What if the unidentified masked men with guns don't accept the validity of your papers?

It's great that the New York Times employee the nation's leading segregationist as an contributing op-ed writer and the Douthat regularly injects pure uncut white supremacy into the national discourse and we still get regular lectures on how the mainstream media is too woke.

Some thoughts on what what crisis is doing to the urban imagination - short piece as part of a collection in Dialogues in Urban Research: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Surreal moment for America. Needless to say, if the normal police ever pulled something like this — pulling every single person out of an apartment building and handcuffing them to run warrant checks — they would be sued into oblivion. Yet ICE is going to get away with it entirely.

Great column by @tressiemcphd.bsky.social (gift link)

i'm guessing this is for his buddies who have been accused of war crimes or blatant racism

"Did you know that Sinclair will air an hourlong tribute to Kirk in place of Kimmel’s show on Friday night?"

The number of university presidents who beclown themselves to please the far right, only to end up being shark chum anyway just keeps growing

Whew.

Conservatives believe free speech is when they can say what they want and when you can say what they want. bsky.app/profile/theb...

"Friend" and "contributor". Bleak.

He spent one semester doing pre-engineering classes. This pretext to further assault higher ed is not fundamentally different from the views of The Free Press, whose editorial board said universities were the "main culprits" behind political violence. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-worst-...

Characteristically good from @jamellebouie.net: www.nytimes.com/2025/09/13/o...

Invitation to friends in the arts. I'm part of a group organizing a project called Fall of Freedom. We want artists and orgs of all kinds (whether you're an Indie bookstore, a cinema, gallery, whatever) to come together to resist authoritarianism. Starting November 21st... www.falloffreedom.com

I see yesterday's Colorado school shooting is not news today.

"The pattern is clear: if you work at a liberal institution and you want the Trump-controlled federal government to step in and discipline it, Bari Weiss is there to help."

In one video, an artificially generated John Adams says, "Facts do not care about your feelings" — a phrase often used by conservative commentator and PragerU presenter Ben Shapiro.

The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

Margaret was my first-year TA at UBC. She was one of a small handful of inspiring people I encountered in that moment. I remember her then as I do more recently: a brilliant, funny, and above all compassionate human. Good-bye to a great geographer and person: www.henrywalser.com/obituaries/M...

What the… So, so wrong.

hi if you're trying to buy my book while Duke Press is transitioning to a new distribution warehouse, you can find it at the link below, thanks for your interest! it will be available again through DUP after July 7th. folks in canada you can also buy it through the university of toronto press

Look, you can say a lot about Hogan's legacy: he was racist, he was terrible to his colleagues, he put himself above other people, he firmly believed in the supremacy of white people, he was a bad wrestler, his life was a net negative for society. That's it. That's the post.

There is simply a huge audience among the youth for critiques of the state of Israel, given what young people see the state doing to the children of Gaza. This critique can come from someone like Zohran Mamdani, or it can come from Candace Owens or Tucker Carlson interviewing a Holocaust denier.

Want a preview of our book, The Price of Gold, with @mcgillqueensup.bsky.social ? Check out our article in @theconversation.com today: theconversation.com/yellowknifes...

imagine if political journalists showed the same solidarity for their illegally imprisoned colleagues that jake tapper showed for fox news when obama tried to move their seat in the briefing room to the second row

really interesting that the vice president cites as a key intellectual influence a guy who thinks black people are natural slaves

The world’s most predictable heel turn

I wrote about the day the president attended the opening of an American concentration camp:

Many thoughts, but to start, Snyder's is nowhere near the university's "largest class to date." (BIO120, also in Con Hall, has cap of 1500!). And, registration is next week, so I'm confused as to how 1000+ students have signed up: www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...

NEW: The nominee to run the Office of Special Counsel shared a 911 truther video last year on *911*, has ties to a holocaust denier, and said in a video we uncovered that straight white men are the smartest group and should be prioritized. He’s 30. www.cnn.com/2025/07/02/p...

I reviewed Peder Anker's brief "For the Love of Bombs: The Trail of Nuclear Suffering" for H-Environment. (Thanks to @farsouthhistory.bsky.social for support and editorial work.) I admire much of Anker's previous work. But I found this book frustrating: www.h-net.org/reviews/show...

Excellent, informative piece by Miriam Pensack on the Canal: www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

Incredibly important. Harvard is about to fail the Lando test, opening itself, the rest of higher education, and all of civil society up to further illegal and unconstitutional authoritarian exertion. www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

i almost can’t read this it makes me so angry. delusional grifters with purity fetishes and eugenic worldviews have brought pain, suffering and death to children www.nytimes.com/2025/06/22/u...

Ah here comes @cnn.com with the bullshit straight out of 2003

In Florida, “free speech” and “institutional neutrality” mean that a Nazi arguing that nonwhites have no rights wins a prize while a course with “race” in the title is censored for violated the law. Congratulations to all the credulous centrists who helped this along.

This framing is beneath contempt. The Christian right and MAGA launched an unprecedented assault on the civil rights of a tiny minority and successfully weaponized the pseudoliberal establishment - led by the NYT - to provide it with a medical controversy pretext that doesn’t actually exist.

So disheartening that there is *still* a section of the commentariat who see DJT as “anti-war”.

In Canada as much as in the US, "These so-called “emergency” levers being pulled in the national interest are a complete stunt." Great piece by Shiri and Dayna.

I expect basically all gender affirming care for trans youth to be effectively banned nationwide by the end of the year. This severely limits any ability to stop the federal government going after providers even in blue states. I expect by the end of next year, most access for adults will be gone.

Look who shows up in this Nazi's 'intellectual' influences: Hoppe, Yarvin, that 'Mindset' fascist. Among other threads of connection, precisely Vance's world.

"In its annihilative force and ambition, the Israeli campaign is unique among modern conflicts. In fact, the term 'war crime' is not even adequate for what's happening in Gaza." A searing, essential piece by Suzy Hansen:

5. The end again misses a key value of cognitive work. The benefit to the historian-writer of doing the research and struggling with the writing is profound-- not least because of what they learn to bring to the next work. Interested in other reflections on this. 4//

An interesting account of the way that some writers are using AI to conceptualize and write works of history. Most of the benefits described here involve ways of amalgamating and synthesizing materials from already-existing digital databases. I remain concerned... www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

Quite a contrast to DC!