If you teach undergrads but want them to think like experienced grad students, then you should probably teach grad students.

when the cost of entry to the partisan table is indeed the problem, bipartisanship becomes always already inadequate.

i wonder how “our differences become our strengths” when the differences are you don’t think i exist or that i should die in a hospital lobby without proper paperwork? just curious to see what so-called bipartisanship can emerge from that?

(this is rhetorical of course)

Dear Team Paramount: I think we can all agree that the temperature of our nation's social discourse feels higher than ever. Too often, the space once reserved for thoughtful dialogue has been consumed by partisan division and hostile disputes. If we are to move forward, we must find our way back to the ideals that shaped both our country and civilization itself: open exchange of ideas, vigorous yet respectful debate, and a genuine regard for the beliefs and traditions of others. This challenge extends to the media. While it was founded with the mission of informing the public and fostering discussion on the issues of the day, too often it has become a platform that amplifies the very partisanship tearing our society apart. George Washington warned that the primary danger in politics is partisanship. Today, that danger extends far beyond politics - threatening the fabric of our communities. When we reduce every issue to "us vs. them" or "my way vs. the wrong way," we close ourselves off from listening, learning, and ultimately growing, both as individuals and as a society. I don't pretend to have a solution to this challenge. But I do believe we each have a responsibility to do our part. At Paramount, we have both a unique opportunity and an obligation as stewards of one of the most iconic and respected news organizations in the world. We are challenging ourselves to do better - recognizing that we have the ability to reach a broad audience and demonstrate constructive, respectful, and bipartisan dialogue in our own work. Our mission is clear: to ensure that this global platform remains a place where people can seek the truth, gain understanding, and engage with the facts. That is our purpose. With this in mind, I am excited to share that The Free Press is joining our Company. Since its launch just five years ago, The Free Press, under cofounder Bari Weiss' leadership,

BREAKING— David Ellison, CEO of Paramount Skydance, just sent out this email to Paramount employees re: The Free Press acquisition/Bari Weiss. Says she has passion for "rigorous, fact-based reporting & a relentless commitment to amplifying voices from all corners of the spectrum."

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This can include really old-school ways like emailing the adjuncts in your department or even printing it out and sticking it up in the copyroom! We're an old enough outfit that we're unknown to most of the newer members of the precarious class.

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...

If you are a supporter and reader of @contingent-mag.bsky.social one of the biggest things you can do to help us at the moment is get this CFP to the NTT folks in your life. The fracturing of social media has made it very difficult to get the word out esp. to adjuncts and VAPs.

Friends @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is doing well— she’s at home, released last night. I’ll let her speak on the ordeal when she’s ready but for now wanted to share this update.

same libidinal economy that creates a situation where IDF soldiers pose for photographs with the lingerie of Palestinian women.

an inability and/or a fear of speaking honestly about way that sexual terror is something these people get off on does us no favors.

the colonial logics persist.

as long as one keeps waking up, one must continue to choreograph the dance between their own life, and the lives of those with whom they imagine themselves in community/solidarity/struggle.

to be with the dead and the dying, the murdered and the massacred, requires intentionality. one does not stumble into such solidarities, but must choose them.

the eeriness of violence and dying is that your world ending does not halt the continuation of other worlds.

the everydayness of life and the profundity of death exist simultaneously.

be it someone’s grandmother who was their everything dying after a long illness, or someone’s child being murdered by an imperialist drone strike. both occur while a young couple kisses under a tree, or cousins skip rocks.

it’s a decent bet that the proud boys to recent ice employee venn diagram is a circle.

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We’ll be screening PAINT ME A ROAD OUT OF HERE, with a conversation to follow.

If you’re in Providence tomorrow, come check out me and some dope people in conversation!

Not enough people are listening to Gloria J. Browne-Marshall and it pisses me off

I visited the apartment building ICE raided on Tuesday today. Story to come, but you can walk right in. Half of the apartments have no doors on them. Children's stuff abandoned in some flats. *Citizen* residents told me they were arrested and held for hours in zipties. This is America

The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation

This is who @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social is. Brilliant. Fearless. I fucking hate typing this shit out: Free Eman.

Amplify amplify amplify please.

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corporate ethics training should ask you stuff like “you’re pete davidson and you get offered $5M to play the riyadh comedy festival do you agree?” and all your responses are made available to anyone who reports to you

Though tbh, and in moments of honesty i wonder if they’d acknowledge this, the potential and even likelihood for this was always lurking.

These people have always been who they are, and knowing that means knowing that this was always in the cards.

I think of Constance Baker Motley, Juanita Jackson Mitchell, and many others as we see the “utilization of Civil Rights law” in this way. So many thoughts… so many questions…

Something they spent decades and lifetimes crafting, now taking on this ghoulish operationalization.

DHS finally put a formal number on the South Shore raid, saying 37 people were detained. That number does not include the people who were forced from their apartments, restrained, and kept outside in their nightclothes for hours before being released.

This is infuriating.

These people get off on the grotesque display of force and violence. Dragging people out naked in the middle of the night, turning over entire apartments, and for what? Utter bullshit.

This was also my first thought. Rhabdo happens when muscles are under such systemic duress that the body can’t handle to the point the muscle fibers die and infiltrate the bloodstream. It can be fatal. Combined with the number of other injuries in Indiana this season, it raises a lot of questions.

rhabdo is insane.

like wtf is that training staff doing? there’s no way it should have gotten to that point. rhabdo is super serious, requires multiple day hospitalization, and could be fatal in the worst circumstances.

that reflects so poorly on indiana and their staff.

Israeli naval forces board pro-Palestinian flotilla 75 miles from Gaza About 20 Israeli naval ships approached the fleet of more than 40 boats carrying aid, activists on board say

israel is boarding the vessels in the flotilla to gaza www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

That’s gonna be good ball.

let’s go public health.