Michael L. Rosino

platypus meme, saying "every day. we stray further from god"

My mood these days is a combination of low-res brain fog and constant moral injury

Don't forget: ASK YOUR LIBRARY TO BUY THE BOOK!!

Libraries pay higher rates for books and requesting that your library purchase a book: A) costs you nothing and B) will make the author so, so happy

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Baltimore City Council looks ready to ban cooperation with ICE The Baltimore City Council did not, however, have enough members present Tuesday to vote the legislation out of committee.

Baltimore City Council looks ready to ban cooperation with ICE

We shouldn't be on any path towards anything to do with this. Instead of saying "Gee this war is bad" politicians need to step up and start calling it out for the illegal, immoral, unconstitutional war it is, and not let up for one single breath about those facts

The Third Gulf War Is Both Illegal And A Terrible Mistake. It Needs To End, Now The new Trump War price shocks are going to do enormous damage to an already weakened US economy.....

Trump's war is illegal and a terrible mistake. And it needs to end as soon as possible.

My latest 👇

www.hopiumchronicles.com/p/the-third-...

NEH's budget is tiny—not just compared to NSF/NIH, but compared to humanities funding in every other wealthy nation. What little was there was largely rescinded and several programs were cut in full last year. It decimated not merely individual projects but whole corners of the humanities in the US.

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$50m in battery storage lost here bc we mentioned resilience for disadvantaged communities 👊🏼

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

Huge NYT article on the back story of those two weeks in March/April 2025 when DOGE illegally terminated hundreds of NEH grants. Gift link!!

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

I got tenure!!! 📣📣📣🤭🤭 If anyone is at ESS in Washington and runs into me you are fully welcome to buy me a drink this weekend 😅

Maybe it’s a bad idea to put people in charge of government who are eager for the rapture.

This fall! yes plz share!

Spain Denies U.S. Military Use of Its Bases for Iran Attack

"Spain’s defense minister, Margarita Robles, said on Monday that while there was an agreement with the United States on the use of the bases, Spain believed it only extended to use within the framework of international law."

Spain views US war on Iran as illegal.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/w...

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Trump teaming up with Israel on this makes it impossible to ignore how disastrous Biden’s “bear hug” policy was in the moment, through the election, and even moreso in hindsight.

i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI

in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period

INBOX: @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social dropped a 90s sitcom-themed video endorsement of @bradlander.bsky.social, specifically calling out AIPAC's influence:

Resilience, ridicule guarantee hate group’s flop at D.C. anti-abortion march When 120 white nationalist Patriot Front members descended on Washington, D.C., they were met by counterdemonstrators and clown music.

NEW, from me: I talked to people who shut down Patriot Front's rally in D.C. last month.

Counter-demonstrators made it impossible for PF to produce propaganda and recruit at the March for Life rally. The clown music set the tone.

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It's not a time for speeches or hand-wringing but for collective action at the state level. This will not end with Minnesota.

Faculty have incentive to invest most of their mentoring in students who they perceive as needing little help to succeed in "elite" academia, because the less help their students need, the more energy they can devote to their research (and the more their students can contribute to their work). 3/

Take "elite" academia's culture of cruelty, which stems from the fact that faculty rewards for research far exceed those for teaching/mentoring, especially at the PhD level where students don't pay tuition. In that context, faculty have incentive to be sh*tty mentors, except to a few "winners." 2/

Lawrence Summers Will Resign From Harvard After Epstein Revelations

I'm glad to see accountability for academia's bad apples. But I also hope that resignations like this one won't be the end of the story. Because we still need to reckon with how the structures and cultures in "elite" academia have created ripe conditions for rot. 1/🧵

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

"That's illegal" is very helpful. It gives people a reason to call their congresspeople and demand it be reversed.

"They'll just break the law anyway" isn a #loserpost

Her community rallied so fast and so diligently. This is a victory to uphold and celebrate. Reminds everyone that it's worth fighting back.

"To echo Malcolm X, these monstrosities should be stopped by any means necessary," writes @willbunch.bsky.social about the Trump regime's plans for a concentration camp network as part of its mass deportation infrastructure, something ICE’s Todd Lyons likened to "[Amazon] Prime, but w/human beings.”

The Trump administration confesses to plans to rig the elections

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