Unpopular opinion but we need to scalp collaborators, too. And there’s a lot of friends to be implicated in that circle than anyone wants to admit.

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

underrated thing about midwestern cities: the bunnies that run around late at night

Lithub has an excerpt of my book, which is out today! lithub.com/how-middle-m...

and a lot of these services were initially created by libraries or other public institutions and were sold off or spun off private companies or “non-profits”

the fact that we’re this far into it and there’s been virtually no serious widespread calls for a new constitution much less amendment shows how devoid of political imagination we are

wandering the Sonora desert in a carefree fashion like

I don’t know how Europeans with their closed stack libraries do research because just going to the stacks to just browse the shelves and pulling various books is such a generative part of my research process when honing in on something

meanwhile, (albeit from what I’ve heard anecdotally) the Salvadoran consulates aren’t providing many services if at all to those in the camps and are likely collaborating with ICE to target opponents of Bukele

AMEN. Education is public scholarship. It's a distinct form of public scholarship, but that's just what it is. We have to treat it as such.

Auto Union Silver Arrows:

if you have a severe or deep wound and it won’t stop bleeding and don’t want to get stitches or go to the hospital, you can go to the hardware store and get some xylene or some naphtha and pour that on it. how it works: it intensifies the pain and will probably threaten your life. It will not help

Happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes 🐀🎶🎉

“The open letter, which has received over 4,300 likes and 2,900 shares as of Friday, appealed to Americans to “stop pretending this is only about one man.” He said, “A leader does not act alone. A leader is chosen, carried, and enabled. And so this is about you.””

Happy Surrender and Freedom Day! On April 9, 1865, Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the Army of the Potomac. home.nps.gov/apco/planyou...

all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

The obsession with this stupid fucking deadline and the ~drama~ of Trump Making Big Decisions™ really seems to be obscuring the fact that basically everything being talked about happening tonight has already been happening every night for the last thirty-eight days.

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

I’ll probably deactivate again but I am drunk from hanging out with said workers and I’m here to remind you that you’re not doing enough and your smug sense of superiority is cope for being a free riding loser who doesn’t do anything as your government turns the world into a smoldering ash pit

telling my kids this is the Centre Pompidou

MICHIGAN WINS THE NCAA MBB NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP

"Welcome to my old neighborhood." Jim Lovell Source: NASA TV. #ArtemisII

I do not like monster time, mr. gramsci

Actually we should just give citizenship to every undocumented person in the United States who wants it. Walking over an imaginary line isn't some great moral atrocity. Making people live in the shadows as a permanent underclass absolutely IS.

In addition to being great factual reporting, this does a really good job of disambiguating all the things that get hustled in under the header of "AI," and the various sociotechnical and historical points at which that term has been used to mean those different things.

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears (read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Might’ve just seen a fireball meteor

You could say that Rock n Roll was born 111 years ago today in Arkansas, but probably not where you'd think. Before there was a Chuck Berry or Little Richard, there was those who wanted to be like her. Rosetta Nubin better known as Sister Rosetta Tharpe, the godmother of Rock was born on this day

Replace all Cesar Chavez Avenues and statues with Dolores Huertas. Fuck that anti-immigrant pedophile rapist piece of shit.

you know it would be kinda a fitting end to the prestige of the American military, especially the marine corps, whose whole sort of formative doctrine was based around being a 19th century colonial enforcement rapid response force

Venezuela's World Baseball Classic win is the country's first championship in any international sports competition since 1945 🇻🇪🏆

BREAKING: Venezuela rallies in the final inning to beat the United States 3-2 for its first World Baseball Classic title.

The completely casual destruction unleashed in Lebanon and Iraq--not even as an afterthought, but just completely incidentally to this campaign--is really one of the most grotesque things I can remember.

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

all this does is legalize slave labor on American shipping

It's hardly a tragedy that Americans will suffer higher gas prices because of a war their country started, but it's deeply unfair that so many developing countries will suffer the harshest economic impacts of a fuel shock they did nothing to cause. Millions will languish in poverty.

another day in the p-value factory. everyone asking me if they can *** it. buddy, they don’t even let me *** it.

On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

maybe we should consider not basing our society on rock juice

They are torturing and killing people in our concentration camps, and I wish more people were actively bothered by that

If you smell toast, you might be having a stroke... a stroke of luck that is. It’s toast time.

Armed & ready to do battle: Don Quixote, riding off in search of a worthy foe, followed at more leisurely pace by Sancho Panza. Wonderfully captured in 1866 by Honoré Daumier, born OTD in 1808.

The Guardian has identified the Columbia student abducted by DHS as Ellie Aghayeva. She posted the IG story below: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

ProPublica received eight handwritten letters from children who have been held at the detention center that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was recently released from. We'll let their words speak for themselves.

Inside you there are three owls