not to be all everything is gender but damn

My tongue-in-cheek, yet seriously meant, critique of Global University Rankings. Interestingly, this is some people's favourite read from my blog. I argue that university rankings grossly misunderstand who universities are for in how they universalise the provincial. folukeafrica.com/global-unive...

🇸🇳 Non-fasting Muslim community throws Ramadan celebrations in Senegal Despite the dust and the heat, thousands of members of a unique Senegalese Muslim community, the Baye Fall, are busy preparing the iftar meal for breaking the Ramadan fast — but they themselves neither fast, nor pray.

Wow. www.ft.com/content/16c5... Belgian aristocrat to face charges over murder of Congo’s first premier

More details and context about what being a woman math major in the early-2000s was like and why it was so damaging here: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/a-fuller-s...

In Western Nebraska, 25-35 mph is normal in March. And big grass fires are also normal, though usually in late summer. Few people, few structures, and few trees typically make these fires unremarkable. But this is 858 sq miles.

Abolition is the floor. The minimum. A reasonable compromise.

They're stealing the voice of Sinead O'Connor, who risked her own career in 1992 by speaking up about child sexual abuse in the Catholic church, so let's make this theft an occasion to keep talking about Trump in the Epstein files.

Absolutely incredible episode of 60 Songs. Hanif Abdurraqib talking about desire/sex, the sacred and the profane, in D’Angelo’s music really moved me. (I also watched the Untitled video for the first time, and whew!)

Once again I propose that we put all the men in space, until we figure out what is going on.

One of the many lessons I hope people take from this entire thing is that being a billionaire is not a moral achievement or a sign of intelligence. Stop letting people pronounce on random things because they are rich.

Remembering all those “Has #MeToo Gone Too Far?” thinkpieces.

"According to the experts, these acts could amount to sexual slavery, reproductive violence, enforced disappearance, torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, and femicide." www.ohchr.org/en/press-rel...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

xyz “with no criminal record” … just stop it. The targeting and detention are the criminalization. let’s banish the police from our hearts and minds

I don’t want what’s happening in Minnesota to stop until ICE leaves there and every other community. But I do want people to recognize that there’s a race element here. There’s a reason people are treating the protesters of Minnesota as somehow nobler and more patriotic. More "American."

Today, after Sen. George Mitchell's name was discovered in Friday's Epstein emails dump, the Mitchell Scholarship renamed their entire program and website to the US–Ireland Alliance. The board's actions here are heartening in the face of so many mealy-mouthed defenses elsewhere.

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?

@cjwade.bsky.social and I are teaching a class this semester called Crafting Resistance, where students learn (the political science of) resistance movements globally and the role of textile artists in them.

IYKYK: "going back to South Dakota" from a Minnesotan is a real burn

Incredible, as usual, from @chrislatray.bsky.social: "Movements of everyday people are MIGHTY. It’s the only way things change. Anything truly good that has happened on Turtle Island while under colonial subjugation has been the result of people, everyday people, making them happen."

ICE out of schools & churches? People can't go to them. They cannot move safely in their neighborhoods. They cannot socially exist. They will rightfully remain afraid. Because the problem is ICE. There is no reforming ICE. Dem leadership needs to stop pretending there's anything to negotiate. 6/

"CBP stays at border"? Where is the border? Border crossing installations, e.g. at airports, road checkpoints, & ports? Because I hate to break it to you, but CBP interprets "the border" as being within a 100-mile buffer zone of the line on a map that most people think of as the border. 3/

this is an interview of Aru Shiney-Ajay from Twin Cities Sunrise Hub by @ericblanc.bsky.social. please read and share www.laborpolitics.com/p/how-minnea...

There's another way to look at this. ICE is doing everything the military manual tells you not to do to civilian populations because it creates insurgencies where none existed before.

The perfect illustration of the multiple forms of masculinity

Why t.f. does his citizenship matter?

At the end of the day, the Black Lives Matter era was about whether people should be killed in the street, and lots of people decided yeah and put those little blue flags on their cars. It spread to everyone because it stopped for no one.

New report from doctors shows the Iranian regime slaughtered 16,500 protesters during the communications shutdown.

Breaking News: The EPA will stop considering lives saved when setting pollution limits and instead calculate only the cost to businesses.

it is sort of interesting watching Europe try to thread the needle of “Greenland belongs to its people” and “well it actually belongs to Denmark”

“We turn our hearts into museums of the people that we love to keep them alive inside us.”

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi. I hired and worked with Jamal for a year. www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

Now that's a military parade I'd want to watch! #nokings #puppies

Keep thinking on the LSHTM-JHU estimate of excess mortality in Gaza (paid for by FCDO, all but ignored). In the *six months* from Feb last year, between 67,000 and 86,000 likely already died. Before the ceasefire. Before the full invasion. Before the UN warning today. And they didn’t count famine.

These proposed budget cuts look like the IMF's structural adjustment policies have been turned loose on the United States. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

Stephen Miller Dead Behind Eyes At 39

Again, from Keguro: "Crisis patriotism undermines freedom work. It demands allegiance. It demands loyalty. It demands a chorus of voices determined to save and uphold damaged and damaging institutions and practices."

"We are told by USians that their nation is in crisis. That democracy is in crisis.... In response, some of the groups most targeted for harm by a flurry of executive orders are insisting that their task is to save democracy.... —Black and Queer and Trans USians Loyalty pledges are being activated."

Just so we're clear was it not a crisis when it was the other way around?

From our college president: "We are unpublishing websites pertaining to DEI—specifically our diversity statement and the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion site and associated pages and links." www.washcoll.edu/people_depar...

"I am finally free." Leonard Peltier walked out of prison today at 8:40am, nearly 50 years after the U.S. govt lied to put him there. New statement from Peltier, along with photos of him moments after leaving prison, in the sun, happy. www.huffpost.com/entry/leonar...

They attacked Chernobyl. Yes, that one. "A drone armed with a warhead hit the outer protective shell of Ukraine’s Chernobyl nuclear plant."

Ok here is the thing with action/praxis/protest/showing up: Sometimes you contribute by being a megaphone. Sometimes by being a wallet. Sometimes by being a physical body. Sometimes by being fuel or being relief. If you can’t be one thing at any given moment you can almost certainly be another.

Everyone in LA is sharing this story on insta, and I just want to make sure non-Angelenos know about this bear that crawled under a house during the fires. He had to be lured out with rotisserie chickens. Read it. You deserve a little treat.