Major report by the University of Toronto’s Muslim, Arab, and Palestinian Discrimination Working Group released yesterday: people.utoronto.ca/wp-content/u...

there is literally zero chance the New York Times would be turning to a tenured English professor at UC Irvine for analysis of anything - much less a historic election powered by a huge swing in Black and Latino voting and turnout - unless she was saying *exactly* what they wanted to hear

Andy Elrick@andyelrick.bsky.social · 3d ago

Just won the Kentucky Derby by 12 lengths. There was only one other horse in the race and it sh*t itself and ran head first into a wood chipper. An autopsy is immediately performed on the winning horse.

I am once again asking that we get a major movie or TV series about a significant slave uprising (Turner, Vesey, Gabriel).

New York Amsterdam News@nyamnews.bsky.social · 3d ago

On this day in 1831, Nat Turner was executed following his uprising against slavery. The enslaved preacher led a four-day rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia, the deadliest revolt by enslaved people in U.S. history. #NatTurner #BlackHistory

When a life-long Democrat says he grew up in a "far left environment":

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d ago

Tech’s pivot to the left. “.. Nowhere is that hard pivot more on display than with Alex Karp.” @politico.com $PLTR www.politico.com/newsletters/...

The combination of the mass erroneous purge, forcing voters to cast affidavits, & mass rejection of affidavits per strict rules, is such an indictment of voter suppression in Mississippi. Mississippi's Senate race not being that close is keeping this from exploding as a story.

Cornell is hiring in feminist political theory! Seems like a good idea right now… please share widely! academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/333...

Very interesting thread:

Joey Fishkin@fishkin.bsky.social · 5d ago

@richardprimus.bsky.social wrote a law review article about the three-day fight on the floor of the Senate when Hiram Revels—the first Black member of either house of Congress—tried to take his seat. It is, as it happens, my all-time favorite law review article. So I'm going to tell you about it.

BREAKING: Cornell faculty senate votes no confidence in President Kotlikoff.

maybe the worst imapct of the llm boom on education is the way it incentivizes/underwrites a heightened distrust of students. educational relationships should not be adversarial they should be collaborative, but it is very hard not to view my job as in some part comprised of policing ai use now

55 CANDIDATES 55 PRIMARIES 55 CAUCUSES 55 CONVENTIONS

David S. Bernstein @dbernstein.bsky.social · last wk.

From Axios, re 2028 Prez:

A lot of self-congratulation about the BlueSky epistemic environment today, but I'm seeing surprisingly few deep dives on the expected distribution of outstanding votes in Jackson and Rankin counties in Mississippi.

Oh, NOW the times decides there’s no need to sanewash and it’s ok to have an arch, “get a load of this clown” tone to their political reporting

let's not overlook the biggest news of the day

The jokey replies to this post show more understanding of inference in the context strategic interactions than Cowen, a professor of economics, apparently has.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · last wk.

Probably an even worse take than "'Who's On First' isn't funny."

Are you suddenly interested in the question of what constitutes an electoral mandate? Here are a couple accounts in the democratic theory literature of how representatives ought to act in light of elections (and other citizen activism):

And Ohio!

Asheesh Kapur Siddique@asheeshks.org · 2w ago

It’s simple: Democratic governors in Texas, Georgia, and Iowa should appoint actual educators to boards of regents. Real estate executives, bankers, and conservative activists have no business governing universities.

WHAT THIS MEANS FOR HIGHER ED: -Faculty must submit syllabi in advance to dean to ensure correct land acknowledgement. -Only accredited major is bell hooks thought -New STEM requirement: Calculating Reparations

we're calling it the Gulf of Transgender now

Is that a 43-vote lead in Mississippi?

Lol NYT has moved Alaska from toss-up to "Dem lead" before any votes are counted, presumably because their model is taking into account the votes in other states.

I WANT MY NEIGHBORS BACK YOU SON OF A BITCH

really riley@rly-riley.bsky.social · 2mo ago

this came to me in a dream

Your gender is now two sentences of your choosing that you write on your driver's license.

lastpositivist.bsky.social@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Famously upon the restoration of Charles II there was a parade held through London with prominent images of Dionysius; letting deposed Puritans know the boys were back in town, so to speak. I think we're gonna have to do that with Woke 2. Publicly cancel some prominent media men in the town square.

NYT not yet calling Maine Senate but Nate Cohn posting that Jackson is "on track to win"

I will just say as a faculty member of a Texas public university Oh THANK GOD 😅 🙏

A lot of surprising results but so far it does seem to me that the depth and breadth of the Democratic victories in Texas is the most shocking and most significant.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

i think it is generally a bad idea to talk about realignments but texas...that feels like something has fundamentally shifted in the state's political trajectory

Starting tomorrow, you get fired if you *don't* teach Plato's Symposium in Texas.

'In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.'

Keisha Lance Bottoms and the long road from Crawfordville to Governor’s Mansion

More than 160 years after her ancestors were enslaved in Georgia, the former Atlanta mayor has made history as the first Black woman elected governor.

ajc.com

The truth was out there!

James Lindley Wilson@jameslwilson.bsky.social · last mo.

My mom lives in what is now NY-17 (where I mostly grew up), canvassed endlessly against Mike Lawler, and is taking some well-deserved victory laps in the chat