academics are like sorry for the self-plug but given the news from Tampa if you want to learn about how a different man-made monster took the Gulf of Mexico “by storm” in the nineteenth century check out my article “Kate Chopin and the Rise of Literary Regionalism”!!!

A naked short is when you sell a stock without borrowing it. It’s illegal for broker/dealers to do this for you. Tokenized shares are naked longs, letting you buy a stock without owning it. What Vlad and Robinhood are doing should be illegal, too.

Starmer, of course, is a soulless ego-maniac whose only concern has been his own career advancement so it won't happen, but in a slightly more reasonable world he'd step down as the Labour leader before the next election

Every American should read this ACLU lawsuit about what is happening in California. It is the stuff of dystopian nightmares. This is not immigration enforcement. It is positively stuffed with videos and articles documenting racial profiling on a scale unseen since Jim Crow.

Essential effort to democratize the American Historical Association and reverse the shameful veto of the scholasticide motion on Gaza.

It continues to shock me that India has a fully electrified rail network and the UK, country that invented railways, has less than 40% of its network electrified. There are highly polluting diesel trains coming into city centres across the country. Ugh. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Anisimova! What a match!

In many respects, Vineland is Christopher Hill's "The Experience of Defeat" for the 20th century Left

Opinion | They Will Not Stop With UVA Bonnie Gordon asks what the University of Virginia will look like in four years. bit.ly/4lLLN7a

This is basically saying that you want the Biden era Democratic party that did the IRA and Chips Act, but tanked the BBB social spending agenda and unwound the pandemic welfare state. Voters looked at that and rejected it for a felon who promised radical change.

Interesting to see Prof. Eichengreen take this (well-reasoned) position given his longstanding call that the world will eventually move toward a multipolar currency system.

The UVA Faculty Senate has overwhelmingly voted to express no confidence in the Board of Visitors "for not protecting the university and its president from outside interference and for not consulting with the Faculty Senate in a time of crisis"

"what's needed now is courage," says obama to a small group of rich people out of the public eye

🧵For our special issue on research, The Chronicle of Higher Education dove into how the scientific enterprise has been buffeted by the Trump administration. As Jenny Ruark writes in her editor's note, "the speed of retrenchment is breathtaking." We wrote about how we got here, and what might be next.

I know this is a hackneyed point, but if Zohran had barely lost the primary and decided to do this, he would've been absolutely carpet bombed by every moron with a (D) next to their name and a microphone for betraying the party

There is be a thesis to be written on the autocannibalism of pop culture. The evolution of pop culture from “new things based on old things” (“Star Wars”) to “new takes on old things” (Tim Burton’s “Batman”) to “new versions of old things that look just like the old things.”

My name is Morgan McSweeney. I won Labour 33.7% of the vote. I have since overseen a disastrous 1st year in office with record low approval ratings. I am suspending the MPs who opposed the unpopular cuts we just admitted they were right to rebel on. I am a political genius.

bananahandcuff being brilliant is actually easy, any idiot can do it. not being wrong is much more difficult.