Our friend, poet and activist @sarahmaintains.bsky.social has been illegally detained by the IDF and is being held in an Israeli jail. There are reports of mistreatment and human rights violations. Please keep pressure on the Irish government and embassy to secure the release of Sarah and others. 🇵🇸🇮🇪

I’m shamelessly re-reading Eman’s book this evening while not knowing if she has access to food and water. Where’s Eman now? Free Eman! @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social @uchicagoaaup.bsky.social

THIS FRIDAY: interested in contemporary South Korean feminist movements and backlash against them? Don’t miss this roundtable!

I cannot tell you how grim the AI in higher ed situation is. Many of the students have completely surrendered to letting AI do their homework, badly, I might add. How do you fix this? Truly, what the hell do we do, beyond what grading can address, which isn't a solution?

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

U.S. Expresses Regret over ICE Raid Targeting South Korean Workers in Georgia

Does your university have policies around students recording professors without consent?

For everyone saying political violence has no place in this country… Remember two Democratic legislators were shot in Minnesota just this year. And America shrugged and moved on.

Looking forward to this necessary and ever-so timely conversation on how Korean feminist and queer discourses have shifted over the past decade since the “feminist reboot.”

Thank you for welcoming us today. I’m thrilled to be part of this amazing group!

“Someday, I hope, we’re going to have a reckoning over the horrors of this moment, but I don’t think we can do it without a clearer understanding of how this fits into U.S. history. There’s a tendency to say, “This isn’t who we are,” and I get the impulse, but history is never that simple.”

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

“We have committed our professional lives to learning and free inquiry, working together with students to advance truth for the collective benefit of society. Unlike our distant governing boards, we will not give up so easily — no matter what kind of deals are signed in our name.”

This isn’t an impoverished regional school – this is the University of Chicago. Devastating.

"The genocide has “killed my lungs.” This is how Samah al-Dahshan narrates losing her nine-year-old daughter Nasma." My latest editor's note for Journal of Palestine Studies @PalStudies www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I spent decades at Columbia. I’m withdrawing my fall course due to its deal with Trump | Rashid Khalidi

The settlement doesn't require Brown to pay off the Trump administration, nor does it appear to constrain teaching. But Brown will provide admissions data to prove "compliance with merit-based admissions," and it will "adopt Trump’s definitions of male and female" (though Brown has coed housing).

"The Zaynab Project is a women-led, 100% volunteer-run nonprofit operating directly from within Gaza. We are part of the very communities we serve. No middlemen, no marketing costs, no admin fees — just local teams delivering urgent relief to those most in need."

사실 민주당이 광장에 있었다는 사실 때문에 더 비판받아야 한다고 생각해.

Pro-Palestine activists formed a human map of Palestine at Spain's San Fermin Festival, yesterday. Chants of "Palestine is not alone" bellowed through the streets.

The Sameer Project has been doing crucial work to get food into Gaza. Gaza is facing mass, created starvation- people are dropping in the street from lack of food and water. Never again is now. Donate if you can and spread the ord. linktr.ee/thesameerpro...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows the Trump administration to move forward with the abolition of the Department of Education. It gives no explanation for its order. All three liberals dissent. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25... From Sotomayor's dissent:

BREAKING: Israeli attacks across Gaza have killed at least 98 Palestinians since dawn, including 38 aid seekers, medical sources have told Al Jazeera. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/2nui5x

NEW: Immigrants complain of inhumane conditions at ICE holding cells in NYC. No showers or changing clothes. Sometimes only one meal per day. Over 100 people in small rooms. Sleeping on benches, the floor, or sitting up, due to lack of space. gothamist.com/news/theyre-...

Nestled up against the steps of City Hall in LA is a large placard with missing posters for the recently disappeared in the city.

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

"Air strikes left 30 dead at a seaside cafe and gunfire killed 23 others as Palestinians tried to get desperately-needed food, witnesses and health officials said." www.irishexaminer.com/world/arid-4...

The White House has ordered the US Dept. of Justice to prioritize denaturalization: voiding the citizenship of US citizens. Who will it denaturalize? "Any" case that it "determines to be sufficiently important". Point 10 leaves the criteria opaque and arbitrary. substack.com/redirect/169...

Issue 8:1 of Critical Times is out now from @dukepress.bsky.social! Featuring @makdisi.bsky.social, Ajay Skaria, Hengameh Ziai, Zamansele Nsele, Senzeni Marasela, Adil Hasan Khan, and @hypatiabeauvoir.bsky.social All articles available here: read.dukeupress.edu/critical-tim...

A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...

“34th avenue is a reminder that displacement in one location, perhaps at a far remove, can instantiate emplacement elsewhere.”

Avoid the violence/nonviolence debate. It’s a trap. The only thing that matters is what actions lead to more justice and less harm. Inaction and complicity in the face of brutal oppression is the worst form of violence. Never forget it.

LA has one of the strongest and most robust mutual aid networks anywhere. mutualaidla.org

bsky.app/profile/chad... - specific places to support from a trusted person.

"In the custodial state...the citizen enters the scene in a mode of resignation–a way of being held in perpetual custody–as the only guarantee of protection both from state power and by it." NEW from Debaditya Bhattacharya ctjournal.org/2025/05/29/w...

The Palestinian town of Umm al-Fahm is on the frontlines of the struggle against Israeli state terror and genocide.

"She was also Gaza’s youngest influencer, offering practical survival tips for daily life under bombardment, such as advice on how to cook with improvised methods when there was no gas. 'I try to bring a bit of joy to the other children so that they can forget the war. '”

THIS. Every single word. Students are the reason why we do what we do.

Seeing a lot of confusion about the budget's provisions on trans care--it would strip Medicaid funds for trans care (which is awful enough) but it would NOT prohibit private insurers from providing coverage for trans care. It actually does something far more narrow and wonkier

happy for Khalil of course but i must say, "lawful permanent resident not charged with any crimes, imprisoned by president's stormtroopers for having forbidden opinions about US-abetted genocide, briefly allowed to touch his child" is a hell of a thing to find oneself feeling joy and relief about

Must-read material for SF scholars and fans here:

Around 100.000 people have been demonstrating in The Hague against our government's stance towards, and complicity in, Israel's genocide in Gaza. This is huge for two reasons: (1) the largest demonstration in 20 yrs; (2) The Netherlands is traditionally pro-Israel. Picture: nos.nl/artikel/2567...

We’ve updated our mission statement on our webpage in both English and Korean: dkscollective.com/dks-collecti...