting Chinese postdocs instead of more senior researchers www.science.org/content/arti...