More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

BREAKING: Israel has ordered shut the Allenby Crossing, the only gateway for three million Palestinians in the West Bank to the outside world, “until further notice,” in what appears to be a response to the wave of recognition of Palestine by UN member states including key European allies.

I mean come the fuck on

when the interview goes well: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

1/ So many thoughts about this whole, pathetic episode. But two stand out. www.texastribune.org/2025/09/19/t...

How do Americans feel about this? Are you embarrassed?

#AcademicSky www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So what I've gleaned from living among the christians is rapture is when they all go up to heaven and the rest of us stay down here. Does anything bad happen aside from having to stay? Is this when the four horses come?

As the brother of an autistic American, as a person who worked on US scientific integrity policy at the White House, and as human being, I'm boiling at the RFK idiocy. And though I have little to offer beyond surpassing rage and national shame, I did smile at this statement from NYU's Arthur Caplan:

Despicable

Everyone in academia should read this piece about our dear, brilliant colleague @durba.bsky.social www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

علاء علي الاسفلت!!!! Alaa is HOME and FREE!!!

The picture we've all been waiting for: #AlaaIsFree h/t: Mohamed Elbaqer

I regret to inform you that Gwar has pushed the boundaries of good taste.

David Petraeus greeting Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa at the Concordia Summit in NYC. When Petraeus was a 3-star in Iraq in 2004-6, Sharaa was fighting the US as a member of the al-Qaida branch there; when Petraeus was a 4-star, Sharaa was teaching fellow Camp Bucca detainees classical Arabic

People in palestine are bracing for greater crackdown as Israel punishes them for statehood recognition by UK, Canada, & Australia. As I, and many others, have pointed out - these proclamations of recognition do nothing to stop the violence.

HUGE HUGE NEWS FROM EGYPT!! Egyptian President Sisi has issued a presidential pardon for activist and blogger Alaa Abdel Fattah.

If you want to understand how the attacks on Ivies illustrates a close coordination between trumpland, trumpists inside notionally liberal institutions, and purported free thinkers working as state press, listen to @jeetheer.bsky.social interview @davidklion.bsky.social overcast.fm/+AA5oOCynyqs

The University Democrats at UT-Austin, a longstanding student group, has been told that no guests, candidates, or speakers can speak at their meetings unless the administration approves them. Submitted speakers' lists have been ignored or summarily denied. Please HMU if you know a good 1A attorney

Should I re-watch fleabag just to feel something yes or no

Children's hospital chaplain Ayman Soliman, whose detention sparked a community uproar and became a test of counterterrorism powers in immigration court, was released from an Ohio jail Friday as DHS abruptly withdrew its case against him. “This is beyond my dreams,” he told ProPublica.

Reposting in light of this morning's headlines www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...

This is a fantastic listen.

Worth a listen!

I ramble on about what recognition of a Palestinian state means. I address recent arguments around this issue by Paul Poast, Noura Erekat, and others. Let me know what you think. www.iheart.com/podcast/105-...

NEW: Air Force jets are doing ICE flights to Africa with transponders turned off, making them nearly un-trackable. This includes the third-country removal to Ghana and another secret flight. We figured out where it landed. From me for @rollingstone.com: www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

Here's what I think of the UK recognizing palestine www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...

NEWS: The Congressional Progressive Caucus — which represents nearly 100 members in Congress — has just voted to endorse the Block the Bombs Act, to block weapon sales to Israel. First time any major congressional caucus has backed legislation to end US aid for Israel’s destruction of Gaza.

You hear a lot about the FIre free speech rankings, which dominate media coverage: More info about their methodology, which excludes calculation of state level policies. Instead, it is basically student assessment/institutional policies/events. rankings.thefire.org/methodology osf.io/6d5gv

As the Trump administration is expected to add a $100,000 fee for H-1B visas, here's what we know about H1-B visas www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/... 🧵

ICE continues to assault us. We are peacefully protesting. They are kidnapping and hurting us.

Why is this horrible for Universities? Just about everyone who isn't a citizen or green card holder already who's hired for a tenure track faculty position is hired through an H1B and then, after 3-5 years, applies for a green card. This is literally "No more foreign professors can be hired"

Today's announcement stripping Syrians in the US of protected status is so profoundly dumb it beggars belief. It's safe for Syrians to return home and we want them out because Syria is a hotbed of terrorism. ?????

It's not going to work.

People keep talking about tech firms in relation to the H1-B $100k fee but it’s gonna really sink universities.

Breaking: Texas A&M University President Mark A. Welsh III will resign after more than a week of turmoil sparked by a viral video of a student confronting a professor over gender content in a children’s literature course.

“The question of what Palestinian people want is not merely a moral question but a strategic one, for without public support, solutions will go nowhere,” @danaelkurd.bsky.social writes.

So, a university president fired a professor because they taught a course that discussed there being more than two genders, and now the university president is being fired for not having fired the professor quickly enough, is where we're at. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/u...

There are many levers available to apply pressure to Israel, including an arms embargo, sanctions and compliance with the ICC’s arrest warrants on Israeli leaders. Recognition of Palestine uses none of this leverage.

“Syracuse University paused admission to 20 majors in the College of Arts and Sciences without faculty input” dailyorange.com/2025/09/coll...

“In some cases, the government appeared to rely on unverified tabloid reports about Khalil. In others, its claims were factually incorrect because of inconsistent timelines and mischaracterizations of his work history.”

Tony Blair’s US-backed proposal for ending the Gaza war+replacing Hamas After receiving Trump’s blessing, the former British PM has been rallying international stakeholders to form a transitional authority to govern the Strip b4 it gets handed over to the PA www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-ton...

great news! you're not actually seeing karl rove, john yoo, and david frum criticize the administration's lawlessness more stridently than dem leadership. you, reader, were infected with rabies by a brown bat 36 hours ago and this is all just the virus working its way through your nervous system

"At no point has any international actor considered what the Palestinian people want or even what they would accept. This is not merely a moral question, but a strategic one, for without public support, solutions will go nowhere." Excellent write up!

The two state solution is a dream of the past. It is time to rally consider what the viable options are, but that doesn't start with me, some random unemployed bartender who spends to much time doom scrolling. It starts with voices like @danaelkurd.bsky.social and other Palestinian voices.

“At no point has any international actor considered what the Palestinian people want or even what they would accept. This is not merely a moral question, but a strategic one, for without public support, solutions will go nowhere.”

"At no point has any international actor considered what the Palestinian people want or even what they would accept. This is not merely a moral question, but a strategic one, for without public support, solutions will go nowhere."

Reupped gift link: www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...

Several Western countries have announced they will recognize Palestine. None have considered what Palestinians actually want. As @danaelkurd.bsky.social writes, that isn’t just a moral question, but a strategic one.

Gift link for the afternoon crowd I write on why palestinian statehood recognition schemes are a trap www.worldpoliticsreview.com/palestine-st...