#Dartmouth professor and literary critic @citiless.bsky.social#Dartmouthtraces the circuits of grief and melancholy with poet, essayist, and novelist Billy-Ray Belcourt on the Novel Dialogue podcast, hosted by literature scholar and Dartmouth assistant dean Sarah Wasserman.

New at PB: In a new episode of Novel Dialogue, poet, essayist, and novelist Billy-Ray Belcourt speaks with critic Matt Hooley (@citiless.bsky.social) about his debut novel, “A Minor Chorus,” and finding “a voice that could focalize the desires of a community.” Hosted by Sarah Wasserman.

The man who was killed last night wasn't the first Black man killed by government forces in DC since the government occupation of DC. He's like the 6th or 7th. If you're Black, you know that's how it is, no one makes a fuss over our murders & they're not big news.

ICE is targeting Native businesses & community/resource centers in Minneapolis. They harassed people at Pow Wow Grounds & sat outside of the American Indian Women's Resource Center for 2 hours last month. Many Native people (that we know of, there's definitely more) have been kidnapped by ICE.

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

If you want to support communities terrorized by ICE and DHS while getting query feedback or manuscript critiques, this is the auction for you.

@jamesfolta.com talks to Minneapolis bookseller Angela Schwesnedl about anti-ICE resistance.

Man detained in Minneapolis dies in ICE custody in Texas www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota. (Photo via Reuters)

Another person taken today in Northeast. ICE left their car out in the road and pepper sprayed legal observers, directly violating a federal judge’s orders from earlier this week.

"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.” The audacity of this demand. apnews.com/article/ice-...

Minneapolis won’t be intimidated by Trump’s secret police force. #ICEOutForGood

We visited Renee Good's memorial. There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone. Flowers & stuffed animals galore. Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water. Grief. And belief. Scenes from Minneapolis:

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.

IMHO, this is the best way to frame this. Whether the shooting was or was not legally justified (and remember that the legal precedent tends to be incredibly cop friendly) is very different from whether the Trump administration is telling the truth about what happened. They are not. They are lying.

Because this has happened to me - a shelter in Spokane was so notorious for its targeting it had to close, and I'm tired of not speaking on it - I need people to understand: if you're an undocumented Indigenous person, you are a target, and the Gov't knows you will have no community to help you.

gotta say also that if you’re not Muslim now is really not the time to be telling folks that actually his win means nothing for them 🫠 Like jfc stop being a racist little shit

actually all of the organizing networks and connections people built together as part of the movement to get Mamdani elected are important And hope is politically extremely valuable

I think the ”super radical” takes that Mamdani is a counter revolutionary phenomenon are extremely tired arm chair shit Also he is gonna be Mayor of NYC so anyone who was expecting him to lead the revolution either works for the NY Post or doesn’t understand the system or both

[Goose meme] Ruin the workplace for who RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Four brand-new scholarly books out today: -Nothing Wanting / KJ Cerankowski -First Light / Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar -Indigenous Inhumanities / Mark Minch-de Leon -Spectropolis / Joshua Comaroff

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these clowns just can't help themselves

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“It’s just Netanyahu/Zionists/right-wingers/extremists.” Honey, I think not.

At the newsletter right now: One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

oh good lord www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

The whole outrageous story: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Am I reading this correctly? A grad student ... in Computer Science ... enrolled in an undergraduate seminar ... in the American Indian and Indigenous Studies program ... where he ignored the readings and hijacked discussions to talk about Israel and defend its actions in Gaza? What the hell?

Take this opportunity to read the intro for free!

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

In today's "fighting antisemitism" news, Cornell has suspended a Jewish professor and cancelled his classes because they disagreed with his political views

the public has already helped enormously

💔 www.middleeasteye.net/news/promine...

Side note: I look forward to Chicago and any other schools suspending PhD admissions and hiring also suspending publication requirements for current faculty in those fields since such reqs presuppose the existence of an adequate pool of peer reviewers

Reminder! Sept 1 deadline!

Since @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social is so concerned about @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social housing maybe he should address his own property tax bill of just $213 a year thanks to a sweetheart deal he supported when he served in the state Assembly that will last through 2032. nypost.com/2022/01/23/r...

this headline should be: “cuts to tribal college funding are unconstitutional.” but instead the nyt needs to equivocate and racialize…

Is there any reason why this article doesn’t mention the standard metric by which local governments calculate eligibility for affordable housing??? Like why are we asking people for the vibes on $142k vs $500k+ instead of just sharing the relevant AMIs?

DC is FORTY-ONE PERCENT Black. Do you understand?

International journalists must be allowed into the Gaza Strip. Israel has not permitted them to enter since it began operations after October 7. But war correspondents know the risks: they have faced them in war zones around the world. Alex de Waal on the hunger crisis:

Because I am angry I will share this again. One of the reasons that Israel is able to target individuals so precisely is that it collects every phone call in Gaza and stores the recordings in Microsoft Azure, then uses AI to analyze and pick targets.

The Israeli army killed Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and five of his colleagues in a targeted strike on a journalists' tent outside al-Shifa Hospital. The attack has effectively wiped out all of Al Jazeera's staff in Gaza City. mondoweiss.net/2025/08/isra... #Palestine #Israel

JOB: Associate or Full Professor, Palestinian Literature & Culture, University of Toronto universityaffairs.ca/search-job/?...

This document spans approximately 400 pages, listing the full names, ID numbers, birthdates, and addresses of every child in Gaza under 17 who has been killed by Israel. The first several pages are dedicated to babies under 30 days old. It is horrific beyond w limewire.com/d/qW5u8#Mz2U...