Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialDuke University Press @dukepress.bsky.social · 9hToday would have been Michel Foucault's 100th birthday. In honor of his Centennial, and our own, we're offering a wide variety of free content related to the great philosopher on our blog. Books, chapters, & articles will be open access until Dec. 15, 2026. #DUP100 #Foucault buff.ly/H2nyiVZ 18459
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialAnna Kornbluh @annakornbluh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026"we know that when they are elected, they will be fighting for a free public higher ed system." Angie Nixon, Sherrod Brown, Abdul El-Sayed, Will Lawrence, Donavan McKinney, Rebecca Bennett, Adam Hamawy, Analilia Mejia, Cait Conley, Chris Rabb let's go! www.insidehighered.com/news/governm...insidehighered.comAAUP Forges Ahead With EndorsementsThe 12 candidates, all Democrats, were already backed by local AAUP chapters before the national office considered them. 07520
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026www.thedailystar.net/slow-reads/b...thedailystar.netThe politics behind the Nobel Prize in economicsThe Sveriges Riksbank Prize in economics was strategically established to legitimise market-liberal ideology over heterodox economic perspectives. 000
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 13/10/2026Congratulations, Robert Hall for winning the Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences. (Created and funded by Sweden's Riksbank, not by Alfred Nobel.) 030
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I'm pretty pleased with the Navi Pillay choice. 000
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Billionaire families have spent $1.7 BILLION on the 2026 midterms so far — a 5,200% increase since the 2010 midterms. Citizens United is among the worst decisions in history. It corrupts our system every day. Big Money is the root of our dysfunction. 30391634010
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialMoney on the Left @moneyontheleft.bsky.social · 09/10/2026"[N]aming is everything. What we name things is how we value them. We name them as valuable. And that naming, monetary and legal, is the driving force by which we get the labor and create these things."moneyontheleft.orgIntroduction to Theory: Karl Marx’s Value, Price and Profit (New transcript!)In this third installment of our Introduction to Theory series, Maxximilian Seijo deepens Money on the Left’s analysis of Karl Marx’s critique of political economy. Specifical… 074
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialRomare Bearden @romarebearden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Wizard's Domaine www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollecti… 042
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...irisvanrooijcogsci.comAI slop and the destruction of knowledgeCite as: van Rooij, I. (2025) AI slop and the destruction of knowledge. This week I was looking for info on what cognitive scientists mean when they speak of ‘domain-general’ cognition. I was curio… 000
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialKevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Has Mike Rogers disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ken Paxton disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Mike Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Jon Husted disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Susan Collins disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Moody disavowed Elon Musk yet? Has Ashley Hinson disavowed Elon Musk yet? 692856718
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialThe Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social · 01/10/2026In which @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @emilymbender.bsky.social remind us that the risk of AI is not "superintelligence gone rogue," but human reliance on flawed systems in high-stakes situations: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 19665
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_PC...youtube.comToru Takemitsu - From Me Flows What You Call Time [w/score]YouTube video by Four-hobbies-man 010
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob." —FDR, 1936 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...nytimes.comHow A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the MidtermsSee how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress. 5025451031
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialJorie Graham @joriegraham.bsky.social · 26/09/2026www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...theguardian.comNew research finds 485 chemicals in US pesticide products linked to breast cancerPaper raises questions about safety of food and other products as early onset breast cancer rates surge worldwide 034
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialNathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 26/09/2026ICE has abducted Senegalese WBB player Aminata Seck and won't release her. DHS 'policy' is to provide medical care to prisoners at intake, yet they admit to denying her care for an ACL injury for 1.5 months. The NCAA is letting it happen, despite its predatory recruitment of ICAs. We explain.theguardian.comICE has abducted a college athlete. What are the NCAA and universities going to do about it?Aminata Seck’s detention shows the bargain facing international college athletes: universities eagerly recruit them, but support can disappear when their immigration status becomes precarious. 10889513
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialWallace Polsom @wallacepolsom.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Wangechi Mutu, “Howl” (2010), mixed media. 0161
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialVerso Books @versobooks.bsky.social · 18/09/2026October 1st in NYC, join authors Bhaskar Sunkara, Mike Beggs, and Ben Burgis to discuss their new book, The Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real World at Woodbine!eventbrite.comThe Blueprint: How Socialism Can Work in the Real WorldA book launch with authors Bhaskar Sunkara, Mike Beggs, and Ben Burgis 0123
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialBi King Gent 👑 💖💜💙 @thesnarkygent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026When you use Claude Code you are using a product designed top to bottom by weird fashy eugenic Rationalists, enriching them and solidifying their power and making them seem more legitimate. Trying to make a show of laughing at theor absurdity won't matter, you just paid their rent! 15011
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialThe Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Forbes gets the headline right. 🏆 www.forbes.com/sites/maryro... 1082026639
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialStuart Elden @stuartelden.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Jeremy Adelman, The Capitalist Era: The Making—and Unmaking—of the Global Mind – @princetonupress.bsky.social, September/November 2026 press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...press.princeton.eduThe Capitalist EraA sweeping history of global interdependence from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century—with essential lessons for today 093
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialJohn Harris @drjohnaeharris.bsky.social · 24/11/2024New book on the Atlantic Slave Trade by David Eltis coming out in January Among other findings, “Eltis argues that two-thirds of all enslaved people ended up in the Iberian Americas, where exports were most valuable throughout the slave trade era, & not in the Caribbean or the US” #skystorians 911523
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialIbram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 04/07/2026A new study from the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study found that 48 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, or nearly 86%, directly profited from slavery. This is 7 more signers than previously known. My latest @theemancipator.org. theemancipator.org/2026/07/02/i...theemancipator.orgNew Study: 48 of 56 Declaration of Independence signers profited from slaveryA new study conducted by the Howard University Institute for Advanced Study found that 48 of the 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, or nearly 86%, directly profited from slavery by enslavi... 39843
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Promises to be a major achievement in literary sociology. 18618
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialPrinceton University Press @princetonupress.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Next week, Sept 10 at 6:00 pm EDT, leading scholar @agordonreed.bsky.social will discuss her latest work, Jefferson on Race, and the meaning & impact of the Declaration of Independence on our nation with @nycbarassociation.bsky.social. A signing will follow the discussion. Register: buff.ly/KMN4T5s 11712
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Great voice. I saw her perform once in Seattle, and it was mesmerizing. 000
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialyorick @helloyorick.bsky.social · 27/08/2026A prof I work with a lot has their students watch this @emilymbender.bsky.social lecture as part of their prep for our in class CAIL discussion, and write a brief response and questions prior to class youtu.be/qpE40jwMilUyoutu.beChatGP-why: When, if ever, is synthetic text safe, appropriate, and desirable?YouTube video by GRAILE AI 1212
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026"The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel" - note that Nobel is in a prepositional phrase, and that that prize was neither created nor funded by Alfred Nobel 000
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2026The prize he won is called the Riksbanks prize 100
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialDave Goldberg @davegoldbergjazz.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Tune of the day…Zakir Hussain, Dave Holland, Chris Potter - J Bhai. This original by Zakir as well as this recording comes out out his Crosscurrents project, of which it was streamlined to this trio, released under their names. This tune is dedicated to John McLaughlin. #jazzsky youtu.be/L9VOE8HeMS0youtu.beJ BhaiYouTube video by Dave Holland - Topic 151
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialJess Piper @piperformissouri.bsky.social · 22/08/2026There it is. While you struggle to afford groceries, or find any that are edible, and pay thousands more every year in gas, rent, utilities, childcare, and healthcare, they are laughing all the way to the bank.  27566862967
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialUVA Press @uvapress.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Happy #pubday to "Reckoning with Race in New Worlds" by Ruth Hill! How Spanish and Portuguese colonialism shaped our conception of whiteness www.upress.virginia.edu/title/10164/ #readUP #booksky #skystorians 1133
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialUrban Affairs Review @urbanaffairsreview.bsky.social · 27/06/2026"Building the Eviction Economy: Speculation, Precarity, and Eviction in Detroit" by Eric Seymour and Joshua Akers, UAR 57(1), 2021.journals.sagepub.comSage Journals: Discover world-class researchSubscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher. 021
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 14/08/2026On the 91st anniversary of Social Security, these words from FDR are just as important today: 15582202971
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialJuan Cole @jricole.bsky.social · 13/08/2026Yale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a Year www.juancole.com/2026/08/medi...juancole.comYale Study: Medicare for All Would Save Over 114,000 Lives and $1 Trillion a YearJessica Corbett ( 0108
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialCapital B @capitalb.bsky.social · 23/06/2025America’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. capitalbnews.org/black-displa...capitalbnews.orgFrom Watts to D.C.: How 500 Black Neighborhoods Vanished in 45 YearsAmerica’s gentrified neighborhoods have lost 500,000 Black people, while gaining residents of every other race, a study finds. 10399221
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialHaymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 12/08/2026Ruthie Wilson Gilmore recommends three books every radical should read 1322126
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026voca.arizona.edu/track/id/63887voca.arizona.edu"Guard Duty" | Tomas Tranströmer - February 26, 1974 000
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Task: to be where I am. Even when I'm in this solemn and absurd role: I am still the place where creation works on itself. 200
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialAdria Bailton @adriabailton.com · 12/08/2026Have you read? Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert Frost This one is a nod to @noirbettie.bsky.social who's March newsletter brought it up and *I had never read it.* Her whole newsletter was a lesson in things I half-know. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/148652...poetryfoundation.orgNothing Gold Can StayNature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. 076
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialDavid Roberts @volts.wtf · 31/07/2026Kinda wild that @jamellebouie.net is the only person saying this clearly in a high-profile media outlet, but I'm so glad he is.nytimes.comOpinion | Why Do We Tolerate Elon Musk’s Racist Commentary?Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there? 342497571
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 30/07/2026Under Trump's CFPB, two of the three major credit bureaus have sharply reduced the share of complaints they resolved in customers’ favor. In 2024, Experian’s relief rate was 20%. Last year, that figure fell to less than 1%: propub.li/3S3sflq (Published March) 19393200
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Is Marcuse really "not worth discussing"? If nothing else, his influence on Angela Davis seems important. 000
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialProPublica @propublica.org · 16/07/2026NEW: A woman who sexually abused a minor. Boxer Mike Tyson, who served time for rape. Both of these people successfully launched private schools that collected public money. As the voucher system grows more popular, few states have guardrails in place.propublica.orgPublic Money Is Fueling an Explosion of Private Schools. States Often Don’t Care How They’re Run.As private schools proliferate, states are choosing a hands-off approach to regulating them. The backgrounds of school founders — sometimes with criminal histories — often don’t matter 511111587
brucebarn.bsky.social @brucebarn.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Blanche is a fucking liar. (Ok, we all knew this - but it feels good to say it out loud.) 000
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialReese Ourso @reeseourso.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Yes, it does! bsky.app/profile/adam... From his son: 14714
Reposted by @brucebarn.bsky.socialMatt Seybold @mattseybold.bsky.social · 09/07/2026“THE UNIVERSITY IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF A SOCIAL SYSTEM THAT HAS GIVEN MORE OPPORTUNITY, MORE FREEDOM, MORE HOPE TO MORE PEOPLE THAN ANY OTHER SYSTEM YET DEVISED.” 38922
