Trump officials reportedly ordered the removal of “The Scourged Back” (1863), a famous image of a formerly enslaved man, from a national monument in Georgia where the US Army toppled a Confederate garrison during the Civil War.

This might be the worst ICE video yet, because it’s literally random dudes hanging around, and then a bunch of heavily armed thugs running them down completely out of nowhere, because they’re brown. It’s a nightmare that would have seemed excessive in Jim Crow. Everyone in America should see this.

For 2 years of Israel’s genocide in Gaza, not one Palestinian voice has been featured on NBC, ABC or CNN’s Sunday shows. @ahjohnson.bsky.social writes about how the U.S. media has debated Palestinians’ annihilation without letting a single Palestinian speak. inthesetimes.com/article/gaza...

Bookshop is having an Anti-Amazon sale, with cheap e-books and free shipping for print today and tomorrow: bookshop.org/lists/ebook-...

A student in my publishing course is interested in researching book pulping and book recycling. Do we know any work or introductory material in this area? (Work on remainders, print runs, supply chain, raw materials all relevant, too.)

Translated and edited by Tayseer Abu Odeh and Sherah Bloor and guest edited by Jorie Graham, You Must Live compiles recent work from 30 poets living in Gaza and the West Bank. The challenges of publishing it were immense.

People of Illinois, we need your help. Get your cell phones out – record what you see. Put it on social media. Peacefully ask for badge numbers and identification. Speak up for your neighbors. We need to let the world know this is happening – and that we won’t stand for it.

When we talk about fundraising for people in Gaza it is about survival, it is about getting out of the worst circumstances. We rarely discuss their dreams, hope, for rebuilding? What lives will be lived if the bombs were to stop falling tomorrow? Alaa is asking for support for her future

Indie director Barbara Marques has been kidnapped by ICE. She is legally married to a U.S. citizen & was at a green card mtg when she was abducted and prevented from seeing her lawyer. Her husband Tucker May does not know where she is. Please spread the word so he can find her /1

Absolutely outrageous to say that a uni’s academic press doesn’t serve its undergraduates. Non-profit university presses support and sustain a scholarly and intellectual system THAT MAKES TEACHING UNDERGRADUATES POSSIBLE. No presses? no fields of study, no professors, no college.

a lot of people don’t realize what a gift it is to receive. just to be receptive to what others have to offer. to what others bring into relation. that too is generosity in action.

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

From ‘The Rain In The Trees’ (1987) —W.S. Merwin #poetry #poem #poems

Do any of the professors or journalists or teachers also get their jobs back or nah

One of my favorite poems since childhood, and a poem I share every #autumnequinox. By the 12thc warrior poet Xin Qiji 辛棄疾, sidelined during peacetime, demoted, drifting through a decade of minor posts in remote lands. Poetry, then, is that which is left unsaid. “My, what a cool and lovely autumn.”

“CBP has never stopped operating its drones on behalf of other federal, state, and local agencies, including ICE,” EFF’s @jenlynch.bsky.social told @404media.co. “In fact, the program has expanded exponentially since EFF first reported on it in 2012.”

Yes, here's how to start a book ⚡⚡ @sophiadahlin.bsky.social GLOVE MONEY (Nightboat Books)

It’s official (again): Climate change is real, it’s caused by us, and it’s dangerous The science isn’t new www.politico.com/news/2025/09...

I've built a machine that can be Confidently Wrong. It can also make pictures that all look a bit the same, as well as make a video of you kissing any celebrity or person you know. In payment, I'd like to boil the world's oceans dry, & steal all literature. For some reason, my head is not on a spike

So if I understand it, the mere words “from the river to the sea” are definitely a call to genocide against Israel, while Israel actively blocking a Palestinian state, building 700K illegal settlements, & committing actual genocide of the Palestinian people is not.🤔 The vile & deadly hypocrisy.

I have been saying this for 3 years now; it is evident from even a theorerical understanding of these systems' operations. But ppl keep claiming it's not true or not important, or could be patched over, & so I keep hoping each time an "AI" company CEO comes out & admits will be the one that sticks

I hope you all stay safe tonight and tomorrow is a better day

When I was placed on the Professor Watchlist in 2021, people sent death threats about my children. I had security officers monitor my 8yo at school. Where is all the outrage for those of us who have been targeted for years? Where is the outrage for our families? My own colleagues are silent.

Not Raritan too! Sad times for little magazines 😢 raritanquarterly.rutgers.edu/editors-note...

Why is it “if you can't pay rent, buy fewer lattes” and not “if you can't pay your employees a living wage, buy fewer yachts”?

"I just want to say, go birds, fuck ICE and free Palestine," "Hacks" star Hannah Einbinder at the #Emmys

“Kirk & I were on different sides of most political arguments. We were on the same side of the continued possibility of American politics.” So it’s personal? B/c if you were a Black woman or transgender, Kirk would not imagine you having any role in the future of American politics.

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

Whatever the Trump administration may claim, anti-doxxing laws apply to revealing private information publicly, NOT to recording police officers conducting law enforcement activity from a safe distance, EFF’s Sophia Cope told @Bloomberg.com. www.bloomberg.com/news/articl...

ICE reactivated its contract with spyware manufacturer Paragon Solutions. You can read more about it here, but what does that mean for using encrypted chat apps like Signal? 🧵(1/8)

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California. Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Know your rights, Illinois. Stay safe and stay informed.

More: - Tiffany Aching, Pratchett - Prydain, Alexander (great as a pre-LOTR series imo) - Dark Is Rising, Cooper - His Dark Materials (hits real hard for weirdo smart kids) - Graceling, Cashore (I mistakenly read them in order 1-3-2 and actually might recommend that) - Queen’s Thief, Turner

only so many words you can put in a headline but the whole response is loud and proud support for the trans community and worth reading

THEY VOTED TO RESTORE THE IMLS FUNDING. This isn't the end. It's nowhere near the end. But the House and Senate subcommittees voted to restore the IMLS in their budget markups. Full House budget markup is tomorrow.

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I lack trust and confidence in anyone who says “fascism” here and now in the US, but couldn’t say “genocide” then and there about Gaza, or can’t say it now.

Law enforcement have a lot of tools when it comes to accessing your personal information, which is why the sites and apps you use need to know the law– and when to push back. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Just in: Anthropic has settled an AI copyright lawsuit brought by book authors. A judge had recently granted portions of the suit class-action status, raising the possibility of billions in statutory damages. I reached out to Anthropic, but they declined to comment or disclose the terms.

It sounds naive, I'm sure, but looking back over the last 20-odd years of discussions about what is wrong with academia and how or how not to fix it, the idea that scholars produce knowledge (not just jobs, tech, or texts), and that that is an important social good, is largely and strikingly absent.

Do not accept the premise that education is to blame for abysmal jobs outcomes. “The fantasy economy's framing of economic inequality… focuses exclusively on education…deflects attention away from decades of public policies and changing business practices that have…contributed to stagnating wages”

If nothing saves us from death, at least love should save us from life. ~Pablo Neruda

EXPOSED AGAIN: Flock's not only sharing your license plate info with police, their AI is flagging what it considers ’suspicious behavior’ to police as well. Think about what this means for black + brown people who are actively being targeted by the surveillance state : www.aclu.org/news/nationa...

Ireland could soon ban all trade with illegal settlements, but is being bullied by Washington to give up. Sign the petition — and show Ireland the world is behind this! action.eko.org/a/ireland-pa...

Column: The Corporation for Public Broadcast is ‘winding down.’ What does that mean for public radio and TV? I talk with media studies professor and public media expert Josh Shepperd for an explainer. In short, it's dire Gift 🔗

New Sumerian myth just dropped

We're delighted to share this breathtaking essay by poet Han Vanderhart, author of the prizewinning book, Larks: www.poetryfoundation.org/articles/170... @hanvanderhart.bsky.social @poetryfoundation.bsky.social

I’m honored to be part of the 50th-anniversary issue of Hampden-Sydney Poetry Review, including this rondelet written during azalea time & from the midst of morning sickness (Scented trash bags are an abomination whether one is already nauseated or not.) Thanks to editor @longrules.bsky.social 💚💚

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