Abolish DHS. If you can imagine a world before Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, you can imagine a world without the Department of Homeland Security. My latest at @startribune.com. (gift link)

DHS has shot 12 people during immigration enforcement operations since September:

Just encountered an 1829 description of Deception Island, "as horrid, dreary and wretched a place as the imagination can conceive" with "myriads of millions of penguins."

Every Democratic member of Congress should be on a plane to Minneapolis right now to join the people protesting in the streets. Federal elected officials should physically place themselves between the public and these dangerous thugs sent to terrorize this American city.

Needing a bit of a reminder that sometimes things do get better

We owe an incredible debt to the Minnesotans who are on the streets protesting and documenting what is happening.

We must stop funding DHS.

BREAKING: Trump’s thugs just shot and killed a man in Minneapolis. Eyewitnesses are describing it as an execution. We cannot keep living like this and people can’t keep dying like this. Stop funding DHS. Impeach Kristi Noem. Hold these agents accountable.

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now): -If you work for ICE. -If you vote for money for ICE. You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

On the execution in Minnesota: Obviously, the individuals involved should be held accountable. But responsibility goes to the top of ICE and CBP, and DHS. Their appropriations come up next week in the senate. Not a cent for DHS without pulling ICE and CBP off the streets, in MN and everywhere else.

I just spoke with the White House after another horrific shooting by federal agents this morning. Minnesota has had it. This is sickening. The President must end this operation. Pull the thousands of violent, untrained officers out of Minnesota. Now.

Star Tribune is reporting this as well now, multiple shots in the chest.

MPLS please be safe. ICE leave my former city.

Prof friends: Looking for help--I am experimenting with a course in which "All assignments will be graded credit/no credit. You either will have done acceptable, college-level work and independent authentic thinking or not." What words/phrases would you all use to define college-level work?

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Minnesotans are bad ass when it matters

They are never, ever going to win in Minnesota.

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

talked to a few people who seemed surprised by this, but it's very matter of fact at least in my networks. it's an occupation. it's not especially subtle about it. there are surely other networks with other ways of seeing it, but I can only speak for mine.

I am experimenting with a class and today I built almost 100 canvas assignments. Ugh.

Europe should host a shadow World Cup

this was a good one! (well, they're all good ones...) please have a listen and share widely. #medievalsky

“Those were alarms, you just didn’t want to listen,” is very good.

Senate Democrats absolutely have to shut the govt down to stop this ICE insanity in the Twin Cities. This is not sustainable & cannot be normalized. Any Democratic vote to provide money to the thugs who are brutalizing this community is a grave betrayal to the people here. Accountability can't wait.

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

This is how the occupation is going

🚨BREAKING: ICE agents just launched flash bang grenades at protesters in front of federal building in Minneapolis—causing massive explosions. "It's terrorizing, this isn't the America I served for 20 years in the U.S. Navy," tearful protester tells us. WE'RE LIVE NOW ⬇️

little taste of our recent episode with @medievalpenguin.bsky.social. enjoy! youtube.com/shorts/L_rbk...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Trump's thugs are going hog wild and tossing gas around in one of the busiest commercial districts in Minneapolis, just a mile or so from where I live. Complete insanity. (vid via Ford Fischer on X)

From a good friend in Minneapolis: "Target is allowing ICE to stage in their parking lots, use their restrooms, and abduct people from inside their stores - so if you weren’t boycotting already, now is the time." They were staging in Chicago as well.

I love Minnesota and am furious and sad and feel helpless to change anything. But I talked to a friend today and she said it’s important to convey that this is not isolated that the ICE threats and overreach are ubiquitous, threatening, and violent.

i don't know what's going to happen, but I hope everyone remembers this invasion of minneapolis forever, and dedicates some part of their lives to holding them accountable, from the fascists on the street to the fascists in DC. I know I will.

Our dear friend Anne died on Christmas of ovarian cancer, leaving her wife Valerie and their son Bobby. This family matters so much to me. They got to know us after Bobby was diagnosed with Down syndrome before he was born, and our families remain close. Help if you can. Just a repost helps.

Doing copyedits on something I wrote a long time ago, forgot that I wrote this sentence and I love it. "But an elephant is not a peppercorn."

Well this is lovely recognition. "For a delightful new episode of Matt Gabriele’s American Medieval podcast, Ellen Arnold joined to discuss medieval penguins & the natural sciences in the Middle Ages." Thanks @americanstudier.bsky.social

Minneapolis.

I'm actually quite happy with the conversation that @americanmedieval.bsky.social and I had about how medieval people thought about nature and knowledge. bsky.app/profile/amer...

everyone loves penguins, right??? yes you do, that's why you should listen to this episode!!!

hey hey new episode! this week we talk about the medieval environment -how medievals thought about the world around them with @medievalpenguin.bsky.social PLUS we hear about her new book project on MEDIEVAL PENGUINS!!! 🐧 #medievalsky listen now wherever podcasts are found --> pca.st/3acpj9cb

We have an exciting lineup of @greenhouseuis.net #envhum book talks for the spring. Mark your calendars now to join the talks live at 4pm Central European time on Mondays. All are welcome. Here's what we have set for the first 5 talks. 👇

for the new year we should just impeach everyone

One of my favorite end of semester things about teaching the world history of water. Inevitably, this generation of students are deeply shocked by swimming pool discrimination earlier in US history. I love that they simply cannot fathom the depth and silliness of that racial discrimination.

It’s grading season!!!

hey hey! it's new episode day! this week @profgabriele.com and @lollardfish.bsky.social talk about their recent book "Oathbreakers" (conveniently NOW OUT IN PAPERBACK!!!). we talk about a civil war in which, quoting @wsj.com, "the brothers just didn't get along" #medievalsky pca.st/rg0l36e8

Mitt institutt ved UiS søker en førsteamanuensis i historie innenfor moderne norsk og internasjonal historie, med særlig vekt på politiske og økonomiske perspektiver. Må kunne skandinavisk. www.jobbnorge.no/ledige-still...

Urgent care for a bread knife related injury was definitely not on my planner today. Luckily glue not stitches.

Routledge End of Year sale--20% off Water in World History. For anyone considering adopting for classroom use, I'm happy to zoom in to meet with your class! www.routledge.com/Water-in-Wor...