Siddhartha Mitter

Brown rolls over, performs anti-trans, anti-faculty submission; perhaps the worst Ivy capitulation yet.

Antisemitism training designed by pro-Israel groups is becoming compulsory at US colleges. What’s in it? Training asks students to attribute the statement ‘every time I read Hitler, I fall in love’ to an ‘anti-Israel activist’

Now compulsory at Northwestern and coming to more bastions of rigorous scientific inquiry near you

"Six statements pop on to the screen—the viewer must choose whether they were made by 'anti-Israel activists' or the former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke"

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This political moment underscores how much we need a new model of higher ed in terms of how schools are financed and how they impact the neighborhood, the city, the world, and the environment.

Cc @jhodos.bsky.social @gronah.bsky.social @ebogjonson.bsky.social

Government oversight of course evaluations.

The fay is relentless

A name I hadn’t seen in a while.

<whispers>

who the fuck is sydney sweeney and why are ppl —

nvm

Is Brazil’s Underdog Era Coming to an End? President Donald Trump has announced a fifty-per-cent tariff on the country’s products, as retaliation for the prosecution of his political ally, Jair Bolsonaro. So far, Brazil has refused to roll ove...

"Over the past few years, Brazilians have been feeling themselves."

With good reason!

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

Tell them !!!

Lula interviewed in the NYT

🎁 link below

Fresh young okra

#okrapolitan

sigh

Opinion | Juan Crow Is Back With a Vengeance

"The policies of this administration reinstate an era in which the rights conferred to all people in the United States by the Constitution are subject to a sliding scale of extralegal violability depending on one’s race, ethnicity or assumed immigration status."

Call this fascism Juan Crow.

John T. Biggers Murals in Houston, Texas In July’s co-publishing partnership with Oxford American, Daniel Fuller travels around Houston on a John T. Biggers mural tour, detailing the artist’s legacy left around the city.

Daniel Fuller on the mural art of John T. Biggers, in Houston, for @burnaway.org and @oxfordamerican.bsky.social

burnaway.org/magazine/joh...

Well there's the repetition between hed and dek, which is inelegant. But the bigger problem is NYC has no "Eastside," but rather an East Side.

The demise of listings is a huge frustration and source of anger to me. It has impoverished us in so many ways. And they would not be that hard to bring back.

Right on. It’s infuriating - across all the arts - and it has impoverished our lives. We absolutely need listings.

Cont. Walter Benjamins theory of history is very good and historians should read it instead of thinking it’s all just about the „angel“ or the theses.

This is the highest quality of those 1 likes lists you’ll see.

Ellisons been villainous since the tech bros were in diapers. I remember from my corporate-adjacent days in the 90s that he was already infamous as an asshole and bad actor.

Cc @pilgrimdear.bsky.social

This is the highest quality of those 1 likes lists you’ll see.

Where have you gone, Albert O. Hirschman, a nation turns its lonely eyes

It’s remarkable. Accelerated demolition of everything that until very recently was held up as a civilizational human value.

Minouche Shafik’s recycling advances apace.

In the FT, her disgraceful tenure as Columbia University president scrubbed from her bio, distilling milquetoast “geopolitical analysis” I could have pulled out of my arse

Guten Morgen

lol no shit

Minouche Shafik’s recycling advances apace.

In the FT, her disgraceful tenure as Columbia University president scrubbed from her bio, distilling milquetoast “geopolitical analysis” I could have pulled out of my arse

Ooooffff. Pele ooo