Democratize decision making, eliminate some VPs.

DHS repeatedly said that an aggressive apartment raid in Chicago last fall was prompted by intel on a gang takeover. Documents show the real story behind the raid was to target alleged squatters — with the landlord's blessing.

ICE under Trump 2.0 built an unprecedented media operation - deploying videographers to raids, pumping out edgy social posts, swiping pop music for hype videos - and the main metric for evaluating its impact shows that Americans now hate ICE more than ever www.washingtonpost.com/technology/i...

my office in the library came with ZERO bookshelves...what's up with that?

American Library Association staff are unionizing! afscme31.org/news/america...

Twice in the last 5 months, my 70 year old father has claimed that his doctor gave him the HPV vaccine last year. And twice he meant his doctor gave him the RSV vaccine.

is st. paul a real place?

JUST IN: A federal judge in Oregon has barred ICE from conducting warrantless arrests without probable cause in the state, saying the agency's "dragnets" have flouted "clear and undisputed" law. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Congress rejected massive cuts to US science budgets for 2026, but much of the money still isn’t flowing to researchers. The culprit? The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is quietly slow-walking the release of funds. 🧵👇

US citizen abducted in Minnehaha in south Minneapolis at 9am this morning

UPDATE: Manhattan Borough President Brad Hoylman-Sigal says that "ICE used a phony missing persons bulletin for a 5 year old girl," to lie and get into a Columbia residential building and detain a student. "It is unconfirmed at this time whether they impersonated an officer to do so," he adds.

rep angie craig, running for US senate, spoke to UMN student dems in last night and finally had to address her vote in favor of the laken riley act! she was asked if she regretted it, or if her opinion had changed, and she said NO even after all the terror ICE brought to MN!

This is Minneapolis:

I never have to answer "what's saint paul like?" again

guy in his late 20s at Lunds: “I like this water because it’s caffeinated but zero calories. just water and caffeine” Guy sounding like my grandma in the 90s drinking crystal light and fat free fig newtons

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

University workers are reaching a breaking point re collective bargaining. Virginia must take steps to reverse years of anti-union laws. Without a strong and democratic voice, the decisions made by administrators re pay, workload, + academic freedom fall short of creating a fair [email protected]

What a blow. Programs like these strengthen the rest of the university.

after failed military incursion, us government responds with economic sanctions

Which is bigger failure: the total lack of moral clarity across our institutions? Or the belief that they ever had any?

Aliya Rahman, woman who was dragged out of car by ICE in Minneapolis: "I've spent the last month learning the names of the tendons in my shoulder, because both of my shoulders are torn -- cartilage and tendons. But what I haven't learned is the names of the people who did this to me."

he made everyone put on a suit and stay up late to clap for him while he recited all of his recent truth social posts??

As seen today across the interstate in St. Paul, MN.

When a lawsuit was filed challenging Minnesota’s ban on captive audience meetings, we got to work defending this pro-worker law. The Court of Appeals dismissed the lawsuit and today, the Supreme Court left that dismissal in place. This is a great day for Minnesota workers.

re: east coast blizzard: I just told my wife “it’s weird that people who don’t live here experience winter” Minnesota exceptionalism complete.

“To take bold action […] we must overcome our ingrained obedience to authority. Sasha noted that under a “tyrannical authoritarian regime” like the Trump administration, an allegiance to authority was utterly self-defeating, and that a posture of disobedience was essential.” 🎯🎯🎯

After months of relentless rapid response in Minneapolis, members of Defend the 612 had a moment to breathe and reflect on the lessons they’ve learned, the grief they carry, and the citywide fellowship they hope will endure. The crisis is not over, and I’m grateful they made time to speak with me.

Don’t give the University of Minnesota President or BoR ideas, they‘ve never met an unnecessary admin position they didn’t want to hire

a single hamms at stump party 🪵 and I slept in so late that I might be a teenager again

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We came, we saw, we cheered and booed. Stump Party V!

This is an absolutely brutal and wholly accurate indictment of the ills of higher ed at the hands of the administrative class, particularly the self-styled top institutions — or those designated as such by US News and World Reports.

“Everyone thinks universities have to do what donors want because they pay the bills. But that gets it backward. Giant donations, he’s come to realize, often increase the university’s bills, generating new operating expenses for projects that have only tenuous links to the university’s core mission”

and my parents called, my dad said he has Stump Party every weekend, then walked away from the phone (on speaker) 🪵

Pregamed Stump Party by knocking down the squirrel nests from the trees in my yard 🪵🪵

My spouse was supposed to fly to NYC for work tomorrow—but with the incoming blizzard, the next flight option from Minneapolis was Wednesday morning. Taking all my midwestern strength to not say “let’s just drive”

Scholarship that challenges white supremacy, colonialism, or state violence is labeled as divisive. Programs rooted in Indigenous, Latinx, and Black knowledge are consolidated, put under review, or dismantled. The result is not balance—it is containment.

A first-person account of life in hiding.

Reminder: The legal win belongs to the WORKERS of UC, not the administrators.

This community in Minnesota is one of the hardest hit

i always get a little car sick on the campus connector (in good news: it didn’t crash through Acadia!)

Minnesota residents and lawmakers say the promised drawdown has not materialized, and they are seeing ICE use more covert tactics to continue operations across Twin Cities suburbs. By @ncsscibelli.bsky.social

La Retraite de Hugues de Payens, by Georges Mathieu, 1958 (rotated), 📸 by @tiltoncreative

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

Omg did yall see this incredible ad in the A section of the Star Tribune today?

University administration has been so busy convincing people over the years that “shared governance“ equals information sharing. It doesn’t! It means shared decision making.

for lent, i'm giving up

So many confirmed ICE sightings across the Minneapolis suburbs today (and further out). Keep your buckle on folks, this terrible ride is still going.