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“The memo also bars reporters from requesting public records through the Freedom of Information Act…”

Having five synagogue attacks (three in Canada, one in the U.S., now this) hit the news in a matter of days has me thinking about how many more didn't grab media attention. It's shabbat. Look out for your Jewish comrades.

I fear that in aligning these ✂️ w/ "student demand," they'll do what so many other universities have done to justify ✂️ the humanities + social sciences: counting *majors* rather than course enrollments. (eg, when I was in anthro, we had very few *majors*, but my classes were full w/ long waitlists)

a man is sitting on a swing with the words `` now , we wait '' written on the screen . Alt: A series of 3 images with the words "now, we wait". First, a man is sitting forlornly on a swing with his hands clasped in his lap. Second, the same man sits at a dining table, again, with his hands in his lap. Third, the man stands in an empty pool with his hands clasped behind his back.

IDK where I'd even find huckleberries, so I swapped with a bag of frozen berries from Trader Joe's. I also left out the verbena because I'm simply not driving around from store to store looking for it. I increased the lemon zest because I like lemon and I'll likely increase the juice in the glaze.

Huckleberry Lemon Verbena Tea Cake (Gluten-Free) A moist and tender gluten-free pound cake recipe that bursts with tiny huckleberries and fresh lemon verbena, all drizzled with a vanilla bean glaze.

Broke out the butter and sugar again to help me cope with *gestures at everything.* Made a version of this cake from Chef Alanna: bojongourmet.com/gluten-free-....

I'm definitely trying. Because I feel very 😵‍💫 these days.

two graphics of the pink panther that reads "applications open. Apply now to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for early-career researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Your work will challenge Big Tech and how racialized capitalism underpins these logics." Link to the full proposal is https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be7536b4fb020a/69b1b8b1787cd413337973ba_Fellowship___Call_for_Applications.pdf

EXCITING NEWS: Applications NOW *open* to join LPL as a 2026 summer fellow. This paid fellowship is for *early-career* researchers looking to investigate surveillance technologies. Full details here -> cdn.prod.website-files.com/66045fc0d0be...

Nothing could've prepared me for the bureaucracy of the academy. I can't even figure out what I should be mad about because I'm too busy trying to make sense of all the acronyms.

This is one bad ass cover.

He does have a bop every now and again.

There is no light in that man's eyes. Just a soulless individual trying to convince the rest of us that his shitty tech is more profound and more worthwhile than it actually is. It's all just so damn exhausting.

"We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter and use it for whatever they want to use it for. The demand that we see for that..." - Sam Altman

These bros are not okay.

Turning the world over to madmen. That is what is happening. Madmen.

A gorgeous picture of Wunmi Mosaku covering Glamour UK Mag

Speechless.

The reason I want students to have to struggle with difficult texts is because I want them to have the capacity to make meaning in and of the world on their own.

Sure and this emphasizes the importance of education as a collective action.

Even revolutionary theory needs to be taught, and it has to be done in conversation with the vanguard.

Cover of Raising the Bottom: Bounce Music and Black Queer Performance in Post-Katrina New Orleans by Alix Chapman. A black and white photograph is at the top of the cover featuring three Black individuals in movement. One person is standing with arms out, another is in the air, and the third is on the ground with their bottom lifted. The title is in a white bold sans-serif type that takes up most of the cover. Smaller and to the left is the subtitle in lime green. The author's name is written vertically to the right of the title also in lime green.

Save 30% on #NewBook "Raising the Bottom," by Alix Chapman, which explores the queer bounce music scene in post-Katrina New Orleans. #ethnomusicology
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Mutual Aid for Tiffany Our colleague, friend, and justice-devoted loved one Tiffany is facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against potential punitive disciplinary actions from the University of Calif...

Hi all--The amazing scholar and activist Tiffany Willoughby-Herard is still facing significant financial burdens as she defends herself against disciplinary action at UCI. Please consider donating and/or share within networks.

I use Gemini when I'm bored — and it's better than doomscrolling It became my ultimate distraction

WHAT IF YOU JUST READ A FUCKING BOOK

Alas, I’ll probably never shop there again, lol. Turns out, they are very replaceable and should’ve known that from the jump.

$64 billion of data center projects have been blocked or delayed amid local opposition — Data Center Watch

A study of the landscape of data center organizing covering a one year period. This is fast. Data center organizing is local because politics is local. But local doesn’t mean small.

www.datacenterwatch.org/report

"In the 21st century, data, digital labour, and algorithmic infrastructures have emerged as new vectors of accumulation. Here, Prince Ifoh argues that re-reading Walter Rodney, Kwame Nkrumah, and Achille Mbembe reveals how digital capitalism reconfigures… Africa’s history of underdevelopment."

Ncuti Gatwa's acclaimed theatre run of beloved classic play is set to stream for free Alongside Gatwa, the play stars Sharon D Clarke, Ronkẹ Adékọluẹ́jọ́, Eliza Scanlen and Hugh Skinner.

quick reminder that NT's production of The Importance of Being Earnest, starring human ray of sunshine Ncuti Gatwa, will be streaming FOR FREE on YouTube this weekend

www.radiotimes.com/movies/ncuti...

Got to chat with Karen Hao about AI and organizing for the future today and sometimes this job is pretty okay.

POST-DOC!

3-year job in history of political thought / visual culture / art history
Department of Politics & International Studies
University of Cambridge
@thecambridgeschool.bsky.social

www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/54724/

It’s 64 degrees. I’m so happy I could hump a lamppost. In fact, I just might.

I’m a WHORE for this weather. A FLOOZY for this Fahrenheit. A SLUT for these unseasonable conditions. My legs are open to the sun. Burn my underwear away! TAKE ME INTO YOUR RADIANT ARMS.

It's ALIVE!!!

dsq-sds.org/article/id/6...

The mission of a liberal arts education. But as soon as low-income, Black and Brown students started enrolling in larger numbers higher education no longer is about a good life and informed democracy.

MUSLIM FUTURES A literary fiction and graphic novel anthology featuring stories set in aspirational futures through a Muslims lens

This two-anthology set has a REALLY nice lineup and I came across it only on Kickstarter, not in Any of my social media.

Seriously - Iasmin Omar Ata! Day Al-Mohamed! Safia Elhillo! Randa Jarrar! Fatimah Asghar!

Backed & you should take a look too -

www.kickstarter.com/projects/mus...

Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that…

Today we'll double you! Reminder that every time you click “weekly” or “monthly” on a survival fund, it means a slice of dignity as well as dependable help in harsh, fragile conditions. This is our main ask for these six families, but do it for ANY family. chuffed.org/project/hope...