I know this is happening but I cannot believe this is happening.

I was interviewed by PIX11 for this article about how the Trump administration is trying to deport asylum-seekers to random third countries like Uganda, Ecuador, and Honduras. It is one of the most horrifying things I've seen in immigration court, and I do not say that lightly.

Back in immigration court today. Of the 40 or so asylum cases my group observed, 80% were pretermitted on "safe third country grounds." Asylum-seekers were told they could be deported to either Ecuador and Uganda. People in court were frightened, confused. They had no idea what was going on.

Frankenstein (2025)

My review of Wright, Hall, and Hill's "A New Commentary on the Old English ‘Prose Solomon and Saturn’ and ‘Adrian and Ritheus’ Dialogues" is out! scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/ind...

Seeing a lot of "read banned books" posts and I just want to remind everyone my upcoming book with @erikkaars.bsky.social is gonna be banned so you know what to do. 🤣

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)

Lol at the dictionary being like "I hope none of you go to heaven"

A lot to say about this, but one thing is that the Professor in question was a lecturer, and thus did not have tenure. The destruction of academic freedom is inextricably linked to the loss of worker protection in the university.

"The department of justice has acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating." Coming to a classroom near you.

Hey academics, this applies to you too!!!!! Especially if you have published a book *or* you have a work anthologized in a book. Go check the dataset, and register as a potential member of the class ASAP.

Mohammed is in a really dangerous place and needs to leave

Im sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Dima. Dima is only 19 years old and she is studying to become a nurse. She just got engaged. Unfortunately she is also trapped in the North and doesn’t have the funds to escape. She also has really poor internet so it’s hard to reach out.

This is simultaneously the most important and the stupidest academic discovery I have ever heard of in my life (complimentary)

Very silly new article out now, tracing the transmission of a medieval story that claims that--when a leopard bites someone--mice become DESPERATE to urinate on the leopard bite. If they manage to do this, the bitten person dies. doi.org/10.1093/note...

An Al Jazeera journalist is among 15 Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on the Nasser hospital in Khan Younis, southern Gaza. At least three other journalists were killed in the attack.

Four journalists among 15 killed in Israeli strike on hospital in Gaza, say health officials

BREAKING: Israeli strikes on Nasser Hospital in Gaza killed at least 15 people, including three journalists, one of whom worked for Reuters, Palestinian health officials said reut.rs/45OFPfr

The National Parks Service just fired SJ Joslin, a Yosemite Park Ranger, for their work hanging the trans pride flag on El Capitan in May.

AFT and university administrators may have bought into the AI hype, but we don't have to join them! A really great resource that includes a page dedicated to labor bargaining (and more evidence that the Luddites were right for fighting the obnoxious machines of automation).

I bet Rotten Tomatoes thinks this means "Where are you, good movie?" but it actually means "Why are you, good movie?"

LMAO. This is a cartoonish example of the political truism that centrists will always ally with fascists to block the left.

PARIS (AP) — French President Macron announces that France will recognize Palestine as a state.

The ICC Pre-Trial Chamber has found that Hungary failed to comply with its obligations under the ICC Statute by not arresting Benjamin Netanyahu when he was in Hungary. The Court refers the matter of Hungary’s non-compliance to the Assembly of States Parties.

“Without immediate intervention, the last remaining reporters in Gaza are going to die.”

A big chunk of NYC public interest attorneys and legal workers (including my partner) have gone on strike this week for better working conditions. Eight shops are striking, and more may be on the way. If you're so moved, consider donating to their strike fund:

This is the equivalent of partnering with Exxon-Mobile to offer "free, high quality" climate change training. you simply cannot partner with these companies and expect us to swallow the idea that the training isn't a fucking sales pitch

So someone at Twitter deleted Grok’s original antisemitic post from earlier today, and now Grok is defiantly defending the antisemitism and mocking the mods.

🚨 📢Historic news out of LAS Attorneys United 🚨📢 A union united will never be defeated.✊

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*from the sidelines* LET'S FUCKING GOOOOOOO

I bet this would feel *incredible* after I've spent all day hunched over my laptop. (Morgan Library, M.730, fol. 226r)

"We call on Harvard to protect the rights of free expression and the safety of all its students, not only in the current negotiations with the Trump administration, but also in applying its existing policies fairly and taking care to preserve the integrity of vital academic programs."

Zohran Mamdani secured a landslide victory in the New York City mayoral primary despite media and his opposition being intent on trying to drum up controversy over his views on Israel and Palestine, even to the point of sweeping aside candidates’ stances on issues that affect the city.

Heads up that there's a renewed bipartisan effort to keep you from knowing what the law *is*

And just in case anyone would like to read more about gender-inclusive roller derby, I wrote an article about it!

I hate it here

Today's medieval art is brought to you by the letter E!

New pub! Long review essay--mostly about great new books by David Townsend and David Rollo but also a bird's eye view of queer studies in medieval Latin scholarship: where it's been, where it might go, and what it's avoided.