the serious answer is that we need a wholesale recommitment on the left to public higher education as a high quality low/no cost public good rather than a jobs training licensing agency.
I do not anticipate this happening.
Democratic consultants: To replicate Mamdani’s success with the young people we must appeal to their short attention spans with memes and TikTok
Mamdani (actual quote): In the fifth century in what we now know as Ireland, a British warlord named Coroticus had laid waste to the countryside
My brother.
Medievalist friends! Applications are open until end of Feb for a fully-funded PhD in Arthurian Literature with the brilliant Louise D'Arcens @medievalafterlives.bsky.social and myself, based between Sydney (Australia) and Groningen (The Netherlands).
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I realise I'm just a freak, but living in a multicultural city is the best thing of all time, it's just the best possible human experience and i can not understand why anyone on earth would be like "weve got to destroy this"
I read that as “if we just had a society” and you know…
Maybe they think white people in the South won’t stand up for their neighbors. I think they’re wrong. #charlotte
Jupiter says trans rights
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160 faculty from all 5 UC law schools signed this open letter detailing why the Trump demands to UCLA are unlawful, unconstitutional, and wrong: sites.google.com/view/uclawfa... Great to work with @fishkin.bsky.social @blakeprof.bsky.social @seanashiffrin.bsky.social on this statement.
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Convo w bff 6 months ago: our institutions are huge and pretty entrenched, and I suspect they won’t be that easy to dismantle
Convo w bff today: at this point I want to be in a blue state when the war breaks out
Other than, like, kick the chair out from under American democratic institutions (or what was left of them).
The summer has seen anti-trans campaigns across the UK and US, alongside a crisis in healthcare. But what use could trans history have in these time, beyond proving 'we have always been here'?
Sam Rutherford @echomikeromeo reflects on Imagining Trans Futures:
www.historyworkshop....
“We have a right to know the charges against us, to know who has made the charges and to review them and defend ourselves,” they said. “But none of that has happened, which is why we’re in Kafka-land … It is an enormous breach of trust.”
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Today! Please note time: 12:30 ET (not 1:30).
Can we get some professional assessment of signatures on all those batshit executive orders? Pls and ty.
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Likewise if you think you can hide in a blue state
Oh for actual fuck’s sake
“It’s not tht traditional liberal learning is out of step w student demand. Instead, it’s out of step w priorities, values & desires of a powerful board of trustees… & an administrative class tht won’t fight for the liberal arts… even when it attracts major $$ gifts”
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/17/o...
Tony is a local hero, having rescued two small children from drowning in the Rio Grande. He lives at Camp Hope, where he can keep his dogs and focus on sobriety while working landscaping jobs. Help Tony and other move to stable housing: tentstorents.org.
in this week's newsletter! a rant against this weird sex culture we seem to now live in: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/everything...
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