Philadelphia in candlelight. A city paused. Love showed up for Renee Nicole Good.

Of course he’s from Chaska

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Second flat tire on the bike within one week 🫡

Logging back on briefly to encourage you to go read this issue of Pasts Imperfect, where I have an essay about the push to automate literacy in the contemporary academy and the relegation and subjection of literacy in Ancient Rome pasts-imperfect.ghost.io/pasts-imperf...

An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

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This is the other reason why Minneapolis Public Schools are canceled the rest of the week.

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

babe wake up, new update to the US hegemonic suicide dropped:

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Star-Tribune: The mother of the driver who was shot and killed by ICE identified the woman as Renee Nicole Good

they are recruiting for the worst, bottom-of-the-barrel chuds imaginable and those chuds are behaving exactly as you'd expect

Remarkable statement from an elected official.

DHS tweeted this yesterday. Little more than 24 hours later, ICE agents just shot and killed a legal observer in Minneapolis.

"You gonna murder someone else? You can't kill us all, Nazis."

A US citizen has apparently been shot by ICE agents in Minneapolis. I’m gathering information, but the situation on the ground is volatile. ICE should leave now for everyone’s safety.

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ICYMI: Texas A&M admin is requiring a faculty member to either remove *Plato* from their syllabus for being too woke or be reassigned to teach “Ethics for Engineers” at 8am

What in the Gestapo is going on in Grand Rapids? Watch this activist get arrested *mid-interview* for speaking out against U.S. action in Venezuela.

If I had to pick just one book to force every USian to read in order to understand how we got here, it would probably be Jesus and John Wayne. Decades of evangelism hardcoding its lust for macho white supremacist gun-toting rugged individualist bullies.

Not to get too Baudrillard about it, but I wonder if the reason is that politics has become aestheticised to the point that power needs to be made visible through intuitively muscular gestures in order to be 'real'. Strongman leadership is both necessitated & motivated as the form of the simulacrum

kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

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Denmark is a NATO member state. Mexico, Colombia, and Venezuela (and Cuba, formally) are OAS member states.

#WATCH | Columns of smoke rise from the site where occupation forces demolished residential buildings in the Al-Tuffah neighborhood, east of Gaza City. (Times of Gaza)

The fisherman Abdulrahman Abdulhadi Al-Qan, 32, was killed after Israeli naval gunboats opened fire in the southern Gaza Strip.

Really, a remarkable statement from Colombia’s President.

On X, a senior U.S. Justice Department official is promoting a post that praises colonization as “one of the greatest things that ever happened to the backwards parts of the world.”👇

as we start to look towards the new year (!): abstracts for #ResDiff7 are due 12th Jan

In 2024, we founded a new open access, peer reviewed journal. I'll be at the #AIASCS in San Francisco with a stack of #ResDiffJournal postcards, and as submissions editor I'd be happy to chat with anyone looking to submit their work. resdifficiles.com #AIASCS26

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

stop trying to make "future historians" happen. you can just say you've passed any hope of meaningful justice in this world onto an imagined secular afterlife. that's fine.

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NYT: At least 40 people were killed in the US attack on Venezuela, including military personnel and civilians.

Fun fact: the US has been at continual war since 1945 and *not a single one of these wars*, from the Korean War to Vietnam to Iraq to Iraq again, was ever declared war by Congress. The last time the US Congress declared war was 1942. 83 years ago.

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Just an absolutely pathetic response from absolutely pathetic people. I was not a fan of Pelosi but even she would be better than the current crew.

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Ah okay so this kind of thing is, historically speaking, a whole different thing.

the ultimate democratic party response: i LOVE the crazy illegal thing you just did, but could you perhaps come to my office to sign form 317b for it?

My latest law review article "Securitizing the University" just dropped. It interrogates the university's relationship to the US nat'l security state both historically & since Oct 7. This relationship is at the heart of attacks against universities over the last 2 yrs papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

We're going to need a bigger Hague.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

Colombian President Gustavo Petro said there were civilian casualties in the attack and posted a video. Also from the NYT:

All. Please be aware - the US has attacked Venezuela.

Again there is no precedent for this. It's fucking crazy.