Sundown on the winter solstice in the northern hemisphere.

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Get trained. Throw sand in the gears. Take video and photos for the inevitable trials of the lawless agents who brutalized our neighbors. The day when we hold them accountable to the law is coming. monarcamn.org/training

The gun industry’s sales tactics — playing up paranoia and glorifying combat — may be creating a pipeline of extremists willing to open fire www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

"I Was Surprised by the Good Nature of the Students." Free article on student anti-war protests, available now from the latest issue of Middle West Review: bit.ly/46gLfS4

More than 100 UVA faculty (and counting) have signed an open letter condemning political interference in the university. The forced installation of a new president under these circumstances will cast a shadow on teaching and research. Read here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

The leaders of three of Pennsylvania’s largest employers — the University of Pennsylvania, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, and Comcast — on proposed SEPTA cuts

Faster, more frequent buses! Brought to you by congestion pricing. "The MTA has already increased service on eight key express routes heading into Midtown. Next week’s improvements are meant to speed up travel within the boroughs on lines with particularly high ridership." —@nydailynews.com

RIP Jim Parkinson, an iconic Oakland-based typeface designer who designed or refined the nameplate of every magazine and newspaper you know

DO NOT LOOK AWAY ICE arrested a 6yo boy with leukemia at #immigration court

Buried in the Republicans' billionaire tax giveaway is a special interest provision that would essentially ban states from regulating AI for a decade. This is a dangerous proposal that has nothing to do with taxes. It cannot become law.

For everyone's information: they/them/she www.pride.com/culture/spor...

i am simply asking the press to cover the government sending masked thugs to rip people from their crying children and shipping them to a foreign concentration camp with the same ferocity they cover a trans kid playing jv tennis in sheboygan

the more i think about this the more i think that his campaign was a showcase for how centrists *say* they want democrats to campaign. the issue is that what this looks like varies from place to place. i would not expect mamdani to be able to win in virginia, but a mamdani-style campaign could!

#OnThisDay, 25 June 1983, around 2,000 women create a 4.5mile rainbow snake to encircle the Greenham Common camp in England, protesting the use of the airbase to house US nuclear weapons. #GreenhamWomen #BritishHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

My only recent photo with Zohran is when he joined us at the first Jewish mass action against Israel in Gaza and we all got arrested and taken to jail. Now, we and thousands of people who volunteered for his campaign made him the boss of the very NYPD who arrested us. Organizing can change anything

NY Democratic machine genuinely befuddled after the charismatic, talented person with good ideas defeated the sex pest fuck-up with name recognition

From today's protest in Chicago.

@prisonculture.bsky.social and I have been encouraging people to read chapter six of our book, Let This Radicalize You, which deals with the question of "violence" in social movements. We have decided to share the chapter publicly, to offer some context and grounding for the current conversation.

the national guard was deployed against BLM protesters five years ago. All it did was make us angrier.

oh my God a New York Times editor had to resign 5 years ago over publishing an op ed by Tom Cotton calling for the military to shut down George Floyd protests now Wall Street Journal is letting him do the same shit separately, "Tom Cotton" sounds like the final boss in a video game about slavery

Any academics interested in reviewing my book about how empire, global migration, and scientific understandings of race shaped the counter-insurgent and surveillance-heavy style of modern policing?

New piece! Media coverage of Kilmar Abrego Garcia hurt Trump, not Democrats. An actually data-driven analysis of some stale conventional wisdom. Alt title: Matt Yglesias is wrong about Democrats and Abrego Garcia🧵

Watch the slow motion: it appears to me that the officers discuss the photographer and reporter before the one on the end fires on them (it looks to me like he's aiming at the camera, not the reporter, but you decide)

State troops sent to Los Angeles by the Trump administration, without the approval of California Gov. Gavin Newsom, were expected to sleep on floors or outdoors, a source told the Chronicle.

Modernist Pride 🫡

With alt:

Homey little songs about how cities are amazing and you feel good when you wander around them and they're where you're from and you couldn't imaging living anywhere else are one of my favorite microgenres.

We're now doing british forced apology tweets for protected 1st amendment activity

Similarly, "bean bag rounds" are typically filled with lead shot, not plastic. They can fracture your skull and kill you. After I got hit with one in 2020 (thankfully in the leg), an Austin Police Department officer acted surprised there was metal inside.

I get what you're saying about the optics of this but a couple of things: Los Angeles was Mexico first. Trump has targeted Mexicans specifically. Mexican pride is also a good strategy for mobilizing community. Chavez et al used US flags strategically but it wasn't the only flag they waved.

It is true that Elon has opened the door for democrats. They should tell the American people that Elon is angry because of what this bill takes away from *him* while democrats are mad because of what republicans are trying to take away from *them*. Leave the deficit out of it.

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just superbly done. first round KO www.gelliottmorris.com/p/kilmar-abr...

Azeen worked with many of us during a period when universities would do nothing about sexual harassment and assault in our field. We trusted her. To see her pivot to transphobia and targeting children and vulnerable families was breathtakingly awful.

Reader, should you invest in fascism?

See here's the thing: these ice agents are cowards. That's why they cover their faces. That's why they don't identify themselves. They are holding huge weapons and are utterly snowed by a bunch of snow-haired ex-hippies. We don't need to be scared of these doofuses

Jonathan Joss--voice actor of John Redcorn from King of the Hill, and Ken Hotate from Parks and Rec--was killed in a homophobic hate crime today. I'm so angry.

Just brutal here in Indiana.

The FBI is now going after trans people and their healthcare. Today it's gender affirming care, tomorrow abortion. This is the authoritarian playbook on display.

A group in San Diego is patrolling neighborhoods to identify potential ICE presence. They keep watch for vehicles that may belong to federal agencies, and use livestreams, radios, and social media to keep communities informed. boltsmag.org/how-vol...

THAT tunnel?

Whoops forgot the link

NEW: The Trump Administration Knew Most Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Had No U.S. Crime Convictions