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.

The stage of deterioration where gangs of large (mostly) white men just publicly assault people who seem to be brown because they're brown in the hopes of doing far more harm to them in the name of the state. Glad this one escaped.

"Refuse reconciliation to ongoing brutality. Refuse to feast on the corpse of others. Rend the fabric of the kinship narrative. Imagine otherwise."

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.

"The work was shredding me, and I was not sleeping well. I stayed up late scrolling Twitter and watching Al Jazeera, the tide of images of destruction and death washing over me, leaving me feeling raw and psychotic. When people asked how I was doing, I laughed." bidoun.org/articles/hou...

“AI” isn’t a tool or technology or even a cluster of technologies with a misleading name. It’s the infrastructure at the foundation of a form of capitalism dependent on data brokering. We should be teaching our students about this and not teaching them about “responsible” use.

It is, far and away, the most challenging thing I’ve encountered since entering the academy. And that is saying a lot. I might be working on this but I keep putting it aside because I’m not medicated enough to describe how demoralizing it all is.

In retrospect, changing reliable and pretty cheap wires for shitty, unreliable wireless and Bluetooth was kind of the technology endgame for everything.

"Over and over, our instructor said, 'Observe your respiration.' At one point what I was sure I heard him say was, 'Observe your desperation.'" (h/t @copystar.bsky.social ) notetoself.studio/post/one-mon...

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

So many small and not-so-small ways to make an impact. This 🧵 is great for understanding the risks and challenges of being able to march and demonstrate.

If you're looking for a group to support in honor of Assata's passing, Assata's Daughters is a great one. They are a queer Black woman-led and youth-focused organization rooted in the Black Radical Tradition in Chicago: www.assatasdaughters.org

The quiet parts are no longer quiet, and the loud parts are now the norm, and the resultant cacophony is deafening.

Hi Internet! I'm Drew and THIS IS MY FACE. If this GIF has ever brought you joy in the past, I humbly ask you to consider making a donation to the National MS Society. It would mean a lot to me and to those I know affected by the disease! Donate at blinkingguy.com

Sounds at Broadview ICE detention facility: singing “we shall overcome”, helicopters, gas canisters hitting the ground as they fire them at us, people coughing up a lung & sniffling, rubber bullet gun shots, singing “we are not afraid.” This is our world. Which side are you on?

History is so instructive. It teaches you that tyrannical institutions are bad for everyone, even, ultimately, those complicit in tyranny. No compassion, empathy, or forgiveness is necessary, but it’s true and that analysis has been useful for political organizing and critique for all of time.

The cover for my book, The Future That Was, is now live! It features the MacArthur genius artist Shahzia Sikander's Infinite Woman (2021), where earth is surrounded by an infinite series of women marching around the globe who, from afar, become rays of the sun ☀️ press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

New playlist! Songs I listened to (or might have listened to)as a teen but re-imagined as a set list for DJ set at a local radio station with limited bandwidth and probably even less funding to stay on air. Listen: open.spotify.com/playlist/0ob...

Being underestimated is a gift.

Only an administration intent on committing war crimes in the present and future would stoop to calling Wounded Knee a "battle" rather than what it truly was: a massacre of over 250 Lakotas, mainly women, children, and the elderly. 1/

The UC Berkeley School of Information is hiring an assistant professor in the broad field of Information--including areas of info seeking/retrieval, digital humanities, cultural analytics, info viz, & philosophy of information (among others). Deadline Nov 1! aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF05014

"All of us are on edge as we try to navigate this rapid collapse of democracy and the US’s slide into a totalitarian regime. I don’t recall a time, even during the pandemic, when there was this much constant and relentless stress and fear." nonprofitaf.com/2025/09/lets...

i have to say, as a trans journalist who has covered the "trans debate" for about a decade now, there is no daylight between how the trump administration and conservatives lie about tylenol and autism and how they've lied about youth trans care.

"True redistribution would mean designing programs that acknowledge nonlinear lives. It would mean career-stage definitions tied to practice rather than age, eligibility clocks that pause for caregiving, and parallel funds that support reentrants." hyperallergic.com/1042641/when...

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

New job: Senior Social Media Strategist @ Smithonian National Museum of African American History & Culture. (Job closes once 150 applications are received, so apply NOW if interested.) FT, Washington, DC; $101,401-$131,826/yr Develop/execute comprehensive social media strategy across the Museum.

it is hard when have a busy day and don’t check your phone and then poof at 5PM the news is like the blood flood in the shining

People in palestine are bracing for greater crackdown as Israel punishes them for statehood recognition by UK, Canada, & Australia. As I, and many others, have pointed out - these proclamations of recognition do nothing to stop the violence.

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

Apropos of nothing in particular, here's Walt Disney's testimony to HUAC in 1947, where he named employees he believed were communists, condemned labor unions, and accused "commie" groups, including the League of Women Voters, of smearing him. 🗃️ archive.org/details/walt...

"Instead of holding Israeli leadership accountable, recognition is a fig leaf that can be held up in front of domestic audiences to placate growing public discontent." www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...

The beloved Chicago director and writer leaves a deep legacy as a theatermaker, advocate, and friend. https://bit.ly/4pBIkuM

I'll be talking about zines as community archives in November and am really looking forward to it. It will be a virtual talk. Basically I've been saying no to speaking about almost everything else this year...

"Civil society makes life more livable. The administration’s message is that the work of civil society no longer belongs in this country." - @mashagessen.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2025/09/21/o...

If you’re an H1B holder impacted by the new Trump executive order there are several lawsuits brewing. This is one, and there are others working in this as well. DM me if you need a connect to pro bono lawyers. redeaglelaw.com/lawsuit-inte...

Lost in news about Trump declaring that H-1B visa holders will have to start paying $100,000 a year, is the news that they plan to completely phase out "employment-based visas that offer paths to citizenship, including for professors, scientists, artists and athletes" (cont'd)

"The ultimate cost of shareholder philanthropy, therefore, goes beyond the compromise of particular research agendas or the silencing of specific voices. It is the potential loss to society of a rare but necessary space—an institution accountable to truth ..." nias.knaw.nl/news/from-st...

I hope some newspapers use a crop where you can easily read the sign.

This @offshootjournal.bsky.social zine comes out of necessity. Take a firm stand against those romanticizing the ruling class of old because they donated some of the wealth they took in blood. It was hoarded by oppressing people throughout this country and the world. There are no good oligarchs.

I'm a big proponent of critical ignoring as an information literacy (or maybe, perhaps, an information survival) strategy. The key part of course is in the word 'critical', as simply being ignorant of the information environment is its own pitfall.

Opening at Penn for a Special Collections Accessions Librarian, responsible for acquiring and accessioning all special collections materials for the Kislak Center. The salary range for this position is $66,000 - $89,039. Come work with meeeee! wd1.myworkdaysite.com/recruiting/u...

Re-posting with correct tags of authors @bitarchivist.net @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @ilya.webrecorder.net @literaturegeek.bsky.social - great job on this zine, especially love the accessible instructions! zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

"I think we can take a cue from TNG & decide that wanting to become fluent in a "neural net" modeled on human cognition that itself remains incompletely understood is folly." sonja-drimmer.squarespace.com/blog-1/2025/...

made a new zine! if u want one: 1. donate $5 or more to: --sameer project chuffed.org/project/1132... --healing our homeland healingourhomeland.org --or palmetto state abortion fund palmettostateabortionfund.com (honor system! i trust u) 2. dm me yr mailing address by september 25 2025

This zine is fantastic. Kudos to the DIY Web Archiving team for breaking this down so beautifully: zinebakery.com/homemade-zin...

"The problem, she says, is these companies are rushing products to market, making the skills academic librarians are trying to teach students and researchers to use obsolete." www.404media.co/librarians-a...

Yes! Having worked the A/V desk for a public library, I can attest to the popularity, accessibility, and depth of collections that include rare TV episodes, streaming audio, and yes, all the CDs you might ever want to revisit. (just be sure to give the library worker space when they're reshelving)

Last night, a judge ordered recently-released Palestinian activist and former @columbiasipa.bsky.social student Mahmoud Khalil deported Tonight at 6 at Busboys and Poets, I’ll be the first to speak with Khalil since the ruling. We will talk about Columbia, cancellation, and free speech.

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

How to delete your account without agreeing to the new TOS: In the dialogue box asking you to agree, DO NOT click agree. Instead, click on the TOS link which will open another tab. In the top right of that tab you can go to your account settings and delete your account.