“Levi Rolles said he was one of the 10 people arrested during last week’s protest — but he returned Friday morning. Agents yelled at Rolles to “go home” and shot him with pepper balls.” blockclubchicago.org/2025/09/26/f...

Unironically I think this should be illegal. We should have the right to be dead.

It is my professional opinion that my kids are the greatest. Really just some of the best humans you can imagine and I love hanging out with them.

Gift article: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

Losing is a possibility. Love can get you shot (or run over). But only following love is there any kind of future.

New profile pic has dropped.

this is terrorism

Hi #Booksky! I'm looking for reccs for a 10-year old who loves The Restaurant of Lost Recipes so much that I am tired of listening to it. Obviously she likes some adult books, but also she's 10. Ideas? (Yes, she has also read Grace Lin's Chinese Menu ~6 times and Elliott's Yummy and Tasty.) 📚💙📚

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The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

“War ravaged” Portland ICE driveway just now. Chicken suit guy was super nice.

This is literally what the actual "siege" of the auxiliary ICE building looks like

This is exactly why I argue in The Originalism Trap for a different model of constitutional interpretation. We've seen repeatedly that even the most straightforward text can get robbed of meaning, thus robbing us of justice. So we also need to think about how to read that text and what to do with it

@chadtopaz.bsky.social so wait,... I get the rest of the post about CK & our employer... but why were you on YikYak? Is there really a substancial Berkshire county presence on that app? O.o

Someone made the mistake at work today of asking me about my written (academic) work, and I trauma bled my academic self-pity at them. Even five minutes later I was appalled at myself, but I couldn't stop myself. I had to name and own the pain that is not reading and writing "as I should."

It is an explicit, white nationalist eliminationist project.

25 years teaching and leading in public schools, a doctorate, and an Olympic athlete. This administration doesn't care.

Of course, capitalism rejects the idea of common holdings, they misnamed casual worker exploitation the "sharing" economy.

I guess this is a way of saying... take a look at what your local acquisitions librarian is doing, it might be more complicated than COUNTER reports, collective action on the legalese, and paying for stuff.

Video games are an interesting #epherma area for #ac library collection. Beyond platforms becoming obsolete & dysfunctional w/o server-side maintenance, a lot of current platforms for purchasing games just don't offer a legal option for library ownership and/or preservation.

It amuses me no end that Proquest thinks these are relevant related results for a search in the film database for *Space Chimps*

The Altadena Community Garden was a rare shared space for the neighborhood. Its members are determined to save it, through hard work and ingenious amendments. civileats.com/2025/09/22/a...

One Sunday afternoon a month from noon to 6:00 p.m., volunteers from a synagogue and a Quaker meeting in Vermont assemble at the synagogue school’s well-equipped kitchen. Side by side, Jews and Quakers make dough for challah, pita, and gluten-free oat bread and bake it in industrial-size ovens.

NEW: After one of Kristi Noem’s major financial supporters contacted her, the DHS chief quickly expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida, records obtained by ProPublica show.

At the Broadview ICE facility, an ICE agent tried to run dozens of protesters over with an SUV as we walked on a public crosswalk. He kept driving for about a full football field until ICE barraged us with pepper balls.

They pepper sprayed us after this. We washed our faces and are back to singing we shall overcome. They’ll never win.

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!): www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...

"the walls that distinguish one’s own community from others" A community which calls out its identity as practice-shaped, but whose practices are tacitly/inherently not-universally-inviting... doesn't ground it's identity in practices, the practices become the figleaf of community.

Its fascinating to me that discussions of postliberalism almost always feature if not exclusive, then primarily, men. (It's not that there aren't women in these camps, so that's not the reason. But they are fascinatingly never taken to be the intellectual or political vanguards of such movements.)

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

In case you missed it, @animeherald.com revealed the cover & logo of the upcoming first issue of the Anime Herald Magazine! Layout Design & Logo by me Cover Art by @pepesalot.bsky.social 🧡 Pre-order your physical copy today: shop.animeherald.com/products/ani... (Digital Pre-order TBD)

And,... that'd be a hard NO. Reducing polarization my foot.

someone on here once posted that everyone wants to save the world, but no one wants to wash the dishes. i very often think about how to make sure i wash the dishes. seems like we need lots of dishwashers right now, so thank you, anonymous pocket friend.

🔊 Vacancy: Open Research Manager, University of Sheffield Library (full-time, open-ended). The role will involve supporting projects across Sheffield and nationally with the @ukrepro.bsky.social to accelerate open research practices. Closing date 22 October: jobsite.sheffield.ac.uk/job/Open-Res...

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

I hate this rhetoric. The university should be a public good. The library should be an information commons.

Horrifying If it's smoke and mirrors.... bad If it's "sincerely held".... bad No matter which way you look at it...

This week is a great time to make sure your collection development policy has language about information accuracy. Budgets are limited and we have a responsibility to our communities.

The price of books for individual consumers has largely remained flat from 2022 to 2025 Meanwhile, in libraries... 📚 www.readersfirst.org/publisher-pr...

If nothing else comes of this season of learning to row but getting me to drive to the lake three times a week… it’s worthy.

Finished writing a new "letterpress for all" 40-page #zine, "Just my type: finding, buying, or making your 1st letterpress type" as part of a forthcoming peer-reviewed article. Will be available for free online once issue is published (will share link here at that time!).

"Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit." Please. Thank you. www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the...

Megs Wacha's UN Human Rights framing - knowledge cannot be owned, but access to it may be controlled and restricted. Access & participation are interdependent. Not just the people locked *out* by the paywall - a wall is a barrier to everyone, no matter where you stand. #OASPA2025

PROBLEM with AI from Urlich Herb at #OASPA2025 Often AI replaces or confuses knowledge with information. The lack of attribution is clearly a violation of the principles of scholarly work

Love killing off all the religion departments just as christofascism sweeps the nation.

Back-to-school photos! The HMML team creating a portrait of the 2024 Dumbarton Oaks / HMML Summer School Syriac and Ge’ez classes, at HMML in Collegeville, Minnesota. Learn more about HMML's scholarly programs, including courses on languages, paleography, and archives: hmml.org/programs/#scholarly

We talk about what gets funding and what doesn’t as a form of bias that contributes to systemic racism in my SciComm class

I love cabbage. Braised cabbage, cabbage rolls, stir-fried cabbage, cabbage in soups, cabbage-wrapped cornbread, sweet cabbage cores eaten raw,… cabbage is a fucking delight.

Fun feminist (hidden gender role swap) ”sea adventure“ meets space opera story with plot-driven attention to race and class dynamics in the speculative world. Recc as YA for 10+ The romance plotline was unsatisfying, but I didn’t find that to mar my enjoyment overall. 💙📚🪐 🪐📚💙 #bookreview