I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW Leviathan Vol. 27, No. 2, June 2025 tinyurl.com/yb7hkeja Contributions from: Brian Yothers Johnathan A. Cook Caroline Hildebrandt Samuel John Gleason Bruce Fishbein Richard Littauer Yukiko Oshima Mark Niemeyer Mary K. Bercaw Edwards Pilar Martínez Benedí Dana Seitler

“Forwarding names is a practice from the McCarthy era. This represents a breathtaking breach of trust, ethics, and justice.” www.chronicle.com/article/when...

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.

From “The Times” forum on higher ed now in the current issue of The Dial, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social ‘s statement on the criminalization of student activism: muse.jhu.edu/pub/562/arti...

Issue 2.1 is out! Essays by @alicedegalzain.bsky.social & Peter Balaam; don’t miss our forum on higher ed now featuring Stephanie Foote, @jennifergreiman.bsky.social, @cnewf.bsky.social, & @samcohen.bsky.social Read/circulate/submit: thedialjournal.org

I woke up a year ago 100% certain that I had to make a documentary about the Winston Salem chapter of the Black Panther Party. So I did. We aim to release it early next year. This weekend I’m at Blackstar, looking for inspiration. If you’re in town, DM to meetup.

‘One possibility is that sperm whales are using the clicks as a form of language. But it’s also possible the noises are more like music, which can “have a strong influence on emotions without it actually conveying information”…’

12 months, 24 episodes, 53 voices, 2387 minutes of produced content, 150,000+ downloads. It’s been my pleasure & my pain. Ends tomorrow.

They were so close during COVID. AI + the political distractions makes this more possible than ever. Disaster capitalism is afoot

Say you wanted a flexible “obedience in advance” approach to government incursion. Well, what if you could fire almost all faculty in any department at any time then automate the remainder of the term with preexisting iterations of their courses overseen by staff from your private partner?

all new respect for Cuvier's Beaked Whale

Canvas is extractive garbage and I'm done with it. What are better ways to collect and link to the course readings? A big ass google drive? A page for each course?

This is all very bad.

A one-day sentence for the cop who killed Breonna Taylor? Black people’s lives do not matter.

Supreme Court says the president can’t abolish student debt, but he CAN abolish the Department of Education. This isn’t hypocrisy. It’s end times fascism—a fatalistic politics willing torch the government and incinerate the future to maintain hierarchy and subvert democracy.

do your thing whale hive

If your banker breaks, you snap; if your apothecary by mistake sends you poison in your pills, you die.

“Harvard’s claims about campus antisemitism don’t only misrepresent Jewish diversity – they violate Title VI of the Civil Rights Act by subjecting Jews to harmful stereotypes about what constitutes “authentic” Jewish identity.”

Today is the day the NEH has been fully dismantled in all but name.

Scott Pelley—American author and reporter for CBS News for more than 31 years, did not hold back

Half a million people in Gaza are starving. These Holocaust and genocide scholars are calling for immediate food aid and an end to the war. Israel has blocked nearly all food and medical aid to Gaza, and parents can’t feed their children. www.youtube.com/shorts/30JzD...

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 🌶️🌶️ for the plot 🌶️🌶️🌶️🌶️ for the illustrations Our summer beach reads are heating up. What should we read next?

if you see him on the streets, no you didn’t. Social death for all. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

Inside of you there are two swifts. One is Jonathan Swift, the other is Taylor Swift. You are a new survey course attempting to save the English major.

The WFU Humanities Institute’s Spring Symposium, featuring a keynote by @jenniferruth.bsky.social - an absolutely essential voice on academic freedom and higher ed!

Intersex whale alert!!! nautil.us/discovering-...

Look if we’re ignoring Supreme Court rulings then every American woman has a right to an abortion again

“BRING HIM HOME” 🔥

If you are faculty, staff, or student in the UC system — or if you are an alum — please consider signing this petition, which asks the UC to immediately address the revocation of our students’ visas. Anyone who wishes to share: please do. sites.google.com/view/stop-re...

I had an incredible time celebrating 50 years of Austin City Limits! Catch my performance of Going To A Town on Austin City Limits Celebrates 50 Years, premiering Friday, April 4, at 8 PM ET on PBS.

"the last stop is also a beginning point" Randall Horton performs his poem "Flashback to the Cell" in the fifth online release of our series of filmed poems from "Like a Hammer: Poets on Mass Incarceration," made with @haymarketbooks.org.

It’s so weird how we’re all just working like this is still a normal country.

They are arresting people on the streets, terminating their visas, and disappearing them for writing things they disagree with. This is where we are. Two months in. Right now. If you think they won’t begin coming after citizens soon, you are mistaken.

"In the face of these challenges, our most powerful response is a renewed commitment to rigorous, justice-oriented scholarship and teaching."

we probably shouldn't have allowed tenured faculty to turn "the humanities in crisis" into a subgenre of discourse often used to show the author's mastery over the field and play the university's decline as a trump card against critical trends they don't like

We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

We are saddened to hear of the passing of Pierre Joris. We had the pleasure of working with him when he translated Paul Celan’s The Meridian. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends.

This is the news we deserve. “These are the 1st images of humpbacks having sex, and they're both males 'It was not what I was expecting,' says biologist Stephanie Stack”

Reminder: we are being trained not to care about other people. It underlines the attacks on migrants, on DEI, on trans youth, on so-called "wokeness." Sure there are legitimate critiques but this is not about critiques. It's about supercharging capitalism's culture of uncare.

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“You can build all the dick rockets you want to go to Mars while you try to leave the rest of us on the burning Earth. We’re gonna take control. This is our world, and it’s our government, and it’s our money.” — Sara Nelson, Association of Flight Attendants president

The richest men in the world have decided to undermine NC's Hurricane Helene recovery and destroy the lives and livelihoods of ordinary people doing some of the most important and humbly-compensated work being done today. www.citizen-times.com/story/news/l...

One of our supporters shared this with us—people are getting creative tonight!

Rereading Moby-Dick for the first time in a few years, and it is so wild that anyone ever thought Middlemarch was better than this

I honestly believe our most powerful position in a toxic time that feeds on cynicism, apathy,& despair is to genuinely care and act for a better world. Cynicism is our enemy. We should check it, incl. on the left. It’s not intellectually superior. It’s the virus they’re trying to infect us with. NO

I appreciate all the people recommending the Shock Doctrine. I've been thinking about what makes Trump's use of these tactics a little different. In recent decades, shock tactics were used mainly to rapidly impose neoliberal economic policies. But what Trump is doing goes way beyond that. a 🧵

Take a break from your regularly scheduled doomscrolling and marvel at this clip. A jawdropping feat of editing by Questlove - incredible!