PA will now have a cursive mandate (I am glad; I want students to be able to take notes and write essays by hand and those who don’t have cursive struggle, plus time not on computer is Good Time) but is there something nefarious I should fear/what’s the history of having ditched it?

I wonder if anyone has written up a study of all the people killed or hurt in high speed chases by BP and other immigration agents. The 1970s and 80s are full of these stories. This from 1987:

“Immigrant rights organizations pushed for this legislation urgently last fall because Mikie Sherrill, a Democrat who won the governor’s race to replace Murphy in November, has not committed to keeping the directive in place going forward.”

If math could invent imaginary numbers surely the pollsters can come up with something

My book comes out in about a month! I've got a mini-tour lined up this spring to promote it: March 11, New York, NY March 19, Berkeley, CA March 27, Tuscaloosa AL April 23, Davis, CA May 27-28, London UK Stay tuned for details! Now booking for fall too, if you're interested.

Open the borders to slay the undead Slave Power. But also open the borders because we are a free society and free societies respect basic freedom. #OpenBorders

We’ve all had days where we’ve woken up, forgotten to brush our teeth, and closed all El Paso airspace for an hour instead.

They say ai is gonna take my job but could an ai watch season seven of Buffy and hate it this much

There’s not a way to negotiate with ICE without selling out some of the very neighbors we’re risking our lives to protect. This is a moral issue. Your willingness to negotiate shows you don’t understand the problem at all or our sacrifice, not that you’re somehow smarter or more rational than us.

I can’t stop laughing about “and from New Jersey”

PUBLICATION DAY! Today my book has officially been re-released by @pennpress.bsky.social. With new preface that examines the 2020 protest that led to the removal of the Rizzo statue, recent Philly politics, and the rise of Trump, I hope you'll check it out and help spread the word! 🗃️

I like this piece we published by @drzara.bsky.social on how foundational habeas was to the American revolution if you are looking for some 250

Cool opportunity to erode the trust necessary for education, train young people to expect to be surveilled 100% of the time, diminish the working conditions and autonomy of faculty, and empower bad faith right wing actors to never face accountability or sanction for their actions

Bad Bunny’s performance began in the plantation, featured broken electric poles, and ended by centering a hemispheric understanding of “América”—among many other things—and some Anglo journalists are like “his performance wasn’t political.” This is why we need to be telling our stories.

For some reason I am reminded of all the reasons for living and the joy of living with each other

"God Bless America:" then he lists most of the countries in the hemisphere starting with Chile I think? this rules

The flip should have been legal when Surya did it and spoken word should have been illegal when ilia did it

Kid asked for a labubu for her birthday and I’m going to print out an article about the Dutch tulip bubble for her to read instead

Could have used an editor tbh

“the migrant has no rights the white man is bound to respect”

We watched After Hours and the recommendations for “more like this” are nothing like this

I sincerely hope that JD Vance gets this reaction every single place he goes.

I guess this is a provocation, but does it work when it's out of context like this, when it's affirmative instead of defensive, when the symbol isn't deployed a century ago as a means of securing Italian American whiteness? idk seems weak

adding my name to the Want to Buy This list

I mean, how could you hate cities the way the right does when cities offer us amazing things like this? Cities are good.

I wouldn’t want to draw a line based on two points but it seems like universities are crushing dissent and eroding democracy and it’s not limited to one particular issue

Sorry this is such a funny class notes update in the Columbia alumni magazine

Grateful for the @inquirer.com www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

hell of an essay here from @oliviapaschal.com southlandsmag.com/after-the-ye...

My essay reckoning with Wendell Berry, in the first issue of Southlands magazine, is online now: southlandsmag.com/after-the-ye...

(This is how men behave.)

Hi, Senator expert here. @wyden.senate.gov only does this when he's very stressed:

So romantic 🥰

So much of this is good but this is a fundamental error: “is not merely removing individuals, it is hollowing out civic life” Removing people IS hollowing out civic life, there isn’t a humane way or appropriate pace for tearing people from the fabric of their lives This is now more visible

Dan Royles is right!

On Feb 10, I am moderating a conversation at the Center for Brooklyn History about how storytelling and art can lead impacted people and larger society to rethink the systems within the criminal legal system. The event is free and open to the public. www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/cbh...

I wonder how much non-profit/uni/etc board members are having their brains cooked by reactionary AI slop, and if there might be any negative downstream results

NEW: Abigail Spanberger this afternoon ordered that all state agencies leave ICE's 287(g) program. This means that the state police (and some other agencies) will no longer be empowered to detain and arrest people for ICE. Big, big move by the governor within weeks of coming into office.

I have never seen anything like it. I don't know what's actually going on, but several attorneys reached out to me this morning and said all of their Somali clients were also transferred to the same judge and now have court on the same date in March. And I don't know for sure why. But it's chilling

I googled July 4 and got this insane result

this is very specific, but can you recommend a hair salon that will dye/trim my child's hair a fun color, in South Philly or Center City east?

This is why I support local journalism @farfarraway.bsky.social gets to the naked truth of the story, as always (Lou Turks also v popular with birders, given its proximity to the Heinz refuge)

Speaking as an independent publisher of twenty years, I absolutely think this is the direction media needs to go in order to survive; collectively writer-owned, reader-supported, with low ad placement if need be to cover costs.

don't worry, i'm sure once they've finished intentionally crippling our ability to discover and tell each other what they're doing, they'll be satisfied and will stop there

Email [email protected] for parking.

A lot of stuff that claims or seems to be about money is actually about something else

Industries aren’t dying, the people in power are murdering them

Everything broken

Always found this 2020 Philadelphia report on the Columbus statue helpful to think about. Even oversampling local whites didn’t show support for keeping the statue. It’s still here, but not because the majority wants it. www.phila.gov/media/202011...

Hey @schumer.senate.gov please tell me EXACTLY what a body cam is gone do for this baby girl. Put it in record . Because I want it read at your reckoning