@greenwell.bsky.social you had me wondering why I don’t hear progressive politician talking about closing the tax loopholes that make private equity so profitable…until the big reveal: they got it to a vote, and Kyrsten Sinema shot it down!
150 veterans with @vetsaboutface.bsky.social and other groups held a demonstration at the Capitol rotunda, facing arrest. Photo via @anatosaurus.bsky.social
Reminded of the analogy, from Ted Chiang, of using a forklift at the gym
In 2022, when Georgetown was about to break ground on a building for its downtown campus, there were about 20 people experiencing homelessness living around the site. The university's response could be a model for how developers respond to homelessness.
https://bit.ly/4teTzuq
Democrats planning to run in November’s midterm elections have been advised not to antagonise pro-AI campaign groups that have amassed more than $300mn to fight for the industry’s priorities. The warnings by top party consultants, corroborated by people close to four different campaigns and party strategists speaking on the condition of anonymity, come despite internal polling for Democrats showing widespread public support for tougher AI rules.
They're calling it the best democracy ever.
www.ft.com/content/7529...
Latest death toll released by the Lebanese ministry of health includes the grim milestone that 100 medics/first responders have now been killed in Lebanon by Israeli attacks since March 2. I wrote about attacks on healthcare a few weeks ago, when it was 42 www.irishtimes.com/world/middle...
And in popular majors or schools where they are clearly relevant, such as economics and business, these traditions are hardly absent. Indeed, one could argue that the intellectual diversity problem in those areas is a lack of attention to left/liberal perspectives./2
Enhancing "shared governance"—that is, the role of faculty in governing the university—(recommendations 16 and 18) would be amazing and would help protect Yale from future assaults in which—as at Penn, Columbia, etc—trustees to the right of their institutions undermine the school from the top down.
What the report does not say—but that people like Rufo say very openly—is that the current American right wing aims to use its power in the political sphere to conquer the rest of the seven mountains, of which higher education is one.
That's the story—not Yale forgot to teach Edmund Burke.
ICE says 81% arrested in Operation Midway Blitz had no convictions, falsely asserts no citizens arrested
NEW from @tinasfon.bsky.social: chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Yes, please
screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."
I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -
POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad
VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??
POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there
Image from museum exhiit with a text of an article about early 20th c textbooks and annotations inc to the president of the UDC noting that any textbook that "speaks of the slaveholder of the South as cruel and unjust" should be rejected.
In Richmond briefly and dashed over to see the "Expanding Freedom" exhibit at the newly opened Shockoe Institute, right here in the heart of Virginia slavetrading. An excellent section on the UDC's interest in controlling textbooks. I mean so much scholarship I know but this was 💯 pithy!
Industry capture of labor unions, or, Why Fight ‘Em if You Can Get Them to Market Your Products?
<<chef’s kiss>>
I’m reading @greenwell.bsky.social’s chapter about how private equity parasitized local papers in Bad Company right now, really nauseating.
In other words, AI resentment maps pretty directly to how precarious your job situation is. For Gen Z, this is the worst entry level job market in decades; no wonder they hate AI, which they are routinely told is the reason why there's no work. The rich, meanwhile, are just fine with more automation
Tenure folks should be doing a ton of reviews. I actually have turned down multiple AE/Editor roles because I think the field needs me doing reviews more than editing.
there’s a peer-reviewed article on how professors who bring students baked goods get higher evaluation scores. my colleague would bring this article & homemade cookies to class the day students filled evals out, tell them evals aren’t effective measures of teaching, then leave them to it.
Cannot say enough how in 2024 disaffected & conflicted voters kept telling us in focus groups: "in 2020 you told us to turn out to 'protect our freedoms.' we did & then all this [dobbs, anti-voter laws, econ hardship] happened anyway. now you're telling us the same thing?"
Hundreds of protestors from a coalition of organizations were arrested while staging a sit in outside of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand’s office during an anti war demonstration demanding an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.
https://www.cato.org/blog/trump-has-cut-legal-immigration-more-illegal-immigration
Trump has cut legal immigration more than illegal immigration, as I predicted. While illegal entries have fallen, they continued a prior trend, falling more before he came back. Meanwhile, Trump has drastically cut legal entries, reversing the prior upward trend. www.cato.org/blog/trump-h...
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...
Also when you have to download the notes as a separate PDF if you're using an ebook from the library! Give us footnotes, you cowards!
Abolish endnotes.
This weekend I gave a presentation to a group of mostly college-aged folks and had a little line at the beginning of my slides that described it as an "AI-free presentation made by a human, for humans" and I had to pause for clapping at that part
you love to see it
New civic education news roundup! Dept of Ed shenanigans, a mess at UNC, some great stuff from Campus Compact and others:
#edusky
#AcademicSky
#democracy
This focuses closely on last year's Pride march, which I was hoping someone would do:
"2025 Pride march was not only an expression of solidarity w/LGBTQ community, but, much like No Kings marches in US, opportunity to show govt their capacity for intimidation & bullying may have reached its limit."
Budapest celebration WE RESIST WE DANCE WE WIN
Perhaps Magyar's most important promise, and the one that certainly resonates with voters: "never again a country without consequences!"
The crowd chants: "To prison! To prison!" [with the corrupt officials of the outgoing government]
Much love and appreciation for the words of support and encouragement.
3:30 am in Budapest, what a night.
It’s like we won the World Cup. ⚽️😳
Maybe tonight that’s what Hungary did. Fighting for and reclaiming a democracy in any corner of the world is cause for celebration. ✊🏻
