Lawyers have been publicizing a new term to describe ICE's racially targeted detainments: a “Kavanaugh stop.”

Mother Jones reporter Pema Levy explains in this new video:

5 years ago I got to be part of this beautiful, yearning, queer indie film. It was my first time in Japan, one of my first dramatic roles, and after success at film festivals, we can finally share it with the world! Join us for the digital screening and zoom. ♥️ youtu.be/poVNjzJeSiA

wife: how was guarding the two paths today, honey?

guard: [looking away] fine

wife: did something happen?

guard: [tearing up] no

wife: would the other guard tell me something happened?

My colleague, investigating a student for obvious GenAI use, sent me a bibliographical reference to a chapter I'd apparently written in a volume I had apparently edited.

Neither title of course exists. But they were both titles I COULD have written, and he emailed because he felt he had to check.

Screenshot from Inside Higher Ed article: Al also helped me manage my team. During a challenging period involving conflicting viewpoints among senior administrators, I fed anonymized email threads into an Al tool that summarized key positions and highlighted shared values we could build upon. This helped to provide clarity by distilling complex arguments into actionable insights. We were able to move forward with solutions that felt fair and aligned with our institutional mission. Encouraged, I expanded my use of Al into speechwriting. For convocation, l uploaded historical documents about our institution's 125-year history and outlined key themes I wanted to address. The Al suggested connections between past milestones and current challenges and helped me refine a narrative that celebrated resilience while inspiring hope for the future.

Oh, just reading about how this college president uses AI in academic leadership and wondering why, exactly, they need such salaries?

The R-word is back. But why? : It's Been a Minute Over the past few years, Brittany has noticed the resurgence the R-word - a word that otherwise left the cultural lexicon. And while that's troubling in and of itself, its return may also have larger ...

Hey everyone!

I’m on NPR’s “It’s been a minute” talking about the R word.

www.npr.org/2025/03/05/1...

This forever changes how I view all the Jell-O and miracle whip recipes of the 1950s

Lake County library leaders expect to see more challenged books A challenge is an attempt to remove or restrict materials, according to the American Library Association. Challenges lead to censorship.

Right-wing censors are now "quiet banning" books that they can't removed legally.

Librarians in Chicago have been finding books dealing with race, LGBTQ+ issues or Islam hidden under shelves, in trash cans or otherwise "disappeared."

www.chicagotribune.com/2025/02/22/l...

No amount of executive orders can make us cease to exist.

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It’s here y’all!!!

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At the same time, they're rolling out yet unspecified AI programs for faculty, which feels like being asked to train my replacement.

I'm an adjunct English instructor at a CSU. Generative AI use was already pushing me to the brink of quitting. Now they're willingly giving ChatGPT to all students (without discussing it with faculty), and I just feel so hopeless.

Your Library's Hoopla Digital Collections Are Breaking Their Budget If you've noticed changes to the digital materials you can borrow from your library, that's because that access is costing libraries way more than ever before.

Did you know your public library's hoopla digital collections are absolutely destroying their budget? That prices have gone up in some instances of over 400%, while library budgets have been stagnant or cut?

Everything you should know as a library user: bookriot.com/library-hoop...