🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

thank you Randos!!!

Let me tell you about the most wasteful US federal government spending I know about. It's a humdinger. You and everyone you know are mired in it for weeks, or perhaps months, every year. 1/

Just backed Avery Alder's Going For Broke - a sitcom ttrpg about making rent in a bohemian group house of bohemians, like an anarchist episode of Friends. backerkit.com/c/projects/bur…

Tonight in Jerusalem, protesters mark 500 days of horror, demanding a permanent ceasefire and chanting, "Security isn’t built on children’s corpses."

Ep. 66 of Mohanraj and Rosenbaum Are Humans, in which we attempt to interview Sofia Samatar about her transcendent & gripping novella "The Practice, The Horizon & The Chain" but are too excited gushing & arguing about it to focus! youtu.be/RWnQaOVwVJU

Got RPG-curious friends daunted by rules, dice & time commitments? Go back Avery Alder's punk house sitcom game-in-a-deck-of-cards that takes a half hour to play & barely any time to explain: backerkit.com/c/projects/bur… You can read the rules for free at buriedwithoutceremony.com/gfb

So this happened. (& it's 40% off at choiceofgames.com/ghost-and-the-… to celebrate!) (Congrats also to Stewart C Baker is a virtual hermit, Ray Nayler, Natalia Theodoridou, Jenn Reese, Isabel J. Kim | 김지영, & whoever else is still haunting this cursed site, if anyone!)

Jewish students at Columbia protest against Mahmoud Khalil’s arrest by chaining and locking themselves to the gates of the university More details in the thread Drop Site

As lawyers for Rumeysa Ozturk continue to fight for her release, Tufts University has filed a declaration in federal court in Boston supporting Ozturk's motion for release. It's the first time an American university publicly stands behind a detained international student:

It has now been 30 days with NO humanitarian aid getting into Gaza. No food, no water, no medicine, no fuel. That is barbaric. The U.S. must end our complicity in these atrocities.

Hundreds of Israelis walking in Tel Aviv tonight with photos of children killed in Gaza demanding to stop the attacks now.

Are there betting market odds already for Elon Musk being executed on television after a show trial during the Vance administration?

An astonishing editorial in Israel's liberal Haaretz paper calling for full western sanctions against Israel and not the feeble entry restrictions on two cabinet ministers announced this week by the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Norway. You can't imagine anything like

Haaretz just published an article detailing the scale of destruction in Gaza over the past 20 months. The devastation caused by the IDF stands out, even when compared to some of the most extreme cases in modern history. Here are a few astonishing key findings from the article:

Aug 4-8 in Chicago, MaryAnneMohanraj and I will be teaching a writing workshop for the #SpeculativeLiteratureFoundation, apply here! speculativeliterature.org/register/writi…

THIS IS A MAN-MADE FAMINE. 1 in every 3 people in Gaza goes without food for several days, while 9,000 trucks full of aid waiting at the border. Forced starvation is an act of genocide.

Imagine a world where speaking out against the murder of children makes you the villain — but those pulling the trigger face no consequences. This isn’t imagination — it’s our reality. Justice is punished. Silence is rewarded. But we will not stay silent. We’ll keep shouting