Is there anyone who knows someone in Lisbon or is based in Lisbon who could get some documents copied for me? I can’t travel for the foreseeable future thanks to the joys of US immigration and could use a Lisbon-based RA in the meanwhile 🗃️

eavesdropping on a couple of english lit academics in st. john, i overheard confirmation of what is surely going to be the biggest literary news story of the year

Trump’s clumsy effort to flatter Mojtaba Khamenei is the real tell: the President is desperate to get out of the war he started. But Mojtaba isn’t going to fall for flattery, and he’s never going to meet with Trump.

Trump's remarks about the strait opening by Labor Day will not affect the rest of the world because nobody outside America knows when your Labor Day is.

In the brouhaha about Pelley calling Weiss incompetent, one thing seems to be forgotten: Weiss has succeeded, spectacularly, at the only thing she was groomed to do since her days at Columbia by Netanyahu’s ghost-writer, which is to propagandize for power and show others the wages of such work. 1/

Yeah letting Musk raid our pensions seems better and better 🫠

The latest arrests have drawn condemnation from church officials amid concerns over targeting of students and expanding West Bank raids:

The viral social media sensation says the bombing of the restaurant has had a direct effect on the livelihood of dozens of employees and their families:

#OTD 1912, 313 years after our College was founded, Jamini Sen became our 1st female Fellow. Sen was an advocate for better working conditions for female doctors & improved access to care for female patients in India. Her portrait by Grace Payne-Kumar, is the 1st of a woman to hang in College Hall

Modi’s admission of the economic disaster he has overseen only happened because he thought he could blame the Iran war. Devastating postmortem of the costs of electoral fascism in a poor country. scroll.in/article/1093...

A non-chronological thread of threads related to my SF Film class (largely for my own reference, but maybe of interest to others): bsky.app/profile/benj...

Today’s foray into the world of Chinese animation: Monkey King Havoc in Heaven. It’s utterly gorgeous.

Any interest in a panel on Jesuits and language for next years RSA? 🗃️

The worst of all possible worlds.

A couple days ago, yet another food product (cheese bread) was recalled due to the risk of salmonella contamination from powdered milk. This brings us close to 40 recalls over the last month or so. So let's talk about milk and bacteria and some of what's going on. 1/12

I am genuinely so baffled by the love of Platner on the supposed liberal/left. Like, nobody learned anything from Fetterman? Or the fact that, after two terms of Trump and his lackeys, character matters? This dude objectively sucks and yet everybody is bending over backward to pretend otherwise.

"Militarily [Israel is] so powerful, and that is something that is really terrifying." British-Palestinian author Isabella Hammad speaks with Mahmoud Khalil, Hannah Einbinder, & @simonerzim.bsky.social about Zionism's need to reinforce itself militarily. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6nN...

So exactly what every rational person said would happen www.nytimes.com/2026/06/02/w...

Cornell Graduate Banned After President Hit Him With Car https://bit.ly/4viG6Cj

Morgan Lewis - the firm where Trump NLRB GC Crystal Carey was a partner who’d personally represented Amazon- is currently defending Amazon in a Cali lawsuit involving some of the same issues, at the same Amazon vendor, as the big NLRB case Carey’s pushing to settle www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Santa Clara DA Jeff Rosen brought 1 of the harshest cases vs. Palestine campus protesters–until a judge kicked him off the case for framing it as "fighting antisemitism" to his "AIPAC [email] list" in order to fundraise. Today, Rosen is up for reelection for a 5th term: boltsmag.org/santa-clara-...

100s labs ordered the wrong "p16" antibody. They wanted to study p16-INK4a, but bought p16-ARC antibodies. 312 papers got it wrong. Now the literature is polluted with false mechanistic pathways. As a reminder: validate your reagents. But also read the datasheet and use your brain.

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu are very proud of their "Abraham Accords" efforts. But, why did the framework for the Accords first appear in an email from Jeffrey Epstein, years before they became a reality?

Even the capitalists are calling BS. “Listen, I’m a big ‘the index is the index’ guy, but they are openly looting the coffers… This is 100% fraud.” — Ian McMillan, portfolio manager and market technician at Client First Tax and Wealth Advisors

We lend our voices to the 150 detainees, including hunger strikers at the Adelanto processing center and read their letter in the “Petition of Writ” that we received from @chu.house.gov. Here are their words. (2 parts) PART 1

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers. interc.pt/4wWOqJT

Oh: the Times paid attention to the CSU... just to examine our Chancellor's spending $17m to make us an "AI-powered university." The reporting shows some faculty are embracing it like Kool-Aid drunkards, but big ups to Jeremy Murray of CSUSB History✊ #GiftArticle www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/m...

Just filled out my ballot and dropping it off to my local polling place tomorrow. Voting Nithya Raman for LA Mayor. And Tom Steyer for California governor. Went with all the DSA LA recommendations + supplemented with other progressive voter guides.

Ffs please don’t saddle us with this loser. Newsom is enough! Why can’t we have nice things in CA?

Happy pride 🦇🦠🦟🏳️‍🌈

Today on Scroll: - Why Punjab survey on drug addiction has led to fears of undercount - Maharashtra: 80 lakh women removed from Ladki Bahin scheme, Opposition alleges ‘financial crisis’ - US court postpones sentencing of Nikhil Gupta, who pleaded guilty in plot to kill Khalistani leader More ⤵

In a brazen attack on academic freedom, The New School has fired multiple tenured faculty, including the prominent economist Sanjay Reddy in what smells like retribution for his criticisms of the admin’s financial mismanagement.

Imagine being so unable to love your child that you set fire to the whole damn world instead.

So what you're saying is that I should make sure there's a return on my investment? What are you, INSANE?

Some political person from HHS who clearly doesn’t know which way is up, is reviewing NIH grants and making absurd suggested changes. This is on top of a set of discriminatory changes required by NIH. www.science.org/content/arti...

Vietnam is set to become the third in Southeast Asia to purchase the powerful Indo-Russian missile system, after the Philippines and Indonesia.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Pouring one out for #SanJoseStateU students: Their newish campus president is a total MARK for #AIHype: “Cynthia Teniente-Matson, who arrived at SJSU in 2023 after eight yrs at the helm of Texas A&M Univ/SanAntonio, is leading the school’s A.I. charge.” She used an #AI avatar to address students! 😵‍💫

If Pritzker posed next to a Guillotine with a thumbs up he'd win nearly every state

Sometimes, when I really like a politician and they do something like this I think to myself, "Give them time. They have a strategy you just don't know about." Every time I've thought that in the past, I've been wrong.

This is interesting in that Axios is quite clearly a regime outlet now. And it follows on the heel of yet another Axios “leak” from the Pentagon claiming the hit to US military stockpiles from the Iran war was to protect Israel.

We’re both proud Jewish New Yorkers. But there are sharp & clear differences between us on Israel/Palestine. For example, Dan Goldman marched alongside war criminal Bezalel Smotrich yesterday, who called it “just & moral” to starve Gaza. I did not.

“.. The U.S. is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure, according to new Census Bureau figures out today.” @bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

The agent who booked the artists for the Trump state fair event is named Jeff Epstein. I can't.

Chuck Modi is a DC based journalist who covers a lot of movement action & is our radio show’s colleague, he was among the journalists arrested at Delaney & was just released.

So I had one of those days that was technically useless in that I didn’t write anything BUT omg I read so many cool archival things. Willing myself not to let the utterly anti intellectual culture of productivity in academia ruin that feeling.

This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

My all-time favorite interview, Coretta lays out the problems with Vietnam The US was spending billions on the war but “we ignore and even jeer at the plight of my people at home...We entered this war in support of colonialism...we equated our interests with a corrupt and dictatorial regime . . ."

The US representative was disdainful of this group of 'hysterical females.' But Coretta Scott King pressed on. In 1963, she addressed a WSP rally in NY & led a march to the UN carrying a sign “Let’s Make Our Earth a Nuclear Free Zone” to press for further disarmament & met with UN SecGen U Thant.