Coming from Upstate NY, this ICE falling on ice video really touches my heart!

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

Never knew I would post so much about a Pope but he does offer a welcome contrast to our current administration and their denial of the heterogeneity and nuance that actually makes the U.S. an interesting place...Here, an article about his Creole, multiracial background...

The world is burning, but Dying for Sex is such a gorgeous and tender exploration of friendship and kind and sex in the face of death. What more could you ask for in a show?

Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.

Terrifying!

Sharing one last time: "to the extent that any of this is about the safety of Jews, it’s not about safety for all Jews. It’s not even really about the safety of some Jews because they are Jews, but rather because they adhere to a certain political or ideological program." forward.com/opinion/7109...

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass. Philip K. Dickens

I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.

"A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by ICE...in the tiny hometown of...“border czar”, Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.” “Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’” www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I don't know if it was thinking about the current state of the world or the play's topic--a woman exploring her dead mother's past in the women's movement-but the audience was weeping by the end of the gorgeous Liberation. I guess theater can still do Aristotelian catharsis like no other medium.

Hiding from the horrors of higher ed with a short trip to NYC to eat all the oysters and see all the plays like the cosmopolitan Jewess that I am.

How do we stay in higher ed and watch our students lose their visa status and face deportation?

80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimation of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway). Corey Booker is doing a good job though!

Please sign if you are a Columbia or Barnard alum and feel as I do: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

I feel like this stems from the fundamental mistrust of expertise and education represented by Trump and his supporters. Both the "drain the swamp" and the anti-higher education rhetoric come from the same twisted root. The result: people who do not know how to protect our national security.

We need these principles even more today than we did in 2016.

‘I Messed Up At Work Again,’ Crestfallen Michael Waltz Texts Wife, National Geographic Editorial Staff

Barack Obama finally showing up on Bluesky in order to talk about the ACA rather than the fascist takeover of our country is a little too on point for the Democratic response to the moment

This is America in 2025. This is who we are.

every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now

If there's one thing that domestic violence research has taught me, it's that abusers set up no-win scenarios. They punish you whether you cooperate with them or whether you push back. The only way out is to strengthen ties with people outside of the relationship who can create new, better options.

I feel so much safer from anti-Semitism now. Don't you?

This is a PhD student in *epidemiology*

The Handmaid's Tale is beginning to look like a utopia compared to the U.S.

The courts are the only thing standing between us and utter tyranny right now. The Dems need to help! Get rid of @schumer.senate.gov, who is so terrified of being called a "Palestinian" by Trump that he will go against his own party's interests.

Got a printer? You can start fighting fascism. Here's a thread of things you can print and distribute. 👇 I promise doing something--even this--feels better than raging silently. And maybe it'll show you that standing up is possible and open you up to more things you can do.

Tarot card deck from Leonara Carrington. Want!

Great account of what is going on with the extrajudicial kidnapping of Mahmoud Khalil by Marianne Hirsch, the amazing scholar of the Holocaust, memory, and visual culture:

If they can target Mahmoud Khalil’s First Amendment rights, they can target yours. The whole point of the First Amendment is that it protects speech – even if it’s unpopular or you don’t like what they have to say.

Dear fellow Jewish people: Do not let ethnonationalism and a sentimental preoccupation with Israel as synechdochic for all Jewishness lead you to suspend all your values. We cannot let Jewishness be weaponized to support fascism.

One of my favorites! Happy belated anniversary to Metropolis, one of the greatest silent films made at the edge of the talkie era.

Yes, yes, my useless ones, please start turning on each other (*drumming fingertips together with a maniacal cackle*)

Using a Black child with brain cancer as a prop...and to promote law enforcement. By far the most vile moment of this hideous evening. The same MAGA that tries to ban DEI and says black people come from "shithole countries" and promotes white supremacist conspiracies. Vile. #StateOfTheUnion

Next up in the US's downward slide via Drumpf: Widespread blackouts!

I’m both dismayed and frankly terrified by the number of well informed and smart people who are witnessing the Nazi-billionaire fascist takeover of their own country yet unable or unwilling to say literally any of these words and call a thing a thing.

A beautiful, sad, and deeply American story--from the AR-15s to the utter disregard for educators. What if we had a government run for and by the Ms. Schamis' of the world instead of for and by insecure little men who pursue power through violence and terror?

Ooh la la! This looks promising.

This manual is everything. Bartleby as verb! www.france24.com/en/americas/...

Ohio is going to be next if SB1/HB6 passes...

it seems one of the stated purposes of capping overhead on NIH grants at 15% by those who champion the cap is to starve PhD programs in the humanities www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

your identity in a capitalist society

I am having a bizarre nostalgia for art I loved during the 1990s, a time before Donald Trump's presidency could even be imagined (except by The Simpsons). The last few days, I have been thinking particularly of Barton Fink, which broke my brain. Anyone else want to wallow in Barton Fink?