The NYT liveblog on the autism press conference is a fascinating read -- largely because it's written by health reporters and not political reporters. Look at how direct and appropriately shocked these posts are! www.nytimes.com/live/2025/09...

"Governing boards need to be aware of the significant legal and financial implications of this executive action." ...I think most colleges are so busy putting out fires that they are sleepwalking into this catastrophe. agb.org/blog-post/in...

After our government gave up, Nashville has been awash in free covid tests thanks to this group. If you care about keeping that accessible to people (most of who work in service positions) please consider floating them a few dollars. www.gofundme.com/f/nashville-...

I don't understand why we can't have the Epstein Shutdown. We've been good.

After our government gave up, Nashville has been awash in free covid tests thanks to this group. If you care about keeping that accessible to people (most of who work in service positions) please consider floating them a few dollars. www.gofundme.com/f/nashville-...

Now there is a headline.

Powerful Tik Tok by @drangelasutton.bsky.social on racial violence aimed at institutions of higher ed primarily serving Black students. As she says, we all need to know this & act on it; we can't leave that burden to the Black community alone. @profjeffries.bsky.social @mattfockler.bsky.social

Never thought I’d be fighting next to a Disney adult

Let me be clear: We will not tolerate hate in any form. Racial threats, whether expressed through words or actions, are a direct attack not just on individuals, but on the values of dignity, inclusion, and respect that we hold as a city. Words are also violence—and they leave lasting scars."

Heghlu'meH QaQ jajvam!

This too connects to a long tradition in Nashville of attacking educational institutions that serve Black people. www.wkrn.com/news/local-n...

From Slavery to Civil Rights and Environmental Racism northdallasgazette.com/2025/09/13/f...

Of course any attempt to globalize & decolonize pirateness would be incomplete without mention of #Jewish pirates of the Caribbean. Alas, the Jean Lafitte story is, a myth, and the skulls & crossbones on Hebrew graves have nothing to do with pirates jewishjournal.com/cu...#Jewish1/3

Black people don't hang themselves.

Standing for human rights could become an act of terrorism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/republican...

45% of Project 2025 has been completed. This has the US on track to finish after 18 months. What will happen after that?

Kudos to my colleagues and their efforts to fight censorship and the whitewashing of American history. As they say, real history isn't all happy stories, as much as Trump would want us to believe that. If you see something, save something! sites.google.com/umn.edu/save...

Black Americans do not hang themselves specifically because of our nation's history with lynching. Black hanging bodies were lynched.

This was always the plan. This week presented the opportune moment. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Does "Stacy's Mom" sound to Gen A the way "Swinging on a Star" sounded to us?

This was always the plan. This week presented the opportune moment. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Missing. Erased. Where are they??

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

Just now, 11 state and city lawmakers were arrested by DHS police on the 10th floor of 26 Federal Plaza after a hour of demanding access to the ICE lock up on the same floor. @thecity.nyc

Thank you for connecting the tragic hangings in Mississippi to America's history of racial violence, @drangelasutton.bsky.social

This! Whenever I read that the police find black people hanging from trees, I feel like I am reading an article reprinted from 60 years ago. It's like a lynching press release template. There is always foul play. It is always murder and domestic terror, not suicide.

Black Americans do not hang themselves specifically because of our nation's history with lynching. Black hanging bodies were lynched.

If you’re rich and not a coward, this is what you’d refer to as a “market opportunity” to dominate a media ecosystem that’s about to be covered in grotesque government slop. To be a pop of color in a sea of beige will be easier than ever. People will flock to it. You gotta be a little brave, though.

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Taps the sign, listen to @pastpunditry.bsky.social it’s not hypocrisy, it’s an intentional political project www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...

Oh, absolutely not. Deleting.

So far, it has been mostly educators and journalists, two professions that depend on free speech, getting fired for their speech. It's almost like this is about destroying these institutions by any contrivance necessary.

Play down environmental issues and human rights? We already have a party like that.

So far, it has been mostly educators and journalists, two professions that depend on free speech, getting fired for their speech. It's almost like this is about destroying these institutions by any contrivance necessary.

A Black man and a homeless man were found hanging from trees in Mississippi yesterday, for those who haven’t seen yet because it’s barely made it out of local news.

Commentary: The National Guard deployed to a majority Black city? That's not about public safety, writes columnist Rev. Earle Fisher: it's political theater.

I want to be clear about what I'm saying here. I'm not denying the danger. I'm not denying the threat. I AM saying that we live in a geographically huge country where the vast majority oppose this administration. They don't have the power to work on that scale. Tho they want us to believe they do

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

That's #5 from Tennessee that I have seen: 2 from Cumberland, 1 from MTSU, 1 at Austin Peay, and this one.

People don't break both of their arms and then hang themselves.

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

Amazing efforts! How Highlighting Slavery’s Legacy Helped This Tiny Louisiana Nonprofit Boost Its Revenues 10-Fold share.google/h9VZmVnSBMMU...

Politics is increasingly divided between those who are comfortable with the complex systems of modernity and those who would rather burn the world down than accept that things are complicated now.

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

Looked at my data collections for state-backed activity. If the report were a picture:

I see a lot of comparisons to the Civil War (which I'm not necessarily mad at), but I need you to remember the Civil War was never Northerners vs. Southerners, or whites vs. Black. It was people who were fine profiting from the enslavement of "others" vs. people who were willing to try another way.

“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This would make the 4th Professor from central TN.

“.. I can’t remember anyone ever telling me we can’t say anything critical about a civilian like this. He was not in our chain of command or anything,” the officer said. @nbcnews.com www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

we've been lowkey fighting the civil war for the last 150 years