Eventually, you realize we only need so many plumbers. There are a finite number of toilets and salaries will reflect that Go to college, kids (And make it more affordable, adults)

This chart from Thomas Piketty illustrates what Jefferson Cowie calls “the Great Exception,” the period of the New Deal Order from the 1930s to the 1970s when inequality was low, and rates of unionization and federal marginal tax rates were high.

Chevron wins!

The College Board really just floats in the ideological currents of the moment, contributing nothing

They tried to steal our election. They did not succeed. So now they are trying to steal our money.

In the age of AI, who needs humanities 🫠

The richest man owns X. The second and third richest men control Google. The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post. And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros. See the problem here?

I wish people would make the same arguments about the Secretary of Education actually being an educator.

Alysa Liu. A proud product of Oakland.

Hey parents, maybe we don't have to segregate your children from each other in all the classrooms? Thanks for sharing Dr. Thornton!

#DubNation stands with the people of Minneapolis and all communities affected by ICE and federal agents’ actions of violence. This goes beyond basketball. Lives are lost and many are hurting. Our thoughts are with grieving families and with everyone calling for peace, justice, and accountability.🕊️✊

This picture making the rounds on reddit, Columbia Heights. I'm not OK.

There is no way to spend billions of dollars in one life time. Even ten mansions won't cost that much. At some point, the only use for money is power. Billionaires are not compatible with democracy.

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

As a nineties kid, the station wagon argument lands with me because I loved sitting in the rear-facing back seats and making dumb faces at the drivers be hind me. As an adult, though, I realize now one rear-end accident and my little ass would have died

In my many many conversations with young people about race, this generally rings true. But most who i talk to still tend to understand racism as an interpersonal problem rather than a structural/policy one.

Posting on Bluesky for me is a bit like shouting into a void, but I wanted to share my AERJ article somewhere. So, here you go! It's about AP African American Studies and its potential to challenge anti-Blackness (it's complicated). Let me know what you think! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.3102/...

A’s Fans Unable To Sustain The Wave Over Chasm Of 7,000 Empty Seats

It’s not simply important to denounce political violence because it looks bad not to. It’s the right thing to do on the merits. Even more specifically to this moment it’s important because the forces of fascism are inherently better at political violence than the forces of civic democracy.

SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in a college applicant's file is blatantly unconstitutional ALSO SCOTUS: considering race as one factor in targeting whom to detain and deport is cool cool cool

There is, as of right now, no coverage of this protest on the WaPo website or in their @washingtonpost.com feed. So, if you (you reading this) want people to SEE this protest, you must share it.

I will never in my academic career understand what the Division G subsections mean

Just donated…please consider doing the same.

The immediate impulse seems to be to roast these articles, but more than half of voters chose Trump. Many of us don't know any of them very well. don't we want to know how they think ... so we can, like, win an election next time?

I want to reach as wide/diverse an audience as I can, & I genuinely enjoy engaging outside ideological "bubbles." But I'm mystified how many academics I respect & learn from (& all our universities) still use Twitter. It seems increasingly irresponsible to bolster a platform that wants to kill us.

time to be the biggest fucking annoying karen bitch you've ever been in your fucking life, this is it, good luck yall

Where is he? If we stop asking, stop demanding his return, we are complicit in his disappearance.

they would have called Rosa Parks an insurrectionist

Yuup

If the Trump admin's allegations of gang activity and terrorism against Abrego Garcia were true, it would have no trouble prosecuting or deporting him legally. So why don't they? One reason might be that none of the evidence offered so far would hold up in court www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

I taught untracked classes for ten years. I promise you, I did not assault excellence. This whole uproar about Honors classes going away reeks of racism

The world is more divided than ever, but there’s still something (nearly) everyone agrees on: The US is unloved. Meanwhile, China keeps improving its global standing 👇 www.politico.eu/article/usa-...

I was recently criticized in my local newspaper by a conservative for having "suicidal empathy." I think it's becoming their thing since Musk said it a bit ago

I agree! I think I made this point in a paper I wrote just before ChatGPT became a thing. (Shameless plug) “Love and Meritocracy: Culturally Affirming Care and Cheating at an Urban High School” www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

Kilmar Abrego Garcia should be home with his children

“Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.” -Paolo Freire

Donald Trump told TIME he’d sign a law to ban congressional stock trading. I’ve got a bill for that.

This is an obvious point, but cannot overstated. There is an enormous difference between deporting someone - where they get off a plane as a free citizen in their home country AND FUNNELING THEM INTO A BRUTAL PRISON FROM WHICH THEY HAVE NO CHANCE OF EVER EMERGING!!!

It might not be good electoral strategy to lean heavily on abstract constitutional principles. 2024 showed that But it’s the right thing to do And if you frame it that way - as the right thing to do - it’ll be good electoral strategy. People don’t trust poll-tested bullshit. 2024 also showed that

Ezra Klein saying what needs to be said today. This message needs to be everywhere. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/o...

Steve Kerr wore a Harvard basketball shirt after the Warriors’ win tonight: “Yes, this is me supporting Harvard. Way to go. Way to stand up to the bully.”

Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.

So the plan is for Americans to have Bangladeshi garment-making jobs because AI will now be doing all the jobs we have now?

To be honest, I never trusted those penguins. Arrogant, waddly little fucks. I hope the tariffs on them are painful

What if I don’t want to manufacture goods in America?