Government has today published its consultation into "earned settlement", the forward alone contains a hot mess of misrepresentation of the current system by the Home Secretary. I would strongly urge anyone affected by the current system to respond. assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/691edd...

Finally: 🚨The link above is for the consultation document, however the actual consultation can be accessed via the link below. 🚨Use your own judgement. I am a policy specialist with academic qualifications in refugee law, not a lawyer. 11/ www.gov.uk/government/c...

🚨The supporting consultation document is riddled with errors, misinformation, and flat out lies, all wrapped up in some truly heinous and biased rhetoric. That seems to clearly be to generate a particular response from people who are not deeply aware of the issues in the existing system. 3/

If you are U.K. based and angered by Shabana Mahmood's latest efforts to make migrants lives even more difficult (and I know some of you will be), please do take the time to submit a response to the Home Office consultation. Dan's advice below is excellent as a guide on how to respond.

I have been looking at Black Friday sales for a week but I do not actually need anything so instead I closed all those tabs and bought a Polaroid for a foster kid in Florida who uses photography to deal with big feelings. Perhaps you would like to do the same for one of the kids at the link below?

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This is a lovely article. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

We've all been there

My mantra when talking to students: you don’t *want* to use it, because you want to be among the people who control the AI when you have graduated, not those who are controlled by it because you’re unable to construct an argument.

"Climate disaster is not an act of God, and it’s not romantic ambiance. It’s the outcome of specific decisions, made by specific people, including the one Nuzzi calls “the Politician.” If you’re going to wrap your love story in fire, fine. At least be honest about who helped light the match."

Great article. The last paragraphs are esp. good. Men like Summers as the "tax on women." what others like that did he use his power to tolerate or even encourage?Jorge Dominguez? Comaroff? Jules Brody?Of course those are the ones whose names we know. But what abt the taxation no one dared speak of?

This proposed plan (not finalized?) at Montclair State to eliminate departments and disciplines is indeed “insane,” as English professor Adam Rzepka says in this truly wild article www.nytimes.com/2025/11/19/n...

Very sad to learn of the passing of Michèle Audin, whose research on the Commune (macommunedeparis.com ) as well as her memoirs about her martyrized father in Algeria, were so brilliant. This should be a gift link from *LIberation*: www.liberation.fr/culture/livr...

Ghouls. All of them. Not surprisingly. But still ghouls.

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The fact that no one in the room stood up for her says a lot about how we got here bsky.app/profile/pale...

great parody of the un-readable O.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren said Harvard University should sever ties with Larry Summers, the school’s former president and one of its most prominent faculty members to hold Summers accountable for his intimate friendship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. https://cnn.it/4oLRqEo

So, Trump is asking the DOJ to investigate Epstein's connection to prominent Democrats. But wasn't Trump himself a "prominent Democrat" for a big chunk of that time?

There it is. Ghouls. Ghouls manipulating ghouls. Ghouls protecting ghouls. Sick of ghouls.

There have been at least 154 cases in which federal district courts have issued preliminary relief against a Trump administration policy. Those rulings have come from 121 *different* judges appointed by seven presidents (including 15 appointed by Trump) sitting in 29 district courts in 10 circuits:

Was he her former PhD dissertation director or on her committee? Just because he wasn't teaching her anymore does not make this okay. And the racist codename. Just vile. Also just gross for the Crimson to publish the name of a harassment survivor without her consent.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

Women's problem is not meeting the same standards as men. We do that every day, and often exceed expectations. But if you're expected to fuck Larry Summers to get ahead, it's no surprise that women might fall behind men, who are not expected to do this.

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7/🧵 The loudest voices aren't the most representative. Every generation has extremists, but social media amplifies fringe movements beyond their size. A handful of young white nationalists create viral moments that crowd out broader trends. We mistake the exception for the rule.

ugh. just ugh.

📍Senator Fetterman had a VFIB—the leading cause of cardiac arrest—he almost died if not for his implanted defibrillator, which can cost $34,000 to over $51,000. Days ago, he also just voted with GOP to gut health insurance tax credits for millions. Hope he has a change of heart.

So is Harvard going to launch an investigation into Larry Summers, his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, and the use of university resources to support him?

I want to know why @chronicle.com is again platforming the people who want to destroy higher ed. I already cancelled my subscription when they put Rufo on the cover(&wrote the editor). but for those of you still giving this rag your $, well....! BrownU quickly got rid of Gee but what a ghoul he is!

Gosh, such a shame this never came together.

Meanwhile, “did women ruin the workplace?”

"That is why I will sign the discharge petition right now to release the Epstein files" -- Rep. Grijalva

If you’re so inclined, you can call Lauren Boebert and Nancy Mace to let them know your opinion on whether or not the Epstein files are a hoax.

Here is another petition I would rather not have to sign. Help protect Modern Languages courses at the University of Leicester! 👇👇👇 c.org/2g4WxGSwmX

🚨Nancy Mace expected to defend the Pedo in Chief. Call (202) 225.3176 @mace.house.gov

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If you or anyone you know would be interested in a GREAT Victorian studies conference in the spring, here's the CFP. Proposals due Dec 6. Especially let anyone within driving distance of Cincinnati know! The lovely @nathankhensley.bsky.social will be keynote speaker. midwestvictorian.org/conference/

'[We] have gained so much, not only from our degrees, but also from the invaluable experience of studying or working abroad and experiencing other cultures... [W]e are shocked that a university that labels itself as “global” would make a decision which restricts language learning' c.org/w2XC64XqXw

Less than a month to go until our free online workshop *Object Stories in Health and Medicine, 1700-1900*. Friday 5 December from 10am GMT. Tickets available through this link!  www.birmingham.ac.uk/events/objec...

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

This is such a great article on how ChatGPT &other AI-"helpers" thwart orig. thinking & human interaction. It's among the 1st articles I will ask my students to read next term. It's not just adopting 20th-c. academicese but worse: the absence of "voice" & empathy: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

I was thinking about Zohran’s transition team and today’s anti-feminist piece in the New York Times, and my mother’s book on the first generation of women to work in the city government in New York City. global.oup.com/academic/pro...

"Teen Vogue now has zero writers or editors covering politics." After nearly a decade of brilliant political writing, the silence Conde Nast has demanded is itself political. This is so tragic.

The question being asked by the NYT after an election that promoted MANY women to power. It’s not a question. It’s a comment. An attack.

Sign me up! Hope this happens!

The White House has been boasting about the revenue that its tariffs are raising. And now their argument to the Supremes is that the President has imposed regulatory tariffs, not revenue-generating tariffs, and so case isn't about the power to tax. (Nonsense, obv.) Here's a leading economics text.

i closed out my column this week with this preemptive jab at basically every commentator currently looking for ways to say that last night didn’t count