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This thread is the absolute raddest

Coming up Monday!!

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Yousof Azizi, Iranian researcher, journalist, commentator and PhD candidate at @virginiatech.bsky.social with valid legal status, has been illegally detained by ICE. He was taken from in front of his home, has been denied access to a lawyer, and may be transferred to a detention center in Louisiana:

I was told having kids would make me conservative (and that paying my own taxes would do the same). Instead it's rejuvenated my socialism. I see how kind people are to us every day, and they're a reminder that everyone, even the jerks, was once an innocent kid that deserved a better world.

Wrote a piece about Martha and the Vandellas, civil rights, and their place in the history of Black women R&B groups. I also created a YouTube playlist (in the comments) with some of their hits

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.” www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Worrye not about 'being productive,' for thou art not a product. Thou art a star daunsinge yn a hopeful skye. A signal blinking across centuryes and worldes. Thou art a song performid just once and perfectlye.

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Things down here are, to my knowledge, the most extreme example of higher education censorship currently in force. They’ve banned almost all content on sexual orientation and gender in teaching, and, in a startling low, grad student research. It’s unconscionable, offensive, and wrong.

I can't believe how much we've gotten done over the years. It's taken me all around for a number of very interesting conversations.

After Trump ordered his regime to root out dei efforts, opening the door to investigations and funding cuts, more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed with the IRS, removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities

So I won an alumni achievement award from UIUC tonight, and I so proud of my fellow alums and ghe current students. In an incredibly fraught time for universities and for the world it was nice to be reminded why we're fighting

I’m offering a lightly used set of regalia in UC Berkeley colors to a junior faculty member, preference for a mom and 1st gen scholar. DM me your details— I’ll ship for free.

Aled Damien Carbonell-Betancourt is the 17th Reported ICE Detention Death of 2026 A 27-year-old man from Cuba died on April 12, one day after the 16th death of the year. The pace of detention deaths holds at an average of 1 every 6 days. austinkocher.substack.com/p/aled-damie...

The House passed our extension of TPS for Haiti with a 224 vote victory of Democrats & Republicans alike. This has been a long-fought battle to defend our Haitian neighbors & our communities, and we're not letting up. The Senate must take action without delay.

At the core of the depolarization industrial complex is the concept of coercive harmony, and too many of the people funding it and doing the work can’t see that they’re actually contributing to the erosion of rights and democracy.

Earlier this evening: dozens of people gathered in Chicago's far north side Rogers (Phillip) Park in support of an 18-year-old Mather High School student and his mother, who, according to the student's older brother, were abducted from the Chicago immigration court at Ida B. Wells Drive in March.

this is just to say I have had an issue fetching the posts that were on the timeline and which you were probably hoping to doomscroll forgive me the takes were so hot and so rate limited

I sent a classified letter to House and Senate colleagues about a secret interpretation of surveillance law that every American should be concerned about. Representative Massie is right. The Constitution requires EVERY member to vote against a clean reauthorization.

Wardrobes and sticker books starve as well as bodies

I see they’re axing their undergrad degrees in music theory and musicology as well. OSU has an outstanding music theory program and (no inside knowledge) I would bet you that the faculty maintain this small major on top of their regular teaching load at a cost of zero additional resources

You can register for the Black Zine Fair happening on May 9 here: blackzinefair.org

ICE agent Gregory Donnell Morgan Jr. was charged on April 16, 2026, with two counts of second-degree felony assault in Hennepin County, Minnesota.

Russ Vought, the architect of the illegal budgetary actions of the Trump admin, responsible for illegally gutting many agencies, is testifying before the Senate on the president's budget request. This will be a rare opportunity for Dems to question him. I'll be live posting in this thread.

Interesting to see Yale piloting device-free intensive classrooms. One of the casualties of the current hoovering-up-of-students mode of staying solvent has been attrition of just such teaching and a reluctance to expect (much less require) students consistently to attend and engage in person.

This is great! The American Archive of Public Broadcasting, to their eternal glory, have digitized more than 7,000 public radio and television programs from 1940 to the present. It's a treasure trove of historic newsreels, interviews, speeches, and more. americanarchive.org

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The plane to Ethiopia below is the second private jet owned by MAGA billionaires Joe Nakash and Eli Gindi to do ICE charters. The other one, which I wrote about last month, did a third-country removal to an Eswatini prison, plus ICE stops in Liberia and Ghana. gillianbrockell.com/more-maga-bi...

One of the biggest labor battles in the US is happening right now in Los Angeles, at USC, where our faculty-union campaign with majority support is being met by nasty, corporate-grade administrative resistance, and national press won't cover it.

Tenure-track faculty at U. Illinois Springfield have been on strike for fair pay with real raises for 13 days. Click the card to email the Chancellor and demand she settle a fair contract NOW! #AcademicSky #UnionYes

A mediocre dude condescendingly explaining a core concept to an acknowledged expert who has both embodied and acquired expertise when he has neither? Is the Pope a woman?!!

an incredibly important project by Connie Walker — most Canadians don't know that the government has an archive of 38,000 residential school survivor testimonies, which are slated to be destroyed next year www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

Alleged white supremacist pleads guilty in fire at social justice center that trained civil rights icons www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/...

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

New York Mayor @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social has revealed the 1st site identified for the city’s municipal grocery store program. Mamdani plans to develop five city-run grocery stores — one in each borough. Grocery stores aren’t just businesses. They are essential amenities. They’re infrastructure.

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This is horrific. A U.S. citizen describes the facility in Arizona that her husband was brought to while he waited to be put on a deportation flight. Dozens of people were crammed into tiny cells, there was a "chain of people vomiting" from filthy toilets, no medical care, and only one meal per day.

3 of these are instruments (4 if you count scissors)! You know what to do friends

Someone compiled all of the Calvin and Hobbes strips about Calvin’s polls of his Dad, which is proof that good people do exist on the internet imgur.com/a/poll-resul...

NEW: At least 88 corporations paid $0 in federal income tax in 2025. That's despite collectively earning more than $105 billion in U.S. income. The list includes Tesla, Palantir, Live Nation Entertainment, Coinbase, United Airlines, Walt Disney, and more. itep.org/88-profitabl...

The European Citizens' Initiative, which would force the European Commission to put forward a vote to the European Council on suspending the Association Agreement with Israel, has passed 1,000,000 European signatures in less than three months. It needs 1,500,000 + threshold met in 7 states.

The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril | WIRED https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-tool-is-in-mortal-peril/

When you think about the mechanisms behind this status hierarchy, remember that it doesn't have to just be academics in a smoky room saying "Harvard or bust!" It can also be as simple as more resources provide people more opportunities to craft proposals and work out their ideas.

Woohoo, here's my essay with my fav co-author on 30,000 fellowship wins across the Guggenheim, Stanford CASBS, NAEd, National Humanities Center, RSF visiting scholar, and Harvard Radcliffe. Spoiler: it's the people working at prestigious universities www.publicbooks.org/who-gets-gug...

Federal prosecutors in Chicago tonight are asking U.S. District Judge April Perry to reject arguments from the remaining members of the "Broadview Six" that their conspiracy charge should be dismissed on First Amendment grounds:

“[DHS] paid $102.4 million in cash for the 825,620-square-foot warehouse in January — without notifying state or local authorities, filing environmental permits, or contacting the city responsible for supplying the building’s water. ‘The sewer pipe will overflow and/or backup,’ the order states.”