My alma mater Ohio State, where I earned two degrees, did the same thing.

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom” Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Humanity did that. Science did that. Publicly-funded research did that. Excellent universities did that. Diversity did that. International cooperation did that.

Artemis II is a perfect example of what we can do at our best.

Welcome home, Integrity crew!

Things that work: giant rocket, very precise math, orbital mechanics, cameras, iPhones

Things that don’t work: Microsoft Outlook, toilets, sat phones

Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn

personally I think "Federal Judge Approves Trump Effort to Obtain List of Jews From Penn" is a bad thing to read in the newspaper

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/u...

Screenshot of text convo Me: Any chance you'd pick me up tonight? Friend: GM. Sure. 7:15pm? Me: Perfect. (and this way I can't talk my introvert self out of going 😝) Friend: Too funny!!

When you really do want to go out with your friends but you also know yourself...

Oh, hey, it's me.

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New pub w/ Laila Gozzi & Ellen Loots. We analyze how earned revenue embeddedness (connex between earned income & mission) relates to arts nonprofits' financial independence.

Key finding: embeddedness & financial independence are positively related; thus; mission & money can be mutually reinforcing.

a woman is laughing and crying with the words am i crying or laughing oh good Alt: a woman is laughing and crying with the words am i crying or laughing oh good

Sat down to prep this week's classes, saw this theme on the syllabus: formal policy actors and the separation of powers

I think I entered it three times- and even checked a dictionary- because I was so convinced it should have been there.

Bill is speaking in my class in March (thanks @joshshepperd.bsky.social for the connection). He already took the time to talk with me about the class, what might resonate with students ... I'm so excited.

Oooh hi! Especially relevant for NYU (different union but our contingent faculty are/were considering strike). Got any basic recs/one-pagers as intro material for students in a policy class?

Oooh thanks!

Would love both.

Hi #academicsky - I am teaching an undergrad politics of public policy course. I have a section on informal policy actors. A student asked for recommendations re: labor unions. Anyone have any resources (podcast, reading, video...)? Think intro level.....

#Hoosiersky

You know the parable of the two wolves inside us? Well, for my pomsky, this plays as:

Wolf: Let me out. This is my weather. I must sing the song of my people.

Upon going out, immediately, the Pomeranian: Let me in let me in, it's freezing, why am I out here.

Upon being let back in...repeat...

Bad Bunny's historical advisor is an assistant professor at UW-Madison.

Hell of a flex for your tenure file.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

Jewish leaders escalate concerns about unclear political conditions on federal security grants - Jewish Telegraphic Agency After months of inquiries from Jewish groups and lawmakers, the federal government has yet to clarify whether immigration and DEI policies could affect synagogue security funding.

The chaos and politicization of the vital Nonprofit Security Grant Program by the Trump admin is deeply dangerous — from the delayed rollout, to confusing & contradictory guidance, to new conditions that force communities to choose between their values and their security. www.jta.org/2026/02/05/p...

I practically schedule "spin out" breaks bc I regularly realize they don't know political consciousness without Trump on the ballot, or a world without DHS (or TSA for that matter), and they were in middle school during the onset of Covid....

Preschool building boiler is busted, it's 18 degrees out, four moms just organized two new impromptu preschools at two different houses in less than 6 hours and I am chortling anew thinking about all the far right chuds being like "WHERE DID THESE MN INSURGENTS LEARN LOGISTICS"

I live in NJ, where state law says only in-person counts as instructional time (at least for k-12). I work in NYC, which has remote learning today (our Univ follows NYC school policy). I gotta say, I love that my kid has a traditional snow day, and am glad I don't have to teach today.

N of 2 so far. Anyone else getting campus safety alerts like this today?

The thing about America today is that if you just describe what is happening objectively and unemotionally you sound hysterical and partisan and what you have to remind people is that the reason for that is not you, it's the people doing the things you are describing

Or calling the National Guard/trampling on students' free speech rights