BREAKING: 615 workers for Hachette Book Group are unionizing with @cwaunion.bsky.social @newsguild.org @wbng.org.

Drew Magary@drewmagary.bsky.social · 11mo ago

Hey yo here’s some blue meat from me on yesterday’s election results. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

For some I think it's pretty obvious people just don't like the idea rather than the word: "privilege" is a perfectly easy to understand ordinary language word whose activist meaning is just the same as the normal one, some kinda advantage. And there's, at least, no easy alternate for "patriarchy".

Tom Nichols@radiofreetom.bsky.social · last yr.

It would be a huge step forward for Democrats and for general clarity in political writing if these terms went away. These came mostly from academic hothouses.

Suppose I shouldn't be surprised that someone calling for abandoning the humanities would use "begs the question" like this. (Got 'em folks, got 'em.)

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · last yr.

This is why conquering autocrats try so hard not to divide those they subjugate, they know that would only make the conquered stronger.

This is 25 year old Parnia Abassi. She was an English teacher and a poet. She was killed alongside her younger brother and parents in Israel's attacks on residential areas in Iran last night. Say their names. Share their stories. Don't let them erase the legacy of their aggression.

one of the most insane normalized aspects of our political climate is politicians going after their own constituents in the name of anti-wokeness. what are we doing here

“Progressive taxation is the single most important policy lever for reducing the power of the rich—not because it raises revenue that can be redistributed via public programs or directly to the poor, but because it imposes a de facto statutory maximum on income or wealth.” @econmarshall.bsky.social

A Real Post-Neoliberal Agenda - Boston Review

Bidenomics foundered on ten years of Democratic reluctance to declare war on inequality.

bostonreview.net

The fact that Oded is still heralded as a scientific leader says all you need to know about science IMO.

Petr Svoboda@svobodalab.bsky.social · 2y ago

Itai Yanai is now putting together with Oded Rechavi and others the Woodstock of Biology 2 & Night Science conference to integrate some of Itai's ideas into a scientific meeting. #theconferencetoendallconferences More info & registration here: woodstock.img.cas.cz

"Users on the official #Bluesky app can configure their moderation settings but have no way to #optout of the #moderation service Bluesky provides. This includes its use of #geographiclabelers, like the newly added Turkish moderation labeler that handles the #censorship of accounts mandated in […]

Note to Columbia University: This is how you do it. www.tufts.edu/president/sp...

Breaking: The Trump Admin has killed second avenue subway and the Inter borough Express rail project. This will have to be fully funded by the state to get completed.

if I were Europe I'd be doing a crash university buildout right now. a whole bunch of top US academics can be had at pennies on the dollar www.thebulwark.com/p/the-doge-b...

The DOGE Brain Drain Has Begun

It’s not just jobs cut and agencies gutted. It’s the talent that will be lost for generations to come.

thebulwark.com

In this house we subscribe to @financialtimes.com, @discourseblog.com, @haaretzcom.bsky.social, and also just FYI if you live in DC you can get @washingtonpost.com you can read it by going through your local library!

Susan Rinkunas@susanrinkunas.com · 2y ago

I’m a paid subscriber to outlets and co-ops that cover things I care about: @nymag.com @newrepublic.com @slate.bsky.social @gothamist.com @discourseblog.com @theflytrapmedia.bsky.social @flaminghydra.com And most recently @wired.com #NewsroomSupporterRollCall #ISupportWriters

So ADUs under 900 sqft are now legal in Mass The interior ADUs are funny to me because we’ve essentially legalized two-family homes as long as one unit is small enough Next we should just legalize two-family homes outright

Late last night, with about 15 minutes notice to the Union, the NLRB’s HR sent an email adopting the terms of the forked-up resignation scam. HR also provided us a contract that appears to be drafted by AI or LegalZoom. As labor lawyers, we’re happy to go over this in detail. 🧵

A good cheat sheet for shopping Canadian

George Takei@georgetakei.bsky.social · 2y ago

Support Canadian alternatives!

This is ... pretty good, actually.

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2y ago

Took some effort but I got Deepseek to produce a pretty good accessible explanation for why indifference curves and the general equilibrium models built atop them are so fundamentally bankrupt.

Owners’ box

This Salt Typhoon stuff is insane. The entire FISA surveillance infrastructure has been completely owned by China and literally no part of our telecom infrastructure is safe to use without end-to-end encryption.

"We are not asking the Council to take a position on Palestine. We are asking you to let us, as members of the MLA community, debate on whether we wish, as a collective, to take a position." A letter from former MLA EC members, now on Chris Newfield's blog: utotherescue.blogspot.com/2024/12/mla-...

MLA and BDS 2: Letter from former members of the MLA Executive Council to Current Executive Council on Blocking the Debate

Lake Michigan from MLA Hotel on January 6, 2019 Background headnote is here .  December 17, 2024   Dear Members of the Executive Council of ...

utotherescue.blogspot.com

no longer a democracy in america's 10th largest state. governed instead by a permanent GOP majority, locked into power by rigged maps. Might be the whole country soon. Stealing our country from us.

Mark Joseph Stern@mjsdc.bsky.social · 2y ago

The 5–2 conservative supermajority on the North Carolina Supreme Court is almost assuredly not going to block any of these new laws. Democrats have a chance to flip the NC Supreme Court if they win judicial races in 2026 and 2028. That's the only plausible path around this power-grab.

Dear Perro Sanxes, I am 26 year old American Citizen. My people and my country yearn the freedom and justice you enjoy in Spain. please send Eurofighter Typhoons, a collection of spanish wine, and a buch of civil servants who work in metro construction agencies

Robert Cooper@robertcooper-us.bsky.social · 2y ago

BREAKING: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez today vowed to add abortion rights and gay marriage to Spain’s constitution so they “can never be undone.”

Writing a grant is great for developing ideas, but does your proposal actually affect whether or not you get funded? Turns out, your full proposal does not affect your ranking much! Whaat? 😯 Simsek et al. 2024: link.springer.com/article/10.1...

It won't be just the LA Times and Washington Post. It will be your employer, your university, your school district, and your local elected officials. They will all cave and engage in anticipatory obedience to fascism because of their cowardice and greed. Your institutions will not save you.

this is the sort of thing that’s happening while FIRE does a PR blitz about Amy Wax’s right to declare black people inferior

jon ben-menachem@jbenmenachem.com · 2y ago

Cornell students allege yesterday was the “first [known] time a U.S. university has enacted deportation powers against a student” over Palestine organizing, effectively deporting grad student Momodou Taal, over a protest of defense contractors at a job fair last week h/t @leximcmenamin.bsky.social

Honestly I would like to find whoever it was who first posited into the public consciousness the idea that there is some sort of conflict between libraries lending books and authors getting paid, because I would really like to kick their ass in about it.

Fave tidbit from the indictment: Tucker Carlson's risible gushing over a Russian supermarket was considered too much like "overt shilling" even for the Russians.

southpaw@nycsouthpaw.bsky.social · 2y ago

A recently unsealed SDNY indictment alleges Tenet Media—which pays exorbitant sums to Tim Pool, Benny Johnson, Dave Rubin, Lauren Southern, and others—is a front for the Russian government. www.tennessean.com/story/news/c... The indictment: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

I’m going to email this guy today with the email title “Thomas Jefferson was a slaveholder” lol and you can do the same since his email is right there on his page bov.virginia.edu/people/u-ber...

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2y ago

unbelievable. a right-wing donor and member of the board of visitors has basically pressured UVA into suspending the University Guide Service, a highly-regarded student org that runs tours, because it tells prospective students and their parents that Jefferson was a slaveholder.