As America’s 250th anniversary approaches, the president wants to control the country’s future by bulldozing its past.

Old enough to recognize this as a data center

imagine if Cabo Verde somehow faced and defeated Portugal in the knockout stage

he is not wrong

BREAKING: Alligator Alcatraz has officially closed. A lot of outlets won’t report on this, but the Miccosukee Tribe played a key role in the fight.

It might be hot outside but the rent is freezing.

Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.

aren't (printable) words

Listened to an NPR story this morning about mass child starvation in Senegal without a single mention of Elon Musk, the guy who gleefully created the conditions for the mass starvation

This week’s main story is about a small liberal arts college in Florida, why Ron DeSantis decided to take it over three years ago, how it’s been going since then, and when we can all expect Russell Brand to finally appear at their “cancel cancel culture center.”

Here’s last night’s story about New College of Florida, the small liberal arts school that has been taken over by Governor Ron DeSantis. Plus, some quick standup tips for the school’s administrators! We’re helping the only way we know how. https://youtu.be/jFMc07F1UUU

📢The new open access book “Equity-Oriented, Discipline-Based STEM Education Research” is out! 📚. Excited for my chapter w/ airealejoi.bsky.social problematizing liberal ideologies in STEM is included. Read free: tinyurl.com/EquityDBER

Finding joy in the small and absolutely beautiful things 💕

Former CIA chief John Brennan says Trump’s DNI pick, Bill Pulte, wouldn’t qualify for a top-secret clearance under “any objective standard” He’s there to “do Trump’s bidding,” citing his time at the FHFA, where he inappropriately accessed/distributed mortgage records belonging to Trump’s enemies

Release The Epstein Files NOW!😡

This heinous ruling confirms a worst-case-scenario reading of Callais as an all-purpose shield for racist lawmakers who want to gerrymander Black communities into electoral oblivion. And it’s outrageously partisan—a totally unprincipled gift to the GOP. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The Purcell Principle means it always too late for courts to fix something racist and never too late for states to do something racist

👏👏👏 franklin.uga.edu/news/stories...

Step 3: Officers are instructed to look for indications of hostility toward U.S. citizens, culture, government, institutions, or founding principles. Basically praise Trump or else. A post of “8647” can be reason for denial.

The U.S. government requires visa applicants to make all of their social media accounts fully public or risk being denied entry. This is straight out of 1984. Your right to privacy doesn’t just disappear at the border for millions of people, it disappears before they ever set foot here.

My latest US midterms update Republicans have added 8-11 seats through gerrymandering over the last 3 weeks - but Democrats can still win the House if every Democrat voter who can vote, votes christinapagel.substack.com/p/midterms-u...

Immigrants are dying in ICE detention. A key watchdog office is now gone.

We repeat: definitely NOT an idol. defector.com/pastor-clari...

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

If poor people do this because they need water to live, they get fined into even more desperate poverty

One reason Republicans are banning books and classes on race is because reading even one book about Jim Crow or Reconstruction makes it clear that they are hoping to reinstate segregation.

“Counterterrorism” now officially means targeting trans people.

The ACCESS Lab end of semester gathering. Congratulations to @mellamosummer.bsky.social, Jordan and Talia for graduating! 👏🏼👏🏼🥳🎉🍾🥂 Wishing you all the best as you transition to the next chapter of your lives 💙

Gender-affirming AI

Today is a reminder that except for a brief period running roughly from Brown v. Board to Roe v. Wade, throughout its history the Supreme Court has been a reactionary force protecting the wealth of the wealthy and the power of the powerful, almost always hostile to equality and justice.

Today's been great, thanks for asking

No sugar-coating the Court’s decision today. Real talk. @allinwithchris.bsky.social

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

It’s the “ill will.”

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

Congrats to Talia for her Dbl Dawgs: BS Biology & MPH Epidemiology! Her commitment to science & social justice shifted her path from med school to quant research in environmental epi & health equity—all while doing critical qual work in our lab👏🏼Can’t wait to see her impact as a mixed-methods expert!

Congratulations to newly minted Dra. Summer Blanco for successful @mellamosummer.bsky.social! And thanks you for all your impactful contributions to the ACCESS lab 💙You are the future of the field, and I can’t wait to see how you will help bridge critical biology education research and genomics 🧬👩🏻‍🏫✊🏼

This report is completely outstanding, better than 100% of the reporting on higher ed by national outlets like The New York Times, etc. Student journalism > big media when it comes to understanding what is actually happening on campuses.

“When academics in more comfortable political climates declare it unethical for the rest of us to remain and to fight, they undercut the solidarity necessary to help move toward the kind of world they want to see.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...

ASU's new AI tool cannibalizes nuanced, thoughtful faculty lectures into sound bites and chatbot junk text: www.404media.co/asu-atomic-a...

In 1994, a man crashed his small plane into the White House. Clinton did not build a ballroom because of it. In fact he barely mentioned it. And he definitely did not say that no one can criticize him anymore.

The amount of misinformation we’re getting about an incident that just occurred in front of 1,500 news reporters is truly the metaphor of our generation.

It’s out! Many thanks to our fearless leader, Quentin Sedlaceck, for shepherding this labor of love and resistance to its completion; and of course the many amazing co-authors ✊🏼🏳️‍🌈⚧️🏳️‍⚧️💚💛🖤💜💙♥️🧡💚🧡🤎🤍

The ACCESS lab undergrad researchers Dona and Candace and their mentor, soon to be Dra. Blanco @mellamosummer.bsky.social at the UGA CURO symposium! So proud of this team!

Highlight of #NARST26 was learning from these amazing humans and scholars. Super grateful for this community and this space 💕

Trump admin policy: forcibly detransition incarcerated trans people, withdraw hormones, prioritize psychotherapy. Experts: violates bioethics, rejects medical standards. "Experimentation" debated; coercion confirmed. Ethics without enforcement is just etiquette. #TransRights #SankofaEthics

Submit an abstract to our panel titled, 'Public Pedagogies of Science and Technoscience' that @betzabetorres-o.bsky.social and I are hosting at 4S this year in Toronto, 7-10 October. The full panel description is attached below. Link to submit: lnkd.in/gi8N2wZR

See you at #NARST2026!