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It really does not bode well for our society that politicians and corporations keep trying to destroy both entire repositories of knowledge and culture and our access to them while also championing AI tools that consistently plagiarize and provide incorrect information

Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, the 26-year-old who appears to have been shot and killed by the IDF, recently graduated from University of Washington

One thing for people to toss around in their heads is why police unions are always on the same side as large corporations. It's a helpful observation about the purpose of police/prisons for people who don't have time to learn the history of how modern police forces started.

Now The Seattle Times is reporting on the murder, by the Israeli Army in the occupied West Bank, of recent UW College of Arts & Sciences graduate Aysenur Eygi. My colleague and dear friend Aria Fani—the murdered UW alumna’s professor—is quoted in the story. seattletimes.com/seattle-news/a… #Ayşenur #Palestine

Police killed more people in 2021 than in 2020, the year of George Floyd's murder. They killed more people in 2022 than in 2021. They killed more people in 2023 than in 2022. And they are on pace to kill far more in 2024 than 2023.

BREAKING: Today, we sued UC Santa Cruz over unjust campus bans. Over 100 students and faculty were barred from campus after a May pro-Palestine protest.

Also this is the most affirming moment of my decade of research on these issues. Please pay attention. It’s coming for you next.

Today a senior exec from Taylor & Francis replied confirming that T&F journal articles *are* and will continue to be provided to its AI partners for model training, with *no opt-out*. Seems all the academic publishers are doing the same. Disappointing to say the least.

EVERY SINGLE WORD. "When we demand a ceasefire & an end to occupation, we are told that those words cause tremendous injury... It is not the racism that injures, it is not the bullets and bombs that injure, it is the words that seek to name the injury that cause injury." Searing.

My alma mater, Barnard College, has not only abandoned a commitment to academic freedom, it has signed up to be part of the McCarthy-ite thought police. Tragically, this post would get me disciplined at Barnard College.

It’s the funniest thing in the world that schools are cracking down on political speech without bothering to take any of this stuff off their websites.

Are professors at Columbia required to now talk about both the PROs/CONs of slavery/KKK/Holocaust? Is it now required to talk about the PROs of each? This is so damn ridiculous.

This week the remains of 11 native students who died at the Carlisle boarding school are being disinterred as part of a process to return their bones to their families and tribes. (1/2) wgal.com/article/carlis…

For more, check out my latest Teen Vogue column on mask bans and how they are the new ugly laws teenvogue.com/story/mask-ban…

I have no patience for Democrats yelling about the dangers of 2025 who are silent as Democrats us Joseph McCarthy tactics in 2024 to try to destroy the lives, livelihoods and future prospects of my students, my colleagues and me

Shame on Columbia. These policies are antithetical to the very mission of higher ed and these institutions. The suppression of faculty and student expression is an affront to the purpose of the university as a site of learning and debate and a microcosm of democratic practice.

“views, disagreement, or support regarding a given subject” is one of the most Orwellian phrases I've seen. I wrote about why such policies are intentionally nefarious because of the discretion they grant to enforcers while providing cover of neutrality. yalelawjournal.org/forum/the-puni…

It’s an absolute crisis. I studied this in college and knew the greying society was coming but as it hits and my family tries to navigate the crisis with our elders it is unfathomable. Are we to just leave them to die without care or go bankrupt in a year and then what?

Congress could make it a crime tomorrow for judges to fail to meet ethical disclosure obligations. Seems important, right? In The Punishment Bureaucracy, I explained with lots of examples why criminal law is not seen as a domain for regulating the behavior of powerful people.

This is an important interview w/ Hopi tribal official, Stewart Koyiyumptewa from Chip Colwell on the dangers of pseudoscience & the ways its narratives disempower and dispossess Indigenous communities of their heritage. Thank you SAPIENS