I’m at the Military Complex I’m at the Triumphal Arch I’m at the Combination Military Complex and Triumphal Arch

I found a juvenile American Golden-Plover a few miles from my house this morning. They’re a scarce migrant through the Northeast ok their way from the arctic to Argentina and Uruguay, and it’s always great to see them.

students said “Maybe our university should not profit from this” and then donors, faculty, and staff called them terrorists and organized to deport them

Worse than that, our universities (never ours) colluded to have people detained and deported for opposing this.

A Least Sandpiper, the world’s smallest shorebird, in a small puddle yesterday morning.

Being mad about wages and working conditions is a principled stand. (Being a cop is not.)

The political and cultural response to 9/11 was to briefly mouth some "Islam is not to blame" platitudes and then declare total war on Muslim people and the Muslim world and we're entering the 25th year of it with no end in sight.

NEW: Major League Baseball has long known about teams making handshake deals with Dominican players as young as 11 — and the predatory industry that has grown around this system. But it’s never publicly warned or penalized a team for making an early deal.

It's like a religion to these people: "Some set of A.I.-enabled devices and processes would surely allow a hotel maid to clean more rooms faster with less hassle and physical strain." Motorized carts and more efficient vacuum cleaners relieve physical strain, not some mystical spreadsheet.

Used this in my class last year

As it should be

Fun Fact! Hudsonian Godwits are named for William Godwit, father of Mary Godwit, later Mary Shellfish, author of Franklin’s(Gull)Stein

Birds like this are why you spend a Sunday morning in a landfill. (Buff-Breasted Sandpiper, Clarkstown Landfill, West Nyack, NY August 30, 2026)

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Another photo of the Buff-Breasted Sandpiper at the Clarkstown Landfill from yesterday. All my prior encounters with this species were either too distant for photography or prior to my owning a camera, so it was nice to get some up close shots of this bird.

Six new books I’m excited about: 1) Tejasvi Nagaraja - Troop Movements - a new labor history of the WWII era 2) Annie McLanahan - Beneath the Wage - teaching this Marxist account of gig work next week. 3) Stuart Schrader - Blue Power: Stuart’s history of the rise of the political power of police