album of the day - The Marfa Tapes from Jack Ingram, Miranda Lambert and Jon Randall

this is all pretty bleak and I can't argue with any of it

www.texastribune.org/2025/12/24/t... Another nail in the coffin of due process at Texas A&M.

Solidarity is the only god we need. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-god-of...

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She was fired for teaching what she was hired to teach. She was fired for doing what she did not do. She was fired for breaking a law that does not exist.

this is exactly it. The admin is more afraid of political pressure from the GOP than with following the law

there is no academic freedom in texas

And the campaign to get a trans person banished from their job and education worked

Looking for a way to give back this holiday season? If you’re a fan of Tim Duncan, here’s a cool way to team with the Spurs legend to fight hunger by assisting the San Antonio Food Bank. www.expressnews.com/sports/spurs...

album of the day - Skeletons from the closet: The Best of the Grateful Dead

in no meaningful sense is there academic freedom in Texas

NEW: A Texas district in which Black students were allegedly taunted with monkey noises. An Arizona school where students admitted saying “slavery is good.” These are some of the incidents Trump’s Education Department has ignored:

album of the day - Buildings from Go Murphy

album of the day - The Harrow & the Harvest from Gillian Welch

In Texas our Attorney General has set up a snitch line to spy on people using the bathroom. What a disgusting freak www.expressnews.com/politics/tex...

A Democrat is running in every state and federal race on the Texas ballot next year. The Texas Democratic Party says its the first time in modern state history that either party has fielded a full slate of candidates. www.texastribune.org/2025/12/17/t...

album of the day - Here from Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

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I regret to inform you that in Texas things are getting dumber www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...

What nonsense. Reinstate Dr. McCoul.

🚨New article from myself and co-authors Albert Chiu and Ridwan Noel🚨 Anti-environmentalism as conservative coalition maintenance: an automated text analysis of National Review www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

same here

Stephen Miller is employing state terror in service of the open goal of shifting the ethnic mix of the country. In numerous ways he's doing this at the expense of public safety. We spent weeks reporting on Miller's real aims. Here's the result. We hope you'll read: newrepublic.com/article/2041...

Never let them live it down. Mass murder by the richest man in the world and Trump.

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album of the day - Around the Fur from the Deftones

We’re 330+ former natsec officials who’ve seen authoritarianism abroad—and we see the same signs here. Our open letter urges universities to resist Trump’s push to curb free inquiry. Watch our YouTube video introducing the letter & why defending academia matters.

After co-authoring an op ed in the Tufts student paper, Rümeysa Öztürk was doxed by the Canary Mission, an anonymous website that publishes personal information of academics they consider anti-Israel. ICE then used the data to target her in carrying out Trump's brutal student protest crackdown.

Sign the petition linked below to support higher ed workers at the UNC System in their fight against the requirement to create a searchable repository of all university syllabi, which will endanger students and instructors by inviting political actors to attack free inquiry across UNC campuses.

absolutely horrendous

album of the day - Live at Luther College from Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds

Massive turnout of organized higher ed workers to protest the brutal austerity measures proposed by The New School management ✊ @newschoolaaup.bsky.social

The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky

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This is one of the most important documents produced this year. At a time when many of our professional organizations are punting, @aaup.org has been leading on EdTech, AI, academic freedom & faculty governance. I'm humbled to be joining the team that authored this report.

album of the day - Upside Down Mountain from Conor Oberst

And the Oklahoma University chapter of the AAUP steps into the breech of the viral Turning Point USA student writing assignment

talk about grade inflation

album of the day - Coldplay's A Rush of Blood to the Head

There's a parallel to how Xi reasserted the CCP's primacy across Chinese society. Not quite party commissars, but more like the equivalent of Confucius Institutes in every school.

This is the step 1 of the next RW attack on higher ed specifically targeting the social sciences. Step 1 attack social science research as shoddy and ideological and as taking time away from professors main responsibility which is teaching (1/n)

Make America Healthy Again

wrote a whole book about this www.bloomsbury.com/us/benched-j...

Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...

album of the day - Barton Hollow from The Civil Wars

As we follow the trajectory of the student at OU who wrote an essay citing zero sources and making no argument, got the instructor fired by claiming her 1A rights were violated, went on a tour of rw media and now seems poised to become a part of the TPUSA speaker circuit: (1/4)