Paid fellowship in awesome Hamburg in the field of ethics in international security. Fantastic opportunity for a PhD or new graduate - APPLY!

My microwave sings a little song when my Hot Pocket is done. Should it have the right to vote?

In this drought of academic job postings, here's an amazing position for junior faculty in AI Policy and Media at Northeastern. Come join the intellectual community in Boston!!! northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...

Hi!! I'm working a special series for @onthemedia.bsky.social, a deep dive into FEMA. I'll be looking at the history of the agency and what's happening there now. If you work there or know someone who does, please hit me up by email or signal... Thanks!

We have a new tenure-track job in @lsegovernment.bsky.social at AP level (empirical political science, open subfield): jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/... Please apply and share with colleagues who might be interested!

The UW Center for an Informed Public is looking for postdocs (for 2026-2028) from across diverse disciplines whose research sheds light on the challenges of our modern information environment, promotes civic health, and/or helps people/communities navigate online spaces: apply.interfolio.com/177901

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

If you start by saying how many people you are going to arrest, the entire operation should be enjoined. That’s not how anything should work.

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

Socialism (or communism) is what they called the Civil Rights Movement.

We are not a serious country, at all.

Another point: the Trump admin is REALLY using terrorist designation a lot this term. Unprecedented increase in FTOs. There are now 90 groups on the Foreign Terrorist Organization list. In the mid-2010s, there were around 60 FTOs.

You know how Disney adults can spot a hidden Mickey Mouse head from a thousand yards? I’m like that but with swastikas

THREAD: Judge Ellis is the first federal judge to review extensive body cam video of DHS's actions in Chicago. She finds that DHS *repeatedly* misled the public and made claims that were disproven by agents' own videos. I'll go through some of the most egregious ones here.

So much for the Trump administration's alleged concern abt antisemitism. New Coast Guard (under DHS) policy now says swastikas and nooses are no longer considered hate symbols but just "potentially divisive." Coast Guard/DHS Officials refuse to respond. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Oh look, one of my soapboxes gets a mention.

UMass Lowell is seeking an Assistant Teaching Professor to join the faculty of the School of Criminology and Justice Studies (SCJS). The area of expertise is open, and start date for the position is September 2026. For more info, please see: explorejobs.uml.edu/en-us/listing/ (Job number 529009)

Years ago I wrote a paper on "the fappening" (celeb nude photo leaks) and young men's sense of entitlement to women's nude bodies. The slogan "AI Girls Never Say No" is beyond disgusting and tells us a lot about how this user base views women: as goods, trophies, possessions, not people

What would be super awesome is if some computer nerd could come up with a comprehensive list of all the unsolicited AI services we're having crammed down our throats and clear instructions for how to disable them.

This is, of course, a stark betrayal of the New School’s storied history and animating spirit. It demonstrates something many of us know intellectually but have trouble grasping: many university leaders *do not care* about, even *actively despise*, the basic values that bring us to work every day.

Lmao

Beilock comes across in this interview as remarkably naive, politically speaking.

The History Department of the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications for an Assistant Professor in the History of the Modern Middle East. Areas of specialization are open. Please share! - careers.umass.edu/amherst/en-u... #History #Historians

Methodology

Very disappointing to see @bostonglobe.com running a piece from Richard Hanania today.

*Every single* institution, organization, and individual who caved into Trump already looks worse for having done so. And every one that stood up continues to look better.

My university has made a huge AI push. They decided to survey the faculty to see what they think of this priority. Twice as many faculty reported "not important" as any other response. I wonder if this will change anything...

Take that in! More than TWENTY THOUSAND children are too afraid to go to school because of state terrorism!

I mean jesus christ, it was not that long ago that "papers please" was damn near universally accepted as a 2-word shorthand for the kind of oppressive society that we beat our chests over being better than

I usually reserve such matters for ye ol LinkedIn, but our cyber institute is hiring a lot—3 positions now—ranging from $60-90k and at all education levels (PhD not required). They’re flexible but in-person roles, based at the Ohio Cyber Range Institute, at the University of Cincinnati. DMs open.

Everything Alex Jones feared would come to pass has been brought to fruition by his own party. He's so partisan that he won't admit that it was Trump and his cronies who have deployed everything he claimed to oppose.

if dems win congress next year they need to introduce an impeachment resolution against emil bove

The media applies a dubious frame for explaining political violence and then two months later polls find people use that same dubious frame to understand political violence.

Yesterday it was dead grandmas now they’re trying enshittify Jesus?

For more on Rev. Woolf, who appears to have been arrested today: he published an editorial with @rns.org literally this week titled “Why clergy should risk assault to protest ICE” —> religionnews.com/2025/11/13/w...

The Trump administration does not care about homeland security in any meaningful sense.

Montclair State University has with no reasonable justification replaced all departments in the humanities and social sciences with four non-disciplinary units, seemingly randomly chosen by uni executive leadership with no regard for faculty input or governance. Terrible & portentous

2. The very first entity listed is Antifa Ost (a.k.a. Antifa East or the Hammer Gang). The last attacks attributed to them by the State Dept occurred in Budapest in Feb 2023. What State doesn’t say is that was during a *Neo-Nazi rally* that’s held every year.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

Wow

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Today in my masters Homeland Security course, we talked about how the Trump admin rescinded the near-prohibition on immigration enforcement in places of worship that had been in place since 1993. 1/

Rubio is working on legal grounds to persecute antifa. Four foreign groups are now Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs) and they hope to designate them FTOs. Only one is actually an antifascist group: Hungary has previously focused on Antifa Ost (Hammerbande). www.state.gov/releases/202...

Long shot request: a while back, a piece made the rounds on here from a writer (creative nonfiction, I think) who used an LLM to give her feedback. She kept giving it her writing, and it kept saying it had read her writing but it didn't even open the files/links. Can anyone point me to this piece?