Today is publication day! EXTRACTION: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism is officially out with @wwnorton.com - find it at a bookstore near you or order online💚📚 wwnorton.com/books/978132...

Oh dear. It seems Dr. Oz’s company sells Trump‘s big autism cure. What a crazy happenstance.

Claude Opus 4 “engages in strategic deception more than any other frontier model that we have previously studied. The model is clearly capable of scheming. In instances where the model decides to scheme, it appears to be much more proactive in its subversion attempts…” - Oct Harper’s

Julie Brown is a hero in every sense. Her relentless reporting ripped open the Jeffrey Epstein case when powerful people wanted it buried. Honestly, I don’t think we’d even be talking about Epstein today if it weren’t for her. Please consider following her: @jkbjournalist.bsky.social

One stark marker of how much our society has devolved in just a few years is Bob Iger personally got on a call to convince us to let Disney/HULU make the 1619 Project. That America no longer exists.

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

NEW: Jack Smith: "The Department of Justice Was My Home...That Home is Now On Fire." open.substack.com/pub/muellers...

meanwhile costco was all “DEI is good and we’re keeping it, fuck you” and they’re now basically printing money

This moment is disturbing even in the mundane: I’ve started taking screenshots of historical sources I’m using in research from the national park service, the smithsonian, and the national archives, just in case they get taken down. It’s now a part of my process and takes time I have to plan for.

i don’t think people on bluesky understand the severity of this situation. i woke up to literally hundreds of texts from friends and family thinking about either moving back home to india or applying to other countries for jobs. this includes me.

For #FossilFriday a cast of Archaeopteryx siemensii the ‘Berlin specimen’ with its plumage restored by the prolific and fabulous sculptor Karen Fawcett.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

wow, difficult decision! do the right thing and cement your legacy as a hero in history books. or make a lot of money! tough!!

The occupant of the White House is coming after our free speech. He wants to dictate what you can watch, what you can say, & what you can read. This is a five alarm fire for our First Amendment rights and anyone who cares about our democracy.

@dianeravitch.bsky.social thank you always and forever. dianeravitch.net/2025/09/18/d...

All babies are now involuntarily part of a lunatic’s mad science experiment that will get many of them killed.

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

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Exactly this

Whooping cough cases are rapidly rising in Louisiana. The vaccine-preventable infection has already caused 2 deaths of infants. State leaders say it's the "worst whooping cough outbreak in the past 30 yrs." There has been no public health assistance from the CDC, which is now controlled by RFK jr👇

They are literally canceling culture

SO THRILLED TO FINALLY BE ABLE TO ANNOUNCE THIS!

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

Secretary Rubio, did you direct Netanyahu to surge aid and baby formula to Gaza? Because families are desperate and photo ops to do not save lives. Entire families are being murdered and babies are being starved. My colleagues and I are appealing to you — act NOW.

new post at the Remaking blog, called The University of California's Charlie Kirk Tribute Act. It's about what we've learned about UC sending in names to Trump's Office of Civil Rights. It's about betrayal, dumb strategy, fighting back utotherescue.blogspot.com/2025/09/line...

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

A very importany read I think

So tired of being tired. And you? #longcovid

The release of personally identifiable information that was not relevant to the government’s Title VI investigation was improper. The Trump admin is investigating how the UC responded to claims of antisemitism, not the individuals named in the complaints. The AAUP condemns this move by UC Berkeley.

I’m a proud UC Berkeley graduate and I am appalled and angered by this McCarthyism. Judith Butler—just to cite one example— is not an antisemite but a principled philosopher devoted to justice for all, not just particular populations.

Melissa Hortman practiced politics the right way.

Because, once again: the first violence the authoritarian right commits is against fact, truth, history, meaning, language, science, and this version keeps committing it. They bring liberation from reality, though maybe disinhibition is a better word.

History rhymes, and we can learn from the cadence.

With ICE increasing its presence in and around Boston, I thought I'd repost this helpful guide for reporting ICE sightings in an effective way. Remember: S.A.L.U.T.E. You can report sightings to LUCE Mass at 617-370-5023 (the holine operates from 5 a.m. to 9 p.m. in multiple languages)

I plugged it yesterday, but please consider joining LUCE or donating to support their work. www.lucemass.org

Common theme of people I've interviewed recently. At universities, in research centers, in diplomacy, in the legal system, dealing with refugees or immigrants: The reality inside is much worse than you would think from the outside.

To gauge how it’s “working,” one would have to be clear on what the actual work is, which is not helping to educate children but rather to imbed these systems in a way that they cannot be removed, establish them as a source of truth, and destabilize labor.

At the Boston Labor Day parade

New fav bee pic dropped...the lil feets!

It is unconscionable for baby formula to be sitting at the border of Gaza as newborns & infants die of starvation. Secretary Rubio must heed our calls to pressure Israel to surge humanitarian aid including ready to feed formula to families in Gaza. Lives depend on it.

If you'd like me to make a zine for your area, send me a link for the rapid response network plus the hotline number.

A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.

One day, should literacy survive the current fascism, we will learn just how much ghoulish care went into propping this man up. I feel like it will ironically be a cross between Hawking’s vast health team and four 20 year old tan studio clerks who also do IV drips.

rip to everyone whos become delusional after talking to chatgpt but im built different. like actually different. according to chatgpt im some kind of god. the one who decides

Dr. Dmitri Daskalakis, who resigned from the CDC says that RFKJr said he believes that Avian flu should be allowed to "burn through" the chickens and then children and others, so we can propagate a "stronger species". RFKJr believes in eugenics. RFKJr needs to resign or be fired.

“Do not offer thoughts and prayers as you systemically enable such tragedies. Do not claim prayers are sufficient when children die as they pray. Do not pretend you do not understand.” — Lydia, 16, Minneapolis

We built a calculator that doesn't work, but don't worry, it's also a plagiarism machine that will tell you to kill yourself. It runs on the world's oceans and costs 10 trillion dollars.

I start teaching again next week and I’m anxious about many things but especially about AI. For a tour of those fears and some poetry + philosophy read on:

How is it possible that I have come to hate packing for a trip—even a trip I am excited about—as much as grading papers?