Today is "Large boulder the size of a small boulder" day!

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

This morning, I recorded a video on TikTok about why DHS’s arguments for the power to enter homes without judicial warrants in immigration cases are bunk. Nine hours later, TikTok still says my video is “under review,” and can’t be shared. Well, here’s a link: georgetown.box.com/v/Vladeck-IC...

Feds retreating up 27th followed by whistles and shouts of “Shame” detain 1, then another person going to their car.

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

The phrase “abundance of caution” (re:blizzard) gives me COVID flashbacks

Nasra Ahmed, a 23-year-old US citizen, was arrested and detained by ICE. She was held for TWO DAYS. ICE agents handcuffed her, called her a racial slur, and she was knocked to the ground so hard she got a concussion. This cannot continue happening. ICE needs to leave.

i hate it when i'm stressed out about something for days or weeks and then someone comes along and is like, "Hey, have you noticed this pit has a slowly descending pendulum?"

NEW: It's not just Jonathan Ross—or even the Trump administration. Over the past decade, US immigration agents have shot and killed at least 25 people. Not a single one appears to have faced criminal charges. @lilahassan.bsky.social reports: www.wired.com/story/why-ic...

LEAVITT: Why was Renee Good unfortunately and tragically killed? REPORTER: Because an ICE agent acted recklessly and killed her unjustifiably LEAVITT: Oh, ok. So you're a biased reporters with a biased opinion. You're a left-wing hack.

hell yeah. I'm going to eat a credit card right now www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Going on the reading list

U.S. citizen detained by ICE: “…they finally told me that they could offer undocumented family members of mine legal protection if I have any…or money, in exchange for giving them the names of protest organizers, or undocumented persons. I was shocked, and told them no.”

Editing a piece in which heated arguments (Franklin vs Nollet, Galvani vs Volta) feature and realizing they’re not only narratively important, these big arguments are also propelling the conceptual shifts

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

Interesting paraphrasing of Habermas & ref to the Frankfurt School.

Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG... www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...

A report published in a CDC journal reaffirms the effectiveness of COVID vaccines at preventing severe disease in children

Nobel Peace Prize Winner María Corina Machado’s escape from Venezuela was particularly risky because her team had to inform the US military that she was escaping so they wouldn’t mistake her boat for an alleged narco boat and bomb it. Full Story: bit.ly/3XJXIsh

"there's a new serif in town"

15/ Today we’ve published a deeply reported 5-part series. It’s about Albany, Georgia. It’s about getting sick in America. And it’s about what happens when the most powerful institution in town is a hospital.

Protest at OU after grad assistant placed on leave over controversial essay grade okcfox.com/news/local/p... #Oklahoma

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

OU has put the professor here on administrative leave:

Belated post: our traditional pie bonanza. I think vegan pumpkin was winning at this point

I'm no Luddite - far from it - but the ways in which in this development has been spoken of seem blind to, or completely uninterested in, what cannot be machine read and searched for: the pounce, sweat marks, soot, or wax; the non-semantic yet semiotically rich substrate that OCR strips away.

There are 50,000 food insecure children in Maine and 2 trans athletes. Every single candidate running for office who can drum up concern about the latter but has nothing to say about the former is telling on themselves. They don’t care about children. Only power. And they’ll hurt kids for it.

BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. 🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states. This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺

Excited to be cited in this excellent article on neurotech, ethics and law by Linda Kinstler Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/14/m...

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Fall falling at independence hall

Larry Summers being in the news reminds me of going off to undergrad in the wake of his presidency at Harvard when he’d argued that women were inherently less capable of science & math than men. That had such a huge, harmful impact on impressionable and naive undergrad me!

If only a major voice and leading organization in education hadn't partnered with OpenAI and become part of their propaganda for further expansion without regulation... Oh wait.

“to die, to sneep; to sneep, perchance to dream—for in that sneep of death what dreams may come, when we have shuffned off this mortan coin, must give us pause, there's the respect, that makes canamity of so nong nife” - hamnet

JD Vance owns a company that buys American real estate and sells it to foreign investors. They specifically target Americans in crisis to buy their property for less than it is worth.

I have to tell you what really happened to the plums... Elise New seems to have offered them to Woody Allen in exchange for his involvement with her edX MOOC. One creepy slimey scammy thing after another in those files. (via splendorous-chaja-f79791.netlify.app)

A bit of poignant news! The Penny Dies at 232 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/b...

This is far worse than anyone expected. Trump's HUD plan would cut *two-thirds* of permanent housing and push as many as 170,000 formerly homeless people back onto the street—redirecting funds to work mandates, forced treatment, and encampment sweeps. All as mass internment camps are being built.

Why does Clarissa, the largest Penguin, not simply eat the other Penguins?

Just finished @adambunch.bsky.social ‘s beautiful and densely researched book Toronto Book of Love, after savoring one chapter per night for months. This book is an absolute blessing, thank you Adam!

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD!! The University of Texas-Austin is beginning a process to eliminate the Black Studies, Latino Studies, and Gender Studies departments in the College of Liberal Arts. This is a grave threat to the educational liberty of students, faculty, staff, and the people of Texas. 1/

this is wild: while Stephen Miller's guy was in Minnesota for his uncle's funeral, somebody was able to see his entire phone and take pictures of his Signal group chats talking about military deployments to Portland, and brought them to the Strib (gift link: www.startribune.com/trump-offici...)

if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war

Eagles game last night with the “city special,” hamm and cheese on rye

Dogs are getting vaccinated less and rabies rates are rising, in part because 37% of Americans think vaccines will give their dogs... pawtism. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...