Dead or alive, Mitch McConnell is on extended medical leave — on your dime. This is the same Mitch McConnell who voted against: paid family and medical leave for everyone else.
Josh Inwood
@geogjosh.bsky.social
Geography prof. I play a bad guitar, but can make a pretty sweet lemon meringue pie.
This whole Taylor farms thing and all the food being infected with parasites. It's actually a very good example of why these conglomerants and monopolies shouldn't exist. You shouldn't be able to operate under one name and own 30 brands that do the exact same thing
The Oakland University Archives and Special Collections has made available via JSTOR 23 oral history interviews that capture the history of Pontiac’s Black community and map the routes of the Great Migration. The post also includes a classroom activity for interpreting excerpts of the interviews! 🗃️
The Cassette Tapes of the Great Migration - JSTOR Daily
An archive of recorded interviews captures how ordinary people experienced one of the defining chapters of American history.
daily.jstor.org
Fox vs. PBS - How two networks covered the dramatic increase in cyclosporiasis cases. Fox described the parasite but didn't provide additional information. The PBS News Hour included an expert, Dr. Omer Awan, who said cuts to the CDC have made the outbreak much worse.
I think we can see the playbook for this year's midterms.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3w agoTuberville: "We probably have four or five senators that didn't legally win. They shouldn't be up here."
Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm
My weekly reminder about how the right uses "communism":
Connor Ewing@cmewing.bsky.social · 3w agoCompletely—and utterly irresponsibly—unhinged.
New from “GeoHumanities:” Volume 12, Issue 1 has been published online, featuring 16 new articles in creative geographies, with a special forum on Yi-Fu Tuan. Journal articles’ themes range from slow ontologies, place-making through graffiti and sculpture, and diaspora and nostalgia.
GeoHumanities
Volume 12, Issue 1 of GeoHumanities
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Murray: Is it true that people making under $184,000 pay a 12.4% Social Security tax rate? Dahl: Yes. Murray: And what is the rate for someone making $1,000,000? Dahl: 2.2%.
A crowd can argue for days about whether someone ‘deserved’ being gored by a bison, and never once ask about the child standing next to him. Wholly devoid of human empathy.
Middle one turns 17 and celebrating with some college tours
Guarantee there is a political reporter who knows McConnell’s health status, has sources and confirmation and is sitting on it to make money on a future book.
today in destroying higher ed, the country's second largest export (not for long now!), the largest employer in 10 states, 60 cities, dozens and dozens of counties economic sabotage AND epistemic warfare www.nytimes.com/2026/07/06/u...
Decline of Ph.D. Admissions Could Imperil a ‘Generation of New Talent’
nytimes.com
The power of a union contract in action! Congratulations to the California Faculty Association for fighting for Prof. Sang Hea Kil & winning reinstatement!
Tenured California professor fired over Gaza protest wins job back
Arbitrator rules California State University system violated law when it dismissed Sang Hea Kil, who now plans to sue
theguardian.com
Another professor fired for comments about Charlie Kirk is poised for a payout, this time $1.9M from University of Tennessee at Knoxville. The prof, Tamar Shirinian, won't return to campus: www.knoxnews.com/story/news/e... via Keenan Thomas
University of Tennessee to pay $1.9M to professor fired over Charlie Kirk comment
The cultural anthropology assistant professor will not return to the University of Tennessee faculty.
knoxnews.com
Four! Kavanagh only thinks the EO violates the implementing statutes and so Congress could rewrite the plain meaning by regular law!
How do any three people read this and declare, actually I don’t think so? “All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. “
Humphrey's Executor is dead and the president can fire anyone in the executive branch at will but NOT Federal Reserve governors is really a parody of the difference between the money power and everything else in America
College tuition isn't rising as fast as many people think. Data show tuition growth has actually slowed over the past few decades. The bigger problem? Family incomes haven't kept pace, making college feel increasingly out of reach.
College is unaffordable for many Americans – but don’t just blame rising tuition
College tuition has not significantly risen since 1990, at least compared to tuition changes over the previous decades.
theconversation.com
this legitimately made me tear up. a tremendous public servant!
gamera obscura@ohrobin.bsky.social · last mo.This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps are places where those conflicting visions of the nation are communicated to young people. Geographers, one of whom is a camp director, explains:
Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
theconversation.com
Dr. Seth Kannarr (PhD, Spring ‘26) and Dr. Derek Alderman just published a new article for @theconversation.com, “Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American.” Read it now at the 🔗 below! theconversation.com/summer-camps...
Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
theconversation.com
Proud to publish w/ @sethographer.bsky.social. Summer camp nostalgia hides hard questions. Who got to attend? Who was excluded? What values were taught? And what vision of America did camp ask children to embrace? @geographers.bsky.social @utkgeography.bsky.social theconversation.com/summer-camps...
Summer camps remain a battleground over what it means to be American
At a time when Americans disagree deeply over the meaning of citizenship, belonging and education, summer camps remain places where visions of the nation are communicated to young people.
theconversation.com