This woman consistently chooses to be abhorrent. I’m blocking her and suggest you do, too.

Boosting. Please block Weiss if you are not interested in engaging with the academic version of an internet troll.

Historian here a great piece by Jenny Schuessler on the gutting of the NEH. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/15/a...

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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

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A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

It's almost like they know their time is limited and they need to accelerate the smash and grab job they came to do.

Man, CBS must feel really stupid right now! Just kidding, CBS wasn't settling a lawsuit. They were paying a bribe and they knew it.

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I cannot overemphasize that Marjorie Taylor Greene, Carlson, and Fuentes see a 2028 path to victory that involves building an isolationist populist coalition that traffics heavily in antisemitism and exploits existing negative sentiment against Israel. We have to be SHARP on the left right now.

Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally." In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.

Emilie Connolly's book about native dispossession and public is coming out next week. She's not on here to be embarrassed by me saying this is the proverbial "highly anticipated" book but at it is, at least by me. press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Yes, important to note that disappearance of ACA supplemental premiums will push employer health plans up as the higher prices force younger people out of the larger pool of insured people. THIS IS HOW INSURANCE WORKS.

Can we just have old Google back without AI and SEOs and the pay-for-play optimization that ruined it as a search engine entirely? Please? I really miss having a functional search engine.

Finally! My new book Boarding Schools and the Indigenous Story is a comprehensive history of the efforts of the US government to remove native children from their families, from colonization to today. For middle grades, but for everyone. You can pre-order here: www.rhcbooks.com/books/744961...

My personal “Don’t give to the Salvation Army” story:

I'm at the Target boycott, I'm at the Starbucks boycott, I'm at the combination Target boycott and Starbucks boycott

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I am usually pretty unmoved by the president's failures of decorum, because I find it creepy that people are generally unmoved by fucked up presidential shit if it's discussed in a tasteful manner and everyone adheres to fancy, historic norms, but that "Quiet, Piggy" shit was something.

we are subject to a plague of TRASHY people who absolutely REVEL in wallowing like fatted hogs in their gilded-gold trash-heaps, and by God, I am sick and tired of it

Like every time you want to yell at someone who has a mild strategic disagreement with you, send an email to an elected official who really deserves to be yelled at

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I spent October traveling to schools throughout the South talking to students about American history. What I found were young people who understand we can tell a story that includes both the positive and the negative. As one 8th grader in Memphis said, “Doesn’t seem that hard, just say both things.”

Amon white people, the correlation between racial resentment and their vote is much, much stronger than between educational attainment and political alignment. In fact, if you control for racial resentment, education polarization basically disappears.

If you’ve ever lamented The Grading Situation, read this exceptional student op-ed “If we cannot tolerate being imperfect on our transcript, surrounded by those who want to help us grow, how will we handle being wrong when the stakes are higher?”

Ugh I just don’t want to watch the Ken Burns documentary.

Get him @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social And just last week he was saying you guys were the problem

I'm not linking to the article because 1) I don't know if the woman named ever had a relationship with Larry Summers and 2) I have no idea whether it was consensual. But the fact that he's teaching 3 classes this fall, with all of this going on, and nobody has pulled him out is absolutely bonkers.

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Please stop using language that suggests that people with criminal records are appropriate targets for this administration's violence. One in three adults has a criminal record. Stop playing sacrifice games with fascists. Stop surrendering entire categories of people in your own mind.

Blending Family and Governance, Richard III has his nephews imprisoned in the Tower of London and later murdered. Blending Family and Governance, Agrippina the Younger marries Emperor Claudius and later poisons him. Blending Family and Governance, Louis XIV remarks “L'État, c'est moi”.

Nuzzi's fawning coverage of the sociopathic conspiracy crank she was having an affair with aided his rise to political power, which he is using to perpetrate the worst intentional public health catastrophe of our unnecessarily shortened lifetimes, and THAT is the STORY.

My one regret is we've overused it before this, the perfect application.

sometimes it will just hit me that over a million americans died from covid in a short period of time and we never had a national mourning. we never collectively grieved. we never honored the dead. this feels like a failure

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

A student showed up in a “Cane’s Crew” sweatshirt today meaning they work for a chicken place called Raising Cane’s. But it was the lecture on the caning of Charles Sumner on the floor of Congress…

WE WON. I am *begging* you to take note of who did this. *Not* UCLA admin—they’re still scuttling around behind closed doors, attempting to appease—but FACULTY AND STAFF, led by AAUP.

my takeaway from this letter is that glenn youngkin, rector sheridan and their flunkies on the board are deeply dishonest people who are engaged, with the trump administration, in a mob-style shakedown against the university of virginia

Once again @govpritzker.illinois.gov I ask, “What exactly is stopping you from having the Illinois State Police protect these people and their exercise of their 1st amendment rights?” Until you make it clear that local law enforcement is there to protect your constituents, your big talk is empty.

Why does Bluesky permit the US government to threaten the murder of unarmed civilians? Bluesky's moderation team: ✅ transphobia ✅ anti-Black racism ✅ war crimes ❌ Johnny Cash lyrics ❌ anti-child trafficiking

Higher education “got in trouble” by paying men like this exorbitant salaries to ruin the liberal arts teaching function while sucking up to trustees for perks. As a former subject of a Gee administration, E. Gordon Gee is a synonym for high-profile foolish waste of money.

At *Vanderbilt* they had to create a board committee to monitor Gee's spending, which included $6 million to renovate the Chancellors house and $700K for parties: ordinary-times.com/2023/08/29/t...

Omfg I hadn't seen they were policing this via LLM.

If you have to get permission to teach in your area of expertise from people who are definitionally not qualified to adjudicate your expertise then you are no longer working at a university. You’re working at a state propaganda factory.

Everyone who posts this should note that Megyn Kelly has a 14-year-old daughter. Do not let her off the hook on this.

I also note what they found: that the LLM can rehash, summarize, stuff that's already been written. It cannot interpret. It can't put the correct context around the work. Basically, ChatGPT in some ways CAN be a science writer: It will be one of the SHITTY ONES.