Happy Homecoming.

If any IU alums out there are interested in taking part in a coordinated response to IU’s attack on the Media School and the IDS, please slide into my DM’s and drop your email. #IU #IUB #iufb Please share widely!

The Trump/Musk/Rubio gutting of USAID is the defining moral atrocity of this regime (so far)

Yesterday: university boasts about the "largest living alumni network in the nation." Also yesterday: a boneheaded decision leads one of the university's most prominent alumni to complain on social media. In under a day, his post draws nearly twice as many views as the size of said alumni network.

UPDATE: Following the firing of the director of the student newspaper, Indiana University has now cut the print edition of the newspaper entirely. www.idsnews.com/article/2025...

"Ahead of our Oct 16th edition... the Media School directed us to print no news in the paper, an order blatantly in defiance of our editorial independence and Charter... nothing but information about homecoming — no other news at all, and particularly no traditional front page news coverage."

Indiana University has fired the staff director of the student newspaper, after disputes in which university leadership tried to pressure him to prevent students from publishing news.

The paperback edition of my book OPUS goes on sale TODAY With a new afterword bringing the story up to date, including details of Opus Dei’s links to Project 2025, the human trafficking case against it—and the challenge Pope Leo faces in holding this abusive cult to account

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 elimination of USAID is a moral atrocity and all involved made a choice to enable, and then lie about, ending the lives of some of the most vulnerable people in the world.

Under the Third Reich, most Germans generally lived in the law-bound normative state, while Jews and other disfavored people were victims of the arbitrary and violent prerogative state. The dual state is characterized by the facade of normalcy obscuring the fact of an authoritarian state.

Sending troops from Texas to forcefully occupy and suppress cities in Illinois and Oregon IN OPPOSITION TO THOSE STATES' GOVERNORS is literally a civil war and it's cooking my brain that Democrats are simply pretending it isn't happening

this is also white nationalist framing straight from the Jim Crow era, as if Joy Reid citizenship is a gift from Vance, whose belonging is of course unquestioned it’s what @profkori.bsky.social would call “know your place aggression”

Reading Rainbow… is back! 🥹 This LeVar Burton/Reading Rainbow raised human is feeling all of the library joy. We hope your kids believe they belong in books, just like you ✨ Take a look, it’s in a book 📚🌈🦋🌌 youtu.be/gHAIjSkmnYI?...

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety. www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Please call Cook County DA and ask them to drop charges against the group of protesters arrested in Chicago yesterday: (312) 603-1880 This is particularly for Illinois residents, but national calls couldn’t hurt.

If one person starts yelling, it’s easy from there. Don’t be afraid to be the first person to start yelling at a Nazi

A Nazi interrupted Psych 201 at the University of Washington. He was chased out of the room. Then out of the building. Then across the square. This is how Nazis should be dealt with. More angles in the replies. www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

More bad news re: the authoritarian takeover of the Humanities: thehill.com/homenews/adm...

Good breakdown of how shutdown affects different agencies. (Also a good example of the type of in-depth factual communication that traditional media still does better than alternative media). www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

perennial reminder that most other countries don’t regularly shut themselves down

OMG this William G. Young opinion that just dropped (12:30pm) in AAUP v. Rubio. It begins with a postcard sent to Chambers and Young's reply card: "Trump has pardons and tanks, what do you have?" WGY: "We the People of the United States — you and me — have our magnificent Constitution"

New Hampshire and Vermont could be next to introduce "balcony solar" [via @canarymedia.com]

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

CALL TO ACTION The bill to legalize human composting in MA is scheduled for a hearing on MONDAY. You can help by spending a few minutes sending an email of support, or testifying in person. Info & instructions here: www.orderofthegooddeath.com/.../calls-to...

Cuomo could never.

A good ad on the DC Metro

“On Sept. 20, with hidden cameras recording the scene, Homan accepted $50,000 in bills, according to an internal summary of the case.” Homan was being investigated for allegedly “soliciting payments in exchange for awarding contracts should Trump win the election” www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...

Can't wait for the Defunctland video about thd United States of America where he gets to the bit about Kimmel and gets to exclaim "ENTER MICHAEL EISNER"

"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...

Did they think no one would notice the change? www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...

Fellow #StarTrek fans: the writers told us what to look for. We are seeing it now.

You know things are rough when the AAUP's advice on how to use social media is just "set all your accounts to private."

Kirk’s alleged killer spent almost no time at a traditional university. But that logic hasn’t mattered to figures like Trump confidante Laura Loomer, who posted on X that it was “time to defund American universities.”

Exclusive: No evidence of primary residence violation by Fed Gov Lisa Cook, says Michigan official reut.rs/46oyGCX

1. Trump threatened every hospital that provides gender affirming care to transgender youth. Many complied and shut down their programs. Boston Children's Hospital didn't. They fought back and kept providing care. And now, they just beat Trump in court. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The USDOE has cut funding for more than a dozen language and culture programs at Indiana University, on the grounds that they "do not advance American interests or values." IU has long been a leader in these fields, but something tells me--leadership won't push back. www.ipm.org/news/2025-09...

Driven by the pain of endometriosis, this scientist is uncovering clues to its causes Via Science

The belief that poverty and homelessness are about "individual choices" didn't arise on its own. It was manufactured through decades of messaging designed to protect the policies and interests that create mass precarity. As this new poll shows, that propaganda campaign has been wildly successful.

This point from Sotomayor: what Kavanaugh is proposing to shift administrative burdens from the state to the individual, with the widely-agreed upon expectation that the burdens will fall heavier on some groups more than others.

DOGE, he said, began acting like “a bunch of people who didn’t know what they were doing, with ideas of how government should run — thinking it should work like a McDonald’s or a bank — screaming all the time.” @propublica.org www.propublica.org/article/insi...

THEY ARE BUILDING A TENT CITY FOR THE NATIONAL GUARD SO THEY HAVE SOMEWHERE TO STAY AS THEY TEAR DOWN HOMELESS PEOPLE’S TENTS FOR ONE MILLION DOLLARS A DAY

A quick bit of journalism reveals that at least three members of Trump's cabinet claimed more than one property as their primary residence, and I'm starting to wonder whether Trump's attacks on Lisa Cook reflect a sincere concern about mortgage fraud. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Imagine at your summer internship a guy gives a talk about how women generally have lower IQ. It's awkward enough that a senior administrator later explains that the talk was inappropriate. Now, imagine reading that the President has nominated this person to lead a major govt agency!

we need a label for UK politicians who endlessly "empathise" with fascist concerns - let's try a US one my latest with @prospectmagazine.co.uk www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/709...

"Our good deans aren’t holding back the worst; they are legitimating it." One of many stark warnings in an interview with Prof. Ben Robinson, who was sanctioned by IU (Indiana University) following a single anonymous complaint. 1/ academeblog.org/2025/09/02/t...

Breaking news: The Trump administration illegally withheld billions from Harvard University for alleged violations of rules against antisemitism, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

A few months ago, the Foundation Review published a paper co-authored by myself about disaster preparedness among community philanthropic orgs. Today the Dorothy Johnson Center announced a half day workshop on October 8th as a response to the paper. johnsoncenter.org/event/a-disa...