"On Monday, Oedipus ate through one apple. But he was still hungry. On Wednesday he ate a whole banana. On Friday he killed an arrogant man at the crossroads and married his widow. But he was still hungry." A section, there, from THE VERY HUNGRY PATER-KILLER.

Yet another case in which academic freedom appears not to apply when it comes to criticism of Israel

ASA membership vs number of sections. What a field!

The New York Times rolling up its sleeves to do the hard work of normalizing the idea that women should not have the right to vote.

this is the chaplain btw. wonder why he was fired.

Tapping the sign

A deliberate, symbolic strike on civilian infrastructure with no case for military utility. As clear cut as LOAC violations come.

And I have never once heard a single one of the editors or journalists involved even *reflect* on it, much less grapple with it or apologize for it. They feel zero remorse & would do the same thing again -- in fact, *will* do the same thing again, to whoever the Dem candidate is in 2028.

"The world as it exists is just one historically contingent possibility; we can, collectively, create new possibilities and new social worlds. That’s not a radical postmodernist idea. It’s Max Weber."

Excited to share new paper w/ @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social: "Veiled Power: How Rosenwald Teachers Quietly Shaped the Civil Rights Movement" The puzzle: did ~5,000 segregated schools built in rural South emphasizing “manual labor” strengthen or weaken Jim Crow? 🧵 omarwasow.com/wasow_grumba...

On some level I think the Trump and MAGA people realise how humiliating this all is. The tariffs made Americans poorer, ICE turned out to be lawless murderers that couldn't hold their own in the face of sustained disciplined civic resistance, and now they're busy losing a war to Iran. It's pathetic.

Whether it’s children in liberal families watching Ms. Rachel or teenagers in conservative student groups praising Adolf Hitler, young people on both sides have embraced controversial figures.

If you want to upset an academic in another field, tell them about how peer review works in legal academia

In 10 years R’s lost 24% of voter registration. 7% went to Dems 9% went to unaffiliated 8% went to other parties Long way to go, but fair legislative maps might actually produce a competitive seat or two down in Provo

We are educators, not cops

Just so you understand, this is as if you prepared for argument in front of a panel that included Cookie Monster, and Cookie Monster asked you a question about cookies, and you had not thought about cookies in advance.

please feel free to ignore Supreme Court coverage that lies about the citizenship case being “legally complicated”… www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/u... (via @katz.theracket.news in theracket.news/p/breaking-s...)

Will never forget — truly think about it too often tbh — how in July of 2024 using the words “ethnic cleansing” in a panel description at an SF convention describing Israel’s actions was considered inflammatory rhetoric & I was asked to reword it to not put off prospective attendees

Also: beef

Gasoline is still $2-$3/gallon too cheap

A striking fact I learnt researching my book: For those in the bottom half, much of the real wage growth between 1979 and 2019 happened over just 7 "tight" years. For top wages, full employment wasn't a big deal. For bottom wages, it was the nearly the whole game.

Friendly reminder that Passover is a holiday about the land of Israel, not the country. It is a holiday that goes back hundreds of years, and probably thousands. It has nothing to do with the modern day country. 1/2

This. The court may even pair the release of the ruling in favor of birthright citizenship with the one gutting the Voting Rights Act, and the usual suspects will proclaim it’s a sign of moderation

This is basically the fed gov't saying, hey, if you don't teach our point of view, then we're gonna take away your $. It's playground bully mentality, not policy. This is extortion. When Common Core was introduced, Republicans were up in arms about this kind of mandate coming from the central govt.

The fact that Trump is going to oral arguments to pressure the justices to acquiesce to his attempted nullification of a constitutional amendment and create a stateless class for the first time since the civil war, illustrates what is really at the core of the Trump project and it isn’t tariffs.

New online: @sarahljaffe.bsky.social interviews Kathi Weeks about her new book. dissentmagazine.org/online_artic...

People can stay mad at me for saying this but if I drive in a circle around a place, I did not actually go to that place. I drove around it. And it’s an odd bit to say people are going to the moon. And it’s definitely propaganda! Don’t participate! We don’t need to lie about it! It’s a flyby! 🔭

She also said on this forum tonight that she supports prosecuting members of the Trump cabinet

Industrial policy nerds: what conditions make this panicked switching behaviour more permanent? Oil price spikes lead those that can to switch to clean tech. But how long does this have to last to meaningfully influence firms' L-T planning / cap investments in producing more green tech? Anyone?

“All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States.” Thats it. Not complicated, not ambiguous. Genuine shame on the Times and WSJ for platforming the claim that there was a real conflict about these words.

one of the things that really clicked together the moment for me was seeing national reactionaries from different countries act w each other online and how they all loved the idea of My Very Own Ethnostate Permanently Segregated and how quick they formed ranks together in opposition to things not

Hello, your local sociologist here with a reminder that laws are written by the powerful. Some are good ideas, that are sometimes poorly applied. Others— like those addressing immigrants, trans folks, abortion today — are tools of oppression. Legal or criminal =\= morality.

Commentary: Anyone Else Have Those Weird Dreams Where Sobbing Future Generations Beg You To Change Course?

“A unanimous faculty decision was set aside, not because of new evidence, but because of what might happen politically or financially… If that standard holds, then no faculty member’s rights are secure, and the protections of tenure become meaningless.”

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

Just a few days ago, America saw the biggest public political demonstration in the nation's history. 8 million people across the country. Virtually no violence, no incidents of any kind. An absolutely remarkable phenomenon. I'm reminding you because the media's forgotten already.

GNU Terry Pratchett

THIS IS MASCULINITY

Thinking about how everyone in the eighties sprung into action when backwards messages on metal albums were supposedly driving kids to commit suicide

Also want to remind everyone that North Carolina hasn’t passed a budget in 260 days.

Extremely fucked up. They should be getting at least two bsky.app/profile/davi...

This email from @colorado.edu about the OpenAI contract is insulting. There was no conversation! There was no shared governance process! Faculty "input" was vocal protest in reaction to a closed-door deal! We still don't have clear information about where the data is stored or who has access to it!

What Would We All Say If Iran Razed MIT Because of Military-Related Research? theintercept.com/2026/03/30/i...

CA’s $20 fast food minimum wage raised fast food prices by only 3%. The reason minimum wage increases keep not reducing employment and barely increasing prices is monopsony power. www.nber.org/papers/w34990

Isaac Chotiner deciding that today is my day

CNN reports that the US/Israel bombed an Iranian ORPHANAGE, killing at least two people. edition.cnn.com/2026/03/30/w...

Oh hello it's Trans Day of Visibility and, like many trans people, I'm only visible if I say something. If you think you don't know anyone trans, you probably do. If you want to read my post about how I understand my gender, it's at daniellaurison.com/n...

i'm sure people who objected to the olympics in china are going to be equally angry about this

The business first crowd doesn’t like business if it’s brown or black Shocker