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.

Today there was an attempted ICE raid in Bensonhurst & community members showed up. Even though NYPD collaborated with ICE by trying to disburse the crowd; community members stood their ground & ICE left without kidnapping a single person per the rapid response groups I'm on. We protect us!

Fender charging $1700 for a guitar with “ARM THE HOMELESS” and a hammer and sickle logo inscribed on it is real “all that is holy is profaned” energy.

Noem is using the Brown University shooter to end an entire visa program, but it should be noted that Pete Hegseth, just today, murdered more than twice as many people

Curious that the ADL seems to have more of a problem with these tweets penned by a teenager than with Elise Stefanik’s embrace of Great Replacement Theory or Elon Musk’s Nazi salutes at the inauguration www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/n...

This is what the sky looks like over the Hudson right now. Possibly a sign of an impending multiverse crisis.

Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, Black Power Activist Known as H. Rap Brown, Dies at 82 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/u...

we are going to win

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