it's completely obvious that we count on the "international community" for anything. but the lack of action (and even just silence) on the rapidly deteriorating situation in Cuba is outrageous. Europe as feckless as they've always been.

New book review -- Rama Ali Kased and Tony Marks-Block read Wasim Said's "Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza" antipodeonline.org/category/boo...

nothing to see just 100 degrees in difference in temperature (because it's way, way too warm here)

If Tim Ingold describes "Culture on the Ground" as "The World Perceived Through the Feet," then caving reveals that "Culture Under the Ground" includes "The World Perceived Through Your Buttocks."

Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.

during this week of insane weather i have seen a few tax documents on my informed delivery and nothing has made it to my mailbox. not sure what to do about that.

the pictures on display for their frothing base, who with every one ask "why a nurse," "why a teacher" and demand calls and emails to their employers. but then they hide from cameras with masks and turned backs, unable to risk culpability or public shame themselves.

zero of my students were able to make it to campus today. i tried to zoom record a lecture anyway and got the audio but it's just a blank screen (??). great week of classes lol.

FYI Alex Pretti graduated with a major from my department at the U of MN. Here's our written tribute to him. cla.umn.edu/geography/ne...

just hit 100 peer reviews since i started this job in august 2019

particularly good maria somerville today www.nts.live/shows/early-...

breunig AI boosterism is somehow a perfect fit

those who want drastic transformation have a hard time narrating "limited wins" -- advances which are merely tactical, spatial, temporal. the impulse to chide everything with "this isn't a win, it's recuperation" (etc) retreats back into familiar terrain of percieved powerlessness.

New book review -- Anna Corbett Schlenz (CUNY Graduate Center) on Lise Vogel's "The Contested Domain: Selected Writings on Marxism and Feminism" antipodeonline.org/category/boo... @plutopress.bsky.social @kmunro-econ.bsky.social

ILL book has been sitting at the library but travel to get it is impossible and the library is closed -- this is my personal version of hell

surely many historic elements to reactionary grievance discourse, but "my pleasure has been stolen" does seem totally fundamental

bovino rots in the 9th circle i.e. the really cold one

"When asked for comment, a spokesperson for xAI, the owner of Grokipedia, said: 'Legacy media lies.'" www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

NEW: Federal agents killed Alex Pretti, a 37 y/o man, in Minneapolis this morning after he tried to render aid to a woman who had just been maced. Community quickly built barricades & called for ICE to leave. Authorities tear-gassed & arrested people. 🎥 unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-age...

truly we have no one other than each other

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Demonstrators as far as the eye can see. Current status of the march in Downtown Minneapolis, Minnesota for Ice Out of Minnesota. They are turning onto 3rd Street from 5th Avenue.

Shocked at how big the crowd is in Minneapolis. Don’t know an exact number but it’s in the many, many thousands. It is so cold your tears freeze to your face and your hands ache and yet people are here.

Watching a livestream of the main anti-ICE march in MPLS it has just been a still shot on a single intersection and it's just been a full street wide march for 25 minutes

if we don't lose power, i might be able to knock out like seven more hong sang-soo movies during this storm

destroyed the planet so i could write a quirked up OOO message to let people know i'm doing one last nature escape

oh

"the overwhelming impulse of the [Russian] printers was simply to be treated like human beings--an aspiration taken up by activists who argued that they must behave like human beings and spend less time in taverns...too many dance parties, not enough strikes as V.V. Sher put it."

Today at the Whipple Federal Building in Minnesota while federal agents rushed the protest crowd, one agent is filmed pushing a protester and slipping on ICE. Another agent has his pepperball gun broken and he slips on the cartridge holder while dropping pepperballs all over.

2010s materialism: rock bad water good

as a precocious grad student, i thought everything had already been said about Production of Space. actually this book is full of gems and seems persistently relevant. we should still be reading/assigning it in geography instead of the oddly polanyiesque stand-ins that are seemingly popular

compelling essay thinking through group relations, and also asking if and how and when thinking through group relations actually helps group relations www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/ess...

Thousands of people have been marching in the Powderhorn Park area of Minneapolis and near Midtown Global Market, calling for federal agents to leave the Twin Cities. (Photos @combs0294.bsky.social )

why is it so difficult for any public official to explain the context for protests against west bank land sales happening in the US?

oh lordy, just remembered I'm teaching migration this semester aaahhhh

In addition to being full of some incredible music recommendations, this article has some great opening editorial thoughts about the state of criticism that are worth reading even if you don't particularly care about punk.

reviews of my top 10 punk-adjacent records in this year's maximum rocknroll roundup: www.maximumrocknroll.com/article/2025...

Birzeit University affirms that education will remain an act of anti-colonial resistance, and that the University will continue to be a space for knowledge and freedom, despite all attempts at repression and aggression. www.birzeit.edu/en/news/stat...

what new horrors await us today

they're so high on their own supply that they're going with "cars are domestic terrorism for thee, but not for we."

Our reporters are on site at the vigil - network congestion preventing uploads currently. We would estimate up to 10,000 people are attending the vigil near 34th and Portland Avenue in Minneapolis at this time.

unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-age... A large crowd has assembled in a vigil for Renee Nicole Good, killed earlier by ICE on Portland Avenue in Minneapolis. Will provide further coverage as able tonight.

Appalling cold-blooded ICE agent assassination of a legal observer in Minneapolis. this is about five blocks from where George Floyd was murdered. cannot imagine this is the end of anything.

reading several academic books published in 2025 and not a single one of them uses in-text citations this sucks! we need to reject endnote hegemony!!

anyone goin to STS 2026 in Toronto ?

updating the international studies capstone syllabus

The administration has made it clear that Nicolás Maduro's capture was tied to Venezuela's vast oil reserves. Much less certain is how US companies will actually access them—or if they even want to. www.wired.com/story/trump-...

best of 2025 music list