Jen
@cassiciacum.bsky.social
Making Texas higher education great again.
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Waller: "...the labor market remains weak. ...last year's data will be revised downward soon to likely show that there was virtually no growth in payroll employment in 2025. Zero. Zip. Nada. Let this sink in for a moment..."
January 30, 2026 at 2:36 PM
Waller: "...the labor market remains weak. ...last year's data will be revised downward soon to likely show that there was virtually no growth in payroll employment in 2025. Zero. Zip. Nada. Let this sink in for a moment..."
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I checked in on how "Melania" is selling in Texas. In big cities, people are passing. But in the suburbs of Houston, Dallas, and Austin, Melania-heads are out in full force: www.chron.com/culture/tv/a...
Want to watch 'Melania' with a crowd? Stick to these Texas suburbs.
Depending on where you live, you could go see "Melania" all by your lonesome.
www.chron.com
January 28, 2026 at 7:18 PM
I checked in on how "Melania" is selling in Texas. In big cities, people are passing. But in the suburbs of Houston, Dallas, and Austin, Melania-heads are out in full force: www.chron.com/culture/tv/a...
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If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...
I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...
I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
Dr. Ann Blair - How Renaissance Scholars and Printers Decided on the Size of Books
YouTube video by Harry Ransom Center
www.youtube.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:05 AM
If you missed Ann Blair’s @ransomcenter.bsky.social Pforzheimer Lecture last night, you can check it out on YouTube:
www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...
I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
www.youtube.com/live/u16QHaI...
I think you’ll agree that it’s both sharp and a lot of fun.
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And some folks wonder why Gender Studies is useful.
January 30, 2026 at 1:35 PM
And some folks wonder why Gender Studies is useful.
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ICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are
www.nytimes.com
January 30, 2026 at 12:06 PM
ICE’s job is immigration enforcement so why is it using facial recognition to surveil U.S. citizens?
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/t...
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"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
Alison Luchs, who has worked at the National Gallery of Art for 47 years, agreed to learn Gen Z slang and make videos because she wanted to raise interest in the museum’s art.
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
She never expected to slay. https://wapo.st/45BXc3S
January 30, 2026 at 5:14 AM
"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language.
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"
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Letter: Trump is coming for Grand Staircase-Escalante, with the full support of Utah’s congressional delegation. We must bombard their offices with calls to stop this.
Letter: Trump is coming for Grand Staircase-Escalante. Keeping public lands public requires action — now.
Letter: Trump is coming for Grand Staircase-Escalante, with the full support of Utah’s congressional delegation. We must bombard their offices with calls to stop this.
www.sltrib.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:46 AM
Letter: Trump is coming for Grand Staircase-Escalante, with the full support of Utah’s congressional delegation. We must bombard their offices with calls to stop this.
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Becoming increasingly convinced that humanities academics need to clean up our own house before admins or students will listen to us about AI in the university.
LLM text in publication = automatic reject.
Using AI to grade or lesson plan = major ethical breach.
People should lose tenure for this.
LLM text in publication = automatic reject.
Using AI to grade or lesson plan = major ethical breach.
People should lose tenure for this.
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 AM
💯💯
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I’m sorry but it’s funny every single time
January 30, 2026 at 12:28 AM
I’m sorry but it’s funny every single time
I am cat sitting this weekend. Friend isn’t sure how long she’ll be gone so we thought it good to bring the cats to my house. I am now doing that thing where I exist in their presence and pretend total disinterest until they decide I’m ok. But I’m getting very impatient! Need cuddles and bellies!
January 30, 2026 at 2:03 AM
I am cat sitting this weekend. Friend isn’t sure how long she’ll be gone so we thought it good to bring the cats to my house. I am now doing that thing where I exist in their presence and pretend total disinterest until they decide I’m ok. But I’m getting very impatient! Need cuddles and bellies!
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Quite literally, there are about a dozen scandals under Trump II that are worse than the worst scandals in all of 🇺🇸 political history. Add in the ongoing familial/personal monetization of the presidency, the violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations with 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & the murder on the high seas.
Of the biggest scandals in US history just this week, I think I’d rank them:
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
1) Federal paramilitaries invade US city based on racist lies, murder US citizens
2) Slush fund for the president from stolen foreign resources held in Qatar
3) Whatever FBI and DNI are doing re: 2020 election in Georgia
January 29, 2026 at 6:23 PM
Quite literally, there are about a dozen scandals under Trump II that are worse than the worst scandals in all of 🇺🇸 political history. Add in the ongoing familial/personal monetization of the presidency, the violation of our UN & NATO treaty obligations with 🇨🇦 & 🇬🇱/🇩🇰, & the murder on the high seas.
Truly never imagined myself in the “primary their asses” camp but here we are.
January 30, 2026 at 1:53 AM
Truly never imagined myself in the “primary their asses” camp but here we are.
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College money well spent and needed.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
Rice students expose ICE raids with new interactive map
It's a nationwide digital spotlight on ICE arrests and detention centers.
www.chron.com
January 29, 2026 at 11:59 PM
College money well spent and needed.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding.
Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders.
Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.
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Since @bbkogan.bsky.social solved my longstanding linguistic problem of how to describe when a funding measure expires last fall ("midnight as Saturday begins"), I can now focus all of my pedantic energy on the difference between a lapse in appropriations and a shutdown.
January 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Since @bbkogan.bsky.social solved my longstanding linguistic problem of how to describe when a funding measure expires last fall ("midnight as Saturday begins"), I can now focus all of my pedantic energy on the difference between a lapse in appropriations and a shutdown.
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DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
‘Abolish ICE’ has become an increasingly popular position and people are being shot in the streets over it why the fuck would you dillweeds roll over like this. Especially given that citizenship is much more friable than people think it is this is not as protective as dems want it to look.
January 30, 2026 at 1:43 AM
DHS has a whole citizen detainment system set up in Minnesota. They snatch citizens off the street (often with proof they are citizens), detain them for a few hours, steal their phones, then release them into the cold.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
It ain’t about deporting citizens; it’s about terrorizing a whole population.
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Don’t worry students, I’m demanding a ban on submitting assignments after the semester is already done.
No need to thank me for this daring, bold move
No need to thank me for this daring, bold move
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
Jeffries demands ban on deportation of US citizens as part of DHS reforms
House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) on Thursday said House Democrats will demand a ban on the deportation of American citizens as a condition of winning their support for legislation fun…
www.kget.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:44 AM
Don’t worry students, I’m demanding a ban on submitting assignments after the semester is already done.
No need to thank me for this daring, bold move
No need to thank me for this daring, bold move
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For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wanted to follow up on a post from last August that looked at legal pedagogy and the dual state by reflecting on the relationship between legal *scholarship* and governmental lawlessness—with a particular focus on how I think about my own work:
Bonus 206: Legal Scholarship and the Dual State
A few thoughts on the responsibilities of legal academics in a time of increasing governmental lawlessness.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 29, 2026 at 9:43 PM
For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wanted to follow up on a post from last August that looked at legal pedagogy and the dual state by reflecting on the relationship between legal *scholarship* and governmental lawlessness—with a particular focus on how I think about my own work:
Every working academic needs to read this, in addition to law professors. These are the questions all of us need to be asking ourselves and thinking hard about.
For today's bonus issue of "One First," I wanted to follow up on a post from last August that looked at legal pedagogy and the dual state by reflecting on the relationship between legal *scholarship* and governmental lawlessness—with a particular focus on how I think about my own work:
Bonus 206: Legal Scholarship and the Dual State
A few thoughts on the responsibilities of legal academics in a time of increasing governmental lawlessness.
www.stevevladeck.com
January 30, 2026 at 1:07 AM
Every working academic needs to read this, in addition to law professors. These are the questions all of us need to be asking ourselves and thinking hard about.
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Students at Texas A&M include army veterans who have sworn an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States, including the right to free speech.
Army vets agree that Texas A&M’s censorship policy does not uphold constitutional rights that they have sworn to protect.
Army vets agree that Texas A&M’s censorship policy does not uphold constitutional rights that they have sworn to protect.
January 30, 2026 at 12:19 AM
Students at Texas A&M include army veterans who have sworn an oath to protect the Constitution of the United States, including the right to free speech.
Army vets agree that Texas A&M’s censorship policy does not uphold constitutional rights that they have sworn to protect.
Army vets agree that Texas A&M’s censorship policy does not uphold constitutional rights that they have sworn to protect.
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Coming to you live from outside the very special screening of “Melania” at The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center
January 30, 2026 at 12:04 AM
Coming to you live from outside the very special screening of “Melania” at The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Memorial Center
Damn, my generation sucks.
Backing up The Argument in NYT/Siena, Gen X still has an astonishing 49% approval for Trump (!), while Boomers have dipped to 42%.
Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.
Gen X is currently tracking at 12 pts to the right of the electorate on the generic ballot. Now 9 pts to the right of Boomers, which has to be the largest gap ever.
January 30, 2026 at 12:36 AM
Damn, my generation sucks.
I don’t know who we need, but it’s not Schumer. Just a disgrace.
I don’t know what moment Chuck Schumer is made for but it sure as shit isn’t this one.
Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said the party agreed on three main goals:
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
° Require warrants in some cases and ICE coordination with state and local law enforcement
° Create a code of conduct and enforce it
° Require agents to wear body cams and not masks
January 30, 2026 at 12:29 AM
I don’t know who we need, but it’s not Schumer. Just a disgrace.
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Life under ethnic cleansing: my university colleagues who have green cards now carry them everywhere in hopes they won’t be detained & deported if they’re asked to show proof of citizenship.
January 30, 2026 at 12:10 AM
Life under ethnic cleansing: my university colleagues who have green cards now carry them everywhere in hopes they won’t be detained & deported if they’re asked to show proof of citizenship.