More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

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"The Talk"

A few things I'm doing: *start semester w/ "The Talk" *get to know my students & their "voices" so that it's clear when they're using AI *assignments for which AI won't work (analyzing a video) *"hiding" words in ?s that will trip up AI *occasional in-class writing all of this is time consuming 😩

"I'm really good at this stuff. Your countries are going to hell." - Trump says in his speech before the U.N. General Assembly

Anyone or institution that's struggling this way, give me a buzz because while there's clearly no quick fix or panacea, there's a multi-front approach that helps mitigate the worst of it and gives students a fighting chance to engage with their own educations. Seriously, I can help.

Front page of @apnews.com calling it like it is. These claims are unfounded. #VaccinesSaveLives #TylenolisSafe #Tylenol #FireRFK #MedSky #Vaccines

If you think Tylenol is bad for children’s health, wait until you see what guns do.

Trump Health Care Tips: Vaccines = bad. Injecting bleach = good. Tylenol = bad. Ivermectin = good.

This is how I discovered what my teenage daughter was doing one night at 3 am 👀👀👀👀

Looking at RFK's recent moves, including an attack on the hepatitis B vaccine and on painkillers for pregnant women. The common theme: That all children's health problems are due to "bad" mothers. This isn't about making kids healthy. It's misogyny. www.salon.com/2025/09/22/r...

Started to pull my stuff out yesterday…

ARRESTED FOR SITTING www.blackenterprise.com/alex-okeefe-...

Michael Eisner, former Disney CEO "Where has all the leadership gone? If not for university presidents, law firm managing partners, and corporate chief executives standing up against bullies, who then will step up for the first amendment?"

25% of Drs in US are foreign grads. Many are on an H1B visa. This will hit health systems hard especially rural hospitals and hospitals in underserved areas that sponsor these visas through waiver programs. The old cost was about 5000$ a year. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

Silly Jimmy Kimmel. He should have just called for all homeless people to be killed and he’d still have a job.

ROVE: “.. Using Charlie’s murder to justify retaliation against political rivals is wrong and dangerous. It will further divide and embitter our country. No good thing will come of it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/they...

Shout out to the American Federation of Musicians

KAMLAGER-DOVE: Dylan Roof, who followed white supremacist propaganda, murdered 9 Black parishioners in 2015. Do you deny this? PATEL: I'm sorry. Dylan Roof? Can you give me more information? KAMLAGER-DOVE: You're head of the FBI

I saw this picture of Paul Newman and Robert Redford for the first time a few weeks ago Some ppl were born to be movie stars

Mustache AND turtleneck? A diabolical combo!!!! ❤️

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Under Donald Trump’s economy: Coffee is up 26% Beef is up 14% Oranges are up 17% Bananas are up 6% Chicken is up 6% Chocolate Chip Cookies are up 5% Potato Chips are up 4% Milk is up 4% But average worker pay is only up 2% Trumpflation is eating up your paycheck.

One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

RIP to the GOAT (and also one of the most smokin' hot actors to ever grace the silver screen). You will be missed, sir.

If you need a little hope this morning - the current tween trend involves decorating clothespins with affirming messages, then clipping them on friends' backpacks when they're not looking. Here are a few that my 11-year-old decorated this weekend ❤️

Stephen Colbert's Emmys acceptance speech: "I have never loved my country more desperately. God bless America. Stay strong, be brave, and if the elevator tries to bring you down, go crazy and punch a higher floor."

And yes, I was the last Black full-time columnist in the Opinion section. Washington Post -- operating in a city which for a long time has been majority Black, is now without any full-time Black opinion writers.

I hired Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2017, and worked with him closely until he was murdered by the Saudi regime in Istanbul -- simply for expressing himself. I put my safety on the line for years to push publicly for justice and accountability in his murder. www.npr.org/2018/10/18/6...

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

the worst soda is a surprise pepsi when you think it’s coke and it’s not close

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

News from Finland. A 9-year-old lost an especially good stick he’d had since he was 2. He hung up 20 posters. A few days later it was returned. It had been found by a 2-year-old, who wanted to keep it for herself, but her mother made her return it. She got toys, flowers and candy as a reward.

Nihilism ain’t gonna get you nowhere but tired. Of course, protecting our “moral health” is hard right now. But also? It’s always been hard and always will be. It’s hard being black and gay and fierce in this country too. Doesn’t mean it ain’t a miracle in my life. Toughen up and glow up.

I just heard someone use the phrasing “mental and MORAL health” and wow, I’m going to start using that too. I want to take care of and improve my moral health.

In 1987, I was 11 and I was home alone during a snow day watching TV (WEBSTER rerun, I think) when the show was interrupted by live news coverage of a press conference held by disgraced PA Treasurer, Budd Dwyer. That's how I (and many other kids) ended up watching a live suicide on TV.

The fact that the Trump administration is making an example out of arguably the most famous Jewish academic in the US right now should show how absurd it is to claim that this assault on higher education is really about protecting Jews.

UMass Boston Hampton University Bethune-Cookman University Alabama State University Virginia State University Southern University and A&M College Spelman College Georgia State University A middle school A high school All of them had active shooter threats today. Students can’t live like this.

nope nope nope TikToks it is

Adam Sandler any minute!

Brazil just showed the world what accountability looks like.🇧🇷 Fmr President Jair Bolsonaro has been found guilty of plotting a coup after losing the 2022 election. The Supreme Court ruled he incited the Jan. 8 attack on Congress, the Supreme Court, & the presidential palace. Democracy held.

Great news. Let's do this everywhere. www.krqe.com/news/politic...

Being a woman is a lifelong obstacle course that gets harder every year. Perimenopause is the Final Boss but you have to fight Her for about 10 years.

welcome to academia!!!!

did you know gmail now has a subscriptions page where it lists all your subscriptions and you can unsubscribe from them????