"Here's the Truth About Trump's 'Peace Plan' for Gaza" The US allowed Netanyahu to create four key loopholes in the deal to ensure Israel can continue its Gaza genocide - regardless of the 'ceasefire' deal. Read/share/subscribe:

What a day!!!

One thing that growing older, gaining wisdom, and surviving child loss does is remove the need for external validation by others. In the past, I have attracted emotionally detached ppl who wd have difficulty expressing or accepting authentic connection. Tragedy teaches you that u only have room for

On National Coming Out Day, know that I will always be an ally to you — no matter where you are on your journey. I know that times may be scary, but you are seen, safe, supported, and loved here in Illinois.

Per CDC source: At internal leadership meeting this afternoon, it was shared that 1,257 people were RIF'd at CDC. Number may not be final. Apparently, chief of staff was unaware that RIFs were going to occur so not clear who is making decisions. (Short 🧵)

#Ithaca #TompkinsCounty Come through!

Just a reminder, the layoffs in govt were just done out of spite, not necessity

Jerusalem artichoke showing off in my vegetable patch this afternoon. It’s about 3 m tall!

Fascinating interview with historian Miranda Spieler about her new book on the policing of slavery and enslaved people's lives in 18th-century Paris, the center of the European enlightenment. 🗃 #slaveryarchive newbooksnetwork.com/slaves-in-pa...

Give thanks.

Climate(.)gov wasn't built in a day. It wasn't even built in a year. It is a big, complicated site that we don't just want to rebuild but also improve with Climate.us. Realistically, this is going to take some time. However, we want to take a moment to remind people what it is that we... (1/3)

Bringing together stories of environment and Empire, genocide and ecocide, war and peace – Sunil Amrith's The Burning Earth is a razor-sharp study of accountability for the climate crisis. The Burning Earth is shortlisted for the British Academy Book Prize. Learn more here https://bit.ly/3WsTunW

MIT rejects "the Compact" orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Here's a snippet from the MIT president's letter to ED

they can see the polling

Join us for our next Linnean Lens with Jonathan Ablett as he tells the stories of some of the amazing specimens of molluscs held in the Linnean collection, and their place in the wider context of mollusc collection across the UK and Ireland 📅 4 Nov 🕑 2–3PM 📍 Online, free Book here: buff.ly/810bNOy

I hope academics are paying attention 2 how departments are treating faculty/staff/students in these times. And those in leadership who refuse to see the enormity of the chaos and what it threatens are failing in their ability to lead. Some are using the time to make ppl less secure about their jobs

Times are really terrible right now/ I hate that they are. However I was notified today that my manuscript in progress will be published by Louisiana State University Press. big thx to Rand Dotson! "Pest Control: Birds, Black Folk, and the History of Environmental Consciousness in the U.S. South"

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

The administration offer is a tempting one though: Big financial gains for any university willing to convert itself from a factory of ideas to a slaughterhouse of democracy.

Almost time for our keynote to open day two of sessions, Solidarity in action. Join us for a panel on responding to the rise of the far right and populist politics, drawing on observations from the United States and looking at how museums and museum workers are strategising. #Museums2025

Never forget that Dolly Parton gave a million bucks for covid research at the *very start* of the pandemic—including money that helped fund the development of the Moderna vaccine.

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

New post on creating.care - staying informed without staying inflamed creating.care/p/staying-in...

Good. In-group pressure and shame works.

Trump’s hatred for renewables means the US is falling behind the rest of the world

Trump’s treatment of immigrants is cruel, inhumane and unacceptable. And as they pump money into ICE and for-profit detention centers it will only get worse. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

Just talking about this recently given our state’s current shenanigans. I sincerely believe that this happened because of the business influencer consulting industry. Whole guide books out there about getting appointed to a university board to build your brand.

When they say "enemy within" that's fascism.

Majority Report: Trump Launches a $10 B Spying Operation Targeting American Liberals, Classifying Some As Pre-Terrorist The directive follows a year long effort to build an unprecedented national surveillance operation ZEV SHALEV SEP 28 open.substack.com/pub/narativ/...

"Presenting music from 1687 through the 1860s in modern treble clef and banjo tablature, along with the rich stories behind each song, Gaddy and Giddens take readers on a journey from the Caribbean across the Americas." This book looks absolutely wonderful for musicians and historians alike.

What autocracy does to the ordinary: it makes leaders’ mere words carry the force of law (or force) and makes law carry the force of mere words. The result is an ipse dixet world of cartoon signatures and shadow docket declarations. Language has indeed gone on holiday.

Preorder SMOKE DRIFTS this #TranslationMonth! In this @worldpoetrybooks.bsky.social collection—translated by Diana Arterian and Marina Omar—Nadia Anjuman draws on “the lineage of Persian and Sufi writing and her life under Taliban rule.” worldpoetrybooks.com/books/smoke-...

Assata Shakur has "died in Havana, Cuba, as a result of health conditions and her advanced age." She was 78.

Proud of my colleagues! 🗃 www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Dr. Quintard Taylor was a renowned historian & educator, a respected author, a Fulbright Scholar, & the visionary behind BlackPast, a site that publishes accessible research on Black history. It has evolved into the world’s largest online encyclopedia for Black history blackpast.org/blackpast-or...

‘Citizen historians' are documenting the Smithsonian to track historical erasure over time. www.capeandislands.org/2025-09-22/w... If you visit the Smithsonian, particularly the NMAAHC, take and share pictures.

This ad was published in a Charleston, SC newspaper in 1857. (Transcription in Alt text.) #slaveryarchive 🗃

I got raptured but I kept info-dumping about the history of Midwest emo, so they sent me back.

That awkward moment when the Rapture™️falls on the same day as Bruce Springsteen, John Coltrane, and my mother Helen's birthday. Happy Birthday to these Libra geniuses! Happy Birthday Mom!

Coming in 2026!

Y. Rodriguez’s URBAN FOLK TALES is on our reading list for #HispanicHeritageMonth! This short story collection from @readfuriously.bsky.social explores “the miraculous and the mundane scenes that play up and down the avenues of New York City.” readfuriously.com/products/urb...

Visual evidence of me going 'looks like there's a better path over there'

At least it is not Libe slope, no? 😀

Sunday errands in Ithaca, NY means walking up quite a few hills.