Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

We are now in the domain of not just illegal impoundments, but targeted illegal impoundments to punish liberal spaces. Not different from what Trump is doing to to universities.

Gaza Flotilla

follow for updates: www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

A Harvard Business School study shows that several AI companions use various tricks to keep a conversation from ending. www.wired.com/story/chatbo...

DINOSAUR DREAMS is going on the road this week; Join BJ Hollars along the stops of his Western Book Tour! In DINOSAUR DREAMS B.J. Hollars recounts his and his daughter's exploration of Montana’s legendary Dinosaur Trail.

Trump’s and Hegseth’s words “should leave no doubt in anyone’s mind that the civilian leadership intends to use the threat and actuality of violence to infringe on Americans’ constitutional rights.” @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/01/t...

Another call for sources: I'm reporting on pediatric Covid vaccine access. If you've had trouble finding pediatric doses in stock, or if your child was turned away, I'd love to hear from you: [email protected]. Thanks to those who replied to my pregnancy callout; that story will be out soon.

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

December issue CFP arrives today!

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Waseem. Waseem was married just a few days before the war began and him and his family (some with injuries) have been displaced repeatedly. He hadn’t made a fundraiser before but now in two months his first child Nabil is going to be born❤️

National parks left open during a government shutdown under the last Trump administration experienced permanent damage - vandalized petroglyphs, chopped down Joshua trees - but they plan to keep them open once again.

Not a youtube content creator I otherwise enjoy claiming that they use chatgpt everyday because it is better than google. This was even in a video critical of certain ai usage. We are cooked.

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die. His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

US farmers are saying they "just need temporary help, until things get better." Here's the thing. US farm exports- which are mostly soy- CANNOT get better. Other countries expanded their soy industries to fill China's demand. We've walled ourselves out of the global market, folks. This is it.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Georgia, stay safe & stay alert! Storm Imelda nears GA Tuesday. No direct landfall, but expect rough surf, rip currents & rain ⚠️ Check on neighbors, review your plan, and follow local alerts!

Hey folks: Many of you have been asking for a syllabus for "America at 250" -- the lecture course I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go (scroll down to the bottom): president.yale.edu/committees-p...

Certainly none in this man's military (and that was over 20 years ago!)

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Having served on my fair share of quick reaction forces in my day, this will not end well. They exist purely to bring overwhelming firepower to sudden armed conflicts or to support beleaguered troops. This is a form of domestic warfighting.

According to historian @theotherrbg.bsky.social, FDR’s labor secretary saved tens of thousands of refugees from the Nazis—and narrowly avoided impeachment. Charles Hoffacker reviews Dear Miss Perkins: www.christiancentury.org/books/when-f...

And sexual harassment, sexual violence, and intimate partner violence. He's reversing the policies since the Ft. Hood tragedies shone an unflattering light on military treatment of women.

My book is now available for pre-order with Cambridge University Press (cup.org/4nfM2IM). Here, I reflected on America's acceleration of reliance on Medicare Advantage and the new traditional Medicare prior auth administrered with AI, through the lens of my findings open.substack.com/pub/miranday...

30% drop year over year!

Can we please read some books? press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Took about 20 years. And I never thought a book about enslavers using deputization to give themselves policing power would be relevant to our times. But we are where we are. My book, White Power: Policing American Slavery, is now available for preorder. a.co/d/29c7EIP

On Saturday, September 27, US Air Force veteran Dana Briggs was arrested outside of the Broadview ICE detention facility. He is being charged with assaulting a federal officer, which is a felony.

You can't use an Exec Order to wipe away a constitutional amendment as he's trying. The birthright citizenship clause was to address the citizenship of Black Americans; "illegal" not domiciled people were not the focus of the 14th Am framers. Here's the shortest summary for smart lay audiences.

The conflation of politician and journalist remains once of Fox News signature accomplishments.

Sometimes it's kind of fun to talk about poison and murder. Especially for stories like this!

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

The Alabama sturgeon is one of the rarest fish in North America. No one has seen one for nearly two decades. But environmental DNA shows that these ancient fish persist, propelling a tiny group of scientists to keep trying to find--and save--them. Read more:

My bestie helped me set up a pretty new website this weekend! Please take a look and let me know what you think! 🗃️ #History www.renata-keller.com

Great time to be a fentanyl dealer because all the guys who are supposed to investigate and prosecute you are going after doordash drivers and moms instead

Welcome to America, where masked and armed federal officials will chase you down if you criticize the President.

I say this without rancor: I hope those in the climate movement who have repeatedly declared US coal dead over the past 15 years can question their core assumptions. Coal's trajectory tells us a lot about what to expect from other fossil industries - which means we need different approaches.

📢New online event!💥 Roll-up, roll-up! Come for @sshmedicine.bsky.social's AGM, stay for The SSHM Lecture 2025: Prof. Jeremy Greene, 'Wasted medicines & medical wastes: Notes from the trash-heap of medical history' 6 Oct, 4-5:30pm BST. Deets & free registration 👇 #histmed #histSTM #matcult

Cartoon by Pat Bagley @bagleycartoons.bsky.social

“Despite the university requiring students to undergo the training, the Trump administration still cut $790m in research funding.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

79. American citizen.

ICE is terrorizing immigrant communities across America, which include tens of thousands of men and women who have served the nation in war but lack citizenship. Commentary: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

TODAY ON TGS: Prof. Lou Moore @profloumoore.bsky.social on John L. Sullivan - America’s first sports celebrity and the man who personally drew heavyweight boxing’s color line.

Ezra Klein has played a fascinating role in entrenching “polarization” as the – deeply flawed – master narrative of our time: His 2020 book “Why We’re Polarized” did a lot to propagate the idea. But if you read the book carefully, Klein inadvertently provides a good case *against* this diagnosis.

I wanted to share some thoughts on this Ezra Klein discussion with Ta-Nehisi Coates. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

The “deplorables” comment took off like it did because it dropped into a 20+ year campaign of misogyny & batshit anti-Clinton conspiracy theories that had come to suffuse GOP political culture. It was a gaffe, but it became a meme because of how GOP backlash politics works. Republicans have agency!

I realize many people don’t quite get that not every single professor in every single university teaches computer science and might actually be trained in and invested in teaching other things, like let’s say, history? Or poetry. Or sociology. It is not our job to teach students how to use AI.

THREAD: this investigation took up over half my year, but it's here in @thecontinent.org: A Djiboutian drone strike in January was depicted as a army operation targeting rebels. It was actually a massacre of civilians. The bloodshed & coverup implicating Ethiopia, Djibouti, France & Turkiye. #OSINT