If I wrote an article about how Johnny Cash seemed uncool I would just look at what I wrote and then walk into jail or the sun, maybe both.

Was a mistake to drop the "weird" attack

Kriss Kristofferson took such good care of Sinead O Connor and I love him for it And I’m also always amused by the Flanderization of Willie Nelson because he’s Just been a pain the collective ass of people for years Because he’s SO pleasant and a cornerstone of country and such a n OG hippie

you'd think a prominent news outlet like the New York Times might mention that "antifa" isn't an actual organization in a long story about antifa, but nope! and the subhead helps props up a false claim this professor was up to something seedy as something up for debate

“Don’t Try Harder, Trust Harder.” That should be on a T-shirt by 6pm.

Something tells me Fallon didn't hear the song before she played it live, lol

Hell yeah. Great response from DC, and exactly what every major publisher should be saying.

Hot? That’s just climate change + a city built on a swamp.

This post is incredibly timely, given my presentation to our grad students tonight (in which I talked about my own traumas from past copy editing work). Everyone out there, respect your editors! They aren’t the enemy!

GLORY!!!!!!!!!

Only one week left to apply for the Center for Grading Reform's Alternative Grading Institute! This two-day, hands-on, virtual experience offers opportunities to connect grading with your values and design an alt grading system for one of your courses. www.centerforgradingreform.org/alternative-...

Actually an atheist, but I sure as hell will pray for Dolly.

Baseball and... poetry? Here's how the National Baseball Poetry Festival came about and how founder Steven Biondolillo sees it growing in future years. www.thefanfiles.com/articles/the-national-baseball-poetry-festival

“where’s the whale? did he get the whale yet?”

Damn. *So* close

It actively hurts to raise my hands over my head to cheer right now, AND YET I CAN'T STOP YAYYYY (Don't make any more stupid moves, Casty. We all lucked out there.)

I would like more than three days of Red October please

Reminder from your resident high school lubrarian: if you plan to do a Banned Books Week display and programming, prioritize living marginalized authors. Use this time to help those who need it the most.

In the US, it's clearly maternal mortality rates following the overturning of Roe v. Wade and standards of prenatal care.

The Trump administration’s racist, cruel, and illegal immigration agenda is making us all less safe. The EMPG grant has been stopped again and is one of the single most important disaster funding sources for state and local governments. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/c...

We did not weather nigh two decades of “lazy millennials are destroying every single industry” to turn around and do this to Gen Z!!!

The Online Safety Act sure has made being online more dangerous.

Haven't seen this shared a lot - but yes, 26 out of 30 of the scholars on the NEH Council just got axed - and surprise, what do you know about the 4 left? ⬇️

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years. From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

Absolutely. If that bigot doesn't want to watch shows with trans characters, there's a simple way to do that. If he doesn't want to support Netflix, there's a simple way to do that too.

Having won over the brass by calling them fat and gay, the next step is to win the hearts and minds of the grunts by taking away their cheap treats

This administration wants us to believe: 1) They are the most powerful, the biggest and best ever. AND 2) They are weak enough that -even though they control the executive & legislative branches (&, let's be real, the judicial)-they somehow couldn't prevent Dems from shutting the gov't down.

This makes me genuinely happy. Everyone needs a creative outlet ❤️

NEW—US Department of Education sent out standard Out of Office language to employees on Wednesday in light of shutdown. Later yesterday, workers tell me they found someone had updated their auto-responses without consent to a new one blaming Democrats. Version of original on left, updated on right:

Hi, this is your friendly business reporter, reminding you if you *need* anything, to buy it sooner than later, including secondhand, due to expected price increases from new tariffs. If you have family in other countries and plan to visit them at Christmas, I would also ship smaller items there.

Beloved librarian @mychal3ts.bsky.social will take the helm as host of the reboot of 'Reading Rainbow' when it returns this Saturday, October 4! 🤩🌈 Read more: https://bit.ly/3WelbAT

Five bucks says it would also have been written by ChatGPT.

And he also called them monsters who don't belong in polite society. WOW. He clearly thought that would go another way.

He just fat-shamed his military leadership??? After dragging most of them from around the world for this dog-and-pony show? Duuuuuuuude. Every choice Hegseth made for this event was legitimately the most ridiculous and inappropriate, but this one might just be the most of the most.

Perfect image for this moment -- Pete Hegseth wasted millions of dollars flying military leaders from across the globe to hear him blather about gender-neutral physical fitness standards and appearance, and the chryon in the corner notes the government is about to shut down.

The most monumental "this could have been an email" of all time

Hey remember when the CDC dropped 6 of the 8 foodborne illnesses from the nationwide monitoring system in July and one of them was listeria? Mentioning for no particular reason www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

I look forward to excitedly sharing this first fact one million times in the next month

Giving students thoughtful, personalized feedback and instruction is not a problem that originates from the difficulty for an instructor to generate feedback, it is a problem that originates from institutions pivoting to student:instructor ratios where that dynamic is not logistically feasible.

The truly perfect business model doesn’t exi-

It is really funny that Jimmy Kimmel Live showed more moral fortitude and adherence to a system of values than Columbia University

I am absolutely livid that I have ever had imposter syndrome.

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As a writing instructor, I feel so validated by this. If you don't teach people how to write, everyone has to learn to edit.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

“When we spoke to executives, they would often say the internal tool was very successful,” said Challapally. “But when we spoke to employees, we found zero usage.” This must be the Rapture because I am dyingggg

neurodiversity is Good Actually. just want to say that

GUESS WHAT WEEK IT IS

It is unhinged that every city in America has a different parking app. I'd rather go back to carrying coins around.

when we needed them the most…the fat bears returned