I’m sorry, but the April Fool’s posts about getting rid of academic departments were just not funny. And I say this as someone who laughs a lot, often in despair.

Sorry, legal scholars, but when I hear the words “viewpoint discrimination,” the only thing I can think is, “But why always Dorothea?”

No Kings #TwinCities

This was the week where the shared governance work pretty much consumed any scholarship I was trying to do.

These old canards have returned to CSULB. #waterfowl #higheres

Here we go again. We're tired of this revolving door. And we need a real say in what comes next.

i miss chubby jesse plemons and i bet kirsten does too

Rereading Ali Smith’s _Gliff_, and it seems made for this moment.

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

If Bad Bunny was serious about uniting Americans, he would have given his Grammy to Donald Trump.

Liam Conejo Ramos, the 5-year-old whose detention by ICE sparked national fervor, has landed in Minnesota with his father, Adrian Conejo Arias, Sunday morning, according to U.S. Rep. Joaquin Castro from Texas. 💙 No kid should be in ICE detention. No kid should be separated from his parents.

Colleagues, especially those in CA and in the California State University, please sign this petition. I know you've all heard the bleak news stories about our AI debacle (because people are always bringing the stories to me)!

Never mind the jobs you had, five classes you took in college: 1. Historical Geology 2. Death, Suffering, and Endurance 3. Philosophy of Mind 4. Seminar: Racine 5. Symphonic Band

The Heated Rivalry doughnuts.

I love this scene so much

After being held in two of them as a boy, I fought for decades urging America to never again build concentration camps and put human beings in them. It breaks my heart to watch this happen twice now in my own lifetime.

ICE and DHS are killing people in the streets and violating due process. Impeach Noem.

A few photos from the hilarious production of _Gwyneth Goes Skiing_ that we saw at LA Elysian Theatre over the weekend. Loved the top of the theater marquee.

Fun fact: Your local bookstore is doing more to protect you and your neighbors than Amazon is.

What have I done to abolish ICE today?

This.

From HCR today: “All it would take to end the murder of American citizens by an untrained government goon squad is 16 Republicans in Congress voting with Dem[ocrat]s to defund ICE (or 23 to impeach and remove Trump…). That’s it. 23 Americans can vote for the public and end all of this.”

We went to see _Gwyneth Goes Skiing _ in LA, and François Arnaud was in the audience!!! Of course he was super nice and willing to be in a photo with Kavita and me. How is this my life? #scotthunter #heatedrivalry

They murdered Good and Pretti, a poet and a nurse, one whose last words were “I’m not mad,” another whose last act was shielding another. Because of course that’s who they killed. Everyday people.

When we will know that we've rooted out all the "fraud" in Minneapolis, since supposedly that is the point of all this?

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

This sure seems more like the tyranny the Constitution is supposed to protect against than forgiving student loans.

Huge win for the community

Thank you, @rabihalameddine.bsky.social, for this book. Funny, angry, and beautiful.

Minneapolis.

Every new DOJ investigation sounds like something hollered by Walter Sobchak

Good to see the faculty rallying together.

Ms. Cohen is getting to the heart of the matter.

It finally happened. Someone asked me where the poetry section was in the library!

At least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"

François Arnaud doing an interview in French. That’s it, that’s the skeet.

As Academic Senate Chair, I'm just trying to deliver a high-quality email experience to all the faculty at my institution. My apologies for the errors!

Very excited that our Ann Radcliffe edition for CUP is about to make its first appearance in the form of Michael Gamer’s wonderful edition of The Italian! The first of eight volumes in the Radcliffe edition …

A day of executive cosplay that started with some good hotel lighting.

San Gabriel River Trail with crane and power lines. January 11, 2026.

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

I slept for seven hours uninterrupted. I hope all of you realize what an accomplishment this is.

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

Just so I have this right, in the first 10 days of 2026, the “anti-war” president has invaded Venezuela and Minneapolis.

Labor unions are calling for an end to violent ICE operations wreaking havoc in American cities. Join us in raising our voices in collective opposition. Link below.

It violates due process. They can’t kill us and declare us guilty as they spit on our bodies and call us bitches. They can’t turn poets into terrorists as it suits their narrative.

What is Instagram other than a constant stream of Heated Rivalry content? The algorithm has spoken. I want to tell the app, “I bought the books, and, ok ok I get it, the stars are attractive! Let me rest.”

Mentally I am still drinking a mocktail and sporting my colorful scarf and “Parisian winter” hair.