Jane Goodall's last interview. youtu.be/4oshFOK9-sk?...

I kind of like this idea in this moment, tbh. They fired half the IRS investigators so those left really do need to prioritize the targets they pursue based on the odds that there's criminal fraud.

I sat in a meeting earlier this week regarding attendance at a conference in the US, something my colleagues were keen to attend to interact & share medical research. Not one of the 12 was willing to fly into the US, siting personal safety as the reason; that’s what’s going on out there.

Literally my daughter, yesterday.

Chilicon delayed my posting of the Freedom in the Family review by one week, but I posted it last Friday, right before I went on a daylong tour of municipal watershed projects.

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:

this government is fucking with the bonds of union, genuinely insane

meanwhile, on Ghorman…

Free story in @iftheresanyoneleft.bsky.social! The Things You Know, The Things You Trust: www.iftheresanyoneleft.com/stories/mari...

"The First Amendment recognizes that a certain amount of expressive disorder not only is inevitable in a society committed to individual freedom, but must itself be protected if that freedom should survive." Justice William J. Brennan, City of Houston v. Hill, in 1999

Dr. Monarez: “Kennedy demanded 2 things of me that were inconsistent with my oath of office and the ethics required of a public official. He directed me to commit in advance to approving every ACIP recommendation regardless of the science...He said, ‘If I was unwilling to do both, I should resign.’”

Foiled again, JD.

When I learned of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre, I was horrified that nothing about it had been taught in my African-American History course at Grinnell. Today I found out the community was further destroyed in 1960 by a highway project. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This week's Friday review on AKGnetmouse.substack.com will be of Freedom in the Family, by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and her mother, Civil Rights activist Patricia Stephens Due. I cherish my copy, which Tananarive kindly signed at Detcon1 in 2014.

It was, and is, a lovely book. And I still love that Julie Bell cover.

•sarcasm on• I have no idea what this might look like. You? •sarcasm off•

remember ~this time last year when trans people on here went "the NYT is a fascist propaganda outlet and nobody who considers themselves halfway decent should work for them" and half the cis 'progressives' started randomly harassing trans women over it good job yelling at the canary, howd that go

On Friday I posted a book review of The Water Dancer, by Ta-Nehisi Coates. Please let me know what you think open.substack.com/pub/netmouse...

We must pay attention to their lies, if only to be prepared to counter them.

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

Global press freedom suffers sharpest fall in 50 years, report finds www.theguardian.com/media/2025/s...

Nuanced discussions about complex subjects don't trigger emotional responses, he says. Would you agree? www.facebook.com/share/v/1D1g...

So often, major media characterizations of the public are not based in reality at all.

So not ok over here.

I have started doing Friday book reviews on Substack. Yesterday's was Defiant: the story of Robert Smalls. Coming up: The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coats and Freedom in the Family by @tananarivedue.bsky.social and her mother, Patricia Stephens Due. open.substack.com/pub/netmouse...

Washington DC Residents marching against the military occupation of their city. www.facebook.com/share/1B5mZs...

Results from the latest AAUP survey of faculty teaching in the US South: drive.google.com/file/d/1TL9h...

Keep your chin up, guys. youtube.com/shorts/AYm9w...

Take a Friday night break and look at award winning wildlife pictures. www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

I've started substack. I'll be posting about education, politics, history lessons, book reviews, and social justice - freedom and equality in terms of health, education, opportunities, civil rights and participation, and related topics. netmouse.substack.com/p/akg-netmou...

R's Honors English lit teacher (a woman) had never heard of the Bechdel Test. Please reach out to your own child's lit teachers and make sure they are educated.

Also, the boat was Columbian.

Just finished watching Working Man with Jason Statham. The fights and human death don't bug me, but why they gotta have him ditch drugs by tossing them in the river or down the toilet? Definitely inappropriate. Children, this is a bad example. Do not copy.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump extends control over Washington by taking management of Union Station away from Amtrak.

Rest in Power officer David Rose, shot to death by the anti-vax terrorist who attached the CDC. We will not forget you. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i... #sayhisname

LISTENNNNN.... Just buy it. This book is a wildly inventive take on a climate disaster future, with heart-pounding heists and unforgettable characters, yet manages to take a scapel to the tech billionaire class and the society that allows it. The Great Gatsby meets Cirque du Soleil!

This is not war on international students. It is war on US universities, which depend on foreign student tuition. theintercept.com/2025/08/23/t...

EVERY ATTACK ON TRANS RIGHTS IS UNSCIENTIFIC BULLSHIT. Every. Single. Motherloving. One. INCLUDING attacks on gender affirming care for trans children. bsky.app/profile/moxi...

And where's he getting the cash to purchase these things while he still hasn't settled his lawsuits?

Thyroid removed Wednesday afternoon. Today I did some work on the computer, napped and snuggled the cats, cooked dinner, and feel a lot closer to normal than I expected.

The offspring is officially 15. Time keeps on tripping, tripping, tripping... into the future.

“‘I refuse to sign away my dignity as a duly elected representative just so Republicans can control my movements and monitor me with police escorts,’ Collier said in a statement that called her a ‘political prisoner’ for refusing Republican ‘surveillance protocol.’” www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

The Decolonization of Language sounds amazing. Do sad to only have learned of this author and scholar after his passing. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

He acts so appealing, so much of the time. I used to like this timeline all right, but lately it's wearing on me.

Today's @nytimes.com Spelling Bee accepts "itty" but not "bitty", Tell me, do you ever use the one without the other?

Exactly!

RIP Mr. Lovell

UPenn’s law school has paused a full-tuition scholarship program named for its first Black graduate and is set to close its office of “equal opportunity and engagement.”

No, you did not give those of us who happened to look like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor any due process. And that was profoundly wrong. It destroyed our lives.