I hope everyone facing forced AI adoption knows about this wonderful set of resources from AAUP www.aaup.org/issues-highe...

Agree with Bernie Sanders.......

ICYMI, the @gwmreynoldssociety.bsky.social is digitizing out-of-print but oh-so-fascinating short stories from Reynolds' periodicals. Stories are posted monthly, with intro and notes by Dr. Stephen Knight. We'll continue to share as the stories publish. Thanks for #SharingYourNews! buff.ly/nhWWmuX

Prepare to be Corellied @vpfa.bsky.social conference-goers! In the pack there’s a special offer for delegates to pre-order this beauty (is she winking? I like to think so!), and I’ll be speaking in panel two on Monday. The book can be ordered from EER next month www.eerpublishing.com/turner-marie...

Hoping that others follow suit!

It’s me, talking about the “most important American author no one’s heard of”, Charles Brockden Brown, whose gothic novels we should all be reading during #America250 @c19americanists.bsky.social @ssag.bsky.social theconversation.com/the-founding...

Just one more week to get your best draft for either of @vpreditors.bsky.social's annual essay prizes in! Winners receive $500 USD and publication of their essay in an upcoming issue of VPR. More info on RSVP's website (under "VPR Annual Prizes"): rs4vp.org/awards/

Lending $620M to a firm tied to Donald Trump Jr. is one of many actions by the Trump administration that have helped companies in which the Trump family holds stakes. But it’s the first contract to be directly linked to White House intervention.

I am working on the edits of my second book and on the one hand every part of drafting and editing a book is painful and exhausting but on the other hand it’s one of the most satisfying and thrilling things I’ve ever done with my brain and I cannot IMAGINE outsourcing any part of it to a machine.

Democratic women > Republican men.

"The humanities are not a luxury. They are how a democracy understands itself." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/07/a...

I defy anyone to explain this on neutral legal principles.

This ruling amounts to a nationwide abortion ban. Mifepristone is safe, full stop. This isn’t about science and protecting women, it’s a calculated plot by Republicans obsessed with controlling the private health care decisions of women in America.

We now know the Iran war price tag is more like $50 billion - hundreds of dollars per household - and counting. It's enough to cover all the health insurance premium credits that the Republicans got rid of for this year, and next. It could save rural hospitals, pay teachers, fix roads.

Don't let this White House insult your intelligence by blowing your money on war, then saying America can't afford nice things.

Because it apparently needs to be said: ‘The findings align with cognitive offloading theory and the ‘desirable difficulties’ principle: while AI assistance may ease initial learning, it appears to undermine the effortful processes needed for robust learning’

Following the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act (VRA) Wednesday, legal scholars and advocates across the country demanded reforms to the Supreme Court to preserve free and fair elections and voting rights in the U.S. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

EXCLUSIVE: Newly obtained documents show a clear paper trail of Trump administration officials planning to share sensitive voter data with an outside political group trying to overturn elections, as part of a secret agreement. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Has the Supreme Court ever previously struck down all or part of a duly-passed, constitutional law on the grounds that Justices feel like the law achieved its goals and feel like the goal would stay achieved without the law so therefore it shouldn’t be in force anymore? Because that’s legislative.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

A non-functioning oversight system and corrupt government

Hochul hopes to raise $500 million annually that would be used to address the city’s deficit.

Think of it this way: using ChatGPT is like employing a scheming eunuch whose obsequious lies will make your life difficult and embarrassing.

VICTORY: Indiana's law banning the use of student ID cards for voting has been blocked by a federal judge after a lawsuit filed by Elias Law Group attorneys on behalf of Count US IN, Women4Change Indiana, and an Indiana student. elias.law/press-releas...

The post is *itself* an unambiguous war crime

True dat. 🤷‍♀️

BERMAN: The president is threatening a civilization will die tonight. You say he doesn't want to do it. Does being reluctant make it ok? LAWLER: I don't think we're talking about ending a civilization-- B: So you don't believe his threat? LAWLER: It's their energy and civilian infrastructure

Gen. Caine and Adm. Cooper should put a statement now making clear the U.S. military will not follow orders that would mean committing war crimes, including military actions whose purpose would be to destroy a country or a civilization.

The man who has the nuclear codes & most lethal military in global history is deeply unwell & is now threatening genocide.

This is the best!!

In what (I hope!) will be the first in a series of events taking To the Lighthouse *back* to Skye, Bethan Roberts and I will be leading a workshop in Portree on Tues 5th May, reflecting on how Woolf's novel resonates with sustainability, housing, and tourism today atlasarts.org.uk/programme/to...

Psychologist Dr. John Gartner on Donald Trump: "He has the most severe personality disorder that a human being can have. It's called malignant narcissism. It was originally introduced by Erich Fromm, who escaped the Nazis, to describe the psychology of Hitler and other murderous dictators like him."

I don’t really want to promote my book even when all these people say nice things I just feel embarrassed but I do want folks to buy the book and this is the only move I got

Even though it's no longer Prohibition, Kansas Citians can still find speakeasies tucked into alleys and hidden around the corner, just out of sight.

Is everything better in Europe or in the United States?

Also Macron, speaking for many, has this explanation: "When you want to be serious, you don’t go around saying the opposite every day of what you just said the day before. And perhaps you shouldn’t talk every day.”

There is no aspect of voting or the 2026 elections that Republicans are not attacking. This is an all out assault on democracy. My law firm and I are litigating in nearly 90 places to stop it with more to come.

It’s actually possible to write headlines that don’t obscure who did what. Thanks, AP.

The truth of it.

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Not sure what this normies stuff is about but if you haven't noticed nice ladies do a lot of the activist work in this country and have since the abolitionist movement, you maybe should.

Now get out and vote in the midterms like your life depends on it, because it does. #NoKings

Thankful for foreign governments telling us what our government is hiding.

JOIN US TODAY FOR #NoKings3 Over 3300 separate rallies planned Let's make this the biggest protest in American history. Resistance is Growing We reject the #TrumpRegime & #GOPTraitors & their brutality at home and abroad www.instagram.com/reel/DVDwz9O... #DefendDemocracy

“If tyranny becomes law, resistance becomes duty.” -Thomas Jefferson #NoKings

When every university follows the same bad advice from the same consultants with agendas separate from their institutional mission ... they lose their identity as well as their independence. They lose the ability to play to their own strengths when the consultants' agenda causes systemic failure.

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

This is utterly astonishing. And though Jay Clayton wants to pin this entirely on ICE, the DOJ is equally responsible. prospect.org/2026/03/25/i...