I'm going to do my part to stigmatize the use of AI in learning and creative work, especially writing. This is soul-deadening behavior. I will think less of you — professionally and personally — if you approach your work like this.

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I just hate ChatGPT and its ilk so much. I'll never use it. I don't want another workshop on its creative use within the university. It brings nothing to our journey to struggle with, understand, and express what it means to be human, and that's a large part of the whole point.

From Mahmoud Khalil’s letter to his newborn son 💔 “But my absence is not unique. Like other Palestinian fathers, I was separated from you by racist regimes and distant prisons. In Palestine, this pain is part of daily life.” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Adriana Smith was a young mom and nurse who tragically lost her life in February while nine weeks pregnant. Georgia’s abortion ban is forcing Adriana’s family — against their wishes — to keep her body on a ventilator for 7 months to incubate the fetus. newsweek.com/abortion-brain…

Columbia council chambers are so full the city has had to open an overflow room elsewhere in the building — the big item on the agenda is a vote on repealing the city’s conversion therapy ordinance that AG Wilson has called unconstitutional.

A request! I'm assembling my tenure portfolio this summer, and if you've ever assigned any of my work to a class, could you DM me?

I’m giving a talk at USC-Lancaster tomorrow! Here’s a link if you want to join virtually: bit.ly/4hUpnPr?fbclid…

Visited the Baymont in early April to write something small on a handful of folks being forced out of a free housing program. Ended up spending two months reporting on a story that continuously got messier and more tragic, with people losing their homes every week. Give it a read

In my final episode of Heartland History, I talk with Erik McDuffie about his newest book, The Second Battle for Africa: Garveyism, the US Heartland, and Global Freedom. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/hea… Midwestern History Association Duke University Press #twitterstorians

videos of ordinary people being extraordinarily brave by pushing back fascist cops and standing up for each other are without exception so goddamn beautiful

historically this has not mattered—polish miners on strike in pennsylvania in 1897 carried the american flag and were shot in the back as they retreated

The state representative I wrote about in the opening paragraphs of this piece just got charged with distributing child sexual abuse material.

Mahmoud Khalil is out of detention

Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’ theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/…

Dear colleagues: Don't make another mistake in dragging our country into another war. You can stop the President and the war mongers in Congress by signing on to our War Powers Resolution.

Was not expecting this 1934 report from FDR’s National Resources Board to go so hard