i was invited to a gathering tonight and initially wasn’t gonna go because every extra thing feels like so much these days but i made myself go and i’m so glad i did because it turns out community is so fucking important right now

So I dropped my dad's line about "what a provost does" from when I was a teenager (his response was "get sued") in our meet and greet with the new provost today. Day 1mil of "you can't take me anywhere"

imagine flying halfway around the world for a meeting that could’ve been an email and some guy with a hangover is just shouting at you that it’s against the rules to be fat or gay

Does anyone care is almost never the right question. People care. The issue is that people don't know what to do.

AAUP chapters brought this suit

Meanwhile, Des Moines students stage a walkout to protest their superintendent's detention www.desmoinesregister.com/picture-gall...

To these people, the military is a $10 trillion “ideal Aryan baby” contest

“Vizguerra called for a boycott of the commissary and phone services within immigration detention centers across the country during the first week of each month so people who are detained can ‘stop these profits and take back our power.’”

I described myself today as "someone whose primary value is often my willingness to be a pest" and I both stand by it and think the world would be a better place if more people were willing to be pests about the things that make the world a more just place.

Of the remaining late night hosts he has the most Caesar Flickerman vibes

Had a friend share this sign which also is in the Denver International Airport, which makes me assume they are up in every major airport in the US.

finally got up to where the aspens are starting to turn. 🍂❤️🍃🍁

Anyone remember Garth Brooks' alter ego, Chris Gaines? Even that comparison makes me sad, Garth Brooks is a delight and from what I can tell, a big fan of democracy.

Imagine living in a country as diverse as this one and hating it. Weird stuff.

My dearest Alice: I write to you from a city under siege. The horrors have become inescapable. We are surrounded on all sides by an enemy who has left no corner of this place untouched by its poison. I speak, of course, of our old foe: gratuitous punctuation in business names

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

In Somebody’s Daughter, I wrote about a middle school teacher who was super kind to me, and how he influenced me to expand on my preoccupation with reading by encouraging me to write as well. Earlier today, at the Indiana State Library, his adult daughter was in my nonfiction writing workshop 🥹

I really need these dummies to acknowledge that Catholics were very much lumped in with Jews and Black people as targets for bigotry and hate. If you look at the language used by the Klan, especially in areas that were predominantly white, it's vehemently anti Catholic.

Morning walk

Every time SCOTUS has taken a right away, they've spoken all high and mighty about well, pass laws, or well, amend the Constitution. We fucking did that.

We fought the bloodiest civil war this country has ever seen for birthright citizenship. We amended the Constitution. We have all understood what that amendment meant--from the moment it was debated in Congress to this moment now.

There is no measured way to say what I am about to say. If the Supreme Court agrees with the Trump administration to end birthright citizenship, we must end this current Supreme Court. I do not say this lightly.

I have an ACTIVE bitch face, don't be confused.

Confirmed: Assata Shakur has joined the ancestors. cubaminrex.cu/es/nota-de-p...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

Here we go! Over 13,000 H-1B workers have joined 200+ land-grant, sea-grant, and R1 research institutions so far this fiscal year. I also found that public institutions in large, Republican states are disproportionately affected by Trump's $100,000 H1-B fee. Find your state or your school:

Our current admin hates disabled people 🌈 www.afge.org/article/cdc-...

New Jersey PBS, the state’s only public television station, will shutter next year after suffering “very significant” budget cuts implemented by the Trump administration, the company announced

You're telling me that when the majority of books under attack are books by and about BIPOC and queer identities, and that this present wave of bans is an attempt to erase marginalized representation entirely, that ALA chose to theme Banned Books Week around George Orwell's 1984?

Does your tortie just emerge from slumber and begin to howl for attention immediately, regardless of what time of day and often night it is? Just mine?

9/ I had launch with Paulina Borsook last month in Oakland. Her life is hard, but she still has a lot to say! She's trying to raise funds to get a new version of the book reissued on the Internet Archive. Some of her friends have a running GoFundMe to support her: www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

8/ Unfortunately, “Cyberselfish“ predicted the future but did not sell well. Borsook's writing career hit the rocks as tech fortunes skyrocketed astronomically in the 2000s. She is now elderly, disabled and struggling to survive as the rest of the world finds out what she knew a long time ago.

4/ Borsook divided the tech ”libertarians” into two main types: the Ravers and the Gilders. The Ravers are the ones who go to Burning Man and project countercultural ideas. The Gilders are the Peter Thiel types, more overtly focused on money and power. But they are birds of a feather.

3/ Tech fascism in a nutshell: “Computers are so much more rule-based, controllable, fixable, and comprehensible than any human will ever be. As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.“ She wrote this in 2000!

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

some of us are WWI nerds micah

“I go back and forth between thinking Trump is a cynical asshole like Nixon who wouldn’t be that bad (and might even prove useful) or that he’s America’s Hitler.”—JD Vance

There was a dude who used to walk around barefoot and he was otherwise a delightful person but it was both kinda ew and also a serious risk because he was responsible for incoming, very heavy shipments of books. What I'm saying is absolutely not.

Some news.

And then we had to watch W cuddle with Michelle Obama like an adorable grandpa I'm sorry NO

Why in the name of choose your higher power did I start watching this docuseries about Katrina

The alt text alone

I am not exactly an engineer but I have started just opening any conversation at work with a question about goal(s), scope, proposed timeline, because I am sick of the open-ended and the abstract. The humanities major within me weeps. 😭

When I checked today it appears as of now to default to "off"

(But I sincerely think we’ve been invited to our own collective social death and I’m going to do the best I can to rsvp no.)

in point of fact, FDR’s open line of communication with black leaders like A. Philip Randolph absolutely strained his relationships with southern lawmakers and he did it anyway under the view that he was president for the whole country

i finally called tom homan a bitch in the newsletter

I got to teach about early modern document authentication methods and help students work with 17th c documents so all things considered a pretty good day

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SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.