I havent read such a banger of an essay in a very long time. This is so well-written!

“When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining.”

Wonderful story from the #Emory African American Studies Department about Professor Erica Armstrong Dunbar’s contributions to “The Gilded Age.” #hatm #HBO #skystorians news.emory.edu/stories/2025...

what’s up Baltimore

‘The percolating instrumentation of “New York”, Ja Rule’s piercing 2004 posse cut, was playing on my TV, and Mamdani strolled out to deliver a rousing victory speech: “New York City, breathe this moment in. We have held our breath for longer than we know.”’ Niela Orr www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/no...

'More than 1,000 staff will be affected as Cardiff University undertakes a “massive” restructuring of its professional services team.' After all, it's a policy that is/has gone so very swimmingly well at every other university that's implemented it...

'D66 “have really embraced” universities’ call for the Netherlands to “grow towards a 3 per cent of GDP investment in research and innovation”, said van den Berg, while the party has pledged that “they won’t enter a government coalition that wants to cut back on the whole educational sector”.'

Buried in the Big Beautiful Bill were changes to food assistance that demanded “any future change be cost-neutral. Translation: no more benefit increases, even if food prices skyrocket.” The result was “institutionalized hunger.” @kristencrowell.bsky.social www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

For anyone looking to dig into this history, Rachel Walker wrote great book (award-winning, in fact!) on physiognomy, phrenology, and race in America. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...

Dear GOD if you want to save money in the asylum system 1. LET ASYLUM SEEKERS WORK 2. FAST TRACK STATUS FOR EVERYONE FROM CLEARLY UNDAFE COUNTRIES like Sudan, Syria, etc 3. Run an asylum accommodation system that is NOT FOR PROFIT #r4today

I got to pop past here again today.

Urgh. Solidarity. Northumbria have fought attacks once and can do it again 👍 #UKHE

Sort of a weird headline for the Guardian given that it’s published in a European country where neither of these things are actually “normal”

HAPPY FOUR SEASONS TOTAL LANDSCAPING DAY TO ALL WHO CELEBRATE

My daughter has been learning languages at school and is loving it. By the time she leaves, I wonder if there will be any language provision left at universities in the UK... Solidarity with colleagues at Nottingham in the wake of these awful decisions.

For all the young people who wanna make a better world but have felt that government was not a place they could do it…THIS IS FOR YOU

The press lost its shit for weeks at the mere thought of referring to Trump and his political movement as "fascist." Republicans meanwhile use every -ist epithet they can muster against Democrats of any stripe and the press doesn't say a word.

They never say this “liquid” bullshit when it comes to tax cuts for the rich or wars or giving money to their friends (in Argentina) etc See through it

THE PEOPLE HAVE SPOKEN

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

“And then you have librarians who are experiencing a real existential crisis because they are getting asked by their jobs to promote [AI] tools that produce more misinformation. It's the most, like, emperor-has-no-clothes-type situation that I have ever witnessed.” - Alison Macrina

Not only does the UK government waste vast sums of money on demonising those seeking asylum, now it appears that they are complicit in quite a number needing it in the first place. Choosing to save money over a genocide, again. #r4today www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

There are no words for how evil this is

"Far from draining our welfare system, migrants are supporting the British state’s solvency." New analysis by @lgilbert.co ukandeu.ac.uk/lower-migrat...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

'A post-92 university will freeze staff pay if they choose to remain in a more expensive pension scheme as institutions continue to find new ways to grapple with rising cost.' 1/3

Wes Streeting's comments on the racism experienced by health workers reminds me of the research by colleagues here at Manchester on the crucial role that immigrants have played since the inception of the NHS. doi.org/10.1258/jrsm...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

'Nottingham put part of the blame for the continued financial uncertainty on the proposed international student fee levy, pointing out that it will “wipe out any benefits” that will come from the Westminster government’s recent decision to link fees to inflation.' 3/3

'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3

Martha Stewart’s first book, “Entertaining,” from 1982, is organized into menus for events that are hard to imagine attending, let alone hosting, in 2025—“midnight omelette supper for 30,”“soirée dansante” (dance party) with desserts for 40. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/IvXpSO

Page One. @theguardian.com #ICE

President Trump calls on Senate Republicans to end the government shutdown. And, the Supreme Court hears arguments on whether Trump overstepped his authority by imposing tariffs. n.pr/490LF0v

It’s been a pleasure working with Lex and everyone in the politics vertical at Teen Vogue. I’m heartbroken that my column, Disability Visibility, is gone. Teen Vogue was one of the few places that published disabled journalists regularly. I just spent the last 2 months working on my next column

here is my story about how Zohran's focus on community amid the loneliness epidemic helped young people connect their politics to an organizing infrastructure, that interviewed ZM, and does not use the NYT's framing of "they don't know how to make friends" :-) and also ran 4 days before NYT's lol

oh my god they actually did it lmao

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

Zohran Mamdani ran on freezing the rent in NYC. Abigail Spanberger ran on supporting fired federal workers and lowering the cost of living in VA. Mikie Sherrill ran on lowering utility bills in NJ. Ensuring people can afford to live a decent life is the path forward.

This is a banger of an interview, many gems: “I work as a foreclosure prevention housing counselor, I work with low income homeowners. What I’ve seen in my work is, it’s not tenant versus homeowner. Really, it is tenant and homeowner versus financial speculator and investment bank portfolio.”

📽️ WATCH: We reviewed 700+ videos, hours of footage from ICE protesters and counterprotesters in Portland. Trump justified the deployment of National Guard troops by calling the city "War ravaged," with an ICE office under siege. That's not what we found. 🔗 Full story: https://propub.li/43fRCmF

NEW: Amid concerns over the Biden administration's regulation of the crypto industry, billionaire tech investor Marc Andreessen, a longtime Democrat, donated more than $5 million to groups supporting Trump ahead of the 2024 election. Since then, he's gotten what he called for: a hollowed-out CFPB.

I’m re-upping this, even though I know it won’t matter at all, but I want maybe a few extra people to know that the White House liaison to DHS—who is already known to have expressed Nazi tendencies—linked yesterday to a well-known white nationalist’s web site.

I love that Mamdani is what the right claimed Obama was: A Muslim socialist born in Africa. The right practically manifested Mamdani into existence.

“One Rayito teacher was working with a 3-year-old when the agents arrived, U.S. Rep Delia Ramirez said. The teacher took the young student and hid because the teacher “was afraid that she may die today,” Ramirez said.”

i know he’s fun to laugh at but we really need to start enforcing corruption laws again, and the statute of limitations has absolutely not run out

The utter stupidity of pursuing a criminal trial against someone for throwing a sandwich that bounced off a bullet proof vest pissing away hundreds of thousands of dollars for this joke is the perfect encapsulation of this Administration.

"'They’re spending more money than I would even tax them,' [Mamdani] said in an interview with MSNBC last week." This is the message. Make it clear that these billionaires aren't just worried about losing money. They're worried about losing the ability to exchange their money for power.

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