The Feminist Studies Department UC Santa Cruz is disbanding on its 50th anniversary. As an alum, I’m in disbelief. This is one of the first/ most influential gender studies departments, which sends a dire signal about the humanities in higher ed — even in blue states like CA.

In today’s Los Angeles Times: My column on the beloved bagel shop that helped defeat a clean energy ballot measure in liberal Berkeley: latimes.com/environment/ne…

ICYMI: A former school board candidate from Granite Bay was arrested by the FBI Friday on suspicion of assaulting law enforcement at the Jan. 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot. sacbee.com/news/local/edu…

aiming to have the 2024 version of this out one month from today fyi

Dua Lipa, while very beautiful, does not know as much about Frasier as me

An audience member at tonight’s Placer Union High School district board meeting protested the swearing-in of Jeremy Jeffreys, who was previously fired by the district and publicly promised to not take the oath of office if elected. Full story coming

John Waters’ 1995 Christmas Card

In 2024, I watched 159 movies for the first time. Of those, here are my 44 favorites:

This week's story is "Prophecy" by Kanak Kapur. newyorker.com/magazine/2025/…

$10,000 hotel stays, golf abroad: CapRadio docs reveal ex-GM’s alleged credit card misuse sacbee.com/news/local/art…

Gu Yuan, Thawing Lake, woodcut, 1985

this particular family recreating a dress made famous by a woman who was starved to malnutrition in nazi occupied netherlands and who spent her final years working towards ensuring that that never happened again is honestly deeply disturbing to me

The German newspaper Die Zeit covered the hand, writing: "A Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute is a Hitler Salute".

The most read content on The Sacramento Bee was written by Hannah Holzer of SacBee Editorial Board sacbee.com/opinion/articl…

the white house should NEVER attack a private citizen for having an opinion or expressing empathy. we’re on the cusp of a dictatorship i fear.

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I’m not on this app much these days, but if you’d like to follow me on Bluesky, I’m there now ⬇️

Hundreds of people form a human banner at San Francisco's Ocean Beach during the #NoKingsDay protests. San Francisco Chronicle

Spotted at a Sacramento-area “No Kings” protest 👀 h/t Hannah Holzer