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We did a thing.

Joyce is coming out swinging!!!

What's striking to me are the rules of engagement and the methodology of action here, which more or less is predicated on burying liberal delusions about "debate" or the "marketplace of ideas". The rules were ultimately very simple: amplify your own message and suppress your opponent's.

I don't know that there is a template or a "secret sauce" or a clear-cut lesson to take from this. But if there is one it's the idea of treating social media as the hostile territory that it is, of actually acting like you are a participant in propaganda warfare and not like a consumer.

The democrats who are coming out as transphobic are not being practical. They are being transphobic.

OMG I’d completely forgotten. About Transmit FTP client. I miss you, old friend.

It’s really hard to ignore the steady erosion of Zionism among mid-career and senior scholars of Holocaust studies and Israeli/ME politics. Bartov’s famous break with Zionism was a shock to the NYT, but equally shocking is Dov Waxman’s turn from Zionism and his generous review of Bartov’s book.

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FYI I’m on the market again this year & would love to teach your students and/or help run your humanities, writing or FGLI programs. I have 15+ years of teaching & admin experience at Ivy+, top SLACs, & R1 institutions. If something interesting comes across your desk, consider passing it along!

to me this looks like a man abandoning his job, his loving husband, and his adopted twin boys

Women don’t come forward because of men like Vivek Ramaswamy.

@jamellebouie.net drawing the parallel this morning between the baseless investigation of Ilhan Omar and the denaturalization and deportation of Emma Goldman www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/o...

I have refused to use the term “Somali gangs” despite tremendous pressure. Why? It’s a political narrative, not an accurate descriptor of gun violence, even if it was committed by a Somali youth. Who is driving this narrative? Republicans, the Strib, and police. Brilliant reporting below.

Calling lovers of online book culture! We might have the role for you.

Today we launch the first episode of my podcast. I interviewed Whitney Mitchell, whose fiancé and caretaker Garrett Foster was murdered at a BLM protest in 2020. Foster's killer was convicted by a jury and given a 25-year sentence. Then Texas Gov. Greg Abbott pardoned him.

I have a PhD in microbiology and teach it at the college-level. In the classroom, I teach about the scientific method and how important it is to follow the evidence. In Congress, I’ll fight to protect scientific research, defend public health, and make sure facts—not politics—guide our decisions.

We kick things off later today with the LSE Experimental and computational publishing workshop Join @openreflections.bsky.social & Simon Worthington at 1pm 🔗 buff.ly/0OxaMdo #OAWeek 2/2

Excellent postdoc position in AI, NLP & Philosophy of Lang for 18th c corpus based research. Computational person with interests in Phil/Humanities, or enlightenment schol with extraordinary computational chops. 4 years in Basel with a great salary (82k USD).

I am hiring a postdoc for four years to work with a fantastic technical + humanistic team on this SNSF funded project on AI and interpretation: contralab.online/philology . If you can work on LLM interpretability/explanability, see contralab.online/job ...

Part of the answer to "how did we get here?" is that many major journalists—since 1998, Crawford has covered SCOTUS for PBS, ABC, and CBS—are lying bigots. Here Crawford is praising a guy who asked a dumb racist question, glitched out when asked why, then admitted he wanted a Christian theocracy.

Agreed. Equal parts Josh Lyman & Jed Bartlet

Fortunately we trained a small but mighty set of thinkers in porn studies. Should they survive to do it, they’ll know exactly what this all was.

Palestinian skateboarder in Gaza doing a kickflip over an unexploded US-made (in Garland, Texas) Mk. 84 2000lb aerial bomb, provided to Israel as one of many tens of thousands of aerial bombs in the 1,000 and 2,000lb class included in US military assistance.

Poll: Which Sally Rooney Book Made You Join Hamas? https://waterfordwhispersnews.com/2026/10/15/poll-which-sally-rooney-book-made-you-join-hamas/

To be Young, Black and Gifted yall… Shout out to the students at North Carolina A&T University. They were stripped of their polling station on campus so they all marched together the nearest one to vote early. They are the future that gives me hope. 👏🏾🤩✨🇺🇸

Surveilling students AND workers. Things like this are why we at @ruaaup-aft.bsky.social put across an article in April to address surveillance, the lack of oversight or thoughtful governance in tech decision making at Rutgers. Mgmt has not responded in nearly 6mo... www.nj.com/news/2026/10...

You'll never guess who we just hired in our legal department!

This week on @tendersubject.bsky.social, Kayte and @wildeatheart.bsky.social slice into a big cultural artifact of our pod canon, Peter Greenaway's The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover with @thelitcritguy.bsky.social. Join us for John Berger, haute cuisine, fashion, Brecht and more!

OK folks here it is -- my chapter on Zig Engelmann (who I interviewed back when he was alive) and his brainchild: "Direct Instruction." Pair this with Season 2 of Emily Hanford's *Sold a Story* podcast and decide for yourself what the "story" is.

Award-winning American photojournalist Heidi Levine describes being violently attacked by a mob of Israeli settlers while covering the olive harvest in Turmus Ayya near Ramallah this morning. By Oren Ziv @mekomit.bsky.social

So we fly a pride flag in our front yard in a very conservative neighborhood and it’s been there for the last few years. Someone put this in our mailbox and my goodness…

At @schmidtsciences.bsky.social, we are very excited to announce the 2026 HAVI open call awardees! Congratulations to all the PIs on your fantastic work, bridging digital humanities & AI. www.schmidtsciences.org/havi-2026-an...

Philly Philly?

Let me rewrite that headline for you: “Cornell president who ignored gang-rape report denies responsibility, won’t apologize or resign; Says he’s “sorry” it happened” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/n...

Today I want to talk about my favorite dummymanders. In a dummymander, the geniuses behind the map have cut margins too close, and create vulnerabilities for themselves. tl;dr: pigs get fat, hogs get slaughtered. Here are four states that took it too far - and where you can make a difference.

Come 2028, remember that Gavin Newsom helped Trump's oligarch friends buy CNN. prospect.org/2026/10/08/d...

Today's student rally at the historic Place de la Bastille.

I hate English department Halloween. What do you mean, you're the hermeneutics of suspicion

Your children do not owe you relationship, full stop.

ACAB even in francais

Great thread on student-led protests in France