I don't keep doomers in my feed but since apparently some folks do: "celebrate each and every win, loudly" is Organizing 101

Jill made history as the first Black, queer MPP in Ontario, and she’s fought relentlessly for affordable housing, health care, the arts, and gender & racial justice. She is a principled, courageous leader who knows how move a room — and a movement. I'm delighted to have her support.

Deeply moved to have the support of Elise Gravel - a principled, compassionate author beloved by so many.  Let us struggle for a world as beautiful as the one she imagines for our children. We can build it together: https://avilewis.link/join

Following the Kent State massacre in May 1970, a Gallup poll showed that 58% of Americans thought the shootings were justified. The night *before* the killings, Ohio's GOP governor described the student protesters this way: "They're the worst type of people that we harbor in America."

Comics retailing legend Greg Ketter standing up to ICE in Minneapolis. Yes, that's tear gas. He's 70 years old.

‪Update: Federal agents murdered ICU nurse Alex Pretti. ‬That’s the name of the legal observer federal agents executed in Minneapolis today. He was a union member.

i don’t by hair oil from salesmen nor truth from bigots not liking cheap products. - ursula le guin, from “wild angels”

fwiw this is the kind of stuff that is going to get us through, not playing rambo

“The conqueror is always a lover of peace; he would prefer to take over our country unopposed.” Carl von Clausewitz

leaving this @hammerandhope.bsky.social article here hammerandhope.org/article/unde...

This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.

I will also add that tenure alone is not sufficient. All TT faculty should be unionized! The real secret is that Canadian academic jobs are among the very best (although far from most prestigious) in the world because most come with both. And we have the salary and working conditions that result.

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

"we had whistles. they had guns." A statement by Renee Macklin Good's Wife. The Kent State we've all been dreading. With queer love, dashed on MAGA's rocks.

BIG FIGHT AT POLAND’S WROCLAW ZOO!!!

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

I'm not saying that we could reduce violence of all kinds by an order of magnitude by demanding universally better work breaks for all but I am saying we should try it and see what happens. I am hereby collecting signatures for the newly launching Siestas for All campaign

I mean this in the kindest way: this could be solved by creating meaningful connections with your peers/colleagues. I have a writing group and a thinking group and plenty of people to text or call with questions, and it doesn’t require draining the earth of resources or stealing work.

When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦

(Also, icyi, here are the 42 papers citing our non-existent paper which includes a "meta-analysis" - often called the evidence "gold standard" - of "LLM effects" in education 🤮 scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...)

this is one of the greatest losses job precarity forces on adjuncts and short-contract faculty, or at least did on me: the sharp immediacy of trying to find work comes to stand in the way of Knowing that Reading is the Work

Key misunderstanding I want to get ahead of: NCAR isn't really a government agency like NIH or NSF. It's one of the largest NSF grants in history, and is given to a non-profit org called UCAR, whose job is to make NCAR exist (www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/...). That means the buck stops with NSF right now

‘They’re trying to get rich off it’: US contractors vie to rebuild Gaza, with ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ team in the lead

It actually is a great exercise in debate in general. You can't have a real debate if you're not even arguing the same thing. In the fake example above, yeah you're debating cats/dogs, but by arguing the opposite of the main claim only, you'll never convince someone to even consider your side.

This element of the situation is so maddening because it adds this air of unreality to the transphobes statements - and yet they are taken totally seriously by our press and much of our political class. Very obviously people were muddling making accommodations and no great social crisis was caused!

And I'll add that one of the reasons why students may not value the experience of writing is because much of the writing they're asked to do in school does not require thinking. In fact, they're given lots of methods (templates, et al) that actively discourage thinking.

In light of today’s conversation on academic accommodations, I’m going to revive a thread lost to time when I deleted my Twitter profile. It’s about a bunch of academic accommodations that instructors can offer in lieu of an extension on an assignment. 🧵

500,000 violations.

There's another dimension to this Rosa Parks story that you may not know. This is where the story most often gets mis-narrated. The bus driver is often left out as a faceless entity and passive part of the story, but he is important to this story. James F Blake adds some much needed context 🧵

chat are we cooked

the fact that dealing with rampant lying and its much worse downstream consequences involves cultivating values rather than just imposing formal frameworks or rules (legal or otherwise) is a tough pill to swallow for some. but it is indeed medicine

Same with a student admitted into Windsor's Law's LLM program. The federal government's refusal to assist these students is unconscionable.

So they don't feel like the sort of places containing lots of people sympathetic to their own worldview, the sort of places wherein people who form their base of support congregate or work, are actually politically legitimate or economically productive places. And evidence can't interfere with this.

We actually have a paper that finds exactly that! osf.io/preprints/so...

New evidence that twin estimates of heritability should be adjusted downward by about half

Retirement is celebrated everywhere except by academics and supreme court justices, who view it as capitulation

Ultimately, what I think we need is patience: The patience to explain from first principles, to meet people where they are at, to untangle webs of lies, to refuse the hoarding of wisdom. And this is much harder than shame because you must fundamentally reject that erring is a personal flaw

If you want to help elect a left-populist leader right here in Canada, join our campaign today - and let’s fight together for a government that serves us all. lewisforleader.ca

While Carney caters to the corporate elite, our movement knows that it’s time to tax the rich and invest in the 99% who keep this country going. Thanks @lindamcquaig.bsky.social for the shout out in the @thestar.com! www.thestar.com/opinion/cont...

Something absolutely perfect about Larry Summers riffing about the scourge of woke cancel culture being unfair to predatory men in a friendly email to his pal JEFFREY EPSTEIN.

Epstein: Trump knew

“.. in the Situation Room.” 👀

My takeaway from every new Epstein revelation is that some powerful people victimized many powerless young women, many more knew, some actively enabled it--and we're still being told that MeToo and accountability for sexual violence have gone too far

@404media.co is journalist founded and independent, so ya, we can tell meta pr to come back when they have a sound answer for the horrors that are the meta ray-ban glasses:

I feel sick to my stomach reading the reports from Palestinian prisoners released from Israeli detention. I genuinely want to vomit.

OVER A MILLION USERS DISCUSS SUICIDE WITH CHATGPT EVERY *WEEK* what the fuck are we DOING here

INVENTOR OF THE LIBRARY: hey check this out