Two excellent journalists talking about why all of us need to show up for No Kings:

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Breaking the pipes out of the case for the first time in way too long to get ready for #nokings this Saturday. If you’re in Phoenix, be down at the Capitol at 11! If not, hope you’re organizing and making noise wherever you are!

Hey American studies folks - whether or not you consider yourself a “gun scholar,” if your work engages gun culture or gun violence, consider applying! Abstract deadline coming up Wednesday.

i think it’s noteworthy that a lot of centrist pundits have decided to just take it as a given that jd vance lies constantly and to treat this as almost part of his intellectual program so that only gauche rubes would bother to mention or care about it.

attempting to describe the vibes of the moment. have yet to do better than: "imagine watching a documentary reenacting the burning of the Library of Alexandria set to the soundtrack of 'Yakety Sax'"

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

And who is the author of this op-ed? The billionaire CEO of an asset management firm who helped author the compact.

The correct response to Republicans widely depicting the coming protests as terrorism is to go out and protest. Each person should get 10 more people to do so. If Republicans are going to hint at violent state responses to legitimate protest, the only answer is bigger numbers.

important for us in the US to note: even a solidly right wing government can't ignore this.

the usual story. rich guy wants to punish universities for not clamping down on pro-palestinian protests and for doing too much to recruit minorities. at base these guys want the top tier of american universities to become, once more, safe-spaces for their dunderheaded failsons

Holy, dread leviathan, we are not worthy spectators of your lunching

Some thoughts on three fascinating new books and various questions about representation in American studies, framed by a reading of my favorite Mark Twain short story: academic.oup.com/alh/article-...

This is excellent.

Bari!!!! Bari Weiss it's happening!!! Save us Bari!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Imagine celebrating a known racist blogger to appease a fascist party who hates you, but refusing to endorse the duly elected democratic nominee of your own party that elected you. 😐

Wrote a thing for the Guns Unpacked Substack about my friend and former Amherst colleague Jan Dizard: gunsunpackedpod.substack.com/p/in-memoria...

It appears Instructure has removed the capacity to delete old courses in Canvas. In many cases (depending on institutional settings) those course are also uneditable.

But they definitely aren't stealing our IP and using it to train algorithms.

Columbia / Barnard continue to set the standard for embarrassing institutional leadership. You feel terrible for the faculty, staff, and students whose leaders are throwing them under the bus.

And it was definitely worth it for the student cartoonist’s work alone - it’s me fr

Inspired by @mattseybold.bsky.social and @annakornbluh.bsky.social, Michael Ostling and I made a modest effort toward pushing back against the deluge of AI propaganda we’re facing at ASU. www.statepress.com/article/2025...

An antisemite shot two kids in Colorado, at least one of whom is Jewish.

The White House “fighting antisemitism” doesn’t care, because the shooter was a student radicalized online into far right beliefs, which the regime is cool with, rather than a student verbally criticizing Israeli govt policy.

UC-Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names “related” to anti-semitism, mostly for voicing support for Palestinians. Judith Butler is among them, she calls this “McCarthyism” UC Berkeley gives Trump administration 160 names in antisemitism probe

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