25 years later and The Onion’s ParentCorner 9/11 explainer from immediately after the attack is a better understanding of the threat environment than the one produced by the U.S. government.
Karen Graubart
@kbgraubart.bsky.social
Historian of colonial Latin America and early modern Iberia. Mostly gender, race, indigeneity, slavery. Guggenheim class of 2025-26
Here's a gift link to my 9/11 essay in the NYT. Civil libertarians long warned that before giving government new powers, we should consider how an administration with authoritarian ambition might abuse them. We were told that America was too exceptional to elect such a person. Well here we are.
Opinion | Civil Libertarians Knew This Would Happen. We Should Have Listened. (Gift Article)
The civil libertarians’ warnings have come true.
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The current fascists could not even adjust for inflation!
Jane@localnotail.bsky.social · yesterday"All the while he loved the People just as much as he feared and detested Persons, and he planned to do something historic. Certainly! He would give each family that five thousand dollars a year just as soon now as he could arrange it". [Sinclair Lewis - It Can't Happen Here]
Job posting - tenure-track assistant professor position The Dept of the History of Art & Architecture at Brown Univ seeks applicants whose scholarship focuses on histories of early modern (ca. 1400s-1700s) European art & architecture in the world. More info: apply.interfolio.com/191701
Very much looking forward to hearing Durba Mitra Monday at Notre Dame (reading the book now, it is fantastic) kellogg.nd.edu/future-was-h...
The Future That Was: A History of Third World Feminism Against Authoritarianism | Kellogg Institute For International Studies
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Flashback to the greatest opening line of a song of all time
Once again, there's a reason they won't spell out how we'd go extinct. Are we getting Jurassic Park'd because the AI is reinventing dinosaurs? Are they getting access to the nuclear codes and hypnotizing the president into using them? They are referring to bank/infrastructure hacks and exaggerating.
Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 2d agoThis, from an Anthropic employee, either reflects a lack of imagination or is evidence that this is all just lies. If you were really that scared, you'd pull the plug on all the servers and wipe everything from ARIN, APNIC, LACNIC, AFRINIC, and RIPE NCC. No more internet; problem solved.
We are not talking enough about the RNC showing Piker's meat pic during their jumbotron sizzle reel of all the ways America is going to hell And by talking I mean laughing b/c OMG the Freudian insecurity is so comically loud
Everything that you need to know about the tech billionaire class is that this fucking dipshit runs an AI weapons manufacturer valued at $61bn, and created a VR gaming headset that kills the user if they die in-game, but has never used it himself because of the risk of "accidental malfunction".
Apple quietly dropped a ton of detail about the Apple Watch’s new always-on don’t-call-it-transcription feature and it is FASCINATING. support.apple.com/en-us/148354
ICE have sent a resident of St. Paul, Minnesota, to Guantánamo Bay in Cuba, the U.S. naval base notorious for guards torturing imprisoned people, despite the man having no criminal record and being a legal resident of the U.S.
Somali Migrant With Legal Right to Live in US Sent to Guantánamo
Adam Abdullah of St. Paul, Minnesota, is a legal resident with no criminal background.
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This is who was on that Gitmo flight I tracked 12 days ago — a guy who did everything right to overcome the circumstances of his birth.
From The Crimson editorial board: “…to encourage unfettered use of AI, especially for “writing-intensive” courses, is antithetical to promoting learning and jeopardizes the purpose of a liberal arts education.”
Don't Tell Us To Write Our Papers With AI | The Harvard Crimson
It’s still unclear how AI could be used to support academic writing without meaningfully outsourcing one’s thinking. Professors might not be able to enforce a prohibition on its use for larger take-ho...
thecrimson.com
This is going to drive me up a wall. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/09/u... The "appropriate time" was literally 2 months ago. Federal law requires an announcement 60 days before TPS is set to expire as to whether it'll be renewed or terminated.
Salvadorans to Keep Temporary Protected Status for Now, Trump Officials Say
Temporary Protected Status for El Salvador was set to expire on Wednesday. The Trump administration said it would make an announcement about the program’s future at the “appropriate time.”
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Chicagoland rapid responders are reporting, with corroborating photos/videos, 3 ICE abductions so far today: one each in the Chicago neighborhoods of Logan Square and Belmont Cragin and the far NW suburb of Cary, IL. Activity also reported this morning in the Chicago neighborhood of Garfield Park.
Rudy Giuliani should absolutely be banned from the 9/11 observances. He supported an insurrection, just as he supported police attempting to invade City Hall, and is just as intent on destroying America as Bin Laden. New Yorkers don’t want him at the event. @nytimes.com why aren’t you covering this?
Could the relentless demonization of the humanities as woke, useless, and esoteric; systemic underfunding of humanities disciplines; and the STEM & AP-ification of high school have anything to do with this?
Justin Weinberg@dailynous.com · 3d agoThough there has been a tiny recent increase in philosophy BAs earned in the US, overall, the number of students graduating with BAs in the humanities continues to decline.
An HONOR!!! umassathletics.com/news/2026/9/...
Football Earns Season’s First Pop-Tarts Bowl Crazy Good Team Of The Week Honor - University of Massachusetts Athletics
DALLAS – The University of Massachusetts football team has been named the Pop-Tarts Bowl Crazy Good Team of the Week as selected by the All-America Committee...
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It turns out that Netanyahu was warned, in shockingly specific terms, about October 7 — and not only chose to do nothing, but hid the warning from the people who could have stopped it www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...
Netanyahu got an explicit warning before Oct. 7. He didn't brief security chiefs
In September '23, UAE President bin Zayed called Netanyahu to deliver a harsh warning. Netanyahu did nothing. An extensive investigation, conducted for a new book, reveals the PM's failures surroundin...
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OpenAI claimed their model had a breakthrough in a longstanding mathematical problem, but this scientist says that they basically stole his work
BREAKING: The MAC has reversed its position and is fighting the Big Ten's extra 1 second for Michigan. "The established replay protocol requires that the game clock displayed on the program feed be used in determining whether time remained."
Lonnie Bunch is a good man. I thank him for all the service.
Headquarters@headquartersnews.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Smithsonian's Secretary has just announced he is resigning this year. This comes after Trump's unhinged rants complaining about Smithsonian museums discussing "how bad Slavery was."
As part of boot camp, Alpha School students apparently have their heart rates monitored as they watch recorded videos of their parents critiquing them. This activity takes place in front of their classmates, and students must keep their heart rates within 10 percent of their baseline to pass.
Given his mental state he probably believes this, but how do his aides let him say it in front of crowds? Talking about stolen valor...
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 4d agoTrump claims he was basically lifted out of the rubble on 9/11: "Two fireman, big strong guys, they grabbed me under the arms -- 'got to get our of here!' -- and they literally lifted me up, and they started running with me."
Job Opportunity! Brown University - Professor and Director of the Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice networks.h-net.org/jobs/70319/b...
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Jesus Christ: after a recent ruling by the Eighth Circuit that allowed Act 372 to take effect, an Arkansas county has banned all children from checking out any books in the adult section, bringing home any DVDs, or using the self-checkout kiosk in its public libraries.
Arkansas Times@arktimes.bsky.social · last wk.As local libraries grapple with how to implement Act 372, a national group calls for legislators to repeal and replace the pro-censorship law.