The way our nation turned its back on those who helped us at great risk to themselves and their families is an unforgivable national shame. We owed Mohammad Nazeer Paktyawal. Instead, ICE arrested him in front of his children and he died in their custody. We failed him and his family.

A 42nd person has died in ICE custody under Trump, a new record high for these deaths. This time, an Afghan asylum seeker who had worked with our special forces. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

Undercover Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank shot and killed a Palestinian couple in their car and two of their children, aged five and seven. Khaled, the oldest child who survived, recounted that the soldier declared "we killed dogs", then took him out of the car, and beat him.

Killing people and destroying things “just for fun” is psychopathic behavior and even saying it is something only a psychopath would do and every U.S. news organization should be shouting that from the rooftops. Editors: Rise to the challenge of truth-telling or make room for someone who will.

⚡️Russian strike on Ukraine hydropower plant spills oil into Dniester River, threatening Moldova's water supply.

Moldova declared a 15-day environmental alert in the Dniester (Nistru) River basin after oil contamination linked to a Russian strike on Ukraine's Novodnistrovsk hydropower plant threatened the country's water supply.

Ronald Regan kicked off the gutting of Public Universities,Colleges and Community Colleges, for the same reason.

“Mother, father & brothers aged five and seven shot in the head, face as they returned from shopping trip” Just another everyday massacre by Israeli “police”, one atrocity among countless others as US proxy Israel spirals into ultra-terrorism. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

fuck me for being this person, i guess, but public universities are a civic good and shouldn’t be run like businesses. and if you’re going to insist on running them like so, at least do some market research. students like their professors; they don’t want MOOCs taught by ChatGPT.

students are also frustrated by rampant careerism. they *want* options; they *want* to pursue things that interest them; they *want* more than the credential from college. we saw this in 2020-21: why did students hate distance learning so much? because college is about more than completing credits.

Abulhawa is simply antisemitic, and defending her antisemitic rhetoric is also antisemitic. I hope it helps to clarify things.

Increasingly, the self-described Jewish state is declaring itself off limits to left-wing Jews. www.haaretz.com/west-bank/20...

Luttig: Every single time Donald Trump opens his mouth or takes an action, the American people are forced to go into court and litigate. That’s the tragic place America finds itself in today. It is only the Supreme Court that is standing in the way of the American people saving their country.

Sexual assault is a normalised part of male homosociality, and sexually charged violence against the least masculine or lowest status people in all-male groups and spaces is part of how men teach each other to uphold rape culture.

community colleges really ARE rising to the occasion. they’re the part of the sector where i find the most hope for any meaningful future for higher ed.

Students love fancy facilities, sports programming, and name brand recognition, but when asked, most point toward interaction with engaged professors who help them learn how to think and evaluate the thinking of others as the most transformative and important part of their college experience.

Happy 2069th anniversary of the assassination of a wannabe dictator in a last-ditch effort to preserve a colonialist republic

required reading, truly.

Just as many other scholars are defined by their genocide denial, why should Habermas not be?

Ronald Regan kicked off the gutting of Public Universities,Colleges and Community Colleges, for the same reason.

I can't boycott a streaming service I don't use ... and now won't consider.

Important tread laying out the disaster Trump has created.

White supremacist WASPS who claim to run this country don't mean "you" when they say "us". They mean Smith, James, Miller, and Robertson. Not Facciolo, Stephanopoulos, Goldfarb, or O'Brien. Not even Hansen, Koch, or Pieterson, really. You're all getting played.

At this point anyone still paying for WaPo has a humiliation fetish.

NEWS: The Trump administration is reviewing DACA renewals so slowly that the delays are causing people to lose their jobs, licenses, and deportation protection. It’s happening across the country. Our Sunday story with @lauranrodriguez.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2026/03/15/d...

NEW: Georgia cops arrested a woman for murder after a hospital said she had an abortion with misoprostol. But in a disturbingly similar 2015 case, a prosecutor said state law prohibits criminal charges—and @ifwhenhow.bsky.social tells @autonomynews.co the law hasn't changed. Both women are Black.

Here are the Democrats who voted with these 52 www.borderreport.com/news/politic...

Palantir has no place in our NHS. The Labour government must get this Mandelson and Trump backed company out now. Listen to what health workers are saying. news.sky.com/story/nhs-ho...

"An obscure methodological change lowered a key measure of inflation in January, prompting questions about how government statistical agencies produce and report economic data... "The bureau provided no public disclosure of the change... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/b...

Peter Thiel is a good example: he is funding opposition to a wealth tax in California, threatening to leave the state, while also trying to persuade his fellow billionaires to rescind their commitments to charity.

Vast concentrations of wealth have sometimes - but not always - generated political pushback. In some cases, the very wealthy tolerated higher taxes or committed to philanthropy to offset populist dissent. Now they pretend to be the populists, and keep the money. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/14/b...

The Illinois House version of this ‘Age Verification’ bill is Thursday Submit a witness slip in opposition here: www.ilga.gov/Legislation/...

The fact that Mamdani criticized Susan Abulhawa - who has pretty definitively crossed the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism - should be a reason for Jewish organizations to thank him for showing solidarity. But I'm not holding my breath.

Zelenskyy: "Putin never wanted to stop the war. America has to make big pressure on Putin or he will not negotiate. Of course the situation in Iran gives him more money, and the process of taking off the sanctions also is helpful for him. It gives him more assurance that he can continue the war."

When you have lost the person who supervised the modern construction of the international grift machine that is FIFA. I say this as someone who was frustrated Chicago no longer has a stadium qualified for World Cup games: Boycott the World Cup games in the U.S.

Consequences are good.

Extreme economic inequality is incompatible with democracy, because extreme economic inequality creates ready targets for shit like this.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Does the US really want to go down this road? newlinesmag.com/reportage/ho...

Beautiful statement from Ayman Odeh, Palestinian MK and head of Hadash-Taal. For those who do not read Hebrew, I will translate:

Simple information about what the SAVE Act would actually do to American voters. Tens of millions would lose their right to vote unless they spend lots of $$$ and jump through bureaucratic hoops before November.

I can't boycott a streaming service I don't use ... and now won't consider.

Again, please start looking at American history to explain America because Goldwater, McCarthyism and blackballing are right there...

2 charged in killing of former SFU instructor who was outspoken Iran critic - First-degree murder charges have been laid against two people in connection to the death of Masood Masjoody, a former SFU instructor and outspoken critic of the Iranian regime.

Never fund DHS again. Abolish it completely. If someone wants to moan about "but but we have to ____" yeah fine we can discuss a new department, but *this* department has to go.

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating. Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

You don't get to paper over the fact that they are bigots. They knowingly wanted to strip minorities and women of any historical representation. They killed projects simply because they had ethnic identities and genders attached.

Lebanon’s Health Minister : 31 health responders killed in Israeli strikes since conflict began; more than 12 in a single strike in southern Lebanon. Targeting health workers and first responders is a war crime.

For those of you wondering why all the nerds are pouring one out for this Habermas dude and wondering why he was so important. If you've ever heard or used the terms "public sphere" and "private sphere," you are using Habermas terms.

I cannot adequately explain how fucked up the World Cup situation is wihen the president of a host nation *threatens the safety* of one of the participants (Iran). The USA should be removed as a host nation and if it's not, the games shoud be boycotted and ANYONE WITH A MORAL CENTER should see that.