Did you get super excited by Zohran's win? Have you been meaning to join DSA but just haven't done it yet? If so, click here: act.dsausa.org/s/3890.4RS9aF Not only do you get to join a growing group of badasses trying to make the world better, I may win a T-shirt for recruiting you!

Excellent video about recording ICE if you see them making an arrest. www.instagram.com/reel/DQzPIkA...

Forgot who I am and bought a white sweater. Took it out of the drawer after months and noticed a nice trail of tea down the front. Strategizing how to turn it into a hat now.

No idea why I got this catalog but I love it. Its entire vibe is clothing for the blandest person you know to be able to go to church and have an equally bland person say, "you're so bad!"

Public artistic resistance to federal immersion policy by LA museums. The project, We Belong Here, projects 30 large scale images created by 9 local artists on the buildings' exteriors to explore the realities faced by immigrants and themes of resilience and community resistance.

Communism was clearly not a topic on the dementia exam.

I may have to frame this.

And it was! But the election is not the end. The fight is just starting for leftists. We have to constantly push Mikie to the left and not let her use Trump as the bogeyman to scare us into accepting the Dem status quo.

this genuinely feels like a moment history books will look back on where the Democratic Party was forced to either fix its hearts or die

I feel like it's an auspicious omen for the NJ governor's race that Dick Cheney died today.

Last minute costumes for a historical cemetery tour and party. Partner is Leo in One Battle After Another and I just escaped France after a visit to the Louvre. I assume this is what all French people look like? (Also how don't I own a beret?)

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New Jersey, if you see ICE these are the numbers to call so that community members can come out in support. There have been a lot of raids and sightings in NJ bc we're under attack for being a diverse state run by Democrats. Make sure there are eyes on ICE wherever they go. Save this on your phone!

According to the NY Times, pet owners are refusing vaccines for rabies, etc bc they're afraid their pets will develop "pawtivism."

Archive users, any recs for a tripod for a phone that can be used to scan docs without destroying my neck and back?

Students, for the love of all that's right in the world, stop asking me if you're going to miss anything important if you're absent from class. What do you expect me to say? Nope, this is the class where I'm going to channel Jeff Winger teaching law at Greendale?

I just gave to Elijah's Promise in Central NJ. Do what you can to help folks out! elijahspromise.org

Latinx communities across the USA have been targeted by ICE. This summer, four LA historical and cultural institutions spoke out in solidarity, amongst silence in the museum sector. Mary Rizzo on the role of museums in not only historical storytelling, but taking a stand:

Happening now: activists outside @booker.senate.gov office in Newark demanding he stop funding arms to Israel.

This article argues that the problem with colleges is that they focus on "transactional learning." Their bombshell conclusion is that they should instead teach "premium skills" such as "verification of sources, contextual decision-making, and ethical reasoning under ambiguity..."

So demoralizing to see students using ChatGPT on a low stakes reading quiz. Usually I give them in class, but I had class on zoom bc of the nor'easter so the quiz was on canvas. Multiple students with the same phrases in their answers and answers with more detail than asked for.

Fascinating. "Easily missed in the media barrage of burning Waymo cars and heavily armed law enforcement, four of the city’s museums and cultural institutions .... issued a statement condemning the administration."

Why did 4 LA historical and cultural organizations have the courage to speak out against Trump's ICE raids this summer? I interviewed their leaders and wrote about their commitment to drawing parallels with the past while caring for their communities. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/museums-arch...

An actual hot take: Too many authors are afraid of editors watering down their voice or whatever and not afraid enough of editors letting you put any old slop on the page.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Thank you to my union @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social for this statement denouncing the attacks on my colleagues @mark-bray.bsky.social and Yesenia Barragan, which include doxxing and death threats. We can't be cowed into silence and we will stand together. rutgersaaup.org/defending-ou...

What's happening to my colleague Mark Bray is disgusting. Him and his family are being doxed and getting death threats by right wing supposed "free speech" advocates bc wrote a book about anti fascism. You can't make this shit up! Our universities must fight back.

Profs who have switched to in-class writing assignments rather than traditional papers, any tips on what works? Do you give them the prompt ahead of time? Let them use books and notes?

Getting sick of the term “political violence” when a public figure closely aligned w/one ideology or other is a victim. ICE is also political violence. Armies are also political violence. Not sure of my point - just wish for a term that doesn’t immediately wall an act like this off from all the rest

Review from my sick bed: K Pop Demon Hunters is a banger.

I'm blaming this head cold for my inability to decide if who or whom is grammatically correct in this sentence. Help? Not the activists, who/m we often focus on.

Job Opening: Museum Specialist (Digitization Team) @ Nat'l Museum of African American History & Culture. IMPORTANT: Position closes after first 125 applications rec'd - apply NOW if interested; FT, onsite, Washington, DC; $69,923 - $90,898 /year. Core tasks: cataloging/digitizing collections

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

Hero jury saves hoagie hurler from legal grinder www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...

Car was broken into last night. Glove compartment and center box rifled thru. Only thing missing? Original Broadway cast recording of Into The Woods on CD. Agony.

There's such a strange feeling of dissociation when rereading your writing. I'm reviewing the copy edits for the Chicory book and it feels like someone else wrote it.

When another student in the Spanish class I took this summer learned that I sew, he gave me 2 random fabrics he didn't need. Here's the T-shirt that I made from the grey and black striped knit. Pattern is free from Closet Core. I've made it twice and highly recommend it. share.google/oHVG6ndczk4R...

Oh my. Leftists telling me that gulags weren't so bad was not what I expected to happen today.

"C'mon, ICE. We're evil but what you're doing openly is gonna blow all our cover. Tone it down a notch, eh?" - that group of police chiefs, probably.

A group for chiefs of police have come out against ICE's tactics, like covering their faces and not identifying themselves. When a bunch of cops think you've gone too far, you gotta be doing something really bad. share.google/55sjtGqL1Y5H...

So, the takeover of DC police by Trump is about immigration enforcement not "crime." No surprise there! This administration is dismantling the separation between federal and municipal government in the name of xenophobia. Can they claim crime emergencies in ever sanctuary city? I bet they'll try.

That man who threw a sandwich at a Customs and Border Patrol officer in DC, calling him a fascist? He's the real hero. 😎 www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/u...

Most inappropriate songs for a mammogram? I'll start. "Under Pressure," Queen and David Bowie. Iykyk youtu.be/a01QQZyl-_I?...

Wait, is Cuomo basically threatening to evict Zohran from his apartment with his proposal to means test rent-stabilized apartments?? It's like he can't stop himself from being the villain. His advisors are actually working for his opponents, I'm sure of it.

Please sign this petition to demand the immediate release of Catalina “Xóchitl” Santiago, a beloved community member, DACA recipient and long-time community organizer, detained by Border Patrol on August 3 TX despite having a valid work authorization. #AbolishICE actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

Huge congrats to the workers at Enoch Pratt Free Library in Baltimore for winning their first union contract in 142 years!

What are academics doing wrt personal websites these days?

Guys, I'm extremely excited to be doing archival research for the first time in a while tomorrow. Plus, I get to ride a ferry to get to the archives. I mean, win win.

Damn, Duolingo sounding like Stephen Miller.

I'm really pleased with this jacket I made! Pattern is Annie, free at Mood. Fabric is a brushed cotton twill from Mood with contrast thanks to some old jeans. Instructions assume a good deal of sewing knowledge so make a muslin. www.moodfabrics.com/blog/the-ann...