Honest advice: are you nervous about boosting your own work? Then boost other people's. What books made you stay up too late? What books entered your life when you needed them most? Yell about that! Help people find those books, too.

Had the pleasure of getting to interview @cetracey.bsky.social about her new book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History.

It's vibes but that we're getting so little information about the A-10 that crashed just gives me a feeling that the administration is doing everything they can to deny, hide, and slow-roll the fact that it was also shot down.

Had the pleasure of getting to interview @cetracey.bsky.social about her new book Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History.

If you want to write about the demolition of the US Forest Service with some historical context, our Tracking the Effects: Environmental History and the Current United States Federal Administration series is accepting submissions on an ongoing basis. niche-canada.org/2025/04/11/c... #envhist

Just realised that the men's boat race may be the greatest sporting event as, no matter who wins, you get to see a group of posh men be disappointed

To this it must be added: there’s no American exceptionalism. There’s no idea of America as a city on the hill. All of that I think becomes terrifying to right-wing Catholics once they actually see how the Church works.

I gave up on Twitter pretty easily (needed to separate myself from Academic Twitter's bullshit and start over), and while I never fully quit Mastodon I set it into a very specific niche. It's fine. But if the worst came to pass...it would really suck.

Why are we all perseverating about Bluesky right now? Did something happen?

*Me once again suffering through the Pelant storyline in Bones*

What's your most shameful take, the one you wish wasn't true, but you can't undo? Mine is that I don't think Lower Decks is funny. I like it, but the jokes and references don't make me laugh. I just kinda nod at them.

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

As a general rule, "I'm better than this {task}" or "I shouldn't have to do this" about ordinary, rote shit is throwing up major red flags, whether as a partner or an employee.

Everything feels just so incredibly chaotic right now. We’re living through what experts call a polycrisis Last month, we broke it down in this series. It feels like a good time to resurface it 🧵 1/

Come work with us! Building something new in the end times is a really special thing to get to do

@lollardfish.bsky.social is in Salon today. www.salon.com/2026/04/02/n...

This is my second op-ed for the Dispatch in six months, this time co-authored with Morgan Harper. Part of my resolution about living here going forward was raising hell about politics to make this place better. Looking forward to continuing that.

Ha, what an asshole.

New @resistantcommpod.bsky.social with Ijeoma Oluo! @ijeomaoluo.bsky.social discusses the history of multiracial labor organizing, general strike strategy, and abolitionist community building in Seattle. Listen to Ijeoma Oluo's Resistant Communiqués episode: bit.ly/rc2026ijeomaoluo

i shit you not

This is my second op-ed for the Dispatch in six months, this time co-authored with Morgan Harper. Part of my resolution about living here going forward was raising hell about politics to make this place better. Looking forward to continuing that.

Hmm, whitey's on the moon

DO NOT USE CLAUDE AD YOUR DEVELOPMENTAL EDITOR OH MY GOD you can hire someone like me instead

So what this describes is ethnic cleansing www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/w...

Coming to pay homage to the Promised Prince. (I’ve created a whole mythology around the rabbits in my neighborhood, and central to that is that while they detest me personally, they regard my son as a messiah figure.)

The other thing is that there are public humanities platforms (Origins at OSU, Zocalo Public Square at ASU) that offer a similar public platform and pay their writers.

stand by this: www.patreon.com/posts/better...

Knives out, folks: we're critiquing The Conversation again.

ACADEMICS SHOULD TALK BLUNTLY ABOUT MONEY (and should not write for free)

Signal-boosting this for somebody who really needs some good news and help after a tough break. Cc: @jamellebouie.net @theferocity.bsky.social @alexwinter.com

Signal-boosting this for somebody who really needs some good news and help after a tough break. Cc: @jamellebouie.net @theferocity.bsky.social @alexwinter.com

This week marks the 10th anniversary of Unwritten Histories, a project created by Andrea Eidinger. To commemorate this, we will be revisiting posts from Unwritten Histories throughout this week! First up explores the history of lilacs in Canada.

The harmonica needs to make a comeback.

We are living in an information vacuum. As @annalekasmiller.bsky.social discussed on @resistantcommpod.bsky.social, 40% of local news vanished in 10 years, leaving 50M Americans without access. Info vacuum. When trusted journalism disappears, we lose critical analysis. Listen: bit.ly/rc2026annale...

Reviewed @cetracey.bsky.social's debut SALT WATERS for @thebaffler.com. It's a fascinating book, one that pushes us to consider what a land ethic oriented around restoration — rather than conservation — might look like: thebaffler.com/latest/troub...

It’s beginning. (Pumpkins, sun gold tomatoes, Juliet tomatoes, basil, piri-piri peppers)

I’m actually struggling to think of examples where the United States has gone to war and taken the L this badly and this quickly.

Perhaps their media ecosystem has some issues as well.

This is a good example to show anyone who thinks that Trump fascism can't really hurt us here in Massachusetts

Nobody prepares you for the fact that toddlers dance like John Belushi impersonating Joe Cocker, facial expressions and all.

Ok, I concede, I do actually wish to go where everybody knows my name.

idk who needs to hear this but you can just put Television’s MARQUEE MOON on repeat and let it ride all day give it a shot i promise it’ll help

Pro-AI group Innovation Council Action, praised by David Sacks, plans to spend $100M+ in the US midterms to drive deregulation and support Trump's AI agenda (Alex Isenstadt/Axios) Main Link | Techmeme Permalink

AI propaganda or "human slop"? We're seeing a shift where even balanced voices perform outrage to beat the algorithm. From harmless deepfakes to dangerous rumors, the incentive structure of social media is breaking our grasp on context. Check out our latest episode with @annalekasmiller.bsky.social

#NoKings, but lots of badass public scholars in my 269th #ScholarSunday thread of great public scholarly writing & work, podcast episodes, new & forthcoming books from the past week. Add more below, please share as widely as possible, & enjoy! 🗃️ + blackwhiteandread.com/scholarsunda...

It's such a dumbass statement because so many of the progressive policy wins Minnesota notched in the last few years that everybody celebrates (deservedly!) were all pretty normal on the coasts. Universal free school meals? Started in California. First state to ban conversion therapy? New Jersey.

Nobody prepares you for the fact that toddlers dance like John Belushi impersonating Joe Cocker, facial expressions and all.

okay but McNamoron was right there

The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.