I miss Bill Moyers everyday.

Trump canceled the signing of our historic housing legislation. His temper tantrum is costing you.

We have an opportunity in this moment. A responsibility. To insist on everyone’s humanity, all the way through.

Anyway, these are from the Progressive Party platform of *checks watch* 1912: - Strict limits on campaign contributions - A national living wage - Abolish prison labor - Affordable living costs - National health service - End monopolies - Tax the rich www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/pr...

Democratic Party leadership continues to disappoint. What I want for myself and my neighbors: universal health care, affordable housing, affordable quality daycare, living wages for full time work. And if AI is coming for so many people’s jobs, universal basic income.

In Opinion Vancouver has a housing crisis. But free from city rules, “the Squamish are providing the city’s residents with a chunk of the housing they so desperately need,” Binyamin Appelbaum writes of the First Nation whose ancestors lived there. “Other cities ought to be taking notes.”

As cyclists travel through Illinois retracing the Trail of Tears, we honor their commitment to preserving the history and legacy of the Cherokee people.   Their journey is a powerful act of remembrance.

SCOOP from @by-cjewett.bsky.social & me: Markwayne Mullin urged the Department of Health and Human Service to remove warnings from the FDA website about the health risks of the gas station drug kratom. Mullin owns equity in a leading kratom company called Botanic Tonics that could have benefited.

New Osage program will help citizens get food from tribe’s butcher, local farm The Osage Nation is launching a new food assistance program.... http://tulsaflyer.org/2026/06/15/news/post/osage-nation-food-program/

“Bari Weiss sends an email to my boss, Tanya Simon. Two of the things in the email include, can we make the protesters look more violent? Now, I’m paraphrasing... And the other thing, Renee Good’s car. You need to describe her as driving *toward* the officer.” www.nytimes.com/2026/06/07/m...

Can’t be repeated enough👇🏽 Just so insane

"The NEA NEH FY2026 appropriations outcome suggests that Republican members, particularly those on the appropriations committees, calculated that the political cost of eliminating these programs outweighed any benefit from aligning with the president's budget blueprint." bit.ly/4o4igrA

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.