The AAUP & @aft.org stand in solidarity with UM Faculty Senate Chair Derek Peterson. Right-wing attacks on his commencement speech are a direct threat to academic freedom. University leaders must stop apologizing to political agitators & start defending their faculty & protected speech. 👇

Mifepristone is: ✅ safe ✅ effective ✅ backed by decades of science ✅ critical for abortion and miscarriage care ✅ essential to protecting our reproductive freedom

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

Total chaos.

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

There are only about 30 women's colleges left in the U.S.. Just like other anti-trans laws, this will hurt all women.

a very confused Trump: "I could with one swipe of the pen say, 'Let's have no employment,' and I'll hire a million people or two million people and we'll have absolutely no employment."

Upset about Hampshire College shutting down? There's a fighting chance now. They have to raise $10M in pledges, but they just started and are up to 250K already. hampshirenext.org?fbclid=IwY2x...

You can order pills from overseas clinics and mutual aid groups. *Possessing* mifepristone is not a crime (except in Louisiana). I'm not saying I have some but I am saying if you are someone who can get pregnant or knows people who can, order some now. www.plancpills.org

A great scholar and a good human.

Prof. Derek Peterson, U of Michigan historian & MacArthur Genius Grant recipient, thanked “pro-Palestinian student activists” during a grad speech today, for “opening our hearts to the injustices and inhumanity of Israel’s war in Gaza.” His words, and the cheers that followed made my heart sing.

This was not only a diverse group but they knew how to chant!

Honestly though my response to this article isn’t, as you might expect, abolish AI but rather abolish the business school. It’s focused on a (study of a) sole journal, Organization Science, and well:

A class at my kids’ school put up little statements about the good they want to do in the world and I was over the moon about this one - then I learned they meant to say “teach people in jail” which is also good!

“A 34-year-old male mentor said he saw what appeared to be a turkey in the woods. He then knelt and helped the 3-year-old stand in front of him, aim, and pull the trigger. Instead of hitting the bird, the 12-gauge semi-automatic shotgun blast struck a 40-year-old man and his 7-year-old child.”

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

New York Times (left), Cornell Daily Sun (right) 🤔

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

In remarks in a retirement community in Florida, Trump again states his intention to invade and occupy Cuba...

"He will retire from the presidency but said he would remain as a faculty member, teacher & musician. He also said he will continue to operate the Bard Music Festival, SummerScape, as well as the Bard Conservatory, & will live on campus at Finberg House." Huh. www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

I know there are lots of good people in college administration, but it's increasingly one of those roles like "private equity lawyer," "oil executive," or "Red Sox fan" where you're really going to have to convince me in each individual case

Leon Botstein resigns as Bard College president - www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link] - looks like Bard students won.

The president of Cornell backed his car into a student and a recent grad after a campus debate on Israel-Palestine. Then he lied about what happened in an email claiming he'd been the victim of harassment. Then, magnificently, Cornell's student newspaper found a video of the incident

If you're investing with Schwab, Fidelity or Vanguard, you should probably look elsewhere because the people running them think the Trump investigations of SPLC are legit. That's a warning sign that they are dumber than dirt. Get your money out before they invest it in raw milk futures or something

The University of Maryland got hit with a ten percent cut in state funding for FY27, resulting in hiring and travel freezes as well as deferred maintenance. Expect more colleges to adopt midyear budget cuts this fall as oil prices stay high and inflation ticks back up.

Yep. (h/t @haughey.com, who shared his direct experience re: this days ago.)

With very ominous language, Justice Elena Kagan says that today’s decision in Louisiana v. Callais ends the Supreme Court’s “now-completed demolition of the Voting Rights Act.” 6-to-3 vote in favor of white voters who challenged a Black-majority district in La. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Roberts Court finally achieved its years-long goal of killing the Voting Rights Act Wednesday, publishing a ruling that, the liberal justices say, will make proving racial discrimination in redistricting virtually impossible.

Trump is directing the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to prioritize cases of discrimination against white men, but commission staff are "struggling to find complaints with merit"

Mets are on a streak!!! (One game streak.)

👀⚖️👇🏾 #FBI

Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.

El “modelo”.

Found this map from 1733. I may tell a joke or two, but I'll never tell a lie.

Fact-checking what happened at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

Calling Trump an "addled moron with the brain of a circus peanut" wouldn't necessarily be wrong, but it would be name-calling. Calling him an authoritarian fascist is simple observation.

WHCA Chief Weijia Jiang says they donated the dinners from the White House Correspondents' Dinner to shelters for abused women and children.

Duke is a particularly powerful hedge fund/university. There is no reason it needs to bow to the anti-DEI bullshit except for the fact that it was always looking for an excuse to do so.

Blown away that the Boston Red Sox are doing Dessalines jerseys for Haitian Cultural Night at Fenway. www.mlb.com/redsox/ticke... @juliagaffield.bsky.social check it out.

Pretty sure the Mets' next game is in... Cancún. 😢

Between January and May of 1979, eleven black women were murdered in the Boston area. Feminists organized in response to the killings, including the Combahee River Collective, which published this pamphlet.

Who could have imagined the reporters at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner would have wound up cringing in their knees on the ground

This is the most delightful thread of a lovely man encountering New York City.

Does he... know where the Hagia Sophia is? Or that it's nobody's business but the Turks'.

BREAKING: new footage just unearthed

This is why it's important authors read a lot, Murakami has no idea this has been done already

Everyone is just ganging up on the Mets now.

praying for the cancer 🙏

Atlantic writer sued by Kash Patel says she’s been ‘inundated’ with new sources corroborating her reporting