A few years ago I would not have predicted @wired.com would be a journalistic beacon, but with this forthcoming “politics issue” they are doubling down on real, anti-authoritarian reporting Not regretting my new subscription

It really was. This applies to basically every bit of news that came out today!

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Of all the stupid things that this regime has done, this is right up near the top. Postdoctoral researchers come to the US on H-1B visas. This will further destroy the US science enterprise. Stupid stupid stupid.

I like it when paywalled journals scramble the text data on the PDF to prevent you from copy pasting like redoing OCR with 2 clicks doesn't exist.

"Whatever it is..." From the article on the top story of today's NYT. Evidence #2567 that the NYT has an auto-immune disease.

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

More people sign up every day. Commit to the general strike. GeneralStrikeUS.com @generalstrikeus.bsky.social #GeneralStrike Link Tree: linktr.ee/generalstrik... Calendar of Discord meetings: generalstrikeus.com/calendar

Except mostly they are not controversial, just inconvenient.

Euzhan Palcy, the first Black female to helm a studio picture, says she owes it all to Robert Redford: "When people ask how I, as a young woman from Martinique, ended up in Hollywood, I smile and think of Robert Redford" bit.ly/41VgnUw

Still ready for a general strike. Y'all let me know. No kings is cool. I'll be there, but we need a bit more juice than that. They're immune against the images of millions marching peacefully on the street.

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

shit is scary right now, but i have no intention of shutting up or shutting down. support independent media. subscribe to the handbasket.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Academic freedom is more important now than ever. www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09...

What the hell indeed

I just learned Hermann Göring was into art. Hm.

Oh, snap. I really need to go get my dominican passport renewed. I want to doubt the bill will pass, I really do... but whatever. People are already getting fired for not mourning someone who would not mourn them. I'll try to shut up a bit more too. We're getting to the next stage soon.

And these men are in power now, and don't seem too keen to let it go. Ufff.

Was offline today. I'm seeing eulogies for WaPo. What happened? When did it finally give up the ghost?

Working on my manuscript on this fine Sunday. As you know, I'm working on a lit history of A. Césaire and the ephemeral francophone editorial scene the exiles created in the Americas during WW2. Here's something interesting. 1941–43: Césaire is working under censorship in Vichy Martinique.

This has been an interesting week as someone who is both a "radical leftist lunatic" and a gamer who's been heavily online for 2 decades. 😐

John Unsworth is a really good guy in a time of monsters. I once had the chance to hang out with him and his wife, and b, and A. Booth at his house. It was a lovely, memorable evening. Here's hoping I get a chance to do it again after he retires.

Made the mistake of turning on the news while eating lunch. I can confirm that TV news anchors still don't know jackshit about internet rot or meme culture. Like nada. Completely lost.

This November, "Senghor: Writings on Politics" brings Léopold Sédar Senghor’s most vital essays, speeches, and political writings to English-language readers for the first time. Read editor and translator Yohann C Ripert's introduction for free now. #PostcolonialStudies #BlackStudies buff.ly/GDwFmvE

He's right, and it's not just Brazil. Around the world, at least 31 democratic leaders who committed similar crimes have been jailed or banned from office since 2010. The failure to hold Trump accountable in the US was a unique and systemic failure of our institutions and political culture.

This is the way.

Extremists and an anonymously run website are posting identifying details about people accused of celebrating Charlie Kirk's murder online. Some of those targeted are now getting death threats. www.wired.com/story/right-...

Transgender people need our support and solidarity more than ever. We either come together or we all fall. That’s where we are.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

MAGA harvesters already have their screenshot fodder for tonight anyway. I saw the first 10 minutes of hot-takes unfold. I'm with Marisa. Truth is they're going to find that fodder no matter what we say or do. They're editing as we speak. Our fight is elsewhere, not with each other. My 0.2.

Just finished close reading the first poem Césaire published in Tropiques, "Fragments d'un poème" (1941). About 10 pages long. It took me over a month writing 10-12 hours a day to do it. I think I'll wait for my next sabbatical before I do another one of these.

The fox is in the henhouse. Higher ed is on its last two legs.

Can we also nominate the message from A&M's prez for the Mealy Mouth of the Year award?

Full disclosure: I accepted a vist to this very department in October. I was invited by their now former chair. Unless they have to cancel, I plan to come. I will watch very closely what I say, not because of me, but because they are now being monitored by the christo-gestapo lunatics.

I'm a senior lecturer, just like the one fired. Yes, they will come for tenured too. All too predictable.

Since ppl love campus anecdotes so much, here's one: I have colleagues who give students they know to be MAGA an A (in one case I'm aware of overlooking clear AI use), because the colleague is on a Green Card or H1B, and they know: one complaint like at Texas A&M, and they're on a flight home. (1/3)

So livid! What just happened to Texas A&M's English dept because of a spoiled baby nazi is absurdity to the extreme. By all accounts, Emily Johansen was a good and supportive chair. I don't know who the lecturer is. 🤬🤬🤬 www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Thanks SCOTUS for allowing masked goons to stop me at will whenever they see my illegal terrorist face of unbelonging in LA. Some have thought it cute.

As book banning sweeps across the U.S. at an unprecedented rate, brave librarians emerge as first responders in the fight for democracy. A film by Kim A. Snyder. Opens UK 9/26 @berthadochouse.bsky.social, US 10/03 @filmforumnyc.bsky.social, rollout to follow. Tix: TheLibrariansFilm.com/screenings

Happening now: ~13 miles away from the Broadview detention center, hundreds hitting the street in downtown Chicago in protest of ICE.

Has anyone already opined on the structural similarities between the surrealists' exquisite corpse and genAI?

Zohran Mamdani to appear with Bernie Sanders on “Fighting Oligarchy” tour in NYC:

Oh, Oren. I've known many Orens in my life. Too many. No, Oren, I won't click. Go away.

We're welcoming terrific new books to our shelves this month, including "Fueling Development" by Zophia Edwards, which traces Trinidad and Tobago’s democratic and redistributive development success to Black radical working-class mobilization. buff.ly/Kn3Bk2m

Join the #Slaveryarchive Book Club on September 13 to discuss the great new collection A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking with general editor Benjamin Lawrance and the volume editors. Register here us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Platner: No one cares that you pretend to be remorseful as you sell out to lobbyists. Symbolic opposition does not reopen hospitals. Weak condemnations do not bring back Roe V Wade. Maine deserves better than Susan Collins.

Happy labor day!

Just donated.