Powerful message from Nataki Jarrett, RN at Mount Sinai West. "To every nurse standing here today: Your voice matters. Your courage and your story matter. We became nurses because we care."

Brunch screenings of THE PRINCESS BRIDE? As you wish! See Rob Reiner’s classic fantasy adventure comedy 2/7 & 2/8 at Nitehawk Williamsburg.

No wonder: the U.S. has been cutting university and research funding for decades, and the Trump admin has made it their goal to destroy higher ed.

Very proud of @dhersh.bsky.social, whose NEH grant will help graduate student writing flourish at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social!

hey Veronica Mars is on Netflix again, you should watch Veronica Mars (again)

🗽 Call for Proposals: Asylum in the City: NYC’s Past, Present & Future Conference 📍 Baruch College–CUNY, May 15, 2026 We welcome academic & practitioner papers on urban asylum governance in NYC and beyond. 🗓 Proposal deadline: March 2, 2026 👉 Info & submit here: forms.gle/4fEKtrXeFNJy...

Are you interested in teaching #CUNY history in your spring classes? Join our educators group for a winter workshop this Friday, January 16 from 1-3pm at City Tech Library in downtown Brooklyn. Space is limited, RSVP here: tinyurl.com/5n7euzme

Also unionized staff jobs in CUNY libraries, all CUNY employees are eligible for tuition remission, library-interested folks could get an MLS while in these jobs: Public Services Specialist cuny.jobs/queens-ny/pu... and Extended Day/ILL Coordinator cuny.jobs/queens-ny/ex... at LaGuardia CC

I've read most of the scholarship about US policing since the early 20th century. What you learn from this is that violence is inherent. You cannot "separate" out violence from policing. Police in the U.S. are violence workers.

Says billionaire whose company’s GPUs are literally the brain of Grok the rape bot

Being lectured about what helps students succeed based on a report by consultants from Georgia as if we don't have pertinent information or locally informed analysis that might be useful is one way to start the week I guess.

"Many people confuse CUNY 360 with CUNY Beyond" or we could just make tuition free. #StudentSuccess

Everyone likes the part of V for Vendetta where the whole population of London shows up in masks. Everyone wants to just show up in a mask to beat the fascists. Nobody thinks about the literally TEN YEARS OF PLANNING AND PREPARATIONS explicitly stated in the movie to have gone into V's plan.

Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient! Creativity is not efficient!

DIE HARD screens this Monday, then DIE HARD 2 Monday 12/22 🎄💥 Both at Nitehawk Williamsburg

Rude that I didn’t even get an honorable mention. www.esquire.com/food-drink/b...

ProPublica spoke to about 150 people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/3MTlm33

ICE detain U.S. citizen for looking Somali—use illegal chokehold to tackle him to ground. Man repeatedly begs agents to look at his digital passport ID—they refuse. Drove him 7 miles away before releasing him alone into Minnesota snow storm—told him to "walk home" in freezing weather advisory.

People are the worst version of themselves when waiting to board a plane.

People are the worst version of themselves when waiting to board a plane.

“[U]niversities are teaching everyone—students, faculty, administrators—to stop thinking. We’re outsourcing discernment.… We are approaching educational bankruptcy: degrees without learning, teaching without understanding, institutions without purpose.” www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

Got a little too sassy with someone wayyyy out of my league in #dnd tonight, and man am I thankful that our DM let us all level up to 20 since it was our final battle of the campaign. I needed my divine inspiration to work baaaaadly.

"[admin]...who regard the...students of their own universities with such contempt as to be undeserving of the education that in many cases those administrators themselves, or their parents, or their children received...are an enemy of the educational enterprise" 🎁 link www.wsj.com/opinion/mont...

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

"Veterans Say No. No ICE. No Cuts. No Occupation." Today in Chicago. Photograph by Aaron Cynic.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

We’re hiring! Our new resume portal is live, and we’re looking for top talent in NYC to help build this administration and deliver on our affordability agenda. Could that be you? Apply using the link below. transition2025.com/apply

If you need a motorcycle license for your mode of transportation, please get out of the bike lane.

Amazon is helping fund a $300 million build of a ballroom for the White House. Independent bookstores are donating to food banks and organizations that help with food insecurity. They are not the same.

The conference abstract is a crucial academic genre but it can be hard to demystify without help. Join us @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social for our "Writing a Conference Abstract" workshop and learn to effectively communicate your project. Scan the QR or visit our website to register: buff.ly/Ii5N6gb

We’re doomed as a species.

I was just reminded that Cuomo has attacked both Mamdani and Lander for not having been born in the greatest immigrant city the world has ever made.

This happened in Northern California. Silvia Reyna Mendoza was deported after reporting years of harassment by an ICE contractor. KCRA aired about story her harassment on Thursday night last week. She was deported on Friday morning. This story ⤵️ aired on Monday, the 27th.

Excited for new colleagues to join us next fall! If you or someone you know is on the market, check out this opportunity to join the faculty at #BaruchCollege in the #BLS department!

Oopsie...

Cuomo is "stuck in a race he’s unlikely to win, for a job he never really wanted," and it's bringing out the worst in him, says a former staffer.

Racist.

We love lying to ourselves soooo much.

Columbia surveilled and threatened our members, who picketed and successfully forced Columbia to the bargaining table. The University’s union busting will not stop our members from engaging in NLRA-protected activity. Read our press release here: docs.google.com/document/d/e... #labor #highered

Trump is demanding nine colleges and universities sign a "Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education." These demands will come to all of higher ed if we don't stand together and fight back now. Tell our college and university administrations: Reject the Compact! tinyurl.com/rejectthecom...

✨ Big news! The CUNY Corpus of New York City English is launching Oct. 17 at the CUNY Graduate Center. Come hear about this NSF-funded resource for studying language variation & change. 📅 Oct. 17, 12–2 pm 📍 GC, Room 9206 🔗 Register by Oct. 15: tinyurl.com/4ycdyf4f

Brains, crystals, lasers — oh, my! 😱 Join us on Oct. 28 for a spooky night of fun science activities for all ages and trick-or-treating throughout the CUNY ASRC. RSVP to attend. bit.ly/4pWKPrD

The wiener dog is to 2025 NYC what the French bulldog was to 2015 NYC.

When I’m a dictator this will be a gulagable offense. This is on 3rd Ave!

Visit the Circulation Desk on the 1st Floor of the Mina Rees Library to check out equipment. You can loan: Logitech wireless presenters (i.e., pointer/clickers) libguides.gc.cuny.edu/librarytech/... #academiclibraries #cunygradcenter #minareeslibrary

A fellow at a rightwing think-tank is writing this, not a lefty or even a Democrat. Yesterday was scary, but we cannot yield to fear. "These are unprecedented and dangerous words from the civilian leadership of our military." foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Don’t miss this important conversation tomorrow on El Salvador and the rise of punitive populism. A timely discussion you’ll want to be part of!

People think they’re taking down a rich intellectual sinecure but they’re mostly terrorizing committed public servants who make $58,000 a year after 15 years of experience at a school that has to budget creatively so students can access textbooks.