Every time another university wins a case against the Trump administration, I am reminded yet again of the folly of Columbia's effort to strike a "deal."

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Government censorship that fails due to widespread public objection is still government censorship. Much like a coup attempt is still a coup attempt even if the people behind the coup attempt were mostly winging it, caused haphazard violence, and failed to overthrow the government like they wanted.

It's always "These Jesuits" or "These nuns don't behave like I remember in school! They're a bunch of radicals now, not like the old days!" and never "There's a good chance as a high school student I wasn't paying very good attention and now I'm confused."

“HUD has seen a 65 percent reduction in staff since Trump retook office. Lawyers have been cut from 22 to six. And charges of discrimination coming from HUD, which used to average around 35 per year, are down to four.”

Big win for privacy: Multiple U.S. Courts of Appeals ruled that carriers (e.g. Verizon, T-Mobile, etc.) must protect your cell phone location data. This closes a 5+ year saga over whether carriers can sell/share that data without consent. epic.org/multiple-cou...

They built this technology with this use case in mind.

Well, there it is. Sinclair is digging in for a fight, so please help push back -- find stations in your area, watch their local news to see what ads they run, then write those advertisers to tell them you're boycotting as long as they're on a Sinclair station. List here: sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Using part of this great clip to talk about end times theology in my history class today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=By0j...

I already had on my syllabus today to talk about millenialism, Social Gospel, the Pittsburgh Platform, and a few other religious movements. But it seems like something about the rapture is going around TikTok? Do I need to be ready for questions I didn't expect on this?

The unwelcome stress of thinking you accidentally deleted everyone's grades from the last unit test but you in fact just changed the availability when allowing a student to do a makeup test.

ICE grabs a 5yo US citizen as a hostage to attempt to detain her father, who has been in the US for 22 years and has an active asylum claim. Local police rescued the girl and returned her to her family. That's what's become of the USA.

Thanks to Sisters Erin and Colleen for inviting me to be on their podcast "Beyond the Habit"! We had a chance to chat about the Catholic Church, community organizing, and the need to push Catholic leaders to be more prophetic in the world. beyondthehabitpod.com/2025/09/23/s...

For those in the back… HOUSING FIRST WORKS

This is why I hold that there's no absolute biblical literalist or constitutional originalist. There's always some level of interpretation. Some just hope to conceal it under an opaque lens.

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Yes, let's take medical advice from the man who can't even pronounce acetaminophen...

As CNN offers daylong saturation coverage of the podcaster’s funeral, I went back and checked to see how CNN covered Melissa Hortman’s memorial on 6/28, where Walz spoke and Biden/Harris attended. It got about four minutes during the hours it was happening—less than Jeff Bezos’s wedding that day.

Lest we forget, there was also talks between J. Edgar Hoover and Disney for a hot second about the FBI having an exhibit at the grand opening of EPCOT about the future of law enforcement.

This administration’s staggering corruption is dangerous beyond belief. And it’s a complete slap in the face to every single family working hard to put food on the table.

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

There is no world in which it is normal for the president to publicly call upon his attorney general to hurry up and prosecute his political foes. It’s like the Watergate tapes but posted on social media. Let’s get a grip on what’s happening here.

Trump posts on Truth Social that he’s ordered another strike on what he claims is a drug trafficking boat. He’s presented no evidence that his victims in the three previous strikes were running drugs. Drug trafficking is also not a capital crime. Trump is murdering people in international waters.

This is fascism. www.npr.org/2025/09/20/g...

@partpartisan.bsky.social , another day…another perfect moment to drop the meme.

For the folks who say "history was so long ago, that stuff doesn't matter anymore."

Federal lawmakers can learn from New Mexico. Childcare costs fuel the cost-of-living crisis—in some states, it exceeds the cost of rent. The lesson: invest in public options for childcare for *everyone* to foster labor force participation & well-being. https://bit.ly/4nEsJIL

Last month, grocery prices had their biggest increase in three years. Repost if you’re feeling the pinch. I know I am.

Meanwhile @historians.org has suggested last month that one of the possible acceptable uses of gAI is to summarize "key points" of research articles, before reading.

Thanks to @historians.org for the profile and sharing my work! As a dues paying member, I'd like to take this moment to insist that the AHA use its role to speak more prophetically, to stand up alongside Palestinians, to push for labor justice for non-tenure faculty, to stand up to ICE.

There's a lot of political and protest dynamics that create this moment, but still seems important to acknowledge how unusual it is in modern U.S. history to see federal agents just straight-up throw elected officials (such as Sen. Alex Padilla earlier this year) and candidates to the ground.

Again… if we can’t have confessions or Mass “count” on the phone or TV because we’re the big jerks who think sacramental presence is bodily, what in the fuck makes you think we are giving ground to AI. Just be normal and put up a tacky photo of the pope in your house next to the Virgin Mary.

One of the recent great shames of the Catholic Church was its acquiescence to, participation in, and silence on the rise of fascism. There were of course heroic figures who fought back, but there was a broader failure to do so. To see Catholic leaders do so again today is incredibly heartbreaking.

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot. one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.

Hundreds of educators have been suspended nationwide over comments about Charlie Kirk's assassination. The mass firings have happened as Trump and his allies threaten to cut off funds to districts that don't investigate educators for comments about Charlie Kirk paydayreport.com/hundreds-of-...

Grisly but important reminder that environment & conflict links are often targeted assassinations of specific individuals apnews.com/article/envi...

SNL should run a normal show, with the slight addition that every sketch has three or four men dressed up like ICE agents and FCC officials standing in the background looking menacing. Maybe they disappear Colin Jost in the middle of Weekend Update too.

ah, well

90s VHS voiceover: "The producers who brought you 'It's racist to point out someone's racism!' bring you 'It's violent to point out someone's violence!' Follow the story of celebrating free speech by limiting the free speech of everyday people. Now playing in a political theater near you!"

I’m old enough to remember when Bob Iger, whose company recently paid $16 million to settle a meritless Trump lawsuit, and who just indefinitely suspended Jimmy Kimmel under pressure from the Trump administration, was a chair for the **Committee to Protect Journalists** dinner.

The Jimmy Kimmel firing, Colbert's show, what's happening at WaPo, CBS... legacy journalism is slowly but surely coming under state control. It is more important now than ever before that we support the independent journalists out there doing the work not beholden to a fascist's bidding.

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

“If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?” Important contribution.

Which "difficult speakers?" Oh, you know the ones ...

Canvas (the web classroom platform) has an "Accessibility Meter" that it sticks on anything you upload. I uploaded the exact same document, one as a Word file and the other as a PDF. Canvas gave them different scores. Which makes me doubt their judgement.

Loyola Marymount University claims religious exemption with the NLRB, claws back recognition of NTT faculty union The sudden decision of the LMU Board of Trustees has left many NTT faculty in shock; the union plans a response.

Working on lessons for tomorrow. We're going to be discussing close readings of texts and how to examine photos, material history, and other non-text items. I figured this classic scene from "My Cousin Vinny" will help convince them of observational qualities: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5gr3...

what exactly is MAGA grandpa mad about now

Removing information about slavery at Harper’s Ferry is like removing information about hydroelectric power at the Hoover Dam. “John Brown went to Harper’s Ferry because he was so infected by the woke mind virus that he had a pathological hatred of states rights.”