Urgent op-ed by @hebagowayed.bsky.social "They are left at the political whim of people who openly hate them, who slander them from the most powerful pulpits in the nation. (...) The attack on TPS comes amid the total decimation of our asylum system." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

The US supreme court just put the lives of 1.3 million immigrants in danger| Heba Gowayed

The court’s TPS decision is devastating for those whose countries of origin are deemed unsafe. Congress must act

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This reminds me of when I took a janky office job in the summer between high school and college. One day my boss said “we are not a health insurance company anymore. Look up Netflix. We are going to try that now.” The whole place shuttered within a year. www.businessinsider.com/company-form...

Allbirds is now Smartbird, and its AI-focused CEO says 'people won't even remember the shoes'

Allbirds said It would no longer sell shoes and instead become an AI infrastructure provider. Business Insider talked to the new CEO.

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✨I just learned how to use mail merge✨ You have been warned.

The Ring system now incorporates AI to identify people, animals, and objects. Interestingly, it can identify my dog’s specific breed but cannot tell the difference between a raccoon and groundhog.

As I return to my writing, I have to decode all these vague notes to self that seemed obvious two months ago but make little sense now.

Wohooooo!!! Looking forward to @jananiu.bsky.social ‘s forthcoming book “Somewhere Like Home” with @ucpress.bsky.social 📖✨

Janani Umamaheswar@jananiu.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Yesterday, I signed a contract to publish my first solo book—Somewhere Like Home: Formerly Incarcerated Americans’ Quest for Belonging—with @ucpress.bsky.social.

I have a lot to do today but I feel like what is most important right now is walking 40 minutes to buy a meatball sub that has good reviews.

The pandemic created many new birdwatchers and now birdwatchers are creating a new infectious disease. Life is so funny and poetic—and gross.

Ugh. I opened an email late and missed the Kangaroo + Cake event on campus. (It’s what it sounds like: you eat cakes with kangaroos.)

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Sometimes capitalism is really fun. Did you know you can just buy a restaurant sushi boat?

This is really cool work & a fascinating read. This particularly stood out to me: "Despite hours of interviews, I found little self-reflection on how their desires might permanently impact local communities or how their easy adoption of these practices is situated within histories of suppression."

Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

Opinion | Beware conservatives promoting “intellectual freedom”

Victor Ray: This conservative lie about schools like mine is furthering authoritarianism

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Do we need another form of capital? Probably not. Am I pushing one anyway? Yes, absolutely. I had to do so much chanting for this… so please read the first article to come out of my ethnography on American shamans (those who appropriate Indigenous healing). onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

I don’t understand why “adult” is used as euphemism for sexy things, like “adult films” and “adult bookstore”, when 99.9% of actual adult things are boring at best and existentially terrifying at worst.

It’s so nice out, I’m going to scroll on my phone along the hiking trail.

Forget the butter lamb this Sunday. Get the mozzarella rabbit.

This week at @vassar.bsky.social !

I know it’s only 9:30am, but I reached into a bag of Haribo gummy bears and pulled out seven reds. No other color. Maybe it means this week will be less shitty. Or maybe it means nothing and everything will remain the same.

Just finished this 🍊 wall lamp. While this was not my intention, I guess I’m in my Georgia O’Keeffe era now.

You are an old lady who weighs 65lbs and has two bad knees. What makes you think you can fight a Toyota Tacoma? 😐

There is no reason why my washing machine and dryer should be connected to the WiFi. Where can I buy fully functioning appliances from the 80s.

This week at @vassar.bsky.social!

So inspiring to share the stage with Dr. Krystle McLaughlin & Dr. Catherine Tan in the "Scholarship in Public" panel! Thank you Sree Sreenivasan for leading this rich discussion. Video to come! 🎥💫✨ : @vassar.bsky.social @biophyskrys.bsky.social @catherinetan.bsky.social @sreenet.bsky.social

When the Trump administration defended the murders carried out by ICE last month, it effectively told agents that they operate above the law. What happened to Ellie Aghayeva this morning is not rogue but the agency working as designed—and we should all be outraged and call for ICE’s abolishment.

ICE pretended to look for a missing child so that they could abduct a student.

For half an hour, I dug around, in search of a book I am now realizing I don’t own.

How will the killing of a cartel leader and shelter-in-place order impact your #SpringBreak2026? New York Times has some travel tips!

Today in SOCI 330 “Death & Birth” @vassar.bsky.social we are so lucky to have Matilda Garrido, a death doula, come talk about grief and mourning practices.

If you're rich you get a tax cut, if you're not you have to work longer and harder. Populism! bsky.app/profile/atru...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 6mo ago

Dr Oz: "If we could get the average American to start working a year earlier, right out of high school, or a year later -- not retire -- or work better during their lifetime because they're healthy, it would generate about $3 trillion to the US economy. That would more than remove the debt."