The United States chose a racist system of local property tax funding for public education and now we get this...

What this means, practically speaking, is it's very likely you and your friends can both outsmart and outrun the average ICE agent.

Rema has nerve problems in her hand due to a bacterial infection. She needs injections, and maybe surgery, to get it fixed. It would be great if we could get her this $500 for the injections.

i hope people are noting the dates in this.

The Department of Religion at Dartmouth College invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track appointment as Assistant Professor of the Hebrew Bible in its Ancient Context. apply.interfolio.com/176012

What's more 200+ Chicago-area clergy — Protestants, Catholics, and evangelicals — have signed a letter decrying ICE's efforts and voicing a willingness to put their "bodies on the line" for migrants, saying, "What Kristi Noem and her ICE agents are doing is immoral." religionnews.com/2025/10/21/a...

NEW: Cardinal Blase Cupich, the Archbishop of Chicago, has issued a new statement declaring that Chicago "communities are shaken by immigration raids and detentions. These actions wound the soul of our city. Let me be clear. The Church stands with migrants."

Humanities and social sciences were a canary in the coal mine; no discipline is safe when the university is viewed primarily as a money-making venture.

I want more people to care that SNAP benefits are being cut off on November 1. 40% of SNAP beneficiaries are children. This is callous and vile.

The organizer of his campaign stole the money meant for his family. He would be grateful even if you could help him recover half of the amount he begged people for.

Destruction of the White House, brought to you by the same people who want to maintain the statues of Confederate soldiers.

archaeologists: this structure replicates and elaborates an architecture of power and domination linking it to earlier imperial expansions and creating a symbolic genealogy typing it to ancient European cultures, and thus to a very 19th c idea of inherited white Christian power 1/2

Holy shit

Crucially, “gaining influence” is +17 for Republicans and +10 for Democrats (including “leaning” in both). Also, greatest gain in white evangelical Protestant, smallest gain in Black Protestant. I read this as “the conservatives are winning,” and conservative is linked to religion.

As we approach the end of the year and you have some potential disposable income to share, consider supporting your local mutual aid projects. This year has been rough but next year promises to be even more difficult for people. There are definitely orgs in your communities that can use support.

My husband, his mother, his father, his five sisters, and all of my kids’ 12 cousins were all killed It was just a matter of moments I stepped out of the building and when I returned I found no husband, no family, and no building💔💔💔

Don’t let the frogwater that’s boiling us alive let you skip over this: we murdered another country’s citizens in cold blood, and when their leader objected, we called him a drug dealer and cut off aid to his country. That’s freakish.

notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”? anyway that’s why these events are important

/3 Worry that we're descending into totalitarianism, that we're shedding the rule of law, and that we're abandoning every American value and norm. Worry that America is showing its ass. Worry that it's your moral obligation to stand up, even in a small way, to be counted.

Find a No Kings protest Saturday and go! Don't worry that you've never been to a protest before. Don't worry about being dressed wrong or looking out of place. Don't worry that you don't agree about everything -- or even about much -- with lots of people at the protest. /1

Trump's federal agents shot Marimar Martinez, a US citizen, multiple times for allegedly menacing them with her car in Chicago. Only hours later, Kristi Noem and DHS started spreading disinformation about the shooting. Now the official line is crumbling. 1/ (link) newrepublic.com/article/2019...

This is a very good point about DHS. They direct harassment campaigns on Twitter using quote-tweets.

There are certainly some protests that are meant to change policy. Although this one may hope to add pressure, the point is to be WITH people. Don’t be alone. Meet someone. Get plugged into a group that’s tabling. Have fun. Also, don’t fuck with the police. Organizers haven’t planned for that.

We are not fighting what we hate, we are fighting to save what we love

“In a partnership announced this week, Amazon will allow approximately 5,000 local law enforcement agencies to request access to Ring camera footage via surveillance platforms from Flock Safety.”

“I was brutally tortured inside Israeli jails. They electrocuted my eyes so that I lost them,” Abu Fool says...Gaza

What Tressie says below is essentially the point of my @insidehighered.com column today. We know what students need (and want) and it has nothing to do with the pivot to AI. In fact, it's more like the opposite. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

Today I published a new section of my website with resources for those who wish to learn, study, and/or teach ancient languages using braille. It rests on work we did over the past year to expand screen reader access to these languages through the LibLouis library. Check it out and share around!

Damn. $1430 for a custom PhD cap and gown, or $700 for a black one. However will I choose? (Sarcasm)

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org! I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy! Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

A reminder that Ben Gvir was set to be sanctioned by the United States government in February 2024 but was personally taken off the list by President Biden.

I think what's bothering me about all these statements I'm seeing from politicians that are variations of "Israeli hostages and Palestinians are returning to their homes, yay" is that Israelis are returning to their homes and Palestinians are returning to uninhabitable post apocalyptic rubble.

ICE just arrested a singing giraffe in Portland.

NEW — I dug into the story of ICE abducting a 13-year-old boy in Massachusetts and moving him 500 miles across state lines without notifying his mother, local cop's complicity, and how the federal government's justification for such cruelty is already falling apart:

Protesting this weekend? Law enforcement has more tools than ever to track your movements and access your communications. Here’s how to protect your privacy.

They know where their solidarity lies.

What was true of the rich young ruler is true of our current moment: Apartheid theology works to ensure the barns of the rich remain overflowing as our neighbors go hungry, writes Adam Joyce. sojo.net/articles/opi...

Trump, an authoritarian to his core, repeatedly sought the investigation, prosecution, and imprisonment of his political foes throughout his first four years in the White House. www.mediamatters.org/washington-p...

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Pope to journalists: “…it is worth remembering Hannah Arendt’s warning that ‘the ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction and the distinction between true and false no longer exist.’”

They have beaten, arrested, and detained several people including a live-streamer; still kettling people. Apparently the mayor has put a curfew into place to claim that the protesters are “unlawfully assembled” instead of exercising their constitutional rights. The protesters are still there.

Live rn from a tiktok user at Broadview, Pritzker still has the Illinois state police out in force protecting 🧊 and brutalizing protesters there

The protesters are now unable to get to their vehicles to exit the area, having been pushed repeatedly in the opposite direction by the state police, who appear to be setting up to mass arrest people.

Lived through this at a small paper. Every consultant pitch seemed like what someone would recommend if they didn't want any more newspapers.