The big thing for AES from here on out is going to be getting committed Republicans very mad about how hot he is so they shoot their messaging in the foot

what are folks assigning in the US survey to teach 1960s-1970s feminism? I want to swap out the NOW statement of purpose/redstockings manifesto/combahee river collective lesson I've been using. would love ideas! 🗃️

this showed up in my feed and reminded me that this book was the assigned summer reading for our entire freshman class when I started undergrad in 2009

Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 8h ago

Oh hell yes @ifbookspod.bsky.social did Three Cups of Tea, where we learned that “don’t be an asshole” was so much better tactical advice than the entire counterinsurgency manual that a conman figured it out before David Petraeus did.

okay turns out I'm maybe not cut out for blood donation. glad I did it but still being woozy two days later is wild 🫠 (yes i'm hydrating)

Chelsea D Chamberlain@cdchambs.bsky.social · 2d ago

I just gave blood for the first time since college and if you want this sweet, heroic, morally superior feeling then you should too!

They could always sign up to give comment at a public meeting.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

"they're in love and the man is turning into a shark" "oh sounds hilarious" "no it is going to wreck you"

Chelsea D Chamberlain@cdchambs.bsky.social · yesterday

we're reading Shark Heart for book club this month and what I thought would be a silly cheesy romance is so far an absolutely devastating exploration of love, decline, and caregiving

we're reading Shark Heart for book club this month and what I thought would be a silly cheesy romance is so far an absolutely devastating exploration of love, decline, and caregiving

Relatedly, if anyone has millions of dollars they wanna hand me, I'll happy found and run a liberal arts school for the current era.* *I have no idea what this means, but I'd have fun figuring it out!

Jack Jenkins@jackjenkins.me · 2d ago

I'll give AI this: It has somehow managed to make those of us who went to small liberal arts colleges even more smug about it than we already were.

so clearly abhorrent, straight up evil to require something like this.

OLIYA SCOOTERCASTER@scootercaster.com · 2d ago

"They tell me - if I want to take 2600 dollars and go to Haiti, or if I would stay here and be arrested and put that ankle monitor on my leg" Haitian asylum seeker with TPS status speaks after check in at Blue Ash Ohio ICE office.

I just gave blood for the first time since college and if you want this sweet, heroic, morally superior feeling then you should too!

when we had our honeymoon to NZ we stayed with family friends who complained *so* much about their (much harsher and longer lockdowns). We had to remind them about the US's horrific death rates compared to them.

Jake Wright@bcnjake.bsky.social · 2d ago

The reason you remember COVID lockdowns as an unnecessary annoyance that did more harm than good is because you DIDN’T DIE.

Median UK voter in 2026, as predicted by Hugh Laurie some decades ago:

my two year old when I ask him during lunch if he needs to go potty:

Annoyed O’Brien@annoyedobrien.bsky.social · 3d ago

I MUST GORGE MYSELF ON THIS MAC AND CHEESE THERE WILL BE NO FURTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS TIME

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

this is helping me think about how to talk to my students about taking notes during lectures, too: do not transcribe what I say or my slides!

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d ago

Anyway, your problem isn‘t finding the time to take notes. The problem is that taking notes is thinking and thinking has to be done by someone. women have been doing a lot of metacognition that looks like a task when it’s really thinking.

look. nobody here likes paying consultants. but the only alternative is paying *instructors*

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 6d ago

“Harvard paid McKinsey & Company at least $250,000 to consult on the Faculty of Arts and Sciences’ staff restructuring efforts, according to internal documents obtained by The Crimson.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...

Got a good job down at the Data Center. I work on the line, and it's hard work but it's honest and the wage is fair; my family and I are grateful for it. I rivet the word "absolutely" onto the little apologies that chatbots do when they misunderstand a prompt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Hassett: "Data centers are very good for towns bc they create so many jobs & bring people in with high incomes that can buy houses & stuff like that. So if you take a sleepy town that hasn't seen much in the last 30 years & put a data center there, there are gonna be a bunch of happy residents."

shot, chaser

Had a slow start but ended up absolutely loving Rachel Hochhauser's book Lady Tremaine. A really intriguing retelling of Cinderella, from the perspective of the stepmother, all about a mother's drive to protect her children.

beefing with my weather app because it didn't indicate thunderstorms long enough in advance for me to trazadone poor Jasper dog :(

I am going to join the Women's Christian Temperance Union bsky.app/profile/catg...

Catherina Gioino@catgioino.bsky.social · last wk.

I wrote about how much Americans wagered on sports betting in 2025 and how it’s more than they spent on movies, art, museums and music combined. Read my article @fortunemagazine.bsky.social fortune.com/2026/07/26/g...

We've spent so long having discourse about pop culture dictated by Gamergate-style flame wars that we can't handle good faith arguments over art and the meaning thereof. We're the metaphorical medieval peasants having a sip of Mountain Dew Code Red and having our nerves fried.

Bill Corbett@billcorbett.bsky.social · last wk.

Don’t wanna step too far into than this but - I really enjoyed Nolan’s Odyssey. Had some qualms, but on balance great. Enough so I hope to see it again soon (I almost never want that). I also liked Emily Wilson’s essay. Again, yer qualms. But fascinating points! www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

@sarialtschuler.bsky.social's BEFORE DISABILITY, which looks to the era before disability was pathologized (and racialized) to show how disability once represented the promise of US citizenship, out now with @pennpress.bsky.social: www.pennpress.org/978151282951... 2/

Before Disability – Penn Press

A literary, legal, and cultural history of disability, race, and citizenship between the Revolution and the Civil WarThe history of disability rights is ofte...

pennpress.org

“I was expecting more moving castles and fewer angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of night…”

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Next up in our Prospect Patriots series: Frederick Douglass. Here is someone who had every reason to abandon his great moral crusade in the face of overwhelming power and opposition, but he endured. And in that gives lessons to us all. @ryanlcooper.com has the profile. prospect.org/2026/07/28/a...

Frederick Douglass: Indefatigable American - The American Prospect

If Frederick Douglass, a former slave who saw the dream of emancipation drown in Jim Crow, didn’t give up on this country, then we have no excuse.

prospect.org

me [sobbing]: cmon median voter…your preferences can’t be *that* incoherent… median voter: 😎

I'm super happy that Mamdani is cutting red tape for small businesses. Frozen dessert permits seem frivolous now, but ice cream used to be really deadly! Absent good sanitary practices, it used to be carry of all sorts of diseases (remember typhoid mary?). The initial law was a public health win!

an ideologically driven effort to destroy an independent institution and replace its serious and broad-minded approach to american history with MAGA slop

Trump Orders Warnings Placed at ‘Inaccurate’ Smithsonian History Museum

President Trump said the signage at the National Museum of American History would correct what a disputed White House report described as “extreme political activism.”

nytimes.com

really annoyed that IN JULY the Lowe's entrance already has such freaky Halloween decorations up that we have to give the toddler a pep talk before we go in

New York Magazine@nymag.com · 2w ago

Lowe’s just released a holiday-décor collection that includes a life-size Elf on the Shelf, which sold out quickly last year, so get yours now.

joining the war on taco bell on the side of taco bell