“This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students”—AAUP, one of the parties that brought the case against the Trump administration

who has the recipe for the perfect coffee quickbread or loaf cake? (coffee as ingredient not coffee as accompaniment)

The Times got the interview but I got the American Canto ARC

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough. Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters. We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously. Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul. This is how change happens." Dan Berger

University Leaders Must Act: An Open Letter on the Threats Facing Critical Interdisciplinary Programs Like Women's and Gender Studies msmagazine.com/2025/09/10/c...

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

There is no “liberal” or “woke” overtaking of American higher ed. The dominant trend in our time is the opposite: widespread state censorship of academic freedom, free expression, and evidence-based learning or research. The dominant trend in higher education is authoritarian--full stop. 2/

Get in losers we're ruining the workplace. Poster designed by Lois Ehlert for Manpower Temporary Services, 1979, in the collection of @cooperhewitt.org.web.brid.gy.

Former UVA president Jim Ryan, who resigned over the summer due to pressure from the Trump Administration, just shared this 12-page letter with the Faculty Senate, detailing his experience with the Board of Visitors and DOJ. It's a surreal--and troubling--read. drive.google.com/file/d/1Is6x...

It’s being reported that Greg Bovino and 250 of his goons will be leaving Chicago. But it’s also being reported that he’ll be back, in larger numbers. But Chicago is a boxer, tired but unbowed. I wrote about how we’ll be ready. dansinker.com/posts/202…

Baltimore! Red Emma’s! Tomorrow!

Love to see community action against this AI nonsense! neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/d...

"“synergy,” “multipliers,” “mindset,” “vision” (as a verb), “agility,” “impactfulness,” students as “clients,” “entrepreneurship,” “branding,” “future-proofing.” the vacuousness that would replace the exact—and exacting—values whose erasure they are justifying." academeblog.org/2025/11/13/t...

I want to know why @chronicle.com is again platforming the people who want to destroy higher ed. I already cancelled my subscription when they put Rufo on the cover(&wrote the editor). but for those of you still giving this rag your $, well....! BrownU quickly got rid of Gee but what a ghoul he is!

go go go! 90%! go! go some more! www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

A new state-by-state evaluation of the projected energy and water use of "AI" data centers in the US. Looks… real bad. Like, "undoing tech sector climate gains" bad. Strongly recommends immediately ensuring any & all new "AI" data centers to run on existing & expanded renewables grids. Which… yeah.

I really think that the best way to stop an intellectually anemic stylistically milquetoast bad-faith paycheck troll from winning is to stop turning every quarter-assed essay he publishes into the quote-tweet Super Bowl, but by all means, keep fighting your battle as you see fit

Who needs northern lights when we’ve got city lights like this every night in Chicago

"a formalist reconstruction of aspects of this song that seem so generic as to go unnoticed, and at the same time a little pocket general-theory-of-music as an art+activity of making repetition—+ with it, rhythm, period, time itself—possible." www.boundary2.org/2025/05/seth...

Malicious compliance is a tragically underused tool of resistance.

So academic. Much freedom. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/13/u...

This is a truly lovely profile of Anna and her work, a highpoint of the genre (journalistic profile of an academic) which rarely goes well for its objects. But also, for some reason, it made me think of this:

Very few voices more compelling on the present state of higher education than @bakerdphd.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social. If you happen to be in Chicago on December 4th, you can hear from both. And I will also be there.

Hey if you're into energy, environment, pipelines, Great Lakes, Indigenous rights, or just a habitable planet, checkout this webinar about how we can start to dismantle the infrastructure that sustains fossil capitalism. It's a great panel that happens to include me. @billmckibben.bsky.social

beyond honored to have been subject to Titus Blome's intense intelligent scrutiny for this profile in Die Zeit www.zeit.de/2025/48/phil...

You probably saw videos of a nighttime raid in Chicago. Agents rappelling from a helicopter, bursting down doors, questioning brown-skinned immigrants. We investigated -- and found little evidence to support the government’s claims about Tren de Aragua. www.propublica.org/article/chic...

It appears Magistrate Judge Laura McNally has arrived for the morning's inspection, along with a team of attorneys. "Hold them accountable!" A protestor yells repeatedly. "They had a week to clean things up, remember that!" Another says through a megaphone.

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

chicago! how can faculty make sense of the rapidly shifting economic and epistemic conditions for learning? how should faculty exercise governance and exert expertise over expensive partnerships between universities and technology companies? join us for Theory At The Bargaining Table Dec 4!

good morning, united baristas, go go go!

the way i wore a hole in this cd as a first year prof in first chicago winter after el lay, every single track a blizzard ray

A new post on Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies from @jsanofranchini.bsky.social, @rcmeg.bsky.social, and me: "A Year of Refusal" refusinggenai.wordpress.com/2025/11/12/a...

Another revelation from all of these emails is that many of the richest and most powerful people in the country absolutely cannot write. Helps explain their sweaty embrace of LLMs.

gargantuan proportions AND tiny font, it devours all the others. a cinderblock that cannot under any circumstances be read in bed or on the couch

today in prints received! talented @markalanmattes.bsky.social !

The federal government is trying to place the University of California under political control. Join with UC Unbowed before the Board of Regents meeting on November 18-20 and tell President James B. Milliken and the Regents to protect UC's independence.

For folks (and journalists) who want to search the Oversight Committee email texts, I made a database for searching the 20k text files: splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app

metaapp that knows which subscribed platform has the movie you want AND knows passwords cache/history clearer but only for wonky websites not everything ever effective online recipe box post-its for pdfs that remind you why you downloaded them

Summers must be removed from his post at Harvard.

This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...

tomorrow! all the very best institutions in one webinar on debt, education finance, and greening public education: The Debt Collective, Chicago Teachers Union, and Climate and Community Institute!! us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Verso editor job!! www.versobooks.com/pages/job-op...

Tonight at 7p et @chenjerai.bsky.social and I are doing @aaup.org TV to discuss building a broad and militant coalition fighting for the future of higher education. Join us!

If you're a Harvard grad, I recommend calling the school to demand Lawrence Summers be fired from his position with the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossava...

folks are showing up to court to support: 12:30 at federal plaza (230 s Dearborn)

"fashion exposes people’s desires and anxieties like a psychosomatic rash...with none of us fully aware of the messages we send" Dress, Dreams and Desire: Fashion and Psychoanalysis at The Museum at FIT is on now until the 4th January 2026. www.theguardian.com/fashion/2025...

New chalkbeat piece that highlights some of the less well-known realities of our current moment for higher ed. I got to chat at length with Matt about the actual trend in tuition (flat or decreasing at publics) versus the perception in the media. www.chalkbeat.org/2025/11/11/i...

"AI slop demonstrates not just the technological flexibility of Trump’s fascist aesthetics — it is the ultimate example of it, the culmination of the hateful dream of eliminating the human entirely." -Ed Simon in Hyperallergic hyperallergic.com/1050277/the-...

the party should throw them a party aka SOCIALIZE TO ORGANIZE "investments in local media affordable indoor playgrounds gyms with on-site facilitators sponsor content creators send people resources to host their neighbors for dinner"