Harvard's right-wing student magazine defends itself from charges that it invoked lines from Hitler by insisting that it did not intentionally use Nazi language, but came upon this "blood and soil" thinking organically. In other words, it's how young conservatives see things now. Take that in.

For those of you keeping score, 18-22 year-old students calling for an end to slaughter in Gaza are so racist they need to be expelled or deported, but 24-35 year-olds celebrating Hitler, rape, and, um, racism are just kids being kids so chill. Also, racism is over so no need for Voting Right Act.

*Court rules that Trump's policies are illegal but allows them to stand anyway* is the best summary of America in 2025 I know.

We're approaching the 30th anniversary of the great Chicago heat wave, when 739 people died and the world got a preview of the social and ecological crises that have now become so common. I spoke with @wbez.org about the significance of the Chicago disaster, and what we've failed to learn.

“Drill baby drill” is a climate policy. Gutting the EPA and FEMA is a climate policy. Cutting access to climate and weather data is a climate policy. Taxing renewables is a climate policy. Defunding NSF, NOAA, and NASA is climate policy. Watching families & communities grieve is a consequence.

Arrest a judge on Friday morning. Deport a 2 year-old citizen on Friday afternoon. Attend the pope's funeral on Saturday.

Chilling report from Brown University. Administration advises all foreign students, staff, and faculty to postpone or reconsider (ie cancel) international travel, due to federal government's crackdown on universities. Brown also warns against *domestic travel* -since it's unclear what ICE will do.

One columnist, a professional pundit, is living in a paranoid delusion. The other, a sociologist, is living in America.

Do you value your library? Trump just ordered the dismantling of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the key source of federal support for libraries. Libraries are vital social infrastructure, the foundations of an open, democratic society. Gutting them means gutting our own communities.

We Were Wrong About What Happened to America in 2020. Republicans insist the pandemic didn't happen. Democrats insist we move on. But Americans are still stuck in 2020. We're angry, distrustful, divided. Alone and abandoned. Solidarity is scarce. Five years later, it's time for a reckoning.

Paperbacks! Just in time for the fifth anniversary, and still so much to learn. @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social @vintagebooks.bsky.social

Disasters speed up and make visible conditions that are always present but difficult to see.

Huge night here at NYU. An undergrad trying to fix their grade accidentally discovered how to email 11,000 instructors on a secret group email list, unifying the faculty like no one before. I have hundreds of email replies in my inbox. And apparently Onions, the puppy, has just been granted tenure.