I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

3: White folks, PLEASE remember that Latines can also be white or white adjacent. Whiteness (as a social position) is VERY important to many Latines and they will eagerly enforce their power over Indigenous and Black people in particular. Again, see any Latin American country. 7/

The denial of tenure was never about scholarship. It was a retaliatory move from @texastechlib.bsky.social to send a chilling message: dissent that threatens institutional power will be punished. Shame on Ron Hendrick, Brendon Creighton, Lawrence Schovanec turned tenure into a political tool!

solidarity with Jairo and all colleagues who use their voice to challenge colonial logics and legacies in the very universities that we work and teach in. Jairo's case reminds us that job offers and tenure decisions are not objective assessments but political decisions.

Wealth inequality is a growing issue in Canada and our tax system must be overhauled to tax high-end wealth and capital income more effectively in order to benefit the public good, shows a new report by Silas Xuereb & Alex Hemingway

The Tumbler Ridge newspaper puts it better than I could

ICE killed a teacher in Georgia today when they chose to chase a man who posed no danger and had no criminal history.

white people work so hard. even their restaurants are open on chinese new year

you can really blow some minds with “actually there was an entire library and research institute for queer / trans history, science and medicine founded by a Jewish sexologist but the Nazis destroyed it in the hopes of exactly this outcome, ie future generations not believing trans people are real”

Austerity is a choice. Choosing to label it something else is also a choice. Bad choices are being made.

This talk about fertility rates in Canada will morph into control of women’s bodies. If you can’t convince women (eg through tax incentives) to have babies then eventually you’ll have to force them. That is one of the intended consequences of reducing the immigration rate to 0

Devastating statistics on racism in universities in Australia. FWIW I wish it said 'Indigiphobia' (or something) instead of 'experience' to describe racism against mob. Less mollifying terms are needed in a title that also describes Islamaphobia and Antisemitism. humanrights.gov.au/resource-hub...

Sex work is work. Solidarity to these workers as they unionize. And kudos to my @wbng.org parent union, @cwaunion.bsky.social, for supporting the organizing. www.cbsnews.com/news/sex-wor...

been a minute since I’ve posted The Manifesto so: trans and disabled rights are human rights, abolish ice and defund the police, free Palestine, fuck antisemitism, give the land and artefacts back, sex work is work, abortion is healthcare, join your union, get your vaccines, corgis are perfect

CANADA / MEXICO: Steelworkers plan parallel trip to Mexico during labour-excluded “Team Canada” trade mission usw.ca/labour-trade...

AUSTRALIA: Thousands of early education workers get big win in push for 30 per cent pay rise au.finance.yahoo.com/news/thousan...

Martes de Radio Ambulante 🇵🇷 🥊 En 1980, Estados Unidos llamó a boicotear las Olimpiadas de Moscú. Pero en Puerto Rico, el joven boxeador Alberto Mercados no dudó: nada le impediría representar a su país. Hoy traemos este episodio de la nueva temporada de La Brega: radioambulante.org/audio/la-bre...

"That was a long yawn" LOLOLLLLLL

Julie Minich, the secretary of the American Association of University Professors at UT Austin: “I just never could have imagined that the university would effectively cut off one of its crown jewels.” www.kvue.com/article/news...

I. AM. SOMEBODY. ✊🏽 Rest in Power, Reverend Jesse Jackson. youtu.be/NTVwT3j_zqY?...

Also, nobody is holding back when it comes to how much the Trump government is not getting a presumption of regularity. Here is how Judge Rufe's decision on Trump's attempt to erase history starts:

As of this morning, only one of the men who was standing on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel that fateful evening is still living. Since Brother Jesse passed at 84 this morning.

Prof. David Widder: “learning about controversial issues yields courageous + careful thinkers. Professors should be encouraged rather than dissuaded from discussing difficult topics.…I urge the Board of Regents to…reject this unnecessary + destructive proposal.” 👏 www.statesman.com/opinion/colu...

Chronic pain is disability. So to everybody out there in pain all the time, you're disabled. I know we keep our chronic pain to ourselves because no one wants to hear about it & do our best to manage. But if it affects your day to day functionality, you're a disabled person.

My father reminded me this morning of a Jesse Jackson quote (paraphrased I'm sure) that we should put the human race above the arms race. Sadly an evergreen statement.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Absolutely. Here's from the weekend.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Strong read on the logistics of concentration camps & what actually rolling one out entails and what we can expect of DHS's mass purchase of warehouses to hold thousands of people each.

An adjudicator's ruling merely confirms what was already obvious. The UCP gov't broke its own laws and went to great lengths to avoid disclosing politically unfavourable public records. Taxpayers paid for these records; they do not belong to a party. #ableg edmontonjournal.com/news/politic...

So far every day this week I've been thinking that tomorrow is Saturday. I'm not disappointed that it's only Tues (I have a lot left to do this week!) but it's very disorienting and I have to keep changing my plans when I realize it's not Friday. This happened several times yesterday and today! :(

Friends from Minneapolis reporting to me that things are at the point where folks are being hidden in other people's houses and we are in the "again" part of "never again" which the "never" was supposed to preclude

Alt text: Screen shot of "Customer Service Chat" with "amazon.com" at the bottom of the screen. key text: user: "I bought what I thought was a secure device. It is not. I refuse to let Amazon sell my footage so ICE can kidnap brown people in my community." agent: "I understand your concern. ...

If you have a ring camera, it is possible to return it and get a refund, and looking into doing so might be well worth your time. bsky.app/profile/tris...

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

As we celebrate Black History Month, recognize that Black Catholic history is Catholic history, that black people have been part of the Catholic church from the beginninng, that the Catholic church is shaped by and has benefited greatly from African spirituality. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmgz...

The officer who murdered Philando Castile wore a body cam and faced 0 real consequences for it.

It's officially up on the youtube

Agreed. And his framing of it as being about training is classic. That line of thinking leads to increased funding, because training costs money. He’s completely missing the mark.

I was there when Homeland Security was created and that is NOT the point of homeland security

Trumpians who praise ICE (and denigrate its victims) but also support the J6 seditionists' assault on Capitol police officers are not being inconsistent or hypocritical. Here's why: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/renee-good-ashli-babbitt-fascism

Rest in power to Keith Porter who was murdered by an ICE agent in Los Angeles. It’s terrible that his name is just now being circulated, but now that it is, continue to say his name.

And this is all possible thanks to the Patriot Act, which could have been voted against by democrats, which could have been repealed by democrats.

The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement with the players’ association expire at midnight tonight. The league and the union have yet to reach a deal. New York Liberty star and WNBPA vice president Breanna Stewart says the players won’t agree to another extension.

First week of class, first office hours, and a student came to ask a question! This semester is already a success as far as I'm concerned :)

Today marks 15 years since Gabby Giffords was shot at a constituent meeting, in an attack that killed 6 and wounded 13. I am proud to cosponsor a bipartisan, bicameral resolution to honor the victims and their families today, and recommit to ending gun and political violence.

COMING SOON: With our very necessary, very productive hiatus very nearly over, we're very close to releasing the first podcast episode in what'll be an all-new 'mini-series.' Details to come, but here's a clue: it draws a lot on the work of renowned scholar Aileen Moreton-Robinson!

No es Venezuela, es toda Latinoamérica y un nuevo orden fascista mundial: Trump vaticina que Cuba “está a punto de caer” y amenaza a Colombia por tercera vez en un mes. elpais.com/internaciona...

The geopolitical ecology of mining: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Charlie Angus - Lessons from Venezuela. #cdnpoli "As soon as I began to drop the F-bomb (fascism) in public I found myself ghosted by Canada’s national media. It has been almost a year that I was last invited on one of the CBC or CTV panel discussions." open.substack.com/pub/charliea...