LYRIC LOGIC is out in the world now!

Gov. Kotek's drought emergency declaration for three counties in Eastern and Central Oregon comes amid concerns about water availability in the region after an abnormally dry and warm winter.

UConn’s The Daily Campus went extremely hard for April Fool’s. The “story” outlines the rollout of the “UConvict” program where President Maric would have prisoners teach classes so she doesn’t have to pay them and could fire all the professors. Whew!

Last chance to get your *free* e-book of MEAN GIRL FEMINISM: How White Feminists Gaslight, Gatekeep, and Girlboss by Kim Hong Nguyen! mailchi.mp/illinois/zgk... #FilmStudies #PopularCulture #WomensStudies

Susan Pedersen's anger in this piece is so visceral and so powerful.

AHA member Radhika Natarajan co-authored Hear Our Voices, a children’s history of the British Empire, in 2023. She’s now developing lesson plans and activities to help educators use the book in their classrooms. Read her Member Spotlight to learn more about her research on British imperialism. 🗃️

This dreadful book banning bill, H.R. 7661, has made it out of committee and into the House. It's time to call your reps.

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Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California lawmakers say they'll change name of César Chavez Day to Farmworkers Day following sexual abuse allegations.

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Breaking News: A New Jersey woman who took part in pro-Palestinian demonstrations at Columbia University in 2024 has been released from a federal detention center in Texas, where she had been held for more than a year. She has not been charged with a crime. nyti.ms/4sJs8In

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

happy publication day to *The Future That Was* out today from @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

50 years ago, third world feminists began planning together for a future where they would all be free. They lost, and today is the result. But what if we’d followed their lead instead?

An important thing to know about these civics/ western civ centers. They have faculty lines and are hiring historians - regularly without any input from or even knowledge of their history departments.

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.” Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. Now, they're fighting back.

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Shahram Khosravi writes brilliantly on the current situation in Iran: “The word many people in Iran use to describe this condition is estisal, a state of helplessness, desperation, of being trapped in a problem with no imaginable solution.” www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/p...

We Are Each Other’s Liberation: Reflections on Radical Left Feminism and Cross-Racial Solidarity

“The extremely rapid loss of the snow that fell during the late Feb storm cycle, which in many cases dropped multiple feet of snow in the Sierra Nevada over just a couple of days, is genuinely remarkable.”

“Humanity is heating the planet faster than ever before…with the heating rate almost doubling, according to research that excludes the effect of natural factors. . . The rate is higher than scientists have seen since they started systematically taking the Earth’s temperature in 1880.”

Iraq plunged into nationwide blackout as US tells citizens to leave immediately www.turkiyetoday.com/region/iraq-...

This is a companion piece to Catherine's longer article, which was recently published Open Access in Issue 100 of History Workshop Journal.

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Columbia says DHS entered a dorm at dawn today under false pretenses, detaining a student in violation of the law and university policy.

tfw you’re trying to stop children in your prison camp expressing their feelings about what you’ve done to them

This can’t be reformed, only destroyed before it kidnaps and kills again.

Years ago our admin did a red and black report. It took salaries & how much $ each instructor made in tuition $ for classes we taught-you were in the red or black. They released numbers once & shut it down bc humanities were producing huge $ for uni & engineers, business and scientists were losing $

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Sam Altman defends AI’s energy toll by saying it also takes a lot to ‘train a human’

The floor plan for the planned ICE concentration camp in Social Circle, Georgia:

The current person in charge of ICE's procurement for detention is a GEO Group executive who ran the company's immigration detention portfolio. He was granted an "ethics waiver" from DHS allowing him to hand out contracts to GEO in his new role.

Devastated to learn that Univ of Texas at Austin is closing the American Studies dept. The years I spent there earning my PhD were formative, making me the teacher, thinker, and writer I am today. I've passed on what I learned at UT to thousands of students over the past 20 years. Just awful.

Oregon is in the middle of a record-breaking snow drought for this time of year.

The Mexican grocery store in my neighborhood keeps their doors locked. You have to ring the doorbell to be let in. They do this so their employees & customers don't get kidnapped by ICE. People were already abducted from their parking lot just trying to feed their families. Abhorrent.

I really feel like: Donald Trump is building a prison camp system on the scale of Hitler, Stalin, and Mao … would be a good and true headline to run every day. Advertisements across media. Speeches on the Senate. Everywhere.

And never forget. These are asylum seekers. This is what the USA is doing to the most vulnerable people on the planet who we promised to protect.

Ashland Sen. Jeff Golden is trying again to get the Legislature to create a fund to pay for natural disasters with damages collected from big oil.

The Trump Administration wants us to think of Trump's racism as a character flaw grandpa sometimes sadly lets express itself too aggressively, when the reality is that the white nationalism is the governing, organizing logic of his administration that all Republicans are complicit with.

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4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

Excellent explanation of why you should care about the effort to undermine independent accreditation, from our colleagues at @higheredlabor.bsky.social higheredlaborunited.org/2026/01/26/a...

Stolpersteine for ICE kidnap victims

i would personally love to see noem drag miller down with her

One small thing you can do *right now* — donate $5, $10, $50, whatever you're able — to this rent fund for South Minneapolis daycare workers whose families are sheltering in place. Can we raise $5k today?? Whatever you can give matters. And if you can't give, can you share? givebutter.com/Rbpl0z

wrote about the camps for my newsletter this weekend www.nytimes.com/2026/01/24/o...

It's also about convincing you that they impose reality and that they are the final arbiters of truth. Hence the importance of continuing to name reality and truth ourselves, at every single turn, with all that is available to us.