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There’s a small but loud group of townues who insist UM is about to implode because of the demographic cliff. This data demonstrates my retort: It will be the last domino standing in the mitten.

We have an open-rank tenure track job in Global Black Feminisms at Rutgers, Fall 2027 start date.

I don't know that there is a definitive line to cross that makes you say, "I live in a police state now" but when masked gunmen can routinely brutalize the public, citizen or immigrant alike, with impunity, you have reached that point.

Today I learned there is an EDMUND FITZGERALD voting sticker. I AM SO EXCITED. #a2council

Early voting starts today in Ann Arbor! Skip the Election Day crowds and make your voice heard in the Fourth Ward. Check your local early voting site or review your sample ballot here: mvic.sos.state.mi.us

There’s a lot riding on that initial “if”. The author also assumes that evidence, structure, argument, and accountability are somehow separable from “how each sentence was produced.” I care very much about whether academics use ai, and the idea that I shouldn’t enrages me.

This is such a cool space. Designed by STAMPS faculty and students! Also they have this tinned fish sticker! (Thanks to @donmoyn.bsky.social for the heads up)

In which I continue to inadvertently terrorize the NIMBYs with banal observations. (The opening comment claimed “bicycle extremists” “want to destroy transportation quality of life for everyone except for bicyclists”)

Happy 90th Birthday to "Sister President" Dr. Johnnetta B. Cole! We were honored to welcome Dr. Cole into the Left of Black studio back in 2019. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXlH...

I saw some truly horrible visual aids today. Some adults never mastered glue stick usage and poster board aesthetics. With adult money? I would be unstoppable.

And re: my rant of course all of this can be traced back to homeownership being the primary driver of wealth creation in this country and the perverse incentives that drives.

SAVE THE DIVISION BIKEWAY EXTENSION. The planned extension cannot happen unless Carey Street is converted to one-way. Tell CityCouncil@a2gov.org that you are in favor of the bikeway and the conversion because these improvements support our climate, transportation, and safety goals. #a2council

Update: Chairs were apparently temporary measure. They have been removed.

We’re doing “dibs” now for game day parking? #a2council

The dullness, the blandness and lack of viewpoint was the hardest thing to catch but now it grates on me when I encounter it.

Something I think about often is how the reward for promptly responding to emails is receiving more emails.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

I JUST SAW A WAYMO IN ANN ARBOR. A human was driving it, but still. #a2council

I have just come across a 2022 essay arguing that a better metaphor for Crenshaw’s concept of intersectionality is a basket of apples and I am both baffled and furious. I have to go yell at my friend who is a metaphysician about this.

I’m just a girl explaining that commas go INSIDE quotation marks. Over and over and over and over again.

Corruption and inaction are the norm in campus policing--even beyond what you think you already know about other police agencies. There is good reason that people are calling for the abolition of campus police departments specifically right now. They maintain an elite lawlessness on campus.

Impossible to understand how anyone could look at Rufo's career and conclude he was someone engaged in a "forthright defense of meritocracy." Rufo's entire career is built on the idea of purging people who don't think or look like him from positions of power.

I’m at the point where I’m confusing all the rapists in the news so that’s how its going.

I said something to this effect to a colleague yesterday about the push for faculty to use AI in teaching and research. Thinking about stuff is supposed to be the main thing, isn’t it?

STARES IN CONCUR: “House lawmakers spent $6.7 million of taxpayer money on meals and lodging last year — a 21 percent increase over 2024 — under a reimbursement program that doesn’t require them to provide receipts.”

Every week, the Muppets have to put on a show to salvage a new institution: the Kennedy Center, the Supreme Court, the No-Mask Lesbian Bar, the Wonka Experience, Kozmo Dot Com (this has a time travel dimension, à la Quantum Leap), Cafe Loup in the West Village, democracy, the third season of GLOW

Every semester the provost sends around guidelines for student military deployment. Because things are…the way they are for the last few years I have always briefly panicked when I received it because it makes me think war or a draft is imminent.

Now you can easily contact all of #A2Council about road safety through this form. It only takes a minute. actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...