While thankfully not a problem for my particular family (though we are starting to wonder if youngest is a supertaster), this is a great resource!

“my job can’t be replaced with AI, because [examples of things AI will never do/is bad at]” “oh, my sweet summer child. no one said the AI would do the jobs COMPETENTLY”

For the past several years, I’ve taught with work by @annaleighclark.bsky.social and her writing is an excellent tool for getting undergrads to read more closely, to question sources more carefully, and to see themselves as agents for civic and scientific engagement. This piece is in the same vein!

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

@amnesty.org has released a report on the "global political economy” enabling genocide against Palestinians. The report names Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Elbit Systems, Hyundai and Palantir, among others.

Speaking as a reproductive health reporter who covered these referenda endlessly and talked to MANY voters in Kansas, Missouri, and Ohio: Abortion rights are MORE popular than Democrats. They MAKE Democrats popular. Why would Democrats run away from one of the few policies that works for them

Worlds colliding!

Part of a massive protest in Stockholm, Sweden, to demand justice for the Palestinian people.

📅 Together w/Public School Strong, #UniteAgainstBookBans invites libraries, schools, bookstores, & community groups to showcase their #BannedBooksWeek events on PSS' online advocacy calendar. Visit the @bannedbooksweek.bsky.social events page to list your events and find others in your area today!

Whose broad stripes & bright stars through the perilous fight ⁠Oer the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming the bombs bursting in air Gave proof through the night that our flag was still there O say does that star-spangled banner yet wave ⁠Oer the land of the free & the home of the brave

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Crazy week in our Democracy in the States news roundup from @the-renovator.bsky.social

we wrote about this WH tactic recently. they’re asking journalists for expert source names and then using them to look up political donations in FEC records to try to discredit those sources as biased. www.npr.org/2025/08/18/n...

We're delighted to announce that @slaughteram.bsky.social is joining us at The Renovator! Her wonderful writing on "Renewal" inspires this first column, about building new things, renovating old things, and how we need to approach our Constitution with a mix of both:

So helpful! #TeachLearnSky #EduSky

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

agree, this is the best thing I've read on the subject so far. Thanks for shining a light on the path forward, @joshtpm.bsky.social

@supplydepotmpls.bsky.social needs you right now, follow them for lists of what they need & other ways to support

This. I told a student group that I declined their debate invitation but that I would love to read something together and have a conversation. The response: crickets. Let's stop debating and try to talk with each other instead.

It's wild to me how ostensibly smart people cannot/could not/will not see what is so obvious. @mmasnick.bsky.social nails it. And my hunch is we'd be a better society if the Very Serious People with the Very Serious Ideas opened their fucking eyes. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

New column from Danielle: "When people are subject to arbitrary power, it diminishes their well-being materially and psychologically. Some of the answers to what we need to improve our economy will flow asking some simple questions about our lives: Why and where we are miserable?"

🚨BREAKING: Missourians fighting the gerrymandered congressional map passed last week by Republican state lawmakers are laying the groundwork for a ballot referendum that could give voters the power to block the map from going into effect. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

“We’re going to teach the truth. We don’t know what the consequences of that may be in terms of our own professional careers… if we were to censor the truth … that’s going to damage our society. That’s going to damage our students. That’s going to lower trust in the things that we do.”

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Yesterday I wrote about how Turning Point put many of us on the Professor Watchlist What I didn't write about was the years of harassment from the right, including rape, deportation & death fantasies that played out in my messages, comments in the stories about me & voice mails. That’s his legacy.

New post on Humanist! Do I think fondly on (or even remember) oral exams in grad school? No. But do I want to experiment with them now, especially after reading more literature about how to use them to engage students in deep learning? Yes. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky

“Right to work” laws are a total scam. They silence American workers and keep them underpaid. The Nationwide Right to Unionize Act would solve this problem, and @repbradsherman.bsky.social and I want to get it done.

Murder is wrong. Pogroms are wrong. Using a murder to incite a pogrom against a small and vulnerable group in society is wrong. (If I’m not mistaken, an assassination was the excuse for the wave of mob but state-sanctioned violence in Russia in 1881 that gave us the term “pogrom.”)

Yesterday's piece from @jamellebouie.net is the only high-profile piece I've seen that specifically discusses the watchlist, its effect on academics, and its effect on public attitudes toward academia as a whole. (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Guest post from @pid-us.bsky.social's John Griffin about exciting new democracy renovation ballot initiatives in the works in Massachusetts! This is a great example of how a "tipping point state" with more agreement in government can lead the way and model better practices.

New post on Humanist! Do I think fondly on (or even remember) oral exams in grad school? No. But do I want to experiment with them now, especially after reading more literature about how to use them to engage students in deep learning? Yes. #AncientBlueSky #classicsBlueSky #TeachLearnSky #EduSky

“A new volunteer-led organization called Grandparents for Vaccines launched Sunday on National Grandparents Day with a mission to share firsthand experiences of life before vaccines were widely available.” [kgw.com]

Oh my word the newly displayed Lucanian tombs in Paestum Museum! @davidebb.bsky.social @alexharvv.bsky.social @petesavin.bsky.social @romanarchaeouk.bsky.social @wittspat.bsky.social

This kicks ass. Imagine walking around and seeing these up everywhere in shop windows. Imagine folks starting to question why some businesses have them and others don't. This is what building community wide defiance looks like. It's not everything, but it's something. And it's something you can do!

Some of y’all forget the reason we have food safety regulations is because companies used to do things like adding chalk to spoiled milk so it looked normal. Regulations don’t exist because governments enjoy them. They exist because pure unadulterated capitalism would kill us.

the most unpopular president in history turned federal law enforcement into a kidnapping gang that snatches innocents off the street and disappears them to god knows where, and this guy thinks the masses are craving a sober discussion of healthcare subsidies. this account has to be performance art

I’m late to this piece by cathyyoung63.bsky.social but it’s great — and SO SATISFYING to see someone call out the ignorance about history! His ideas sound real edgy until you realize they’ve all been tried before, and turned out awful.

Reading the Abundance guys, I can’t get past the fact that everything they say about “progressives” is a wild mischaracterization of most progressives except Ro Khanna…and while they’re arguing with that straw man they’re totally ignoring the power structures that really matter

This is what the Abundance crowd needs to realize:

Reading the Abundance guys, I can’t get past the fact that everything they say about “progressives” is a wild mischaracterization of most progressives except Ro Khanna…and while they’re arguing with that straw man they’re totally ignoring the power structures that really matter

The Manhattan Project began at Columbia (hence the project's name) the very institution that the US government has been trying to destroy for the past year. If one really aspired to a new Manhattan Project, one would defend American universities.

New from the editorial board: "Economic freedom is distinct from the political freedom to choose your own destiny, but it’s also connected to it: If you experience domination in the workplace, it undermines your ability to be a functioning citizen." 1/3

NJ students in grades 6-12 will now learn about “the history of organized labor, notable strikes throughout history, unionization drives, and the collective bargaining process and existing legal protections in the workplace.” This is genuinely so important, and so good to see. Jersey strong, baby!!

I just got word that the faculty senate of my university is now dissolved and no longer exists, in compliance with the new Texas law. Yikes! I thought my university would somehow find a loophole, or an exemption, but it's official. It's a sad day for shared governance and checks and balances.

"A review of the administrative record makes it difficult to conclude anything other than that Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities."

If you’re looking for a useful understanding of gerrymandering, check out this explainer and great follow-up resources by historian Joanna Kenty @jokenty.bsky.social.

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