During Regime 1.0 they digitized ALL of the naturalization records. I've been muttering "Digital Windrush" ever since. There was no reason to do this unless they were planning on using denaturalization for voter suppression, seizing social security/medicare $, ginning up grounds for deportation

📯02/23 @ noon in DC: Friends and colleagues, I will speak on *Disrupted City* at Georgetown. I hope to see you!

"They must become familiar with official disappearances—an idea once confined to the outer darkness beyond the southern border but now fully domesticated."

Bangladesh's BNP wins parliamentary election - https://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2026/02/13/bangladesh039s-bnp-wins-parliamentary-election

“If you wanted to create a tool that would enable the destruction of institutions that prop up democratic life, you could not do better than AI. Authoritarian leaders & tech oligarchs are deploying AI systems to hollow out public institutions with an astonishing alacrity.”

Fuentes, yesterday: “Our #1 political enemy is women because women constrain everything, every conversation, every man, everything. They have to be imprisoned. They are the ones that are hurting the fertility rate. They're the ones making us sympathetic to poor people, which are also brown people.”

This is, first, fascinating, and then, horrifying: on the past and present of Maya peoples in Guatemala www.theguardian.com/news/2026/fe...

Every photo from Minneapolis looks like this. Cops decked out with guns and full tac gear facing off against people in bathrobes, parkas, and sweatpants armed only with whistles and cell phones. Yet every verified MAGA chode on X dutifully calls it a riot or violent insurrection.

Indian Americans should be ashamed that we have created pathetic Indian American men who are so desperate to be white that they are killing proven scientific research and viable vaccines. See also: Jay Bhattacharya crowdsourcing names in replies www.statnews.com/2026/02/11/m...

My review of Seth Harp’s The Fort Bragg Cartel, and thinking about the US special operators and their ties to drugs: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Had a lovely class discussion about Ross Perlin's *Language City* and we listed on the blackboard the languages assembled just around the table for a small seminar room in NYC.

Reading Marx and drinking Guinness

In October of 2025, Israel returned four hundred dead bodies to Gaza. But it denied entry to basic forensic materials that families would need to identify their loved ones—more proof of how Israel uses the dead to attack the living.

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

Is it our city, or is it theirs?

A journey in two screenshots

"Let me put that in perspective: 2.2 million people looked at an AI-altered photo of a dead man, checked the tattoo analysis from a stranger on X, and hit the heart button. We have, as a civilization, optimized for this." #epstein #ai #fake www.digitaldigging.org/p/google-mak...

The current situation in one graphic. ProPublica is tracking the volume of habeas petitions by state and court, as they overwhelm legal advocates and government attorneys. projects.propublica.org/habeas-track...

Columbia will never be free of this stain.

If Bad Bunny can cover the history of Puerto Rico, colonialism, transatlantic slavery, hemispheric consciousness, as well as contemporary life and politics in under 14 minutes, you can do your 15- or 20-minute conference presentation with time to spare.

An immigration court dropped its case against Turkish graduate student Rumeysa Ozturk, a little less than a year after federal agents arrested her on a street near Tufts University

“Today’s technologies— high-definition cameras, microphones, digital data harvesting & AI-driven analysis— are being used to create an environment of mass surveillance that ensnares almost all individuals within the US,” EFF’s Beryl Lipton told @themarshallproject.org.

OK "god bless america" and then naming every country in the americas from south to north is absolute king shit

this is excellent

Even if Lucknow was the heart of the #courtesan culture, it was Jaipur’s leading photography studio, Gobindram Oodeyram that seems to have accounted for the most #nautchgirl postcards by a single Indian publisher in the early 20th century. scroll.in/article/1090... ✍️Omar Khan

Lord forgive me, but it's time to go back to the old me: Trying to get dudes on the Internet to say "patriarchy" about the Epstein files:

Corinna Mullin is one of the “fired four” adjunct faculty of @psc-cuny.org fired without cause or explanation from the City College of New York. She was arrested during her college’s encampment, maligned at one of the congressional hearings on antisemitism & was the target of right-wing attacks.

Lovely trend. Jumping in with one of the most beautiful books on South Asia I have ever read by the inimitable @sepoy.bsky.social remakes what we can do as historians of postcolonial places whose temporalities are jagged with violence but which persist nonetheless. news.columbia.edu/content/disr...

It was a true pleasure to spend a few hours this afternoon with my colleague, Shahid Rasheed, and his Sanskrit students in Lahore. Lahore has a long history with Sanskrit; it's so wonderful to see this next chapter being opened. thewire.in/south-asia/l...

People keep debating whether Epstein is more tied to Russia or Israel without understanding it's the same people: dual Russia/Israeli citizens involved in organized crime. The modern roots of this operation, going back to the 1980s, are detailed in the excerpt from HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT below.

Meanwhile in Stasi (NYC chapter)

When I visited not long after the 2016 election, I found it hard to photograph the concentration camp at Dachau in a way that captured the intensity of the experience. But this historical placard that literally begins "After the factory shut down…" stayed with me.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Like when no one in Congress showed up for a drone attack survivors’ testimony?

Martinez: "[I] sat in federal court and watched from 20 feet away as the border patrol agent who attempted to kill me testified at a hearing. Agent Charles Exum—Charles Exum, my attempted executioner was Charles Exum—I hope the government does not consider my use of his name here to be...doxxing."

Do you remember when people were saying "I think my phone is listening to me, i'm getting ads for stuff I spoke about" and people said "They arent listening to you, they're just this good at predicting your interests"? Well, it happens they were doing exactly that. www.cbsnews.com/news/google-...

My office has been flooded with reports of the cruel, unsafe, unlawful conditions inside of the Whipple detention facility in Minneapolis. This weekend, I was finally granted access to perform oversight of the facility. youtu.be/0SxPn8n2Bfg

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“In the next few days a pall fell over the country. The quiet was chilling. We all knew that a bloodbath had taken place, though we didn’t know its true magnitude and perhaps never will.” A report from inside Iran by the novelist Salar Abdoh: www.equator.org/articles/the...

Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com

22 year old Bangladeshi man from Queens, Jabez Chakraborty, has had multiple surgeries after shot 4+ times by NYPD this week. Family said they called for medical help, not cops. after, NYPD confiscated phones & questioned their immigration status gothamist.com/news/family-...

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

As a side note, it’s funny to see so many of these emails with thirsty academics repeatedly enact Marx’s bit in the 1844 Manuscripts about the power of money. “Oh Mr Epstein, your house in New York is enormous and, unrelatedly, your questions at dinner were so intelligent, so insightful, so deep.”

Texas A&M ends its women's & gender studies program while hundreds of syllabi remain flagged and censored under top-down review policies. “I have never seen anything like this.” — Dr. Leonard Bright, @tamu-aaup.bsky.social President @texasaft.org @texasaaup.bsky.social @cwa-tseu.bsky.social

Minnesota based Independent Journalist GEORGIA FORT has been arrested for filming a protest of the church pastor that works as an ICE manager. SPREAD THE WORD! Georgia has been doing outstanding reporting from ground zero!

STATEMENT FROM ABBE LOWELL, ATTORNEY FOR DON LEMON

I went to New York's Metropolitan Republican Club to learn how to survive a mass shooting. www.thenation.com/article/soci...