New essay in the Atlantic today: How Native Nations Shaped the Revolution by Ned Blackhawk (with many lessons on how we ended up where we are as a nation, and a gift link) www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

I was on a train once where the brand-new conductor was desperately trying to pronounce 'Schenectady' and it did not go well.

Re: interview footage circulating today - Pritzker said exactly the same thing nearly a year ago. More depressing is that he felt that he *had* to say exactly the same thing nearly a year ago.

A national political party could just send a bunch of electeds to Portland for a weekend to look around, with cameras following them. I mean, national news outlets could also do this, but OK.

this feels like the corollary to we need Mamdani in NYC and an oyster fisherman in Maine and a midwestern dad in Minnesota.

we're supposed to be the party that embraces the fact that we're a diverse and chaotic nation, stop test-polling yourself to generic national oatmeal!!!

I love this take.

Also interested to see what Philly will come up with. . . [grinning ear to ear because I kinda already know]

Wow, that's interesting. Now I'm *really* curious. Thanks for replying about this.

The Bethlehem fanclub says YES! We want to read this book! [ok, confession - it did not occur to me that there were lots of white evangelicals in the unions here, but I'm really curious now]

p.s. our local blast furnaces on the cover!

And I'm angry that this is practically invisible in the US media.
The sloppy equation of "professor teaches about X" and "professor believes X" isn't new, but the level and intensity of the harassment is. This is distressing.

@bkindivisible.bsky.social members also folded the incredible @meganpiont.bsky.social's awesome "How to Report ICE" zine for distribution!

You can find them here to fold/distribute yourself! drive.google.com/drive/folder...

Helpful to recall that as governor, Kristi Noem was banned from nearly 20% of her own state by its Indigenous nations because of the racist things she said.

"No! That's German. . . for 'The Bart, The.'"

[which I still cackle over, every time I read anything that starts with the word 'Die'].

The revolution won’t be televised but the treason sure is

Begging political scientists to pay more attention to archiving and digital records (including party platforms and conference material).

Thread w/sources.

Many of us get a hard sell from admin on how the research profile of the uni will depend on "leveraging" AI. Priorities for funding will be those who play along.

As for using it in classrooms: it's nice to be old enough that I can pretend I "don't understand" and therefore can't.

Our university's legal department would flail us if we attempted to bring a speaker with a partisan agenda to campus (the university was sued in 2004 when an invited speaker yelled "Vote Kerry!" - admittedly, that was during a campaign). We can't even have partisan student groups address our classes

j f****** christ. This agent needs to be held accountable for this (I know, I know). If he's this violent with so many cameras on him, it's disturbing to imagine what he does when no one is filming him.

This was literally my first thought, and the fact that it wasn't Hegseth's *second* thought after having this very, very stupid idea is deeply worrying.

“I can say that my son died because of aid cuts. If doctors had support, my child would be alive.” A reminder that cuts to USAID have nothing to do with saving money. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/o...

Thank you - YES. I often tell people that my doing XYZ is going to take a half-day from work, which baffles them ("But it's only a twenty-minute drive!" etc.).

I remember when Hugo Chávez stood in front of the UN General Assembly and called George W. Bush the devil and thinking that that was a low point in the diplomatic norms of the organization. . .
[betting that the smell of sulphur was even stronger today]

I remember when Hugo Chávez stood in front of the UN General Assembly and called George W. Bush the devil and thinking that that was a low point in the diplomatic norms of the organization. . .
[betting that the smell of sulphur was even stronger today]

The whole administration in one quote