One of the most galling parts of Callais to me was Alito saying the dearth of Black congressmembers is actually proof that it's not racist, somehow peep this excerpt from p. 34 of the opinion www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

"Tornado sirens and flooding in Alabama’s state Capitol building couldn’t stop Republican lawmakers from forcing through two redistricting bills." They put their own lives at risk in order to make sure they could disenfranchise Black voters. newrepublic.com/post/210063/...

The tech industry spent 20 years structuring things on screens to addict everyone from toddlers to grandparents. Now they’re putting AI tools everywhere and creating friction to using tech without AI. And we, teachers, are supposed to be tasked with teaching "responsible AI use"? Fuck off.

I’m giving this as a gift to all the people in the last year who have said “I think [XYZ use] is bullshit, but some of the medical AI applications seem to be impressive…" where radiology is the most frequent example

They don't actually want schools, either....

Think of all the better uses for this money. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

The masked ICE thug who killed Renee Good got 3 days of administrative leave. The guy who posted an anti-Trump photo of seashells faces 10 years in prison.

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

“They got this idea from the people who raised them that you raise hell”: thanks @tressiemcphd.bsky.social for talking to us about her new documentary short, theories of change, and Winston-Salem’s Black Panther Party chapter.

"The U.K. government admitted carbon emissions from data centers could be 100 times greater than previously thought, prompting fresh concern from MPs and campaigners over the environmental impacts of artificial intelligence."

I still have reservations about Buttigieg, but I’ve got to say it’s about time political aspirants remember alliances can be formed in every state, including Oklahoma.

At least once a week I think about how America would improve if Elon Musk's companies were nationalized.

i also think that some of the delayed response — both culturally and politically — stems from it being functionally impossible to wrap your head around how wealthy someone like elon musk is and how wealthy he is going to be in the future, both for the average person and for policy makers alike

Between our report on trust in higher ed, the number of faculty without jobs for next year, and this as Yale's current homepage, it's a weird time to be at Yale. One more week left of teaching. One more week left of teaching.

No shortage of things to improve about US higher ed (most of which have nothing to do with Yale), but "plunging trust" is principally the product of a coordinated propaganda campaign and it's irresponsible for the report to avoid mentioning it

The Yale report has to be understood as a piece of political messaging whose aim is to ensure Yale's relative safety amid Trump's attacks on the sector. Mentioning the real major source of the problem was clearly off limits. It's a form of soft collaboration with the administration. It will hurt us.

Now, if the report wanted to make the argument that elite universities like Yale helped fuel the rise of inequality (which in turn undermined trust in institutions) through an increasingly tight relationship to finance, consulting, and tech, then we could talk! But I'm guessing that didn't come up.

Stop by and see us! You can't miss our booth 😎

Trump&Co is a mob outfit.

Cool interview about my latest work conducted with my "co-collaborator and husband, RTI International research analyst @chrisbennettedu.bsky.social." (never gets old) We talked about why this work matters, some of potential solutions, and what's next. 1/ www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Justin Fairfax wanted to be remembered as a rising star. A trailblazer. The second Black man elected statewide in Virginia. He wanted the Emmett Till comparison to stick. It will not. I will not let it, and neither should you. open.substack.com/pub/goldieta...

I can hear the Spock vs Kirk battle music soundtrack in my head.

Brandon Friedman Report Finds Yale Deserves Blame for J.D. Vance, Scott Bessent, Ted Cruz, Josh Hawley, Vivek Ramaswamy, Ron DeSantis, Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, Brett Kavanaugh and George W. Bush

Damn. Iran just dropped an A+ level troll on Trump in this new LEGO movie. I’m no fan of Iran at all… but this one actually nails him. 😂😂

NO

“.. The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.” @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2087...

"We don't really concern ourselves with what they claim they have the right to do." [It's telling that, in response to a question about wartime negotiations, Vance's only frame of reference is that of a husband controlling his wife.]

And yet, regular Americans aren't demanding that legislators shut down prediction markets, because they want to believe that they too will have valuable insider betting knowledge someday.

The people of Iran aren’t free. Iran can now charge tolls. The nuclear material sits EXACTLY where it did, in the same amount, since June. The regime is still in place with a younger ayatollah. Iran still was launching missiles, now with more money to rebuild. Period

I'm on the train back to DC – I call on all my colleagues to come back, too. Congress must vote to end this war IMMEDIATELY.

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Every member of Congress should take it upon themselves to get to Washington whether leadership calls them or not. Get there and summon the GOP through a show of unity against the war criminal

Criticizing Israel is not antisemitic, because Israel and Judaism are not one and the same. Here’s proof:

While Trump's assertion that "a whole civilization will die tonight" represents a discrete threat of genocide against Iran, the fact that it comes from a U.S. president, while Congress does nothing, actually represents a broader civilizational collapse — whether he follows through or not.

You know what? I'll admit it. The credible threat by a madman to wipe out a nation of 90 million people for basically no reason (presumably using nuclear weapons) successfully distracted me. I am now distracted.

“A whole civilization will die tonight, never to be brought back again.” -Trump Article III The following acts shall be punishable: (a) Genocide; (b) Conspiracy to commit genocide; (c) Direct and public incitement to commit genocide; (d) Attempt to commit genocide; (e) Complicity in genocide.

Not sure whether this is apt or terrible timing but here’s the official cover of my book due out with @uncpress.bsky.social W. Hodding Carter III imprint this fall. 🎉

As another Crusades historian, I concur.

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

ICE has no reason to be at or near the polls. It has no role in enforcing election laws. bit.ly/4s3UQDe

The corruption is staggering.

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

Happy 77th birthday to NATO, created on this day in 1949. Despite what some would have you believe, it’s still a critically important alliance. But why take my word for it when @hcrichardson.bsky.social can explain it so much better?

I am so looking forward to visiting the Gilcrease again. tulsaflyer.org/2026/04/02/c...

Let's do this one time in good faith: Wealthy private universities in blue states should be bastions of humanistic education (including basic science), fully protected from the anti-education laws being passed in red states that afflict private and public schools alike. But instead .... /1