Trump's liberators in action.

I have a new essay in @bostonreview.bsky.social, a transnational look at how slavery and the policing of Black mobilities across Atlantic empires shapes contemporary border regimes, and how this informs how we conceive of abolition www.bostonreview.net/articles/hun...

The moral vacuity of the Trump administration.

A variation of bread not circuses?

"The AI Grad Student": A Harvard professor describes working with Claude. Early on, he describes misconduct that would cause any student to be terminated: "It faked results, hoping I wouldn't notice." But he ends the essay with "Now I'm doing 100% of my research with LLMs". Am I losing my mind?

Stay safe from ICE.

declassified RCMP files confirm Canada's domestic intelligence agency infiltrated and sought to disrupt legitimate political Indigenous organizations in the 1970s, in an extensive program of covert surveillance, informants and countersubversion www.cbc.ca/news/indigen...

We tracked down the superyacht owned by the world’s sixth richest man. Larry Ellison won’t like what we did to it 🛥️🏴‍☠️

Edward R. Murrow famously used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s. He got his start on CBS Radio, which will sadly be shut down after nearly 100 years of operation. We need more journalists holding the powerful accountable like this.

Newly-elected mayor promises to continue support for cyclists and pedestrians.

If HB580 passes in Alabama, it will eviserate academic freedom in the state & shift all control over higher ed curriculum & tenure to partisan politicians. This bill isn't about accountability; it’s about censorship & the dismantling of intellectual independence, innovation & progress.

“The most dangerous threat to Black studies right now is not coming from the federal government… It is coming from institutions that have decided, in advance, that accommodation is the same thing as survival.”

appalling mismanagement of public resources "chop from the top" means no gazillionaire salaries for upper admin, who should be educators, and it means no $15M fees to grifter consultants and oafing marketers

I’ve studied MAGA rhetoric for a decade, and this is what I see in Hegseth’s boasts, action-movie one-liners and gloating over dominance theconversation.com/ive-studied-...

This is an incredible resource and reference. 45 (!!!) examples of successfully bargained language, with every type of institution represented.

The US military is using AI to help process 1000 potential targets a day in Iran and striking the majority. How accurately? Hard to say — but a 2024 report said Pentagon algorithms correctly identified a tank only about 60% of the time (30% in bad weather).

Cuts to US healthcare, housing, education, and much more, but $$$ for "warfighters." It's a choice, and the wrong one for citizens.

Nikole Hannah-Jones of The 1619 Project speaks:

"If AI is writing the work and AI is reading the work, do we even need to be there at all?" Educators reveal a growing crisis on campus and off.

NYC and the memory of the notorious Triangle Shirtwaist Fire.

Trump last night: „We are helping NATO with Ukraine, so NATO should help the US to keep the Strait of Hormuz open.“

In a survey of 1,000 hiring managers, 59% say they emphasize AI’s role in layoffs because it “is viewed more favorably by stakeholders than saying layoffs or hiring freezes are driven by financial constraints.” Only 9% said AI had fully replaced any roles.

AI warfare and civilian casualties.

The is the federal government telling news stations to provide favorable coverage of the war or their licenses will be pulled. A truly extraordinary moment. We aren't on the verge of a totalitarian takeover. WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF IT. Act like it.

Addictive by design.

Brits are shocked at how expensive US Healthcare is. Which is exactly what Nigel Farage wants to bring to the UK.

Trump’s Golden Dome Is a Fantasy. Canada Could Still Be Dragged into It open.substack.com/pub/thewalru...

"Excursion (n): war. Previously, this term referred primarily to leisure travel. But in the last week, Trump has used it at least sixteen times to describe the war in Iran." Who ran against military adventurism again?

"Targets had been identified with support from machine learning algorithms known as Project Maven." ://airwars.org/the-first-civilian-confirmed-killed-in-an-ai-assisted-strike/

Make America Unaccountable Again. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

As a nation, do you know how assholic you have to be and how badly you have to behave to radicalize Canadians?

A newly published video shows that a US Tomahawk missile hit a medical clinic inside an IRGC base and near a primary school in the southern Iranian town of Minab where the authorities said 168 people, including around 110 children, were killed. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ukraine’s brilliant military improvisations are now a vital commodity.

This is seriously concerning for all academic researchers in Canada. www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/cc21826...

This is the voice of fast-declining American global reputation. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

"Everyone is 12" theory remains undefeated. At this point, I think there might literally be a 7th grade boy running White House comms.

$1.5T defense budget $170B on ICE & Border Patrol $100B on tax cuts for the 1% $20B from Treasury for Argentina $1B to refurbish Trump's Qatar jet $300M on Kristi Noem's jets $100M+ for Trump to golf $75k+ for Kash Patel's Olympic trip And now $50B in emergency funding for war in Iran? Priorities.

Endless supply of useful idiots.

AI data centres coming to your community. www.theenergymix.com/200-metres-a...

Remind us, was the US government in any way involved in this regime change?