I don't know if others have already cited her in this context, but Tonia Sutherland's Resurrecting the Black Body feels even more urgent. www.ucpress.edu/books/resurr...

Thank Julia for filing this suit and getting the tool shut down almost immediately 👏🏽👏🏽

My Family Fled the Iranian Revolution. In the West’s War for “Freedom,” I See Another Crusade. As the US- and Israeli-led war in Iran continues into its second week, Arvand Khosravi, an Iranian American born in Paris, considers how we got to this moment.

www.vanityfair.com/news/story/m...

“UCLA neuroscientist Maryanne Wolf has shown that deep reading, defined as sustained immersion in a text, builds the cognitive circuits required for critical analysis, empathy and perspective-taking in ways that skimming, scrolling and short-form video simply cannot.”

Tweet that reads Leo Xander @STALLEON Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken V - it is bigger than the car

I think about this tweet every time I feel something online start to curl its annoying little grip into my head

This hell isn't even fresh

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.

Put me on that raft again; the first time didn’t get it done.

I want to hate-read the whole thing but can't get past the paywall :-(

The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.

aw, well, this is kinda sweet...
sllc.umd.edu/news/rachel-...

Cutting down the manuscript word-count to fit the journal requirements🤦🏽

Mambo No 5 by Lou Bega
None of Your Business by Salt-N-Pepa
Don't Tell Me by Madonna
Wannabe, Spice Up Your Life, Stop by Spice Girls
Smooth by Santana
Independent Woman by Destiny's Child

The Misuses of the University - Public Books Have the funds that might have trained the next generation of scholars at the nation’s first research university have been blown on ostentatious new buildings?

“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”

Every ocean disaster story is either "they did everything right and planned perfectly then 1800 one in a million things lined up in a row to kill them" or "they rowed out 4 miles into a category 2 hurricane in a rubber dinghy with no life vests while drinking brandy from the bottle and drowned"

or just read Jack's book

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i'd kindly ask people to read American history & see, for example, where abolitionism and the 20th-century civil rights movement or even more recently moral mondays (just in the united states) came from

we don't have to accept right-wing framing (that they relish) of all religion as authoritarian

Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies

fun fact: the people at Jawaharlal Nehru University did a research project and there is a proven correlation between which of these countries is doing more over the border shelling and which country most recently lost to the other at cricket.

American sports rivalries are nice and all, but India is about to play Pakistan in a world cup cricket match and the loser is probably going to try and start a war with the winner for the next 3 days so there's that

Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.

"The sun might be on the back of a big beetle—a dung beetle, maybe. (The EPA will work to determine what kind of beetle.) Where is the beetle going with it? Will the beetle bring it back?

Or maybe the witches take it." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

No hell hot enough, no guillotine sharp enough

And to you!

Happy Valentine’s Day

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Has this person ever been to a Costco? Safeway? Publix?

I’m beginning every panel I chair for the rest of my career with this frontal attack…

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not." The perfect encapsulation of what has clearly become the systemic failure of higher-ed leadership