NEW: Cutting federal funding. Weakening civil rights protections. Injecting God into the classroom. Here are some of the ways Trump’s Department of Education could upend public schools.

Just saying it out loud right now.

Americans are dying from extreme heat Examination of 100s of autopsy reports reveals tragic stories They show lives cut short in ordinary, preventable ways Exceptional reporting by my colleague @ninalakhani.bsky.social #climatcrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...

There is no form of respectability or passivity that will save us, so better to be authentic to the core values of humanity.

Cuts to humanities, arts and social science courses at universities are leaving students unable to study close to home - which particularly impacts students from disadvantaged backgrounds. Read more 👀 www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/univers...

Also, a total lie that American students have been crowded out by international students. International students effectively subsidize the tuition of American students!

The right to read is extremely circumscribed in America's prisons & even just getting books into them can be difficult. So, in honor of #BannedBooksWeek all orders from our Prison Book Program wish list will trigger a matching donation. Order here: portersquarebooks.com/wishlist/bri...

Cartoon by @deadder.bsky.social. ICE thugs.

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

Wtaf

Nightmare fodder

Important reminder here that the US is not the only place where fossil fuel interests are pushing back hard against climate science and clean energy 👇

He wants X thing so he gets X thing is not a given. And to me that's the thing to uproot from people's consciousness. Because we're less than a year in and many people seem already defeated.

Wtf are we doing here?

Canadian hiring laws are xenophobic & our immigration laws see immigrants/refugees as tools for profit, not people. “It is not the land of open arms & goodwill; it is the land of gatekeepers & talent poachers…. something is seriously wrong when a person like Trump says he wants to be more like you”

Also good to remember that much of the current Canadian immigration system has been held up as the dream by US conservatives and Trumpists for a while. This tends to come as a surprise to Canadians across the political spectrum who haven’t gone through the system.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

An Australian woman who has not agreed to sign a waiver acknowledging she sought to 'illegally break Israel’s naval blockade' on Gaza will be “indefinitely detained” in Israel’s Ketziot prison unless she agrees to sign the waiver.

Does the news reflect what we die from?

Why is the US House speaker refusing to seat an elected Democrat? | Moira Donegan

At an academic conference and the most common conversations I've had is stuff like, "How many faculty is your school trying to fire? Do you still have professional development funds? Do you still have an English department?" Fun times!

My career is listening to people who flee places that get increasingly unsafe. A few months of "wait & see" can make a world of difference for safety & prospects. I've lived under authoritarianism myself. Leticia James getting indicted, Mark Bray trying to flee & being stopped. This is not okay.

Film Noir Mood #film #noir #cinema #tbt #ThursdayVibes #FilmNoir #Noirvember

NYT: Judge Perry said the Trump administration’s version of events was “simply unreliable” and that deploying troops anywhere in the state would “only add fuel to the fire.” @nytimes.com #Chicago www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Free speech is when I encourage people to send you death threats; hate speech is when you tell me to stop.

“when the expert, Mark Bray, got to the gate at Newark Liberty International Airport, after getting the family’s boarding passes, checking their bags and going though security, he was told by the airline that “the reservation was just canceled” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/08/n...

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

Incredible. Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

The Pentagon Press Association said that Pete Hegseth's media rules are still unacceptable. PPA said the policy is “designed to stifle a free press and potentially expose us to prosecution for simply doing our jobs." CNN told me it won't sign. My latest for @washingtonpost.com:

Dolly Parton has been a good person all her life. She does so many kind things for people. Compare that to someone like JK Rowling who wakes up every day and decides to be an absolute asshole.

Republicans 2026: "We took the freedom of speech away."

Justin J. Pearson — the 30-year-old Memphis representative and member of the “Tennessee Three” who protested gun violence — has announced a bid to primary 76-year-old Democrat Steve Cohen for a seat in the U.S. House.

JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska’s second biggest city, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he made comments this year drew condemnation this year from Alaska Natives. He lost to Mindy O'Neall.

The University wants us to avoid politics in class, so today I stuck to the syllabus and told my students about how, in the 18th century, people decided a selfish individual ruler cannot unilaterally decide who to kill, who to jail, what speech is allowed, or what tariffs to impose.

"Dr. Balfour Mount, who coined the term 'palliative care' and whose profound empathy helped revolutionize health-care in North America, died peacefully on Sept. 25 at the palliative care unit that bears his name." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The illegal USAID cuts are the thing that broke me A complete dismantling of constitutional governance in order to facilitate crimes against humanity What Trump, Musk, the Supreme Court, etc have done to these families is beyond cruel, beyond heartbreaking, beyond unforgivable

I don't think most people understand what we're facing. Not really.

🚨 BREAKING: Labour MPs back calls to restore NHS Covid vaccines for all Clinically Vulnerable people! After pressure from CVF members and supporters - a rapid U-turn appears to be underway. WELL DONE! #KeepCovidBoosters campaign a HUGE success!

This very very very bad. I cannot stress this enough. I said that they crossed the Rubicon with arresting Ras Baraka several months ago. This is very bad and portends more bad things for regular people.

I’ve been solicited for Thrive along with whatever the hell this thing is about a dozen times in the last few months. Emails, letters, pop-ups when I access my account online. It’s ridiculous!

“The air traffic system, in general, is stressed to the max,” a veteran air traffic controller working at a major East Coast airport told Forbes on Tuesday, adding “sick outs will continue to happen because the [controllers] aren’t fit for duty.” www.forbes.com/sites/suzann...

I hope that that the devout Christians who have been the core of support for Trumpism can look at the videos of ICE assaulting clergy in the act of prayer for the vulnerable and think, “whose behaviour is Christlike here, and whose side am I taking?” religionnews.com/2025/10/07/i...

Still no news about when we can get 2025 flu and COVID vaccines in Nova Scotia? Let me tell you, a large number of my students and colleagues are already sick with various things.

Young lives cut short on an unimaginable scale: the 18,457 children on Gaza’s list of war dead

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

I'm holding oral midterms for my COMM 101 Intro to Media Industries students this week and they're blowing me away. I'm centering the course around "AI" literacy, critical media, and cultural studies, and they're really getting it. They're engaging, passionate, curious

CNN: “An older couple making $85K/year will see their yearly insurance premiums jump from $7K to $25,000 — 30% of their income.” 😳#TrumpShutdown #TrumpHealthCareTax This is what Dems are drawing attention to and want fixed. Now, not later.