Protect the traditional role of libraries: owning, preserving and lending books, in every medium It's a myth that library sales harm authors' profits, but that's really beside the point. Do you owe your own education to libraries?? Protect them.

every screen, pop-up or button i have to see after clicking "cancel subscription" and before i see "your subscription has been canceled" should cost the company ten million dollars

“Unitarian Universalists and Deists, who were reportedly excluded from the latest list, are among two categories represented among signers of the Declaration of Independence.” religionnews.com/2026/06/04/d...

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Saddened to hear about Sonny Rollins. I remember hearing "Blue 7" for the first time and wondering what was THAT? I had the good fortune to see him perform once, and I remember it decades later. He was a real one. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Our modern Memorial Day began as Decoration Day in 1865, founded by 10,000 newly freed Black Americans in Charleston who built a proper cemetery and held a massive parade for fallen Union soldiers. Remembering its true origin ensures this vital Black history is never forgotten.

He warned us we'd have to remind you. "Particularly in times of international conflict, when the dominant definition of the situation is such as to emphasize national loyalties, the man of science is subjected to conflicting imperatives of scientific universalism and ethnocentric particularism."

Introduce yourself with 10 bands/musicians you've seen live: The Beths Diana Krall Kenny Garrett The Smithereens Bruce Springsteen Pat Metheny Miles Davis Dizzy Gillespie Crosby, Stills, and Nash Keith Jarrett

The Girl after the Humanities grad ceremony. Note the Honors cord!

I feel like everyone who’s used it as a therapist needs to see this “By using it, Client waived confidentiality”

There's something profoundly wrong with an industrialized, modern country when highly-educated and -trained people can't find work

James Talarico: “Theocracy is the most dangerous form of government — the only thing worse than a tyrant - is a tyrant who thinks they’re on a mission from God. Our faith in Jesus should lead us away from theocracy, tyranny, Christian nationalism & toward a multi-racial, multi-cultural democracy”

When I get to a gas station of a different brand, I just scan my credit card and get to it. When I get to an EV charging station of a different brand, it wants me to set up an account with a bespoke password and all of my personal info. Why the difference? Why can't I scan a credit card and go?

The Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from Memphis from entering a committee meeting about redrawing the map specifically for the district he represents.

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

This should be headline news...

This is one of the most quietly revolutionary things any city can do to improve kids' lives & outcomes. If you genuinely care about kids having access to education or safe after school spaces & activities, then fund your libraries, staff your libraries, & make every public school ID a library card.

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

it's absolutely wild how little support there is for community colleges in this country. they do so much more good, and with far fewer resources, than the so-called elite universities that largely function to reproduce/sustain existing hierarchies of wealth and privilege

thinking about the gould quote again

incredible math rock / social policy crossover

This one goes to 11.

I asked Sister Clemente about her thoughts on abortion once, and she told me she’d be happy to talk about it once we’ve solved poverty. I loved Clem.

When Einstein developed general relativity the closest thing to a practical application that could even be imagined at the time was a slightly more precise description of where to look for the planet Mercury in the sky, and yet now we’d all be literally lost without it. Anyway: fund basic research.

I was happy to contribute to @deandad.bsky.social's timely question about how we can adapt in the current era of higher education. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Viewpoint diversity would be hiring someone at Associate Professor rabk from a small nonelite teaching school in the Plains. It'd be an actually diversity of view point, rather than political leanings within the same white elite upper coastal class. But cool, yo, hire some Nazis I guess.

Grad students who want to learn about teaching at access-oriented institutions, and faculty at those institutions--this is for you!

Sad to hear about Hampshire. It's a quirky little place in a world increasingly hostile to quirky little places. It wasn't for me, but I hate to see it go.

This wasn't the point of the article, but I've been trying to figure out why the stock market continues to climb even when there's chaos in the real economy. Could it be simply that having far fewer companies on the public market reduces the denominator? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

why didn't anybody tell me that saturn has "ravioli moons"? WHY DIDN'T THEY TELL ME ABOUT THE RAVIOLI MOONS?

Happy anniversary to all who celebrate (the greatest celebrity-on-celebrity social media takedown of all time)

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today. One for the history books www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

This column by @deandad.bsky.social matches my experience at the graduate level...many students now prefer a majority of classes being online in a traditionally in-person evening program. But students still want (and international ones need) some on-campus classes, creating scheduling dilemmas.

Terrific piece by @carlsonics.bsky.social about three-year bachelor's degrees. I'd add confirmation of Baumol's cost disease. www.chronicle.com/article/fast...

Clearly, he's not a student of history. Because if he was, he'd know that the one time the federal government did "take care of daycare," they did it *because of a war* and used defense funding to pay for it. 1/🧵

And a golden calf.

Thinking out loud about what happens if your politics revolve mostly around two rules: 1. Everyone deserves a baseline level of respect. 2. Ain't nobody special. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

"Every citizen or subject of another country, while domiciled here, is within the allegiance and the protection, and consequently subject to the jurisdiction, of the United States."

A very real problem with our foreign policy is that we are able to easily kill for causes we don’t actually think are worth dying for

"In higher ed, customers aren’t always right. If they were, they wouldn’t need higher education in the first place." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Sorry to hear about Steve Rose. He was a terrific colleague in my time at Brookdale, helping me navigate the idiosyncratic waters of New Jersey higher ed politics. He hired well, kept a level head, and was steadfastly kind and sane. I'll miss him. pccc.edu/president-ro...

Note from my notebook (2017).

Reminded of Sloterdijk’s definition of cynicism as enlightened false consciousness.

“I must make clear, the current national campaign of mass detention and deportations is a grave moral evil, one which must be opposed, with prayer, peaceful action and acts of solidarity with those affected,” El Paso Bishop Mark Seitz wrote: www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

No, Utah, "conscientious objector" status doesn't make sense when being there in the first place is optional. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

One thing that AI evangelists seem to assume, particularly legal AI evangelists assume, is that the thinking and analysis is quick, and the writing is just tedious busywork that slows us down. But the writing IS the thinking and analysis. You work out the thinking and analysis by writing it down.

Cardinal Pizzaballa: "The abuse and manipulation of God’s name to justify this and any other war is the gravest sin we can commit at this time. ... If God is present in this war, He is among those who are dying, ... suffering, ...in pain, ... oppressed in various ways, throughout the Middle East."