MAGA means a return to 19th century protection for employers to exploit & dominate employees.

The cult of the bullet & the gun advances in society designed for insecurity.

tl;dr (though still come for some good graphs): - A Trump-appointed judge called out impermissible use of race by the Trump DOJ, thereby striking down a Trump-encouraged supergerrymander in TX; - That supergerrymander wouldn't squeeze out more than 2 seats anyway; - CA Prop. 50 is still the law.

At this point, so far the net effect of this festival of redistricting is to add 3 seats for Democrats. VA and FL could change that. Really not worth it for either side, considering what is likely to happen in 2026. And terrible for gerrymandered voters everywhere.

While AAUP TNS has not yet commented on last night’s closures, it issued this joint statement on cuts with the full time faculty union docs.google.com/document/u/2...

Welcome to ignorance

A financial neutron bomb, destroys individual retirement savings and leaves the financial institutions intact. That is the creativity of capitalism

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Generalissimo indeed: the old man attacks a woman, typical sexist bully who believes this is a show of strength. Psychological midget who requires that women reflect him back at 10 times his size.

Women who get an abortion and anyone who helps them could face up to 30 years in prison under the bill. It appears to ban any contraception that prevents a fertilized egg from implanting. That would ban IUDs and could strictly limit in-vitro fertilization.

Jesus, please smite them.

OMFG-ex DOJ official (& now federal judge) Emil Bove was involved in the administration's plots to murder individuals via lethal strikes "At a DOJ conference ... Bove told drug prosecutors the ... administration wasn't interested in interdicting ... Instead... the U.S. should "just sink the boats."

One girl said “it doesn’t matter if you ban a book because everyone can find that information online” and then I blew their minds by talking about how your search history can be monitored and sold to the government without your permission, but your library borrowing history requires a warrant.

Jaw dropped. Trump Administration Removes Report on Missing and Murdered Native Americans, Calling It DEI Content

I’m sorry to be self promoting but I a) have never been seduced by a fascist with a brain worm b) am capable of crafting a decent sentence and c) wrote a book that did not earn me a fawning profile in the newspaper but is still pretty good bookshop.org/p/books/huma...

Brutality without limits

When states like Colorado passed policies requiring employers to disclose salary information in job postings, what happened? It increased competition, and raised wages, without harming employment or changing skill requirements. Improved functioning of markets, helped workers.

Eff it. I’d eat it.

Union-busting is an industry composed of law firms in particular. They should be better known for their activities.

Please read the whole thread. Another important example of how language and concepts distort reality. Explains why MAGA is destroying higher ed.: to maintain the power of defining the world by removing those who teach us how to use evidence and language so we can think for ourselves.

Concepts are an important method of resistance. I prefer machine intelligence to AI, it is a more correct modifier of that nebulous word ‘intelligence’

US appeals court upholds hate crime convictions of 3 white men in 2020 killing of Ahmaud Arbery apnews.com/article/ahma...

“Watching tech moguls throw caution to the wind in the AI arms race or equivocate on whether humanity ought to continue, it’s natural to wonder whether they care about human lives. The earnest, in-depth answer to this question is just as bleak as the glib one.” jacobin.com/2025/11/musk...

The new standard is that evidence is optional, & conveniently it was also deleted, so seems true to me!

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.

So the question then is what do Thiel & SoftBank know about Nvidia stocks?

The Jeffrey Esptein scandal the main stream press is ignoring; he was a major player in American foreign policy with deep ties to Israel and other satrapies: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Let’s stand in Solidarity and support our @sbworkersunited.org siblings — which demonstrates power to our airline management too. Don’t shop at Starbucks while workers are on strike. Sign the No Contract, No Coffee pledge and find a picket line near you: nocontractnocoffee.org

Universities spend gazillions on EdTech software that doesn’t serve faculty or student interests and often doesn’t work well. But what if we got off that path and leveraged internal resources to produce non-profit systems? Here’s a proposal to leverage the CUNY systems platforms.

as a scholar of gender and sexuality, i continue to be horrified by the unending Pedo Era rightly linked here to the war machine. Third World feminists have always insisted that unbridled power is built on expanding militarism and sexual violence

“Dubal…said…she was “kind of in tears” after the ruling. “This represents saving higher education, saving public research and the standing up of faculty and staff and students,” said Ms. Dubal, who is also a law professor at the University of California, Irvine.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/u...

Once again, the AAUP takes the lead in defending higher education. If you teach or conduct research in higher education, join now @aaup.org

Yikes 😬 an official U.S. government account just referred to Americans as “imbecilic morons.” That’s… a choice.

The curious can exercise their curiosity

Corporations and billionaires rule the White House and Congress. Republicans in particular, whether Bush or Trump Republicans are servants of concentrated private wealth.

📚 Academic Freedom: A Brief History📚 Check out this awesome event featuring Joan Wallach Scott and Alex Gourevitch, organized by AAUP - Brown! November 17, 7:30pm ET over Zoom Register via QR code in graphic @aaupbrownchapter.bsky.social

What’s behind Silicon Valley’s psychotic break with reality? Welcome to Apocalypse Capitalism. As one prominent tech VC put it: “Maybe if you aren’t trying to destroy the world, you’re not trying hard enough.” www.thenerdreich.com/silicon-vall...

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

Public schools are the enemy to this Republican Party that is in the pocket of elite billionaires and the corporations and Christian nationalists running charter schools.

Avian flu is decimating the elephant seals thanks to the willful ignorance, explicit neglect and greed of petro-corporations and the money they spend to corrupt governments.

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

go go go! 90%! go! go some more! www.centredaily.com/news/local/e...

Many left publications sadly aren’t paying attention to this story. 12 years, labor has fought for a union in Chattanooga, after 3 tries they won last year. Now they are preparing to strike for a first contract paydayreport.com/following-st...

Clean Energy accounted for all electricity growth this year. Gas/Coal were basically a wash and will be for years to come for electricity generation. We need to ramp up batteries because they are 90% cheaper than distribution grid upgrades which is the main reason we have rate increases.

What they're doing is great (but what the headline is doing is weird; adults are not primarily identified by their reproductive status when they're not doing something specific to offspring, or are they, since trivializing women happens a thousand ways?)

The Justice Department argued in a new legal filing to the Supreme Court that Trump has unreviewable powers to flood U.S. cities with National Guard troops, marking the latest step in Trump’s authoritarian effort to militarize cities. https://bit.ly/49mfIA1

What exactly are they investigating? No one was prevented from speaking The school responded w/over the top punitive treatment of nonviolent protestors, just as Trump would want. It’s like they are opening investigations based on how many likes it will garner on X. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/u...

"This essential book articulates and embodies ethical knowledge production amidst the rising tide of tech authoritarianism...It is an inspiring and critical corrective to the proliferation of apolitical research on Big Tech." —@veenadubal.bsky.social ⚡️ buff.ly/eFJqFWQ

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-has-c...