Aaron Lecklider
@aaronlecklider.bsky.social
Professor of American Studies and author of Love’s Next Meeting: The Forgotten History of Homosexuality and the Left in American Culture (UC Press)
Years ago, I worked acquired and edited a book at @beaconpress.bsky.social on this topic. It's amazing to see these projects come on line and work so successfully. I hope the momentum is there to keep them going despite... everything.
Colorado wildlife overpass cut vehicle-animal collisions by 91%, report finds
Elk, bear, frogs and other animals have used the overpass, which connects 39,000 acres of habitat, since its completion
theguardian.com
Interesting choice for the @nytimes.com to post a picture of Abdul El-Sayed to accompany this headline on their homepage when the article itself specify that the ads in question in fact promote Haley Stevens.
Violent Femmes. Loved blasting it in my bedroom.
Dave Weigel@daveweigel.bsky.social · 4mo agoPotentially fun prompt: What was the first piece of music you bought for yourself knowing your parents wouldn't approve? Mine was "The Downward Spiral." Picked up cassette on a trip to a Dewey Beach music store. Had heard "Closer" on MTV (where the "fucks" were muted) and wanted in.
Herbert Marcuse, influential 20th Century philosopher & political theorist of the Frankfurt School, was BOTD in 1898 & died in 1979 at 81. His most famous works are "Eros and Civilization" & "One-Dimensional Man." As a Marxist he influenced protest movements of the 60's & 70's
Truly do not understand how anyone thinks that AI stealing shit made by humans to repackage poorly as “AI generated music” is not both theft and a damning indictment of the very idea that our future relies on AI. Seems pretty clear that AI’s future relies on humans making shit without it???
Jason Koebler@jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 4mo agoScoop: The AI music generator Suno was hacked. Hacker shared source code that shows how the tool was made and part of the music and podcasts that were scraped to create it. Decades worth of music, lyrics, and podcasts from YouTube, Deezer, Genius & more www.404media.co/hack-reveals...
another day, another story about the administration's war on knowledge itself, all in service of allow its corporate patrons free rein to rob us blind and poison our world www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...
Trump Administration to Dismantle Ocean Monitoring System
nytimes.com
Not only is this $300B of our money to reopen a shipping lane that was already wide open for free but the entire SNAP budget is $100B/year and I was told we couldn’t afford to feed American children fruits and vegetables
Shipwreck@shipwreck75.bsky.social · 6mo agoU.S.–Iran draft deal includes a $300 billion investment fund for Iran. Tehran wanted reparations for war damage. Washington rebranded it as an international investment vehicle. Witkoff and Kushner floated the idea, pitching Tehran real estate and a broader fund as deal sweeteners.-NYT
The Supreme Court said Biden couldn't forgive student debt
Justin Baragona@justinbaragona.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnd there it is, folks. www.nytimes.com/live/2026/05...
It’s just mind blowing that this is a world anyone wants to live in.
independent bookstore day tomorrow! what's your fave? Downbound Books is a jewel of big ideas and beautiful design! www.downboundbooks.com @downboundbooks.bsky.social
Downbound Books
An independent bookstore in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood.
downboundbooks.com
Don't be shy to take on a little two-week side project. These five months will be the most precious three years of your academic journey.
Universities want to reorient our entire profession to train students to do this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 7mo agoBartiromo: "If you compare today to World War 2 -- I put in a question to ChatGPT and said, 'If we were to look at the media during WW2 and look at how they are reporting this current conflict, how would the media report on WW2?' Here's what I got from ChatGPT...the media is against President Trump"
The NYU contract faculty union spent 15 months negotiating our contract with the university, culminating in a week of intensive all day talks and a final 30 hour bargaining session. Vance left Pakistan after less than a day.
"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS
Happy to report my Rep is a co-sponsor. Let’s do this!
Massachusetts Authors Against Book Bans@massaabb.bsky.social · 7mo agoWe need to push for a vote on H.3594 An Act Regarding Free Expression to—and soon—as discussions will likely turn toward budgets in April. You can use this form to contact your Rep.
A powerful article in @newsweek.com from new @umasspress.bsky.social author Todd Weissman on a tough diagnosis of #parkinsonsdisease. We publish his book, The Light That Endures: Stories of Courage, Compassion, and Resilience at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, in next few weeks. #Boston #DanaFarber
newsweek.com
Matt Garcia published his very good biography of César Chávez 12 years ago. This piece is useful. calmatters.org/commentary/2...
Opinion | To many people, César Chávez had become 'too big to fail'
Many of the women who had dedicated themselves to the farmworker movement were overlooked or driven out by César Chávez's corrosive behavior.
calmatters.org
Most Americans manage to go their entire lives without worrying what's inside the pants of Boy Scouts and I'm simply asking Pete Hegseth to do the same
Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social · 9mo agoDefense Secretary Pete Hegseth says Scouting America will alter several policies to maintain its support from the U.S. military. The changes include a requirement members use “biological sex at birth and not gender identity.” Read more:
There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...
Exclusive: White House uses USAID funds for budget director Vought's security, documents show
The White House budget office is using millions of dollars from the former U.S. foreign aid agency to pay for the security detail of Russell Vought, President Donald Trump's budget chief and an archit...
reuters.com
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.
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · 9mo agoRFK Jr: I'm not scared of a germ. I used to snort cocaine off of toilet seats.
So @universitypress.cambridge.org sent me a survey about peer review, something I care a lot about. Turns out it was about USING AI FOR ACADEMIC PEER REVIEWS.
I've been sent video from the end of the ICE raid at the Zipps on 32nd and Shea. It shows protesters -- on the sidewalk, impeding no one -- getting drive-by maced by an ICE agent from a truck as it rolls away down the road. Hard to see how such tactics are justifiable.
The American Federation of Government Employees, which represents border patrol officers at the National Border Patrol Council, calls on Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller to resign or be fired
The red dot is a baby North Atlantic right whale trying to migrate up the east coast of the United states. The blue streaks are fast moving shipping vessels entering and leaving New York City harbor. One collision and the whale is dead. We need *mandatory* speed limits for these vessels! 🧪🦑🌍
Molly Geidel offers an amazing read of the sexual metaphors used in the exercise of 60s global imperialism in her book “Peace Corps Fantasies,” but I don’t think even she anticipated this.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo agoRep. Carlos Gimenez: "The United States has demonstrated to the people around the world that we can touch you anywhere at any time or our choosing"