The Congressional Progressive Caucus, a group of nearly 100 House Democrats, will announce later today that it's formally endorsing legislation to strip $175 billion from ICE and put it toward affordable housing. www.huffpost.com/entry/doj-fe...

Make a programming error more like the worst boyfriend you ever had.

The thing speaking as an “I” is, by itself, so cringe inducing that I - an actual self - will never ever use it.

“You’re right—and thank you for calling that out.” 🙄

If someone has the ability & interest, writing a simple guide to Signal aimed at Minnesota soccer moms and grandmas, you'd be doing us a solid. (I keep thinking I can do it but no, I'm not up for it.) (With some emphasis on good opsec, how things work in large group chats.)

so much to cover right now, but a thread i just want to throw out there from my reporting is that the car rental market in minneapolis is reportedly totally screwed up right now because ICE has cleared the inventory. rental companies should have to answer for supplying vehicles used in terror.

ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms

one of the weirdest things about the current moment is how the national media have to pretend like they don't know what this is about. official government social media accounts are posting about racially cleansing America and they have to pretend like it's not clear who the bad guy is.

An end to the male loneliness epidemic? Previously aimless and disaffected young men and boys are finding companionship by driving around together to tail the goon squads and warn their neighbors.

It goes without saying that in the US you’re not supposed to have a masked secret police that snatches people off the streets without knowing if they’ve committed a crime. That’s about as basic a requirement for a democracy as exists.

They don’t know who they’re taking because: -they don’t talk to them -they’re random pedestrians It is literally indistinguishable from a kidnapping when you see it, except there are so many of them, and they are more heavily armed and armored than any kidnapper would ever be.

I know some have been a little unnerved at the aggressive following and noisemaking tactics of the observers. What they don’t realize is that it’s necessitated by what ICE is doing. You have seconds and you need as many eyes on them as possible, and as many people trying to get key info as possible.

Congress can dissolve ICE.

WASHINGTON — With the support of nearly 70 colleagues, Rep. Robin Kelly (D-Ill.) on Wednesday introduced three articles of impeachment against Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Even just a name can put in motion efforts that get someone released. If they're a citizen, we can get them jail support. If they're an immigrant, there are groups working overtime to file habeas petitions before they're whisked out of state. But it starts with a name.

The risks section of the report, which is also of course based on early data and anecdotes, is sobering. But from a teacher's perspective, it seems hard to believe that the benefits of using this for writing exist independently of the potential to replace doing the thinking. /5

People will pull data from that section of the report to support bringing AI into the writing process but they may miss this, at the end of that section, which suggests we really don't know much at this point. /4

"the risks of utilizing generative AI in children’s education overshadow its benefits...that is, these risks undermine children’s foundational development—and may prevent the benefits from being realized" I don't agree with their recommendations, but this overall finding is significant, I think.

If the Dems vote to increase ICE funding for "better training" (overseen by whom? accountable to what?) I will never give a single Dem a single penny ever again

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.

Woke up to more texts that ICE is in Portland, Maine. According to a message I received, they are expected to be here for a week. Stay safe, local friends.

"The union also wants limitations on hospitals’ use of artificial intelligence."

I’ve been beginning my undergraduate classes (FYW, FYS, etc) with bell hooks essay on Critical Thinking for *years* and it never disappoints. Students connect to it and get inspired by it.

Why the fuck do they have rifles at all. They are kitted out like they are going into Fallujah. They enforce paperwork crimes!

If you just want to delete your account, they say they can't do it over the phone but you can do it by emailing [email protected]

It's worth your time to call Hilton to cancel your account with them. 1-800-446-6677. Here's why: They asked me if it was because of the ICE thing. I said it was. Then they suggested I wait a couple days to see if they were going to change course. The pressure is getting to them. Let's keep it up.

It’s just Day 3665 of the Long 2016.

I curate the history series at public media's trade journal Current. We're looking for pieces on the history of NPR, PBS and its affiliates, with some space to imagine public media's future. We accept academic articles repurposed for wide readership. Plus, we pay. Please circulate!

The message from the White House this morning is that, once again, it falls on ordinary American citizens to remain calm and professional when dealing with the heavily armed agents of the government because they are very emotional and might fly off into a murderous rage at the slightest insult.

Episcopalians going *hard*

I stopped using Canvas this year; instead of uploading documents, I made a PRINTED course packet. More work up front, but then it's all done and everything is in one place; schedule adjustments can be made in person/in class. Students liked it; they actually wrote on the text, engaged with it.

i refuse to give canvas any more of my labor/date or my students'. i use it as a gradebook only and update every 3 weeks. takes away grade anxiety, too, i've found... students don't get notifications on their phones about their grades. they get the grade in class, on their assignment, from me

One of the reasons I push back as hard as I do on "cities are scary" nonsense is that I do not accept the view that we should treat unfounded fears as legitimate, and we have too long indulged the unfounded, racist fears of conservatives. And that in turn is leading to a moment...

Related: are there folks who are making a shift to bypass Canvas for uploading assignments this term? I haven’t yet, but considering. Shared folders instead?

I have to say, as a man with two mothers, I find the derisive deployment of language like "lesbian" and "lover" by those on the far right who are trying to justify Renee Good's death particularly disgusting and dehumanizing. These women. They are wives. They are a family. That's it.

We should stop giving guns and billions of dollars and total legal immunity to men who fantasize about murdering women.

"Queer theories demand 'an ongoing reconfiguring an iterative reworking of past, present, future.'" Our research and teaching should support students' and researchers' need to "birth our biases and subjectivities into being," allowing us to "connect with those creations rather than abhor them." 5/

DELL EXEC: Consumers are “not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome." @pcgamer.com #CES www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

Today is one of those days where I’m struck anew by how *bad* the internet has gotten. It’s almost unusable. Clouds, apps, advertising — nothing is where it should be and it’s nigh impossible sometimes to do basic tasks online.

This part is important. The regime issues many decrees/speech acts. The media print/post headlines for clickbait. May we counter the regime with affirmation of laws and the constitution in 2026 rather than rage posting and doomscrolling that concretize the regime’s formulations.

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It's the first #ModWrite of the New Year! Let us know what you're working on using the hashtag 📚 (and don't forget to sign up for the BAMS New Work in Modernist Studies conference, held online this Friday 9th January, here: forms.gle/RQEkATXgkGcg...)

The President's powers come from the Constitution and Congress. There's no third source. If neither grant a power—and, more importantly, if either prohibit it—then the President doesn't have it. Full stop.

In a study following 23 million people age 18-59 (pretty young) for 4 years…despite the fact that the ones who got the COVID vaccine were overall older and sicker at baseline, they not only had 74% lower risk of dying from COVID than the unvaccinated but 25% lower risk of dying from any other cause!

Okay it's officially time for the MANY terrible recent takes on fandom to stop. There are literally decades of academic work and reams of fandom journalism by ppl like me and @gavia.bsky.social and @fansplaining.bsky.social that are intended to save you from embarrassing yourselves to this degree!

it says “NEW!” on the box and is simultaneously discontinued, so you know it’s good

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments. One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

It's not your fault. Our health care system sucks, and doctors like to gaslight women into thinking it's just "anxiety" when things are medically wrong!

Reading Agatha Christie’s A Murder is Announced and damn if it isn’t a post-war murder mystery version of Between the Acts

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