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.

Looking forward to the launch of my book Coolie Migrants, Indian Diplomacy next week (Wednesday, 28 Jan) at Exeter, organised by wonderful colleagues at the Centre for Imperial and Global History and South Asia Centre. Please join us - hybrid option available. www.exeter.ac.uk/events/detai...

I wrote about Minneapolis. nymag.com/intelligence...

"The Voice of Hind Rajab" has been nominated for an Oscar for Best International Feature Film. The docudrama from Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania tells the story of five-year-old Hind Rajab, a Palestinian girl killed by Israeli forces during the ongoing genocide in Gaza in January 2024.

ICE kidnapped this five year old, Liam Ramos. His family didn’t know where he was for 24 hours. This little boy is being held in a gulag in Texas & so is another student from the same school. 2 other students who were kidnapped by ICE haven’t been located.

There are 3,000 ICE agents in Minneapolis who residents say are “looking for any nonwhite person out by themselves, jumping out and dragging them into a van, and then driving off.” From @ryanlcooper.com: trib.al/5fAgr9X

🗃️ The LPC (Likely to Become a Public Charge) provision in US immigration policy is, ominously, back in the news. For its historical origins, there is no better account than @hidehirota.bsky.social 's book "Expelling the Poor" @academic.oup.com @iehs.bsky.social ⬇️⬇️⬇️ global.oup.com/academic/pro...

Tomorrow! Friday 16 January 17:00 in Amsterdam. In person or live streaming. @nataliescholz.bsky.social has put together a great panel at SPUI25 called New Ways of Engaging with Colonial Pasts centered on our new graphic history.🗃️🏺Check it out ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Sexual violence was a key tool of repression during Jim Crow. "White police officers forced other Black inmates, fueled with alcohol, to whip, beat, and rape Hamer as she was kept immobilized, screaming, and pleading for her life. She suffered kidney damage, and never walked properly again."

“A profound wish that we make a better, fairer future for us all”(Eileen Primary Teacher) A Powerful Retelling of the British Empire Through 20 True Stories @imperialhistorian.bsky.social &ChaoTayiana &Alexander Mostov @quartokids.bsky.social Full review: www.letterboxlibrary.com/product-page...

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

Portland: www.opb.org/article/2026...

***Special issue of the Journal of American Ethnic History*** "Immigration and Citizenship" Co-edited by @migrantherstory.bsky.social and @irpinaingiro.bsky.social scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jaeh/iss...

Over the course of an hour, more than a dozen people stood up to ask the same question: What can the state do to hold federal immigration agents accountable for violating due process laws, using excessive force and to require agents to wear identification? oregoncapitalchronicle.com/2025/12/18/c...

The explainer I've been waiting for: www.npr.org/2025/12/17/n...

#PairedTexts 1. fordhaminstitute.org/ohio/comment... 2.

🌍 Help shape a new Migration Museum for Britain! We’re looking for 30 community-minded people to join our People’s Panel in London. Paid Feb 2026–Dec 2027. 📸 Photo: Sopo Ramischwili

We need to be able to see that the line "accommodations have gone too far" is an expression of the ableist notion that disabled students do not belong in higher ed. Its fundamentally an anxiety about the fact that disabled students get an "advantage" over abled students.

NYC first-grader separated from his dad and lost in ICE detention. I have a kid this age, and imagining her alone and jailed in a country where she is not a native speaker is terrifying

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

Oh wow @reuters.com got the photo here:

When Covid caused NYC offices to hollow out what they found was that yeah the core business districts suffered but the neighborhoods where people actually live, thrived. All WFH means is rethinking business districts, not cities.

I wrote a piece for @frenchhistory.bsky.social about the 40th anniversary of the French bombing of the "Rainbow Warrior." Huge thanks to @eldrclaire.bsky.social @donalh.bsky.social @meghankroberts.bsky.social & the journal's extremely patient staff. doi-org.proxy.lib.sfu.ca/10.1093/fh/c...

Two schools in Portland have secured their perimeters due to reported ICE activity in the area. https://www.koin.com/news/portland/north-portland-ice-activity-pps-schools-secure/?cid=bluesky_ 

In which Johanna Winant (@johannawinant.bsky.social) and I make the case for teaching whole books. And argue for a model of close reading that would bridge high school, college, and professional practice slate.com/life/2025/10...

having now spent the better part of a week in chicago, i can attest that it is in a state of low-level warfare where ordinary chicagoans are forced to defend themselves against a lawless occupation force while avoiding open violence. the general mood you feel on the ground reflects this reality

there's been a rather ingenius, insidious, deliberate effort via propaganda and social messaging to get people to shift their anger and trauma about covid away from the officials who failed them, to the people asking them to mask.

Charlottesville finally took down its Confederate monuments in 2021. The statue of Robert E. Lee was melted down. The statue of Stonewall Jackson was given to artist Kara Walker. This is what she did with it: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Displaced in Gaza: Stories from the Gaza Genocide Thursday, October 16th at 10:30 am ET RSVP to attend: www.tickettailor.com/events/hayma...

nope.

But will they acknowledge their responsibility for Palestinian statelessness?

Under this Supreme Court, Joe Biden couldn't forgive student debt because that would be a presidential overreach, but Trump can demand that anyone who looks like they may be an immigrant show their papers.

3 of my articles were included from Journal of World History, Contemporary British History, and The Journal of British Studies www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/contact

"Last year there were ten murders in the NYC subway system, with well over a billion total rides taken. During the same time period, there were 253 traffic fatalities in New York City. One person dead every day and a half. Cars? Those things are fucking dangerous."