Maine residents should be paying particular attention.

crazy that the website that I randomly decided to put together at 10AM yesterday has had over 25k unique visitors in 24 hours. please keep sharing with your networks.

In Louisiana, a man drowned being chased by ICE agents. www.nola.com/news/crime_p...

Trump says a lot of deranged shit, but, per this Reuters article — and the threats of invoking the Insurrection Act in Minnesota this morning — he is very clearly exploring how to cancel the midterms. www.reuters.com/world/us/fiv...

I started doing this a few years ago--when I read a great scholarly article, for example, I will drop a note to the author telling them how good I think it is. Especially if the author is a junior person. It takes two minutes and is a nice affirmation.

In the most desolate, American techno-fascist story one can imagine: ICE descends on a data center construction site in Louisiana to abduct workers. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HC gas is evil shit. It will give you both acid and thermal burns on your skin, eyes, and lungs, poison you systemically (with long-term sequelae if you live), and will kill you outright in high concentrations (or if you’re just unlucky). This is a weapon of intentional and sadistic harm.

While good news, the details in this article about this group of racist anti-vax Danish scientists with close ties to Kennedy is even more damning. I hope the Danish scientific and medical establishment is taking a long hard look at their licenses and positions.

The next Democratic president has a model for what to do with ICE----what Trump has done to USAID, the Ed Department and other agencies, writes @mford.bsky.social. Trump has dismantled agencies he disagrees with, and Dems can do the same. newrepublic.com/article/2053...

Another thing you should know about the Twin Cities, if you're not here, is that while the mayor and governor tell us to stay calm on TV, our council members and other local electeds are on the street patrolling and protecting neighbors, doing mutual aid, and otherwise serving the community.

Trump’s AI Action Plan, outline of a new geopolitical arms race with China, makes no mention of the university—save for one passing reference to a disciplinary function, to ensure that no university research undercuts industry scaling. A marked turn from the university’s role in the Cold War race.

Delighted to announce the launch of a new seminar - Race and the Early Modern - in collaboration with @folger.edu. A monthly, transatlantic, online seminar for research on race, racialisation, and racemaking across #earlymodern Studies. Sign up to attend! kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

US higher education was a crown jewel, generating knowledge, wealth, prestige, and power unrivaled by anyone. And the US is throwing it away, because Americans elected a govt ideologically opposed to truth, science, merit, and racial/gender equality, preferring to weaken the country to reduce that.

This is the guy in charge of this trial. Normally I wouldn’t look up and publicly post the details of an academic but this man, who is in open violation of the Declaration of Helsinki, deserves no consideration. www.linkedin.com/posts/freder...

SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground. Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.

My daughter's school in Richfield, MN (adjacent to Minneapolis) is closing tomorrow due of out-of-control federal agents. Fourth graders spent the week building walls of snow at recess to protect their classmates from ICE. This isn't about immigration enforcement, it's about terror.

Gentleman on the scene who talked to this Dad said that he asked ICE officers if he could vacate his family and they said that's fine. He loaded up the car and as soon as he put it in drive, they lit the car up with flashbangs and tear gas. The 6mo old stopped breathing and EMS had to be sent in

Straightforwardly colonial theft.

Kaiser Permanente, DOJ reach $556 million Medicare Advantage fraud settlement, the largest of its kind www.statnews.com/2026/01/14/k...

Of all the grotesque hauntings of the heyday of colonialism that have come to curse our present, this might be the most horrific I have thus far seen. A study that exposes African babies to a lethal virus just to “prove” vaccines don’t work is not science. It’s colonial violence.

Project 2025 is obsessed with China as our biggest international threat and their solution to that problem is to attack US higher education. That’s thinkin’.

Gross. All of this is gross. Can I go back to a time when being racist or sexier or casteist openly was a source of shame and social stigma? I am old enough to remember when that was a thing.

It really feels like the federal government of the US has decided to declare war on Venezuelans, Danes, Minnesotans all at the same time. Weak authoritarian regimes (which includes dying colonies and empires) make no sense but are just maximally destructive as they flail around

That's the crux of the Democrats electoral woes: nobody, not even their rank and file, believes that party leaders will sacrifice their book deals, their future consulting jobs, or their lives to defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and especially domestic.

I have no doubt in my mind that Chuck Schumer will *never* put his life on the line to defend the American Constitution or a multiracial democracy, unlike the likes of Andy Kim, Chris Van Hollen, or Tammy Duckworth.

While what is happening at TAMU with academic freedom is egregious, it is worth noting this started a while ago. In 2022, they vacated the tenure of their librarians and gutted the library. The library system was one of the best in the country. www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2...

North Minneapolis shooting tonight. Gift article www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

“This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement,” Walz said. “Instead, it is a campaign of organized brutality against the people of Minnesota by our own federal government.” www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Lmfao my three year old talks as if his brain is a parking lot and the thoughts that shoot out of it are a random assortment of vehicles and dinosaurs. I TOTALLY believe this Nazi 😭🤣

"This isn’t even venture capital anymore. Venture capital means you take a risk. High risk, high reward. If there’s no risk, that’s not venture capital." —@anildash.com sf.gazetteer.co/theyve-pickl...

I've spent a lot of time in former British colonies & the formerly colonized often speak 2,3,4 languages & I've become convinced that many pedantic English speakers police others' grammar bc of an insecure rage that they only speak one language yet must feel superior to their multilingual inferiors

NEW and WOW: Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, and Canada are sending troops to Greenland amid continued threats from U.S. President Donald Trump to annex the territory, multiple outlets reported. www.newsweek.com/greenland-ge...

2. I don’t know — maybe it’s having spent every summer in Iran during the Iran–Iraq War as a child. It’s very upsetting to see so many monarchist Iranians who live comfortably in the West celebrate their country being bombed. No patriot wishes for their country to be bombed.

There’s a giant banner of Our Fearless Leader hung on the Department of Labor…

BREAKING: The UK is sending a single military officer to Greenland at the request of Denmark to participate in a multi-nation exercise

i feel like if the president actually went through with invading greenland, it would implode America

The place where I am seeing the obvious cracks in the US system showing up most clearly is in the prison where I teach. This is neither incidental nor surprising but eventually those cracks, invisibilized by design, will affect everyone. This place feels like it’s falling apart.

People are all focusing on the midterms but my fear is that the Dems win and do nothing. Still. And the only way to stop that is support candidates who commit to acting, and refuse those who do not. And to put pressure NOW on those doing nothing.

The four Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other three are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people including the Dakota 38 during the Dakota Wars. ictnews.org/news/north-c...

📢 Our new VoxDevLit on International Migration is out now! Senior Editor Dean Yang & Co-Editors Catia Batista, Gaurav Khanna, David McKenzie, Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak & Caroline Theoharides review research on international migration. Read & download here: https://ow.ly/qXx950XWAar

Technological progress has always been 1% inspiration and 99% ... something else that ends in -ation www.economist.com/internationa...

She says ICE agents mocked her: “The ICE agent who had pepper sprayed into the vents of my car said ‘you guys gotta stop obstructing us, that’s why that lesbian b—— is dead,’ verbatim, speaking of Renee Good. Which filled me with absolute rage and shock..." www.mprnews.org/episode/2026...

"Inuit advocacy groups, as well as Greenlanders who live in Canada, are emphatically opposed to American designs on their homeland." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

The history of civilian mass detention on the basis of identity without due process or recourse (which is how I defined concentration camps in my history of them) shows that it invariably leads to permanent harm—and typically significant loss of life as well. The longer it goes on the worse it gets.

Gov. Kathy Hochul endorsed legislation that would allow New York residents to sue ICE agents in state court for civil rights violations, an escalation of efforts by Democratic-led states to rein in the agency.

There is a crisis of impunity. The Musk/Grok stuff is just one f many examples of people who are counting on there never being any consequences. And it all makes me just incandescently mad.

I am grimly pessimistic about this from what I know of Hindutva voters. They knowingly want this. There’s an underlying appetite for cruelty that drives far right voters, as long as it is directed elsewhere and which they experience as an affirmation of their status as insiders to the body politic.

EMPATHY: In a new article out in Behaviour "The Evolutionary & Developmental Origins of Empathy: Honouring Frans de Waal’s Legacy", I consider how processes like mimicry, contagion and early social experiences shape later social-emotional development. #OpenAccess here 👉: brill.com/view/journal...

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

We have Justin Amash and Bill Kristol saying ABOLISH ICE before most Democrats. What does that say about the Democratic establishment? Primary season is on right now, folks. We all deserve better.