It’s the time of year I am reminded that Grover is canonically Jewish and his mom looks like Barbra Streisand.

My institution is planning to “reposition” the college of humanities & sciences, lumping multiple departments together into cost-saving umbrella units to allegedly “foster cross-disciplinary curriculum & collaborations,” while cutting staff & resources. I knew this day would come

Would have been nice to have prosecuted the ppl involved w/the first Brooks Bros Riot: Prosecutors Accuse Trump of Wide-Ranging Efforts Pre And Post-2020 To ‘Encourage’ Violence and Lies talkingpointsmemo.com/news/prosecuto… via Talking Points Memo

Faculty need to wrest back control of universities. Use the position of having tenure. Open the books. It’s happening everywhere and we have to stop it. Now.

This reminds me of how we reported for Texas Observer that a very wealthy Republican megadonor personally pressured a children's hospital to shutter their gender clinic while Republicans whose campaigns they helped fund also exerted pressure.

Nick Cave performs 'A Rainy Night in Soho' at the funeral of Shane MacGowan in Nenagh, Co Tipperary, this afternoon. @virginmedianews

Plus: Glen Hansard and Lisa O’Neill perform ‘Fairytale of New York’ as a reflection after Communion. Can honestly say this is the first time I’ve ever seen dancing in the aisles at a funeral…

It's strange how Houston Dems want a DA who will actually reflect Dem views on immigration, incarceration, & voting rights, instead of prosecuting Dem officials & parroting Repub talking points

We have a new book: “The History of Knowledge” (Cambridge Elements) Published today. Open access. Feel free to spread the word. cambridge.org/core/elements/…

Yayoi Kusama, “Accumulation”, 1963.

i have this both bookmarked on tiktok and screen recorded it so i never lose it. please watch the whole thing if you haven’t. there’s nothing quite as insane as this video

Given Haley's Civil War comments, it's a good time to do a third installment of threads I plan to do occasionally to dispel myths about DEI and related teaching and principles. The first two threads can be found here: x.com/ijbailey/statu… And here: x.com/ijbailey/statu…

Really wish more people would internalize this. They’re not building a dystopian surveillance state to serve *our* interests. That’s just the marketing.

This is an incredibly meaningful and important thread. Markets (which are never truly “free”) tend toward concentration. That’s why anti-trust is so critical. Judge Bork’s “consumer benefit” standard was a back door to get around anti-trust, and it’s worked…

Rapture (Le Brun Travested, or Caricatures of the Passions) metmuseum.org/art/collection…

One thing that my parents, who lived through the collapse of the Shah's regime, always told me is that they were surprised with the speed and ferocity with which it happened. Things that seemed impossible one day were simply happening the next.

Sarah Knott Grace Mallon I argue here that the Trumo v US decision echoed a 1686 decision that kings were above the law. That decision was repudiated by the Convention parliament after the Glorious Revolution. newrepublic.com/article/183357…

We are in a Constitutionsl crisis. Congress has the power, and now the affirmative duty, to seize back power from an anti-republic Supreme Court. The one American major political party that is not fascist, must be anti-fsscist. This is not a drill. This is Big History time.