Hard agree. I feel that the books and articles and things they buy are the heart of the learning. I feel this as a writer and as a reader, and also as a person who converses with others to learn about their experiences. The readings are the key things, the core elements, not add-ons or expenses.

www.latimes.com/politics/sto... I'm extremely interested to see if Olympic athletes will respond to the certain enshittification of the LA Games. Swimmers, especially, are super excited for the LA Games to showcase the sport. Will they be excited to have the Games ruined by the President?

Can confirm that, in my just-concluded trip to Europe, many friends and family who have visited the US previously or had it on their list of travel goals are not coming because of word of tourist detentions and overall state of upheaval.

Did ChatGPT write this?

I don't think NYT should know peace until they divulge the full chain of decision making that led to the laundering of Nazi propaganda against a leading anti-fascist politician the same day fascism was codified in Congress.

Well, he resigned, and I cannot possibly see the logic. It will protect no one and nothing at UVA; it in fact emboldens the bullies. There is no golden parachute worth protecting at the cost of a university. A final act of extremely middling leadership.

I cannot emphasize enough how dumb it would be for Ryan to resign. There might be enough Youngkin stooges on the BOV to fire him (I'm not sure, even though it has tipped more right-wing with Youngkin appointees), but you've got to make them fire you.

Today's No Kings protest march in Chicago's Loop was extremely impressive -- for its normie energy, for its size, and for the quality of the witticisms on various signs.

Geez, it’s like when the Chicago Cubs were hiring an archivist.

UVA's acquisition of this site is a classic shitty university move. It was awarded to the city school system for a pre-K site; in the course of application, the city asked UVA to withdraw its competing application. It didn't; the DofEd then rescinded Cville's award + gave the site to UVA.

Robert Smigel’s tribute to George Wendt is really great

RIP George Wendt, aka "Norm!" but I know him best as Bill Swerski of the Superfans

Going to need Mark Carney and the Canadian diplomacy apparatus to step up here.

The Pope at Game 1 of the 2005 World Series. No wonder the White Sox swept the ‘Stros

As I’ve told many people who are the subjects of my stories, I have no control and no involvement in writing headlines. But within 15 minutes of the white smoke going up, I did say DIS was the only possible front page headline!

Genuinely has anyone *ever* been owned so badly as a man who converts to a new religion as an adult and sorta makes it his whole thing only to see the literal head of that religion rebuke his entire deal and then they choose the NEXT head of the religion specifically because he doesn't like you

One of those guys who showed promise to do so much good as a youth and ended up doing so much evil.

A nation of sanity and strategic voting.

RIP Hudson Bay Company. There was no easier way to identify a Canadian than seeing the HBC stripes on someone. Seriously, I did love that place.

In every institutional comparison, in every standard of faculty evaluation, @virginiatech.bsky.social claims "peer institutions" with far higher ranking, status, ambition, resources. Every time, I laugh. Now is the time to live up to those aspirations, VT. The way is clear. This is what matters.

This is a brilliant account, but this pairing tonight is an absolute masterpiece. Go Broncos!

Western Michigan is going to win the NCAA Hockey Championship. Unreal. Good for them.

Go Broncos!

🔥 📝 FOLKS — I'm working on a piece for Slate about the NEH cuts. If you've been affected in ANY way and would be willing to talk with me, please message me! I would love to learn more and include your story. katina [at] katinarogers [dot] com #humanities #neh #education #highered

"The modern major university presidency has become largely one of fundraising and managing all that goes into and comes out of fundraising. That made sense in a different era. But it’s a different skillset than leading a bulwark of civil society during an attempted autocratic takeover." ...

Doug Holtz-Eakin? Now that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time. I guess he has moved on from kneecapping Obamacare to... *checks notes*... advocating the purchase of Greenland.

@durbin.senate.gov is also bad at politics.

@schumer.senate.gov is bad at politics.

Sen @schumer.senate.gov is very bad at politics.

Sen @schumer.senate.gov is extremely bad at politics.

"Mr. Zeldin’s move effectively ends three decades of work at the E.P.A. to try to ease the pollution that burdens poor and minority communities, which are frequently located near highways, power plants, industrial plants and other polluting facilities." -- www.nytimes.com/2025/03/11/c...

i think shutting the government down is preferably to nullifying article i of the constitution

After seeing the title, it took me about two clicks and three seconds to conclude this book is a grift.

Lots of leaders of colleges and other key institutions are staying silent, either out of fear or a misguided view of "neutrality." But not Michael Roth. wapo.st/4k1ueQt

Johns Hopkins to join a lawsuit against NIH. The American Association of Land Grant Colleges and Universities is a party, as well, but I think it's time to see Virginia Tech step up here with something more than a Susan Collins-esque expression of "concern" www.thebaltimorebanner.com/education/hi...

Oh, great.

The CIA being ovethrown by a right-wing coup is, one must admit, a pretty hilarious outcome for the Agency

Trudeau has to be kicking himself for announcing his resignation before Trump taking office. Nothing could have been better for Trudeau's electoral prospects than having Trump as an adversary; he knows how to counter Trump's erratic nature with tough-guy competence and gives up nothing in return.

Chuck Schumer is extremely bad at politics.

Chuck Schumer is so bad at politics, it boggles my mind.

I saw him give a talk at Roosevelt University in Chicago about 15 years ago and, even though he was about 85 or so, I was like, "dang, this guy is still fully in the game." A great model.

Universities like my institution, @virginiatech.bsky.social, must stand up to this. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

RIP George Tice — The photography legend is dead at 86. www.flakphoto.news/p/rip-george...

This thread of good and meaningful reduction in auto traffic in New York feels like a necessary antidote to the news about the climate crisis and the fires in LA. It works! One is not the solution for the other but every policy battle over energy and urbanism is a worthy one.