Sad but true.

Thank you #SUNY #FCCC for the time to speak about Academic Freedom at your plenary! @csvacin.bsky.social @diverdanna.bsky.social @eialongo.bsky.social #madc

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It's crazy to me how unadorned this all is. There's zero pretense that the FCC should be impartial, or that the media are here for both our entertainment and meaningful information. It's true that on the whole Carr's efforts have been a dismal failure, but the ambition is alarming in and of itself.

#nokings

Because of a cancelled flight last night, I'm heading into Nashville at lunchtime, which means missing No Kings in NYC and in Nashville. Not the end of the world, but not what I'd wanted my weekend to look like.

CROCKETT: Professor, are you saying you believe it's constitutional for the US to blow up people that are accused of being drug traffickers?

"It's not going to be a yes or no answer"

CROCKETT: I'm going to stop you there. It's unconstitutional.

This is so sad for so many reasons. First, & most obviously, for the girls (now women) he abused & the trust that he betrayed. For Dolores Huerta, who had to stand next to him year after year, unable to say what he did to her. And for all of us, for whom CC -- with his many flaws -- meant something.

I know exactly where that is!

This is just so grim.

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

When someone tells me that they’ve taught my work, it’s inexpressibly thrilling.

True: since Ford pardoned Nixon, almost everyone seems to get a "get out of jail free"/ don't go to jail in the first place card. Iran-Contra, Abu Ghraib, fomenting an insurrectionary riot etc etc etc. and no real consequences.

I've already been to one meeting about organizing a national general strike, and there were an impressive number of union folks there. So, maybe it could happen....?

Guest artists: the US Colored Troops marching into Galveston to liberate the remaining enslaved people there, and elected Black federal members of Congress and Senate from the 1870s.

Sure scared the hell out of me.

Yes — it was a joyous celebration of community above all.

I should add that my partner is an obsessive Olympics watcher, and cackled at the post below.

Why have these people not learned that standing up to bullies works more often than not? And even if you get beaten up, at least you have your pride.

Actually it is -- all this kind of stuff has happened before, but there was no one who could record and share it with millions of people who cared.

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User @backintimeag: The text “Kirsten will be happy when ICE gets the fuck out of Minnesota” over a picture of 1850s immigrant and Minnesota-dwelling doll character Kirsten Larson in the snow.

In case anyone was wondering how it’s going over on American Girl doll Instagram

I just phoned my senators, Schumer and Gillibrand. It was hard to keep the white hot rage out of my voice as I demanded that they defund ICE. You can sound any way you like, but you need to phone your senators about this.

Holy fuck they actually did it

This, my friends, is what welcoming immigrants and sharing with them can do.

Lucy Dacus singing Bread & Roses for all the SLAC alums in the crowd.

I’m not crying! You’re crying!

More than once (as an experiment) I've asked AI to summarize a chapter from a novel I'm teaching. Every single time it gets it wrong in one way or another: what happens, how it connects to the rest of the text, how it connects to the author's other work etc etc.

This is pretty clearly AI slop. What's the weird grey fabric stuff to the right of Ross? Clinton's hand is clearly the same, even if the faces are not. And the same outfit on Jackson coincidentally worn with the exact same people years apart? I find that hard to believe.

Yup, it all comes back to Reagan.

Looking forward to seeing both of you in the flesh! Maybe a drink afterward?