I hesitate to comment because I don’t want to give this even more traction than it’ll already get, but this is worrisome. If it warrants a response, our scholarship alone can’t serve as the rebuttal.

Since they’ll keep pushing this false narrative, we’ll keep pushing back: the idea that one Jewish philanthropist is puppeteering a party or cause or the country is antisemitic and a threat to our pluralistic democracy.

Worth noting, I guess, that inside of a year we've gone from administration officials taking selfies of themselves at CECOT and bragging about how it's hell on earth to now getting their horrible little media worms to kill stories about it

Crickets from the free speech bros on this, of course.

Here’s a gift link to this stunner Washpost story, quoting the 60 Minutes correspondent on the CECOT story, who accuses Bari Weiss of spiking the piece all because the Trump Administration wouldn’t comment. “Government silence is a statement, not a VETO.” wapo.st/3YL4T3D

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

This was a human being. What the fuck is wrong with you?

The image of young Trumpzis with no govt experience celebrating with cake after they gutted USAID is callousness that should condemn them All.

“In a memorable passage, Field breaks the fourth wall and addresses the men whose cramped extremism has become so familiar to her. “You take the liberal world for granted, too,” she writes.” […] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/17/b...

jenny holzer (2012)

Bank of America first started offering credit cards to women in 1974

ICE whistles work.

FOUR new deaths in ICE detention. That puts the total this year at 30 people dead; the highest in ICE's history and worse than even during the COVID years. It's clear that the system is breaking down. Many of these are preventable deaths.

David Brooks sucks but I will say — and not in his defense, because he sucks — that I really dislike this whole longstanding trend of "these two people appeared in a photo together so they must be best friends" detective work

Re: Epstein Files Leaked GOP memo gives step-by-step instructions on how to use DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) a psychological manipulation tactic, to dismiss any Trump wrongdoing, and instead villainize Dems and frame Trump as the victim couriernewsroom.com/news/leaked-...

The war on trans kids is unconscionable and I am filled with rage

The House passed legislation today that would charge doctors with a felony punishable by up to 10 years in prison for providing transition-related care to minors. Rep. Sarah McBride strongly condemned the legislation in rare personal remarks ahead of the vote. www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Hi All. I need to access two articles from The Atlantic. Can anyone help me? …

"At least $5.9 trillion will be inherited by billionaire children over the next 15 years, the bank calculates."

This goes hard

Democratic politicians need to stop accepting Trump’s white nationalist premise that immigration is bad and proudly and loudly make a positive case for why America’s identity and history as a nation of immigrants is so important.

“There are some like me, who feel that death feels closer after clemency, that the worst is ahead of us, at ADX,” says a man whose death sentence was commuted by President Biden, but who is now being sent to a notorious supermax prison by Trump officials.

Israel has killed two Palestinian children in Gaza every single day since the so-called ceasefire

Oh hey, I found the war on christmas

Racial profiling is all they do. Lawless.

Ah yes. Harvard Law School in the early 1990s, well known for its Communist professors.

I can’t get beyond The Chronicle’s paywall. Can anyone help me with access to the article on Montclair?

When Border Patrol showed up across Charlotte, parents and neighbors rushed to Berryhill to meet kids at the bus stop. They stood watch, linked arms, and made one thing clear: if the city gets targeted, its children will not face it alone. This is what community looks like.💙

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features." There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

Historians of women and gendered labor can beat you to it: “Nurses, money is great, but working for the virtue and womanly duty of it? A labor of love that money can’t buy.”

NEW: Churches in Charlotte are hosting trainings on how to response to ICE agents — with *hundreds* filling pews. At one training, a child led those gathered in "This Little Light of Mine" — but changed the words to “All around Border Patrol, I’m gonna let it shine" religionnews.com/2025/11/20/a...

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

Please help Bryan, a decent and hardworking person who was just kidnapped off the street in DC. He has been in this country since he was a child. He has a business and a family. He does not deserve such shameful cruelty. Please share. www.gofundme.com/f/help-bryan...

Bingo. Corporate welfare is the real welfare you should be talking about.

"A citizens group in Ontario, California is spearheading an effort to make the community aware of incidents involving federal immigration agents. They're placing signs at the locations that read, 'ICE stole someone here'..." abc7.com/post/ontario...

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

“mass deportation” trauma from this era is going to be a scar that’s with us for a long time

From this minister's op-ed: "People wanting to experience God are more likely to meet the Divine trying to shut down the Broadview, Illinois, ICE facility than we ever were in church...God does not live in our houses of worship, but...with those who are bearing the brunt of cruelty in this moment."

This man, Rev. Michael Woolf, wrote this for us earlier this month: "It is up to us to keep our communities safe from this terror, and scripture tells us that God will meet us there—at the picket line, amid the tear gas." sojo.net/articles/opi...

in online corners like these I think people largely recognize how credulous, unprincipled opposition to "wokeness" functioned as lightly papered over defenses of impunity, but it's one of those drums people should probably start beating for normies

They’re just like us

It all would have been much easier if, as would have happened if we were remotely a serious country, it all ended with the Access Hollywood interview.

Got turned down on a piece about ICE in Chicago for an international news org because they believed I couldn’t be objective about my neighbors getting kidnapped. And well, guilty as charged I guess.

But what alarms me in all this is how the girls who were victimized by these men are largely forgotten. I want us to find ways of centering them in the discourse.

Anyway... did we ever figure out whether or not women ruined the workplace?

I take it all back. The Humanities ARE dead (views not representative of my employer).

Maybe it’s just the Humanities professor in me, but let it be noted that events of today (ahem) have demonstrated the value of being able to assess a large volume of qualitative data and do careful textual analysis with deep attention to context.