1991: The United States thinks it has decisively won the Cold War against Russia. 2025: The United States' foreign policy is being dictated by Russia.

The Olivia Nuzzi story and the Bari Weiss at CBS story are the same story, which is that the upper echelons of legacy media are absolutely rife with people who worship power and don't feel burdened by any sense of responsibility to their profession or the public.

Remember when shamelessly colluding with the POTUS and his family for financial gain was considered a bad thing? DJT, Jr., has invested millions in Polymarket—because, uh, Coplan is a "young entrepreneur" who doesn't know the political world.

I'm so glad that John Michael Higgins, Jr., won Best in Show! Snatch that trophy, sis!

This is an incredible cluster for a truly wonderful poet! What a dream team of contributors, and what a balm on a wild, windy Midwestern November Wednesday. Great work @aliciawright.bsky.social & co!

As you’re preparing for your Thanksgiving meal, remember the skilled work it took to get that food to your grocery store. Tell us your favorite Thanksgiving dish, and we can share some of what we know about the work behind the ingredients.

Post-doc applications for next year's seminar on "Translation" at Rutgers' Center for Cultural Analysis are "live"! The seminar will be co-ed by Preetha Mani and Jeff Lawrence. Fellow academics: let your early-career colleagues, students, and former students know! jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/263...

Using ChatGPT

Congratulations, Brian! Looking forward to the "Work"!

We have to keep AI data centers away from the Great Lakes

“One veteran researcher who still has his job (and, like other public-health workers I spoke with for this story, requested anonymity for fear of losing it) told me he believes that Kennedy’s ultimate goal is to “silence the scientific voice of career CDC scientists.””

Check out this awesome tenure-track Assistant Professor position in Early American Literature at Notre Dame! Special attention given to those applicants specializing in periods pre-1865, especially those with expertise in multiethnic lit., religion, media studies, and/or transnational approaches.

Early Americanists! Be sure to check out this extraordinary job opportunity for an Assistant Professor in American Literature, Pre-WWI, in our fabulous English department at @notredame.bsky.social. Expertise in multiethnic lit., religion & lit., media studies, and/or transnational approaches a plus!

Over the weekend, Trump's deputy chief of staff for policy Stephen Miller repeatedly attacked judges, calling them part of an "organized terrorist attack" on the US government.... On Saturday, the home of a judge who ruled against Trump, went up in flames time.com/7323442/sout...

An awesome cross-disciplinary opportunity for job seekers: *six* Provost's Postdoctoral Fellowships in the College of Arts and Letters at @notredame.bsky.social in Anthro, Music, Philosophy, PoliSci, Theology, and the Institute for Latino Studies as part of the university's Strategic Framework.

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

Get you a man who can do both: 1) singlehandedly hauling 242-lbs. of glassed-in bookshelves up a flight of stairs while 2) belting out Kym Mazelle's cover of "Young Hearts Run Free," as performed by Mercutio at the Capulets' masked ball in Baz Luhrman's Romeo + Juliet

I love everything about this.

I can’t tell if my body hurts from core day yesterday at the gym or from inhaling a bunch of particulate matter today on my walk home through the Canadian wildfire smoke

Thanks @publisherswkly.bsky.social for the birthday wishes! 💯 www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/...

i think that if you are an upper income writer living in a major urban area complaining about “the laptop class” — really, if you are a knowledge worker of any kind complaining about the “laptop class — you have an obligation to quit your job and go work in a factory for a year

Clearly for me 2002 was a high water mark in terms of cinematic achievement for this century.

Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet

What's the strangest—or one of the strangest—books you've ever read? And what made it so?

Huh—I guess he tweeted about it so often back when Obama was President because he actually thought it would be a good political strategy.

Sen. Chris Murphy: "I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States."

Why are no headlines focusing on the unconstitutional and dictatorial nature of this action?

Watching Errol Morris's THE FOG OF WAR & thinking with horror—now that Trump has made this terrible choice—about the prospect of Pete Hegseth being this generation's Robert McNamara. I mean, they do share a penchant for mendacity. But I can't imagine that ol' Pete even knows what "fallacy" means.

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

If you use chatgpt you're stupid. It's confirmed

I signed the final bills Melissa Hortman shepherded through the most narrowly divided legislature in the county. All of them bipartisan. We debated, we found common ground, and we compromised. That’s how democracy should function.

Zohran Mamdani and Brad Lander, the leading progressive candidates in the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, will cross-endorse each other, creating a late-stage partnership designed to help one of them surpass Andrew Cuomo in ranked-choice balloting. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/13/n...

This just happened to Sen. Alex Padilla, the chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Immigration, Citizenship, and Border Safety. Totally abhorrent, thuggish behavior.

Alice Notley passed away yesterday evening in Paris. She said a few years ago, “What can we learn from the fact that we don’t die?” I’m heartbroken, & heartbroken for everyone who knew & loved her, her work.

We need something like a Fair Trade or EnergyStar logo for outlets that promise zero slop. Rigorously audited, zero tolerance enforcement. Then let consumers decide what that's worth.

Will never understand those who look at the homeless and understand *themselves* as victims—of inconvenience.

lol. she thinks it's a town lending library?

Okay just one more. Fresh fruit slices on a panel by Margaret Fabrizio. Seen at her gallery in San Francisco. #quilt #art

This statistic blew my mind

Israeli forces have now dropped more explosives in Gaza than fell on London, Dresden, and Hamburg during the Second World War. The region’s hospitals have not been spared; most are no longer functional. Clayton Dalton writes about the devastation.

Gonna be real with you, this feels like an advertisement for spiritual death

As the H5N1 bird flu virus mutates and rapidly spreads through American cattle herds — a first for the U.S. — doctors and veterinarians are fearful that if the virus is left unchecked, it could spiral into a possible pandemic. https://cbsn.ws/4ionCJG

Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.