TRUMP RUINED BAD TASTE John Waters at #NoKings in Provincetown (Pic via petermarietoto on X)

I’m just not here for any demobilizing or disorganizing talk right now. If you have alternate paths and plans, issue those invitations. We need them. But demobilizing and disorganizing won’t make us stronger or better. And like it or not, in this incredibly fascist moment, this imagery does matter

For what it’s worth a lot of the people (normies) we spoke to today in St. Paul explicitly connected what trump has done to them and Minnesota with what the administration is doing to Iranians today

From my kid’s markers to god’s eyes

Slept in my Outkast shirt and woke up So Fresh, So Clean.

Slept in my Jethro Tull t shirt and woke up with locomotive breath

Slept in my Erasure t-shirt and ended up loving to hate you.

Just took my neighbor to the hospital—he’s got a lot going on and I’ll need support to support him. on the way back, saw the odessa, tx no kings rally. this town was 75% gop in 2020. not sure about that anymore

Slept in my Madonna t shirt and woke up like a virgin

Slept in my Talking Heads t shirt and woke up speaking in tongues

Slept in my Tori Amos t shirt and woke up in the Choirgirl Hotel

Slept in my Prince t-shirt, the kind you find in a second-hand store

Slept in my Madonna t shirt and woke up like a virgin

Everything went to hell after David Bowie died.

If you don’t have 2FA active on Bluesky, turn it on NOW. There’s an ongoing attack taking over accounts and spamming with links, which seems to add an “app password” for access externally. Already had one friend’s account compromised and I’m seeing others.

It's time to talk about the youth bias on mothership #DragRace. For the last several seasons, only the young queens with young styles have an actual chance of winning the whole thing. That's part of what happened tonight.

The decision by International Olympic Committee is disappointing, but not a surprise. The Anti-Trans Hate Machine has scored its latest victory, but we’ve got more fight left in us. Read my thoughts on the announcement below.

The Ground We Share Project: Free downloadable protest signs for the No Kings March on March 28th! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

NO KINGS, NYC 3.28.26 2 pm 7th Ave & Central Park South As Trump attempts to control us, it is on us, the people, to show that we will fight to protect one another and our country. We are coming together again on March 28 because we know we can overcome this repression when we unite. nokingsnyc.com

anyway whatever your specific political ideology is, if you hate these motherfuckers as much as I do show up to your local No Kings event tomorrow. yeah it’s not a solution in and of itself, but it’s probably a good and important vehicle for making your preferred solution happen

What an unfamiliar pleasure it is to say: good job Senate Dems! Keep it up.

Preorder this MUST-READ by my friend/colleague Terrell Winder!!! nyupress.org/978147982758...

Want to shout out Lavelle Porter's work on Black academic fiction because I think it resists a lot of what I also hate about how academia is depicted in pop culture. lavelleporter.com/2013/02/22/b...

Don't accept Nazi water!

Amazing from a TSA agent on ICE. Let 'em fight. www.curbed.com/article/tsa-...

kind of amazing that everything trump does can be understood through the lens of narcissism and it's related needs (e.g., self aggrandizement, revenge, domination, grievance validation). i don't think any character has been so one-dimensional, not even wile e coyote or scrooge mcduck

We are hiring a tenure track (!) senior researcher in political economy! This is obviously a great job (permanent without teaching obligation) and I hope you all apply. However, I would like to take a moment to share just how significant this is in the German academic context ⬇️

It’s kind of wild how my discussions of the Times’s poor language choices years ago regarding trans issues were dismissed as woke alarmism, then, same thing with complaints about their stories. Now, they’ve gone so far that the AMA is needing to ask for corrections.

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

I need to also get something else off my chest. I know it’s offensive. But. New Haven pizza isn’t good.

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

Please amplify: today @cuny.edu faculty, students, staff and the @psc-cuny.org delivered 5000 letters to @cunychancellor.bsky.social condemning political blacklisting at CUNY and calling for the rehiring of the Fired Fourth.

lesson here: universities are better positioned to "live their values" when faculty have real governance power. @bostonu.bsky.social's central admin wld have avoided lots of headaches by treating faculty as a partners to engage and not problems to manage. Proud of BU @aaup.org speaking out.

‘The downside of adult offloading is people get less sharp. The downside of adolescents growing up delegating to AI is a generation that was never sharp to begin with. Protecting the space our children need to develop the foundational skills of thinking is now a non-negotiable.’

Dear journalists - I wrote a book about the fate of controversial monuments in the US, so ask me for comment! (If you want to hear me repeating “fuck” over and over again until you hang up the phone)

NoKings3 is March 28. Don’t sit this one out, people.

Resegregation was the point of dropping affirmative action, so this checks out. The White Citizen’s Council agenda is winning, it just took a couple of decades.

Anti-War protest Sunday, March 22, 1PM-2PM Times Square Recruitment Center (43rd and 7th Ave) Rise and Resist joins millions of Americans in denouncing this senseless war of choice. We demand an immediate withdrawal. We demand our tax dollars go to healthcare not warfare.

The Ground We Share Project: Sharing free downloadable protest signs for the #nokings rally on March 28th! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Professors & university staff were targeted & fired for less than this just a few months ago.

A couple weeks ago I put the designated bottle of champagne back in the fridge.

Let's not play silly games over why this is happening. It is in service of placating larger forces of illiberalism in American societies. Faculty can overcome politics and push back on this. We did successfully at Harvard. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Universities should be places exploding with free expression and the contestation of ideas. That is how learning happens. It can't happen if there are burdensome limits on public displays. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/21/m...

"Democratic Backsliding and the Limits of First Amendment Legalism" is forthcoming in the U.C. Irvine Law Review. I hope to have it SSRN-ready by the end of April. If you'd like to take a look beforehand, let me know. Comments welcome!

The fetish for "family resemblance" is the second most annoying part of every #DragRace season after "What would you say to young _____?"

The gay cowboys are so delightful! #DragRace

The Gay Cowboys being more Entertaining/Shady than the ACTUAL #DragRace contestants… 👀

NEW: Democrat Jim Himes is quietly courting his own caucus to protect Kash Patel's power to access Americans' communications without a warrant, because, he says, things at the FBI seems totally fine! My latest for @wired.com