A federal judge blocked the Trump administration from ending temporary protections that have allowed 350,000 Haitians to live and work in the U.S.

Opinion: If we still believe that science is a vocation grounded in argument, curiosity and care, we can’t delegate judgement to machines, says Akhil Bhardwaj #peerreview #academicsky https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/ai-not-peer-so-it-cant-do-peer-review

Reminder: Never capitulate to tyrants. Fight Back. #DefendHigherEd #AcademicSky

It's black history month, and so our writer S. Baum decided to cover black trans people you may not hear about in your history classes. Go read their latest piece, and don't forget to subscribe to support our journalism. www.erininthemorning.com/p/black-tran...

That's our mayor! 🤩 (We're from Minneapolis) (He's the worst!) Despite the national attention Frey has received for saying a swear word, @mayorjacobfrey.bsky.social has been ineffective and even complicit when it comes to getting ICE out of Minneapolis. Here are some real actions he could take.

Here’s what you need to know about the FACE Act, the pro-choice law the Trump administration is using to arrest journalists like @donlemonofficial.bsky.social.

People willl write a lot about the surnames of these agents, but as I wrote in Police and the Empire City, immigrants and descendants that become cops do so for social, cultural, and racial mobility—becoming “whiter” by proving they can do racial violence on behalf of the state, even against kin.

Illinois College Republicans are Doing Politics the Right Way—By Ezra Klein

Consulting is one of the wildest scams that we’ve ever normalized as a legitimate and necessary profession. Exhibit A:

In Springfield, Ohio, people are preparing in advance of a “large deportation” promised by the president. To all appearances, the city is two or three days from a federal ethnic cleansing, grounded in a hate campaign organized by the vice-president and American Nazis.

The US just did a genocide in order to sell the land off to property developers, many of whom are, or are related to, leaders of nations.

The man has a way of stating the obvious a lot too late, but he does know his audience.

she IS the moment

The fact that this is a bolder statement than most Democrats have made 😭

PORTLAND MAYOR WILSON: “.. To those who continue to work for ICE: Resign. To those who control this facility: Leave. … you have lost all legitimacy and replaced it with shame.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

Three leaders of an Arizona fraternity are facing hazing charges after an 18-year-old student was found dead on Saturday morning after a rush event on Friday night, the police said.

Important evidence for the “rich people lost their minds when their kids went to college and learned truths” team

🔵 REPORT | Israel, which has a documented history of organ theft from Palestinian bodies, appears to be seeking positive publicity by staging what it hopes is the largest gathering of organ donors in one location. Israel’s foreign min. misleadingly presented the event on X as involving 2,000 new...

🟢 Amjad Shawa, head of the Palestinian NGO Network based in Gaza City, told Drop Site that Palestinians were entirely excluded from Jared Kushner’s ‘Master Plan’ for Gaza presentation at Davos, saying it “was not consulted with any Palestinian… civil society, Palestinian Authority, or Palestinian...

We did not attain mass literacy because of teachers and schools. Any approach to the “literacy crisis” which focuses exclusively on educational reform is naive, or worse.

Y’all gotta let Biden and Clinton go. Biden’s presidency will go down as a 4 year postponement & teeing up of an already emerging fascist government and Clinton was a p********. Give yourself that brain space back.

ICE killed 9 people (that we know of) in january alone - let's look at who we lost last month (1/2) #fuckice #untileverycageisempty

Reading about the new revelations about academia in the Epstein files, I can’t help but think about how many schools have a presidential appeal in their Title IX policies. Which means that the university president could decide the outcome of any Title IX case at their discretion.

Duke’s student newspaper is all over this. Neither Ariely nor the university are saying anything so far www.dukechronicle.com/article/duke...

I wonder if the New York Times will go after any of the prominent academics in the Epstein files for being rapists as hard as they went after Claudine Gay for being kind of sloppy with citations in her graduate thesis. If not, why not?

NEW: The @wired.com Security desk put together a comprehensive guide to filming ICE—with tips for reducing risk at the forefront. No paywall, but please consider subscribing to help find these kinds of resources. And stay safe out there. www.wired.com/story/how-to... www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Latest Epstein files include emails between Ghislaine Maxwell, LA28 Olympics head Casey Wasserman

NEW: School hallways are silent. Grandparents patrol outside in shifts. Two more kids taken from Liam Ramos' school. Trump isn't deescalating ICE at all at MN schools. “I stopped wearing my high heels to work. I wear my boots to work because I have had to run." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-mi...

we knew it was Klan because the pastor is ICE but now we really know it’s Klan

Platonic ideal of an Atlantic article in 2026 www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

ICE has been holding a disabled Black man for a year! Rodney Taylor is a double amputee who was days away from receiving new prosthetic legs when ICE took him. He’s been denied his prosthetics & placed in solitary. His health is declining. Public outrage might save his life. Say his name:

"Georgia Fort is a three-time Midwest Emmy award-winning journalist who was one of two journalists in the courtroom for the sentencing of Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, who was convicted of murdering George Floyd." www.startribune.com/who-is-georg...

HERE COMES THE OLYMPICS DISPLACEMENT MACHINE

A significant majority of the $75 billion that Congress gave ICE in the OBBBA will go to private companies that operate most of the machinery of mass deportations; they staff and provide the prisons, they drive the buses, and they own and fly the planes. They are all set to cash in massively.

I spent my morning putting this guide together from sources all over the place. Happy to hear from anyone with suggested inclusions, deletions, or edits. [email protected], or you can hit my DMs here. Please share!

A federal judge has ruled that Luigi Mangione will not face the death penalty in a trial over the killing of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson, delivering a blow to prosecutors.

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2025 was "one of the most dangerous years on record for LGBTQ Americans," according to a new report.

Academic publishing is currently experiencing a viral spread of “zombie citations.” I tried following one to see how these references are infecting academic knowledge systems codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2026/01/30/t...

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government

On Everybody’s Business, we tackle the cost of Trump’s deportation campaign and look at a startup taking on the declining population.

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

This looks fantastic. Can’t wait to read!

ICE expects to hold between 1,500 and 10,000 detainees across 23 towns in warehouses converted into detention centers. This month, officials purchased two facilities in Maryland and Arizona.

They’re targeting independent journalist because it’s easier for them since they’re not protected by big institutions

BIG news from @bloomberg.com, which confirms that ICE has gone ahead and *purchased* multiple commercial warehouses with the aim of converting them into mass detention camps. This is likely to be the big detention story of 2026 — literal warehousing of people. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

⭕️ Israel admits carrying out new airstrike in Gaza, vows continued ops Israel’s military says it carried out an airstrike in southern Gaza, claiming it targeted a Hamas member allegedly planning an “imminent” attack on Israeli forces. The IDF falsely claimed the strike was conducted “in...