(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

More higher ed discourse like this please

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

We gotta figure out more models for convening classes like this completely separate from university infrastructure. This is a cool class.

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

yes. in LA the "would need to be remediated" landscape seems like it's more default than aberration

Reposted to go along with the devastating news that Hampshire College is closing (and will actually be part of the past). www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/03/boil...

I wish I had this handy when I was arguing with someone about “what the economic data says” yesterday. Very clearly articulated.

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I hate the term “self-deport” so much. What it actually is is “fleeing the country to avoid government persecution.” Just like terms like “enhanced interrogation” aka “torture” it obscures what is happening and I hate how willing media outlets are to use those sanitized terms.

BREAKING: JURY FINDS PROFESSOR CARAVELLO NOT GUILTY! While some justice was restored by the jury’s decision, the beatings, the surveillance, and the trauma that John and others across the state and nation have had to endure cannot be ignored. #ICEOUT

Scoop: City of L.A. Facing Over 120 Claims For Damages Related To Anti-ICE Protests Amid Financial Crisis @lataco.bsky.social lataco.com/claims-for-d...

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

“I’ve been a civil rights lawyer for 40 years, but back during the protests of the 80s, they didn’t have that kind of weaponry and they just hand them out like candy to these officers,” he said. “These officers have high-powered toys in their hands but they’re not toys…they’re 12-gauge shotguns.”

Here’s a timeline of the past ten years of struggle to close Rikers, as of January, 2026: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202... Rikers is currently run by an ex-CIA guy appointed by a judge rather than the Department of Corrections, led by Stanley Richards, the first formerly incarcerated comm.

I’m trying to figure out a middle ground between this and “fuck this dying empire that I’ve always hated and wish I could have burned from the inside.”

Every day has made it more apparent: #disruptj20 was right in standing up against fascism and we didn’t go hard enough. unicornriot.ninja/2017/no-peac...

Can't tell you how many members of Congress who *at best* had nothing to say when I asked about the Minab girls school attack. There is a profanely cold detachment inside Capitol Hill, a mode completely unrecognizable to common human decency I wish I could properly convey to you.

All of us are dissociated and dissociating to make it through today. I hope you give yourself and others grace.

The story of the Klamath River dam removal continues to grip me. The imagery of the water flowing freely at last, unbound and vital. The young people newly discovering the river as it was for their ancestors. The generations of struggle that it took to redeem the river and reclaim the land.

And this, too, is under threat. It's an area where LOCAL involvement can make a big difference! nycplan.org www.librariesforthepeople.org bookriot.com/how-to-defen... action.everylibrary.org/posts

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(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

The new Bon Iver release of live recordings from 2019-2023 is very good. Jenn Wasner was a great addition to an already excellent live band. boniver.bandcamp.com/album/volume...

Honestly, what we need is more writing that no one else gets to see. Normalize personal journals, unfinished drafts, personal goofing.

This is also true for both reading and field research

Underscored by the next paragraph, where he quotes St. Óscar Romero.

I participated in an amicus brief on this birthright citizenship thing and more that just the actual facts of how bad it would be re economy, legal precedent etc : this would be the most substantial step towards actual ethnic cleansing.

Colin Stetson, circular breathing In love and in justice vimeo.com/19113535

NEW from Greece -- Exarcheia: Political Life Suffocated by State Surveillance Exarcheia has long been home to anti-fascist, anti-authoritarian groups. For that, it's under accelerated attack recently with forced evictions, police patrols, searches and the normalization of violence by police.

Seems like every crisis reveals another supply chain we rely on that most people, including political decision-makers, completely take for granted until they break it. You might think at some point people would accept that we are all interdependent. Unfortunately, they prefer fantasies of autarky.

America saw police violence against demonstrators in Los Angeles, Denver, Memphis, Portland and Broadview, IL yesterday. It's true that most protests went off without incident but it is also true that proximity to feds or local cops will always bring some risk, especially near ICE facilities.

We all need to rethink our entire institutional organization, social ethos, and relationship to nature before we are forced to do so by escalating, irreversible catastrophes. Playing extend and pretend with modernity/coloniality is a form of collective suicide.

In case anyone is wondering how LAPD is doing tonight at following the injunction against arresting or detaining journalists. He was cut loose, I spoke with him after. He said he had asked multiple officers earlier for a supervisor and they refused — also a violation of injunction.

Major gas at the MDC in DTLA followed by “you are no longer protected by any right” Folks split, people screaming for medics. I am blind atm

Update on the gates; cool, good man, this isn’t an issue at all

An amazing double feature would be “Where is the Friend’s House?” and “Life, and Nothing More…”

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

FBI records directly undercut 1 of the Prairieland prosecution’s core claims: that antifa is a violent, criminal organization bent on overthrowing the gov. These records were never turned over to the defense & thus never seen by the jury. Could have major implications @dfwsupportcommitt.bsky.social:

Now unlocked: Mariame Kaba @prisonculture.bsky.social & Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social on how to understand the spectacular violence of Trump’s ICE surges as an extension of the violence of everyday policing, and why to abolish ICE we must abolish the police soundcloud.com/deathpanel/a...

I assure you that law enforcement knows a lot less about law enforcement than you think.

The horrific brutality of US prisons has always been with us. It's a structural feature, not a "bad apple" issue. I work for ICE (and prison) abolition; have for a long time. It's important to recognize that the bloodlust didn't start with ICE. ICE just made it more visible to more folks. #ICEout

How many ways to say this must end.

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

Man, I don’t even know why I bother anymore

Literally every post I make is also about ICE and I still don't feel like I'm talking enough about the fact that there's a fucking rolling ethnic cleansing happening in this country right the fuck now Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

Solidarity with Black DC youth. Fuck Bowser and the MPD.

“A lot of what happens around here isn’t right.” Reading The Pitt with STS and Critical Studies (Virilio, Wacjman, Fanon, Foucault, Harney & Moten, Quijano, Couldry & Mejias, Deleuze & Guttari, Escobar, Haraway, Wolf-Meyer, Lock, Das, Adler-Bolton & Vierkant, Shapiro, Wacquant, Ruti, Kleinman, etc)