It’s like he hypnotizes them!!!

Spent my lunch break doing an activism. Yesterday evening, too. I feel like my options are 1) doomscroll and get mad or 2) doomscroll and get mad and then head offline and do something.

"Is that your daughter? Come here so I can see those IDs," an agent can be heard saying in the video. "Hey, I can give it through the door," a man is heard saying in response. "You can do it right here," the agent says, pointing to the ground in front of himself. on.nbcboston.com/3phHyWE

Looking at my calendar, and it’s like this week: PTO meeting next week: Pride committee meeting following week: educational resource fund board meeting week after that: book group And then the cycle repeats. At least everything is once/month and somehow doesn’t conflict yet?

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Universities. Rural hospitals. Tech companies. Several sectors are going to be profoundly hurt by this. Not to mention the chaos of the moment as current H1-B owners scramble to get back to the U.S., cancel travel, etc. due to the uncertainty. An absolute mess. As intended.

Disney has lost nearly $4 Billion in three days from combined stock price collapse and cancelled subscriptions.

Oh my god his wife is dean of the USC School for Communication and Journalism “board members have expressed their concerns internally over the optics of holding a free speech event at the home of the man who yanked Kimmel off the air” Interesting conversations prob going on in that house right now

That Friday evening to do list dump — all of the things that got added to the list or will get bumped to next week 🫠

This is excellent. “…the technology’s real value isn’t improving productivity, or even in improving products. Rather, it’s a social mechanism employed to ensure compliance in the workplace, and to weaken worker power.”

outstanding www.engadget.com/wearables/me...

One of the nicest things about my neighborhood — texts from neighbors who also work from home saying, “Anyone want to go for a walk?” So we’ve lined up our lunch breaks to take a group break.

This graph shows a U.S. public health triumph: near-elimination of pediatric hepatitis B through universal birth vaccination. After 30 years of extraordinary progress, ACIP tomorrow considers dismantling it. Medical justification: none. Consequences: catastrophic. www.cdc.gov/acip/downloa...

IT'S OFFICIAL: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York State, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and New York City have formed the Northeast Public Health Collaborative. The collaborative will issue their own vaccine recommendations and coordinate public health efforts.

Today is apparently the day to cancel things. My academia.edu and Disney+ accounts are gone.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

A producer told me once she has to warn young crewmembers to avoid being alone with Aykroyd. "Not because he's a creep, he's a gentleman. But if you let him strike up a conversation the next thing we know all the PAs will be huddled in his dressing room learning how humans evolved from dolphins."

During my first year at Wellesley, Edward Said gave a talk, and I want every student to have an experience like *that* — to feel the full force of a scholar’s intellect and to walk out energized and excited to learn more. Not *gestures* whatever this is.

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One of my favorite Robert Redford stories is when Mike Nichols was considering him for "The Graduate" and told him he needed to act like a guy who has struck out with women and Redford replied "what do you mean?"

Quick and silly projects. When we first moved back, I asked for some craft kits for Christmas to give me a low-key way back into crafting. A got me a 4-pack of crochet kits. I made the final two over the past week — one for M and one for A. The others are in my office. #DHMakes

I love everything about this.

I hear these flights. Adds to the cognitive dissonance of daily life.

Today ended up being rough on several levels, and I’m really sad. We are okay. But there was bad news and difficult news, and in a reasonable world, I’d take time to sort and process, but we don’t have that, so I’ll try to get some sleep and keep going, I guess.

Kid is talking on the phone with a friend and has the most ridiculous giggle — kid is *wheezing* with laughter. Here for the sheer silliness of tweens.

Brexit wasn’t bad enough?

I love that @ahmetasabanci.com has launched an independent futures studio. From the announcement: "Tuhaf Studio approaches the future as something we create and not something that happens to us. Meaning, my work won’t be about taking a passive position about the futures..." (1/2)

Surprising no one, I got over covid, interviewed, and joined another board. I am now on three local committees/boards, and they are complementary, and I am really grateful that I can contribute to the place where we live and where our child goes to school.

JUST IN: All job sectors except healthcare are down. We are in a “no hire” economy. And unemployment for young people just hit 10%. - Bureau of Labor Statistics

I just saw a fox!!! It’s a cool morning, and I walked M to the school bus — we had too many cooped up covid days. On the way back, something trotted up from behind a house — a cat? No. We both startled and stared, and then it dashed across the street and disappeared behind another house.

In response to the 39% tariff Trump placed on Swiss good, Swatch released a new watch available only in Switzerland for 139 Swiss francs. The 3 and the 9 on the clock face are reversed. www.rts.ch/info/economi...

NYT on the alleged messages on the shooter's weapon:

What on earth is “transgender ideology” and how does one engrave it on a bullet?

The cognitive dissonance of going through regular, everyday life against this backdrop of ever-increasing chaos and violence is really getting to me.

A GoFundMe for the instructor who was fired at Texas A&M!

It’s only Wednesday. My goodness this week.

I agree but this case is even worse: it appears that the detailed course description* explicitly mentions that it will explore how gender and sexuality are depicted in YA literature. *As the reddit poster mentions, there's some confusion and possible misreporting of which course she's teaching.

This whole thing is a shameful farce on the way to the end of higher education, where we just let students choose their own syllabi, put whatever they want into AI, & give them A’s without attending class. We should just pack it in if we’re heading down this road: bsky.app/profile/mcop...

2010: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines do I need to get beforehand? 2025: I'm going to a foreign country. What vaccines should I get while I'm there?

Any actually sound intellectual response from the university would have started with "there's no such thing as 'our president's laws.'"

This was a children’s literature course. The lecturer was also fired. The student was upset that the lecturer said trans people exist.

Seems like very sound judgement to me.

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This is 100% going to be used to put ICE agents outside polling stations in areas where they want to suppress the vote.

“indiscriminate” is a helluva way to say discriminatory

Some headlines shouldn’t be combined…

And that was an Air Force plane that just flew over. Not loving this.

“let me take a shot at the menswear guy, right after I get off the phone with isaac chotiner”