Kevin C. Moore

‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion | KQED University of California President James Milliken said President Donald Trump’s proposal would “completely devastate” the system.

Headline writer finally gets it right: ‘Extortion’: Newsom Threatens to Sue After Trump Fines UCLA $1 Billion www.kqed.org/news/1205152...

Indeed. Thank you for this reading, and for the clarity with which you’ve seen it for some time.

Excellent question for the MONSTERS who covered the marvelous Michael Jang on my block.

"Even gifted scholars lose their way / through faulty etymology." Incredible poem and conversation.

Would agree that Eddington is a litmus test for viewers, but that it slices in the opposite direction. I’ve never seen a film stare a political/historical reality so clearly in the face and then totally fail to reckon with it. A complete imaginative collapse, and a dangerous one, I’d argue.

Gladly!

I Am Not Sidney Poitier is at the top of my stack of summer books. I'm only about 15 pages in, but it seems pretty great (and wild) so far...

Truly the OG hot commie summer. 😂

The Onion NYT ad. The headline of the editorial says “CONGRESS, NOW MORE THAN EVER OUR NATION NEEDS YOUR COWARDICE”

EXCLUSIVE — The Onion has a full-page ad in today’s NYT featuring part of an editorial calling out congressional fecklessness towards Trump. They also sent a copy of their latest issue to every lawmaker.

My report, with an excerpt from the full editorial: www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Uncanny.

Disturbing new tactics in San Francisco, but this is a community victory.

Brilliant!

Important investigation on SF’s “blueprint for displacement.”

San Francisco is moving towards a citywide ban on RVs.

Our year-long investigation reveals how the mass eviction of a Latinx RV community became the city’s blueprint for displacement — and made the crisis worse.

Read here: bit.ly/4loeWFt

Currently co-writing a textbook that uses a genre-focused approach, derived from rhetoric and writing studies.

It’s so plainly and obviously righteous to resist mass deportations with force that I think the people who want to convince us to be more afraid of the protestors than of ICE must imagine their audiences to be very stupid.

If you make me president of your university, I will find millions in cost savings by force-quitting shady EdTech contracts, & I will spend it all by giving faculty an annual budget to buy course books for their students.

Well put. Would re-emphasize the neoliberal burlesque part.

Story From Below No Other Land Sets the Record Straight

Really thought-provoking review by @cbertsch.bsky.social on the extraordinary editing that makes No Other Land such a powerful documentary.

Much jasmine, in the morning sun, on Stanford University quad.

All the jasmine.

💯

Complete morel chaos.

Annual “morel chaos” post (here on a new platform).

“total rethinks of education” is how we got here. Maybe we need less rethinking it and more doing it.

This is a good one.

Caturday strut from Luna, in Tecate, BC.

'James' wins 2025 Pulitzer Prize for fiction The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

The 2025 Pulitzer Prizes were announced Monday afternoon. Percival Everett won the award for fiction for his novel James, a powerful re-imagination of Huckleberry Finn.

Premediating the conclave…

Some thoughts on the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Viet Nam, and how we can draw a straight line from that war to El Salvador and Bukele’s prison, and to Iraq, Afghanistan, and Palestine, and what role that otherness plays.

"Research on misinformation is not “censorship” but cancelling it is. Such grants were peer-reviewed by scientific experts...& awarded through previous Congressional appropriation. Cancelling them violates NSF’s duty to honor contracts & ethically manage the funds appropriated by the US Congress."

They should read more books.