OMG

Messy data but I don’t think this data says what this implies - it’s good that enrollments remain mostly steady but these students were mostly already enrolled or admitted before Trump’s hatchet to higher ed. The cliff would be this year’s applications and next fall’s enrollments.

SCOOP: ICE is allocating as much as $180 million to pay bounty hunters and private investigators who verify the address and location of undocumented people ICE wishes to detain, including with physical surveillance, according to procurement records reviewed by 404 Media.

#Afghanistan faces one of the most profound #HumanRights, humanitarian, environmental, and political crises of our time, writes Hanifa Girowal. She outlines a growing understanding of the spillover risks: www.justsecurity.org/124501/afgha...

"“We are talking about wealthy people, entrepreneurs with a reputation, who during the siege of Sarajevo paid to be able to kill helpless civilians.”" It was referred to as the "human safari". WTF

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee: "'At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to [terrorize] immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans.'"

Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee: "'At a time when the president has unleashed ICE agents to [terrorize] immigrant neighborhoods, deport U.S. citizens and trample the law, it's shameful that Republican state officials are joining in instead of standing up for Texans.'"

Wow! A new low for Ken Paxton. His deranged press release claims that there cannot be any legitimate purpose for legal defense for people facing deportation — effectively saying that removal defense is not legitimate and only “radicals” would want people to have lawyers. Horrid stuff from him.

"Since settling in CO, Dadfar began working as a licensed, long-haul truck driver. Dadfar was driving through Indiana when he was stopped and taken into custody by masked ICE agents. ICE has not charged him with a crime – yet he's been held in an ICE detention center in Missouri for a month now."

Over Signal, these National Guard members question Trump's deployments www.npr.org/2025/11/10/n...

"Pro-Israel and right-wing advocacy organizations – including those without any campus presence – have driven the surge in antisemitism investigations; in at least 78% of the complaints we analyzed, such groups either represent complainants or act as complainants themselves."

"As ICE and other federal agencies storm cities across the country in a sweeping immigration crackdown, one seismic policy change has largely flown under the radar: the assault on DACA and the more than 515,000 recipients currently in the program." https://bit.ly/49Kmtvp

"“We are talking about wealthy people, entrepreneurs with a reputation, who during the siege of Sarajevo paid to be able to kill helpless civilians.”" It was referred to as the "human safari". WTF

Literally 5 minutes apart! Omg!

The universe is magic

“The main thing is that you control everything by controlling money. So Trump controls universities by threatening their grants, their tax-exempt status. It’s all financial stuff when you get down to it, and that was something that [Viktor] Orbán pioneered.” www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

"Since settling in CO, Dadfar began working as a licensed, long-haul truck driver. Dadfar was driving through Indiana when he was stopped and taken into custody by masked ICE agents. ICE has not charged him with a crime – yet he's been held in an ICE detention center in Missouri for a month now."

wow

The military needs to understand they could also be legally vulnerable for not refusing illegal orders

Tolerating int'l law & norm violations enables their destruction. They must be clearly condemned & punished b/c the stakes are so high: "international law could seem “remote, esoteric, formal & complicated” but stressed prohibition on the use of force by states had made the world much more peaceful"

wow

The military needs to understand they could also be legally vulnerable for not refusing illegal orders

Tolerating int'l law & norm violations enables their destruction. They must be clearly condemned & punished b/c the stakes are so high: "international law could seem “remote, esoteric, formal & complicated” but stressed prohibition on the use of force by states had made the world much more peaceful"

"Many of the missing are people who went to collect food and never returned — often from distribution sites managed by the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), where Israeli soldiers and security contractors killed over 2,600 people since May."

NEW: Across the fields and ruins of Idlib, a farmers’ initiative is taking root: restoring Syria’s agricultural autonomy by reviving the ancient practice of saving and replanting traditional “baladi” seeds, reports Paloma de Dinechin for @newlinesmag.bsky.social newlinesmag.com/spotlight/re...

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Pakistan Defence Minister Khawaja Asif says the nation is “in a state of war” after a bombing in Islamabad left 12 people dead.

This PBS piece is really well done:

She was one of the reasons I repeatedly watched Annie as a kid- she was so incredible in it. What an enormous talent.

Texas A&M reinventing "prior restraints" www.texastribune.org/2025/11/10/t...

Because it needs to be repeated: they pepper-sprayed a 1 year old

What an absolutely shocking thing to say out loud. If standing up ceding more powerful, what would be the result of this admission?

Diffusion of illiberal norms

The U.S. military is being used inside the United States. There's a lot we don't know about how, why, and under what authorities. Today, Lawfare is launching a new project–which includes a tracker and a map–to follow where and how the military is being domestically deployed.

Columbia knows

What is the status of this provision?

Diffusion of illiberal norms

#Canada announces that it has indeed lost its #measles elimination status. (Feels timely to receive the announcement while in Toronto, watching the #ASTMH @astmh.bsky.social session on recent outbreaks of emerging & re-emerging viruses, which kicked off with...measles) www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

Israeli soldiers speak out on killings of Gaza civilians IDF soldiers tell documentary of opening fire unprovoked and arbitrary designations of who was an enemy www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

What an absolutely shocking thing to say out loud. If standing up ceding more powerful, what would be the result of this admission?

Damning w/a hopeful end:"I am reminded..of what Sen RFK said..about ending apartheid in South Africa:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave"

10 November 1941 | A Dutch Jewish girl, Frederika Madeleine van Coevorden, was born in Amsterdam. In July 1942 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber after the selection. --- A short video about gas chambers and crematoria of the Auschwitz camp: https://youtu.be/-A05i25j9Ck

This is a breaking news story.

Elected officials make it really hard to maintain even the tiniest sliver of hope

NYT: Marcyliena Morgan, Founder of Harvard’s Hip-Hop Archive, Dies at 75 By Alex Williams Her university’s vast collection of albums, scholarly essays and other ephemera helped establish rap as a course of serious study on a par with classical music. Gift link1

1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️

Damning w/a hopeful end:"I am reminded..of what Sen RFK said..about ending apartheid in South Africa:“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.”Enough of these ripples can become a tidal wave"