this #oah26 panel on coerced labor and resistance in carceral spaces was fascinating and it is so striking to me that institutional history remains such a lively and potent area of study

all of us are.

omfg.

The academic rediscovery of “reading books” in the era of digital colonialism. It’s going to be a thing. Lit is standing in the corner with their eyeglasses on the tips of their nose glaring at this thread, saying “we told you like 10 years ago.”

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

Garcia, up again, ends by holding up a photo of Stephen Miller and says: "There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday. 📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

lfg

Powerful writing @literaryhub.bsky.social today. This, from Kao Kaila Yang, on preparing for the worst with her children, was a gut punch: lithub.com/letter-from-...

JD Vance's strategy for succeeding Trump as head of the MAGA movement is predicated on retaining and exciting the support of violent Nazis all around the US. That's what makes his Holocaust commemoration so unique.

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

This should be a piece of every Dem’s platform.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Call your senators. ICE today is a product of ICE of yesterday, of our carceral and policing and security logic — that’s all true. But shooting civilians point blank in the street with impunity is turning a corner we won’t come back from. Please call them today & tell them not to fund this.

the star tribune’s live blog has no paywall right now

ICE, which murdered a man in cold blood in Minneapolis this morning, tried to order local police off the scene. The police chief ordered local police to remain on the scene. www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Reached out to my Senators imploring them to play hardball with the budget. Calling my Congressman to renew demands that they replace Minority Leader Jeffries.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Top two articles are about ICE abducting a 5 year old and a 2 year old. Below that, news about a historically large protest and general strike. Then articles detailing how ICE lies about their actions and how the White House makes/publishes fake images about the anti-ICE protests.

New in PN: What if we just stopped paying taxes? "Like many other blue states, Minnesota pays more to the federal government than it takes in. But why should the state continue to subsidize a government bent on destroying it? What if it just … didn’t?"

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing

At a time when ICE is rounding up 5-year-olds, terrorizing communities and killing American citizens, the last thing we should be doing is increasing its funding. I will vote NO on the upcoming spending bill to fund Trump's domestic army.

The parents of a 7 year old, all of whom are in the process of applying for asylum, took their daughter to the ER when her nose wouldn't stop bleeding. ICE picked them up near the hospital and they are now in detention in Texas, presumably awaiting deportation. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

One year, I will not post this picture.

"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-...

PBS News notes this Sunday will be “PBS News Weekend’s” last due to federal budget cuts

The National Catholic Reporter publicly labeled JD Vance a “moral stain” on the Roman Catholic faith. The blistering piece went on to point out Vance's “twisted and wrongheaded view of Christianity” for inflaming tensions by maligning a woman killed by ICE rather than promoting healing.

Here is another expert breakdown of the shooting. Think its helpful to have a collection of these since the consensus seems pretty solid that the ICE official is responsible here. bsky.app/profile/tvmo...

Post also has a detailed breakdown of the video that disputes the Trump administration claims on their home page. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

This breakdown confirms what anyone who looked at the video could see: that the DHS account was an obvious lie. *The agent put was not in her path, was not in danger. *He also fires *after* the car is moving away from him. www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...

Renee Macklin Good's wife, Becca Good, released a statement and it moved me to sobbing tears: archive.is/ur35j

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

The woman killed by ICE was Renee Nicole Good, a 37-year old who was the mother of a 4-year old child whose father already died a few years ago. The Star Tribune talked to her mother. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

What ICE was up to in Minnesota before they murdered a woman

There are a bunch of fake pictures of protests among my friend networks on other sites. They are really, obviously AI, but I understand how in all the pressures at the moment you can see it, have a feeling, and hit share. Instead: go to local news. Here’s my outlet I write for. There are others.

Chicago friends or enthusiasts—I’m here for the AHA & am totally overwhelmed by the options. My priorities are deep dish, polish food, and any artsy, punky things outside of the conference (I know, but I don’t know how to describe these priorities). Any recommendations would be 🙏🏼🤩🙏🏼

Such an important article about the NYT's coverage of transgender issues and why it's so reactionary. transnews.network/p/a-directiv...

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

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