Less than a week after ICE agents shot and killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, the Portland Press Herald is reporting that ICE agents shot and killed a 26-year-old man from Colombia today:

Yes, it's partly a matter of funding, but I have found it striking how willing "leftist" or "progressive" academics are to turn to machine translation (even for projects about care and labor!), while art institutions seem much more willing to pay for specialized human translation.

This is happening during The World Cup. I have seen far less coverage of this than I have previous upticks in ICE activity. Really missing @lataco.bsky.social and @eltragon.bsky.social Daily Memo right now :(

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

Teach your kids to "use your words" and "name your feelings" and they will very calmly and eloquently explain exactly how they were feeling when they punched their younger sibling in the face.

never thought I'd be saying this but the pope is 🔥

“The Al is not just telling you what you want to hear. It is training you, one conversation at a time, to need less friction, expect more agreement, and become slightly less capable of handling a situation where someone pushes back on you”

This week's immigration numbers: 145,000 U.S. citizen children with a detained parent. 5 suicides in ICE custody in 2026 alone. An $18,000 proposed deportation fine. Here's what each figure actually means. 🧵

A young teen organized a march yesterday against two proposed AI data centers in Vancouver, which is facing water restrictions & housing crisis. The first project will be at former Hootsuite headquarters. Hootsuite is also facing opposition for a pilot ICE contract. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

My friend and comrade Alex Colston has been violently detained again by the Israeli state. Please call to push for his release. Free them all, from the river to the sea.

Did you miss the launch of our new imprint Class Compositions? Watch it on Red May's Youtube channel! @charmainechua.bsky.social, @sarahljaffe.bsky.social, Kieran Knutson, and Peter Linebaugh discuss "Class Compositions in a Time of Fascism" with @americanwork47.bsky.social as moderator.

Spanberger has been such a disappointment even for my low expectations

This is a lot of the reading list for my current translation project. If you've been looking for a feminist perspective - from the global south - on contemporary forms of exploitation, financialization, and the far right, I have just the book for you! (as soon as I finish translating it, lol)

This is a great opportunity to learn from Josh MacPhee about making posters on Thursday 5/21 at 6 pm. You will finish by printing small two-color editions on the Risograph press.https://events.humanitix.com/posters-101-resistance-is-a-language

I've learned a lot from Trevor Paglen over the years, looking forward to this one!

This. "incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people" -- @parismarx.com

Translated this great piece by @veronicagago.bsky.social on the meaning of the intellectual today, emphasizing the role of the collective knowledge production of struggles, esp. the transfeminist movement today.

Please sign in support of colleagues and friends at Essex. "At stake is [...] whether universities will continue to support intellectual projects that question dominant organizational orthodoxies and experiment with alternative ways of understanding economic and social life."

AI produces MORE editorial labor, not less. “[To weed out slop] the journal doubled its deputy editors from 6 to 11 & nearly doubled its sr editors from roughly 30 to 60. All of this is volunteer labor, unpaid academics donating time to maintain scientific quality.“ www.forbes.com/sites/johndr...

In Memphis, Tennessee, Elon Musk’s xAI operates over two dozen methane gas-burning turbines without legal permits to power its data centers, Colossus 1 and Colossus 2, polluting the nation’s largest majority-Black city with toxic emissions. The NAACP is suing xAI for violating the Clean Air Act.

Lol of course this is the first thing in my feed after getting home from a match where I burned 800 calories just to get my ass absolutely kicked. Guess I'm doing it wrong!

400 dead so far, over 1000 injured, dozens and dozens missing. This is one hour into the massacre. I have no idea what the death toll will be in the end. Also, they have announced “another wave” of attacks coming

Great news from Maryland. Meanwhile in Virginia, higher education workers are still excluded from collective bargaining legislation.

Like a lot of small businesses in our region, Firestorm has been in financial distress for the last year. Hurricane Helene was our tipping point, but local cost of living increases, inflation, and higher occupancy costs are huge contributors. 1/9

As someone who plays a lot of tennis, I really appreciate good tennis writing, and I also find Sinner absolutely boring to watch

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

"You, the heirs [to the military coup of 1976], know how to spread fear and how to resurrect the most profound terror that Argentine society has ever known."

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

To my astonishment, prosecutors had introduced my seven-year-old analysis of feminism’s relationship to horror cinema as “evidence of ideologically driven intent” the previous day. theintercept.com/2026/03/13/m...

Oh my god: this is *daytime* in Tehran.

A few things for March 8... My translator's foreword to The Feminist International & some comments on feminist translation today

The "double-tap" -- ensuring that they would kill not only the schoolgirls, but the people trying to rescue them.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Six suspected insiders made $1.2M betting on a US strike on Iran these wallets • were funded in the last 24h • specifically bet for February 28 • bought "yes" hours before the strikes

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

Congrats to @ncaaup.bsky.social & all who fought against this surveillance policy that would've allowed admin to hijack microphones in the classroom for secret recordings. This move would've chilled classroom discussion & suppressed students' willingness to ask questions & take intellectual risks.

"Cuba’s Ministry of Public Health is reporting that more than 32,000 pregnant women face increased risks in priority maternal care, such as ultrasounds. The Cuban government also expects to see “limitations in the mobilization of commissions for the care of… 1/2

“Ruben Ray Martinez, 23, was shot by an ICE Homeland Security Investigations officer in South Padre Island, Texas, on March 15, 2025, after what ICE described as a failure to follow law enforcement instructions during a traffic incident.” www.newsweek.com/ice-agent-fa...

👀The federal judges in West Virginia, where ICE has been pulling over and detaining people on the freeway, are literally screaming about ICE's tactics. "It is an assault on the constitutional order," Judge Goodwin says. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Appreciate this piece as younger generations are both targeted and also making the path "Children are not figures of innocence for political rhetoric, or ​“bait” for federal agents to use in hunting down parents. Young people are not just a part of our struggles, but at the forefront of them."

I absolutely love our college radio station. Turned it on last night and they were playing Todd Snider. Got in the car this morning to go to work and they're playing Bruce Springsteen's Streets of Minneapolis.

His climate legacy is rapidly eroding, and the last of his domestic legacy is expiring at the end of the year. It's fair to say soon all that will be left of Biden's legacy will be genocide and Trump's return.

It would be embarrassing under any circumstances to spend a year on this reactionary horseshit, but to have spent the year in which graduate students were sent to concentration camps for op-eds and the federal govt launched a no hold barred attack on academic freedom is just beyond

This is what we’re doing to people. We are the bad guys.

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

A beloved workers' rights organizer in Minnesota, known for *successfully* fighting against wage theft and labor trafficking, has been detained by federal immigration agents and is now locked up in New Mexico. His family is calling for his urgent release. inthesetimes.com/article/work...