Tenth anniversary of this unexpected but much appreciated recognition from the state of Michigan just showed up in the office mail one day

Now purging my spice cabinet of ancient bottles Compost, as a result, has an uncharacteristically lovely aroma

Sitting by an insurance office that has a thing for Laurel and Hardy

Inman Sq field trip Got a little crazy at the spice store Next coffee

Two kind of deaf ladies on the bus shouting at each other about their gynecology appointments

U.S. citizen and lawyer Leslie Perlera Gonzalez has been living in fear for her undocumented husband. This week her fear came true, with ICE abducting her husband after ramming their car into his, smashing the car window, and pointing a stun gun at his head. 1/ www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/19/m...

Bad diagram alert

That’s not how a Venn diagram works?

Judge’s critique: “… the president’s 85-page complaint was unnecessarily lengthy & digressive.” suit waited “until the 80th page to lodge a formal allegation of defamation,” spending “dozens of ‘florid and enervating’ pages lavishing praise on the president and enumerating a range of grievances.”

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption. Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow. People have power. Ask Target

Fearful Americans Stockpiling Facts Before Federal Government Comes To Take Them Away https://theonion.com/fearful-americans-stockpiling-facts-before-federal-gove-1819579589/

Please continue to stand strong, Harvard They are pushing harder because we have resisted www.chronicle.com/blogs/the-tr...

Judge’s critique: “… the president’s 85-page complaint was unnecessarily lengthy & digressive.” suit waited “until the 80th page to lodge a formal allegation of defamation,” spending “dozens of ‘florid and enervating’ pages lavishing praise on the president and enumerating a range of grievances.”

Love seeing this in the headlines as I teach my students that writing shorter is writing better www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/b...

Hurray for chaos and disorganization among these folks [gift link] www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/h...

Minnesota has achieved so much in the last six years (Michigan, too). We need to keep this reminder of what's possible alive. Organizing is at the core of sustainable progress. We can remake America.

I'm sorry, worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable permission to my voice and likeness? For what now? In any manner for any purpose??? This is in academia/.edu's new ToS, which you're prompted to agree to on login. Anyway I'll be jumping ship. You can find my stuff at hcommons.org.

📢 #EdWorkingPapers: Do RCTs in higher ed risk contamination? From a large in-person college course intervention, @catherinematah.bsky.social, @katharinemeyer.bsky.social & @linzpage.bsky.social show when individual-level randomization is preferred 📄 Full paper here: edworkingpapers.com/ai24-1083

Early next year, Sesame Street is making hundreds of full episodes available on YouTube. [sesameworkshop.org]

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

Bertrand Russell, at 89 years old, to Sir Oswald Mosley, a man most famous for founding, in 1932, the British Union of Fascists. I'm all for civil discourse. But everyone can and should draw a line at who they will talk to. Notice that Russell did not demean himself with incivility, either.

Another great saying that Mark Twain did not say marktwainstudies.com/the-apocryph...

Donald Trump sues the New York Times (and Susanne Craig, Russ Buettner, and Michael S. Schmidt) for defamation, and the complaint for some reason begins thus: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Trump’s lawyers are funny, until they become part of DOJ, at which point they become less funny

I honestly thought there was a chance that I'd fallen asleep and was dreaming the most absurd, childlike, ego-maniac lawsuit when I tried to read this Trump defamation complaint against the Times, Penguin Random House, and individual journalists. Complaint: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Raise you to 8.327 bazillion

(Trump imposes martial law on a conquered nation, speaking from the smoking ruins of a Planned Parenthood while drinking Diet Coke out of a liberal professor's skull) Schumer: We look forward to sending the president our ideas for a tax rebate on home security systems and debating them at length.

nobody tell RFK but I scored a covid shot from my neighborhood dealer

Good morning to the triple deckers of New Haven. May they be legal to build everywhere.

LINK ROT: 38% webpages that existed in 2013 were no longer available 10 years later. Even among pages that existed in 2021, 22% no longer accessible just two years later. This is often because individual page was deleted or removed on otherwise functional website. Many implications for knowledge 🧪

Charlie Kirk was killed by a Groyper, due to that group’s known hatred of his positions, and it’s as obvious as if his killer had “MS-13” tattooed on his knuckles, but the @nytimes.com and others refuse to cover it that way because they don’t respect their colleagues who know this.

NEWS New York Governor Kathy Hochul has endorsed Zohran Mamdani for New York City Mayor. Full Story: bit.ly/4ptqLgq

Ed Dept has pulled funding for programs in eight states aimed at supporting students who have hearing & vision loss. They got caught in Trump admin’s attacks on DEI, with Ed Dept spokesperson citing concerns about “divisive concepts” and “fairness” in acknowledging decision to withhold the funding.

This is as huge a scandal & blunder as this chaotic Administration has seen. The person who should be called to answer for it is Secy Kristi Noem. When a woman who loves the camera as much as Noem is nowhere to be seen for 10 days it’s b/c she’s hiding out. Media should be all over this.

Get your COVID shots, y'all! A great thing to do TODAY if you have a minute.

Counterpoint: Hiring at universities, and as many other employers as possible, should not be based on your personal political views. We should avoid any procedures that filter out or select people based on the political opinions they have expressed.

shoutout to tumblr user kleinergeist for this post which is going straight into my powerpoint for Grendel day in my monster class this week

No wonder Musk is impressed, the London march stretched all the way to the Arc de Triomphe

This is a goal of Project 2025 Get women back in the home

"The labor participation rate for women with children younger than 5 had the biggest midyear drop in more than 40 years during the first six months of 2025."

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

the only AI i need is an earpiece i can wear at my kid's birthday party that tells me the name of the parent i've met like four times before

I am sooooo tired of Why Is Child Care So Tough to Afford/Find/Staff/Operate stories that center anything other than this fact.

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

See ICE agents in your community? We’re asking the public to help us track where they are and document scenes on the ground by submitting photos of ICE agent sightings in the greater Chicago area. Images are posted to this map daily.

Thanks to Massachusetts governor Maura Healey making it easy to get both the flu and Covid vaccines and, I suppose it goes without saying but I shall: Suck it, RFK Jr.

Live your life in such a way that, when you die, people directly quoting you does’t sound like a personal attack on your character.

"Kirk’s eulogists have praised him for his commitment to discourse, dialogue and good-faith discussion...To speak of Kirk as a champion of reasoned discussion is also to ignore his frequent calls for the state suppression of his political opponents."

I don’t know who these people are, but it’s well said.