And for those looking to correct this insanity, some wisdom on how to advocate for change: rss.com/podcasts/the...

The flu and pneumonia kill over 45,000 people a year. Moderna developed a new mRNA flu vaccine for people 50 and older--who are most at risk. Prasad, unilaterally, against the recommendation of experts within the agency, denied Moderna's appplication. www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

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.

THE @jeffspeck.bsky.social is joining us Thursday, 2/12 at 6:30 PM at St. David's downtown. This can't-miss event is FREE with RSVP!! UAR is proud to collaborate with The Little Gay Shop to provide books for this event! ♥️ 🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/jeff-speck... 📚 thelittlegayshop.com/collections/...

New in Academe: "How Academic Workers Have Reenergized the Labor Movement" by Gary Rhoades: www.aaup.org/issue/winter...

BREAKING: Refusing to look at your email does NOT force the email to go away! It just stays there! Like it's waiting for you! In fact, refusing to look at your email account appears to create even MORE email! This is a crisis, and nobody seems to do anything about it.

Loved getting to talk about the new messaging guidance on parking reform with these two expert communicators! Some toplines: 1️⃣ PSA: Problem-Solution-Action 2️⃣ Make trade-offs clear 3️⃣ Use local stories! They’re out there!

The United States has more Spanish speakers than any other country in the world except Mexico. The Spanish language and Latin American culture are fundamental parts of American culture. Bad Bunny’s halftime show was as American as any other.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

BLUESKY WON SPORTS IN THE SOCIAL MEDIA DIVORCE

Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make. The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression. They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.

This, I think, was really the point. Inasmuch as he dialed in the intersectional history of colonialism across the Americas (the diversity of performers wasn’t an accident and you can’t convince me otherwise) he REALLY dialed in the history joy as a revolutionary act.

Not letting the MAGAs get away with it, proudly being a menace

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

Never thought this piece from 2017 would apply to the Super Bowl halftime show but here is some FURTHER READING

I am in academia and in advocacy. I’ve worked private sector and government. Academics are by far worst about not responding to emails—categorically different from others. This would inexcusable in any other industry! Not least because it is unprofessional, but also because it’s comes off rude! 😵‍💫

NEW: Two judges on the Fifth Circuit gave Trump exactly what he wants to enact mass detentions. In their Friday night ruling, Judges Edith Jones and Kyle Duncan split with more than 150 judges who have ruled against the Trump admin's unilateral, harsh interpretation of a 1996 law. Law Dork:

Seeing this woke production about how fascists are bad on the stages of Greg Abbott’s University of Texas!!

NEW: Leqaa Kordia — who’s been in ICE detention for nearly a year, since ICE took her the same week as Mahmoud Khalil — has been hospitalized after having a seizure. Her whereabouts & health are now unknown. The Trump admin alleges she supports Hamas because…she sent money to help family in Gaza.

Austin para siempre 🌳🖤

This is good and achievable. Let’s get it done.

Greg Abbott defended a 45 year old suburban man who physically attacked a high school student during the anti-ICE walkouts this week. He attacked the kids for protecting their classmate. Greg Abbott is OK with grown men targeting, harassing, and attacking kids.

Some people are asking what I want Schumer to do. He should be screaming over medical care and access to facilities. He should be going to detention facilities himself and putting his body on the line, as he did at the border in 2019. He should lean into stories about New Yorkers in detention. [1/4]

We're recruiting 2 PhD candidates in human geography here in Uppsala, one position focused on urban/housing issues and one in political ecology. Please spread the word/repost etc. Being a PhD student in Sweden is a good gig.

Seems like pretty big news that the biggest Republican donor in 2024 — who helped elect Trump & Vance — repeatedly made plans to visit Epstein's island. Especially when you recall the various abuse allegations he faces — or how his website has been mass generating sexual content, including of kids.

Fascism is evil and — thank god — incredibly unpopular, it turns out! Texas SD9 just swung around 30 points last night in the Dems’ favor. Hope from Texas. Hope for America.

Newly released emails show Elon Musk was emailing with Jeffrey Epstein to potentially visit the child sex trafficker's island in 2012 and 2014. There's also an email from 2013 where Epstein discussed possibly bringing four "assistants" to a "facility" to meet with Musk.

he spat on a rental car and then kicked it twice. no ice officer was in sight, but five of them immediately jumped out to beat him senseless, and then tear-gassed a crowd of maybe 50 bystanders as a parting shot

Austin is beautiful.

ICE should be abolished, and its agents and leaders prosecuted. Behaving “like every other law enforcement agency in the country” does nothing to repair. But it also ignores the fact that American law enforcement has systemic issues of which ICE represents only a particularly visible case.

American cities should never be the “theater” [of war] for American agencies. If these agencies see the people as the enemy, then this government is illegitimate.

There is a lot of smol bean in referring to where they are as a “theater,” as in a theater of war, and then whining that some local residents refuse to serve them lunch

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Saying there must be trials isn't just an emotive aspiration. Congress can: - Create a new court (complying w/ 6A jury vicinage) - Give it jurisdiction over defined category of crimes - Also create dedicated prosecutors for the same - Strip SCOTUS of appellate jurisdiction It can be done.

"Boo hoo," one agent said after he and a gang of colleagues murdered 37-year-old Alex Pretti, who died trying to help a woman who was being assaulted. A sobering piece from @lebassett.bsky.social www.laura-bassett.com/p/ice-execut...

Sayre: "My background is in international humanitarian response in conflict zones in Yemen, Haiti, Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine. What I've seen here is what I've seen there. A powerful entity violently and intentionally terrorizing people."

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

This must be weird news to see if you’re one of the literally hundreds or even thousands of university administrators who preemptively censored faculty, scrubbed websites, changed the names of centers, etc.

On the docket tonight: 1️⃣ Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins 2️⃣ Whose Science? Whose Knowledge? Thinking from Women’s Lives by Sandra Harding

golden hour at @txst.edu ☀️

It’s notable that the president can go on TV and be a total gutter racist, and somehow this isn’t news in the slightest. Says a lot about the sickness of American society right now.

Incredible quote here from a Somali small business owner in Minneapolis who voted for Trump. minnesotareformer.com/2026/01/19/a...

Chapter 3 of The Anatomy of Fascism this Friday! 6:30 PM at Walter's Tavern (formerly Freddo ATX). See y'all there!

Good morning, Austin! 🤠☀️

Two weeks ago, I published this story featuring dire warnings from experts including two former presidents of the International Association of Genocide Scholars. I think this story is essential context for these kinds of pieces. www.importantcontext.news/p/experts-wa...

Here’s an ordinary, beautiful moment in Austin. No place like home.

This is the Fridayest Thursday there ever was, I swear

ICE keeps saying the people protesting it are being paid without any evidence, but we have receipts showing that the people *defending* ICE are absolutely being paid. And yet we only hear lies about the former on cable news.

They’re calling it the most divorced anyone has ever been