Two young boys were locked up inside ICE's notorious detention center in Texas. Then Ms. Rachel shared their stories.

This new @chronicle.com piece largely tries to summarize faculty responses to a survey about grades and worries about grades and academic standards. I have a lot I could say about it, but I really want to make one particular point about trustworthy sources. www.chronicle.com/article/the-... 1/x

A new investigation has reportedly backed up evidence given by a woman who has accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13.

Since the headline is a bit confusing, the NYT is reporting that on the same day we hit the girl's school in Minab, we also sent a missile full of tungsten steel pellets at a girl's volleyball tournament hundreds of miles away in Lamerd. Twenty one dead. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/29/w...

This entire medical team was murdered in an Israeli double-tap attack yesterday. 2 journalists 7 paramedics 1 Lebanese soldier After hitting Ali Shoeib’s (Lebanese journalist who covered Israeli war crimes for 30 years) car, Israel targeted the responding medics as they arrived to save him.

The refusal to acknowledge or to do anything about the complicity of archaeology with this violence is why I won't participate in the @asor-research.bsky.social meeting again this year. #BoycottASOR

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

I have been informed by a reliable source that another person has died in ICE custody, this one in Adelanto. If true, it would be the 14th detained death this year, the 43rd under the Trump II, and the 4th at Adelanto. I'll share more info as available at austinkocher.substack.com.

Our latest instalment of the #PeoplingBlog, features the exciting pedagogical work of @egarcmol.bsky.social. Here, he takes us through his course “The Ancient World in Video Games” to highlight the value of bringing gaming into the modern university classroom: peoplingthepast.com/2026/03/27/b...

I am running London2Brighton 100km and raising money to support Step Forward - a youth centre in Tower Hamlets supporting queer, trans, and gender non-conforming youth - so important at a time when these vulnerable youth are under attack from almost everywhere! If you can, please donate and share!

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

There's always more than enough funding for police, and never enough funding for the things that could actually prevent crime.

Just an unbelievably horrifying headline.

😍 The one and only Hind Khoudary endorses @archagainstaparth.bsky.social's call to boycott ASOR! This is major. Here is the link to the post she hyperlinked in her ig story today everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2025/12/17/a...

🚨 NEW POST: Israeli Archaeology, Land Theft, and the ‘Greater Israel’ Project: The Case of al-Burnat (‘Ebal’) by @archagainstaparth.bsky.social everydayorientalism.wordpress.com/2026/03/20/i...

There are not enough expletives for every single human being who has voted to strip women of bodily autonomy. May you be accursed in your blood and eyes and every limb and have all of your intestines quite eaten away (Tab.Sulis 97)

"...there’s a kind of information literacy rarely taught: how to process information that fundamentally breaks you. There’s no framework for this particular crisis of meaning. There’s no protocol for “everything you believed was a story they told you.”"

Paktiawal survived the Taliban. He did not survive ICE. That contrast demands a reckoning, not just about one man's death, but about the system that produced it. My full analysis and the complete dataset of detention deaths is here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/ice-detent...

Mohammad Nazeer Paktiawal, 41, served alongside U.S. Army Special Forces in Afghanistan beginning in 2005. He was arrested by ICE on March 13, 2026, in front of his children. Less than 24 hours later, he was dead. This is his story, and why it matters. 🧵

The US is no longer a liberal democracy, according to the top global watchdog on freedom and democracy. We're falling fast, and are now classed the same as Guatemala, Colombia, and Peru www.v-dem.net/documents/75...

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

41 people have died in ICE detention since the start of the second Trump administration. 12 of those deaths have occurred since January 1, 2026, roughly one every six days. Adam Sawyer and I mapped every death. Here's what the data shows. 🧵

At least 56 museums, monuments and cultural sites in Iran have been damaged in US and Israeli strikes, according to the country’s heritage ministry.

Hilarious

We're seeing a "wave of mass displacement at a speed and scale unlike anything we've never seen before. That's telling given how many times the country has experienced displacement in the last 30 years alone," says Jad El Dilati who describes the situation since March 2.

"A representative from ICE was informed about the lock on the meter shortly after the sale of the property when she inquired about how to establish an account,” he said. “The lock is there until ICE indicates how water and sewer will be served w/out exceeding our limited infrastructure capacity.”

Latest casualty figures from #Lebanon’s Health Ministry. The dead include 111 children #Beirut

"This article describes the emergence of a novel form of capital—which I call 'cosine capital'—that finds objectified form in the 'embedding' structures of large language models." doi.org/10.1177/2053...

these people are psycopaths, who operate completely unchallenged. the idea that no one thought about the past or themselves before 1920 is fucking insane

Sweeping guilty verdicts in the federal Prairieland antifa cases. These cases were an effort by the Trump admin to prosecute anti-fascists as terrorists and further, prosecute dissent. This Texas trial was a test of his power. He won. This laid out the case and stakes: www.ms.now/news/antifa-...

Nice to see colleagues in college writing recognizing that gen AI in the classroom is neither inevitable nor necessarily beneficial--as the research increasingly shows, quite the reverse! www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

ICMYI: I broke down everything we know about what, specifically, Anthropic's Claude is & isn't doing inside Palantir tech used by the US military. For the story, I carefully reviewed every relevant demo & report that Palantir & the military have ever released: www.wired.com/story/palant...

687 is the death toll in Lebanon so far, and a huge oversight from most prominent media outlets as the majority are comforted by the IDF claims that this is exclusively directed at non-state armed groups and not a war of attrition that is meant to terrorise & incapacitate Leb's civilian population

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The whole "AI" industry is just based on the hope that they can deskill people fast enough that they'll have to rent back cognitive support systems. Forever. It's like Uber. Just that they don't try to break existing transportation infrastructures but your brain.

I can’t get over how Cultural Revolution the DOGE story is, these young people doing crimes they didn’t understand on behalf of a political leader

🚨 IOF TARGETS UNESCO SITE OF TYRE IN LEBANON Images from journalist Sophie Constantin's ig stories www.instagram.com/stories/pil_...

🏺🩸ETHNIC CLEANSING AND ARCHAEOLOGY IN LEBANON Earlier today, the director of the Israel Antiquities Authority posted a story earlier today with the caption "combining reserve duty in the north and a visit to excavations" www.instagram.com/stories/elie...

Not only did the US, per its own ‘intelligence,’ bomb this girls primary school, THEY BOMBED IT TWICE. www.reutersconnect.com/item/the-pri...

Essential read: a statement from Cardinal Cupich. www.archchicago.org/statement/-/...

This is a grim read www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Pretty serious allegation here. "Witnesses told the BBC that the Israeli soldiers had arrived disguised in Lebanese military fatigues and used ambulances with signs of Hezbollah's Islamic Health Organization." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

ANOTHER 🇮🇱🇺🇸 BOMBING NEXT TO A UNESCO SITE! Nothing sacred for the Epstein axis.

Read our newest post: Archaeology and heritage making: instruments to make the occupied West Bank a "Land without people"

Exclusive: US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on February 28 but have not yet reached a final conclusion or completed their investigation reut.rs/40b19JN

Not judging Germany by its history, but its current failure. How on god’s green earth did they put this man in the top position?!

an "apology" from a company currently valued at $730,000,000,000 that has foisted its ruinous tech irresponsibly upon all our systems seems like a coward's overhasty escape

I guess I didn’t wake up thinking I needed to know the names of the 279 named triremes ⛵️in the 4th century BCE Athenian navy, but it appears we all do. link.springer.com/article/10.1... I do like that 3.58% had animal names like Λεοντῆ (lion skin) and Λέαινα (lioness). Greek epigraphy is fun! 🪦