Oof, teaching Les Châtiments is hitting different this time around…😭😭 allpoetry.com/poem/8523613...

Alberta is indeed implicated in the transnational institutional-intellectual far right

“We fought alongside Americans and came here as refugees…now this draft-dodging son of a bitch is deporting us to Vietnam”

Mardi Gras is February 9 next year and then February 29 the year after 😱

Catholic integralism is still very much on the table

What a week (year? eternity?) to be teaching the Am Rev class session of my Boundaries of the French Republic seminar. Students were great on American and French early republics and contrasting ideas of republican virtue. But the virtue of “disinterest” launched us into the present like an arrow

France24 with the headlines 🔥 www.france24.com/en/americas/...

The scattershot and continued unconstitutional moves different states and municipalities are making has got me thinking about local colonial legislation against enslaved people in the Spanish Americas (regulations that prohibited types of employment, dress, sale of various goods etc etc)

A bit of hope from the gulf south. Spring is blooming here, it will make its way north eventually

Honestly thinking more about this I think including Ernest Renan in VB’s catalog is at once a legitimizing gesture to balance out some of their more odious (and obvious!) offerings while also still platforming an author who serves the same Western Civilizational supremacy ends

new from me at @curbed.com: everyone ICE did business with in New York City last year www.curbed.com/article/ice-...

I just saw NATCHEZ. Holy shit. This is the Great American Documentary of the Decade. Maybe The century.

Explainer journalism ™️ still makes my skin crawl AND YET I got all the way through and this was good read

seems bad that no one asked the guy likely to be president at some point about this

Ooo this image is perfection and haunting

“Nous n’avons aucune leçon, s’agissant de la violence en particulier, à recevoir de l’internationale réactionnaire.”

France announces that US ambassador Charles Kushner will now be denied access to members of the government for having refused two convocations to meet with the French Foreign Minister www.lemonde.fr/internationa...

And he didn’t show… bsky.app/profile/yash...

If you are already tired of America 250 🥱, read about "The Journey of the Haitian Declaration of Independence" by Marlene Daut over on her blog! 😄 marlenedaut.com/blog/the-jou...

I continue to wake up grateful I am old and came of age before any of this. That I had the privilege of growing up using my brain and am lucky enough to have been able to work in a job up until this point that allows me to use it

“Where’s the Onion!?” -10 yr old, sifting through a pile of non-Onion newspapers in disgust

students know they are being cheated

Wow: AI as faculty union bargaining issue

Jared Kushner’s dad is the US ambassador to France. Getting called in by the French foreign minister to explain his socials stoking fears about violent “radical leftism” on the rise in France www.france24.com/en/france/20...

They can ruin thousands of people’s livelihoods while raking in millions of dollars, but they’ll never ever be able to write like this, and that’s something.

“headfirst dive into a shallow AI pool”

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

I thought we were heading toward universal enlightenment but instead it looks like we get ai slop !

Last week, I was fired in retaliation for confronting DOGE staff in 2025. Today, I launch my campaign for U.S. Congress in Maryland’s 6th district. Marylanders show enormous bravery in defense of our communities. #MD06 deserves a Rep as brave as its residents. secure.actblue.com/donate/alexi...

BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days. Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work. Details on thehandbasket.co later today!

Idiocracy is the gift that keeps on giving: discussing the long term downsides of cognitive offloading with AI, our 10-yr-old recoiled in horror: “just like in that movie!”

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

Heard an interview today where a guy said (and I'm paraphrasing) "LLMs have had years to train on every aspect of chess, read every book and article about it, review every match, but when they play, they STILL makes illegal moves. That tells you everything." And. Yup.

A judge ruled that groups representing residents of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley can proceed with their landmark lawsuit seeking a pause on toxic industrial plants in two majority‑Black districts

Françoise Ega wrote the most beautiful, funny, heartfelt and heart wrenching narrative of motherhood, work, and writing. Read this book!

Brown hoodie kid is in suburban Chicago, which had already experienced and ICE occupation

The NARA II archives on the first US Occupation of Haiti (1915-1934) are just folders and folders of US importers and incorporations soliciting the American Consul. Desperate to enter this new “market” once the US had taken over. And I was just looking at the Cap-Haïtien correspondence!

A Madison, WI, father & business owner with a lawful green card was detained & is now set for deportation, because of a nonviolent drug possession offense from 20 years ago, for which he served probation. His pardon request is currently pending w/ WI's governor. captimes.com/news/governm...

Chris Murphy: "I sat with the kids for an hour. They saw things in these prisons they'll never forget. The bottom line is we have a constitutional obligation to only fund an administration that's operating lawfully. We cannot, we should not fund DHS if it committing these crimes."

Love to see it. Also confirms the Super Bowl performance became a perfect screen onto which bigots couldn’t help but project (publicly!) their worst, ugliest racism and “fears.” They dont know what BB was singing but they’re sure he was talking about hating them. He wasn’t talking to you at all…

“User goal”

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Rep. Delia Ramirez to DHS officials: "I have as much respect for you as I do for the last white men who put on masks to terrorize communities of color. I have no respect for the inheritors of the Klanhood and the slave patrol. Those activities were criminal and so are yours."

Goldman to Lyons: "You said in your opening statement that references to ICE as 'the Gestapo' or 'secret police' encourages threats against ICE agents. The problem is you have it backwards. People are simply making valid observations about your tactics, which are un-American and outright fascist."

I will not support any funding deal that puts money in the hands of Stephen Miller, Kristi Noem, and this violent agency. Defund and abolish ICE now.

Misbehavin’ 🎶

The uniforms may have had to remove Louverture, but the ambassador made sure they took his picture in front of Jean-Jacques Dessalines 🫡

Solidarity with anyone doing research in the “intellectual” far right as it reshapes itself to meet and fuel the current moment. It feels like my nervous system is short circuiting my brain, throwing out every trick in the book to get me to look away. I will not. 👀