My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

This article manages to name her husband before it names… her.

Adelphi University’s English department is hiring an Assistant Professor in creative nonfiction. I’m happy to answer any questions folks may have. Applications due Nov 14. Please share widely! phf.tbe.taleo.net/phf02/ats/ca...

New today: “SB 8 seeks to establish a precedent that treats marginalized communities in the Lone Star State as less than equal. In reality, trans folks are parts of Texas families, workplaces, schools, and communities, and we are here to stay.”

The ADL ran a literal private spy network to expose the radical right in the seventies. They learned stuff about the John Birch Society that even the FBI didn't know. Matthew Dallek has a great chapter about in his book Birchers.

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Google has determined that ICE agents are a vulnerable group and has used this designation as pretext to delete an app that helped communities determine where ICE raids were happening www.404media.co/google-calls...

🧵 Libertarian economist Tyler Cowen is making headlines for an extremely creepy post at Bari Weiss's blog fantasizing about robot virgins and the AI character Tilly Norwood. Unfortunately, the story behind is much worse...

This is all an egregious violation of our norms and laws but also an incredible tell that they know this is a losing fight for them

“Fuck them kids.” That’s literally what an ICE agent said when ICE, the FBI et al. raided an apartment in Chicago, including with a Blackhawk helicopter, separated children from their parents, and zip-tied them to each other. abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...

Trying to teach right now is a sisyphean endeavor, because of shit like this.

Judge William G. Young's decision in AAUP v. Rubio was well worth the wait. And ... reading his entire decision (including footnotes), from the first page to the last, is well worth your time. 🗃️ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

To learn more about the history of ideological deportation in the United States and about some of the cases Judge Young mentions in his decision, including Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), check out "Threat of Dissent." 🗃️ @harvardpress.bsky.social @iehs.bsky.social www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...

"If you are not going to back the Democratic nominee with the platform that [Mamdani] has ....then don’t ask those young people to show up for other Democrats around the country," says @vanhollen.senate.gov in our interview. newrepublic.com/article/2013...

BREAKING: Our client Mario Guevara, an Emmy-winning journalist detained by ICE in retaliation for livestreaming law enforcement activity, will be deported tomorrow to El Salvador. Mario and his family are being punished for his reporting. This cruelty is meant to stifle our free press.

NEW: ProPublica obtained records from the Department of Agriculture that detail the millions of pounds of food, down to the number of eggs, that never reached food banks because of the Trump administration’s cuts to an aid program.

so the US government just forced a tech company to delete an app it doesn’t like, which is totally normal stuff www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Only the weakest men are afraid of flags. Pettiest, cancel mob on the planet. www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/k...

DAILY MEMO: At least 43 People Abducted in Southern California in One of The Largest ICE Raids in Recent Memory If you appreciate reporting like this, please consider becoming a monthly or yearly member of L.A. TACO so we can continue to bring you this vital information. @eltragon.bsky.social

Dan’l Lewin called Trump’s arrangement with Nvidia & AMD a “gangster move...we’re at a gangster’s thug-like whim” calmatters.org/economy/2025...

“It was heartbreaking to watch,” said Watson. “Even if you’re not a mother, seeing kids coming out buck naked and taken from their mothers, it was horrible.”… “Stuff was everywhere…people’s birth certificates, and papers thrown all over. Water was leaking into the hallway. It was wicked crazy.”

What DHS pulled in Chicago on Tuesday is wildly unconstitutional. They smashed down almost every door in the building, dragged entire families into the street, and detained people for hours ("Kavanaugh stops"). Ms. Fisher was held for five hours and another senior citizen was held for three hours.

The Trump Admin fired the Director of the Eisenhower Presidential Library over his refusal to provide an artifact from the Library’s collection as a gift for King Charles. What the everloving fuck. open.substack.com/pub/lastcamp...

And it's not a one-time capitulation. If DOJ ever says you violated the vague and unconstitutional terms, they will take back ALL federal funds from that year and you have to return ALL private funding from donors who want their gifts back from that year. It's a never-ending protection racket.

We are complicit. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

"If we want different results, we have to abandon standard practice." YES. Finally, someone put together what I and many other critics have been saying about political coverage — then took it further. reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/harm-reducti... Author Michael Hauser Tov is 28 years old.

JOB

That video of the UW kids chasing out the dipshit Nazi guy is wild, but it’s pretty funny in the end where he’s sitting on the ground defeated and a bunch of them are asking him questions while they’re recording him and one keeps saying “post game interview.”

The "compact" is a threat, with the administration explicitly stating that it plans to disfavor universities that don't sign in areas from foreign student visas, student loans, federal contracts as well as grants, and even tax [501(c)(3)] status. It's a maximalist plan of 1st Amendment violation.

The core contradictions are right there on the surface. Universities need to adopt strong policies "protecting academic freedom"—and must at the same time blatantly violate such policies by "transforming or abolishing institutional units" that so much as "belittle" "conservative ideas."

COVER REVEAL AND PREORDER: The Public Scholar - A Practical Handbook. "Perry focuses on the practical details of how to approach public scholarship. How do you pitch a piece to an editor? When should you follow or ignore the rules of the genre? And what happens once your piece is out in the world?"

Trump’s ICE Has Started Targeting Activists, Not Just Immigrants As Trump sucks up more of our data, ICE added online activists to its target list, demanding Meta hand over personal info attached to Instagram accounts for StopIce.net and more. My report includes tips on how to protect yourself!

I dreamed last night UVA fired all the tenured professors to appease Trump. The only job I could get was as a delivery driver.

Worse than anything FBI did in the 1960s: U.S. assigned a specialized immigration team to target campus protesters

Decent people to Miller: “You are unhinged.”

From @theathletic.com: The WNBA’s collective bargaining agreement is set to expire on Oct. 31. Revenue sharing and player salaries have been hang-ups in negotiations. Players have said they are prepared for the possibility of a work stoppage. nyti.ms/3WiIs4J

“Agricultural employment dropped 6.5% from March to July, a loss of about 155,000 workers, reversing two years of growth.” “If you’re thinking of a new orchard, greenhouse, or warehouse,” said one expert, “you wouldn’t do that now because you would not get workers.”

Again, these messages are violations of federal law. Well, when there was such a thing.

MADELEINE DEAN: The president is unhinged. He's unwell JOHNSON: A lot of folks on your side are too D: Oh my god, please. That performance in front of the generals? J: I didn't see it D: It's so dangerous! Our allies are looking elsewhere. Our enemies are laughing. You have a POTUS who's unwell.

I wrote about The Hunting Wives, Erotic MAGA, and the literally libidinal appeal of fascism for @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's Welcome to Hell World

really enjoying all the people trying to explain the bible to the pope today

I read this last night and reflected on why it was so transparently incoherent. I think it makes more sense if you think of the target audience not as students or faculty, but funders who love LLMs

"Among other steps, universities would also be required to change their governance structures to prohibit anything that would 'punish, belittle and even spark violence against conservative ideas.'" In other words, Donald Trump would personally control the entire curriculum. A curriculum of lies.

Trump's higher ed ransom note is here - everyone would have to acquiesce to their unprecedented demands or not be "given priority for grants," plus they can demand "reimbursement" for "violations" www.wsj.com/us-news/educ... A mechanism to enforce fealty. An attack on academic freedom and democracy

The ADL has made literally every single possible decision to suck up to the American right in the past year, and their history as an anti-extremism group has still ensured that the American right wants to punish them. Almost like there's a lesson here. www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

DHS posts an antisemitic meme about keeping "globalists" out of the US. One of the internet's most influential white nationalists, the British white supremacist known as "Raw Egg Nationalist," responds with a groyper meme. The DHS account RESPONDS, calling him "Patriot."

Just naked and brazen corruption. All states represented by Democrats in the Senate. Time to stiffen our spines and demand that we only fund a government that obeys the law.

You are a Duke alumnus from Santa Monica, you tiny, frightened, lonely boy.

DHS appears to suggest that it will deny citizenship to "globalists"