“In Salisbury, the Eastern Shore’s biggest city, about 10% of the 33,000 residents are Haitian, many of them employed under #TPS as farmworkers, caregivers and in the poultry plants that are the region’s economic backbone.”

Gabe Ortíz@tusk81.bsky.social · 6m ago

“Empty pews and fear of ICE grip Maryland’s Eastern Shore after #TPS ends for Haitians. As Temporary Protected Status expires, many Haitian immigrants in Salisbury retreat from daily life, fearing arrest and deportation." haitiantimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

It’s official! Our fiction imprint, Fort Point, is going live!

Beacon Press Launches Fiction Imprint

The Boston-based publisher, which is primarily known for its nonfiction about political and social issues, will publish 3–5 titles per year through its Fort Point imprint, with Beacon director Gayatri...

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Nothing to see here, people. Move along. Move along.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 2h ago

Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever

"Not only are we denying you tenure—we’re closing your department and setting the entire university on fire just to be safe.” www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a61960

The New School for Social Reserach in NYC is, essentially, killing itself, killing what it was, killing what it stood for. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/n...

He Had Tenure. The New School Laid Him Off Anyway. (Gift Article)

The professor, a longtime critic of the university, was among 19 educators who lost their positions as the institution navigated financial woes.

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The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/05/m...

The U.S. Relies on Family Caregivers. Millions of Them Are Kids. (Gift Article)

The modern health care system requires the work of caregiving to fall to whoever else lives in a household — even if they’re kids.

nytimes.com

www.forbes.com/sites/michae...

Personal Coaching Boosts Retention, Re-Enrollment At HBCUs, Finds New Study

A new five-year study by InsideTrack found that one-on-one coaching dramatically boosts retention, re-enrollment and tuition revenue at 39 of the nation’s HBCUs.

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Time Traveler Causes of Death xkcd.com/2976/

I’d be pissed AF if I’d served in the military and my draft-dodging POS of a president posted this. Americans are dying because of his incompetence and he thinks it’s funny???

Shame on you UBER! (Here's a free link.)

Uber’s Strategy for Fighting Sexual Assault Suits: ‘What Were You Wearing?’ (Gift Article)

The ride-hailing giant promised to handle legal claims “in a way that is best for the survivor.” Its lawyers are pursuing a far more aggressive strategy.

nytimes.com

Well…yes. You CAN rein in the president. Try…reading the Constitution and CHECKING the executive. My God.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Terrific piece on the real issue in US health care.

Stop Saying There's a Nursing Shortage

The U.S. may have less of a shortage of licensed nurses than a shortage of nurses who are willing to work in bedside jobs that have become increasingly demanding.

time.com

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

Trump Moves to Cut Off Student Loans for Tons of Degrees

Under a new rule, if your degree doesn’t make enough money, you won’t be able to get a student loan.

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Specialized care for dementia can be hard-to-find in rural areas, but collaborative, community-based approaches can help address these inequities. Public health researchers explain: theconversation.com/in-memory-ca...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

After Colleges Reject ‘Compact,’ Trump Officials Try a Letter (Gift Article)

The open letter from Education Secretary Linda McMahon fell far short of the attempt at a compact last year that dangled research money in return for embracing the Trump administration’s agenda.

nytimes.com

Libraries bringing their A game to social media

What did you do in the past 29 days? New Zealand ultrarunner Sophie Woods ran 1,240 miles across eight countries to conquer one of the world’s toughest endurance challenges – breaking both the men’s and women’s time records. https://cnn.it/4w9KNi7

Nothing to see here. Move along, move along.... www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

US cyclosporiasis outbreak kills two people in Michigan, officials say

US sees first fatalities due to intestinal illness, though both had significant ​underlying health conditions

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Four university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...

Trump Has Released a New ‘Call to Action’ for Universities. 4 College Presidents Helped Draft It.

Education Secretary Linda McMahon sent a letter Monday imploring colleges to adopt a series of familiar-sounding reforms — this time, in partnership with leaders in the Association of American Univers...

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Absofreakinlutely Jamie Raskin, A De-Trumpification Of OUR Government......

Baltimore.

Wait, what?!

Morgan J Freeman@mjfree.bsky.social · 3d ago

I hate to break it to you— There is NO peace deal with Iran.

The 18th Century was a weird place. We have AI, but they had a robotic digesting duck. Come to think of it, is that what ChatGPT really is? 🤔https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digesting_Duck#

The "darkside" of solar panels does famers some good! energiesmedia.com/solar-panels...

American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland, and the biggest payoff had almost nothing to do with electricity

Long rows of solar panels march across the desert, and underneath them, where the ground should be baked and bare, there are rows of green.

energiesmedia.com

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...

Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again. (Gift Article)

To face our own history, we must be honest about it.

nytimes.com

"You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal." — James Baldwin, born on this day in 1924 #AmWriting

this is my new favorite diagram

"Why should I major in History?"

Bits@bitshammer.bsky.social · 7d ago

Very ugly day in American history when our country is attacked by a foreign government and the President refuses to call it what it is, let alone do anything about it, then blames his own countrymen instead Indefensible

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "We heard in Minnesota there was a cyberattack and they blame it on Iran. I don't think so. I blame it on Minnesota because they're grossly incompetent. Iran's got bigger problems than worrying about Minnesota."