This 53 year old man who lived in my neighborhood w/no criminal record & who had been in the US for 30 years, was detained and thrown into a cold cell for days, caught pneumonia and COVID there and deported. He finally died. I am so angry. www.kptv.com/2026/02/21/n...

Random question: does anybody know of a way to access episodes of the 2002 VH1 show Music Behind Bars? Asking for an (incarcerated) student.

between "kid in the brown hoodie who's going to punch you in the face" and the "wine mom" torching a warehouse with lighter fluid, it's been a good weekend for new characters

We are sailing to Cuba 🇨🇺. Join us: buff.ly/nxJTwSK

I don’t think I fully appreciated how absurd this sentence is the first few times I read this book. Walter Johnson is an extraordinary writer.

My friend and one of the co-authors of Read This When Things Fall Apart, Stevie Wilson, will be released from prison in less than a week. Stevie has done tremendous work as an incarcerated organizer and has plans to continue doing important work on the outside. Let's help him make a new start.

The idea that there are going to be American Nuremberg trials, that state and municipal law enforcement will turn on the DHS SS, that the democrats will somehow save us - all of this is pure delusion. We cannot rely on the state to save us. The state will dance on our mass graves.

Kiddies who made it out of the ICE dungeon report sighting a schoolmate. Before this, the school district had no information on their whereabouts. The family has now been connected with a lawyer. Youngsters who escape a govt dungeon are the only way to track abducted children? This is fine!

Rana Jaleel, Vineeta Singh, Andy Hines, Dan Nemser, and Annie McLanahan on the University Keywords edited volume at Public Books www.publicbooks.org/defending-th...

My employer in the news again www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Mood in minneapolis right now

"WHAT ARE WE? A BUNCH OF *WHITE* PEOPLE??"

BREAKING: San Francisco Giants star Jung Hoo Lee has been detained by CBP at LAX. Pelosi's office says she is working to secure his release. www.sfchronicle.com/sports/giant...

Today did break me, entirely. So much ICE swooping through the neighborhood all day, beginning with 5 mins after I posted that below. I’m not interested in doing numbers off other people’s pain so I won’t write what happened. Just hold your people close.

Incredible.

Had no idea

The single most credulous thing I have ever read www.politico.com/news/magazin...

It’s very funny that there is a band called Geese and also a band called Goose and they are entirely distinct musical projects.

There is no bottom to ICE's depravity.

"During an extraordinary hearing in Federal District Court in Boston, Judge William G. Young, a Reagan appointee, called Mr. Trump an “authoritarian” ruler who was failing to live up to his responsibility to uphold the First Amendment."

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/l... between his insistence on platforming fascists and this latest move to AI-generated music, it’s wild how bad David Rovics’s political instincts are

Passive revolution gets the goods

“People are getting kidnapped where they work. People are getting taken away when they're cleaning snow out of their cars. My son's school, 25 people, only r people showed up yesterday. People are afraid to do their groceries. People are afraid to go to work. “We are not safe. We are under attack”

Yo dawg we heard you like war crimes so we did a war crime while doing another war crime because we have no reason to thing anyone will ever hold us accountable www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/u...

This seems to strongly suggest that the incoming president of UVA doctored his CV to the edge of outright dishonesty, and that the most recent changes came months before Jim Ryan was forced, as if they were made in anticipation in Ryan’s removal. augustafreepress.com/news/vanishi...

NEW: It appears billionaire Bill Ackman has donated $10k to a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross, the ICE agent who killed Renee Good. Ackman has reposted the fundraiser but hasn’t posted about his own donation.

Every winter morning at around 7:20 AM, a man with Trump rear windshield decals on his 20+ year old ford sedan drives out to the end of Piermont Pier, throws food to the gulls, and drives off as they wolf it down in less time than it takes him to turn his car around.

When you invade a country, kidnap its president, and hold its political class hostage for control of oil reserves, you’re not doing nation-building. You’re nation-looting, you’re strip-mining the demos.

San Jose State professor Sang Hea Kil was suspended over allegations related to a Palestine protest, and now the university plans to fire her. Omar Zahzah speaks with Kil about the precedent set by her case and the implications for academic freedom. mondoweiss.net/2026/01/san-...

This hurts to read.

NEW from me: Currently on tap for Tony Dokoupil on his first day as CBS Evening News anchor -- taking a private plane to Miami to so he can go jet skiing with DJ Khaled and play soccer with David Beckham. Take that, elites! www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

More than 500 Israeli settlers storm Al-Aqsa Mosque in large-scale incursion - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/more-500-israeli-settlers-storm-al-aqsa-mosque-large-scale-incursion

white state agents stealing from non-white people at gun point: America really is Great Again

Some recent bird photos: 1) the Cassin’s Sparrow that has spent the last few weeks hanging out at Montauk Point. 2) the tundra Bean-goose that’s been loafing around northern Nassau County since early November. 3) a Pink-Footed Goose by Haverstraw Landfill. 4) a random Fish Crow at Piermont Pier.

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

Good movie, unfortunate about the Dan Akroyd Rastafarian blackface scene, basically.

“there are only 7 full-time book critics left in the US: three at NYT ( Jacobs, Garner, Szalai), 2 at WaPo(Rothfeld, Charles), 1 each at WSJ (Sacks), NY mag (Chu), Slate (Miller) more people have walked on the moon than write book reviews for a living” worldliteraturetoday.org/2025/septemb...

Absolutely stunning that OpenAI, Anthropic, and Microsoft were able to buy off an entire teachers’ union for just $23 million.

We all have the flu. Both kids are napping on either side of me. I am reading the new Hazel Carby essay collection on my phone.

Is there a gofundme for the blacklisted TA? Any plan to organize in response to this?

This thing where university presses email you year end top five most read lists of journal articles in journals you’ve never read is weird, right?

A shady real-estate developer (all real-estate developers are shady, it’s in volume 3) seems to have donated a shit-ton of Hudson, NY to my employer www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley...

Can confirm: Pulled 60 Minutes “Inside CECOT” segment on the El Salvador mega prison housing hundreds of Venezuelan deportees sent by the U.S. is on Global TV’s free app

“It’s ok to be white” went from a troll campaign by fringe white supremacists on college campuses to words spoken by the sitting Vice President at a conference full of mainstream white supremacists.

What seems noteworthy about the Elise Stefanik news is that she spent the last two years crafting a gubernatorial campaign around efforts to enforce compulsory Zionism in US universities, and that campaign has now collapsed spectacularly.