Sunday Won’t Procrastinate Itself: Links!

* A City Where Everyone Works, There Is No Police, And The Salary Is 1200 Euros.

* This piece and the comments (read both) constitute one of the only serious or substantive discussions of Laura Kipnis’s CHE pieces I’ve seen. I just finished a long and frustrating but possibly ultimately consensus-building Facebook debate about the minutiae of this thing, so I’m basically an expert on the case now.

* “With its new flavor, Save Our Swirled, Ben & Jerry’s is urging fans to dig their spoons into climate change activism.” That’s solve it!

* California’s Snowpack Is Now Zero Percent of Normal.

* It’s so hot in India the roads are melting.

* For those who want to build a stronger left in the US, there is no substitute for the work — however slow and painstaking it might be — of building social movements and struggles at the grassroots and of organizing a political alternative independent of the Democratic Party.

I can give you a solution, too, it’s just like everything else: withdraw support from Democrats, build coalition for new Constitution.

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

* ‘American Universities Are Addicted to Chinese Students.’

* Black dolls and American culture.

* Jessica Springsteen, born to jump.

* How Comedians Became Public Intellectuals.

* PROFS Statement on Joint Finance Committee Action on UW System Budget. UW Struggle: Final Update. An Idiot’s Guide to the Tenure Process. Don’t mourn, organize. In all its glory.

Die Public Universities is bipartisan consensus. Like most austerity, the difference is Republicans = “we love it,” Dems = “sadly, we must.”

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

Definitely an argument the lizard people who control everything will respond to positively https://t.co/2RyceIKiF2

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

America’s robust public university system produces the medical technology that will keep lizard people alive forever. #pleasefundeducation

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

Lizard people need educated humans to act as the middle-men enforcing their regime of total control. #pleasefundeducation

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

Public universities are a key source of the exorbitant speaking fees and no-show sinecures lizard people crave. #pleasefundeducation

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

Without public education, lizard people would have as many as three weekends a year without sports on tv. #pleasefundeducation

— Gerry Canavan (@gerrycanavan) May 30, 2015

* And then there’s Texas.

* Can academics really “have it all”?

* The fall of Rome.

* To understand why and how often these shootings occur, The Washington Post is compiling a database of every fatal shooting by police in 2015, as well as of every officer killed by gunfire in the line of duty. The Post looked exclusively at shootings, not killings by other means, such as stun guns and deaths in police custody.

* Boing Boing covers Rashida Jones’s “amateur porn” documentary Hot Girls Wanted.

* Science proves music really was better back then.

* It also proves nothing likes being eaten.

* Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal and Philosophy: 1, 2.

* The Wire, but for Israel/Palestine.

* And the arc of history is long, but production on TRON 3 has been shut down.