As I’m contemplating watching the series for a 3rd time and helping run an informal convo about it with colleagues and students (some of whom wait outside my class to talk about 🥹) This was a very informative convo!!!

Was fantastic to chat with Anna, Jo, and Kristi on the end of sport podcast - as a massive fan of the podcast AND heated rivalry - this was awesome. Would be useful for any sport sociology classes discussing sexuality + sport too 🙌

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Feb 2 19thNews: Nearly 40 years ago, advocates agreed with Reps to strike trans ppl from the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act protections. In a major shift, today disability rights advocates are standing squarely behind trans ppl & their rights.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS! Do you do incredible work with active learning in your classroom? Do you want people to know about the incredible work you do? Submit your proposal to the International Forum on Active Learning in Classrooms (Aug 6-7 in Rochester MN)! Proposals due Mar 1. Questions? DM me!

This weekend, Montréal protested ICE—not just the harms in the US, but also the role of the Québec government and Québec companies. Seeing the Habs players told to stay in and carry passports reinforces how border stuff hits transnationally, and sports is political.

All the more reason why athletes should say something. People are listening. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

Professional athletes are being advised not to leave the hotel or go anywhere without their passports while visiting Minnesota. This is not a country that can safely host international events like the World Cup. Boycotting is not even a political question anymore. It is a basic issue of safety.

helllll yeah i'm just so so pleased rn. over $800 in the bank for abortion funds and we've still got so many items to go!! not too late to get in on the action, tell a friend and go freaking hawks!!!!

The American dilemma: the only educational freedom most are allowed to partake in is utilitarianism

Fund it all. students genuinely want access to a meaningful interdisc education. if college were accessible to all, plus was supported by good-faith messages in the media on the value of an accessible liberal arts education for learning how to express ourselves as humans, it could be so diff

This trend is giving me life. College is cool, knowledge is great. The liberal arts is rad. Being well rounded is the GOAT. Fund all colleges and universities. We should be throwing money at them. Make it affordable for all. Let people take underwater basket weaving if they choose.

BREAKING: Bernie Sanders is introducing an amendment to cut ICE’s $75 billion funding increase, and to use those funds to restore the federal cuts to health care.

TAMU ended our women and gender studies program, degrees and certificates today. Apparently they aren’t allowed under the new don’t mention gender or sexuality in the classroom rules our board passed. I am so saddened by this. I worked as a grad asst to wmst (no gender in the 90s) for a few years

Look what I just got in the mail (& and not from Bezos!) www.simonandschuster.com/books/Living... @austinmccoy.bsky.social 👏👏🎤🔥

Going to give this site another go. Here’s to hoping for an easier 2026 where I can have enough breathing space to engage critically in stuff beyond teaching again

And dipshits are going to keep saying "sports aren't political" and "keep politics out of sports"

HERE COMES THE OLYMPICS DISPLACEMENT MACHINE

When I was in LA working on a story about Olympic opposition in 2019, the activists were focused on how terrible Wasserman is. And ofc they were right.

Here are a few of the emails from Casey Wasserman, current chair of LA28, to Ghislaine Maxwell in the latest Epstein files drop

Look the reality is that a lot of liberal racists are very offended by ICE’s behavior and they are also still liberal racists

The world is burning down and I just signed a contract for a 30,000-word book manuscript due December 1 so wish me luck lol

Apparently Steph Curry has made recent investments in tech start-ups run by former IDF/Israeli intelligence operatives. 😳😳😳😳😳😳😳😳 www.donotpanic.news/p/nba-star-s...

so cool how harvard attacked pro-palestine protestors because not liking genocide is antisemitic but also cancelling their yiddish program is somehow not

“How could you not be upset? I mean, no matter where you land on the political spectrum, I would hope that human decency would consider the human toll of these situations." - former Seahawk Doug Baldwin Jr. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/j...

wokehawks back

Almost 8 hours!!!!

h/t @fattom23.bsky.social re: Hampton. There are plenty of examples of official lying about Black victims of state and extra-legal violence. Read Ida B. Wells's accounts of lynching. Renee Good and Alex Pretti are unfortunate examples of our failure to truly address the roots of state violence

Lastly, Fred Hampton's assassination, in probably one of the most egregious cases of police lying. Of course, media outlets parroted police accounts, calling it a "gun battle," despite the only shots coming from the Panthers were from Mark Clark who fired his gun in the ceiling after being shot

Panther leader Bobby Seale telling the SF Examiner that Hutton surrendered to the authorities before they killed him. April 8, 1968 edition

Then, of course, there are some cases with the Panthers. On April 6, 1968, Oakland police killed Bobby Hutton after surrendering following a shoot out. Police claimed he fled. Eldridge Cleaver claimed he walked out with his hands up. The SF Examiner published an officer's account of Hutton's death

The state served Jackson a warrant while hospitalized and before he died. Here, Liz Krohne memorialized Jimmy Lee Jackson in The Southern Patriot. "The public has mourned the loss of this man...however, they have failed to raise a cry for prosecution of the injustices which caused his death."

On Feb. 18, 1965, AL State Trooper James Bonard Fowler shot protester Jimmy Lee Jackson during a march in Selma. Fowler shot Jackson in the stomach while he tried to protect his mother from police violence. The authorities claimed Jackson assaulted the officer. Birmingham Post-Herald, 2-23-1965

Albany GA Mayor Rejects Talks with 'Outside Agitators,'" Bridgeport Telegram, 8-2-1962 Mayor Asa Kelley: "We will never talk to outside agitators relative to local problems." "Asked whether he referred to...Martin Luther King of Atlanta, the mayor replied: 'I mean exactly that.'"

In fact, here are some examples of how authorities characterized Black activists in life and death from old newspapers. State violence and character assassination is part of US political culture. White supremacy lays at the root of this strategy. Renee Good and Alex Pretti are its latest victims

It’s time. I want the see Steve Kerr’s Warriors and Minneapolis’ Timberwolves agree that they simply cannot play this game tonight. A strike in solidarity with the besieged city and its murdered and abducted residents.

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I am reminded here to tap the sign encouraging you all to support independent, worker run, billionaire free newsrooms how and where you are able

Last week, the New School issued voluntary separation & early retirement offers to 40% of the full-time faculty & the majority of non-union staff. These cuts to the bone are an ideological attempt to decimate historic spaces of critical inquiry & social justice. Share our statement tr.ee/qQBIDCpIuj

🇭🇺💥Thousands marched to Viktor Orbán’s office in Budapest on Saturday, led by opposition leader Péter Magyar, who called on the PM to resign over multiple child abuse scandals. Protesters carried toys and torches under the banner “Protect the children!”. 🎥Timelapse video posted by Magyar.

I thought I lost what faith I had in traditional academia long ago, but seeing an institution let the most brilliant, generous, and passionate teacher I've ever met go after twelve years of dedication is both infuriating and devastating. so yeah folks, hire my wife @counterfactual.bsky.social please

The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.”

Yeah shit’s fucked up at The New School. It’s true. I’m living it. It’s a microcosm of what’s happening everywhere in America. gothamist.com/news/the-new...

The feminist sports podcast you need is back, at least for now (we’ll have more on that later). Make sure you’re subscribed wherever you listen to podcasts so you catch this episode when it drops.

People told him, loudly and vehemently, what a terrible idea this was when he first posted about it and he has chosen to ignore them because he doesn't actually care about anything but the $. Children do not need A.I. to create. Full stop.

And pls, come to me directly if you read this & have concerns about me. I’m not saying people should be concerned; I’m not sharing this to tell anyone that. Pls be mindful of how this info can be perceived, when sharing concerns about an openly disabled woman with other ppl, intentionally or not

The horror, the sadness, feels overwhelming. we don’t talk enough re: health impacts of this stuff. So many headaches lately. my back/hip recovery has suffered, tensing & sitting in meetings trying to decipher what’s going on. I lost a lot of hair this wkd…is the alopecia is returning? Ugh.

semi-retraction there may have been revenues reflected elsewhere but it is still funny so I’m leaving it up

They also lost $800k on Parsons “fundraiser” event with $850 in entertainment expenditures and Busta Rhymes as surprise headliner

They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2

Speaking as a private citizen on a matter of public concern, yes leadership is apparently planning to cut 50% of the faculty at the New School for Social Research in order to eliminate social research and replace scholarship with a trendy MA degree mill For the 21st Century 1/