Just wait until these eyesore monstrosities want to come to your neighborhood. Goodbye trees. Expect to hear a constant, electrical humming, warmer temperatures and higher energy bills. Fight like hell to keep data centers out of your area.

Just to be very clear: The Trump DOJ is stealing $1.2 million of your money to gift one of Trump’s cronies, who pled guilty to the crimes he was charged with, and whose suit against the government had already been tossed by a judge.

They are trying to ban vote-by-mail, and also threatening to put a paramilitary force at polling places.

This op-ed perfectly captures Trump’s “let them eat cake” moment

Excited to host @rahulbot.bsky.social for the 2026 Open Data Week keynote tonight at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social as the festival celebrates its 10th anniversary! Co-organized with @nycofficeoftech.bsky.social @claudiaeberger.bsky.social & sponsored by @gc-dh.bsky.social @gcdatavis.bsky.social

Poetic justice #wbc

Murphy: I have great sympathy for our soldiers and our military leaders they are being given directions by a senile old man who is losing his mind. And so it's no surprise that this war is going horribly

I really don’t think enough is being made of the fact that it’s a three supposedly do-nothing toothless scholarly organizations—the AHA, the MLA, and the ACLS— who are directly responsible for one of the clearest and most damning exposures of this administration’s stupidity and malfeasance.

This puts me at 10 people released. I filed my 1st habeas petition 29 days ago. I am an incredibly small-time, nobody lawyer who knew nothing about immigration law the day I submitted that case. I barely know any more today. I had never sued the federal government and now I've beaten them 10 times.

Last year, this guy (left) from DOGE used ChatGPT to find NEH grants that were too “DEI” for Trump, and canceled them, including mine, as shown by the letter I received last April (right). Huge new NYT article on the back story link below

YES

$143 million no-bid contact to a company created 11 days before the award

This is a Nazi move. Stripping people of rights, invalidating their IDs, setting them up for criminalization and imprisonment. If you don't support trans rights, you support fascism.

Such wanton inhumanity and intentional cruelty. Disgusting.

Wow. Absolutely brutal.

Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

Who is going to be held accountable?

Harrowing thread by an immigration attorney describing DHS’s cruelty and contempt for the law

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

8/ For more on what kids are experiencing inside the Dilley detention center, read the full story by reporter @micarosenberg.bsky.social:

Just hands-down one of the sharpest, most pointed, most celebratory public performances ever. Grounded in love, local PR life, political commentary, dance, stagecraft, and Latin musical tradition. Stunning halftime show — Bad Bunny amazes again.

Ian Austin, an Army veteran, was arrested for protesting ICE in Minneapolis. But he’s continued protesting. Senior reporter @julialurie.bsky.social spoke to him. “When they say, ‘Why would you be out here?’ How the fuck could I not be out here?” he says. “My nation is under attack."

ICE murdered Renée Good in broad daylight. Less than 3 weeks later, they killed Alex Pretti, shooting him 10 times. Every day, we watch as people are ripped from their cars, their homes, their lives. We can't allow ourselves to look away from this cruelty. Abolish ICE.

Videos verified by The New York Times show the man federal agents shot and killed in Minneapolis on Saturday was holding a phone, not a gun, before the agents took him to the ground and shot him. At least 10 shots appear to have been fired within five seconds. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Democrat leaders should be in Minnesota right now, standing side by side with Walz and Frey and the community. They need to show solidarity and a united front. They must say Abolish ICE. They won't but they should. Trump is going to unleash hell on that state.

genuinely stunning image

Don't forget the Supreme Court's role facilitating ICE's brutality and racism in Minneapolis. SCOTUS lifted an injunction that limited racial profiling in immigration enforcement on Sept. 8. The federal assault on Chicago began the next day. Then came the Twin Cities. SCOTUS greenlit these horrors.

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

ICE agent asked why he's taking pictures of a legal observer's car, replies: "Cuz we have a nice little database and now you're considered a domestic terrorist. So have fun with that."

National media should really be covering the fact thay every major school, museum, and arts institution in the Twin Cities, and hundreds of local businesses are closed tomorrow to protest federal occupation. Nothing like this at this scale has happened anywhere in America anytime in living memory.

Minnesota's citizens are showing that this country is too big, too decent, too democratic and too free in some deep sense for Trumpism to control it all. Trumpists are throwing massive amounts of money and resources into ICE. It's not enough. Thank you, Minnesota. Thank you America. Keep fighting.

Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-year-old U.S. citizen, was put in a chokehold by ICE agents. Agents took his phone, which he tracked to a used electronics vending machine near an ICE detention center. Yes: ICE is stealing and selling people’s things after brutalizing them. There are no words.

🚨"This is nuts! What the f*ck is going on, this is insane! ICE is just trying to scare people; they tell you it's only immigrants—it's f*cking anybody!" -furious Minneapolis resident tells our @zdroberts.bsky.social after ICE shot a man in the leg tonight. LIVE NOW ⬇️

Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼

Physical copies of our Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities book (newest volume in Debates in DH series) arrived today just in time for the holidays! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Can't say enough about how great it was to spend the Fall semester in conversation and community with wonderful @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social students like @igraywill.bsky.social. During the semester we spent thinking together about AI, connecting as humans was 100% the best part.

U Minnesota Press's Spring 26 catalog, listing our new Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities (in Debates in DH series), eds. Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, @jamessmithies.bsky.social): z.umn.edu/spring26. Table of contents: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608... @uminnpress.bsky.social

Such a great story about @gcdatavis.bsky.social student Paula Fleischer and her powerful data textile work, “Dónde Están: Searching for Desaparecidos of the Argentine Dirty War,” now on view in our program space at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social #dhmakes

When I think about how exquisitely careful NEH staff were to be fair, impartial, and rigorous, and how much work people put into grants so small they’re pocket change…I just want to scream.

Huge congrats to a real ed-tech hero, @linkletter.org, who survived a five-year legal odyssey after he posted a critique of Proctorio on social media. linkletter.org/update-33-th... I so admire Ian's bravery in the face of corporate bullying. Kudos and congrats, Ian!!!

Why are ICE agents being paid during the shutdown, but not air traffic controllers? 🤨

We are currently thinking through how the underlying principles that led to projects like the CUNY Academic Commons, Manifold, Blogs@Baruch, Vocat, OpenLab, CBox, ASHP, and the great OER work happening in CUNY's libraries should inform curricula, pedagogy, policy, and strategy related to genAI.

I so appreciate this attention to what we’ve been doing with ed tech at CUNY and the notion that the higher ed ecosystem can benefit from it. Too many folks to name have been involved in those projects over the years, and it builds upon work and commitments at CUNY that goes back generations.

LA: “They took a US citizen father out and left a toddler in the backseat. Two heavily armed border patrol agents got in that car and drove the child and the vehicle away.” What are we doing?

Huge thanks to @mattseybold.bsky.social for writing this great post, which highlights CUNY's transformative potential to build open educational infrastructure theamericanvandal.substack.com/p/mamdani-wi...

The fascists are not inevitable. They're not unstoppable. They're not all powerful. They want you to think that, but millions turned out last month to call their bluff. And millions turned out today to claim our power. We will win.