Here’s a Snow Bunting I found on the top of a landfill this morning.

As Karoline Leavitt concludes her press briefing and walks off, @andrewfeinberg.com asks: "What was the president doing with Virginia Giuffre for hours at Epstein's house?" She did not respond.

This case will be taught for decades in torta law classes

Haven’t posted about birds here in a long time, so here are some recent ones: a broad-billed hummingbird in the suburbs of Buffalo, New York’s first (and the eastern seaboard’s fourth) Common Cuckoo, and a Long-Billed Dowitcher I saw at Piermont Pier back in September.

a couple years ago i contracted with one of subway's ad agencies for a small rotating sandwiches collab that ultimately they decided not to publish and i never did anything with. today feels like a good day to post one of them. here's my favorite subway sandwich, the veggie delight

Bonk www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

3yo, picking up robot: “I AM ROBOT! I LIVE IN AMERICA.” Me, guy who has a phd in American Studies: “what’s America?” 3yo: America is for robots.

It’s really staggering how quickly the so-called mainstream Jewish organizations have allowed the far right to normalize Great Replacement Theory in exchange for enforcement of compulsory Zionism

Compare how Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL responded to Zohran Mamdani winning the mayoral election in NYC to how he responded to the Heritage Foundation mainstreaming actual neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

JUST IN: Soren Stevenson, who lost an eye due to a projectile fired by the police during the BLM protests of 2020 in Minneapolis, has won a seat on city council. @pascalsabino.bsky.social reported on his candidacy last month in a must-read: boltsmag.org/minneapolis-...

Michael Denning and Patricia Pessar (RIP) assigning both Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala in the fall 2001 Intro to Ethnicity Race and Migration class has prepared me for this moment in ways I could not have appreciated at the time

hell yeah eugene debs

Common Cuckoo in Riverhead, NY, only the fourth record of this Eurasian species in the lower 48 states.

I once saw Michael Imperioli on my great uncle’s block on the UWS. It was Halloween night and my then 1 and a half year old daughter was walking around in an incredible Chick (as in baby bird) costume that my partner made from scratch.

There is an old-world cuckoo sp. (Probably Common Cuckoo) in eastern Long Island and I have to be at work at 8:30 tomorrow. Abolish work.

Interesting conversation between Stefano Harney and Stevphen Shukaitis podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/m...

I’m sure part of it is some kind of libidinal attachment/arrested development/nostalgia for ΔΚΕ parties, but I think it’s at least as much a concerted strategy premised on securing control of the ideological state apparatus and its role in social reproduction.

Andrew Ross on the Israeli carceral state’s role in the ongoing genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/o...

Good job, Nobel prize committee. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/u...

Wait, there’s a new Hazel Carby book coming out next month?

Teaching my racial capitalism class again for the first time in a few years, and crowdsourcing recommendations for readings on the following subjects: 1) racial capitalism, borders, deportation, and ICE 2) Palestine and racial capitalism. Grateful for any suggestions.

Few things cringier than when someone who does not know how W.E.B. Du Bois pronounced his surname attempts to correct people who are pronouncing it accurately.

Bard College reply-allcalypse over whether instructions on how to deal with a bear encounter on campus pertain only to “campsites” or to campus as well

Palestinian Authority not invited to Gaza Peace Summit: Report - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-authority-not-invited-gaza-peace-summit-report

“District Attorney Bernie Cantorna dismissed the murder charge, saying a retrial would be both impossible and unjust”. Being picked up by ICE before he even gets home for a tiny taste of freedom? That’s entirely possible it seems. Outrageous indeed Read more at: www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Our plane to Spain is in the air! 🙌🙌 Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

The Bought Press

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

Quinn Slobodian, Crack-Up Capitalism, New York: Metropolitan Books. 2023.

I would really like to post here more than the other place, but the inability to do so privately makes that problematic, especially in light of the ongoing use of social media by Zionist groups and the far right to target activists, organizers, and scholars.

Stephen Miller said the quiet part out loud. Trump has “plenary authority,” then suddenly went silent. Their plan wasn’t to be public yet. Clearly, someone hit the panic button in his earpiece. It gets weirder: CNN uploaded the interview with the “plenary authority” comment edited out. 1/2

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

NYT constantly devising new ways to render Palestinians infrahuman

interesting thing about the story of the woman faking her way into Yale is that this very phenomenon is ostensibly what inspired the creation of the Yale Police Department in 1894. 131 years and millions upon millions of dollars and god knows how many arrests later, it doesn’t seem to have worked

Source and explanation: > Context: this piece of filth barged into Psych 210 (The Diversity of Human Sexuality) at UW throwing up nazi salutes, yelling Heil Hitler, and calling everyone “[r-slur] degenerates”. > > Class didn’t appreciate it. www.reddit.com/r/udub/comme...

Note that the Trump Administration is already going back to schools with whom it earlier reached "deals" (such as UPenn and Brown) for further concessions. Conceding to a bully has only emboldened them to make new demands.

Any college that signs this should be bulldozed

After everything they did for cops!

Superman (2025) is a power fantasy in which the power that is fantasized is the power to stop an unfolding genocide.

This is what it looks like when the first Arctic Warbler in the history of Eastern North America shows up on an island in the East River where you used to have to go for track meets in 8th grade

I have been reading @dnbrgr.bsky.social’s Stayed On Freedom this weekend, and it is so good that I am posting about it here on this self-satisfied substitute hellsite

I found a white-rumped sandpiper at the pier a couple mornings ago.

Really thrilled this book is out in the world. I’ve been learning from and thinking with many of the contributors for well over a decade - and in some cases considerably more than that.

A feud is playing out within state institutions between proceduralists—whose system was already racist and oppressive—and outright fascists. If the fascists win, everyone could face the violence Kilmar Abrego Garcia is experiencing. But proceduralism won't save us. Build the capacity to resist.

I said this on IG but when is the last time you saw any survey where 100% of people said yes to some shit. this is beyond horrific.

A juvenile Least Sandpiper stopping at Piermont Pier on its way south from the breeding grounds where it was born.

Here are some birds I drew during early COVID to amuse my then 2-year old.

rickets is literally a disease of chronic malnutrition, exacerbated by a lack of sunlight due to e.g. sheltering from relentless bombing campaigns these absolute fucking *ghouls*