This is the kind of situation where more solidarity is needed. This lecturer should sue the living daylights out of the university, and she should have her legal fees paid for by the AAUP, Lambda Legal, FIRE, and more.

28. “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).” I like the contrast between the generic song title and its strangely urgent subtitle. … It’s like if you had a song called “Hanukkah (Son, If You Can Hear This, I Forgive You)” or “Easter (WE ARE SURROUNDED).” www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/201...

Currently grading my third research paper with AI-generated citations. Thank you SO MUCH to Sam Altman, Elon Musk, and all the other titans of industry for making our lives that much easier. 🙄

Why is this so hard in our own country??

After President Trump makes light of the murder of a famous American—even implying that he brought it upon himself—I assume Republicans will call for him to be fired?

Great piece on the corporate & institutional pressures to assign fewer books to students. Less about what kids “can’t” do (because of dwindling attention spans), and more about the incentives that are pushing educators away from books and toward excerpts. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...

Stunning new research from Pew on racial disparities in the use of social media, the internet, and AI chatbots among American teens. For example, only 27% of White youth say they're online almost constantly, compared to 55% of Black youth. (Thread) www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...

Thank goodness Trump didn’t call half of Somalis something like “deplorable” else it would have been the biggest scandal ever

My vote is Daniel Radcliffe!

In retrospect having an elite class composed of people who are really good at rising through the ranks by not rocking the boat left us in a really, really bad place at the moment that elite institutions faced their greatest moral test

The impact of the destruction of USAID is so wide-ranging. We got a field report from one of the poorest states in India, where foreign aid funded "TB champions" who educate and assist tuberculosis patients. Without their help, advocates expect a 36% increase in cases & 68% rise in deaths from TB.

“Modernity was a package deal, and the price of its benefits was the loss of much that made life livable.” A fantastic essay on the value of classical social theory in understanding today’s world. stevenmintz.substack.com/p/therapists...

Are human beings becoming invisible? The Unseen (Allison J Pugh • Aeon) Our crisis of work and technology is one in which too many people feel that nobody sees them as a fellow human being. aeon.co/essays/our-c...

“It is not healthy for a party to be this out of step with its own voters and stated beliefs. The simplest thing to do would be the right thing: refuse to provide military assistance to a government that has committed war crimes,” reject annexation, and more. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

Google has started automatically opting you in to let it read your stuff to train AI. You need to turn this off in SEVERAL places in your settings (not just for Gmail), if you want to maintain privacy and confidentiality. www.malwarebytes.com/blog/news/20...

My husband is an amazing composer and thinker — I know I’m biased but I highly recommend this lecture!

It’s refreshing to hear a Senator speak so plainly in the face of authoritarianism — I just wish that courage weren’t so rare.

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This is so abhorrent. Trump has now re-pardoned a Jan 6 felon because the original pardon didn’t clear his (unrelated!) felony gun convictions. The man “has identified himself as a member of the Oath Keepers and Gray Ghost Partisan Rangers militia.” www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

“‘People were hurt so badly,’ said Mr. Trump, whose administration fought in court to not fund food stamps, tried to fire thousands of federal workers and threatened to withhold back pay from others during the shutdown.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/u...

"In conditions of hegemony, even the righteous anger of the oppressed can be incorporated into a toothless identity politics in which difference becomes a hot commodity." —Patricia Hill Collins, "Fighting Words"

Harm to SNAP recipients, federal workers, and others is real. In a normal democracy it’d make sense to prioritize reducing that harm in the short term. In a rapidly backsliding democracy, harm is happening no matter what. Preventing authoritarian consolidation is the most harm-reducing move.

@ezralevin.bsky.social Can Indivisible coordinate with other orgs on a massive grassroots campaign to replace Schumer as minority leader? Maybe someone like Chris Murphy — or anyone else who is a fighter?

What will it take for the Senate to remove Schumer as minority leader?

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

It’s time for us to reconnect with the radical, system-changing spirit that was once at the heart of our field. #publichealth #episky #medsky #activism www.thenation.com/article/acti...

A really important article about the (current!) genocide in Darfur. The authors argue that we need to pressure the UAE—which provides weapons and other support—as well as American companies like Disney & the NBA that have financial ties and can exert leverage. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/o...

"Silence itself—the things one declines to say, or is forbidden to name—[is] an element that functions alongside the things said... There is no binary division to be made between what one says & what one does not say; we must try to determine the different ways of not saying such things." —Foucault

Utah Senate Democrats are calling on the Legislature’s GOP supermajority to use rainy-day funds to make up for the unfunded portion of Utahns' SNAP benefits.

I’ve had problems with the Anti-Defamation League for a very long time, but this takes things to another level. Absolutely unconscionable.

I just don’t think we’re freaking out enough about this SNAP cut. I have spent my whole career working with people who rely on SNAP for food. People who work multiple jobs. Who have kids. What do you think happens when 1/8th of the population can’t buy food anymore? Everything is going to collapse.

This is callous beyond belief. The Trump administration has been perfectly willing to “find” money to pay law enforcement (including people carrying out deportations), but it won’t spend emergency money that Congress explicitly set aside for SNAP benefits. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/u...

“Creating tech-free spaces and incentivizing students to spend time in them requires no new resources. All it takes is will. Many of our students still have it. Do their teachers?” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o...

A Nazi Tattoo Exposes Democrats’ Greatest Weakness www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/o... @tressiemcphd.bsky.social is unmatched. Read her latest piece—and everything else she writes.

There's money available to feed poor people. The Trump regime has deleted that fact from a government website, but it's still a fact.

Article recommendation: Kenneth Gergen, "Social Psychology as History" (1973). He argues that social psych can't discover immutable laws because the dissemination of knowledge changes those very laws. For example, people modify their behavior to disprove stereotypes. gwern.net/doc/statisti...

i really resent the continued assertion that there’s so much anger on both sides, as if the causes of the anger are equally legitimate. we’re angry because masked maniacs are violently snatching our family and neighbors off the street, and they’re angry because we’re calling them out for it.

“The decision by Comcast and other deep-pocketed donors to finance the [ballroom] underscores the grotesque dynamic between corporate America and the mercurial, transactional president: companies openly buying favor, or at least hoping to stay off Trump’s enemies list.” —Jon Passantino, “Status”

Weren’t we all taught that the goal of politics is to *shape* public debate, not to measure it and then anxiously respond?

"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something

“Take Care of This House” from the Bernstein/Lerner musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, has been referenced, metaphorically, over the past ten years. Tonight, with the former East Wing of the White House now a pile of debris, the song becomes something painfully literal. youtu.be/ns0bW-VonK4

You need to see this… Just so we’re all clear on the gravity and historical significance of what Trump has done to the East Wing of the People’s House.

For anyone interested in classical music, please check out this wonderful article by my husband about the composer Arnold Schoenberg and what he teaches us about “difficult” art.

This is a complete outrage www.indystar.com/story/news/e...

Sherrilyn Ifill on today’s Supreme Court hearing regarding racial gerrymandering: “The question raises a brazen proposition. Does a core provision of the most consequential of all civil rights statutes conflict with the constitutional amendments ratified to ensure Black citizenship rights?”

This has been the time eternal argument about new technologies. It’s not the technology. It’s a policy choice. It’s why places like Belgium are reducing their workweek, while American tech gods want us to sleep on pullouts in our offices.

“For decades, meritocratic elites intoned the mantra that those who work hard and play by the rules can rise as far as their talents will take them. They did not notice that for those stuck at the bottom or struggling to stay afloat, [this rhetoric] was less a promise than a taunt.” —Michael Sandel

"There is an intriguing, well-kept secret regarding the founding of scientific sociology in America. The first school of scientific sociology in the US was founded by a black professor located in a historically black university in the South. This reality flatly contradicts the accepted wisdom."