Just another afternoon thinking about how Florida doesn’t have a state labor department (because Jeb Bush abolished it) and how the state’s minimum wage is basically left up to an honor system because the state takes little action to enforce it. www.orlandoweekly.com/news/florida...

The BoT at Auburn shares a dream with Sal Khan, Bill Gates, David Coleman, Arne Duncan, & many more: that teachers become meat-puppets regurgitating a carefully-scripted curriculum of cruelty & capitalist apologia for which students pay a premium. It’s a stupid, impossible dream. And harmful.

All of this, plus, wtf Outlook?? Just stop.

BREAKING: Adam Hoffman has been released from jail for "good behavior." Hoffman is the Waco, TX attorney who faced life without parole for repeatedly raping a young boy, until Texas AG Ken Paxton offered him 1 day in jail and no need to register as a sex offender.

Hard to argue with this part!!!

Worked at JPL while studying at Caltech back in the early 1990s. This is a nightmare-level theft of a planetary science & exploration powerhouse. It makes no sense whatsoever. Republicans' continued vandalism of NASA's science centers is intolerable.

Prize: Victorian Poetry Early Career Essay Prize (Deadline: 8/3/2026) navsa.org/News/13633275

Raskin: "This is about funding, or pre-funding, Donald Trump's private militia"

I GET LOGGED OUT. BUT I LOG IN AGAIN

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Thousands are marching in Selma calling for a full restoration of the voting rights act.

"“It’s possible that we’re starting to see the consequences of severe and sudden cuts to global health programs that have eroded surveillance and allowed deadly viruses to spread undetected...” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/w...

babe, wake up, new form of mansplaining just dropped

Speaking of "the same system of kill," the U.S. killed two more civilians in the Pacific yesterday. And they suspended the search for the shipwrecked civilian from April 11. The death toll of these extrajudicial killings now exceeds 170.

I've updated my database of clerical naturalists to include 31 women who were both active naturalists and active in their church, including Margaret Gatty, pictured. They're all in the main list, but I've also created a separate page to highlight them. www.brycchancarey.com/naturalists/...

“.. Ten years ago today, Donald Trump said he would pay off the national debt in the span of just eight years.” @reason.com reason.com/2026/03/31/1...

Approximately 1,000 US soldiers with the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division are expecting to deploy to the Middle East, according to sources familiar with the matter, adding to the growing military firepower in the region as the Trump administration says it is in talks with Iran to end the conflict.

This is utterly extraordinary. If Hegseth et al got this wrong, think what else is happening with the drug boat strikes and much more. The U.S. Said It Helped Bomb a Drug Camp. It Was a Dairy Farm. Gets worse as you read it. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/w...

the human body was not designed to know what the worst person in the world is doing every fifteen minutes

I know this has circulated with alacrity recently, so you may have already seen it, but if you haven't... WOW BOY HOWDY it's the most useful thing. Thank you cardcatalogforlife.substack.com -- this is a very very very helpful public service: cardcatalogforlife.substack.com/p/google-has...

Warming oceans and waterways threaten a key human protein source

This is insane.

After working with the U.S. military in Afghanistan, Mohommad Nazeer Paktyawal died in the country he spent years of his life helping. The cruelty is endless.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.

I don’t think this shit will work but i never want to hear about free speech from any trumpers or anti anti trumpers ever again, fuck off forever bsky.app/profile/cram...

Damn we were going to assign these for class in 2 weeks who has copies? Please dm!

I thought the goal was to put federal workers in trauma?

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Watch this clip. Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

There have been some very bad developments today.

My dog may confuse close-reading a paper with close-eating it, but I bet you don't. Please consider applying to this guaranteed MLA27 session, and help us spread the word! (Official, 35-word CFP on MLA page linked below; more detailed CFP in alt-text with side-eye dog.)

--..."unfortunately AI models are not perfect,” a Google spokesman said in a statement.--

I originally read the name as Rachel Dolezal and had to do a double take.

The games begin!! Texas is seeing massive turn out in primary!! Dallas County judge extended Texas voting 2 hrs because the Republicans changed the voting location requirement, creating massive confusion! It was reported that one loc turned away over half the voters! Election info site crashed! 🤔

Rubio Today: It’s false to say I said the U.S. had to attack because Israel was going to attack. That’s not what I said. Rubio Yesterday: We knew Israel was going to strike Iran, and that would trigger attacks on U.S. forces. If we didn’t act first, Americans would suffer higher casualties.

Straight up

A big part of the authoritarian playbook is war. War takes over the news. War blots out criticism. War divides a nation’s people, subjecting those against it to being called unpatriotic. War grants leaders all sorts of emergency powers. War consumes everything else. We mustn’t let this war do so.

Nine months ago, the United States "completely and totally obliterated" Iran's nuclear program. Tonight, we're attacking Iran to disrupt their nuclear program. A sizable percentage of this country thinks that's normal.

After the arrests of powerful men across the world, you might be asking why the US has so much trouble holding its leaders accountable for lawbreaking. Since Nixon, all three branches of government have worked hard to ensure they can break the law with impunity www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The FBI Director, everyone. You paid for it.

His whole exercise reminds me of the “Who goes Nazi” essay from WW2. harpers.org/2015/12/who-...

A lot of people, including me, were wondering how an IRB could ever approve this study. The answer is that no IRB did. The person who “signed off” on approval from the only ethics board that reviewed it had resigned three years earlier. His signature was used without his knowledge.