Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...

My mom said from Raleigh that people there were squaded up against ICE & ICE is leaving Raleigh & Durham tomorrow. She said there were trainings at churches for ICE watch & all kinds of things. She said "these are our people & ICE is not welcome." Alright mommy!

Tomorrow is my birthday, and if you’re inclined, I would appreciate it if you could donate to @remorahousedc.bsky.social. Aside from being stellar people, they work hard year-round to give comfort and aid to our neighbors in need. givebutter.com/remorahouse I’ll match the 1st $100 in donations, too.

The DOGE playbook is still being carried out by political appointees. I work at SSA and the Commissioner has repeatedly said he is a ‘DOGE guy’ and that we should embrace the DOGE ethos. And many former DOGE staffers have burrowed their way into the civil service. empirejustice.org/resources_po...

TODAY! What are your favorite musical debates in the broad world of modern rock/indie?

What could it mean if the Supreme Court guts Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act? “It’s about the future of Black representation across the country and representation for all voters,” says an attorney involved in the case.

"Given that the Big Ten is about to create 'a for-profit company using what are essentially public dollars,' [a Penn State trustee] argued, boards need to know more in order to be able to advise their institutions accordingly." www.insidehighered.com/news/governa...

Our legal victory in AAUP v. Trump ensures that the Trump administration cannot use civil rights laws to pull federal research funds from universities, which undermines our 1st and 10th amendment rights. AAUP General Counsel Veena Dubal explains why this is a major victory for higher ed workers.

Video of intertribal dance at @ncmuseumhistory.bsky.social 30th Annual American Indian Heritage Celebration. The event is being held this year at the @ncartmuseum.bsky.social

A federal court said this week Trump’s deployment of the National Guard in D.C. was likely unlawful and harmed the District’s right to govern itself. The court rejected Trump’s claim that he can independently mobilize the Guard for local policing. https://bit.ly/43JFQRz

In Rhode Island, ICE arrested an intern who worked for a court, and then a judge intervened to say they had the wrong person. All leading to a scene where ICE agents surrounded the judge's car and "threatening to smash in the windows if they did not comply." www.wfla.com/news/judge-i...

This case shows how Maryland's image as a refuge for trans people does not extend to marginalized trans women. This April, Trans News Network reported on a lawsuit by trans women in Maryland prisons who had been tortured, intentionally placed in danger of rape, and denied hormones.

the christofascism has been here for a while for us

Local Boycott Target DC Coalition has been picketing the Target store in Columbia Heights for over six months straight urging consumers to spend their dollars elsewhere outside of Target. They are inviting folks in the area to join them on 11/29.

Wheatpasted outside the Metro in #OccupiedDC

Here's the #AMS petition, which outlines the problems in the Program, Ethics, and Accessibility committees (with links to testimonial accounts). It is calling for transparency. 412 current and former members have signed, against membership of 2508 (as of Nov 2023). docs.google.com/document/d/1...

In October, AG Pam Bondi demanded that companies like Apple remove apps that allow users to document immigration activity in their community. We're suing to get the underlying communications. www.eff.org/press/relea...

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

Immigration agents had a 12-pack of Modelos in their car while making arrests, Miguel Angel Garcia Martinez told investigators.

Solange made a zine and it's sold out. But the Schomburg Library in NYC will have few that folks can borrow on December 2 apparently.

“This is a wake-up call for leaders: Flock (ALPR) technology is a threat to our core democratic values,” EFF’s @Maassive.bsky.social told @404media.co. www.404media.co/cops-used-f...

The all-white make-up of this Tennessee county board is by design. In 2021, the county drew a map with no majority-Black district, even after the board’s own counsel warned this would illegally dilute the power of Black voters.

HAPPENING NOW: DC community members are outside MPD headquarters to demand independent investigations of and release of all officer names and body cam footage in the three deaths in police custody this week, as well as the termination of Trump’s “DC Safe and Beautiful” Task Force.

This woman, Florence Reese, wrote the protest song "Which Side Are You On?" on the back of the calendar off the kitchen wall after seeing her husband, union organizer Sam Reece, dragged away by sheriff JH Blair's mercenaries during the Harlan War in 1931

Solidarity with the faculty at The New School, one of the most important institutions for humanistic research in the US over the past 75 years.

Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.

read up on our work here: bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Much needed intervention!

By getting rid of federal data about Black and brown children, women, and families, this administration is making it impossible to see the harm they are wreaking—harm to a generation, harm that will have lifelong effects.

These two men chased a disabled homeless woman out of a mostly empty industrial area parking lot where she parked her car to try to sleep. The face of evil doesn’t look like a movie villain. It just looks like people like this. Laughing, smug, self-assured, as they attack people trying to survive.

Do people outside the academy know how close most US universities are to folding? Even your alma mater. Even your kid's top pick. Even your favorite sports team. Trump is killing us.

Retired US ambassadors and other former high-ranking State Department officials have sent Secretary Rubio a letter decrying the targeting of foreign students and faculty for expressing views. drive.google.com/file/d/1GIq2...

There is no greater testament to the social power of effective regulation than pulling the plug and watching how quickly everything turns to shit

Join @fedworkersunited.bsky.social for a SPIRITED fundraiser @ Dew Drop Inn, this Thurs 11/20 6:30-8:30pm 🎉🪩 Federal workers will be donating all KINDS of services in a silent auction to benefit a DC/MD/VA federal worker solidarity fund! (Guess which one is mine! 😇) 💘 bit.ly/FUNDMV1120

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

This all-male panel is deciding whether South Carolina women can be charged with murder for their pregnancies — and whether birth control and pro-choice websites stay legal. This a real thing happening today. Don't look away.

For the first time in my life I wish I lived in DC

In somewhat good news, today the state department website has changed the answer to this question to defer to ICAO policy. Sources still tell me that there is some appetite for invalidation/reversion of passports issued under the injunction, but this message will be welcome to many trans people.

The Trump regime has fired an estimated 70 immigration judges since February. This is happening as immigration courts face a record backlog of cases. Remember: it was never about legal immigration. It was always about cruelty.

THIS IS IT. THIS IS THE ONE. FOLLOW THE LEAD OF THE SURVIVORS ALWAYS. Help make this go viral. Please.

Maryland showing that our safety comes from looking after each other and refusing to comply with regime orders to commit their crimes against humanity. #BraveOfUS www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/ne...

"Homeland security investigators worked approximately 33 percent fewer hours on child exploitation cases from February through April compared to their average in prior years" A tragic shift with real consequences - just one horrifying example:

Signs of life.

"i'm fine with whatever happens to other people kids" is the load-bearing pillar of conservatism

📌 Our friends at @50501dc.bsky.social are helping us organize a food drive on Thursday, November 20th! Please bring donations directly to FLARE (at Union Station/Columbus Circle). We will see you on the 20th for a massive Congressional visit! 💥 #FuelTheFLARE #YouCantScareFLARE

Every academic should join the @aaup.org national and their local AAUP chapter. If your uni doesn't have one, start one! Colorado academics, check out @aaupcsu.bsky.social! We're active, growing and looking to collaborate. Join the resistance on academia's front lines.

"An important lesson we can draw from the new report is that our failure in higher education to defend, without giving any ground, pro-Palestinian speech has proven to be not just costly, but nothing less than an existential threat." Dan Segal on the AAUP-MESA Report. wp.me/p8xr4h-dit

Santa looks pretty in control of his faculties all things considered