He could have done stand up he is so good. Like, his ads and zingers are better than SNL
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He could have done stand up he is so good. Like, his ads and zingers are better than SNL
Lol. It's not just OK Republicans that despise Walters - so does the Trump admin. www.notus.org/oklahoma/rya...
The problem in blue sts in my opinion was caving to businesses and allowing everything else to reopen first. They deprioritized children. It could have been better. But nonetheless as it was it was better for everyone than the mess in my red st
than in the wide open, vax-refusing red st Fall 2021. Was Fall 2020 easy? No it was hard as hell. But fewer ppl died and my son learned more. Meanwhile many in my red st think their way was better and either don’t grasp the # of deaths or don’t care+
My high schooler regularly had “class” in the auditorium w/other classes bc teachers were sick and there were not enough subs. Middle school was lord of the flies even w teachers. My younger learned more in the blue st w/masking, testing, vaxxing, closure followed by hybrid Fall 2020 +
I had the, uh, privilege of experiencing 2020-summer 21 in a blue state and August 2021- on in a red one. Kids were super messed up in middle school in the red one + rampant absences of students and teachers bc no one was masking or vaccinating +
Someone please kill me right now.
Leading genocide scholars organization says Israel is committing genocide in Gaza flip.it/INOe9s
I’m very sorry Lauren
Oh another Damn you autocorrect!!! Oof that word was central to the post
Got an MMR on Friday. My dr said there is not much of a point in getting my tiger tested. If I wasn’t sure if I’d had 2 just go get one bc *they are very safe and effective*.
Totally agreed on the “weird”. Not a dunk on the amazing LH
My hunch is that they added the first part to try to make RG look good. Here’s a PR moment-let’s try to rehab his rep with a story from the same evening
Americans once assumed their kids would be better off than they were. But business professor Scott Galloway says today's economic policies work to enrich Boomers and steal from younger generations.
wherein Jia Tolentino reads this dumpster fire rollercoaster ride turned trainwreck so you don't have to and Michael Hobbes reads the review so we don't have to and OMG I cannot even
The new Elizabeth Gilbert memoir sounds absolutely berserk www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Whaaat? She confesses to attempted murder but we are all supposed to relate bc "Gilbert’s journey with Rayya is merely an extreme version of a dynamic that “all of us” can relate to, Gilbert tells her readers, because, like addicts, we have all grasped desperately at “relief from the sting of life.”
(*I have so much to do with @copticscript.bsky.social w/the loss of our grant, plus so much family stuff this semester, I'm grateful for the research related release. It's a release I negotiated when hired & haven't taken until now)
Teaching only 1 class this semester* & it's online. Upper div undergrad + masters. Using Hypothesis & I grouped the grad students together, undergrads randomly in other groups. The grad group is already 🔥🔥🔥. Debated this grouping bc undergrads cld use the modeling but it's much better for the grads
you’re welcome. I have friends going through this and at one point thought my previous institution was in danger. Thank you for your book
It feels odd shilling while so much is happening, but it’s #selfpromotionsaturday and I’m trying to promote my book, “Requiem for a College.” It tells the story of my surviving a small college closure, and provides research on a trend smashing into small colleges everywhere. #academicsky
She is the worst
yeah that is terrible for students and instructors alike
(I know some culling is normal; I'm talking about the "let's get rid of entire floors of stacks" movement)
When libraries started extreme culling of their book collections and slashing humanities journal subscriptions a couple decades ago, the mantra was "There's always ILL." I was always thinking "But someone has to have the books/journals! And be willing to share! And have the infrastructure!"
I hope we'll see such orders signed by every official with the power to sign them. This isn't radical or even liberal; it's 101, it's like saying the king can't house his soldiers in people's homes.
Americorps folks who worked with kids used to do this kind of thing In some areas. I was in the summer pilot in ‘93 and we cleared brush, painted warnings not to pour oil down street drains, etc with our middle schoolers
The warfighters in DC got the trash picked up, now time to mulch.
Yes. I mention things teaching load and research resources in fellowship letters. If they could do all this with a 3-3 load and small library, imagine what they can do with a year/semester research leave
This is *terrible*
August 30, 30 BCE: Cleopatra VII dies by suicide rather than allow Octavian to capture her & parade her in triumph. She is Egypt’s last pharaoh. Egypt will be annexed as a province soon thereafter and on this day Octavian had Caesarion murdered as well. collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/5335...
don't want to let it slip under the radar that racist law prof amy wax lost her discrimination suit against penn and will be suspended from teaching this year
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Hearing the the Social Security Admin whistleblower who whistleblew a few days ago has now “resigned” involuntarily. Trying to get additional confirmation. This is the chief data officer of SSA.
He found a way to F up LEGO. Of course he did.
Wow thanks for turning me on to this vendor. They have an Ozymandias one too 😂😂
whoa!!! Where did you get that!!!
Yes! So jealous. Looks incredible
NEW: Tenure-track position in History at UC Berkeley in the GLOBAL HISTORY OF TECHNOLOGY. We are casting a wide net here: *all* periods, places, and fields are under consideration. I'm on the search committee, so do let me know if you have questions.
Massive walkout underway at CDC. RFK jr. must resign so that we can be safe.
Yesterday’s WSJ page 1. The image would be startling in any context, but I wonder how many people know this is how some Israelis feel about Netanyahu’s fascist war? I thought I knew, and still this surprised me.
I have never seen so many public servants protest the mismanagement of a government. Trumpists will point to this as proof of the deep state, but the reality is that these are professionals who are desperately trying to get the public to understand how bad things are.
CDC employees standing up and walking out in light of the mass shootings, firings, and *waves hands in the air* everything else. #USAnotRFK Lets gooooo
Just scheduled at CVS in OK myself thanks to @sailorrooscout.bsky.social 's post. Check it out
Please share! We're trying to crowd-source a dataset of post-1929 novels with maps.
Abbe Lowell and I represent CDC Director #SusanMonarez. Contrary to govt statements, Dr. Monarez has neither resigned nor yet been fired. She will not resign. We have issued the following statement:
In a functional government, this would be a five alarm fire where Congress calls in Kennedy and asks him what the fuck is going on
We also need people like Dr. Stryker to push people like Newsom to do better
goodness, I agree with you about needing all kinds of allies, but there are people who could be excellent *candidates* who didn't throw trans people under the bus. This is kinda a strident response to a post basically abt how great it is that OU has such a fab trans alum despite OK's climate
OU Alum Dr. Susan Stryker!!!
I really think that pundits who are arguing Trump’s gestapo tactics are popular are continually being revealed to be fools or collaborators. It’s SO HARD to fail to get an indictment but regular people are saying clearly that this is BS and they don’t want to put up with it.
Thinking of you! Hugs
In my explorations of the Guggenheim Fellows program, I first looked at all the ed winners, then the social science winners, and now I've somehow accidentally collected all 19,570 winners (who have collectively won ~21,400 fellowships) and the field of their fellowship. Still not a data scientist.
Such great news!! And why Rs are trying to gerrymander the f out of red states and undermine confidence in elections
I have woken up nights lately worried about the FDIC. I wasn’t sure if some of it was displaced anxiety about my banking+commercial law expert Dad’s passing. I no longer think it’s grief. The FDIC is bedrock for our banking system
Wow. On NPR, @gbrumfiel.bsky.social reports a Social Security official “copied the Social Security numbers, names and birthdays of over 300 million Americans to a private section of the agency's cloud.” The source is a whistleblower, who is named: Charles Borges, SSN chief data officer.
This is pretty great for CUNY
This is literally Fascism. It’s the “socialist” part of “national socialist” The Nazis did it with BMW, Mercedes-Benz, Volkswagen, and on and on. Mussolini called it “corporatismo” Open corruption and extortion.
Hello friends! Does anyone know of journalism or academic work on how digital infrastructures could hinder or prevent state secession from the union in these times? (Seems up @jamellebouie.net & @tressiemcphd.bsky.social ’s alley? others I don’t know abt?) TIA. Can’t find anything in a search
what domestic unrest, WaPo?
yikes
My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...
Jamelle Bouie Receives the 2025 Carey McWilliams Award The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: The American Political…
I haven't seen it emphasized enough, but it's important to take a step back from Trump's ongoing seizure of autocratic power to see it's all emergency politics. All of it. The Constitution is being suspended bit by bit the same way autocrats have always eliminated them: declaring fake emergencies.
This is unconstitutional and every mention of it by every piece of media needs to say that loudly and clearly
Real slow so you understand.
Thank you Mayor Holt. Mayor Holt is not only a Red-State Mayor, he is a Republican
Yes they’ve noticed, and many law professors are like how do we teach now, what even do we teach? But up til recently fed judges still came into the gig as institutionalists. Their whole job at least used to be constitution, precedence, adhering to SCOTUS rulings
For people who have spent their lives believing that these institutions were strong and the arc of history bends towards justice, what scotus is doing has been a real shock. These people didn’t get to the federal bench by thinking our judicial system was collective fantasy+
I’m surprised Sotomayor didn’t. She is usually on point. But also: anyone who gets to SCOTUS is institutional by default. You can’t get to the president’s desk for the fed bench if you are a true radical
🗃️Open-Access Alert #3: The ENTIRE Spring 2024 Issue of the JWH is open access. See Bonnie G. Smith's remembrance of Natalie Z. Davis, articles by Mytheli Sreenivas, Iris Berger, Michelle Arrow, Mary Louise Roberts, Tamika Nunley, María Martín Gómez, and Frances Luttikhuizen: muse.jhu.edu/issue/52077
Just deleted my old posts. For any searching for the two jobs I recently shared: MacArthur Foundation, Director of Knowledge, Records, and Information Management: macfound.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/MAC_FO... Library of Virginia, Chief of Library Development: www.jobs.virginia.gov/jobs/chief-o...
I'm still scarred by that whole job search episode back in 2005/6?
does this mean it could be safe for some of past past past students to ask for letters? asking for a friend
KBJ is the BOSS
hey now, there are some 50-somethings like me on here too just to spice things up a bit 😉
same same
TBF BB&B is trying to stage a comeback. But it is still a ridiculous statement
Sonny and Cher citation. SONNY AND CHER
yes but they are staging a comeback as BB&B Home with new stores
Bed, Bath, and Beyond is his example???
They do something similar on the economy. R presidents have nearly bankrupted our country every single time for over 40 yrs and yet pundits give DJT the advantage on economic issues
Yeah the thing I miss most here is hearing from folks in Egypt
Delighted to share my @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview with wonderful Dr. Mariam Ayad about their work on Coptic heritage and the edited volume Coptic Culture and Community. newbooksnetwork.com/coptic-cultu...
This would make it much easier to traffic people out of the US with no records.
No cover image yet, but look what's coming from CUP 🤓 Veiling in the Late Antique World | Cambridge University Press & Assessment share.google/LTK0QdIDGuWF...
My fav is the staff person who “since joining the NEH in 2026…”
but a guy who owns a lot of guns but will work toward healthcare and housing accessibility is probably better than Susan Collins, tho, right?
I'm getting some of this data from @gregsargent.bsky.social's Daily Blast podcast this morning. It sure looks like we are in big trouble unless we have a lot of luck in '26 and '28 and have a dem trifecta in '28 that can give statehood to DC and PR
So, one problem w/ this strategy is that Dems can't actually gerrymander their way out of this mess. Looking beyond TX to OH, IN, other red states, gerrymandering gets at least as many if not more R pickups. Then after the 2030 census red sunbelt states will pick up reps, blue states will lose reps+
aMAZing!!!
I'm glad it sounds like you won't lose your jobs, at least. (unlike what seems to be happening in Oregon)
apparently it’s “come out swinging” week for midterm hopefuls, excellent
Shaily I'm so sorry you're facing this
Matt is brilliant, generous, and one of *the* experts in the US on writing and computers, so if his thread is disappointing there's probably not much else out there to inspire
I've been trying to say this gently to colleagues who ban all gen AI. It's nearly impossible for students to avoid at this point, bc it is embedded in other tools they must use. Unless course assignments are all paper, handwritten, monitored in class (incl *reading*) a total ban is near impossible
Sabrina Carpenter’s Short ‘n Sweet album
