BIG NEWS this morning! medium.com/@TheRefoundi...

This is why we need @baltimorebeat.bsky.social.

📣 In this short essay, I describe how actions of the current administration constitute ➡️ state terrorism ⬅️ and outline how US universities (and professors and students and staff) can survive state terrorism, as people before us have survived. academeblog.org/2025/08/05/h...

“The thought of losing that history, particularly in this political moment, was devastating.” www.niemanlab.org/2025/07/miss...

The “deal” that Brown made with the Trump admin is much more extreme than is being reported. It includes government oversight of course evaluations and no barrier to government interference in faculty hiring. Read it for yourself here: www.brown.edu/sites/defaul...

"ChatGPT is great for brainstorming!" Actually we have a tool for that already! It's called thinking. We use our brain. It's called brainstorming! Clue is in the name.

going to keep saying: important for a society that would like to keep functioning to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

Super proud of this pub with an excellent mentor and collaborator @sjjphd.bsky.social Read this, and then make sure to read "News Inside" from @themarshallproject.org, too!

"I Do Solemnly Swear": Audio Series Highlights Federal Workers' Voices on Trump's Unraveling of Gov't

"I don't have the power to cover media anymore. My body is lean and I no longer have the ability to walk” www.aa.com.tr/en/middle-ea...

NEW from me: after EPA announced it would officially do away with its scientific research arm Friday, officials at the Office of Research and Development had few answers for employees on a Monday call about how many of them will be reassigned to other offices—and how many will lose their jobs

Here's a new @media2070.bsky.social essay published by The Objective‬ that provides an overview of the role the FCC has played in undermining the 14th Amendment/equal protection rights of Black/marginalized communities since its inception, reinforcing racial hierarchy. @freepress.bsky.social

Breaking news: Federal immigration officers may deport immigrants with as little as six hours’ notice to countries other than their own, even without assurances that the arrivals will be safe from persecution or torture, a top official said.

i am only through the first section of this (highly anticipated!) paper by my dear friend Anj but wow i wanna make all y'all read this!!!!! modern journalism centers whiteness above all else bc it *always* has!!!!!!

📚📖 my newest article, entitled “truth-making, slavery and advertising in anglo-american newspapering” is now available from the journal of alternative and community media! @asc.upenn.edu intellectdiscover.com/content/jour...

What looks like an amazing book by a brilliant Indigenous scholar is on sale through the link below (and blurbed by the greats @hiokinai.bsky.social Hi'i Hobart and @brdemuth.bsky.social Bathsheba Demuth). Arctic governance and colonial administration are the most fascinating topics!

it’s absurd that NYT forced him to delete these skeets, which … convey the factual information that Zohran Mamdani is, in fact, a man of South Asian descent who was born and raised in Africa, and that the pseudonymous source of the hacked material is a white supremacist eugenicist.

With this vote, Congress makes ICE the highest-funded federal law enforcement agency in history, with more money per year at its disposal over the next four years than the budgets of the FBI, DEA, ATF, US Marshals, and Bureau of Prisons combined.

If you think trans people are a danger to anyone and not fascists and patriarchs and billionaires and bullies and zealots, or think universities don’t have power to resist, you are being manipulated by the bad guys or you are choosing the wrong side of history, that’s it.

In light of the news on my first day of sabbatical: gender is a social construct, trans women are women, no amount of complying with authoritarians who pretend they will only strip some people but not you of rights will keep you safe. And in 2025 university administrators should know all of that.

"...24.6 million people in Sudan facing acute food insecurity —nearly half the population, according to the Integrated Food Security Phase Classification. Aid workers say the war spiked market prices, limited aid delivery, and shrunk agricultural lands" apnews.com/article/suda...

“It is critical that police officers be better prepared for such contacts, so that the individuals in crisis and the officers, family members, and other individuals responding to it are not at risk of further traumatization from the act of seeking help." baltimorebeat.com/citys-crisis...

Israel closes the most direct route for aid to Palestinians in Gaza

I wrote this, the procrastinator’s delight. enjoy and go VOTE:

Rümeysa Öztürk wrote an op-ed critical of the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. She was arrested by ICE and was in detention for six weeks. This white nationalist student wrote a paper that argued the Constitution applies only to white people. He won an award.

Words fail me. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/u...

"i asked chatgpt" yeah well i went to the doctor, i went to the mountains, i looked to the children, i drank from the fountains there's more than one answer to these questions pointing me in a crooked line and the less I seek my source for some definitive closer I am to fine

Dig! @astra.bsky.social interviews @ryannliebenthal.bsky.social, @chenjerai.bsky.social, @millennialdebt.bsky.social on Ryann's Burdened: Student Debt and the Making of an American Crisis. How we got individualized student debt instead of socialized higher ed for all. thedigradio.com/podcast/stud...

Grateful that Brad Lander is using his experience to highlight the biggest outrage; that ICE is re-arresting people who have been 100% compliant with ICE and the courts, with the goal of unlawfully stripping them of a court hearing to juice Stephen Miller's deportation numbers.

"A reporter from @thecity.nyc had overheard one agent say to another minutes before Lander’s arrest, 'Do you want to arrest the Comptroller?'"

While Mike Lee and Steve Daines' Senate Natural Resources Committee amendment to the budget reconciliation package mandates the sale of up to 3.3 million acres of public land, what most people miss is that it also authorizes the sale of 258 million acres. That's 40 percent of all public land:

'The artificial intelligence boom means the Environment Agency has no idea how much water England will be short of in future decades, as datacentres do not have to report how much they are using to cool their servers.' Maybe the policy of 'turbocharging' AI everywhere & all the time needs thought?

At least 45 Palestinians killed in Gaza waiting for food trucks, says health ministry

*so* grateful to have gotten to share space at #ica25 and talk about capitalism and race. the energy was so great in the room. thank you to my fellow presenters for the crucial work you do. @desfreedman.bsky.social @victorpickard.bsky.social @hesmondthing.bsky.social + Mabu Li!!

Authorities said surveillance footage from a Minnesota lawmaker's home showed the shooting suspect repeatedly ringing the doorbell and shouting: "This is the police. We have a warrant." Follow the latest updates:

I'm aggressively reposting this because thousands upon thousands are hitting the streets this week, and it's an excellent time to help people connect their politicization and rage to ongoing movement work — and expand their view of our power in this moment! if you're protesting tmr, worth a read?

The mayor of Newark, New Jersey, accused the facility of "withholding food" and "poor treatment" of detainees.

This is how white supremacist narratives work. This claim has been litigated repeatedly and proven to be NOT TRUE. But they “feel it.” You can’t disprove it. The Lost Cause. Reverse Discrimination. Welfare Queens. The whole thing survives on myths. www.yahoo.com/news/vice-pr...

Have you looked at images of Gaza on Google Maps? You should | Arwa Mahdawi

In THE TROUBLE OF COLOR, I wrote about the poetic justice of the fire that destroyed the plantation where my great grandmother was once held enslaved. Nottoway reminded me that sites of slavery’s crimes against humanity still stand all around in Baltimore. www.thebaltimorebanner.com/opinion/colu...

🎧 New Podcast Drop! @dassarma.bsky.social and James Salanga highlight the queer and disability justice movements that challenge the ableism shaping journalism. Listen here: bit.ly/4jnYyDu @asc.upenn.edu

"The disaster relief agency ... has lost roughly 30% of its full-time staff to layoffs and DOGE buyouts, including some if its most experienced and knowledgeable senior leadership..." via @cnn.com

🚨 “A child born in one state would be considered a citizen, while a child born the same day in another might not.” 🚨

"Surveillance Humanitarianism": As Gaza Starves, U.S.-Israeli Plan Would Further Weaponize Food

Congratulations to doctoral candidate @kateokkeredging.bsky.social on winning the 2025 James D. Woods Award, given to an Annenberg graduate student for outstanding teaching! Read more about Kate and her excellence in the classroom: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

BREAKING: Court orders Georgetown scholar Badar Khan Suri to be *freed* from ICE detention. Dr. Khan Suri — whose research focuses on peace building — was detained by the Trump administration two months ago. Follows the freeing of Mohsen Mahdawi & Rumeysa Ozturk.

new podcast out with @hashtagjames.bsky.social for @ascmediarisk.org + @asc.upenn.edu !! in this pod, james expertly spoke to the intersections between journalism and resistance in queer, disability, and anti-colonial movements. listen here: www.ascmediarisk.org/media/disabi...

And now Mayor Baraka is out!!!

Trump news at a glance: children targeted in immigration crackdown