With you 100% on that one

I saw The Beat’s protest comics coverage used this as their cover photo!

I can’t believe they’ve estimated turnout at 50K. That’s just insulting.

America cannot long remain free, nor first among nations, if it becomes the kind of place where universities are dismantled because they don't align politically with the current head of the government.

I’m a librarian and I will fight AI tooth and nail, letter-opener and rubber stamp, to my dying breath. It sickens me. Librarians should be working toward improving writing and research, not destroying it.

Truth

What’s up, doc?

Seen hanging out on 231st St, half a block from the Henry Hudson Parkway.

His home borough

Oh, Matthew, I’m so so sorry. What can we do to help??

60% of American households can’t afford a minimal quality of life.

Meanwhile, the 19 richest households saw their wealth increase by $1 trillion in 2024 — the biggest one-year increase ever.

Our problem isn't a lack of resources.

Our problem is ever-expanding inequality.

@nsousanis.bsky.social and I made it into the timeline of 50 years of Columbia alumni magazine.

If you want to see the other 49 years, click here magazine.columbia.edu/article/50-y...

So lovely and atmospheric

We have serious problems to solve & we need serious people to solve them. And whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, Bob Rumson is not the least bit interested in solving it. He is interested in two things
& two things only: making you afraid of it & telling you who's to blame for it.

I’m reminded of this line from the climactic speech in THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT (for “Bob Rumson,” substitute
“Republicans”). (1/2)

Silence means consent.

With thanks to J.J Sedelmaier and Howard Beckerman’s daughter Sheri, these beauties are now gracing our collection.

Descriptions in the ALT text.

I await more news with bated breath!

This is a major milestone.

It’s even bigger than this post indicates. Art Spiegelman won a special Pulitzer. Tessa Hulls won a Pulitzer for a category that branched off in 2023 from one established in 1917.

Oh now I wish I were at all musical…
And yes it was a simply lovely afternoon. I wish it could have lasted longer!

Wonderful, fabulous @cathkastner.bsky.social drew this portrait of me after my visit with her in Paris. It is accurate to every detail, from Sacre-Coeur in the background to my fuschia coat to the pockets on my suitcase to my omnipresent chocolat chaud.

That’s what you get when you fire/dismiss all those trained women and people of color. All-white just ain’t right.

And now, at 7:20, the Columbia Spec posts a story that NYPD has been called in to clear out the protestors, who’ve been confined to one room.

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

Another colleague called to say he would go into my office and get my stuff. I was nearby, happily, so he could drop it off with me as he headed home.

At 6 pm, I got a text saying Butler Library had been cleared.

At around 4pm, I got a call from a colleague, asking me if I was in or out of the building and, if I was out, whether I had all my things. I didnt, as it happened: my bag with wallet, cards, house keys, was still in my office.