By all means, call out problems! But we also need to start talking about why the academy is necessary and good, not just about its flaws.

Justice department attacking the people trying to dismantle white supremacist groups

Looks great!

The article's existence negates its own argument. The fact that the easiest way for an academic to land an opinion piece in The Chronicle or Inside Higher Ed is by offering contrarian takes about how awful academia is suggests a strong desire to look in the mirror.

Netanyahu ought to be in prison. As should every global leader who has enabled/colluded with him. These kinds of abuse should never be normalised

A little late to this news, but did we just build RoboCop?

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

You should read this in full, but in short, John Roberts and the other Koch plants on the Supreme Court blew up the Supreme Court to protect the fossil fuel industry from climate regulation.

Only US Votes Against Women’s Rights Document At UN Commission - Health Policy Watch President of the UN General Assembly Annalena Baerbock told the opening of CSW that the backlash against women's rights "feels as though we are forced to

For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.

The damage that Trump has done to the federal government now has a number: $165.6 BILLION. www.govexec.com/workforce/20...

Hegseth saying “The Pharisee Press” should be a fully mask off moment. He is saying “The Jewish Press”. But Christians of all political stripes are so devoted to using Pharisees as a rhetorical prop that liberal Christians regularly insist it’s totally fine, no matter how many Jews try to explain.

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

First New College, then Hampshire College. We're coming to the end of the attempt to make higher education something other than hackwork, slavish devotion to job training for working and middle class, pre-wealth studies for the "elite." How fucking dull are these times of ours.

Truly. Everyone I know who went to Hampshire is smart and weird, and I worry-- for this and many other reasons-- that we are building a version of higher education that simply has no place for the smart and the weird.

Fun fact about no-grades @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, now closing: Here at Dartmouth, where my wife (also Hamphire) & I teach, I was on a committee considering no-grades. Ivy-educated Ivy profs scoffed. But it turned out tiny Hampshire outpaced almost all of the elites in grad school placement.

Disappointed, though not surprised, I began to describe various life- saving components of USAID’s global health portfolio, highlighting how we prepare for and respond to emerging pandemic threats; support the diagnosis and treatment of tuberculosis, malaria, and HIV; and immunize millions of children from the deadliest childhood diseases. I spoke for about five minutes, focusing primarily on our infectious diseases work and hoping to keep the attention of people who seemed to have no experience—or interest—in global health. When I finished, the room was silent, the political appointees looking at one another in what appeared to be disbelief. The silence was broken by Ken Jackson, who chuckled softly and shook his head. “Wow, there really is so much that USAID does that we never knew,” he said. “This is the story that needs to get out there.” Joel, also smiling, chimed in next, echoing Jackson’s amazement. “I had no idea you did all this,” he said. “As a Republican, when I think of what USAID does in global health, I assumed it was just, you know, abortions.”

This is NUTS

www.thehandbasket.co/p/trump-usai...

So just to check the till:

Works in Nevada

Works in Missouri

But from Arkansas

Sure, Jan.

This reality check by Rebecca Solnit grabs you right from the killer first sentence. Do yourself a favor & give it a read.

A reminder that as Americans we pay double per capita for healthcare than every developed nation on Earth, AND have the lowest life expectancy. We're getting robbed & bled literally to death by the exploitative for profit system we have.

We demand universal healthcare as a human right. Period.

2/2

Maybe Trump is hanging on because he hates JD so much he can never get close.

A visit from JD Vance is clearly the kiss of death

I am ecstatic. All three of the Moms for Liberty backed candidates lost in my local school board election tonight. Even this deep red Waukesha County, WI community doesn't like conservative politics in our schools. 🇺🇸🏫🗳

That’s it. The money is always there.

can't wait to hear about the residency!

if Trump nukes Iran it will be because no one powerful in america has ever been seriously punished for anything

"the decline in [academic freedom in] the United States has been more rapid and pronounced, particularly in the last year. It has deteriorated by 50% from 2015 to 2025 and is now evaluated as moderate autonomy by country experts" academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight.

As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

the Nazi and Soviet files are full of stuff like this.

Also love how it is so jargon-laden it’s worse than any postmodern theory‘s supposed inscrutablility