Here’s my Wrapped for the year.

The sheer number of Silicon Valley tech families I know who would immediately sign up lol. Nobody enforces no screens as much as that crowd. I regularly get death stares because I park my kid with Miss Rachel when he gets restive in restaurants lol.

this encapsulates the essential relationship between the people running universities, the people doing academic work in universities, and the people looking to smash and grab as much as possible from universities while we're on the way down

I will complain all day everyday about the state of discovery in criminal law, but I will also affirm that even in its totally inequitable state, the discovery on these cases where it looks like the White House is messing around is going to be FASCINATING

Glad Van Hollen will say what's true.

Just noticed why someone would choose Tartagilone to silence Epstein--he'd previously been used to silence Clay Tiffany, a public access TV host who had been accusing the NYPD of having mob connections:

Alongside our Palestinian colleagues, Israel Studies scholars like Liron Mor and Tamir Sorek are often the ones with the expertise to pinpoint exactly what the hell is happening in Israeli society, stuff that everyone from Twitter to "intellectual" orgs like the MLA are working to suppress.

1 year ago today, ex-president Yoon declared martial law in South Korea. How did Koreans protect democracy? What role did religion play? How does an authoritarian past haunt? @matthewdtaylor.bsky.social, Susie Hayward, Ray Kim & I chat on this podcast + see @chanheeheo.bsky.social’s op-ed

Sorry If This Is Antisemitic But I Think It's Wrong To Train Dogs To Rape Prisoners One thing I try not to think about is how many reports we’ve been seeing about Israeli prison guards training dogs to rape Palestinian captives in torture camps like Sde Teiman. www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/sorry-if-t...

he's gotta go

Tim Houston's do-nothing Nova Scotia--healthcare workers are one of the category of immigrants most likely to leave

The Anglophone world getting so bored out of its mind it entered a self-inflicted death spiral is one of those "stop, get me off this ride" realizations

this isn't play acting and tough guy beat poetry and instagram workout vids anymore. you're fucking killing people. by the dozens. and at bottom you're just an alcoholic TV host with a double digit IQ and a track record of abject failure. high up on that wire, killing people by the dozens

with the hegseth thing i think were starting to see them starting to see the trap that they have put themselves in with the "always double down, never give an inch" approach. has to keep giving tough guy speeches about putting more boats at the bottom of the sea but its starting to make him queasy

water benghazi ain't going away

Excellent deep-dive into the violence perpetrated by fascist Zionist thugs at UCLA. Democrats, Republicans, the ADL, and the media have spent over a year lying that the violence was an antisemitic attack on Jews, and have used it and other lies to eviscerate higher education in the US:

Rep. Ilhan Omar: "I hope he gets the help he needs. It sounds like he's trying to deflect from the failures that he's had as president ... he's fought to be the head of the pedophile protection party."

#NowPlaying: #FirstListen to Equipment Pointed Ankh, "Eggs a Little Late" (Petty Bunco, 2025) No Discogs entry for the album yet, www.discogs.com/artist/50226.... Order on Bandcamp here: equipmentpointedankh.bandcamp.com/album/eggs-a... #nowlistening #musicsky #vinylsky #equipmentpointedankh

Two years have passed since that heartbreaking day, the day an Israeli occupation strike loaded with powerful weapons ended the lives of my loved ones. In a single moment, I lost my mother, my brother, my pregnant sister-in-law, and our 10-year-old angel, Remas.

Here in Boston, we’ve made it more costly for Fenway to abandon trans youth and trans adults by protesting in front of their clinic, by severing ties with them, and by disrupting their gala and public events. I suggest local activists elsewhere investigate similar potentials for disruption.

Almost like suing works or some shit

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

it's open fact that much of the congressional hispanic caucus are strivers who do not actually share much in common or cause with the majority of the latino population in this country

til the current board is running the MLA as a right-wing neoliberal business where "fiduciary responsibility" (making as much $ as possible) takes precedence over advocating for members

Funny how these detailed investigations never discover that things in Gaza weren’t as bad as we thought and were almost always far worse. www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/m...

incredible the shit i was listening to this year cmon take a gander at my quirky ass taste in this year of our lord 2025

We’ve been having these debates all the way back to the first exile in Babylon. Some wanted to get back to Judea right away. Others stayed, and gave us the legacy of the Babylonian Talmud & diaspora. They disagreed, and so do we. Maybe that’s why we call it Talmudic. 🧵

From August

Blocking and reporting anyone who posts their horrid little wrapup, just take a picture of your playlist or your dog's feet or something

I have almost this repetitive stress injury from years and years of trying to have a serious conversation about venture capital and having to basically lead people on a therapeutic exercise so they can find a way to think about this without resorting to all and out childishness.

Since the news broke, my friends and I have talked A LOT about what it means to be young economists and whether we feel comfortable at all. The AEA's statement is necessary and a step in a direction that centers long overdue accountability and safety. This is the way. #economics #econsky

Avi Lewis (Canadians: he seems to be the only NDP leadership candidate comfortable actually cracking jokes in French) with local Hfax heroes

Report: How to Prevent University Trustee Overreach https://bit.ly/4pc1mqF #EDUSky #AcademicSky #HigherEd

"UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become targets of vigilante and police violence" jewishcurrents.org/portrait-of-...

Well shit, the “Buffer Zone” now includes Damascus, if anyone‘s keeping up on the imperialism counts

Bad news for Hegseth, it turns out the Pentagon is a big bureaucracy filled with people who got there because they know how to fight bureaucratic battles and they will wait for you to lie about something then leak details about it. Who knew?

Belated #sblaar25 post: I had the privilege of reviewing this wonderful book by @jeremiahcoogan.bsky.social, @candidamoss.bsky.social, and Joseph Howley at this year’s conference. It was a pleasure to read and you should definitely check it out!

For two years officials and media in Germany dismissed Gaza’s death toll as propaganda. Now the Max Planck Institute released estimates that point to the same patterns seen in past genocides. Latest on my Substack hannohauenstein.substack.com/p/gaza-genoc...

"Israeli military is still killing children." "Fadi Abu Assi, 11, and Goma Abu Assi, eight, were close to a school sheltering displaced Palestinians near Beni Suhaila in southern Gaza when the IDF fired a drone in the area, killing both boys." #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide #Military

wake up babe, woke bill kristol is mogging the democratic party again

“The Daily Campus editorial board condemns ICE’s deportation of innocent people and our university’s partnership with a company that facilitates such actions.” dailycampus.com/2025/12/01/u...

The precedents this attack set will take YEARS to reverse. UC changed faculty and student codes of conduct, & freedom of expression policy. They fired faculty & staff. They dismissed, arrested students. They have cowed faculty and chilled free inquiry and classroom teaching. Impeded co-curriculum.

To get people to buy one book, IN ADDITION to what the publisher did: 81 podcast appearances 35 promo videos posted to TikTok/Reels/YT/etc 14 pieces of promo text content (columns, interviews, reddit AMAs) $30k out of pocket (including a trailer, various giveaways, ad placements).

But people need to understand that you cannot get away with simply invoking a scripture in Religious Studies! If a student writes in a paper "The Qur'an says _______" without citing, they get marked down!

There literally wasn't a single citation given. Even when she referred to the Bible--the ONLY text she refers to by name--she couldn't even cite which verses she quoting. I was an English student at OU. I can fuckin guarantee that any one turning in an essay like this--Bible or no--would get a 0.

vcinfodocs.com and how to read it - vcinfodocs is a living book. not a one-sitting read - 16 chapters, read it chapter-by-chapter - Reading level of HS senior/1st year college student. The subject matter is complex, but it was written by people including professional technical writers.

"tech critics," when I told them in January or in early 2024 tech fascists would try to coup Honduras, treated me like I was nuts and erased my work Now they are busy typing their little threads years too late because it was in the news and they can get page views. without mentioning my work

every trans person i see post about the OU suspension knows that the suspended target is trans & a grad student, & has an innate awareness that this is about purging trans employees. every cis person i see thinks the target is a rando professor & that this is about giving conservatives good grades

Yes they have it. They need to return the skull- it is part of their rites and it is disgusting. Yalie here and no I wasn't in Bones but one hears things.

The Israeli minister "of diaspora affairs and combatting antisemitism" wrote a long tirade yesterday on Twitter about Syria in which he said that "Damascus 2025 is Gaza 2008", seemingly calling for indiscriminate bombardment of the capital of Syria in response to Syrian resistance in Beit Junn