This follows the 2022 referendum in Kansas, where voters rejected a post-Dobbs anti-abortion constitutional amendment. So proud of my home state! #RCJ #LFK

Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 14h ago

NEW: Voters have rejected Republicans' scheme to unseat the Kansas Supreme Court's Dem-appointed majority and overturn abortion rights. Amendment 1 would have let the GOP replace the system of a nominating commission, gubernatorial appointment, and retention elections with direct partisan elections

Piker. Applause for Stalin reportedly went on for 10 minutes or more when he convened *his* lickspittles, sorry, loyal comrades. They eventually installed a bell to allow the terrified toadies to stop clapping.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

cult shit at the White House as Trump's cronies give him a standing ovation for minutes on end. Note how nobody wants to be the first to stop clapping.

Political reasons for tenure denials are a violation of faculty governance and academic freedom The best part? The president (Jim Davis) is himself not an academic, and got tenure not as a result of a formal review, but pro forma from the Board of Regents as part of his hiring contract

Sarah T Roberts, PhD@ubiquity75.xyz · 2w ago

UT President interfering with faculty tenure. Just the latest egregious example of administrator overreach and political capitulation. Non-paywall follows.

Can only gleefully imagine how much Gianni is seething right now

Argentina living up to its usual standards of sportsmanship

So far:

Homer Simpson Plays Soccer in Mexico

ALT: Homer Simpson Plays Soccer in Mexico

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Saka's gets the hat trick, Bellingham gets the all-time mensch award

Every time they make it harder for foreign students to study here, they're just jacking up the tuition costs for American students and robbing America of incredible new talent too.

Ben Allen@evodynamics.bsky.social · 3w ago

Congrats we just made it impossible to come here for a PhD www.bostonglobe.com/2026/07/16/m...

I had a joke about Eumenides, but it’s not too kind

Mitchell Epner@mitchellepner.bsky.social · 3w ago

I had a joke about Achilles, but it had a fatal weakness.

T-shirt reads: “I am a bookseller” (我是書店員).

YTSL@ytsl.bsky.social · 3w ago

This photo is one of the ages. And should be made famous.

Case in point. Just stellar, hawk-eyed refs

Martin Calladine@uglygame.bsky.social · 3w ago

Excited to see which side will win, England or the refs

Not a fan of France, but that was just a *demolition*

@stephaniemlee.bsky.social is academia's Isaac Chotiner: www.chronicle.com/article/is-a...

Is Anthropology Hopelessly Politicized?

We asked Carolyn M. Rouse, head of the American Anthropological Association. She had a lot to say.

chronicle.com

Last day to submit a public comment on these proposed rules, which would hand complete control of American science over to the people who brought you ICE, war, and a diarrhea epidemic agu.quorum.us/campaign/163...

Stop OMB From Erasing Federal Research

A new proposed rule rewrites the terms of U.S. science

agu.quorum.us

Semi-finals: France vs. Spain England vs. Argentina + the refs

Middlest just hit his head on the ceiling, all too appropriate way to celebrate

Bellingham!! Doing Kane’s job again

Family audience divided between English-born and Norwegian-American. Between that and the French refs, it’s going to be a doozy

Telemundo so much better at this than Fox: close-ups,drones, dynamic shots, and no vapid commentary (mostly bc my Spanish isn’t good enough)

You see that’s what football is, not calling up your mates at FIFA to get a suspension overturned for a player, team, sport and arguably even country you don’t care about

Different kind of spectacular

Kind of ironic for Argentina to complain about a hand ball

Some things to note about Putin's potential plans in Poland: a) there have been several attacks on infrastructure/ incursions, and both Poland and NATO kept their cool b) if Putin is smart, he'll stick with a plausibly deniable bigger attack on infrastructure: that's a gray area for NATO

Tusk warns 'critical months' ahead for Poland in face of Russian threat

Tusk says Poland is preparing for "various" scenarios after media reports of a planned Russian attack.

bbc.com

Amazing work by @investigacecz.bsky.social (with help of @acdatacollective.bsky.social) mapping Czech assets of Russians who are connected to the Kremlin and sanctioned companies and individuals.

investigace.cz@investigacecz.bsky.social · last mo.

Přinášíme přehlednou mapu českého majetku Rusů, kteří jsou napojeni na Kreml a sankcionované firmy i osoby. Data pocházejí od @acdatacollective.bsky.social, serveru munscanner a rupep. www.investigace.cz/mapa-majetku...

Amazing research! Come for the efforts to prevent the Revolution, stay for the ALEC-style 18th century legislative lobbying (including a draft bill)

Jonathan Gienapp@jgienapp.bsky.social · last mo.

One of the most incredible things I have ever worked on: Recently discovered documents, written by John Dickinson in 1775, that reveal his secret and previously unknown efforts to prevent the American Revolution. Now featured in the New York Times. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/30/u...

Oh look:

TrumpReposter@trumpreposter.bsky.social · last mo.

A Golden Gift to the White House for its 250th Birthday Year!

I mean, suborning science by politics usually works out well. Just ask the beneficiaries of Lysenkoism and anti-sparrow campaigns, the forced study of dialectical materialism and scientific Marxism, Soviet psychiatry, or late-communist era blood transfusions.

Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social · last mo.

From me, now expanded into a Cato post, on OMB's proposal to centralize grantmaking and research funding authority and require that all discretionary grants "demonstrably advance the president’s policy priorities” and not "promote anti-American values.”

The replies to this post nicely support the OP's point. If you find a post wrong, why not counter it with evidence, logic, reason, etc instead of hiding behind pseudonyms and resorting to pathetic name-calling? Surely these intellectual giants are capable of a counter-argument?

Stanley Pignal@spignal.bsky.social · last mo.

A lot of people left X for Bluesky because of the tone of the discourse there (I wasn't one of them, as it happens). But do be aware that angry lefties aren't above personal insults. If your answer is "oh but you said something I disagree with online", it might be worth rethinking a few things.