Glad parts of the Eno are back open, but looks like it's a long haul before it's back to "normal." indyweek.com/news/chantal...

Lovely piece about beavers who have improved a stretch of Rocky Branch creek near NC State. lithub.com/how-mutualis...

"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...

Whatever you do, please don’t stop reading. Read for joy. Read for education. Read for resistance. Read banned books. Read books by marginalized authors. Read about experiences that differ from your own. Just. Keep. Reading.

I am bummed that we cannot watch Only Murders and Abbott Elementary, but I think @tightheadpop.bsky.social did the right thing canceling our Hulu/Disney+ bundle. #BoycottDisney

This is good news. Thanks, @joshsteinnc.bsky.social! www.wunc.org/health/2025-...

Durham! Join jazz great Nnenna Freelon and friends for the launch of her new memoir, "Beneath the Skin of Sorrow" next month at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University. The event is free, but tickets are required, so get yours now. buff.ly/iYf1tzw

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Here’s what a Ball State University employee said that led to their termination:

WGA Statement on ABC’s Decision to Pull Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

"This isn't who we are," says nation whose history books are a bunch of redactions

Anyway, now we know what the FCC thinks is in the public interest: Fox host advocating for executing homeless people? Yes ABC comic suggesting Trumpers are using a death cynically? No

With friends like these ...

Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Words are not violence, nor are they powerless. . . . If you would look away from the words of Charlie Kirk, from what else would you look away?" www.vanityfair.com/news/story/c...

This is so lovely. I've said it before, libraries and librarians are the best! slate.com/life/2025/09...

A smart Judith Butler response to @ucberkeleyofficial.bsky.social www.thenation.com/article/soci...

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

Next time someone on the right claims all the political violence in this country is coming from the left, not the right, do please show them this. You're welcome

Robert Redford, the big-screen idol turned Oscar-winning director, Sundance Film Festival founder and environmental activist, died on Tuesday. He was 89. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/m...

My optimism here is limited, but I really hope centrist institutions like universities and major news organizations understand that the plan is for the govt to dismantle them. They do not care if you fire your columnists or discipline staff for accurately quoting Kirk. They just want us all gone.

I am so thrilled for Jeff Hiller and hope his win leads more people to discover the wonderful show "Somebody, Somewhere," one of the realest, most caring shows of the past few years. www.theatlantic.com/culture/arch...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

i have said this before but when “getting rid of race in admissions” for the administration means “you can’t even try to reach out to underrepresented communities and encourage them to apply and if you do it is illegal discrimination against white people” then the actual goal here is segregation

NPR reports over 30 people have been fired, put on leave or faced calls to resign over social media posts criticizing Charlie Kirk or issues around his assassination. Seems odd those supporting his open debate style seemingly want to limit debate on him. https://loom.ly/m_0MjDM

If the right *truly* believed Charlie Kirk was a defender of free speech and someone who was fine with dissenting opinions, they wouldn't be engaged in a massive campaign to punish anyone who didn't "mourn him properly." They clearly know all of that is bullshit. Only the media was conned.

wrote on charlie kirk for the newsletter this weekend

Behold, the best 9/11 humor of all time: The Onion's TV listings (my favorite row is MTV)

It is quite simply dishonest to describe TPUSA as a “free speech” organization and not even mention the “Professor Watchlist,” as NPR just did. Reporting on a crime does not entail adopting the victim’s views.

When you publish a website that posts the names and photos of scholars who have written or said things you disagree with and encourage people to surveil and harass them, you are not, in fact, a “free speech” organization.

"We’re currently experiencing an AI bubble. . . . If that bubble bursts, it could put the dot-com crash to shame—and the tech giants and their Silicon Valley backers won’t be the only ones who suffer."

More than 300k Black women being pushed out of the labor market while white men gained 365k more jobs is what we mean when we refer to racism as systemic.

The Epstein files are still not public because hundreds of House Republicans are obstructing their release at the request of Trump

So much for the freedom to make personal decisions about our own bodies that all those anti-mandate people were moaning about.

This guy is clearly unfamiliar with the North Carolina legislature.

Wow. "We are in the unique position of being a well-resourced university that has been so reckless with our resources that we now have to make decisions as if we were a poor one." www.insidehighered.com/news/admissi...

"A collection of empty chairs is called an author reading." Ouch.

What a wonderful idea. Libraries are the best! www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/c...

So gross. Apparently paying workers as little as possible is "good business." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

We are outraged and deeply distressed that armed federal agents came onto our campus—making arrests on the very ground where, in 1942, Japanese American families were forced to board buses bound for concentration camps. It was a deliberate act of provocation and intimidation.

your occasional obnoxious reminder that publishers have specific expertise about publishing that authors don't *ducks*

This former model, with no background in history, has been put in charge of curating what is "appropriate" at the National Museum of African American History.

HOW MANY TIMES MUST WE DO THIS?! You cannot "predict" crime just like you cannot predict 100% of car accidents. Things just happen. People have free will. What you create is a prejudice machine, made unquestionable and legitimized by "math" and "science" that destroys the presumption of innocence.

I think it's important to remember that conservatives don't care about crime or "disorder", they want to be able to use the force of the state to prevent anyone from acting in a way they don't personally approve of, and that's what's going on in DC. Crime's just how they justify it.

That's a lot of money to waste on traitors

I keep thinking of how in Nazi-occupied Denmark, if a Nazi walked into a bar, everyone would pay up and walk out.

Very sad. We may lose so many programs that support North Carolina tourism and agriculture. indyweek.com/culture/pbs-...

Great thread. Disgusting that they are going to put this back up.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages