And Jesus said, thou shall not feed the poor and the hungry from your bounty because you must build ballrooms with lots of gold to honor the Lord while remaining liquid in case Argentina needs another bailout. - Book of Trump, 11:06. bsky.app/profile/atru...

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

This week we talk about containment (Wardian cases, card catalogs, archival boxes, storage architectures, 📦-based pubs like Aspen, kiribako, etc), and materials + ideas that defy it — and we take part in a box-making workshop @ the Ctr for Book Arts! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...

This is not surprising, but so appalling. About 180 FEMA staff members knew they would be risking their jobs to communicate the degradation of emergency response under Trump tells you how bad things are. We can't say we were not warned, but the people who warned us are being punished for doing so.

"They are amazing historic documents, and certainly we’ll want to take good care of them and preserve them, even if they’re no longer the official binding government document. Balancing care for the physical maps with efficiency of unifying them and digitizing them is going to be... important."

Federal Judge Sara Ellis declares that Homeland Security is not telling the truth about its attacks on the people of Chicago. "I don't find defendants' version of events credible." she says.

I was one of the four people who got canned. In the interim, you can subscribe to my newsletter, Straight From The Hut. No paywall, but feel free to choose the pay to support model. I'm not going anywhere — the show goes on, and I'll be back on MSNBC Saturday night. straightfromthehut.substack.com

New: Conde Nast fired four employees who were among a group that confronted the company's head of human resources on Wednesday over the decision to fold Teen Vogue into Vogue/recent cuts. Employees who were fired included journalists from the New Yorker, Wired, and Bon Appétit.

"'It's time to use it or get left behind,' he said." Okay, leave me the fuck behind. www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now. Take that in.

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

A nice Brooklyn Rail conversation about Alex's installation!

The Autumn 2025 issue of The Recipes Project is live! This issue, GLOBALIZING EARLY MODERN RECIPES, was co-edited by Lavinia Gambini, Lucy Havard, & Amanda Herbert. recipes.hypotheses.org

End of The Line: how Saudi Arabia’s Neom dream unravelled on.ft.com/47FBigb

I don’t know how many times I’ve watched this video. I don’t know how we’ve gotten to the point where men in full balaclavas can abduct daycare teachers while they’re watching children. But I do know that this isn’t sustainable. Abolish ICE. There is no way to reform this.

Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry

This week we talk about containment (Wardian cases, card catalogs, archival boxes, storage architectures, 📦-based pubs like Aspen, kiribako, etc), and materials + ideas that defy it — and we take part in a box-making workshop @ the Ctr for Book Arts! crossreference.wordsinspace.net/fall2025/por...

Increasingly the Venn diagram of my intellectual interests & commitments—digital humanities, book history/bibliography, book arts, critical making—perhaps meet in the region "Luddite Humanities" Not technological rejection—but slower, deliberate, critical, historicized engagement with technology

“The Tennessee Eastman (as in: Kodak) Corp came to operate the Y-12 uranium separation plant, not because the company knew anything about separating uranium, but because it was very good at mass chemical production… It was uranium separated at Y-12 that was used in the bomb dropped in Hiroshima.”

First commute into the city since our move back upstate, a gorgeous sunset over the Hudson, and a moving conversation w/ a mom who’s come to the city to be with her daughter as she initiates a divorce. I shared some of my own experience. Sometimes I feel like I’m right where I’m supposed to be 🙏

The women justices (all of them) are working over the Solicitor General in this tariff argument like nobody’s business.

This is a nice story about how libraries change lives.

Yass is also the guy with a huge stake in TikTok and was reportedly on the phone with Trump just before he pulled a 180 on banning the app.

Yes, yes, yes!!! I always say libraries are *tech organizations.* They have the potential to model the antithesis of the Silicon Valley tech organization, which is NOT the only way to be! Digital doesn't have to be extractive, exploitative, *worse.*

libraries are closer to what the early internet was all about than what it is today. unsurprising, given the web's academic origins. they are data centers built for and around people instead of severs. a physical network offering so much more than books.

I wrote about public libraries as spaces of civic solidarity, common knowledge, and public infrastructure — all endangered by commercial and federal saboteurs

Re: last two RT’s about civic spaces:

I’m going to basically spend all morning laughing like a maniac. I have BEEN saying! Rebuilding civic infrastructure is EVERYTHING.

ah, perhaps instead of pumping millions into endless factional infighting Dem donors could invest in making local Dem organizations genuine civic spaces that can reach people during and between elections

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June. It’s louder & clearer tonight.

BREAKING: Colorado voters approved a ballot measure that would raise state income taxes on higher-earning households to fund free meals for all public school students. Follow AP for live updates.

Mamdani: "Donald Trump, since I know you're watching, I have four words for you: Turn the volume up."

Trump: "Hear me, President Trump, when I say this: to get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

This is beautiful.

This is sickening - a raid with 17 cars including an armored vehicle on my local car wash, which employs mostly women - they don’t let them get their documents from their lockers, and take them away with no word where. Globe story w/out paywall archive.ph/2025.11.04-2...

oh please oh please oh please oh please oh please

On the day of the NYC mayoral election, Ali Raz pens a gorgeous essay reflecting on how Mamdani's rhetoric evinces a poetics of the Universal and convokes a shared commons united by labor and by the rhythms of life spent working in cities most of us cannot afford. mid-theory.com/2025/11/04/m...

They should make more jobs for people who want to stop the harms of technology instead of jobs for causing them

I do have a bit of beef with the critical tech movement in that it largely operates as an academic research movement for advancement of phds to talk about surveillance and labor instead of as a practitioner-led movement to create alternative work pathways for tech workers to do things that dont suck

Jacob Lawrence, "The 1920s: The Migrants Arrive & Cast Their Ballots," screenprint, 1974 noma.org/election-day...

New Yorkers are HITTING THOSE POLLS. It's the highest turnout in about two decades.

Interested in resources to help students learn what "counts" as an argument when interpreting a text. Because they're accustomed to more empirical modes of argument, they struggle with the difference between "interpret" and "just say your opinion." Any resources that outline this in a helpful way?

. @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped in on many online microfandoms to conquer the fragmented media problem, including a personal favorite of mine, the streamer who walks around New York making beats for strangers to freestyle to @ariathome.bsky.social

It is also worth saying that everyone who mocks some supposedly fake discipline like “gender studies“ or “Africana studies“ is also really excited about degree programs in things like “AI prompt engineering.” Nothing wrong with a “fake” discipline if it flatters your world view and bank account!

This morning @restofworld.org published the incredibly heart-breaking story of Gaza Sky Geeks, the vibrant Gaza-based tech hub that was the darling of international press through the 2010s 🧵 restofworld.org/2025/gaza-sk...

This is what they took from us 😫

“Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication” a sad, too-fucking-familiar story

Condé Nast’s folding of Teen Vogue into Vogue is “clearly designed to blunt the award-winning magazine’s insightful journalism at a time when it is needed the most," Condé United, @nyguild.bsky.social say. Change throttles "staff diversity and [mutes] the magazine’s progressive political bent."

Two of the most significant politics editors in Teen Vogue’s history were working class trans people from Ohio and Philly, and their tireless, fearless work is a huge part of why so many people are mourning its demise now. @satansjacuzzi.bsky.social and @leximcmenamin.com you will always be famous