I’m at Times Square, where an emergency “No War On Venezuela” protest just took to the street. Easily a thousand people here in real-feel 20°F weather. “No more coups, no more wars, Venezuela’s not yours!” “No boots on the ground no bombs in the air, U.S. out of everywhere!”

Trump and his cronies can try to dress this up, but it is an illegal act of war to replace Maduro and grab Venezuela's oil for his billionaire buddies. Full statement below:

The nobel peace prize committee has to wear this

We’re hiring two postdocs at CARGC this year! We are especially interested in candidates with expertise in Latin American or South Asian media cultures whose research engages media and creative industries, popular culture, and emerging forms of belonging and citizenship. Deadline in two weeks:

If you're going into Zohran's term thinking he's going to "give you what you want" and not thinking of this time as one in which it'll be easier to organize for what you want. . . I'm afraid you will find yourself very disappointed

We won’t hit peak 3rd running boom until marathoner Mayor Mamdani kicks off the 2026 NYC Marathon sending 60K runners over the Verrazano to cannons + Sinatra’s “New York, New York”

Pass it on! Tenured, associate professor position in Black and Latinx Studies--reopened until Jan 5. Includes research budget, summer salary, great program, colleagues, students in NYC. cuny.jobs/new-york-ny/...

Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks as the new mayor of New York City after Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders administered the ceremonial oath of office before thousands of supporters. Watch live: www.democracynow.org/live/coming_...

“They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition” @mollycrabapple.bsky.social @us.theguardian.com

For my hero of 2025 at @motherjones.com, I wrote about the late great disabled disability justice oracle Alice Wong, including her work with Disability Visibility Project, Crips for eSims for Gaza, and #CripTheVote. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Zohran Mamdani will be sworn in as NYC's first Muslim mayor on a Qur'an from the personal collection of the great Afro-Boricua intellectual Arturo Schomburg—as well as Qur'ans owned by Mamdani's grandparents. www.nypl.org/press/schomb...

merry Christmas one and all abcnews.go.com/Internationa...

So 2026 is shaping up to be the return of the nuclear dinosaurs, between Kashiwazaki-Kariwa and Three Mile Island. www.dw.com/en/japan-to-...

Call for Applications! Ways of Undoing invites videographic makers, scholars, and artists to apply to one of three intensive, week-long residential workshops (St Andrews 2026 | Vancouver 2027 | Tokyo 2028). Funded accommodation & board provided. Deadline: Feb 1, 2026 waysofdoing.com/ways-of-undo...

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

"The historical events that the New York Times has most clearly remembered as genocides, as crimes that demand outrage and accountability, are those where American complicity was not part of the story." Analysis by Zachary Jablow: jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

This is not the first time RFK Jr or his fellow anti-vax travelers conducted a study they knew would harm or kill children in low-income countries. It is a dehumanizing, colonialist model of manufacturing evidence: sacrificing foreign kids for political pseudoscience. www.notus.org/health-scien...

An exciting fellowship for journalists – with the deadline closing this week! 📣 Designed to support early-career journalists who are pursuing — or have a strong interest in pursuing — careers in science, health or environmental reporting (or all three). @sejorg.bsky.social @coveringclimatenow.org

Wrote about how Reiner’s moral center manifested on-screen and off, as so many of his friends have testified today. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/m...

"Every single act of gun violence is 100% preventable." Brown University student Mia Tretta talks about the fear and uncertainty of living through Saturday's mass shooting on campus. It was her second school shooting after she survived being shot in the stomach at age 15.

Time is owned by Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce, which is currently trying to sell its AI tool to ICE in order to triple their recruitment. just a thing I think about sometimes while I’m at work, implementing his product for nonprofits.

Huge Win for Rümeysa Öztürk! “I hope one day we can create a world where everyone uses education to learn, connect, civically engage and benefit others – rather than criminalize and punish those whose opinions differ from our own.” - Rümeysa Öztürk AAUP stands in solidarity with Rümeysa Öztürk!

There are very few politicians who can do a Mr. Rogers homage and make it earnest and believable. Dad Lander might be the only one.

For anyone who uses archival methods, we’ve offering a $4,000 fellowship to use any of our holdings on site in Storrs, CT. Easy application! Please apply! Please repost! library.uconn.edu/location/asc...

First year with so many rec letter requests I need to build out a tracking spreadsheet—excited for the big goals my former students are pursuing

I was lucky to study with Asad Haider while we were doing our PhDs at UCSC. I also remember sitting down with him, debating as we inspected used tear gas canisters during Occupy Oakland. He was a brilliant and generous thinker, and the world is far poorer without him.

Framing GenAI as a battle between teachers and students is a red herring. Students and educators are on the same side. The real opposition are the data extraction firms and brokerages and their allies among the managerial class.

Open Call: The Oberhausen Seminar 2026, led by Linda Chiu-han Lai. Deadline for applications February 27th expcinema.org/site/en/call...

Fantastic running trails along the Delaware

Today is World AIDS Day. “An awareness day is not a strategy” is the US government's rationale for not publicly acknowledging World AIDS Day for the first time since the inaugural WAD in 1988. #WAD2025

Headed to Pittsburgh for the 57th Northeast Modern Language Association Convention in March! Looking for recommended activities around the city + excited to share research on a new project with colleagues. #NeMLA #NeMLA26 #NeMLA2026 www.nemla.org/convention.h...

“I’m Not Going to Give Up”: Leonard Peltier on Indigenous Rights, His Half-Century in Prison & Coming Home https://www.democracynow.org/2025/11/27/i_m_not_going_to_give

Truthsgiving 4 Mile Run: grateful to be able to participate in this opportunity to learn and support this great indigenous-led effort events.elitefeats.com/25truthsgiving

Upping CFP for “The Amateur Reconsidered” special issue of Spectator. Submission deadline of December 1.

Any recommendations on academic literature or sources for better understanding the energy and water tradeoffs for data storage vs agriculture? Thanks in advance!

First time seeing these photos. The JS auditorium with a stage + dropdown projection screen has always been a special place combining theater + cinema, much like Nakadai’s career off studio contract allowing him to work with a wide range of film directors between plays. Many great films to rewatch!

I spoke to Mahmood Mamdani about his new book, his expulsion from Uganda, his son Zohran, and *that* NYT article.

Apps are open for our spring session of the Cross-Reference Coalition! We're exploring Search & Discovery! "Our journey will encompass the history of exploration + cartography, legacies of inquiry, tools of discovery, theories of curiosity, and counter-algorithmic means of 'finding things out.'"

It's SSMF submission time! Share your audio, visual art, research, poetry, video & films at CAMRA's Screening Scholarship Media Festival. The theme this year is.... 🫧portals🫧 @asc.upenn.edu

I assigned Alice’s Disability Visibility podcast on film festivals (episode 76 from 2020) for next week. I think I’m going to open class with screening her Human Resources episode Pity Party (S1E8 from 2023). We’ll sit with her words and the world she envisioned.

You were incredible, Alice Wong, and it was a blessing to have collaborated with you on projects, to have read your words and to have heard your voice, as full of life and passion and joy and rage as it was. You made a difference—so much of a difference. Rest always in peace, and always in power.

🧵 Rest in power, Alice Wong. @sfdirewolf.bsky.social A trailblazer, a fierce advocate, and a relentless voice for disability rights. Her work changed the landscape for so many. /1

I don’t want to formulate words yet, but my friend Alice Wong, @sfdirewolf.bsky.social of the Disability Visibility Project, has passed. Here are the words she left behind: www.instagram.com/p/DREMDNBjnq...

What are the risks—and opportunities—of drawing close to one's objects of study as a feminist scholar? Alix Beeston reflects on her experience of writing a critical–creative account of women and girls in photography history. @alixbeeston.bsky.social Open access now: doi.org/10.1525/fmh....

21-22nd November is Fall of Freedom, our national action against authoritarianism. We now have over 450 events happening across the US, in 40+ states. It’s not too late to join in! Check the map to see what’s happening near you www.falloffreedom.com/participants

For future tech worker organizers: application for Collective Action School due Dec. 1, 2025 collectiveaction.school

CFP for upcoming special issue of @amianet.bsky.social's THE MOVING IMAGE journal! Topic: "Videotape in the Archive,” guest editors: @danerdman.bsky.social, Adam Charles Hart, Helena Shaskevich. Proposal deadline: March 31, 2026. amianet.org/resources/mo...