KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

Florida is now open carry. But some spaces are still not. Including courthouses, schools. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/15/f...

Faculty placed on leave at FAU and fired at UM www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/09/14/s...

Well, I picked an interesting week to assign Kellie Carter Jackson’s _Force and Freedom_. Looking forward to discussions in seminar 🤷🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

no surprise, but…. “There has still been no outreach from the DoJ or members of Congress to me seeking to interview my clients,” said the top civil attorney Gloria Allred, who has represented 27 Epstein survivors.…

“The Florida Association of School Nurses is deeply concerned by the recent announcement from Governor DeSantis and Surgeon General Ladapo regarding removing vaccine mandates for school entry…

Live in FL? Like vaccines, public education, and being able to leave your house? Contact your state reps about the ridiculous FLDOH proposal to abandon the state school vaccine mandate! standupflorida.org/maps/

“Load-bearing myth” is a great phrase. I imagine there are plenty of people who believe this particular myth, but it’s refreshing to hear this crisp rejection.

Per a start-of-term message, public higher education creates opportunity--fair enough--and also "drives impact." I have this irreverent and unfortunate image of an highly impactful bulldozer in my head. But I am excited to teach and mentor students all the same.

British Quakers, resisting bathroom policies, the distinction between unity and unanimity…worth a read.

Words for Wk 1 of term: “When the machinery of the state is captured, the most critical ground to defend is our shared commitment to truth and democratic values. Doing so is necessary to be ready to seize the opening when it inevitably comes.” —Ian Bassin, “The Hard Won Hope of the Long Defeat”

Epstein survivor Sarah Ransome on Ghislaine Maxwell: “I have spent the last 17 years in my own prison for what she, Jeffrey, and all the co-conspirators did to me. I was raped three times a day. Ghislaine must die in prison.”

I saw (and can’t now find and credit) a couple of posts here about AI and FERPA. And I didn’t quite understand the connection so I poked around and found this: registrar.wisc.edu/ferpa-and-ar... Not my university, but helped me appreciate the stakes somewhat better.

Challenge: post your last photo taken in DC to show what a hell hole it is.

My current pie in the sky dream: all cc students and many cc graduates start a series of noisy nationwide rolling strikes. 4-year students and graduates quickly follow, sustaining the mvmt with bodies and money, but do not claim leadership. The world changes. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/04/m...

I am tired of advising people to review CMS formatting rules. Please induct me into the old farts' society forthwith.

People who experience hot flashes: Does one really get them more in humid climates, or is it just f*cking random that it's worse now that I am back in the swamp of SoFl? (Apparently not an HRT candidate so pls don't recommend.)

When we said presidents aren’t as responsible for either a good or bad economy as the political cycle likes to think, this…is not where we wanted to go.

Things I didn’t expect to read: “I’m gonna trust my friends in the government“ — Charlie Kirk

“Was the US hosting football, or was football hosting the US? Or rather a particular vision of the US represented by Trump?… Infantino’s alliance with the president is both committed and alarming.”— Jonathan Wilson, Guardian US

“in 1965, 2% of the entire US economy was public science. One in every $50 was public science. That's now about half a percent of GDP.” — Jonathan Gruber We will reap what we sow.

Being governed by and for the 10% is bad enough. Thinking it’s 10% when it’s really <.5% is…. a shockingly successful mindf*ck?

‘The announcement last Friday of the ending of Temporary Protected Status for Haitians on the grounds that "overall, country conditions have improved to the point where Haitians can return home in safety" is a gross misrepresentation of the true situation in the country.’ —Bishop Peter Eaton

I like having health insurance, personally. Some charts about the GOP’s BBB. (“Author” in graph is Paul Krugman.)

Piazza is a course discussion platform used by many colleges and universities. Piazza requires students to provide the following information when signing up. From 2017-2019, Palantir Technologies paid Piazza $916,000 for access to this data. www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Pay attention: Senate Republicans are trying to ram through extreme anti-abortion judges right under our noses. Their goal? A nationwide abortion ban. I’ll keep fighting back against nominees that want to take away our freedoms.

My college at FIU is losing this donation because of the state’s actions. Little speaks as loud as money at this moment in time, so I sincerely thank you, Mike Fernandez.

Oh fu**

I was interviewed for this story about a recently-discovered narrative of escape from bondage in 1831 by a man named Thomas, from Baltimore, who eventually became a sailor. Yet another thrilling story of the triumph of intelligence and will over brute power. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/tatt...

[does a little dance] www.nytimes.com/2025/06/18/o...

“No Kings” demonstration, Ocean Beach, San Francisco

One of the research projects I have been toying with looks at innovation in the early republic. The new NEH call makes me think…..maybe not.

‘After the board issued its historic rebuke,…Levine approached UF trustee Patrick Zalupski to offer a conciliatory handshake. Zalupski refused. Arm stiff at his side, he looked Levine in the eye. “No,” he said. “You [expletive] up, man.”’ (Sun Sentinel) Appropriate incivility?

Looking for something to do on Flag Day in Western Mass?

June 1 is the beginning of hurricane season in the US. Make me the head of FEMA. www.reuters.com/world/us/fem...

Yes, Joni, we are all going to die. But it shouldn't be our SENATORS who are killing us.

Village People remix: #Taco Man?

SWATting attack at my kid’s high school during final exams today. Multiple area schools shut down, including one pre-K-5 that I know of, probably more. I hate this so very much.

I think I must have seen this first here, so thanks to whoever posted it; it seems very thoughtful. buttondown.com/thene/archiv...

“House Republicans voted to cut Medicaid by $700 billion and to cut Medicare by $500 billion. The GOP representatives also voted for dozens of other measures equally harmful to their constituents so that they could partially offset a $7 trillion tax cut for millionaires and corporations.” -R Hubbell

“Blackman's argument…is that since only Orthodox Jews consider themselves bound by halacha, they are the only Jews who can ever sincerely claim to ever be "burdened" by impositions on their religious exercise.” Based on this summary, the claim is terrifying and *should* be DOA.

“Voters would find out that someone making less than $15,000 a year would see their federal taxes increase by 74.3% by 2031. That is not a typo.” - Dan Rather

Is “Donnie Two Dolls” a sticky moniker? (H/t RobertHubbell, AFAIK.) I really hope so.