I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

Good grief

First shot: sugarcane The backbone of Puerto Rico's agricultural economy since colonial times Still used to make rum of course!

Deputy Lord Mayor of the City of Sydney, Jess Miller

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Guess I missed the Spotify memo…running ads to recruit for ICE?

Looking for recommendations for a developmental editor. Would especially be interested in BIPOC recommendations and bonus if they have worked on Haymarket books. Thank you!

Monthly reminder: Many people have a book in them, but it takes a special kind of freak to leave the Land of Laziness, cross the Plains of Procrastination and Insecurity Mountain, find the Blade of No One Made You Do This, and use it to cut your chest open and yank that book out.

Defund the police: something that never really happened, but everybody talked about. Defund the scientists: something that's actually happening, but almost nobody's talking about in those terms.

Socialism is what they called public power. Socialism is what they called social security.    Socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations.   Socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people. —Harry Truman, 1952

This list of figures for the "National Garden of American Heroes" is something else... trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/presidential...

BREAKING: U.S. strikes Iran's nuclear facilities

BREAKING: Coalition Sues to Protect the National Science Foundation from Trump and DOGE Assault We’re suing on behalf of educators, researchers, professors, and graduate students to stop the latest effort by the Trump administration to weaponize federal funding to push their anti-equity agenda. 🧵

Mahmoud Khalil walked out of the detention center in Louisiana shortly before 7 p.m. local time Friday. “No one is illegal — no human is illegal,” Khalil said. “Justice will prevail no matter what this administration may try.” trib.al/dZtYU0u

Every one of these petty, ideologically driven visa denials is an assault on *our* freedom of association, our right to hear, and our ability to learn about the world around us. They are meant to make us stupider, more susceptible to manipulation, and less free. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/w...

In the past months I must have spilled 10,000 glasses, bottles, cups of water. Any Jungians out there got any theories?

We cut our hair for mourning….pretty soon I’ll be bald ☹️

So, “vegan leather” is basically plastic…correct?

So pleased UConn has joined this group! Stay tuned for how the work of the Tribal Educational Initiative (TEI) will intersect with this initiative through our Indigenous Elders and Aging subcommittee! today.uconn.edu/2025/05/ucon...

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Any academics out there at institutions that have offered blanket PTR extensions (like the COVID moment) due to the current state of things....

Truly, one of the most successful 20th c. innovations of conservatism was merging elitist contempt for the democratization of higher education that happened after World War II with populist contempt for elitism. Still don’t quite know how they did it, but it’s been the playbook since at least 1951.

In a first for the Ivy League school, Columbia's new officers have the same powers of warrantless search and arrest as any other police officer under New York law. The state law permits the officers to use "physical force and deadly physical force in making an arrest or preventing an escape."

A devastating assessment of the state of Columbia offered by one of their own, Shana L. Redmond

BREAKING NEWS - South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol REMOVED from office by the court's unanimous decision www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

If you are in NYC and can make it out, please join us tomorrow at noon.

"The reality became clear: Ice detention isn’t just a bureaucratic nightmare. It’s a business. These facilities are privately owned and run for profit." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Who wants some good news? The overwintering monarch population, which had plummeted last winter, has doubled this winter! www.worldwildlife.org/stories/east...

Our new piece in American Quarterly: "How Ecofascism Creeps" (unfortunately relevant) muse.jhu.edu/pub/1/articl... DM if you need access!

Ok some good news

I love New York…

my god….

Fwiw one thing university faculty can do is provide simple explainers for their students on how federal funding works and how cuts to higher ed & endowment taxes will concretely damage their education and possibly spike tuition costs Many students don’t know how university finances work!

My favorite story in sports right now is the Haskell women’s basketball team. Haskell is a NAIA school in my hometown and specifically serves indigenous students. It lost 25% of its workforce to federal cuts, including the WBB coach, who is now working for free. They just made the NAIA tourney.

I finally got what's bugged me about all these stories on the crippling of the US govt: all of them speak of "cuts" when, in fact, only Congress can 'cut' funding, and it has done nothing of the sort. The story describes illegal & unconstitutional impoundment, BUT SAYS NOT ONE WORD ABOUT IT

Thanks to congestion pricing, lower Manhattan is safer & faster to access for drivers, safer for pedestrians. The subway is safer because ridership is up. And finally, dollars from cars help fund public transit for all. 🚊🚞🚊🚞🚊 Public policy for good, worth defending. abc7ny.com/amp/post/nyc...

The university isn’t dying. It’s being killed.

The @principlesfirst.bsky.social conference was just evacuated due to a bomb threat. This is after Enrique Tarrio and members of the Proud Boys showed up and tried to disrupt the conference yesterday.

Judge orders nationwide preliminary injunction of anti-DEI executive orders. "Plaintiffs’ irreparable harms include widespread chilling of unquestionably protected speech." www.justsecurity.org/wp-content/u...

The share of Americans employed by the government steeply dropped in the decades leading up to 2000, and has remained essentially flat since. A bloating federal workforce is a myth.

A deportation flight leaving the U.S. Thursday carrying 135 mostly Asian undocumented migrants is expected to land in Costa Rica in the afternoon. Almost half of the migrants will be children.

DOGE’s death blow to education studies A virtual wrecking ball took aim last Monday at the relatively small, wonky corner of the Department of Education that I write about every week: evaluation studies and data collection. The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) posted on X that it had…

New #BookReview forum discussing "For a Liberatory Politics of Home" featuring an author response from Michele Lancione https://buff.ly/4kdbeyH @colinmcfarlane.bsky.social @kbrickell.bsky.social @erinmcel.bsky.social @saanchi.bsky.social @dukepress.bsky.social