Recent Anthropology News special issue in the aftermath of federal funding cuts, program closures, and political attacks on higher ed. What can no longer be researched? What of the anthropology that could have been? www.anthropology-news.org/issue/defund...

"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." www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

"Every weapon developed by Elbit Systems is first “tested” on Palestinians, before being sold on to international governments, expanding the empire built off the destruction of Palestine." From activists who burned down an Elbit factory in Czech Republic: earthquakefaction.net/one/

Multiple county police departments have recently signed 287(g) agreements with ICE, formalizing the cop-to-ICE pipeline in the St. Louis area. Majority of deportations from the area have started via local PDs: www.firstalert4.com/2026/03/18/m...

“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence... Most of these are dirty jobs and most of these jobs have been done here in Africa.” Kenya's data labelers and content moderators are getting organized: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

While covert ops and diplomatic sleights to divide enemies & foment sectarianism are still part of Israel's strategy, its approach is that of "a power not acting according to a ‘Western’ rational and humanist approach to politics but a fanatical ideology." newleftreview.org/sidecar/post...

New @hrl-yalesph.bsky.social report uses remote sensing data to reveal RSF's intentional, systematic attacks aiming to depopulate area around El-Fasher and raze surrounding farmland to starve the city: medicine.yale.edu/lab/khoshnoo...

Great @truthout.org report on faculty, students, and staff still fighting ongoing repression around Palestine—and their wins: truthout.org/articles/the...

Why is collective bargaining important to higher ed workers, you ask? Thanks Commonwealth Institute for this breakdown! It sucks to be kicked out of HB 1263 — the collective bargaining bill. There’s so much we could improve thru collective power @aaup.org @aaupmason.bsky.social @aft.org

"The Pentagon is sending the largest force of American warships and aircraft to the Middle East in decades." apnews.com/article/us-m...

My employer, Univ. Colorado will pay OpenAI $2M/year under the banner of “equity”. That’s 54 full scholarships / year. Plus, our IT will be able to read our chatGPT logs, and our chats can be requested under public records law. No thanks. Surveillance is not equity www.axios.com/local/boulde...

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

HAPPENING NOW: A massive crowd is gathered in freezing temperatures outside ICE headquarters in DC to demand ICE OUT OF ALL COMMUNITIES NOW.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

It strikes me that at least some of the asylum parolees ICE is targeting to detain in northern cities and shipping to Texas detention centers may themselves have been bussed out of Texas border facilities to DC, NYC, and other cities beginning in 2022. Just a horrific cycle of state trafficking.

In solidarity with the statewide shutdown in Minnesota protesting ICE/CBP, I'm sharing some of the most insightful reads about the powerful, beautiful community response there - these pieces should inspire similar collective action everywhere. please link to others.

The horrors of ICE/CBP violence are very real - but the scale, organizing, beauty, and bravery of community defense and resistance are too.

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

They didn’t want a university without cancel culture. They didn’t want to be criticized for their retrograde views so they created a pretend school funding by their rich friends. The only people surprised that this failed were credulous enough to believe the fairy tales these folks told.

St. Louis University will now cover the tuition for incoming freshmen whose families earn no more than $60,000 per year and have assets of $50,000 or less.

The scale and speed of state censorship of campus really is amazing. More than half of America's college students attend institutions in states that have passed laws censoring higher education since 2021. From @penamerica.bsky.social pen.org/report/ameri...

cold-blooded murder by the state.

Remember when everyone was concerned about DOGE sharing data between government agencies last year? This app for ICE is built on HHS data.

A reminder that Lewiston, Maine was recently on a list of the ten safest cities in the U.S.

"How does it feel to learn through a genocide? How does one teach on the same campus where student protest is forcibly quelled?" Eager to dive into this experimental dialogue in @amanthro.bsky.social on pedagogy and praxis from the grounds of the Gaza encampments: doi.org/10.1111/aman...

It’s great that 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi is coming right out swinging. Not having a second of this bullshit! I think coddled hacks like Bari Weiss have no idea what to do with righteous fury like this except, if anything, somehow play victim. Let’s see!

CECOT segment correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi: Bari Weiss giving the government a "kill switch" for stories they don't like transforms 60 Minutes from an "investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state." www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

"As of December 19, the known death toll from 28 lethal U.S. strikes on civilian vessels [in the Caribbean] is 104." www.wola.org/analysis/fac...

look, evil aside: his rhetorical strategies seem to hinge on hoping no one compares numbers at the gas station, confuses "TrumpRx.gov" with affordable coverage of their dialysis, or has ever been to Minnesota. if you ask me Trump is moving like a cooked guy moves

Horror of horrors, this is absolute evil.

1. Amazon has become a major force in how cities, counties & schools buy basic supplies. Our new report finds Amazon is using opaque pricing algorithms to drive up costs and eliminate transparency—while harming competition by pushing out better-performing independent suppliers.

it's not lowering the bar when you do it for men, it's actually a really important step toward addressing the male loneliness crisis

Powerful piece about WashU international student frustrations with the university's lack of support in a time of immense uncertainty and potential danger: www.studlife.com/news/2025/12...

A new pattern has emerged out of the repression of pro-Palestinian protests: "the Zionist provocateur spoiling for a fight, the police gunning for pro-Palestine students, a protester taken to the ER, and the university adopting wholesale the narrative spun by pro-Israel actors."

How do people not see that the entire OU essay thing is just an attempt by this girl and the Turning Point chapter to turn her into another Riley Gaines grifting on trying to push trans people out of society?

For Black Studies, Critical University Studies folks: Our AFAS Dept is looking for a postdoc (1 yr, maybe 2) as part of a seminar on “Black Studies, Academic Freedom, and the Future of the American University.” Due Feb 1, details here: apply.interfolio.com/177073

Some good news that shows faculty can still shape the university when they move and act together. This move would have consolidated AFAS, WGSS, Global Studies, American Studies, Jewish Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies, and Education

It’s kind of wild that after seven million people were in the streets protesting, the president posted a hallucinated video of himself wearing a crown and shitting on Americans and then proceeded to start demolishing parts of the White House

new zine circulating campus just hours after the Chancellor stated that WashU is engaged in "dialogue" with Trump admin about future of higher ed

Gross.

“They literally ushered us into the street to protest and immediately after started beating the shit out of us.”

"We now have armed soldiers from the state of Texas eagerly volunteered by their governor to impose the president’s will on the citizens of Illinois. I don’t want to be alarmist, but this is an emergency." www.thebulwark.com/p/emergency-...

Shit just comes coming

"There is no doubt that the Trump administration has wielded Title VI with the goals of discrediting institutions of higher education, undermining academic freedom and institutional autonomy, and unmooring the Civil Rights Act from its foundational commitments to addressing structures...

Another must-read response to Ezra Klein's "Charlie Kirk did politics the right way" argument, this from @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social in @bostonreview.bsky.social on political correctness, stigma, and shame as fundamental to living together.

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

Oh nothing to see here, just a Missouri U.S. Senator spouting white and Christian nationalist rhetoric about how America is only for descendants of "Western" "European" "settlers" and non-white immigrants are not American: www.dailysignal.com/2025/09/02/s...