Flu cases in CT have increased dramatically over the last month, and officials say the surge in illnesses is happening earlier this year.

Growing crowd here at 34th and Portland in south Minneapolis, where witnesses tell me an ICE agent shot an observer in her car. Witnesses said she was not responsive and was taken away. Bovino is on scene along with dozens of federal agents.

Press release from Senator Richard Blumenthal (@blumenthal.senate.gov) #CTPolitics #NutmegSky

“The number of hospitalizations among children under five has actually already exceeded last seasons hospitalizations at the peak of the season, and we’re nowhere near our peak yet.”

I don’t remember any of the plot of True Detective but “time is a flat circle” is something I invoke regularly

somebody at the gym joked that “its almost March” and I believed them

“The university cannot credibly claim that it lacks the resources to sustain academic programs and faculty positions while simultaneously paying over a million dollars to a failed chancellor." www.1011now.com/2026/01/06/n...

From an email to one of our faculty members.... Not even Plato can escape censorship at Texas A&M!

sorry El*n The Police Department is the real Everything App

"Health-profession degrees are expensive to deliver, so it would be difficult for universities to drop their tuition prices." you know who can help? states CAN increase their support to universities. maybe not every state this is a place where organizing can and does move the needle.

Now available on YouTube: youtu.be/cFGOAfYKit8

I had no idea that Hartford was a major mid century lobotomy hub lithub.com/a-brief-and-...

fwiw, this is an independently owned and operated hotel (Hilton franchisee) and Hilton corporate has disavowed its action here www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

just found out This Is My Jail is coming out in paperback this fall 😊😊😊 www.pennpress.org/978151282349...

LASD starting the year off with a bang with its first jail death on day one of 2026.

hate to click on a link to a new book and see it’s by someone who was rude to me at a party ten years ago!

Get Back, the perfect January documentary

to my kid, who is loudly hitting a paper bag with a plastic shovel: don’t make me stay up all night probing the core of the human personality in a deeply Canadian way

last night I stayed up too late listening to Mavis Gallant’s Paris Stories and I stg I’m going to do it again

If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning. Let purpose preempt despair.

Elizabeth Catlett & Alberto Beltrán, Untitled (Composition for a Peace Poster), c. 1950 www.artic.edu/artworks/222...

“Donroe Doctrine” has me saying eff this, I am never teaching the survey again

"There is no inherent constitutional authority for the President or any intelligence agency to violate the law.” -Church Committee Report (1975)

I hope my kid sleeps in, this is all too much 🫩🫩🫩

Do people know that there are almost 1 million Muslims in NYC? Where are the stories about how Muslims are feeling about the first Muslim Mayor in NYC?

friends, I want to read a book about Brian Wilson, what should I read?

“Cars” is a very weird movie about convict labor

people are clearly forgetting the conditions in which Michelle Obama wore JCrew to the inauguration

this is a sign I need to spend more time in Philly

new quarter century more art more good

I have been informed that a woman, sentenced to LWOP when Nixon was president, will be released from prison next week.

New Year’s Steves (watching Rick on a Burgundy river cruise)

if Trump dies in 2026 we’re all making this www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/gian...

One of our most-read stories this year: A Pennsylvania county stopped charging people 'lodging fees' for detaining them in jail. Then it forgave $65 million in these fees. “What a light of hope this has been,” said one woman whose son owed $17,000.

Dec 31st - While the scientists working on it had a new years eve party, the in-production law enforcement cyborg "Robocop" woke up. 📽️📅 RoboCop (1987)

“are you ok, Monster Truck?”

letting our child have juice 🍾🍾 🍾

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thank you 🥹🥹🥹

premium thrifting conditions, so much nice, like new stuff at the Goodwill. (I contributed by donating stuff I’ve been driving around with for months)

because I liked enough book cover posts in 2025, the cover design gods delivered

the top 100 countdowns cemented my love for preposterously cinematic music videos like “November Rain” m.youtube.com/watch?v=8SbU...

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

this was a year of many collaborative, still in progress projects (I might owe you an email). I did start a newsletter to share new work in my field, which you can subscribe to here: carceral-history.ghost.io

Arrived home from vacation to find the first copies of my book on the doorstep @ugapress.bsky.social #protestandpedagogy #protest #pedagogy #histed #edhist #history #charlottesville

finished Maggie O’Farrell’s After You’d Gone and it’s a perfect New Year’s book for sad girls

2025 is the year I gave up on dress pants and started wearing jeans to work. I can’t believe it took me so long