The Trump administration announces a "review" of the safety of the abortion drug mifepristone—suggesting they may move to reverse Biden-era regulations that made the pill more available, including by mail.

crucial words from the great @mariaressa.bsky.social youtu.be/pnvLbUHK0mA?...

Seems bad www.nytimes.com/2025/09/23/h...

Follow the money www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Here I talk about the genealogy of the term "sexuality" and how it is a critical site of scholarly inquiry. I also talk about attacks on gender studies now.

my student Yasmeen Khan making an archival record that the ideas of women of the world were once taught at Harvard www.harvardmagazine.com/undergraduat...

If you're upset about Jimmy Kimmel being "canceled," I'm sure you were just as furious when you heard about Joy Reid and Tiffany Cross or Amber Ruffin or Karen Attiah or Jemele Hill Because Kimmel might still have a job if you were

DJT’s utterances are not about what he “thinks.” They are what you are meant to believe that he thinks. As with any state actor, his speech acts are the work of power, and cannot be taken as mere fact. We’ve had 10 years to learn this.

Yeah they all demand a complete one-sided Palestinian disarmament, which is a non-starter. Not even sure what the point of this is on a symbolic level other than to, again, shift the blame to Palestinians for "blocking" peace talks.

good that they recognized palestine. but when canada, australia, and the u.k. coordinate on the timing of something, i can only assume the worst intentions

According to WaPo’s termination letter my post referencing Kirk’s views on Black women was not even brought up. The Post’s stated reasons are *worse*. Read the termination letter for yourself. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Here’s last night’s Fieldwork album release concert at Roulette (starts about 15’ in). Enjoy! www.youtube.com/live/jGBzIOg...

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

Reporting here: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

show up for mahmoud khalil like you do for jimmy kimmel

Tonight in Brooklyn!

The Republican reaction to Kirk’s murder has been a campaign of state repression that ends with Trumpist toadies deciding what Americans are allowed to think, do and say. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

Might as well defend your faculty.

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This should be front page, top of the broadcast

Do this to voice your outrage at Disney's unjust cancellation of Kimmel and other people's shows for simply practicing their free speech, ASAP.

but what if the billionaire owners of these “media companies” are part of the problem

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Must-read from my colleague Aaron Shakow: www.bostonreview.net/articles/let...

Francesca Albanese at the Together For Palestine benefit concert

NEW: If Republicans won’t conduct oversight of Trump’s unconstitutional and cruel immigration policies that kidnap and disappear immigrants of all statuses, I will. Today’s Shadow Hearing will focus on how his actions are destroying U.S. families and communities.

People legit yelled at me for 24 hours when I said it's extremely dumb to RSVP to a protest. Why hand your name over to a group organizing a protest/rally? Do you *want* to have to talk to the FBI? Treat anyone encouraging you to RSVP to a protest as a fed. End of.

Trump’s strategic weaponization of Charlie Kirk’s murder is just an apparatus to crack down on thought and speech in unthinkable ways. This moment is as close to Orwellian as we’ve come, and the fictitious “Thought Police” is becoming our new reality.

Nobody has done a better job documenting the FCC’s attack on free speech under Brendan Carr than @theverge.com under @reckless.bsky.social — a must-follow and a must-subscribe if you want to know how they’ve been preparing to go way past McCarthyism for years: www.theverge.com/decoder-podc...

TRUTH = DISSENT

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

🥺 www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

trust me, @bostonglobe.com, they were worried about it before the ruling too.

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

“When we praise bad-faith performers for ‘engaging‘ with their critics, we’re not celebrating democratic norms—we’re rewarding those who exploit them.” www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

I think you could probably find a per-device guide to removing AI from the things you own, but it might be harder to find a guide for "removing all AI from my life". For example: www.androidpolice.com/disable-ai-o...

You can also just use udm14.com instead of Google and it will automatically de-AI your Google searches for you. You can make it your default browser search, also.

this whole thread!!! ❤️‍🔥 indeed!

The single most important thing a public intellectual can do now is to say the things that are not permitted to be said so that others have cover to say it after them. He did it on Palestine and he has done it on Charlie Kirk. This is a real, material service.

Dear fellow humans, is there a tutorial or any other guiding resources out there toward the _avoidance_ of A.I. in everyday life?

This is a helluva split screen: In both congressional hearings this morning, the MAGA conspiracy theories and complete incompetence of the Trump admin are on display for all to see.

I should not be surprised to continually see certain people advocate for the idea "equality should mean more representation and opportunities for conservatives" but it does indicate how equal pay will never happen in my lifetime

“I did not have it in me to keep fighting. I justified this to myself by saying that the war machine would not be halted by any linguistic alteration I might make in a magazine mostly skimmed over by American suburbanites while they pooped.” bidoun.org/articles/hou...

"Can you be objective?" "Axios' Middle East expert served in the Israeli intelligence corps." "The Atlantic's editor-in-chief volunteered to serve in the Israeli military." New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, More Perfect Union... #USA #Gaza #Palestine #Israel #Genocide

None of the most prominent people talking about universities have any real idea what does and doesn’t happen in classrooms.

If you're near NYC this weekend, please join us at Roulette this Friday to celebrate the release of our new album, _Thereupon_ roulette.org/event/fieldw...

'[GHF's] American contractors in Gaza have shown little appreciation for the nuances of food distribution, while behaving in a “completely abhorrent” manner.'