"Northwestern officials proudly noted that their pact with the WH explicitly declares that the agreement doesn’t allow the gov't to dictate “the content of academic speech and research” .... But the pact itself restricts speech and research at the university. Saying otherwise won’t change that."

My message to Trump: Your message of bigotry won’t work. Somali Americans are here to stay. 💅🏾

DEADLINE EXTENDED! We're giving you an extra few days to apply for up to $5,000 to cover climate and environmental stories in rural communities. Apply by **Dec. 8** https://grist.org/updates/grist-opens-applications-for-new-rural-reporting-grants-on-climate-and-environmental-justice/

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson has proposed disastrous cuts to our city's libraries while setting aside $5M for a ShotSpotter replacement. As library associate Sara Heymann told me, “Libraries embody everything we need to fight back against fascism.” My piece on what’s at stake and how to fight back:

Spotify Wrapped is taking over our feeds, but you don’t have outsource your relationship with music to AI | Liz Pelly

Domestic policy too. It’s how we get ICE.

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

Churches, mosques, & other religious spaces are exempt from ADA requirements, even though many are polling places and community hubs. That means higher barriers to voting & belonging. Read our new "There’s Research on That" by TSP's Anastasia Dulle: 🔗 bit.ly/3Xs1RRv 🔗

Israel is still bombing Gaza The press isn't covering it as much but it's still happening

A coalition of municipal and nonprofit organizations has taken legal action to thwart the Trump administration’s move to restrict the amount of federal grant money nonprofits can spend on permanent housing and subsidized rents for formerly homeless people. #ncpol Story by @gchildress.bsky.social

“We encourage concerned alumni to withhold from NU money to pay off Trump’s extortion and to donate to the AAUP Foundation, which is successfully supporting litigation in defense of academic freedom” academeblog.org/2025/12/01/s...

Cameroon’s opposition leader, Anciet Ekane, has died in detention. Ekane was taken into custody days after 92 year old Paul Biya was declared the winner of the presidential election and the country was rocked by protests. The family has been offered no explanation about his cause of death.

"In this fascinating conversation on knowledge and value, gender and care, Babalwa celebrates her grandmother – “a learning space, a space of imagination” – who provided her with “ways of knowing” that remain sidelined in academia."

NEW: Reports of DOGE’s death aren’t highly exaggerated, they’re wrong. Follow @makenakelly.bsky.social and @telliotter.bsky.social on a voyage into the federal agencies where all your favorite young engineers are burrowed in ”like ticks.”

Greetings from Kampala. I'll be on @democracynow.org in an hour (8AM East US, 4 PM East Africa Time), reporting live from Uganda about Afeef Nessouli & my series for the @pulitzercenter.org, Fund for Investigative Journalism and @theintercept.com. Tune in! democracynow.org

Attn: Grad Students applications are open now until Dec. 15th I’m excited for the opportunity to be in conversation with some amazing folks this summer at Duke🌻 #blackfeminism #bfiduke

There’s a reason Customs and Border Protection, not just ICE, was deployed in Charlotte and Raleigh. And it says a lot about how the Trump administration is looking at immigration enforcement.

PSA for World AIDS Day: If you take or need PrEP and don’t have insurance, Gilead has an assistance program where you can get them to send it to you for free. Still need a prescription I believe.

This week, I talk to @tamaranopper.bsky.social about abolition in practice — how people learn through engagement with state violence, what gets in the way of developing shared analysis, and why abolitionists need to take recruitment and counter-recruitment seriously.

I’m so incredibly excited about being in conversation with Dr. Treva B. Lindsey for Black Feminist Night School at Zora’s House!! Please join us online this Thursday December 4th at 6pm EST!!! 🫶🏾📚🪩🩷❣️🙏🏾

7/ This essay is part of "Global Stop Work Order," a series on the impacts of Trump's cuts on LGBTQ health (& employment) + HIV. In the coming months, Afeef Nessouli & I will be publishing investigations from Uganda, South Africa, Europe, the Middle East & the US theintercept.com/2025/12/01/w...

Great thread and great article, with information I didn't already know.

As he notes, Alfred shares this story every year. It is one of his finest pieces of writing, and the sorrow is always that, in a better world, he would have never needed to write it. We should all be grateful, at least, for this piece in the world we are in.

"The problem isn’t girls’ gains—it’s a competitive culture that equates boys’ worth with dominance over other boys and offers no workable script for competing with girls as peers." @sorayachemaly.bsky.social time.com/7335723/auto...

I’ll be on reporting internationally on @democracynow.org tomorrow for the first time, live from Kampala, Uganda. I’ll be talking to Amy Goodman about our @pulitzercenter.org - Fund for Investigative Journalism series for @theintercept.com. Tune in!

A 🧵 for Wolrd AIDS Day 👇🏾

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This is reprehensible.

The deliberate starvation hasn’t ended, as government officials in Gaza say that only around 200 trucks of food per day are being allowed through their borders, far short of the agreed-upon 600. As a result, malnutrition levels are still around 90 percent. www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-gaz...

Baby names aren’t just personal choices; they reflect culture, geography, gender, identity, and as i've been investigating, politics too. I’ve been analyzing 50 years of U.S. baby naming to see how they map onto political polarization in the U.S. Here’s what I found 🧵

“…this desire to get ppl to buy into the fun of sadism” - Jason Stanley…it’s part of…what his colleague @timothysnyder.bsky.social calls “sadopopulism”…policies…that inflict real pain & harm on the US populace, while also encouraging scapegoating & xenophobia against stigmatized groups.

Every year around this time, I ask folks to consider doing something in support of Native people. This year, please join me in supporting the Native Organizers Alliance as they build grassroots power, defend Native voting rights, and equip our people for collective struggle through skill-building.

beautiful story on today’s cover about Emanuel Food Pantry, Durham’s largest food assistance program. If you’ve ever driven on Roxboro Road on a Wednesday, the pantry’s distribution day, you’ve doubtless encountered the hundreds of cars that wind throughout the neighborhood in line

Haven't received as many contributions as usual for this year's lists--could be many things, but one aspect is surely that our ability to get this in front of people is much diminished. If you know folks whose stuff should be on here, please suggest it! contingentmagazine.org/yearly-pub-l...

This is the content today needs. lmao

NEW — South Shore residents who still live in the apartment building that was raided by ICE nearly two months ago in Chicago spoke out about the unlivable conditions there. “No one paid attention to the fact that people were living here without heat before ICE came.” thetriibe.com/2025/11/buil...

Today, after months of requests, I toured the Broadview ICE Processing Facility. I want to share what I saw. The facility has no food vendor, no medical care, and detainees have to use toilets in the middle of shared cells. These are in no way suitable conditions to be holding anyone — period.

Finally. My big 2800 word essay about One Battle After Another and its black women characters is live. www.vulture.com/article/blac...

The judge noted that ICE repeatedly shot pepper balls at protesters & clergy at close range; tear-gassed expectant mothers, children, & babies; and pointed guns at people exercising their First Amendment rights--conduct that she concluded “shocks the conscience.” ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

Some good popular sociology here on another important revelation of the Epstein files: elite networks and their mechanics of exchange. The article describes "capital conversion" and laundering across forms-money, prestige, research, access and intel. Echoes of C. Wright Mills, Bourdieu, Shamus Khan.

It was so fun to chat with Dan about what's going on with pop music (and gender) today - have a listen!

Great conversation between @perrybaconjr.bsky.social and @louiseseamster.bsky.social that spans beyond just the topic of college and student loan funding. newrepublic.com/article/2033...

More than 650,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher for Tawila, and the UN is warning of urgent humanitarian needs. Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands of people and forced about 13 million from their homes. #Infograph

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81

Missed this news...

RIP Jamil Al Amin. Also known as H. Rap Brown.

IDF is bombing Lebanon this morning. Israel has broken the ceasefire in Gaza hundreds of times.

The UAE has a "long-term vision of taking over Sudan," says Sudanese researcher Lina Yassin.