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."

Barely an hour ago, Palestinian journalist Anas Al-Sharif warned us all: “If this madness doesn’t end, Gaza will be reduced to ruins, its people’s voices silenced, their faces erased — and history will remember you as silent witnesses to a genocide you chose not to stop.” Israel just killed him.

I really love the Museum of Jurassic Technology, and earlier this month it was damaged in a fire. I just donated a little money to help out while they’re closed, and so can you: www.mjtgiftshop.org/products/don...

Per this chart, CPB grants only make up 4% of KQED (San Francisco) and 10% of KLRU (Austin) budgets. But KVPT (Fresno)? 24% KPBT (Midland)? 45% That’s existential, for them www.axios.com/2025/07/29/p...

Heartbreaking.

Another approach: Shortly after Wilson's news dropped today, Seattle announced it's suing Trump over his anti-DEI orders.

The welfare queen lives!

I hope against hope that these folks are misreading the tea leaves, but it is terrifying to consider that Harvard thinks a $500m settlement is worth it no one pays out a half billion dollars in protection money unless they think the racketeer is here to stay

the readiness with which American institutions (law firms, universities, media, tech etc) have capitulated doesn't just reveal their cowardice and lack of a moral compass it demonstrates that their leaders are convinced that fascism is here to stay, and now is the time to find a way to live with it

“I didn’t stand up, I didn’t get heated. I said, ‘You’re right, it’s not the internet, and there’s a genocide happening.’ She locked in on me, and said, ‘You’re from the internet,’” Nadia told the Mercury. “I said, ‘No, I’m from real life, and children are starving right now.’”

This is why billionaires love AI

I would love to know what kind of holdings Blackstone has in the arms industry.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

As someone who has spent the bulk of my adult trying to get people to turn away from criminalization, I am here to say that it's exceedingly difficult. So now, I see some people insisting that everyone *speak out* against the current concentration camps targeting migrants and it's going to be hard.

Going to keep repeating: employers and students know the #ValueOfHistory, it’s somehow the university senior managers and marketeers who don’t read up-to-date information or have any sense of the world outside their ideological idée fixe: files.royalhistsoc.org/wp-content/u...

Eviction is always outpacing the rate of people moving from homelessness to housing. 1.4 M more people? Dear god. That’s the same number as children who are currently counted as homeless (McKinney Vento Act count).

One year has 8760 hours. In 2024 there were a 8,658 anti-Muslim discrimination complaints—essentially 1 every hour of every day of the year. It's the highest ever recorded—even higher than in the year after 9/11—and this is likely the first you heard: www.qasimrashid.com/p/anti-musli...

NEW: GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene says she is introducing a bill requiring a new census "immediately upon enactment" & congressional redistricting using numbers that exclude non-U.S. citizens from census results that the 14th Amendment says must include the “whole number of persons in each state”

This is a subject I have been brooding about for some time. I am grateful to the Washington Monthly for posting this piece. washingtonmonthly.com/2025/06/27/i...

Trump forces the U. of Virginia president to resign rather than endanger UVa’s funding. The New York Times weakly describes it as “Trump’s success in harnessing the investigative powers of the federal government to accomplish his administration’s policy goals.” I call it “fascist strong-arming.”

Last semester, I had the opportunity to take a class on costume design in fantasy, sci-fi, and supernatural film and television. And for my final project, I chose to analyze the costumes in Jem and The Holograms! ✨

Important to read this decision in the context of longer-term efforts by SCOTUS to chip away at private enforcement of civil rights & social welfare laws. I'll put a bunch of relevant background reading in the thread 🧵:

Next orientalist/racist Wes Anderson film: The Zohran Situation

The history department and CRES program at Reed are hiring a TT Professor of Indigenous Latin American History. Feel free to ask questions! www.reed.edu/dean_of_facu...

Really excited for the explainers on how Mamdani can be Indian AND Ugandan.

"Obsessed with 'colonialism'" now going in my bio

Incredible mom energy from Mira Nair

Once again, here is the report my office has produced. Reach out to your legislators and tell them what you think of this. bsky.app/profile/coun...

For those of you who were wondering why I was going so hard in the paint in defense of Preschool for All, this is why. This isn't about implementation issues (although I recognize we can improve) it's about turning off the tax and preempting local democracy

I just sent emails to each of the Senate Finance Committee. [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] #PDX

The history department and CRES program at Reed are hiring a TT Professor of Indigenous Latin American History. Feel free to ask questions! www.reed.edu/dean_of_facu...

Teachers: battling the ad hominems and stigmatizing coming our way for resisting AI mania in schools is essential. Some messages to push back on:

Ed Tech is a Trojan horse for tech elite capture of public resources. Every time.

The are line dancing in the middle of the protest while shouting Fuck ICE

In solidarity with the movement in Los Angeles and elsewhere across the US, we've made Joshua Clover's Riot. Strike. Riot free to download.

the NEH was founded as part of the Great Society platform; the radically anti-social assault continues