Hundreds turn out for at least two demonstrations in Tucson, Ariz., including some 300 along Congress Street near Grande Avenue, January 24, 2026, to protest federal agents fatally shooting a

They are defunding science, education, and public health to provide billions and billions for ICE.

For the most part it seems to me that the people who dwell on Dearborn, or the Rio Grande Valley, or how Chinese or Iranian diaspora voted in California, etcetera, are doing so because they think it's one of the more respectable ways to launder racial disdain.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani said Thursday that Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate facing deportation, “is a New Yorker” who should be allowed to remain in the city.

They tolerated that Nazism before it was inflicted on them, ... they absolved it, shut their eyes to it, legitimized it, because, until then, it had been applied only to non-European peoples. -Aimé Césaire, Discourse on Colonialism (1955)

Why is he still writing? Why??

Careful out there ICE makes multiple arrests in Tucson Friday, including outside a school

Insightful. Iran encircled by "Competing death cults" 😱 Iran’s Three-Body Problem www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

semi-regular reminder that ICE was only created in 2003 when you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out

Many of Istanbul's visitors are unaware that the city is home to half-a-millennium-old stone-carved bird houses that reflect the Ottomans' reverence for the animals 🐦‍⬛🪺 bbc.com/travel/artic...

This is really, really great. wantmymtv.vercel.app

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Some context

Polls show that 70% of Americans oppose the war in Venezuela. But at this CBS News staff meeting, that number feels much smaller.

“Please do imperialism the legal way,” is a take I just saw on here. I thought that was just a meme.

Two books on Venzuelan civil-military relations I urge journalists to read. John Polga-hecimovich's chapter in the edited volume is an excellent summary of the Chavista era. Trinkunas' book is authoritative on the pre-Chavez era. I also urge folks to read articles on the topic by Deborah Norden.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Any reporter commenting on the illegal invasion and bombing of Venezuela by pointing out its government is “authoritarian” is providing cover and consent for the Trump admin’s crimes. Venezuelans are the victims here. Their government isn’t relevant in this. We are trying to steal their resources

Cancel the LA Olympics, scrap the World Cup, the United States cannot be a trusted part of the international community so long as the White House operates this violently and with impunity.

As stipulated in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress is the sole authority to declare war on another nation. The strikes on Venezuela therfore seem unconstitutional.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro:

#OTD 1 January 1769 Marie-Louise Lachapelle was born. She became head of obstetrics at the Hôtel-Dieu, the oldest hospital in Paris. She published textbooks about women's bodies, gynecology & obstetrics. Lachapelle is generally regarded as the mother of modern obstetrics.

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Archivists/librarians please share the coolest thing in your collections that will never be digitized.

“This tech’s downsides are minimal compared to its potential for good! Problems and dangers wildly exaggerated by alarmist ‘Luddites’!” Sure. Do go on.

I talk to my students about this on the first day, and use it to discuss why they are in college in the first place.

Not a historian but like to research. The AI might summarize what I'm looking for, but it doesn't find what I'm *not* looking for. The book on the shelf next to the one I wanted. The insight in chapter 6 based on the quote I needed from chapter 4.

Just say no to the "settled future" 💯

Yeah, I don't think using an anti-critical engagement (+plagiarism) machine is a great starting point for teaching critical engagement.

My friends, I say this with all the love in my heart: Right now might not be the moment for “But we should be TOLERANT and NUANCED about the plagiarism machines!” Your tolerance and “nuance” will be weaponised by the grifters and their apologists. Please respect yourselves more.

🏛️ An Ottoman Iznik #Pottery Bowl, c. 1530

I love soccer and I remember each World Cup with great intensity and always so much look forward to the next. But FIFA that was disgusting, even more disgusting than usual, and now I just can’t. And won’t.

700 Years of Persian Manuscripts Now Digitized & Free Online

RIP Jimmy

Around 1 million species now face extinction, many within the next few decades. We are facing multiple crises at the same time. No time to waste. Protect nature and ourselves. #ActOnClimate #climate #biodiversity #nature #rewilding #animals #cop16 #cop16cali

December 11 @ 1 pm ET: Join us online as D&S's @tamigraph.bsky.social discusses her forthcoming report on how climate conscious tech workers are attempting to reform the tech industry from within, with Eliza Pan of @amzn4climate.bsky.social and @khari.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/clima...

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The party exists to fundraise off sustained mediocrity. Nothing else.

Important—and sobering—findings about the state of the discipline and the academy.

It is very clear the gutting of Teen Vogue is about silencing their excellent political coverage. Corporations want you uninformed and shut off from meaningful journalism. And they’re staggeringly successful at it so far.

"Abandoned Land: Muslim Refugees’ Property in the Post-Ottoman Balkans" by @vhtroyansky.bsky.social. [4/5]

Here's where Tucsonans can get food aid as SNAP benefits lapse Includes places to donate or get food from

Cat Performance Review www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/cat...

Join OTSA this Friday for W'OTSAp Friday “Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World” with Aslı Zengin, Rutgers University, at 12:30pm CST via Zoom! To register, please visit: northwestern.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Devo already did this (they were at Kent State and saw their fellow students get shot by the Nat'l Guard) - a model very relevant for today when the Natl'l Guard is doing similar stuff around the Great Lakes region

“We may have survived physically, but we haven't survived mentally.” www.dropsitenews.com/p/gaza-journ...