As you see headlines on Ebola in Congo, know that we have a community member, Gladys, who is very much affected by this as well as by the violence of the genocide there. Help her out with some support for her & her son in this dire situation.

GOP ONLY: Democratic state attorneys general said Tuesday that expert officials from their offices were denied access to a major White House anti-fraud meeting convened by Vice President JD Vance and attended by Republican AGs. @statesnewsroom.com DC www.newsfromthestates.com/article/demo...

Important article by Charles Davis on the upcoming neo-nazi cesspit that is the Portugal 'remigration' summit. (Featuring a quote by yours truly!). Consider supporting independent journalism and giving @theredoubt.net a subscription, donation, or follow!

“Five died in centers run by longtime ICE detention partners, CoreCivic and the GEO Group.” apnews.com/article/ice-...

The ubiquity of video content of everyday life has made it all too easy to discount how violating and unusual it is to shove a camera in a person’s face and record them without their consent. Surely that must be considered when deciding whether an action is “abusive” or not.

What this actually says is that majority Hispanic counties backed Paxton by slightly more than majority White ones. Which doesn’t necessarily mean Hispanics preferred Paxton; it means people who live around more Hispanic people did.

Hungary’s parliament voted on Wednesday to remain a member of the International Criminal Court, reversing a decision by the previous government of Viktor Orbán to withdraw from the global tribunal.

Accreditation has been a target of the religious right for a long time. It was part of Orban's toolkit in Hungary. It was a grievance for the 1776 Commission, which sought to rewrite history. And they've never forgotten that accreditors shut down Mike Johnson's never-opened Paul Pressler Law School.

A higher ed attorney presented to our college council and said don’t think cuz it backed down a bit in some ways that this administration isn’t building a more aggressive, stealth agenda against higher ed. Including accreditation and ramping up staff and resources to bring cases against schools.

I’ve said it before and will say it a few more times. When Trump 2.0 came for accreditation I knew we had crossed into a different era of white reclamation. Precise, focused, stealth. Anyway, you probably don’t want these reforms.

Academic Freedom means: *Freedom to discuss all relevant matters in the classroom *Freedom to explore all avenues of scholarship & research *Freedom from censorship/discipline when addressing matters of institutional policy *Freedom from censorship/discipline when speaking as a member of the public.

The US Department of Education is currently overhauling federal accreditation rules for colleges & universities. The April 6, 2026, Proposed Changes to Initial Draft Regulations unacceptably seek to narrow & control what can be taught, learned, & researched on college & university campuses. 🧵 1

I'm not arguing with y'all on this: his calculus is wrong. People are making assumptions based on the number of trans people (tiny) and the number of people that care about trans folk I don't think people have been paying attention to the shift in Black voter sentiment on protecting trans kids.

♥️Trevor Project. Sharing this specifically for Black folk. I thought I was unique in my view on this, but data shows that the overwhelming majority of Black people (92%) have the same exact view. When you show Black people the stats on trans youth suicide? They become supporters of trans rights.

I'm not voting for a candidate that wants fascism for trans kids, but safety for me. Don't try to sell me that you're worried about rising fascism, if you think there's enough of a safety margin to throw away the 5% to 10% of anti-fascist votes that you will lose by backing an anti-trans candidate.

This study, about which CPD released its own (biased) summary before release(!), has some significant flaws but nevertheless does NOT support increasing CPD personnel or $$ (see thread, esp. linked statement) A joint committee of City Council convenes in a min to discuss it.

AI is bad and ruining human knowledge, sorry to those trying to convince us otherwise.

PSA: air conditioning is *good*. Air conditioning saves lives.

Propeta, 2021 Gisela McDaniel "McDaniel's work engages processes of healing for “womxn” and nonbinary people of color. Her mixed-media assemblages are created using oil paints and donated objects from her sitters, which bring a palpable physicality and a tactile materiality to her portraits."

I, a person who grew up in a tropical country, know how to deal with heat. I’ve also lived in places experiencing heatwaves with no ventilation / cooling, insufficient awareness of helpful fabrics / clothing, and poor transit options. You cannot individualize your way out of a climate emergency.

Dali was obsessed with Hitler and fascism. "The letter from Dalí to Breton in 1935 presents Dalí's ideas and offers some insights into why he was expelled from the Surrealists in 1939. Breton kept the letter as evidence against him." Breton was friends with Aimé Césaire, so he was not having it.

This is beautiful & worth watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=hc_f... Dali does not deserve to be remembered/honoured www.vice.com/en/article/i... Remedios Varo is better than Dali at art. WAY more complex thought and magical art. Also, I feel, more aesthetically pleasing. www.artic.edu/articles/109...

Action is ongoing at Delaney Hall in Newark. Here's what happened there over the long weekend:

Conversely "talent" will get you only so far. One, talent is spread more widely than people who fancy themselves geniuses might presume. Two, no matter how talented you are, you're probably neither a Prince nor a Picasso, and someone else pretty talented who's not a dick can do nearly all you do.

Due to *gestures wildly at life, work & other commitments* It's taken me a LONG time to not really finish this list of news sources, orgs, people etc that I read, listen to for #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. While massively incomplete... here's the WIP (which may / may not get finished)

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INBOX: Journalists at the five McClatchy newspapers in Washington and Idaho (the Idaho Statesman, Bellingham Herald, Tri-City Herald, Tacoma News Tribune and The Olympian) are calling a one-day strike today over wages and AI protections. That means no clicking on any links to their sites for today.

The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it's annexation in all but name. mondoweiss.net/2026/05/isra...

The current Discourse reminds me of the tendency to underestimate the lethality of extreme heat. Shamelessly plugging a recent paper, which jointly examined vulnerability/susceptibility x extreme temperatures, lack of green space across the continental US www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

It is not enough to be cruel, one must also commit economic suicide

New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/

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For those who prefer graphs "at a glance": #yaleacfreedomreport

Inside an AI start-up’s plan to scan and dispose of millions of books Court filings reveal how AI companies raced to obtain more books to feed chatbots, including by buying, scanning and disposing of millions of titles. January 2026 - Washington Post archive.is/CVXYF (no paywall)

Good news! South Africa's Mamelodi Sundowns have won the African football (soccer) championship. A draw plus a win against Morocco earned them the title. File this under "news I would have missed if I only followed US media."

Thinking hard on what this can mean for higher ed policy (grateful to the authors for their work on it!)

heads up DC - if you want to vote in the Dem primary get on this tomorrow

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Researchers gave three commercial AI models an exercise typically used to train human military strategists. Each system played the leader of a nuclear-armed country in a standoff. Across 21 simulations, the models chose to use nuclear weapons in all but one game. Read more from Hiranya Peiris.

Onward with your brilliance. R.I.P. www.theguardian.com/music/2026/m...

“As people continue to organize for a better future, we're likely to see more surveillance and criminalization of this opposition, just as we have of Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, and environmental movements in recent decades…”

"We call on governments, movements, and peoples of conscience everywhere to call out this escalation for what it is — a naked effort to recolonize Cuba and the hemisphere at large — and to stand firmly against it."

the two times i almost drowned, i couldn’t call for help and didn’t flail around like on tv — an important read Drowning is almost always a deceptively quiet event. The waving, splashing, and yelling that dramatic conditioning (television) prepares us to look for is rarely seen in real life.

My fav line: What’s critical is that Black-led groups act as _representatives of Black people to the Democratic Party_, not representatives of the Democratic Party to Black people

A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy

Make your prenup when you are in love. It’s a year old but please Make that prenup when you think the world of each other. Make it believing you will fulfill all your dreams together and that’s the standard you’d want to part as friends then make it IRON CLAD

It's not enough, but both OAH and AAUP offer access to professional liability insurance. It's an individual/individualistic response, and there are premiums, but I found it reassuring to get.

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

My fantasy is that someone buys the Hampshire land and buildings and turns it into a kind of 'institute for advanced study' for humanities research & public education

Obviously this important apology is mostly about the Black community and should be, but it is also significant in Jewish history, given the role the Spanish Catholic idea of limpieza de sangre for conversos played in creating the concept of race itself. apnews.com/article/pope...