Took an Uber to work this morning and the driver asked me 'how's your night going?' He was manifesting

Jeff Sharlet Dartmouth 🌲 Those cops were brutal to me. I promise I did absolutely nothing wrong. I was standing with a line of women faculty in the their 60s to 80s trying to protect our students. I have now been banned from the campus where I have taught for 34 years.

icymi 👁️

Noon has always been a late bloomer—until her coastal town became choked with a strange red algae. When neighbors start to disappear, she must reckon with the monsters itching at her skin and the past that’s come calling.

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[three hour scream]

We're excited to reveal the cover AND an excerpt from They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran - a new YA horror crawling with red algae and haunted by creatures of the past...

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I've covered campus activism since the late 90s. Nothing that's happening on campuses now -- sit ins, building takeovers, encampments -- is at all outside the standard vernacular of student protest.

What's unusual is administrators calling in riot cops on their own students

This is horrifying.

Faculty Statement on Imminent Police Action at Columbia University
The American Association of University Professors, Columbia University Chapter
For immediate release: April 30, 2024, 8:00pm

At this hour, the NYPD is massing on barricaded streets outside the gates of Columbia…

Just finished this one and LADS: I'm unwell (honorific)

I am cooking up something like this and I cannot WAIT until it’s time to write it

whether it's an israeli who considers the sustenance of a gazan child an existential threat or a new york commuter who trembles at the mere presence of an unhoused person, we need to uncompromisingly confront the weaponization of 'fear' on an institutional and individual level

This child is as much a part of your readership as any other you picture comfortable and safe and warm poring over a picture book with a trusted lap adult.

I know so much is going on, but if you can, please, please do what you can to support Lily and her family. I hate that they are here again, through no fault of their own. I hate the cruel responses she's been getting. None of this is fair.

Yesterday Cornell University suspended four students for their participation in the protest encampment on the arts quad. Why these four? Because they were the negotiating team and they were the names the admin knew. Two are international students who are now without visas. /1

They killed Refaat Alareer Refaat in Gaza 🇵🇸’ daughter, the one to whom the poem “If I must die” was dedicated to. His entire bloodline being wiped out. This is genocide. May we all fly kites in their honor, reaching the heavens. 🪁