US unemployment rolls swelled between mid-September and mid-October The number of Americans on jobless benefits surged between mid-September and mid-October, government data showed on Tuesday, suggesting an elevated unemployment rate in October as an uncertain economic environment discourages hiring.

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Kathleen was the highlight of episode one. I don’t love Peter Coyote’s narration and I thought most of the talking heads lacked charisma. I just kept thinking, I’m so sorry students in grades 6-12.

The first episode was so painful, I didn’t watch the second night, glad to know it picks up.

#ProudBlue

IRS Direct File, the electronic system for filing tax returns for free, will not be offered next year.

The convicted felon’s administration killed it.

SMFH 😡

How a mercenary became a Minneapolis mall cop After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.

As we see American cities overrun by masked men with little accountability the boom in private security post-2020 is a haunting lesson.

This is what happens when men are given big money to treat citizens protesting like insurgents.

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Trump claims his ICE raids are going after the "worst of the worst".

But his own DOJ admits that over 97% of immigrants detained in Chicago have no criminal record.

It was always about cruelty, not public safety.

Ah yes, this admin still playing it both ways to create more confusion and uncertainty. Today we are a racial group subject to DEI, tomorrow maybe we are affirmed as political entities. Or, maybe not.

Ken Starr, immediately after being fired for his role in the coverup of sexual abuse at Baylor: I should reach out to convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein

this happened! this is a thing that happened!

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

Truly a snooze fest on the narration front.

That was the missing ingredient.

The use of terror is not a byproduct of Trumpian politics: it is central to how he governs.

The banality of evil: how Epstein’s powerful friends normalised him Long after his conviction for sexual abuse, people in royalty, academia, business, journalism and politics sought his ear

“The secrets of Epstein’s inbox do not reveal an overarching conspiracy but paints a more sobering picture: a world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A 14 year old has responded to Megyn Kelly’s disgusting comments.

@cheeringforchange on TikTok

#EpsteinFiles #ReleaseTheFiles #MegynKelly

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.

Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

i want to put this in front of conservative pundits who defended this raid bsky.app/profile/raws...

To your OP, only through meeting each other as allies across fields and across positions in the academy and organizing ourselves, with orgs like AAUP, on behalf of each other and our institutions can we accomplish what the UC did.

Let me also say (before I get the # NotallSTEM), the most recent articulate defense I have heard on behalf of the humanities against AI came from someone trained in robotics.

Most humanities folks I know have been better allies/advocates for STEM to non-academics/public audiences that they have been to us even though so many of the internal systems we navigate to move our work forward built by them or for them.

STEM professors were genuinely caught off guard that this admin was coming for them. They genuinely thought they were safe.

This has been on my mind since this past spring when a certain institution was uninterested in helping file an objection to my NEH cancellation. But went to bat for its STEM cancellations. It speaks to values that play out across institutions.

The Logic of Destruction And how to resist it

Snyder laying out the ignorance of the grifter-in- chief and the havoc it wreaks on us all. open.substack.com/pub/snyder/p...

A big victory for the University of California.

And a call to every university across the U.S. to refuse to sacrifice academic freedom to Donald Trump.

Our democracy requires your uncensored voices. And the law is on your side.

This is vile. My stomach turned watching Megyn Kelly’s interview and now reading this.

“But, at its heart, this has always been a scandal about the ruling class as a whole, not one individual or political party.”

“This is a corruption crisis.” I woke up to this thought this morning. Will we have the political will and will the next round of leaders be creative enough to carve a new path forward to protect our systems and our democracy from this level of rot?

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t.
There’s some kind of lesson here

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Judge bars Trump from immediately cutting funding to the University of California | CNN Politics The Trump administration cannot immediately cut federal funding to the University of California or issue fines against the school system over claims it allows antisemitism or other forms of discrimina...

One reason why elite schools (Columbia, Brown, Cornell) caving to Trump’s illegal impoundment and extortion is so galling — a betrayal, really — is that they would have won had they fought. By giving up, they guaranteed every other school will have to fight harder.

“Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City, the newly elected USCCB president, spoke in strong support of the statement before the vote.”