Jesse Jackson visiting the Krome Detention Center in 1981. He exposed the racist policy of mandatory detention of Haitians who were deemed "economic" refugees not worthy of asylum. Image from @tinashull.bsky.social's book Detention Empire.

"let us love the stranger among us, because we are them, and they are us"

"this is the Epstein Administration"

Amid the airy, grotesque abstractions about "civilization" and "our people", almost the only individuals Rubio refers to are artists: Mozart, Beethoven, Dante, Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Da Vinci, Twain, the Beatles. Plus Trump and Columbus.

As someone who rarely draws graphs, I still forget which is the x-axis and which is y—so I wondered if I could come up with a mnemonic to help me, and I thought, "the x axis goes across and X is a cross"—it *felt* like I came up with that myself but is it a maths lesson resurfacing 50 years later?

"don't become the person whose main artistic/intellectual vision is that you love to have meetings" is pretty good advice in my universe

Is the NYT print edition the last remaining educational institution (defined in the broadest sense) where Arts (separate section every day) are more highly valued than Science (separate section once a week)?

One of the best recent PhD students in the humanities at my institution (which is on this list) was an active duty military officer whose tuition was paid by DoD. You'd think the government would want military leaders to be highly educated, analytic, worldly, thoughtful people? This is so stupid.

"The bias of human nature to be slow in correspondence triumphs even over the present quickening in the general pace of things."—George Eliot, explaining why you will never achieve inbox zero.

how is everything so impossibly stupid

"most politicians, regardless of party, are more impressive close up"—a fundamental difference between the US and UK today. Stephen Bush is one of the very best, most insightful journalists on the UK political scene. Would any close observer of DC say this about most US politicians? Surely not.

Age verification? (British childhood edition.) Every evening the programmes ended on the telly and the test card appeared.

those who live in or study the Caribbean region aren't surprised when there's a Caribbean angle to a story, but still: 1917, US buys the Virgin Islands instead of Greenland; 100 years later, "Epstein's island" in USVI takes center stage, as the US bullies Greenland: a bit *too* much Caribbean?

With McSweeney's ouster today increasing the odds Starmer will resign, the need to state the bleeding obvious is even starker: while Epstein fallout decimates the highest levels of British politics, in the US the Epstein class—literally his best friends and neighbors—remains in full political power.

All - after two years of transformation at The Pequod, now is the right time for me to step aside. I want to thank Captain Ahab for his support and leadership throughout my tenure as first mate. The institution could not have a better master. With gratitude, Starbuck

🎶 This is what we call the MLA 🎶

measles comes to the University of Florida, the academic employer of the FL surgeon general who says the state should eliminate all childhood vaccine requirements

High school students stage a walkout to protest ICE. Here’s our @nbcmiami.com report. www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/h...

timeline cleanse: many manatees in the Coral Gables Waterway this morning

Federal judge issues a scathing opinion maintaining TPS for Haitians for now. Decision comes hours before deportation protections were set to expire for 330,000 people. www.notus.org/immigration/...

Early last year I approached Rep Gimenez with an offer to work together to protect immigrants in his district & mine. He rudely told me he had his own strategy & walked off. Apparently his strategy was to do nothing for over a year to actually stop this. Miami deserves better.

Thank you to ProPublica for identifying the CBP agents Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez. Conversely, am I overreacting to be troubled by the repeated naming of the five-year-old boy thankfully released today from detention in Texas? It just feels like too much for him and his family.

my "ICE did NOT target, arrest a child or use a child as 'bait'" tweet is raising a lot of questions already answered by my tweet

it's 48F in Miami right now, heading to 34 overnight, going to be a lot of lizards laid out by tomorrow morning

I took a quick peek at Moltbook and OMG the AI-pocalypse turns out to be *the* most tedious combination of crypto boosting and performative robotics.

With a judicial finger in the constitutional dike, It is so ORDERED. . . . looks and sounds like poetry to me

"Even the so-called intellectual occupations are being utterly divested of pleasure, by their increasing resemblance to business."—Theodor Adorno, Minima Moralia, 1944-47.

before brexit we scoffed at the butter mountain and the milk lake as symbols of european failure but now we gaze in envy at the Kartoffel-Flut

they're so bad at this that they chose a form of words that almost demands that you replace the word "brexit" with the word "burial"

"It seems weird to say so, but we need more poems now.... Start writing. Rise up, rise up, you poets, and tell us how it is." - Novelist and retired Prof Charles Baxter writing in @literaryhub.bsky.social Letters from Minneapolis series

Anti-ICE demonstration on Friday in downtown Miami at the Torch of Friendship, 7PM

Small sign of the times: my Republican state senator, on the record, saying, "I do think that he [Trump] will lose the midterms because of Stephen Miller." (Gift link).

Always Coming Home by Ursula Le Guin — and I can't be the only one amazed to read her prescient description of AI data centers in the PNW.

The murder of Alex Pretti was the tragic tipping point, but looking back a month, even two weeks: the bravery and the organization of people on the ground in the Twin Cities, those group chats, their witnessing, their mutual aid: *that's* where this political sea change came from. Thank you.

The cumulative visual effect of this thread brings home so powerfully that ICE/CBP's whole aesthetic just *is* armed MAGA protest (without the Trump flags, at least so far). Thank you to @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social for documenting this.

Standing with 65 of my UMN Law colleagues (and counting) to condemn ICE’s lawless conduct towards Minnesotans: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

"The administration is urging Americans to reject the evidence of their eyes and ears ... [They] are lying in defiance of obvious truths"—NYT Editorial Board, Jan. 25, 2026. "The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command"—Orwell, _1984_.

of all the rittenhouse posts I've seen in the last 24 hours, this is the one

Jared Moskowitz (FL-23) is one of the most conservative Dems in the House, so it was striking to me that he was *not* one of the 7 House Dems who voted for the DHS/ICE funding bill last week. I also note is facing an energetic primary challenge from a local DSA candidate who has raised >$100K.

And it was in that context that Thomas Paine's claim that "a government of our own is our natural right" sounded like common sense. (Plus he called the king an ass.) Who is our Paine today?

It seems clear Alex Pretti, a healthcare worker, was murdered for engaging in the exact kind of community care we hope all care workers to embody: the kind that doesn’t stop at the threshold of the hospital, the clinic, but that aims to care for and support the community where and how they can

Yes. But not a TRC that offers amnesty in exchange for testimony (as they did in South Africa).

alex pretti had more courage than jeffries ever will

He died exercising his First Amendment rights. He was a lawful gun owner. Anyone with eyes can see he was holding nothing more than a phone. He was executed while restrained by five men. These are crimes against humanity.

Now do the World Cup