Everyone go vote for this lego set or so help me I will start a really insufferable four day site wide discourse beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

NEWS A federal judge SUSPENDS the reduction in force announced by Kari Lake of 500+ U.S. Agency for Global Media workers, largely from Voice of America. Ruling storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Wonder how many are my former students...

ok, that's enough of that. Bengals and Broncos will hopefully be better...

new trans tuesday coming this week but it’s not too late to get in on #Letters4TransKids in fact it’s never too late to let them know we’ve got their backs hit the hashtag and read through the truly lovely messages so far and then please, add one of your own 🩷

This is a fundamental point that 99% of higher-ed coverage, and 100% of immig coverage, have missed.

"You kind of want kids, but iced coffee had a rough childhood and isn’t ready to have those sorts of discussions yet, which is fair, you guess, but sometimes you wonder if iced coffee is really just afraid of the commitment being a parent would entail."

He came here at age 13 more than 20 years ago. He got his first ever criminal arrest in August this year, a DUI arrest which got him on ICE’s radar. And they’re treating him like this.

man I really wonder how every other federal law enforcement agency feels about having to spend all their time and resources catering to the Very Special Boys at ICE even those otherwise in favor of this horrorshow can’t enjoy the reshuffling of the hierarchy

I see the Dolphins have entered their Goth phase.

The state could have backed him but instead they demonstrated for the thousandth time that there is no level of respectability that will prevent white people from serving you up on a platter in order to appease powerful racists.

THIS.

It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.

Did a thing that you can pre-order! #ChapterThree bookstore.emerald.com/food-and-sus...

In today’s completely unsurprising news, the ICE officer very briefly, taken off duty for shoving a woman to the ground in New York is back on the job not even a week later. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-off...

Bumping this up again... Izolde is good people, and she's had a rough time because the tech job market sucks right now. It's getting close to the end of the month and she really needs to make rent.... please please give what you can! 🌟💖💫

3731 words on the new paper. One more bit of theory to add in tmw (hopefully post-covid-vax, if I can get the thing) then the redrafting begins.

It certainly appears the United States murdered an innocent fisherman who was a husband and father to four children, claimed he was a "narco-terrorist," posted a video of the execution, and then made jokes about it

...how the hell did cultural capital end up in here? #amwriting

Great news! JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month www.jstor.org/action/showL...

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

“DEMAND THE IMPOSSIBLE recounts the spycops scandal, punk theatre style” Buzz Magazine preview. www.buzzmag.co.uk/demand-impos...

Anyone who really knows migrants knows this. We know how hard it is to move to another country, and how much commitment and heartache it takes.

Hiking xkcd.com/3147/

Al's weird (laudatory) adult son

Yep since 2019 we’ve paid £10-£15k in visa fees including around £5k to the NHS during which time my wife had no access to public funds and was paying income tax and NI like everyone else. Stop pretending it isn’t already a massive rip off and overwhelmingly net positive for the country.

there are 39 hours of scripted programming in this season's broadcast TV lineup, & 20 of them are explicitly pro-law enforcement programs. More than half of scripted TV is still not enough for them.

The kinds of circs where you can get benefits (with difficulty) when on a visa with no recourse to public funds are eg. fleeing your home because of domestic abuse or your spouse dying. So this means brutalising and trying to deport people who have already had the worst things happen to them.

A perpetual Reichstag Fire for the 24-hour news cycle www.garbageday.email/p/the-pressu...

If you're an author and have ever wondered hopefully whether it might be worth replying to the nice lady who wants to get your book to the dedicated readers in her {Exactly Your Book's Genre} book club, please read this.

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

The accreditor overseeing hundreds of colleges in the South has become a lightning rod as conservative politicians have blamed it for pursuing a political agenda and overstepping its authority by questioning governance issues at public universities. Its new leader is pushing for an overhaul.

New metaphor for everything just flipped a skateboard into its nuts

...& another rejection. sigh

Same playbook that the Chinese Communist Party has been using to disrupt any constructive academic discussion of its human rights abuses on American campuses: sending provocateurs with party or military backgrounds to disrupt class or event proceedings and recording the faces of every attendee.

"I bring my CBC to work in a large glass jug like the moonshiners do. That way, everyone can see it, and it becomes a spectacle for everyone to take part in."

Curbing ‘unfunded’ research ‘could chase away academics’. Researchers wary of signals from senior figures that universities “can’t afford” research without external funding. www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

ICYMI: This is sorta like what happened at TX A&M with the student who disrupted a class, recorded the prof, and got her fired. Whatever you think of this prof's stance on Palestine, decisions like this just encourage right wing provocateurs to keep setting fire to people's lives.

forced mourning is a RATINGS FLOP, folks

Senator we are running dangerously low on French pastry in #warravagedportland I pray our croissant and quiche stores will last us ‘til the morrow

The Scamocene turned out to be the most depressing epoch to live through yet.

floating a thought for feedback: if the liar's dividend is the benefit bad actors can receive from a world in which there is so much doubt about what is real and what isn't, I was thinking about "the librarian's dividend" re: the value of the people and institutions who help us evaluate information

I had this happen the first time I taught my Terrorism & Political Violence course. An anthro grad student showed up, started hijacking things while I was calling the roll on the first day, and loudly pronounced he was there to monitor for bias. This was in 2002. 1/

Next Friday, 7pm, at the Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social "Confusion Na Wa" (2013) one of the key films of recent Nigerian cinema, with video statements by actors Ali Nuhu and Tunde Aladese and director Kenneth Gyang, plus a debate! hop.dartmouth.edu/events/confu...

I need another Outlook setting beyond "Turn off Copilot." Something like "Burn it and catapult its ashes into the sun" or "Uninvent it" or "Have Spock destroy it with impeccable logic."

You cannot have a functioning classroom under these conditions. As I've said before, classroom surveillance has been a much bigger and more damaging change to campus than wokeness.

Is it presumptuous of me to explain an xkcd comic? Well, I'm doing it anyway. Also: sometimes, being inclusive is easy. But it's always the right thing to do, *especially* when you're dealing with a ten billion dollar telescope. badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/cursed-mat... 🔭🧪

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There should *never* be an expectation, written or unwritten, for undergrads to have publications. *ever*. Great if they have it, but undergrad experience are so varied that any expectation privileges specific kinds of undergraduate students.