It’s official: RFK Jr has officially reduced recommended childhood vaccines from 17 to 11, removing universal vaccine recommendations for RSV, hepatitis A, hepatitis B, dengue and two types of bacterial meningitis. This reckless contravention of science is going to kill people.

After a year of negotiations, more than 1,000 concession workers at Fenway Park and the neighboring MGM Music Hall secured a new union contract that supporters say provides better wages, clearer staffing protocols, and stronger job protections against automation, such as self-checkout machines.

"Editors may tell themselves words like “abducted,” “coup,” “war,” and “invasion” are too loaded, too icky, or too ideologically charged. But what’s important to understand is that any term carries particular ideological weight."

At some point (*soon*), we have to release ourselves of our need to refer to these actions as illegal. Legality has never curtailed authoritarianism. Unethical. Inhumane. Death dealing. We have so many more words to help with this.

Solidarity with the ordinary people of Venezuela, who as always will suffer the most when imperialism comes to call.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

Once again, decades of ludicrous ‘Drug War’ and ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric and policy laid the groundwork for this. These are the sorts of things that must be uprooted.

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

Cover reveal. It's about how & why colonies/states controlled international & domestic migration until 1888, why in the late 19th c the feds took over, & what it was like for politically disfavored groups to live under that arrangement of power. You can't understand voluntary migration history 1/

so the doorknob to my apartment broke off and I can't get out the front door and it is way too soon to set this tone, 2026.

Friendly reminder that Starbucks baristas are still on strike and still asking you to support them by not patronizing *any* Starbucks in the US. Try a new place! Get a home coffeemaker and a thermos that will pay for themselves with all the Starbucks you won't be buying! Don't cross picket lines!

stop using "woke" the way racist fascists use "woke" 2026 challenge

What if, and hear me out, media outlets published articles by the marginalized scholars coerced into early retirement by mistreatment at work instead of the scribblings of this extremely whiny man making six figures while teaching a couple classes a year.

A partial list of real commercials playing in Nebraska on the Hallmark channel: -prepper meal kits FOR PATRIOTS -a space heater FOR PATRIOTS -not abortions (seriously, just an ad about not getting abortions)

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

In no particular order: the best things I watched in 2025. Yes, I have a vibe. Yes, I was very late to watch Shogun. Yes, you should let 2026 be the year you get into the dark twisted fantasy of Critical Role projects. (also someone else pls watch War B/n the Land & the Sea so we can talk about it)

In no particular order: the best books I read this year. If you liked "Braiding Sweetgrass," you must read "Is a River Alive." I think about lessons in "The Problem With Work" at least once a week. Not enough sci-fi nerds have devoured "Of Monsters & Mainframes." Free Palestine.

When a regime is white nationalist, reckless, & foolish.

ICE whistles work.

dear lord I am so tired of hearing about AI. may we chuck it in the bin where it belongs and proceed with a comparatively peaceful existence, amen.

Fellow academics and cultural workers, please consider joining me and scholars like Robin Kelley, Angela Davis and Ruthie Gilmore in signing this important UAE boycott letter: spectrejournal.com/for-a-cultur...

"Should we implement stricter gun control measures?" "Nah, let's do a racism." "Sweet."

“it’s reasonable to ask questions about trans girls in sports” was always intended to mainstream transphobia. It’s absurd that people fell for it. Democrats are constantly letting oppressors set the terms of debate instead of just saying “no, fuck you.”

Starbucks workers in Newton (just outside of Boston) have been on strike for three weeks and need your support! Donate to their strike fund:

remember when some of y'all were welcoming her to the resistance ... please, next time she mildly criticizes trump, please remember she's still the enemy, trying to hurt my family specifically. and they aren't gonna stop with minors.

Some of you are still sharing commentary on MTG that presents her as a decent human being and sorry, my friends: no.

As things wind down for the holidays, @sheffielducu.bsky.social members are facing a threat of 100% pay deductions from January, thanks to our Scrooge-like management. We’ve now set up a fundraiser to bolster our local solidarity fund. If you can spare some change, please do! gofund.me/ac2b3adcb

Reason #5 billion to rely on your allies and not to rely on your boss: Asking the boss for something: Sure, we might be able to get you that info in three months. Asking another union for solidarity: You got it, we'll let all of our members know immediately.

Y'all aren't ready to have the conversation about how many top PhD programs actively feed the misconception that the Ivy League and top R1s are all that matters by presenting any non-R1 jobs (including non-academic jobs) as trash.

Thinking for no reason about the time I told a former dissertation committee member that I was probably leaving academia &, in what I think was an attempt to convince me not to leave, she used an example of a recent grad who'd gotten a job at a top R1 as a sign I'd be fine if I tried hard enough.

i graduated from undergrad into the financial crisis, and finished my ph.d. with the pandemic. much of my persistent under/un-employment is downstream from that.

I see a man who believes the thousands of institutions making up US higher education are actually 8 universities is once again upset that he did not get the one job in his field available across those 8 universities.

It's very important we all go back to Twitter, a website as popular with young people as chlamydia.

I think that very few people in academia have come to terms with what it means that most schools depend on grad student labor but prepare grad students for a job market that doesn't exist.

If Tufts subtracted the cost of settling the Professors of the Practice contract from Provost Caroline Genco's annual salary, she'd be left with $155k—still more than any Professor of the Practice would make. Tufts can pay *all* its employees fairly. Failing to do so is a choice, not a necessity.

Hey, y'all who were stanning Marjorie Taylor Greene for correctly naming the genocide in Gaza: a reminder that she's an opportunist, an awful person, and is still wreaking havoc with her white supremacist anti-trans views.

In a transparent move to balance its budget on workers' backs, BU has moved to hire underpaid UK adjuncts to teach on the College of General Studies' London summer program. For the BU faculty who usually do this work, this means losing nearly half their income. Petition for allies to sign:

Last year, there was a big debate on SM about using "delve" as an obvious AI tell. The postcolonials were miffed! The colonials just didn't understand why. As a postcolonial, even if English is your first language, it is a particular version of imposed English. Lose-lose. Again.

Today I remembered that there is a resource that is just a list of almost one hundred humanities PhDs who have transitioned to other careers and are available to talk about it. You can schedule an informational interview or invite them to talk to your department! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

You've gotta love when unions make it hard for a university to exploit their own faculty, so they remove those faculty from their study abroad programs and try to hire local faculty who don't realize they're wading into a labor dispute. (Psst, BU, this post is about you. 😘)

Aside from covering a transparently authoritarian, racist, and queerphobic practice at Texas A&M, this article does a great job explaining in plain language how these AI tools work and why they're just reflections of existing human authoritarianism, racism, and queerphobia.

On days like today, I am grateful to no longer be an academic and thus feel zero pressure to perform "professionalism" or "analysis" or whatever. With all due disrespect, what the fuck.

" ... their eyes are trained on Palestine, where their willed refusal of food confronts the ongoing enforced starvation of the people of Gaza—aided and abetted by the same government that turns the keys of their cell doors."

This feels like the thinnest imaginable excuse to scold the left. The primary enemy of workers in America is the political right, not online progressives who were justifiably mad at a lady for being racist.

Thinking today for absolutely no reason about another labor organizer who once referred to contract proposals for international worker protections, queer and trans worker protections, and so on as "little social justice demands."

The idea that everything else is fine (or, at best, secondary) as long as workers come together is rampant in the labor movement. It's toxic, it's white comfort in disguise, and folks who claim commitment to building a better world should try practicing what they preach.

This morning, in the largest expansion yet, hundreds of new union baristas are walking off the job in 34 cities. That means there are now: 🗣️ 3,800 baristas ☕️ across 180 stores 📍 in over 130 cities on an open-ended ULP strike! We’re 👏 only 👏 getting 👏 stronger

Imagine trying to claim, as a university, that you're at the "end of your rope" financially when you gave your provost a $170,000 raise last year and could settle a contract with faculty for only about $50,000.

Today I got to witness the culmination of nearly 5 years of organizing. The Penn State Faculty Alliance has officially filed for unionization! The gratitude I have for everyone who has worked towards this moment is immeasurable.