"don't make enough money" is a fig leaf All those degree programs--social work, art, etc.--have disproportionately female student bodies. This is designed to make it harder for women to attend college--college education being a key factor in women's autonomy from men & left-leaning voting pattern.

The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2d ago

President Trump is banning students majoring in degrees that don’t make enough money from taking out college loans. Degrees for social work, art, religious studies, teaching aides, and music will be hit the hardest. trib.al/aaAEu6v

There is no version of yourself you could become that would satisfy the people who hate you. So you might as well be who you are.

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

As of this week, hundreds of thousands of Haitians lost their legal status. Most have lost work permits as well. That's left many people unable to support themselves. Here is a verified link to a fundraiser supporting Haitians in Springfield. Please drop links to other fundraisers in the replies.

Stand with Haitian Families in Crisis

Build the Emergency Fund that protects families when everything feels uncertain. The end of TPS. Increasing ICE actions. Families losing work authorization overnight. For Haitian parents and children ...

ancljkuy.donorsupport.co

A gentle reminder. We are all birthright citizens for the law recognizes that our parents are irrelevant to the question of our status.

Mrs. Betty Bowers@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 2w ago

Marco Rubio is against birthright citizenship. But Marco Rubio *is* a birthright citizen. Ted Cruz is against birthright citizenship. But Ted Cruz was born in Canada. He only got US citizenship by a birthright citizenship law because of his US mother. They are both shameless hypocrites.

1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.

Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)

Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.

nytimes.com

OUT TODAY, the AAUP just released the first comprehensive account of how the Trump administration has taken the same playbook it's used on law firms & foreign governments & turned it on American universities. US higher ed has, in effect, become a target of a massive extortion racket. 🧵

New Report on Extorted Compliance Charges “Massive Extortion Racket” Against Higher Ed

A new AAUP report, "Extorted Compliance: A Threat to Institutional Autonomy, Academic Freedom, and Shared Governance," exposes how the Trump administration has extended its pay-to-play approach to gov...

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If you want to understand the historical Sparta better (and you probably won't like what you find), start here: acoup.blog/2019/08/16/c...

Collections: This. Isn’t. Sparta. Part I: Spartan School

This is Part I of a seven part series (I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VII, Gloss., Retrospective) comparing the popular legacy of Sparta (embodied in films like 300) with the historical ancient state. Toda…

acoup.blog

It really does just come from this inchoate sense, derived from the film 300 and half-remembered high school history, that the Spartans were the most manly men to have ever manned and that's it. It is that thick-headed and anti-intellectual. There is no grappling with the actual Sparta.

Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò@olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 2w ago

I am endlessly fascinated by right wingers' obsession with Sparta. I can understand an initial vibes based appeal I guess - like if you opened the first page of a book on timocracy and were twelve. but the thing about history is you can find out what happened to those guys

On the Chud Vision of Roman History acoup.blog/2026/07/10/f...

Friday Friday, July 10, 2026 (On the Chud Vision of Roman History)

Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’ve been a bit behind because we had some family travel followed by an issue with a water leak in the basement which has pushed me out of my normal home office…

acoup.blog

::reads the Declaration of Independence:: Wow this shit goes hard. I want to live in that country.

"Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend its tired text and interpret the super-secret invisible version that tells you exactly what you want to hear."

The US Constitution Is for Simple Folk Still Burdened by the Belief That Words Have Meaning

“Every serious legal mind must inevitably face a fundamental choice: Read the Constitution and apply its words as the bedrock laws of the land, or transcend ...

buff.ly

This is my lane. I went through the 194 Trump v Barbara opinion from yesterday section by section, noting what they got right about US migration and citizenship history, and what the dissents get wrong. Please share if you think it is helpful to others.

I Read Trump v Barbara So You Don’t Have To — Anna O. Law

As someone who took 16 years to research and write a new book, Migration and the Origins of American Citizenship , a policy and legal history, I paid keen attention to the oral arguments (April 1) ...

annaolaw.com

One of the biggest mistakes made on both sides of the Atlantic in the last couple of decades is people assuming that once a battle for rights is won, it's settled forever. It is not. You have to continue to defend those rights.

ElieNYC@elienyc.bsky.social · last mo.

With this ruling, the birthright issue is not going away. The right hasn't really begun *organizing* around getting rid of the citizenship clause. Like Roe, this will be their fight for a generation. And if the Democrats just say "we won" and ignore it, like Roe, the Republicans will eventually win.

you see the difference between Iran and America is that in one country ultimate power lies with a cabal of robed theocrats that pays only lip service to democracy, whereas the other is in the Middle East.

Candidates who want my vote: how are you going to reform the judiciary? Be specific and detailed.

Today is full of magics. You don’t need to read about others experiences, you don’t need to capture your own to share. Today, just bathe in it all. Harvest your own omens, revel in whatever blessings the day offers. Refuse to be part of the mediated spectacle. Find your own primal wonder. #Solstice

🔔new music today🔔 Melvin Gibbs “Lift Every Voice and Sing” @melvingibbs.bsky.social rings in Juneteenth with a gorgeous meditative electric bass rendition of the “Black National Anthem” - a staple of his live sets since 2019 Melvin’s first book 𝙃𝙤𝙬 𝘽𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙈𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙏𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙊𝙫𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 is out now!

JUNETEENTH․com launched in 1996, sharing Juneteenth history & supporting celebrations. The #WaybackMachine preserves 30 years of its web history and how the site connected communities around a tradition now celebrated by millions. Explore the site's story 👇🏾 web.archive.org/web/19980815...

FYI the American Dream is not “a place so tolerant that people who considered themselves part of a superior group in their home countries can join the elite here and lord it over other ethnic groups.”

My country is not for cowards who fear difference, for lily-livered people who cannot bear the sound of a foreign tongue, the taste of a new food, the tempo of an unfamiliar kind of music. It is for the strong worker who welcomes new immigrants, not the slacker who fears the diligence of others.

Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works, if you'd like. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

If you need a script for getting your company off Twitter, I WROTE YOU ONE. Multiple people have used it, successfully, to explain the legal liability your company incurs by forcing employees to be on a platform with child sexual abuse material. I will help you use it. anildash.com/2026/02/23/t...

Taking action against AI harms - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

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Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · 2mo ago

I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists: X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up

Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time theonion.com/i-work-very-...

I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...

theonion.com

The Trump Administration’s racist science policies have achieved some of their goals. The number of Black Principal Investigators has dropped by 10% between 2024 and 2025; while the number of Hispanic PIs has fallen by 7%. For research trainees, the numbers are far worse.

Trends in NIH Investigators by Sex, Race, Ethnicity, and Disability Status

This cross-sectional study assesses National Institutes of Health (NIH) data from fiscal years 2016-2025 comprising annual counts of principal investigators funded through research grants and fellowsh...

jamanetwork.com

I’ve noticed that the most gross, demeaning generalizations made about me as a white guy are made by people trying to justify why I should be resentful.

Professa Murray@kalimurray.bsky.social · 2mo ago

This was a whole bridge of WOW, what? To compare “white identitarians” to the Black Power Movement, etc., is a whole mess of misunderstanding that I literally cannot comprehend. And the discussion of the NY Times hiring process, is again, what? www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0....

On what would have been Prince’s 68th birthday, if you are one of those folks who never really got into his music, or tried to listen once or twice and got overwhelmed with the huge catalog behind 1 or 2 big songs, I made a set of playlists to help you explore his work. anildash.com/2017/02/12/i...

It's time to discover Prince - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

anildash.com

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man." A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life. Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

This has been something I've been meaning to write for quite some time and the Homer contretemps gave it the opportunity. The thing I most wanted to draw out is that it isn't one fool on Twitter with a helmet, but a radicalization pipeline designed to lead antiquity-curious young men into fascism.

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 2mo ago

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them. @bretdevereaux.bsky.social on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts: www.thebulwark.com/p/why-stone-...