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It was such a privilege to write this. The act of building solidarities across borders is never easy, and not always successful, but has always been deeply necessary.

Telling that this attack on good scientists doing good jobs, without any pretense of due process is 1) at an HBCU 2) in the agricultural extension. Decades of underfunding mean HBCUs are testing grounds for the austerity we all get later. Ag stations are isolated and full of workplace abuse.

Egregious assault on faculty at Virginia State. Sign the petition. Sound the alarm. Support our HBCU colleagues. actionnetwork.org/petitions/sa...

"The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional by the day." Important analysis by Prof. Melinda Cooper in @equatormag.bsky.social www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Or join your grad union. That’s all the institutional literacy training an aspiring academic needs.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

I enjoy reading about W.E.B. Du Bois's teaching. Here's a short thread about it.

When you get the flu, try to run anyway, then have to completely shut down for a week because you’re an idiot. #Running

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Noticing that articles on AI are increasingly prefaced by a methodical listing of harms much like commentaries on state violence at the height of BLM recited names of people killed by police. At what point does rhetoric move from abstraction to the naming of actual human beings killed by this mess?

My experience has been that students desperately want critique. I had students discuss Moser’s “AI Hater” piece this term and was taken aback, not only by how intuitively they could articulate the concerns, but also by their lament at the absence of institutional space to actually study this stuff.

Flock is from Atlanta. Fusus is from Atlanta. Cop City is in Atlanta--so much of the surveillance and policing around the country comes from here. That's exactly why we need strong independent journalism on the ground sounding the alarm. Please give if you can to @atlpresscollective.com.

Hard to overstate how important ACPC is and has been, and not only to the people of Atlanta. This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.

yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $. we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate

These allegedly suddenly concerned workers sold their souls long ago, but part of me is intrigued by the prospect of a salting campaign to bring this bitch down from the inside.

Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history. His son Kweku Taylor: “The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

"On February 9, 1976, Martin Sostre left prison for the last time. When he returned to New York City, he was almost fifty-three years old and had spent most of his adult life inside." (1/2) -Excerpted from A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (2025)

Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

W.E.B. Du Bois holding a North African suit of armor, Harkness Hall, Atlanta University, 1935.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

If you were confused by the part of Bad Bunny’s halftime show where dancers re-enacted Puerto Rico’s economic struggles under PROMESA’s bankruptcy process, here’s a breakdown of what that moment was all about: lpeproject.org/blog/how-ban...

“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

When your kids have the flu and you move up your long run to beat what’s likely coming your way. #Running

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

This is the move that will ensure that synthetic images will overtake authentic human-captured photographs on the internet. We are about to see a wide-scale AI slop rendition of reality. When the evidentiary is destroyed, so is trust.

Recalling a recent conversation wherein the prospect of tenure no longer existing in red states was called alarmism

The sheer absurdity of the fascist financial paradigm. We’re about to up interest payments on bonds to a bunch of sadistic fucks who would rather expel and exterminate than simply exploit immigrant labor.

Under the guise of peace & development, the US–DRC Strategic Partnership Agreement rewrites Congo’s laws to favor US mining interests. But Congolese lawyers are pushing back—taking the deal to court to defend sovereignty & constitutional order:

There is a genre of "AI" labor that is as horrofying to read as Upton Sinclairs The Jungle—and just as important data-workers.org/michael/

In today’s episode, @nhold.bsky.social returns to discuss how deportation is unjustifiable state violence no matter one’s immigration status or citizenship, and how that violence is naturalized when demands are framed around who or what is “legal” on.soundcloud.com/HjCstFKypwOY...

Isn’t catch and kill the point here? A post-neoliberal iteration of the fascist project, a veritable end times fascism, will rely increasingly on its billionaires to bear its costs, to subsidize the destruction of public goods.

HB 295 would allow property owners to make claims for compensation from local governments if they incur expenses or loss of property value from nonenforcement of laws or maintaining a public nuisance.

What's going on with Maduro? Like....they just whisked him off to New York and quit talking about it

This is both a deliberate erasure of Palestinian identity, and a basic violation of academic freedom. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

On Feb. 4, 1999. Amadou Diallo an African immigrant was shot 19 times in a hail of 41 bullets by NYPD, claiming his wallet was a gun. As organizers we hit the streets. African, immigrant, Black (also African) & others, all knew it was the same system of oppression

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Another year, another NYC marathon application. New age bracket and a more favorable time qualifier, though likely still won’t get in. This is my last remaining US major and life goals are increasingly at the mercy of Abbott’s “six star medal” marketing campaign.

this is literally the critique of crypto that was offered when it was launched, so please, fuck off into the sun

“The current upswing of racism in the US is utilized by monopoly capital in the drive toward fascism and its by-product, war. Perhaps more than anywhere else in the world, a far-flung system of racial persecution... provides an even more fertile soil than Hitler had.” -Harry Haywood, b. otd in 1898

To learn more on what you can do personally 👇 bsky.app/profile/sass...

The first customer for relational databases was the CIA. The surveillance program they tasked a Silicon Valley start-up with building was given the code name Oracle. That founder of that company, given the capital he needed to scale by serving U.S. intelligence operations, decided he liked the name.

Last night a federal judge extended Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for 350,000 Haitian immigrants. Why was this decision important? I discussed the issue with Black Alliance for Just Immigration on @blackagendareport.bsky.social radio last week. www.blackagendareport.com/trump-target...

Reminder that this insane RICO indictment against Cop City protestors in Atlanta cites mere belief in “mutual aid” as evidence of a criminal conspiracy that allegedly began on May 25, 2020 -- the day George Floyd was murdered in Minneapolis.

Owl of Minerva stuff here. Racial capitalism seen at the dusk of its neoliberal phase, wherein manufactured wagelessness has been reinforced by a state offering only the police as employer of last resort. Imagine if that earlier vision of a federal job guarantee had set us on a different path.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich