Nobody cares about the victims in the Dallas ICE shooting apparently. The first I've heard about one of them was on CNN today. He's fighting for his life in the hospital --- he was brought to the US when he was 13. He's 33 now. No criminal record. I just don't know what to say anymore.

I have approximately zero following on this app, sharing in the hopes it can get in front of the right person. A man I went to college with’s wife was kidnapped by ICE at a green card hearing, and he’s trying to find a reporter who will speak to him about the situation

A man was just chased and arrested outside of the Broadview ICE facility in Chicago. When legal observers from the National Lawyers Guild asked why, an agent threatened to arrest them too.

"When ICE grabbed Rodney, he was in the process of receiving new prosthetic legs. The detention centre is refusing to let him have a day pass to go get them, so his health is declining."

yes. academic freedom =/= freedom of speech. the latter is being able to say whatever you want w/o government censure. the former is using expert, professional judgment to follow your evidence-based research where the evidence leads.

Werner Herzog has set up an instagram account and it's everything I hoped for.

WOULD YOU LOOK AT THIS PROGRAMME 🤩 And more excitement to come in 2026 as well. I often get driven to despair about the health of #earlymodern studies because of how it's deemed 'not useful' and 'unpopular in recruitment' and then I see just how much brilliant and varied work we do despite all that

“I’m emotionally shellshocked right now,” said one professor in the Texas Tech system. “What does it say about academic freedom? It says we don’t have it.” www.nytimes.com/2025/09/26/u...

There are credible reports that federal agents may be replaying the 2020 playbook and surging into Portland with the goal of provoking conflict and violence in my hometown. I am in close contact with state and local officials to monitor this activity.

ICE is firing pellets and pepper balls at journalists in Broadview outside Chicago today, but they're local journalists so it feels like the national media will not care at all. I hope I'm wrong.

33 years in the US, mistreated, deported. Cases like hers highlight the bankruptcy of our political establishment that for decades left millions of immigrants in a legal limbo. Trump's actions are appalling, but they're possible because we let our own institutions and procedures fall into paralysis.

If I met her, I'd call her Biji or Chaiji, out of respect for an elderly woman. These things matter. That she was denied a bed, toilet paper, water for meds and—as a devout Sikh—vegetarian food fills me with sadness and futile anger. 1/

I appreciated this piece (its existence, not its content), bc it was a rare attempt by someone in the Trump admin to try to earnestly explain their policy. The plainly embarrassing failure of the argumentation tells us why Trump’s people usually go a different route (stonewalling, name-calling)

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Puts me in mind of Hitler's plans for grandiose, overbuilt Berlin after Germany won the war.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

The richest man on earth owns X. The second richest man on earth is about to be a major owner of TikTok. The third richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp. The fourth richest man owns The Washington Post. See the problem here?

old boys gonna old boy. choose not to be an old boy. be the gadfly that bites the old boys, because the examined life is worth living.

Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov, who last week called for an end to the war during a London concert, was arrested at a demonstration on the Gaza border against the war. “Stop the genocide. It’s ruining everything. Stop it now.”

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Isaac Oliver, c. 1565-1617. Elizabeth, Queen of Bohemia (1596-1662) when Princess Elizabeth in 1613 (Royal Collection, HM CIII)

Vivaldi: just a classic fade pls Bach: business in the right hand, party in the left

Did we all take organic chemistry & the MCAT & miss the social part of our early 20’s and work 80 hours a week for 3+ years for the brain worm guy who doesn’t know what a p-value is to destroy our nation’s public health system? No. Time to lean into our expertise and speak up.

You don’t say. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

theocracies are scary and incompatible with democracy

my urge to subtweet is very strong today, thank you, corporate university, but I am resisting it, also thank you, corporate university

Carmina figurata: text written in the form of a king #RoshHashanah BL Oriental 2733; Mahzor for Rosh ha-Shanah, Franco-German rite; 14th century; France; f.51r

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

What happens when the people empowered to make decisions about how to use library space are people whose research or teaching has never taken them into the stacks? 1/

Canadians don't have rights. We have privileges that can be revoked at the drop of a hat by rightwing perverts who are obsessed with the genitals of children.

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

ok that statistic is… oof. also I just had a nice conversation with an older lady while we were waiting in line where she asked me about the book I was reading (Icelandic murder mystery, it’s fine). it’s nice to read and nice to talk to people about books!

I thought The Onion was satire.

what if the problem is the preponderance of billionaire “leaders” in government, media, industry, & academia what if our basic rights can’t be entrusted to any of them WHAT THEN

this is so ignorant and anti-reality, wtf is wrong with people—do we need a massive walkout of healthcare professionals?

The @aaup.org just shared guidance for academic workers on how to protect themselves online www.aaup.org/news/advisor...

You know what else is being affected by the tariffs on parcels worth less than $800? International interlibrary loan. I'm hearing reports of libraries overseas that won't lend to the US anymore. (That's in addition to the libraries here that have shut down their ILL b/c of lost IMLS funding.)

Yeah okay but they seldom make history

oh no point well taken but now this elder millennial is thinking of that terrible Joan Osborne song

Nuns behaving badly www.bbc.com/news/article... ❤️

Look what just dropped in Music Theory Spectrum! [my partner and hero to all dogs large, mid-sized, and tiny] August works on Marx and Weber, just not *that* Marx or *that* Weber, but hear me out NO LESS CONSEQUENTIAL 🤓 (accessible under Advance articles here: academic.oup.com/mts ). Very proud!

Look what just dropped in Music Theory Spectrum! [my partner and hero to all dogs large, mid-sized, and tiny] August works on Marx and Weber, just not *that* Marx or *that* Weber, but hear me out NO LESS CONSEQUENTIAL 🤓 (accessible under Advance articles here: academic.oup.com/mts ). Very proud!

"When a student silences a faculty member by applying the president’s definition of gender to faculty speech, that is a transgression of academic freedom." ACLS President Joy Connolly responds to censorship on campus, focusing on the recent firing of a professor at Texas A&M: bit.ly/3KgFuuH

Not only is this coming for you, it is here and we are collectively behind in preparing.

Statement from the University President. Note that his stated reason for firing the Dean, department and now the professor is that the content of the course differed from the published curriculum, and thus, “This is not an issue of academic freedom.” president.tamu.edu/messages/an-...

If you click through to the video, you’ll hear a young woman repeatedly telling a college professor that President Trump has declared that what the Professor had been teaching is illegal and she’ll be meeting with the head of the university about it. It’s chilling and scary.

The statement by the president is predictably unprincipled and cowardly.

I love Chicago so much—not a day goes by* that I don't miss its leafy side streets, never-ending blocks, its big friendliness, and look at these good people out marching to protect their city *except every day of February when I thank my stars I live where I do not feel my nostril hairs freezing

i believe as a musicologist with 3 degrees, i am qualified and credentialed to say this is the best-ever use of vivaldi

Historical Musicology opening in Würzburg* for scholars with research specialties in music of the 18th–21st centuries & capacity to work with the instrument & media collection. What an opportunity! *delightful Latinized in the medieval/early modern period as Herbipolis 🌿