This is the whole thing right here. All these tired fights about whether Dems should moderate are ways of dancing around the real problem, which is the that political parties no longer have any mass constituency.

A top 50 US university yesterday fired an instructor, a department chair, and a dean because a course made some reference to transgender people without the brief official course description in the catalog saying “trigger warning: gender.” In conclusion, those intolerant lefty kids, cancel culture.

Last week, Boston received a letter from AG Bondi threatening to prosecute officials and withhold funds unless we cooperate with carrying out mass deportations. The US Attorney General asked for a response by today, so here it is: stop attacking our cities to hide your administration’s failures.

Exactly right; we need a plan and strategy to build it back *better*.

MA put in a 4% millionaires tax 2 years ago, & the GOP said we'd miss revenue targets & millionaires would flee. MA collected TWICE the projected revenues, & the number of millionaires went UP 40%. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...

“When the Department of Justice recently opened an investigation into George Mason University…. Professors quickly published a resolution supporting their president and the university’s efforts around diversity. Now, Justice Department officials say they will investigate the faculty, too”

Looking for a good love story this weekend? Vox’s This is Love did a beautiful podcast on my work on Carson and Freeman’s relationship…https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-is-love/id1337100398?i=1000716218534

Excited to have this piece on Carson and Freeman up in lithub ❤️

”We are obsessed with personal choices – diet, exercise – and ignore the most important determinant of our health. ”Public health measures like universal healthcare, drinkable water, clean air and safe roads have a much bigger impact on our health than any number of gym sessions or kale smoothies.”

wow, they got the headline right

I'll be at Women and Children First (one of my all time favorite bookstores) in Chicago tonight, with Jenn Morea, talking Rachel Carson...

Asked earlier why he was there, Lander said: “I don’t think there’s any place that’s more important to be right now than bearing witness and trying to stand up for the rule of law. A big question on the campaign trail is how will you stand up to Donald Trump.” www.thecity.nyc/2025/06/17/b...

NYC Comptroller Brad Lander was just arrested by Trump’s ICE agents because he asked to see a judicial warrant. This is fascism and all New Yorkers must speak in one voice. Release him now.

What we are seeing in Los Angeles right now with #NoKings is after several hours of a massive protest that was 100%, law enforcement—abruptly and without provocation—began firing tear gas, flash bangs and pepper balls at protesters. It was broadcast live on air. “Unrest” is on them.

Is the military parade…trolling Trump?? Legit playing Fortunate Son as they roll on by him 😎

this from @taylorlorenz.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/taylorlo...

A good time to donate to this org (I just did): www.pairproject.org

This is so important. Please read. I have been doing blue book exams and in class writing in my 150 person intro to pol theory class for the last couple of years, and it has worked really well. However…

I've been on a machiavelli binge, and I'm finishing a re-read of Hanna Pitkin's _Fortune is a Woman_. Such good stuff for our moment.

New on the SUP blog: @lidamaxwell.bsky.social wrote a coda to her book Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love #ReadUP #RachelCarson

Same. I will “REINVENT THE UNIVERSITY” with a “RETURN TO CLASSICAL EDUCATION” to “RESTORE AMERICAN DEMOCRACY AND CIVILITY”**. I will basically cancel every platform sub I can, give faculty $5000 for school supplies, students $500 to learn cursive, & basically pretend it’s 1999 again.

If you enjoyed celebrating the birthday of #RachelCarson this week, check out this just-published @stanfordpress.bsky.social book by @lidamaxwell.bsky.social We continue to have so much to learn from Carson’s story! #RachelCarson #QueerHistory #TeamRhetoric #LGBTQ #LGBTQHistory #environmentalism

MUST WATCH: ICE kidnapped a disabled American citizen. Her name is Alma Bowman. Born in the Philippines while her dad served in the U.S. Navy. She’s lived here 48 years. They crashed her wheelchair, denied meds, cut her off from her lawyer—and jailed her. She. Is. A. Citizen.

I just wrote up a kind of coda to Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, wherein I solve (with the help of a friend) a puzzle that I encountered while I was writing the book, and come to understand Dorothy Freeman a bit better. (fuller story below) lidamaxwell.substack.com/p/coda-to-ra...

I just wrote up a kind of coda to Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love, wherein I solve (with the help of a friend) a puzzle that I encountered while I was writing the book, and come to understand Dorothy Freeman a bit better. (fuller story below) lidamaxwell.substack.com/p/coda-to-ra...

Today is Rachel Carson's birthday! If you would like to learn more about her extraordinary life, we recommend Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love by @lidamaxwell.bsky.social. #ReadUP

Columbia University Acting President Claire Shipman welcomed to Columbia College's graduation ceremony with sustained jeers and boos. Minutes later, students break out in loud chants of "Free Mahmoud":

Everything about this is a tragedy, every level, from cheated freelancers to authors obscured to readers who don’t get served either.

5/17/15: Todd Haynes' Carol, w/Cate Blanchett, via Patricia Highsmith More: @tnyfrontrow.bsky.social: www.newyorker.com/culture/rich... @lidamaxwell.bsky.social: lareviewofbooks.org/article/does... @ellat.bsky.social: www.npr.org/2015/11/19/4... @thehighsign.bsky.social: slate.com/culture/2015...

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

I'm going to be at Amherst books tomorrow (Wednesday) night with @erinrpineda.bsky.social talking about Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love. If you're in the area, please come join us!

I appreciate @vanhollen.senate.gov for keeping attention on Abrego Garcia's case. www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

If you live in western Mass, the Hudson Valley, or Chicago, please consider coming out to hear me talk about Rachel Carson and the Power of Queer Love in May and June. I'm going to be at some cool bookstores, and would love to see some of you!

Harvard President, Alan M. Garber: "We have informed the administration through our legal counsel that we will not accept their proposed agreement. The University will not negotiate over its independence or its constitutional rights." www.harvard.edu/president/ne...

"So this is my radical proposal for universities: Act like universities, not like businesses. Spend your endowments. Accept more, not fewer students. Open up your campuses and expand your reach not by buying real estate but by bringing education to communities" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

“Eliminating discrimination and protecting all students is important. But Trump is defying the Civil Rights Act, terrifying students, and illegally holding hostage grants for hospitals and scientific research so he can accomplish his real goal of punishing academics for our politics."

seriously

Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars

Your wallet is being cleaned out by expert pickpockets. This is criminal. Literally criminal. I call for an IMMEDIATE investigation into who knew what, when, and what they did with the info. You can bet the Admin and many here in DC are considerably richer tonight than they were this morning.

You can tell who the Good Guys are because they're the ones smashing a car window to drag a mother away from her child while wearing ski masks.

The wages of surrender.

It's hard to believe that men aren't actually insulted by this.

So many people out in Boston today. A few signs…

If "protests in all 50 states" wanted above-the-fold coverage in @nytimes.com, they should have been "seven random Americans" instead

We must stand up for all of our students. The federal government's targeting & treatment of international students is completely unacceptable. International students are core members of the Buckeye community and we won’t be silent as they are scapegoated in this way www.dispatch.com/story/news/e...

This is Utah in case anyone’s wondering how pissed off people are. I have never seen anything like this.

At the bank yesterday, the person helping me realized I was a professor, and then said, "I just want you to know how important professors are. You educate our children. So grateful for what you do." Is this a reaction to all these right wing attacks? Is there going to be a pro-professor backlash?