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ELIZABETH WARREN: What Zohran is saying is 'I want people to be able to afford to live in NYC'

FABER: But raising taxes in order to do it?

WARREN: Oh my goodness! Oh dear! Are you worried that billionaires are going to go hungry?

I’m sorry what? I was not aware anyone taught grad students how to read 😭
Both my schools just threw us into the theory fire.
“Here’s Chakrabarty. Good luck” 😘

Make this a great thread plz.

This map shows how unevenly Nobel Prizes have been distributed across the world.

Loved this piece, Ben! I don’t know anyone else writing stuff like this. Fills a huge lacuna in tennis journalism! Merci

Tennis, Under the Influencers Taylor Fritz's wins are adding up in Washington, but maybe don't ask him to multiply.

Taylor Fritz is getting clowned by players like Shelton and Tiafoe about a video in which he couldn't do basic multiplication, but there's a bigger story about how tennis players are being set up to succeed—and fail—on social media videos.

Read it at Bounces:

www.benrothenberg.com/p/taylor-fri...

There is a special place in hell for T&F

'Hunger Games scenario': four ANU lecturers and only three jobs Four lecturers going for three jobs speak out about the stress and the cost.

This is based on an interview I did last week. For days, I’ve been anxious about repercussions for speaking to media. I was totally overwhelmed to discover today that my colleagues have all stuck their necks out with me.

I have the best colleagues!

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901572...

Staff hope to find a way through ANU trouble, say cuts aren't the answer 'Education funding has been under attack for decades.'

Honours student, Pippa, spoke about her thesis on the history of higher education in Australia which was about “universities and governments putting profits over people.”

She said she would like to see Vice Chancellor Bell, “demanding more public funding.”

www.canberratimes.com.au/story/901699...

What's up with Justice Jackson? She started making her mark and speaking out early, and some of her dissents are so pointed Kagan and Sotomayor don’t even join them. The far right is out for her, and even Republican justices are getting snarky.

So what's up? Here’s my take 🧵

I just texted a friend that celebrity culture in academia should die but every rule has exceptions. Friends, Romans, the woman who gave us Life as Surplus, Family Values, Counterrevolution and more has joined and made this platform worth it.
Welcome, Melinda! Follow her!!
@melindacooper.bsky.social

Comrades! Friends! Nemeses! The CfP for the annual meeting of Australian Progressive Legal Studies is open until next Friday, 11th of July. Send us your abstracts on all things law, political economy and modern authoritarianism.

The one and only Melinda Cooper (!!!) will deliver the keynote.

Zohran Mamdani. Overlaid text reads: Breaking news - Andrew Cuomo concedes New York mayoral primary to Zohran Mamdani

Breaking news: Former New York state governor Andrew Cuomo has conceded to progressive rival Zohran Mamdani in the Democratic primary for New York City’s next mayor www.ft.com/content/e4b8...

Hello recent History PhDs! My School is supporting applications to the BA postdoc fellowship scheme (and selected applications to the Leverhulme). If you've always wanted to work with me or my super colleagues, get in touch! We have an excellent grants team to help you write your application.

there are a million reasons not to vote for cuomo but let’s start with the fact that he doesn’t fucking live here

'Really demoralising': staff looking for changes to ANU leadership 'The first actual town hall we've had in quite a long time...'

""I honestly don't feel like we've had anything from the university executive apart from gaslighting, from day one, it's really demoralising," one attendee said."

@nteunion.bsky.social stands with #ANU staff. Things cannot continue as they are.
www.canberratimes.com.au/story/899465...

Seems fitting that Trump named his social network after Pravda.

Super chuffed to get an AHR review!

academic.oup.com/ahr/article-...

TOWARD A FREE ECONOMY: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India | By Aditya Balasubramanian book review of TOWARD A FREE ECONOMY: Swatantra and Opposition Politics in Democratic India By Aditya Balasubramanian

Very grateful for this review of Toward a Free Economy in Pacific Affairs by Yasser Ali Nasser!

arts-pacificaffairs-2024.sites.olt.ubc.ca/book-reviews...

Who would bet against Trump in the battle for public opinion? Less than 200 days into his second term, he has trampled over more laws and ripped up more precedents than any leader in US history. He has enriched himself and his family with overseas crypto sales and golf resort deals, launched a war on leading universities and medical institutions, ignored serial court orders to give deportees legal rights, declared, paused and partially resumed economic war on the world, and targeted his enemies with investigations and stripped them of security protection. Trump's assault on democratic norms has been breathtaking in scale and speed. Yet his approval rating is still at 45 per cent.

Read it and weep
on.ft.com/3FGos7B

i uploaded A Night of Knowing Nothing and the short films of Payal Kapadia onto the internet archive.
archive.org/details/a.-nig…

The great historian of Southeast Asia, Anthony (Tony) Reid, died yesterday in Canberra, aged 85. His studies transformed our understanding of Indonesia and the region. A professor at the ANU for many years, he also founded institutes at UCLA & NUS. And he was a lovely person

Coco Gauff Inherits the Earth After winning her second major at Roland Garros, Coco Gauff stays grounded.

On Coco Gauff and her parents, a feel-good story in a sport full of cautionary tales, who were the big winners today at #RolandGarros.

www.benrothenberg.com/p/coco-gauff...

Super excited for this. Yay Durba!!

It’s FAR less improbable then DC-Baltimore in 6 minutes riding that Beetle of his

Awesome! So pleased to see your star rise and rise, Ben. Necaise would be proud.

Thank you to all the many new subscribers who have joined Bounces to read the Wim Fissette interview that went up last night, glad folks are enjoying it!

If you haven’t yet subscribed or are on the fence, these happy folks can vouch for it!

www.benrothenberg.com/p/wim-fisset...

Thank you for this great piece and also the important acknowledgment of the abuse allegations.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o | A life of defiance: the celebrated Kenyan author’s views were not without controversy but he inspired generations of African writers Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o's journey from English to Gikuyu literature, decolonisation, and legacy in African literature.

In today’s @thehindu.com, my obituary for Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o:

A Life of Defiance —

www.thehindu.com/books/author...