Algospeak has reached ridiculous levels. I just scrolled past an Instagram story about a principal who had stopped a school "sh**ter" and my immediate thought was regret that a principal needed to deal with 💩

My immediate Debbie Downer response is people disturbing wild animals in their natural habitats just bc they are cute. They are wild, not pets. If an animal is injured and needs to be corralled to be treated that's one thing otherwise leave em alone and stop posting that dumb ish on social media.

“I will never regret going on strike.” After the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette strike, @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social reports former staffers are building PAPER, the Pittsburgh Alliance for People-Empowered Reporting, to preserve local journalism in the city.

I keep seeing variants of "why are law enforcement officers from (insert name of federal, state, or local entity) helping law enforcement officers from (other federal, state, or local entity)" and the answer is in the question

Just a reminder that immigrants inside Delaney Hall are on their ninth day of a hunger and labor strike in protest of inhumane conditions and this was Governor Sherrill’s response last night:

Kansas you only have a functional state because the outgoing D governor built back up the gaping hole in funding after Brownback hollowed out taxation of the wealthy WYD

They can't even come up with their own name, for God's sake

democrats’ project 2029 is a real testament to how hardly anyone of influence within the formal party has a vision for anything

I know every time I have significant bruising or swollen limbs I think "my, what excellent health I'm in"

Join us for the People's Graduation, June 14 at 2pm, Observatory Park. All are welcome. We'll laugh, we'll cry, we'll probably do minimal speechifying but either way we'll do it together. ✊

Cops have no place in organized labor and what they provide is often the opposite of community safety

meanwhile Frederick Douglass is being recognized by more and more people

guys I have a really tough time taking advice on how to "find common ground" between the poors and billionaires from someone who cut her teeth at Credit Suisse (did i make a mistake in starting to listen to the Financial Times podcast, maybe)

Campos: While I want to thank CBS news for funding this generous gift towards my education, I want to acknowledge how the recent direction of the outlet stains the legacy of Mike Wallace, the namesake of this scholarship.

NY City Council held their Executive Budget hearing yesterday with testimony from leadership of the 3 library systems. They highlighted the operating and capital budget funding gaps our libraries are facing and the fact that Mamdani’s flat budget is insufficient.

“I write with dismay, grief and sorrow for the permanent closure of MIT Libraries Barker, Dewey and Rotch, and termination of library staff in those libraries. For MIT to be closing three of its four major libraries..." fnl.mit.edu/may-june-202...

Guys I've never seen Point Break despite loving all of the leads, it's go time

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

People aren’t just complaining about Google's AI search overhaul, they’re leaving. Yesterday alone, our week over week installs surged 30% in the U.S. 🚀 Momentum is growing. It’s time to Fire Google.

I keep banging on public libraries because it's a simple way of making public goods LEGIBLE to a couple of generations that don't have a grammar for the commons anymore. It's such low hanging fruit and yet... we can't get the socialist Mayor of NYC to increase funding for them.

I grew up doing herpetology (reptile and amphibian) counts in southwestern Kansas and it's deeply upsetting to me that a seventh grader had more sense than a man who's currently my dad's age let alone a senior government official

Home Depot is understaffing their stores (the same as CVS) and that's why they do this. Starbucks closed unionized stores in Santa Monica and Brentwood and blamed crime. Big corps send pressers to newspapers who copy and paste them into the CMS and do zero original reporting. Ask me how I know

Part of the challenge is that the universities are in the wrong place. Most policy people (and a number of researchers) assume that everyone chooses college based on a national search. Because that's not true, you've got too few seats in California and too many in Pennsylvania.

Yes this has nothing to do with the attacks on trade union organizing and the defunding of public spaces

Me talking to my dad: "people used to be a lot more focused on billionaires, do people even know what the Gilded Age is" bless him he doesn't have cable. Get it, Bill

At this point I'm just looking to the religious studies folks for analysis, this one is particularly good and hits a note I had both missed and I don't see anyone else talking about yet (shocker)

Yet another set of cultural sites targeted during a war where the invading force is attempting not only to take the territory but eliminate or subsume the culture news.artnet.com/art-world/uk...

The story of the 442nd is really incredible. They are still the most decorated military unit in US history.

The students, and student athletes especially, at the University of Missouri were leaders in 2015 in ways that rippled even to my mid size private school. They deserve better, they have won before, and I hope this shames senior admin and trustees into action though I doubt it.

“you just want to live in a bubble!” i mean it would be so cool if i could choose to live in a world without a bunch of screaming bigots, but i can’t. i don’t live in that world! the posts i read on the toilet aren’t my whole world, dude. go outside.

i don’t “live in a bubble,” i live here, in the united states of america in 2026. i live under the rise of fascism. even if examining right wing extremism weren’t my actual job, it would be unavoidable. i’m not “ensconced” in anything, i just choose not to spend my free time getting called slurs.

This is incredible. Science is amazing. It felt like a miracle when diabetes became a treatable chronic condition and this is even moreso

I thought that guy was marrying Kimberly Guilfoyle still so shows what I know

You come to me, on the day of my son's wedding, which I am not attending

I'm very excited about this. Fewer lawyers, more scientists!

I was so tired this week that I caught my foot on the inside of my pant leg and nearly fell on my face down some concrete stairs. I'm mostly fine, though banged up. Every year I get a little closer to being a part of the statistic that people with ADHD have a younger mortality rate on average

"Shein buys Everlane" is such a bleak condemnation of humanity

doing inventory at a ballet company's storage area and I'm basically 12 years old, laughing that all the Nutcracker rehearsals are labeled "Nut Rehearsal"

Went great for JFK, right?

my favorite data centers are libraries

Six weeks to go to apply for the 2026 Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize, $1000 for an outstanding book collection built by a woman, aged 30 or younger. See details & past winners on our website! This is the tenth and final year of the prize, so if you’ve been holding off on applying, seize the day.

I refuse to share that dumbass NY Times article about how universities need ranches but my god ag schools are central to the history of American higher ed what is wrong with people

I almost cried when a student in our uni's Queer Student Alliance told me their dad was the QSA photographer so everything's fine guys. Doing great

please stop booing I have a lot of speech to go

Trying to imagine my father describing me as "someone I've known a long time"

Get ready for a lot of meatless loaves guys

Should I start an influencer account for Depression recipes in our library's massive cookbook collection or nah

I'll just leave this here www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/wer...