"While other universities report that the humanities are shrinking, at Berkeley, the opposite is true. The music major is the fastest-growing major on campus. We are finding bigger classrooms because film is exploding. English is back to the numbers we saw 15 years ago. We are hiring" bit.ly/4ohKuOe

Fall colors.

Nope, nothing to see here folks. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This should be seen as what it is: a huge step towards ending free and fair elections.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Updating my LEGO White House

The last mosquito free place outside Antarctica has fallen thanks to climate change. Iceland. bbc.com/news/article...

I'm not sure what others saw out there today, but where I was GenZ was less than 1% of the crowds. In the rest of the world that generation is at the forefront of change, but I have not seen that in America. What's holding them back?

History faculty at Columbia & Barnard decrying the harassment of @mark-bray.bsky.social: "This is the first case in recent memory of a historian who has fled the country after receiving death threats on account of the history that they teach."

A Statement from NPR’s Editor in Chief on the Pentagon’s Press Policy. Read More: www.npr.org/2025/10/13/g...

So.... food prices keep going up for Americans and the Chinese won't buy US soybeans because of the unnecessary trade war, and now our tax dollars (raised by tariffs) are going to bail out farmers who are growing food we don't eat? Also Argentina?!?!

300 school streets in 5 years. It is possible to make rapid change.

Imagine if NPR had actually talked to safe streets advocates for this story and learned how the solutions to drivers killing people is not, in fact, victim blaming

On the unprecedented removal of art from a museum exhibition. www.npr.org/2025/09/24/n...

Sunrise inside the museum. @nordicmuseum.org in Seattle.

How AI will be used is 1000 times more scary than what we are seeing with drones.

Danish police are now labeling the drone incident at Copenhagen Airport as “an attack.” The UAVs were guided by a “capable operator” showcasing specific capabilities, approached from multiple directions, lights intermittently switching on and off before ultimately vanishing after several hours.

More intense future wildfires, fueled by further climate change, could lead to 70,000 deaths from smoke exposure a year, according to a new study.

Exactly this

When does Ai make things better?

New PEN America statement: “The firing and suspension of multiple journalists after the fatal shooting of Charlie Kirk should alarm anyone who cares about free speech and a free press. Taken together, these measures risk creating a chilling effect that extends beyond those directly targeted..."

I don't think it is understood widely enough what is happening to objective truth under the oligarchical control of our media.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

The 3-justice dissent was right:“We should not have to live in a country where the government can seize anyone who looks Latino, speaks Spanish and appears to work a low wage job. Rather than stand idly by while our constitutional freedoms are lost, [we] dissent.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/u...

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

Very troubling as my father was a golfer as a teenager in the 1960s and now has Parkinson's. "The Clue to Unlocking Parkinson’s May Be All Around Us" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/o...

I've built robots. Robots are hard. But.... this is pathetic. Elon is the biggest scammer of all time. "Elon Musk's New Optimus Robot Demo Is So Painful It Will Make You Wince" share.google/63abscR8F9c1...

So, just checking the news and.... so now Trump is using our troops to kill people from countries we are not at war with... as in mass murder? "Trump Says U.S. Attacked Boat Carrying Venezuelan Gang Members, Killing 11" www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/u...

Any guesses where I am?

Norwegian coast. Sunset.

Morning in Trondheim Norway

Sunrise off the Norwegian coast.

Everyone who couldn't see the Seattle Times's article on two firefighters being pulled off the fire line by Border Patrol: www.firerescue1.com/police/feder...

Unfortunately, Bluesky is unavailable in Mississippi right now, due to a new state law that requires age verification for all users. While intended for child safety, we think this law poses broader challenges & creates significant barriers that limit free speech & harm smaller platforms like ours.

This is absolute genius.

So this was new. Landing in JFK this morning on a domestic flight and asked to stay seated while "customs boards the plane". Then an Arab sounding name is announced and asked to come to the front of the plane. He does and only then are we allowed to get up. This is America now.

I'm starting to think none of these people have actually been to the museums they criticize...

🧵 on the federal erasure of history, truth. In 2023, Yosemite National Park invited me to give a Zoom lecture as part of the Yosemite Forum, "a free interactive lecture series designed to bring evolving knowledge of the Sierra Nevada to the public and the park."

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

The parallels are stark: entire communities were forcibly removed from the West Coast in 1942 and today our immigrant brothers and sisters face the terror of ICE and CBP raids across the country. It was a miscarriage of justice then, and it is a miscarriage of justice now.

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

Border Patrol agents assembled outside a Los Angeles museum where Gov. Gavin Newsom was holding a rally and news conference on congressional redistricting. Local elected officials expressed outrage that the agents decided to stand there in a brazen show of force. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/u...

Non museum pros: "wouldn't you love to work at the Smithsonian?!" Museum pros: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/a...

1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said." It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy. I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

What we see happening in real time is actually part of Martial Law. Oh, it hasn’t been officially declared, but his federal takeover plans for cities across the nation…under the cloak of “attacking crime,” is pre-positioning for when he does. It will happen prior to the November elections. Watch.

We saw this in Massachusetts with fear-mongering over the millionaire's tax, and yet... www.masslive.com/politics/202...

It has been the honor of my life to serve as Commissioner of BLS alongside the many dedicated civil servants tasked with measuring a vast and dynamic economy. It is vital and important work and I thank them for their service to this nation.

Every photo on here of the Tesla Diner has the same vibes as that Willy Wonka pop-up from a few years ago

The fact that literally zero outlets ever cover crime decline as a story is a huge reason. (And before you yell at me, we do!)

With this Tsunami I'm particularly concerned about our Ballard based fleet fishing off Alaska. Be safe mariners. 🤞🏼