Shannon Walsh

I wonder if it’s the adult culture that went away. Now everything is youth culture.

everything is on fire these days, sure, but how is it that 50% of all news stories are not about how I just spent $20 on a bag of store brand coffee at fucking costco

8pm can barely keep my eyes open. Trying desperately to make it a little later to let my dogs out. 10:30pm wide awake like I got 10 hours of sleep suddenly.

'Chilling reminder': Multiple historically Black universities under lockdown after receiving threats At least six historically Black colleges enacted lockdowns after receiving threats, amid heightened concerns following recent campus violence at Utah Valley University.

And HBCU’s across the south. abcnews.go.com/amp/US/multi...

Supreme Court: You cannot use race as a consideration for accepting someone to college, but you can use it as the basis to arrest someone.

“.. The administration ‘has all but declared that all Latinos, U.S. citizens or not, who work low-wage jobs are fair game to be seized at any time .. and held until they provide proof of their legal status to the agents' satisfaction.’”

- Sotomayor

@reuters.com
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When I see people online, even in jest, suggest that people living in Republican-controlled states should be abandoned because of their politicians, I feel a deep heartache. New York CREATED Donald Trump and none of y’all are ever talk about it the way you disparage Alabama or Mississippi.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city.

This is not a joke. This is not normal.

Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.

I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.

I’m thinking today about all the women doing DEI work in universities, and how all of our canceled grants and shuttered initiatives means that not only are we losing the time we’ve already put in, we’re now even more behind our male peers who stayed focused on their research.

I think a lot about how the only reason I still have an attention span is because I got to the theater 2-3 times a week where I'm forced to turn off my phones. That should be a marketing campaign for parents: help your kids, take them to the theater

I swear to Pete I see one more comment about cloud seeding as these meteorologists try to explain how climate change has affected these flood events….the river rose 30 ft in 45 minutes. You can’t predict something that until this week was impossible to imagine.

Critical Hurricane Forecast Tool Abruptly Terminated U.S. Department of Defense announced Tuesday it would no longer process and deliver data essential to most hurricane forecasts

A huge blow was dealt to hurricane forecasters this week as a critical tool was abruptly terminated by the Department of Defense and NOAA. The immediate discontinuation of data from three weather satellites will severely impact hurricane forecasts this season and beyond. More ⬇️

Today I was reminded of the radical possibilities of performance historiography. Woot!

Nothing is a fucking distraction from anything it’s all the one thing

There’s a whole website. With gems like this. shopatsullivan.com/products/243...

there was one vote, it was for trump, and he is king of america now and you will obey

Today on a truck an American flag Punisher sticker…with a Tr*mp wig…??? Make it make sense.

To be dissed by one pope, Mr Vance, may be regarded as a misfortune; to be dissed by two popes looks like carelessness.

Soooo bye bye study abroad. AYFKM?

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

This just gets more horrific.

Jeffrey Goldberg thinking he was being pranked and then realizing he was actually just in the war plans group chat is such a good microcosm of how it feels to be alive right now, everything seems fake until you realize it’s actually real and incredibly stupid

Mahmoud Khalil’s Detention Is a Trial Run The pro-Palestine student was arrested without due process for exercising his right to free speech. He will not be the last.

The detention of Mahmoud Khalil puts all Americans fundamental rights at risk. And if you can’t see that because you oppose his politics, well that’s exactly the reaction Trump and his cronies are counting on. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....

I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.

LSU purging hundreds of webpages in response to Trump admin’s anti-DEI guidance • Louisiana Illuminator LSU is undertaking a review and purge of more than 1,300 webpages flagged for review because they include the words “diversity,” “equity,  “inclusion” and “DEI.”

And here’s where we are.
“LSU business faculty whose research touches on home equity, and scientists whose research focuses on diversity of species have been highlighted as potential problems.” lailluminator.com/2025/02/26/l...

Since I’ve been getting this a lot - if you feel like supporting me by buying a jersey or something, I would rather you make a donation to Trans Lifeline or The Trevor Project

www.thetrevorproject.org

A lesson in how claims of meritocracy as justification for opposing DEI are often cover for the demand that we return to a system of preference for white men - whatever their qualifications. Fire a qualified Black man. Hire a statutorily unqualified white man. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Dear artist-colleagues: the EO against DEI has been blocked, for now. That means the NEA cannot enforce Trump’s edict. Of course, the chilling effect is happening.
Do Not Censor yourself. Institutions and artists who act from the moral center (& aesthetic necessity) of equity and inclusion apply!

Holy crap Paul McCartney.