I've said it before, but the first school that promotes itself as "AI-free" is going to corner the market on folks committed to learning. (gift link)

Dr. Kirk Moore did not deny giving fake COVID-19 vaccine cards and throwing out vaccine doses. “All that stuff is true,” he told @sltrib.com and ProPublica. He also repeatedly made the unfounded claim that the vaccines were “bioweapons.” (Published Dec. 2025)

It’s been that kind of week. @wsj.com @financialtimes.com @bloomberg.com @nbcnews.com

#DouglassDay is here! Looking forward to celebrating and transcribing with everyone this afternoon. libguides.su.edu/crowdsourcin...

Violent interactions with the public aren’t surprising, a former ICE official said of the agency under Trump. “That’s sort of by design.”

Make sure to listen to this week's episode with @walterdgreason.bsky.social and Tim Fielder about The Graphic History of Hip Hop, and tell me what your #1 album is! Also, the aide organizations that we mention in the beginning of the episode can be found in the show notes. youtu.be/x2rorT5tpng?...

He literally says in this clip that ICE will keep in Minnesota “quick reaction forces” — a military term — to go after “agitators.” Remember that those on the ground in MPLS have spent more than a week trying to tell everyone that Trump’s prior “deescalation” was a ruse and ICE is still operational

There’s gotta be a German word for the cursed experience of reading the Fulton County affidavit after reporting on the 2020 election in extreme detail. Even redacted, every niche witness jumps out—many conspiracy theorists with no real expertise. The US government treating them as credible is nuts.

NEW: A page from Bondi's burn book. This is a list of the searches by Rep Jayapal of the unredacted Epstein files. That means the DOJ grabbed her search terms from the computers they set up for members of congress to view the Epstein files to use as ammunition. The photo is from Reuters.

***Know Your Rights Information on the IEHS Website*** The IEHS website now has a “Know Your Rights” page with several resources to navigate the current immigration landscape: iehs.org/resources/ad...

When the universe speaks to you, listen carefully. #BlackSky

This is why domestic "shuffle" flights between ICE detention centers have skyrocketed, much moreso than ICE deportation flights. When you are moved to a different jurisdiction, you have to refile your habeas petition all over again. They want to wear people down so they'll give up on their cases.

Judge Bartle rejected the government’s argument...Citing more than 100 similar decisions in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, he found that Lopes’ detention under the wrong statute, w/o a bond hearing, violated federal law and ordered his release #FuckICE #ACAB www.newsweek.com/ice-suffers-...

Please call the Senate they will vote very soon on whether to allow dangerous sulfide-ore copper mining on the edges of Minnesota’s Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Tell them to vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140 (H.J. Res. 140).

Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" killed Medicaid expansion in Mississippi, lawmakers say. It would've helped 300,000 people. www.mississippifreepress.org/medicaid-exp...

"The Epstein class" is a global rot In Europe, ties to Jeffrey Epstein are ending careers, sparking spy probes, and possibly toppling governments In America, not so much. How the lack of elite accountability became the tipping point for democracy. My new column www.inquirer.com/opinion/jeff...

Listen to this. Not a penny more for this. Abolish and prosecute anyone who had anything to do with it.

When AI was added to a tool for sinus surgery: “Cerebrospinal fluid leaked from one patient’s nose. In another… a surgeon mistakenly punctured the base of a patient’s skull. In two other cases, patients suffered strokes after a major artery was accidentally injured” www.reuters.com/investigatio...

Johannesburg’s Nyamakop Studios turns African artifact repatriation into a bold heist game. Protagonist Nomali and a crew of ordinary citizens reclaim 70 real-life artifacts taken during the colonial era. The 30-person dev team includes people from Zimbabwe, Ghana, Nigeria, Ethiopia and Tanzania.

Exactly!!! And they're forming community, the very bedrock of activism from which collective action springs:

Everyone's homework is to watch "Hello Tomorrow!". It's about a sad conman (Billy Crudup) with a vacant dream of casual moon travel in a retrofuturism era in which that's conceivable but not possible. He takes their money and gives them promises, telling himself the optimism is the real product.

Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family. “He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.

To put that in visual terms, imagine how far off the chart 15% would be.

When they boxed Elliott and I in and came to my car they literally said to us right away: “This is your first and final warning we have license plate readers and facial recognition we know who you are”

Ecstatic to be a part of growing new audiences for history everywhere! #Blackademics

Stand together. @americanstudier.bsky.social

“We rely on Hispanic labor,” said Chris Gross, a second-generation farmer who grows sweet corn seed and mint in Wilder. She added, “Nobody thought something like this could happen here.” “91 percent of voters in the precinct that includes Wilder backed President Trump in 2024.”

Want to understand intersections of African, Indigenous, and European cultures and their evolution over time? Take a deep dive into the history of the Caribbean and all of the Americas! #benitobowl #afrolatine

(1/2) - Bad Bunny just delivered one of the most heartfelt, beautiful and -important- Half Time shows that the Super Bowl has EVER seen. It was an incredibly thought out love letters to his ultimate love, Puerto Rico and to the people of Puerto Rico. 🇵🇷 #SUPERBOWL #BENITOBOWL

And these words on Bad Bunny’s football held up to the camera at the end: “Together We Are America.”

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Walk with me through Early Black Nashville. #NashvilleSitesTours #BlackHistoryMonth2026 nashvillesites.org/tours/early-...

This is a populist message and alternative to MAGA that can form the basis of constitutional renewal

Always one of the best sources of new ideas - Black and White and Read All Over. @learothawms.bsky.social @myhnn.bsky.social

Today. Minneapolis. Saint Paul. Minnesota.

Are you with me?

Just going to say that the PBS documentary about Wilmington gave me an opportunity to drive down there for the first time in years. Re-read The Wilmington Lie etc. It was all very…clear, in a way a lot of people will tell me the present isn’t.

Protesters marching through Downtown Minneapolis this afternoon. "TOM HOMAN LOOKS LIKE A CANNED HAM" "Mr. Rogers... ICE IS EXECUTING THE HELPERS!" "BLOOD on the snow ICE has got to GO" "STOP PRETENDING RACISM IS PATRIOTISM" "IT'S A BEAUTIFUL DAY TO MELT ICE" February 6, 2026

This week at Group Threat, I spoke with @grundrza.bsky.social about Florida's censorship regime, teaching under authoritarianism, and how folks are coping (or not).

President Donald Trump went on a wild social media posting spree late Thursday night and into Friday morning, one that included a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes.

We should’ve known when they brought in Tom Homan The “draw down” of ICE in Minnesota is nothing but a hoax -They’re still threatening protesters at gunpoint -They continue to conduct warrantless arrests -Kids are still being detained It’s only a matter of time before they kill somebody else

They’ve been on this for a minute. More teaching + post tenure review (and contracts) plus ai supercharged productivity surveillance tools also makes professors more vulnerable to student evals, which gives admin more power to fire you. That’s the plan.

Let me explain the math behind why the destruction of the Washington Post isn't about money. The paper is now losing $100 million a year. Jeff Bezos is worth $253 billion. This means he could self-fund the Washington Post for THE NEXT 2,000 YEARS and still have $53 billion LEFT OVER.

This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class. bsky.app/profile/loui...

the mercers on epstein client lists; they bankrolled bannon, milo, gamergate, breitbart, cambridge analytica… www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

The Trump administration is trying to erase Black history anywhere it can. trib.al/dTV4CTg Anonymous Park Service officials told Mississippi Today that they were being ordered to make incredibly political omissions to the brochure that accompanies the Medgar & Myrlie Evers Home National Monument.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’