What continuously shocks me is so many people have so little pride in what they do.If you have a PhD you trained for at least 5 post college years to acquire expertise in a field.When you’re asked to review its’s to tap that hard won expertise. Why would you think a machine an adequate substitute?

This is such an excellent point and media should be reporting it this way. (This is in reference to Miller’s preposterous but still dangerous claim earlier today about the executive branch considering suspending the writ)

applying for jobs again

If every person who thinks this is a good idea contributed $10 to the legal costs, we’d be able to cover them right now. MLA’s link is here: www.mla.org/About-Us/Sup...

With alt text. The kicker comes at the end and it takes a bit to get there, but I tried to describe the rather dry layout leading up to it very clearly because the contrast of dryness to horror is very important to how the image lands for me.

Please repost: Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...

Please repost: Here is a freely available diplomatic transcription of Katherine Philips's autograph Tutin manuscript, created by my former student Washington Pearce. I hope this will make Philips's poems available to broader audiences. scholarsarchive.byu.edu/studentpub/3...

A US citizen with a learning disability who has just suffered a medical emergency asks a CBP officer for directions outside the emergency room. He ends up detained in an icebox for ten days and has the assistant secretary of DHS lying about him to the public at large. popular.info/p/us-citizen...

The Trump admin has been instructed by a judge to restore the legal status of 133 international students. Their status had been revoked for, among other absurd and egregious reasons, *traffic violations.* abc7.com/post/ice-rei...

Here’s a description of @matthewsteggle.bsky.social ‘s work that can be read by an interested public. The rest of us will await the grainier details in the journal Shakespeare.

So I've got this article which should be coming out in the journal _Shakespeare_ any moment now, but in the meantime - Briefly, it's about a C17 letter preserved in the binding waste of a book now in Hereford Cathedral.

“The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador by the Trump administration, was forced to move to a safe house with her children after the government **posted their home address** to social media.” 4/23/25 newrepublic.com/post/194289/...

I feel like we need to keep saying this because it’s so insane: This is a legal U.S. resident who has been detained for over a month now for his political opinions.

If you think you can't make a political issue out of "people shouldn't be grabbed off the street and put in a foreign gulag forever," maybe consider getting out of politics/punditry. And these aren't technical slogans: they appear in the Declaration of Independence and in the Constitution (twice).

“In an age of uncertainty, we can’t predict the specific profile of a productive workforce. But recruiting according to immediate demands risks becoming anachronistic fast.” So, employers, demand government funds the arts & humanities. We spend our entire first year unteaching by-rote learning.

A student just presented me with a beautiful, hand-bound copy of his diplomatic edition of Katherine Philips's Tutin manuscript (which should be available digitally soon). It's one of the most beautiful and thoughtful gifts I've ever received from a student.

“They were careless people…they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness…and let other people clean up the mess they had made…” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (April 10, 1925).

really feel like writing something on how steep tariffs may destroy restaurants that depend on imported ingredients to replicate non-American flavors—and thus spark a movement toward more conservative, blander food scenes throughout the US

A reminder that if the government can send migrants to a prison camp without any due process, it can send U.S. citizens there, too. I know because this happened to me and my family in 1942.

1/ I need to say something a little more personal about the NEH. A 🧵

I love the work Chris does and hadn’t thought of how much of it is possible only because of the @nehgov.bsky.social ‘s support. It is so sad to see the NEH hacked to bits by a chainsaw in the chaos that has been unleashed. Call your representatives and ask them to save the NEH (and the NIH, NSF, SSA

If you are an NC resident and voted in November, please check if your name or the names of any family areone of the 60K votes being challenged. If so, confirm ASAP with your Board of Elections. You only have two weeks. The website to check linked in the reply. www.newsobserver.com/news/politic...

Once again Vance's claim that we should not sympathize with Garcia but with the people victimized by MS-13 refutes itself.

The administration says that criminal immigrants can be deported to a foreign forced labor prison without a hearing that could determine if the person is actually a criminal or actually an immigrant and that if it makes a mistake it can’t be rectified because the person is now outside their control.

When you find yourself basically going "blah blah blah why are you talking so much about innocent guy sent to a gulag, get over it," your sense of humanity has been fundamentally broken and you've lost the plot. Either we are a nation of laws or we are not.

An international graduate student at Tufts University was taken into federal custody on Tuesday outside an off-campus apartment building, the university’s president said. The university was told that the student’s visa had been terminated. nyti.ms/4hRzPq1

This arrest is the latest in an alarming pattern to stifle civil liberties. The Trump admin is targeting students with legal status and ripping people out of their communities without due process. This is an attack on our Constitution and basic freedoms — and we will push back.

Milton's Eve, speaking about my inbox/to-do list: what we by day Lop overgrown, or prune, or prop, or bind, One night or two with wanton growth derides Tending to wild. —Paradise Lost 9:209-12

Current mood in humanities academia: deciding what you're going to memorise for your future as a Farenheit-451 style postapocalyptic human book tramp

Fun fact: this will literally be what the rest of their lives are like without pronounced social transformation. Eventually, the people who are not open to that will be a small minority! But it would be nice if we did something before, like, the 2040s.

Meet Gracie Himes, age 20. Her goal: Fight cancer by developing new medicines. On March 3, her dreams were shattered when Trump admin cuts hit West Virginia University, which rescinded her PhD program offer. www.wsj.com/us-news/educ...

Columbia University used to be called King’s College. They renamed it after we had a revolution here because we didn’t want a king.

The unlawful detention of Mahmoud Khalil is one of the most extreme threats to free speech in 50 years. Trump is sending a message that people who speak out will be punished — but we have a message for him, too. We'll see you in court.

The way this works is that you either defend Khalil's First Amendment rights, no matter what you think about his specific views, or else you acquiesce to a totalitarian dystopia where the government can disappear people for expressing opinions opposed by the regime. There's really no middle ground.

If you want to support and defend the disability community, you can call your AG with respect to Texas v. Bercerra and its attempt to repeal section 504. 5calls provides a script, if you want one, and also alerts you whether your AG is part of the lawsuit or not. 5calls.org/issue/sectio...

Under this theory, Marco Rubio can expel Canadians who say “you should stop threatening to annex Canada.”

You're going to be tempted to engage in discourse focused on what Mahmoud Khalil said--was it actually antisemitic? Did he endorse Hamas?--and I cannot encourage you enough not to do that. It just doesn't matter what he said because you should not be detained and deported over what you say, period.

NEW: White House says the arrest and deportation of student activist & legal US resident, Mahmoud Khalil, is a blueprint for more. The final line here is chilling. The White House specifically says Khalil was not breaking the law. No evidence, no due process, no crime. He was just disappeared.

For the record, I am not ok with the US government disappearing people whose speech it doesn't like. Free Mahmoud Khalil.

UPDATE on Mahmoud Khalil from his lawyers and his wife: "Today I spoke to Mahmoud and he is healthy and his spirits are undaunted by his predicament." (Legal team now includes ACLU, CCR.)

1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism? Here is an answer: Good Things. Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine. Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it. The more we build community, the less it can take root. 🧵

Defend the liberty of a stranger as you would defend your own, or that of a loved one, because that is what's actually on the table—whether we are a society that will sit still as our neighbors are snatched in the night, and disappeared into darkness, or a society that will fight for each other.

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

The president, who last week told Congress he had "stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America," said today that the government had arrested a student because of his disfavored opinions. "This is the first arrest of many to come," he said.

Look, folks, this is it. The entire ballgame. Either we're a Republic of laws & the Constitution, or we have a dictator. This is fascism, & the impeachment vote should be happening today. Every single university president in the country should be out, in front of microphones, condemning this.

For the record, I am not ok with the US government disappearing people whose speech it doesn't like. Free Mahmoud Khalil.

Just to be clear, this is a faculty member reporting a recent student at his institution to a fascist regime because he disagrees with the student’s political views. Absolutely chilling and vile.

UPDATE: Mahmoud Khalil is being held by ICE in the Jena/LaSalle Detention Facility in Louisiana, per ICE detainee tracker Khalil was detained Saturday night from his New York apartment building

We make and unmake the bed.