You may have heard that Trump’s extortion of University of California was defeated in court. But do you know who won this historic case? Spoiler: not a single UC administrator participated. It was all faculty members of the UC Faculty Associations and @aaup.org! Cc: @veenadubal.bsky.social

AI Is Not Inevitable join AAUP for a conversation with educators, educator unions, and the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience zoom.us/webinar/regi...

A reader comments "So the elimination of 30 million girls is now a sad story about how men are lonely?"

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

Rushing in to be taxed even.

It sure looks like Russian intelligence attempted to use military drones to assassinate the President of Ukraine inside an EU country. Looking forward to more thoughts from Belgium on why freezing Russian assets is an escalatory move that might compromise the peace process.

Rep. Crockett’s Statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Texas’s 2026 Map

This is obviously total thuggery, but, in my limited capacity as a short-lived former letter carrier for USPS: it is also a completely empty bluff. Fucking good luck to Amazon doing last mile delivery to every address in the US.

Queen. www.thewrap.com/connie-chung...

Kristi Noem's war on Christian ministers and churches has become increasingly violent and vicious. As we see here, priests are specifically targeted for shooting because they are priests.

I have supported Nurse Hammam. Please join me.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

some ornaments you could score! :)

art is for everybody, language is for everybody, ideas are for everybody, including nebraskans www.klkntv.com/unl-professo...

All the Dorothies are on sale during @nyrb-imprints.bsky.social's sitewide sale for the next (checks watch) 36 hours! 📚🎁 Go: www.nyrb.com/collections/...

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

So this woman is being interviewed, gently, about the salacious memoir she wrote, and then can’t talk about what she wrote and falls back on the damsel in distress tactic? I cannot believe how do may people elevated her and continue to do so.

An excellent piece by Yasmin Khan in @theguardian.com – and I’m very relieved the preposterous case against her has been dropped. www.theguardian.com/food/comment...

U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...

Religion note: Remember that pastor who was arrested protesting an ICE detention facility outside Chicago recently? The one who was photographed on the ground as officers arrested him? That's Rev. Michael Woolf, and this is his church.

Way to stand up to... *checks notes* 61-year-old recreational players. Good work, USTA. 🙃

fukuyama predicted this

people thought Judith Butler was exaggerating before but she's been proven right, i think

Sam Altman hired an Apple designer to develop vaporware products current AI tech cannot deliver so naturally Zuck had to have one too www.theverge.com/news/837654/...

Hey all, The Onion is accepting applicants for our writing, video and graphics fellowships. Fellowships last six months, pay well, and provide full benefits. You can apply at theonion.com/fellowship.

All I want for Christmas is for the worst people in the world to experience some consequences

Everyone in Chicago needs to read this AND TAKE ACTION. Everyone else should read this and ask what's happening where you are with your public library systems.

Insanely perfect: fantastic little bouquet of flowers in a glass vase by Daniel Seghers of Antwerp, painter & Jesuit priest, whose day is today.

MORE Breaking on MS NOW: Pete Hegseth refused an interview request for the Pentagon Inspector General's investigation into Signalgate, according to two sources who read and were briefed on report. Hegseth would not turn over his phone, a source who read the report told MS NOW.

Mind is spinning out.

the hater's council just vetoed this actually. "a real hater hates attention seekers by ignoring them" wise words from one hater elder. "hate reading is for homework dorks" said another senior hater on condition of anonymity as this statement was a compound diss targeting other council members

still true 📚

Fundraising for the sibling of a @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social recent graduate now held in life-threatening conditions by ICE. Fundraiser breakdown if you can help: Habeas Corpus Petition: $7,500 Deportation Defense: $6,500 Bail Bond: $5,000-$10,000 gofund.me/b34556c03

No-strings-attached, zero-means-testing, no-questions-asked cash payouts have been proven, over and over again, to be the most effective form of charity/aid going. It gets people in housing, and it saves the state money. We know this. It's fact, not theory.

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Trans women has been welcomed at the Women's Institute since the 1970s and one member is in her 80's and has been a member for decades. This is pure bigotry pushed by legal threats backed monetarily by JK Rowling. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

"America’s professional diplomats feel demoralized and ignored, with fully 98 percent saying in a new survey that workplace morale has fallen since the Trump administration took over in January."

My husband just came down the stairs dressed for the snow, so happy to go out and snow-blow the path from the driveway to the basement door.

One of those nights when your Tarot cards describe what you said in therapy and then a little more. The part you only said to yourself.

How could I have anything less than absolute trust in someone with the name "Ladislas Farago"?

Article title: The NYT wrote more about Harvard last year than all community colleges combined I posted three main figure from the article below www.vox.com/2014/7/23/59...

Years of this, it must end. But for now let’s help @nurseehammamingaza.myatproto.social while we can.

Sitting in snowbound NH thinking great thoughts for friends in Tennessee, where Democrat Aftyn Behn may pull off a huge upset in TN-7. That she is at all close, a friend in Nashville told me, is astonishing — it's a super-red district. election-night.decisiondeskhq.com/date/2025-12...

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

Ramzi in Gaza is raising money for his family to eat and pay rent on their tent plot. chuffed.org/project/1319...

Me calling jake tapper

oh my god someone made it (and kindly tipped their hat to me) bsky.app/profile/harp...

Well look at that!

this rules