Bryson Kisner

And, most importantly, thanks to the vital mobilisation of young people. Students took to the streets the day after the first round elections, kickstarting massive movements that saw the largest public demonstrations in Brazil since the days of Diretas Já at the end of the military dictatorship.

Check your registration. Follow your ballot. Iwillvote.com

Andrew Baker was also a “token black professor” at Bates College. But his perspective on the events Tyler Austin Harper recounts in his Atlantic cover story is very different. Read Baker’s side of the story online today. newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p/racism-and...

From Daniel Dawer and Ruth Kravetz: Nearly 2,000 juniors at 16 high schools in Houston ISD were pulled from Algebra II and placed in remedial math. At some schools, about 70% of juniors were similarly demoted into less challenging classes. It wasn't due to poor grades ...

I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

Posting this during Passover feels fitting. Julius Rosenwald connected awareness of anti-Jewish pogroms to the Black experience in America and partnered with Booker T. Washington in one of the most consequential interracial collaborations in the fight from slavery to freedom. /fin

🧵“How do seemingly ordinary people become agents of state murder?” This is one of the guiding questions I ask students in my graduate class on genocide/state violence. With recent events, it is a question many Americans are asking. I do not have a definitive answer, but here is a reading list: 1/

ICE KIDNAPPED four innocent children and trafficked them to a concentration camp in Texas. These euphemisms have to die.

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We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Best and worst of The NY Times on display. Detailed analysis of ICE killing Renee Good in Minneapolis. Headline directly states that the evidence shows Trump officials are lying. But that's not the top story. Top is Trump spoke to the Times! And said completely empty things! We're special, see?

"ICE has waged a recruitment drive drenched in war metaphors and martial imagery. The type of person sought...is someone with a fervor for guns and an eagerness to apply violence." Good work by @aselrod.bsky.social putting shooting in context of MAGA's violent ethos: www.ms.now/opinion/ice-...

It’s not about drugs. If it was, Trump wouldn’t have pardoned one of the largest narco traffickers in the world last month. It’s about oil and regime change. And they need a trial now to pretend that it isn’t. Especially to distract from his sinking under Epstein and skyrocketing healthcare costs.

i think to understand the meaning of the birthright citizenship clause to the framers of the 14th amendment, you have to understand significance of dred scott to the civil war republican party. dred scott wasn't just a bad ruling, it was understood as a rejection of the declaration itself.

Lots of you have been asking for the syllabus for the lecture course -- "America at 250" -- that I'm teaching with David Blight and Beverly Gage. Here you go: president.yale.edu/sites/defaul...

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NEW: NBC News confirms that the Jacqueline Kennedy Garden, on the east side of the White House, has been destroyed as part of the demolition of the East Wing. (📸 Getty Images)

Update on secret police detention of U.S. citizens.

⭐️⭐️ Scholars of academic freedom agree: “To immunize ideas based on political standards is to impose an unacceptable test of ideological conformity. Nothing could be further from the spirit and ideals that we, despite our differences, seek for American higher education.” ⬇️

I think about all the people who have worked so hard to protect darkness. The Jackson Hole airport replacing its runway lights. The bike path in Singapore that has no illumination so that wildlife can migrate. And then some tech bro can ruin it for everyone.

🎵 They did the Monster Slash 😭 @ellecordova.bsky.social

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world."

Drop whatever you’re doing and read the last 15 pages of this 161-page opinion. I’m serious. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.

Would be a shame if everyone called to voice their displeasure.

All of it is extralegal

No Kings on Oct 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Get to planning in your community asap. nokings.org

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“This is just the latest chapter in Donald Trump's ongoing campaign to crack down on free speech, dominate the media, and essentially render the First Amendment meaningless” says @chrislhayes.bsky.social on Jimmy Kimmel's indefinite suspension.

A friend at Cato just did some great work quantifying this and his main point was to underscore how relatively rare it still is, to throw a bit of a cold water on the panic. But he also found, as any serious methodology inevitably does, right-wing outnumbered left-wing several times over.

specifically, the proposed rule would exclude borrowers from loan forgiveness if the Secretary of Education determines “by a preponderance of the evidence” that their employers “engage in activities that have a substantial illegal purpose” that seems...flexible! ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

The shooting of Charlie Kirk was the 46th school shooting of the year. The 47th one happened moments afterwards. www.cnn.com/2025/09/10/u...

If you're curious if this is you, fellow authors, one place to look is this database of who's in LibGen. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

6 months ago, in the shadow of the night, Israeli soldiers took 16-year-old American Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim from his family. He’s been imprisoned ever since. He’s suffered from scabies & lost 25 pounds. Remember Sayfollah Musallet, the young American killed by settlers last month? They’re cousins.

Anyone actually surprised ? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...