Talia Schaffer

I can’t wait to see this!

I made an open access, archived version here: archive.ph/2025.08.03-1...

Brown U alumni and community:

Please sign an open letter from Stand Strong Brown to Brown University and President Paxon: This Deal Was a Mistake.

standstrongbrown.org/tell-brown-t...

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

Fascinating thread!

meant to tag @katemanne.bsky.social

The Actual Conspiracy Theory Surrounding Trump and Epstein It’s not what you think it is.

This is a really hard read (tw: sexual violence against minors) but I'm posting it because it needs to be part of the discourse re the Epstein case and Trump's involvement. Grateful to Kate Manne for showcasing it. katemanne.substack.com/p/the-actual...

This sounds fantastic- wish I could have heard it!

The (Ed) Tech Industry has made citizens believe that the problem with education is reading, thinking, and writing when the problem with education is austerity.

Reading, thinking, and writing are not the problems to be solved. Austerity is.

Now Hiring: Program Director, Trans Youth Emergency Project - Campaign for Southern Equality The Campaign for Southern Equality is hiring for a new Full-Time Staff Position – the Program Director of the Trans Youth Emergency Project. Details on the position and how to apply are below.  About ...

CRITICALLY important job opening--

full time--

remote with 3-5 days/ mo in Asheville, NC--

southernequality.org/tyepdirector/

I can’t wait to read your review!

We seek a committed & dynamic feminist to join the existing team as a new book review editor @genderandjustice.bsky.social
Details:
✳️Deadline 1 August 2025 17:00 CEST
✳️Informal enquiries: admin@lexnetwork.org
✳️Info: www.lexnetwork.org/gender-and-j...
@lexnetwork.bsky.social

look, it’s just a fired prosecutor and an inexplicable tape gap. since when has that ever indicated anything

Oh, this is sensational news! This book is revelatory and I'm so happy we can all get our hands on it so soon!

The Wolf Humanities Center at the University of Pennsylvania is now accepting applications for its 2026–2027 Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Humanities on the general theme of Practice. Research proposals from all humanistic disciplines and allied areas (e.g., anthropology, history of science) are eligible, except for educational curriculum building and the performing arts (scholars of performing arts are eligible). The fellowship is open to scholars in the humanities who received, or will receive, their PhD between May 2021 and August 2026. Preference will be given to candidates not yet in tenure track positions whose proposals are interdisciplinary and who would particularly benefit from and contribute to Penn's intellectual life. The appointment is twelve months (July 1, 2026 – June 30, 2027) and carries a minimum stipend of $67,000 plus a $3000 research fund and discounted health insurance. Fellows teach one course during the year and collaborate on the planning of a symposium in addition to conducting their research. For full fellowship guidelines, application instructions, and the Practice topic description: wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/postdoc. Please email Wolf Humanities Center Associate Director Sara Varney with questions.

POSTDOC: Mellon Fellowship, Wolf Humanities Center, Penn, 2026-27

Topic: Practice
wolfhumanities.upenn.edu/fellowships/...

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A street sign in Upton, England reading "Play Area and Cholera Burial Ground"

Never change, England

Mahmoud Khalil Files Claim to Hold Trump Administration Accountable for Unlawful Arrest and Other Abuses Recently released from detention, he seeks damages for politically motivated arrest

Mahmoud Khalil has filed a claim seeking $20 million from the government due to treatment he received when he was arrested and detained by authorities.

His attorneys say that in lieu of payment “he would accept…an official apology and abandonment of the administration's unconstitutional policy.”

It doesn't matter if they are ever coming for you.

It was always ever already too much that they were coming for anyone.

An image with a black and white background and a Latin American immigrant and a title Schröinger's Immigrant. On the left, it reads, "Lazily collecting all the welfare." On the right, it reads, "But also somehow taking all the jobs."

Screengrab: "Our local democratic alliance in PA was just discussing this last night. Our group covers an area of four different small(population wise) townships and one borough. We are planning to assign different members to read meeting minutes from township meetings, planning and zoning boards to review all discussions. We will then organize groups to begin attending those meetings if there are even whispers of anything ICE,etc. We figure this is our best option at this time to avoid burn out from attending numerous tedious meetings with only discussions about Joe Smith's plan to add another storage shed on his back lot, etc."

Looking for ways to challenge zoning/city council approval of a new concentration camp where you live?

Here is a strategy that one of our subscribers is applying in her group in PA to make sure nothing comes up without a fight.

Highly recommend others organize to do the same where you live.

We Hold These Truths

More than ever, Americans must remain grounded in the founding principles of our republic. I'm proud to be among those from across the political spectrum supporting the @weholdtruths.bsky.social to remind us of the values we hold in common, and to help make the Constitution accessible to everyone.

Exclusive: Operation Excalibur in Los Angeles “Show of Presence” Leaks from military's LA deployment reveal Coca Cola vs. Pepsi rivalry, sweaty guardsmen, and abject failure

I've obtained a trove of leaked documents about today's federal crackdown on Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. One revelation is its codename: "Operation Excalibur"

Beyond the bonnets: Jane Austen’s working women finally get their place in the spotlight A new exhibition features the housekeepers, maids and governesses that inspired characters in the author’s novels

A new exhibition features the housekeepers, maids and governesses that inspired characters in Austen’s novels
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/j...

Here are the Declaration of Independence’s grievances against King George III. Many apply to Trump. It's uncanny.

NEW: In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson listed 27 grievances to prove that King George III was a tyrant. We looked at how many of those now apply to Donald Trump. Have a good Fourth of July and pass this on.

www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Recently turned in a deeply researched draft of a book on What AI Actually Is and reader, this is 100% correct

OPPOSE HR1 - HOUSE OF REPS SHEET

If you have a Republican representative in Congress, here's a list and a script to get them to vote against the budget bill. Thanks @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

@schumer.senate.gov @schiff.senate.gov @padilla.senate.gov Maybe you could make some calls too...

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

If any of these are your reps, please take 5 min today and call. Scripts and numbers at 5calls.org. Kill this absolute travesty of a bill.

Final vote. 50-50. VP breaks the tie.

One single GOP Senator could have stopped this abomination. Saved millions of parents from watching their child go hungry. Saved the lives destroyed when Medicaid disappears.

They will all live forever with the horror of this bill.

Iowa: Sen. Ernst Maine: Sen. Collins Missouri: Sen. Hawley North Carolina: Sen. Tillis Ohio: Sen. Husted Utah: Sen. Curtis West Virginia: Sen. Capito

If one of these people is your senator, it is incredibly important that you call them today.

Urge them to vote NO on the Senate budget bill that would make most Americans poorer to give billionaires a tax cut they don't even need.