Call me ill-informed, I was an English major, but these images have been my only source of light in these last few dark days.

FL-27 is my district. Salazar's emails in the last few months have tried to put distance between herself and Trump. She co-sponsored Haiti TPS legislation recently. I'm surprised this rating didn't change sooner.

Solidarity with colleagues at Syracuse coping with these cuts. Thank you to Romita Ray for great advocacy, beautifully phrased: "these quirky and fabulous combinations of fields ... attract students who are drawn to those ways of thinking ... that kind of robust, prismatic curriculum”.

This will be a major contribution to Caribbean, imperial, African diaspora, and British history. "The award will fund Valuable Lives (VL) ... which aims to build a publicly accessible database listing every person enslaved in the British Caribbean between 1817 and 1832."

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

with this and the NYT's "should rich people be allowed to access free public services?", we're going to need to come up with a name for the Law of Headlines that's the exact opposite of Betteridge's Law.

This is excellent. I also think it's important that it's an excellent piece of *writing*, surely one of the reasons it's been shared so widely.

I was just a little kid when men went to the moon, so maybe this was widely known back then already, but I'm just learning today that they literally left their shit in bags on the moon!? So it's still there? OK, don't answer that.

thanks to @indyfromspace.bsky.social's top tweets thread, instead of an earworm this morning I woke up thinking, rip to your grandma but im different

schrödinger's tortoise

guys this is so nice :') I love that we're all online watching a thing that's good instead of bad :')

building high speed rail improves cognitive capacities (likely for a combination of reasons, according to this study), so in the US we've been quite literally making ourselves more stupid for decades by failing to build high speed rail

sneering at the Royal Navy on the same day his boss is kissing the king's arse is a brilliant strategic move

just a reminder for those of us drawn to negative stereotypes of Miami that Ketanji Brown Jackson grew up here and went to Miami Palmetto Senior High School and public education is an essential public good

You might think, that's so Miami, it'll fit right in downtown. But this site is owned by our public two-year college, MDC, a major force for working-class, POC, immigrant empowerment in South Florida, and the trustees voted to give it away to Trump with no public discussion.

happy first day of Fall 2026 course registration to all colleagues who celebrate/anxiously keep track of enrollments in humanities classes

bookmark this

Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

Thinking for no particular reason today about the long term geopolitical effects of the Suez Crisis of 1957.

Criminalizing peeing is extraordinarily damaging to public health—in 5️⃣ main ways A 🧵, based on NC’s experience (its HB2 bill) & on published literature 1/n www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/u...

I guess what makes me angriest about all of this is that it makes anyone's sincere commitment to intellectual life into the grounds of their status as a mark. You, me, our students, anyone who thinks there could be something more to life than value extraction and environmental ruin. You fool, etc.

turns out my July 2024 post was 2-4 years too early? what are the chances of PM Miliband and Prez Buttigieg or Harris or [this space should be for Mamdani but unfortunately he's not eligible to be US president]

Good morning from Boston University. Pride flags EVERYWHERE

excellent question — and it's also true that the COO of BlackRock gets attention for saying something that liberal arts deans and faculty also say routinely but people don't hear

I am sorry to put his face back into your endless scroll but I just cannot get over the fact that this is an *official White House photograph* of a wartime president on the brink of ordering US troops to invade Iran while the world burns

According to new reporting by The New York Times, the Miami field office leads the country in ICE arrests- yet you wouldn’t know it from the lack of coverage. Enforcement doesn’t always look like street raids. Sometimes it happens out of sight. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

Persuasive piece. The Kosovo example gives new, awful meaning to the military phrase "death by PowerPoint." I guess Maven looks more like ArcGIS but the problem appears to be the same, only faster, and worse.

You would think it would not be hard for supposed to progressives or leftists to address Israel and AIPAC while also taking a firm stance on antisemites who try to attach themselves to that cause. Yet so many people have proved unable to do this.

This is a thread for lovers of elections; French politics; & French geography. Tomorrow are France's runoffs for MAYOR elections; every city choosing its mayor. It's a window into multiparty politics, shifting coalitions, & hard math, & suspense. I'll go thru the 10 biggest cities, 1 by 1.

Like many non-economists, I imagine, I've learned the term "demand destruction" this week. The lovely alliteration can't mask the damage it entails. "It’s not that you don’t drive to work because the price of gas is too high, it’s you don’t drive to work because you lost your job."

This outrage. Plus that NYT piece showing ICE activity is higher in Miami than anywhere else in the country. Sometimes the brutality of Florida today is just unbearable.

I never post music, but I toggled from "Shipbuilding," written by Elvis Costello, to reading a student essay on Thomas Paine's "Common Sense", and so "King of America" rolled up from my 1980s depths and—I've never noticed this before—"common sense" is literally in the lyrics of "Brilliant Mistake."

a different country, a different war, a different fantasy of restoring lost national power, but this song popped into my head today (I think because of the line "I'll be back by Christmas", so many people sent off to fight while being told the war will be over in no time)

To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. —William Blake #FlowerReport

anyone else hearing the ghosts of ancient plants and plankton shrieking "leave me buried in the ground you idiots"?

heads up: in a month or two, we're all gonna be talking about climate change a LOT

I have a 'History Department in UKHE' joke but it's been reduced from 250 characters to 50 and is now merged with jokes from across ten other largely-unrelated disciplines while still being expected to be Just As Funny.

grocery store anti-ICE flyer in a Trump +30 county in central Oregon last week

"Now the machine ruled over their lands ... the machine was making of them a whole new breed of men. It did not belong to them; it was they who belonged to it." Sembene Ousmane, 1960.

Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside

Mamdani's amazing anticolonial St. Patrick's day message sent me down a Roger Casement rabbit hole. The man led a pretty incredible life. But for now I'm just posting this beguiling note about Dublin from the beginning of his Wikipedia entry.

Remarkable. www.npr.org/2026/03/17/n...

love that Jamelle Boiue, or Jamelle Bouie's editor, is literally enacting Betteridge's Law of Headlines

What if your reputation deserves to be damaged because of atrocities you participated in

me and my bluesky feed tonight