Joseph M. Adelman

ICE admits that up to 50% of arrests in its Chicago raids are "collateral.” These aren't statistics. They are parents taken from their children, neighbors taken from our communities. When does a "collateral" U.S. citizen child's trauma matter? This isn't law enforcement; it's a campaign of terror.

“We were once exceptional, people who beat the creative odds. We’d emerged victorious over the consistent urging to pursue a real career, a real-person job. Quickly, we’ve become a class of cautionary tales. The exceptionalism swings the other way, now.”

*DEVELOPING*: I've updated my scoop with previously unreported details about the State Dept. staffer who requested the sword, NARA's response, and that the gift Trump gave King Charles III wasn't even a replica of Eisenhower's West Point Officer's Sabre:
lastcampaign.substack.com/p/exclusive-...

That was an amazing defensive gem / act of self-defense by Muñoz.

That epic handshake meme. Left arm: “the life of pi” Right arm: “tonight’s ballgame” Where they meet: “Tigers and Mariners”

This position derives from the Revolutionary era argument that the press was a “bulwark of liberty.”

Shohei Ohtani is the first player in MLB history to start at least one game as pitcher and at least one as a non-pitcher in a single postseason

I have written, worried and worked around the “fairness gap” described here my whole academic career. I will say that the changes in reading that we are currently talking about aren’t really about that. It is so much bigger & sudden than that which is why I think people are talking about it.

Given what I've heard from undergrads, it seems a lot of K-12 schools no longer assign novels, especially outside AP classes. Instead, it's all anthologies or even digital anthologies (like Savvas offers) that come with read-aloud options so that kids never have to engage directly with the text.

Universities teaching literature students how to cope with long novels Critics blame GCSE English for deterring teenagers from the subject, describing the literature syllabus as boring and repetitive

I think we’re really going to have to do a lot more of this. A massive deprogramming so that people can read more than ten words at a time without anxiety.

www.thetimes.com/uk/education...?

Those Catholics only thought that Leo would be a break w/Francis b/c Fox/Newsmax/EWTN had been pushing the "American Pope" angle. They assumed that any American clergy would be MAGA.

Their gaslighting is entirely self-inflicted.

all of these videos are horrifying. what feels so singularly striking and scary to me in all of them is the individual seething contempt and rage of these agents

The rule of law means that civilians who commit crimes are prosecuted in courts of law with benefit of due process. Extrajudicial executions in international waters are an affront to our Constitution and the law of nations. It isn’t national defense. It’s murder.

Director of Eisenhower Library in Kansas ousted after refusing to give Trump administration a sword The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

BREAKING: The director of the presidential library and museum in Abilene, Kansas, said he was suddenly told to resign or be fired. He refused to give the Trump administration a historic sword from the museum’s collection.

CFP: A Time of Monsters The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

teams playing in their home ballparks are now 65-67 all time in winner-take-all postseason games

Which means it’s time for some smoked herring … yum, kippers!

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Journalist Mario Guevara is being deported because the American government punishes reporters to protect its own power.

We should all be outraged.

freedom.press/issues/mario...

Do I even want to know what happened please say no

Yes yes yes. A lesson in this even for people who aren’t CEOs but who are a little bit of a somebody.

Everything Caitlin says, and to add: we’re basically living in the world of Covid while in denial about ever coming to terms with living in a world of Covid.

I remember someone raising this point in 2020 about The Great Gatsby, too. That something about the carefree, YOLO lifestyle of the 1920s derives (silently) from the flu pandemic.

Every discussion about AI in academia should start with ethics and academic honesty and almost none of them do. Those are really high bars to clear to get to using LLMs, which I suspect is a big reason why advocates skip over those conversations.

yes, all of these reasons, plus some others

Anthropic settlement explainer:
--look up to see if your work was included (easy)
--file a claim if it was (easy)

--Amount will likely be 1.5K (3K per book, split w/publisher)
--Money comes between now and 2027 (in separate tranches)

The local coffee shop where I sometimes come to do some work is also a meeting point apparently for city politicians. And with election season in motion, basically every time I'm sitting here there's some official or candidate having a meeting.

California colleges lost millions in humanities purge. Their projects might not recover Local history projects are some of the biggest casualties as 19 California campuses are missing over $5.2 million in canceled federal grants.

In an LAist article describing the impact of cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities on California universities, the @acls1919.bsky.social lawsuit, joined by the AHA and the @modernlanguage.bsky.social, was cited as one of several legal challenges seeking to restore NEH grant funding. 🗃️