The 2SLGBTQ+ community doesn’t get enough credit for toppling right-wing leaders, TBH.

Canadian Anti-Hate Network@antihate.ca · yesterday

A co-founder of Dominion Society of Canada, a group promoting "remigration," has quit. Greg Wycliffe resigned from its board on July 30 after photos and posts revealed his past work at a Toronto 2SLGBTQ+ radio station and participation in Pride events. www.antihate.ca/dominion_soc...

I’m old enough to remember when the chatter was about how a liberal like Carville could be married to a Republican like Mary Matalin. Mystery solved!

Donie O’Sullivan@donie.bsky.social · 3d ago

"I am not going to be in the same party with Hasan Piker ... if he becomes a force in the Democratic Party, I am out of here," James Carville says on Fox this morning. Reminder: The Left Insurgency airs tonight on CNN at 8p ET.

Assume you have some power. Be critical of ideas and accepting of people. Create with care and purpose, and without fear. Do, or do not, or try — there is no correct answer. Everything would be safer and easier if we all spoke more openly. Fabulous is as fabulous does. Great minds think.

mindflakes@mindflakes.bsky.social · 5d ago

Does anyone know what to say or what to do or how to be? I'm new to all this

Grand to have embarrassing authoritarian shit like this exist alongside people spraining their own elbows patting themselves on the back at the Mark Twain Prize evening for “not being afraid to piss people off” or what have you.

Florida Professor Fired for Assigning a Profane Story, Lawsuit Says

South Florida State College fired an English professor after she assigned a story about a teacher who talks about sex with her students. Now the professor is suing.

nytimes.com

The Iowa Board of Regents voted to suspend all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom until 2028 as the search for its permanent director continues.

Center for Intellectual freedom classes on hold

This is an installment in a multipart series The Iowa Board of Regents voted Wednesday to pause all courses offered through the University of Iowa’s Center for Intellectual Freedom, citing the need to...

dailyiowan.com

This is a real shame.

Philip N Cohen@philipncohen.com · 7d ago

Well, @asanews.bsky.social has canceled contexts.org, the website of @contexts.org magazine (which still exists and is good!). Back when, editors @skyed.bsky.social, @lettapage.bsky.social & I posted blog essays there that ASA does not seem to have preserved (though @archive.org has, of course) /1

I am honored to announce that my book, Freedom Train, has won the American Book Award. My co-winners this year include Stephen Colbert, a Bancroft Award winning historian, and a Pulitzer Prize winning poet. Learn more at the link below. www.beforecolumbusfoundation.com

Kelsy Burke has a thoughtful response to the “liquidate sociology” piece that offers some additional context. drkelsyburke.substack.com/p/beef-pamel...

BEEF: Pamela Paul Edition

A sociologist on Paul's anti-sociology turn

drkelsyburke.substack.com

If you’ve never recalled a book from yourself, are you even an academic?

Monica C. Schneider@poliscimonica.bsky.social · 2w ago

Pro-tip: If you are looking for a book, don't spend so much time on the library site or googling for a pdf or ordering it on Amazon until after you've looked through your own shelf.

New open access article about open access publishing from @mollymking.bsky.social and me: "Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science" journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sharing Knowledge Openly: Author Gender, Race/Ethnicity, and Feminist Science - Molly M. King, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, 2026

Open science is an increasingly important movement in contemporary social science. Many funders have begun to mandate open practices, newer journals like Socius...

journals.sagepub.com

These days,every issue of a higher ed periodical includes a piece like, “50 ways to AI-proof your academic assessments! Each is clearly ineffective and/or requires resources that you don’t have!”

“…marriage was important for gay people to get full rights as Canadian citizens and Quebecers…’If you lost your partner, you also lost your apartment because your relationship wasn't recognized and you were considered to be just rooming there. The family would come and take all the furniture…’”

André Picard @picardonhealth @picardonhealth.bsky.social · 2w ago

Trailblazing Canadian gay rights activist Michael Hendricks dies. Hendricks and partner René Leboeuf spent 6 years in court fighting for their right to get married before tying the knot in 2004, when they had already been together for 30 years. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... via @cbcnews.ca

As a robotics researcher, learning scientist, and author who has followed Realbotix for years, I'm compelled to do a Bluesky thread on this whole pivot that Realbotix is now trying, turning from humanoid sex robots to classroom "education" robots. Buckle up. nysfocus.com/2026/07/14/n... 🧵

Rural NY School To Launch Humanoid Robot Teacher

Plans to deploy a "lifelike" robot and avatar teaching assistant at Salamanca High School have sparked debate over the role of technology in schools.

nysfocus.com

The sex doll company thinks that kids should learn math from these creepy robots.

Mashable@mashable.com · 3w ago

AI company Realbotix is piloting STEM robots for rural schools.

Watching the All-Star Game and just learning that US TV commercials are terrifyingly dystopian.

With this stuff I’m always just like “Release the Cristobal!”, the Millionaire Exodus Kraken of Cornell, equally devastating and let’s face it almost as large (sociology.cornell.edu/cristobal-yo...)

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

Another example. Recent stories about a millionaire exodus from NYC, with pictures of Mamdani. 1) The report covered a period from 2010-2022 - before Mamdani was elected! 2) Its about NY state not NYC! 2) There was no millionaire exodus! NY's millionaire growth just lagged other states!

Sewer socialism for the 21st century!

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 3w ago

New w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...

Fantastic review of Sex in Public in Playgirl Magazine. “Fascinatingly thought-provoking…Jones begs us to open the discussion around sexuality and take it from private to public.” Dr. Jamye Waxman 1/2 #newbook #book #sexuality #summer #reading #booktok #empowement playgirl.com/sex-talk/the...

The Social Power of Eroticism | Playgirl

Playgirl reviews Angela Jones' Sex in Public: The Transformative Social Power of Our Erotic Lives. What makes, or breaks, our sexuality

playgirl.com

If your solution is “I would simply teach in a constructive, clever, warm, and inspiring manner that overcame all of these obstacles and brought out the inner virtue that I know exists inside every student waiting only to be awakened” OK good for you I guess

If students are simply uninterested in the core bargain of a class like this, it’s hard to know what to do. You teach the material because you think it’s important they know it; they don’t give a shit, but want the credential; and the university wants their money. Your main option is “pretend”.

Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 4w ago

woof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.

Today, the federal government finalized a major change to the Endangered Species Act (ESA) to remove vital habitat protections for endangered species.

I know, I know. It’s hard for me to remember who is in charge of the Catholic Church, too.

@churchtimes.bsky.social · 4w ago

The Society of St Pius X has rejected a Vatican excommunication order after its unauthorised consecration of bishops last week, insisting that Pope Leo, or his successors, will one day adopt its programme of “restoring all things in Christ”.

I wrote about Florida Governor DeSantis' getting rebuked by the 11th Circuit for his tyrannical (and unconstitutional) "Stop WOKE Act." Hopefully, this will serve as a warning to other GOP states (but I doubt it). www.ms.now/opinion/flor...

Florida's so-called Stop WOKE Act gets the legal rebuke it deserves

Victor Ray: Ron DeSantis' loss in court is a win for education

ms.now

I just created www.lgbtqlegislation.com which builds on the work of the LegiAlerts team to provide an interactive data dashboard to look at 20+ years of anti-LGBTQ legislation and especially anti-trans legislation. It also includes an overview of pro-LGBTQ legislation. Check it out!

LGBTQ+ Legislation Tracking Project

Two decades of anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, documented bill by bill — 10,000+ bills tracked across every state and Congress by the LegiAlerts team.

lgbtqlegislation.com

The ongoing puzzle of It’s Hard To Learn Things And Grades Are Meaningless But I Would Prefer To Do No Work And I Insist On Getting An A.

Much has been written about increasing anti-LGBTQ+ legislation, but we know less about what it’s like to grow up under it: “I’m Afraid for My Life”: Queer and Trans Youth’s Experiences of Surviving Far-Right Anti-LGBTQ+ Laws in Alberta, Canada. In Youth & Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

journals.sagepub.com

Too many people think their productivity, as compared to their peers, is because they're a very special researcher and not because of the structural affordances of their employer

New and improved odium! Now more vicious AND sneering!

The Telegraph@telegraph.co.uk · last mo.

The progressive version of Twitter offers a world of vicious, sneering odium that only those who see themselves as kinder humans dish out 🔗 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/07/03/is-there-anything-more-pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/?WT.mc_id=tmgoff_li_pathetic-than-a-bluesky-user/

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