So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

Aligning yourself with patriarchy won't cancel out that, as a woman, you're inherently expendable. Just sayin'.

It was a great morning discussing pedagogy and early modern lit at SAA—I learned a lot from the conversation and have lots of new ideas to implement in my classroom!

Watching the Avs at the Ball arena is one of those bucket list games for me. Bonus: I was able to get the throwback Nordiques jersey I’ve been wanting. I used to watch the Nordiques on the French-language broadcast channel we got when I was a kid in Maine! Go Avs Go!

My Uber driver to my hotel in Denver told me that he once skated with Ted Lindsay and Gordie Howe when he was a young man in Detroit. This is already a fantastic trip!

With my second and final term as dept chair winding down, I decided to sign up for summer violin lessons. Will report on whether learning a new instrument at 46 is more frustrating than low-level admin work.

As a Gen Xer, I can tell you boomers and even my own generation comparing their 20s to today’s 20-30 year-olds needs to stop. I paid $600 for a West Hollywood apartment at 23. Today it’s $3500. Burgers weren’t $20, they were $6 to $8 in a nice restaurant. Life is not comparable.

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

I wonder if there will ever come a time when submitting an essay doesn’t make me want to puke.

That first Monday of Daylight Saving Time feeling.

sauvignon bloc keeps winning www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/04/c...

Good thing to remember online right now is that everyone here is very emotionally dysregulated and dealing with that by posting

If you give Einstein your credentials to log in, then it can access ALL of your campus portals: your financial accounts, transcripts, email, health records, &c. because all of that is under one umbrella. Literally the only way to your LLM is through your campus login. The security risk is massive.

I was rooting for Team Canada because I love Canada. But also because I just knew that if the US won, the absolute Worst People in the World would've been talking like this.

A MN protester accused of assaulting ICE officer had case dropped after vids showed no assault. LA protester accused of assaulting ICE w/ “hat” had case dropped; judge said govt acted in “bad faith” In Chicago, 92 ppl were arrested for assault/impeding ICE; 0 convicted DOJ keeps lying and losing:

Sue this company out of existence. www.wsj.com/us-news/law/...

The slow process of a whippet getting out of bed in the morning.

good morning, keep fighting “local communities and their elected leaders really are finding themselves on the front lines of this fight and are finding that they do, in fact have some power to say no to Big Tech." newrepublic.com/article/2066...

what I want people to feel, when they look at South Korea and the UK and Brazil holding elites accountable, is that it's possible here too. Elect true leaders this year and in 28, empowered - but also driven by us, the people - to hold the criminals accountable for their crimes. It's possible.

Finally watched Predator: Badlands. Wasn’t expecting a buddy comedy about unlearning toxic masculinity.

I am in that stage of writing where it feels like I am walking through deep mud.

Organizing works. @seiu49.bsky.social added 1,500 workers last year alone, winning real protections for healthcare, janitorial & security workers. As divide & conquer tactics ramp up, SEIU leadership is standing with workers on the job & in the streets. #UnionStrong Learn more: seiu.co/3ZFbY6u

Disabled people are part of the future. We must and should imagine and dream of futures where disabled people don't just exist but are everywhere, as we should be. This need to fix/cure all disability is a eugenicist dreaming, and we should want better for ourselves.

There's white men on this website today talking about "AI won, pack it up". So, as ever and always, listen to Black women.

hey pittsburgh—if you're not already involved, i suggest joining up with Frontline Dignity. they're an organization that's working to monitor ICE activity in and around pgh. we're hearing that there's been credible reports of ICE increasing activity here over the next 2 weeks...here's how to report!

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market. Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply. A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

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I really need to learn Spanish.

We have enough evidence for UBI in general that this policy should be a given. But the difference is, to understand UBI works is to believe that people are fundamentally good. And a big chunk of society is built around the belief, *must maintain the belief* that people are fundamentally bad.

Essentially, the "it's okay to be thin" opinion pieces aren't about giving people permission to feel how they feel about their bodies. They're about reassuring people that their desire to be thin isn't the result of a profound, ubiquitous cultural bias against fatness & bigotry toward fat people.

MAJOR UPSET ALERT: Democrat Taylor Rehmet has just been projected the winner of the Texas SD9 special election — flipping a district that went Trump +17 and hasn’t elected a Democrat since 1991. Trump personally endorsed Leigh Wambsganss and spent days hyping this race… and still lost.

When people say “you want to dox Feds” the respond is “you want secret police.”

Exactly right. Bovino's leaving? Great, get Noem to resign. Noem resigns? Great, defund and dismantle ICE. Go after Stephen Miller too. Bring charges against ICE thugs at the state and local level. Lawsuits. New state laws restricting them. Every possible angle.

if bovino is out and conservatives are turning on noem then there is a real opportunity to demand that miller resign too.

Which does not mean backing off, but pushing harder. All these people need to go to prison, at the least. We learned from Jan 6 that we need to jail everyone right up to the top, or they just come back after being pardoned by the worst president in American history.

Border Patrol is pulling out of Minneapolis. Bovino is ending his punitive tour of blue cities. Calls for Noem's resignation are mounting, even in conservative media. Senate Democrats are dug in now on refusing to fund DHS and ICE. "Abolish ICE" is now a mainstream position. They are losing.

MAGA mistook caring about people for weakness, and is uncomfortable seeing that it’s strength.

The Minnesota civil resistance campaign has been remarkably successful: - The GOP governor candidate dropped out - Numerous DOJ officials resigned - GOP members of Congress are speaking out; business feels pressure - Noem has been relieved of operational responsibility The campaign is winning.

The people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE

You don't have to be a lawyer or law student to be a legal observer but you do have to be trained. You can reach out to your lical NLG chapter to get more info www.nlg.org/chapters/

Statement from Alex Pretti’s family. “Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man.”

Yesterday, Minneapolis gave us hope. That’s what they’re trying to kill: the will of a people who are willing to fight them.

Justice Department drops demand for records naming transgender kids treated at Children's Hospital L.A.

Note how there's no violence or chaos when the cops aren't rioting.

Ben Damberg protest volunteer: “None of us want to be doing this — I don’t, but we simply cannot stand by as other Minnesotans are being hurt — we will march, we will protest, & we will do it all peacefully above all else”

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

For every photo and video you see of the Minneapolis general strike, there are organizers behind it. Some from labor, some from the faith community, some from their street who just wanted to help. The working class has power.

Healthcare workers standing up for their community. www.fox9.com/video/fmc-nf...