For folks saying, "Why are you focusing on this with all the horrors in the world?" -- I'm the person who writes about all the horrors in the world. When my brain is fried and my soul is beaten, I watch Twin Peaks or Sopranos and read a book from the @mattzollerseitz.bsky.social store. Art matters!
38% of airline passengers vote to open plane door midflight because that bitch stewardess said not to
Publishing pro tip: Some authors leave multiple people working on their books shaking their head and thinking "Why are people like this?" Don't be that author. It's easy, you KNOW how not to be that author.
writing a book about exactly this!
Is part of the appeal here the fantasy that they are the benevolent master to a subservient person?
Not if the measure is whether it produces revenue: this way everyone gets paid, the "innovative startup" and the university, so how could it be bad?
When this is what your colleagues and mentors are like who can blame her for "quitting" being a professor?
There are many heartbreaking things about Epstein but one of the worst is how much the abuse was made possible by preying on young women who needed help paying for their educations. Speaking as a scholarship student.
And we will KEEP paying because “once prices go up they don’t come down.”
Good news: we just paid $200 billion in extra taxes that will now be “returned” to corporations.
“The professor thinks about the trustees who approved this ostentatious facility, knowing they’d pass the bills for upkeep to future deans. He’s no fiduciary, but he wonders how responsible that is.”
Read all about it in Nelson Lichtenstein's forthcoming WHY LABOR UNIONS MATTER!
yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300... yale-press-us.imgix.net/covers/97803...
And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the meritocracy they want you to believe Black people are violating
A C student coke fiend with no medical expertise runs our nation’s healthcare system.
I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.
I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”
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Mazel tov, Ted. It’s been a trip since that first-year historiography seminar, amirite?
"Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not" is exactly right. (This op-ed from Arne Duncan and David Pressman is excellent; I hope university leaders will read it.) www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
This is 18-mo-old Amalia waving to me when she was detained.
She was hospitalized with a respiratory infection while at ICE’s Dilley facility for immigrant families.
She’s one of dozens of detainees who I spoke to via video and phone calls, letters and an in-person visit. 🧵1/
A lilac Siamese cat wearing a white turtle neck sweater
A lilac Siamese cat wearing a white turtle neck sweater
A lilac Siamese cat wearing a white turtle neck sweater
Modeling the latest from the runway at Aldi.
Just finished reading The Memory of '76 by @michaelhattem.bsky.social. Can't recommend it enough. I just loved it. The perfect book for right now. Go buy it, especially if you're not an academic historian but want an accessible read to help you understand this bizarre commemorative moment.
Was driving my kids to school and the first thing on the radio was reporting about Trump's video depicting the Obamas as apes and I think many people still don't fully appreciate what it means to have to raise Black children in a country where the president is so brazenly and consistently racist
Imagine if they had put Dessalines!
Is that a wildfire on her jacket?? Interesting choice.
The NYT’s “The Morning” brief for today: “Good morning. We’re gearing up to report live from the Westminster Dog Show in New York, and we hope you’ll follow along. And there’s a lot more (serious) news below. Let’s start in Gaza.”
A fundamentally evil news media organization.
There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
About activism, June Jordan said, “You do something, rather than nothing… You do whatever you can. You reach beyond yourself in your imagination, and in your wish for understanding, and for change. You admit the limitations of individual perspectives. You trust somebody else. You do not turn away.”
imagine having a spare $55,000 and inexplicably using it to have dinner with Bari Weiss
It's amazing how many people worked for Epstein in exchange for getting their own or their kids' tuition paid.
Plus the number of academics embroiled in Epstein's schemes (if not by participating directly in abuse then by ignoring it in the hopes of snagging some $$$ or proximity to power).
Those we are told are the greatest minds of our times are writing him obsequious emails/messages and meanwhile . . .
www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
