This is the teacher federal agents grabbed yesterday at Rayito De Sol daycare in front of children. Attorneys for Diana Santillana have filed a petition in federal court to have her freed from ICE custody.

Today is the opening day for AAUP v. Trump, in which a historic coalition of unions is suing the Trump administration for using funding threats to suppress free speech. I just listened to the judge's opening remarks and they were SCATHING to the defendants. www.courtlistener.com/docket/71360...

The FBI is trying to unmask the owner of infamous archiving site Archive.is, according to a subpoena the site posted. No other information given, the site quietly posted the document a few days ago. FBI telling domain registrar to hand over all sorts of ID'ing info www.404media.co/fbi-tries-to...

Less sanguinely, I’m convinced by Matt Jacobson’s argument that it was part of a wave of cultural production (cf. Yentl, Fiddler on the Roof) that appealed to previously “ethnic” Americans’ sense of themselves as immigrants who overcame barriers to assimilate and succeed (vs. the…other kind).

Spent a bunch of time researching native movements in the early 20th century yesterday, so I’m now conversant with a bunch of utterly incomprehensible stereotypes for southern and eastern Europeans.

Masked, heavily armed federal immigration agents arrested a US citizen in the parking lot of a Los Angeles Home Depot store, then entered his car and drove away with his toddler, who is also a US citizen, in the backseat. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“Des's indictment should shock us all, as all that is alleged is the movement of a box of political ‘documents and propaganda’ (i.e. zines) from one place to another.”

New paper just out on how changing sociotechnical systems of knowledge production and access - platforms, the cloud, AI - pose profound challenges to educational practice and research doi.org/10.1080/0305...

Awww pour one out for Neom, the noble dream of a city in the desert built in a straight line for no reason

The mental labor that keeps families afloat—and why women do most of it. What’s on Her Mind by Allison Daminger is now available worldwide. Learn more and order yours: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco... #Sociology

What the what???

Don't talk to the NYT. They've betrayed families' trust before. They will lie to you and use you and then turn around and tell you it was their job. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

guys I’m sorry but have you looked through Getty images for yesterday 💀

So many of us at UC are overwhelmed by terrible decisions we had no part of. We're trying to work as our budgets are decimated, our students are threatened, and our values are imperiled. The very best thing we can do for ourselves right now is to come together. cucfa.solidarity.tech/fight-for-th...

Grateful to spend two days on the Klamath watching chinook, liberated by dam removal, return to streams from which they’d been precluded since the Titanic sank. Fish are everywhere, in numbers that stagger the mind & locations that biologists figured would take years to repopulate. Too beautiful.

The way all of these people convinced themselves that Mamdani is antisemitic is a subject far more worthy of media examination than any of the ‘groupthink on campuses!’ thinkpieces we’ve been subjected to

A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program is one of the most coveted & prestigious positions for UC graduates. It gives a hiring incentive to campuses who hire recipients for a tenure track position. What a DAMN travesty. This is capitulation to Trump's demand letter & anti-diversity agenda.

When I think back about what it was like to live in the dystopian moment, I’ll remember the constant pinging of Signal chats, each one delivering panic-inducing news. I mute them, but then I have a tangle of bad news—some important, some not—to comb through. It’s like my nerve endings are exposed.

BREAKING: After months of stonewalling by Starbucks, unionized baristas just voted 92% to authorize a ULP strike unless Starbucks finalizes fair contracts & stops union busting. If forced, our baristas will strike in dozens of cities on November 13 – the company's busiest sales day of the year.

There is absolutely no need to comply with Trump's ridiculous demands at this time. No formal agreement, no force of law. A faculty-led lawsuit challenging the premise of the demand letter is being heard in court _tomorrow_. The only sensible explanation is that UC Regents *want* to comply.

I emailed and I encouraged colleagues to do the same. the PPFP is a vital program which does so much good. if you can do something to support it, please do

Fascinating! "Discounting tables [of the early 1600s] were thus not tools of instrumental rationality evincing a new capitalist mentality, but tools of social accommodation and products of the era’s “economy of obligation.”"

I've been helping build software for Indigenous Peoples for over a decade, and never once have I thought "wow, we found the thing that'll fix everything." That's impossible and it's silly. All tech comes with externalities, it's like a game of wack-a-mole. Fix one problem, another pops up.

You know what's urgently needed? Basic software. Reliable database systems, accessible interfaces, privacy oriented design. It's super mundane stuff like asking, "how can software make your life better", not telling people "this is how software is going to solve all your problems." Because it won't.

We wrote this because we kept getting asked about "AI". I'd much rather focus my energy on building tech that actually empowers people but instead I keep getting pulled into this delusional discourse about a fantastical future that'll never come. Your "AI" god is a lie. animikii.com/databack/und...

I am very concerned about anticipatory compliance at UC. Provost Katherine Newman has opted to defund a critical program called the UC Presidents Postdoctoral Fellowship (PPFP). This incredibly selective postdoc has provided a route to UC faculty for many of my most valued colleagues. +

This is great and so true. People come out because of their principles, but they come back because they find community.

I genuinely hope this gives film students some swagger. Mamdani’s videos are impeccable—just immeasurably better than Cuomo’s AI slop—and the videographer is a genuine film nerd. That shit works!

I guess it’s good that they’re keeping him occupied. I genuinely don’t think I’m exaggerating when I say that he cares far more about interior decoration & bathroom remodels than about anything that happens elsewhere in the country.

It’s really too bad this came out after Halloween.

“The data, compiled by the Middle East Studies Association and the American Association of University Professors and relying on publicly available records, offers a detailed account of how landmark civil rights legislation…has become a primary tool to restrict speech on campus.”

It’s obvious, but so many people need to hear it: polls tell us about the past, not the future. People can be led.

Even as attention has turned to other cities, masked men continue to snatch people off the streets of LA. It is a heavy, evil thing to live with.

We do not leave anyone behind, & certainly not those of us most under attack. We do not get where we want to go by letting anyone drown, not for a moment. You do not offer up targeted groups for "rights but later" unless you think they are not The People.

Double-checked and yes, it’s real. Brooklyn, 9:37pm, Nov. 4.

CUNY is funded by both state and city money. We move 6X more people into the middle class than all the Ivies combined. Cuomo hated us, underfunded us every time, Adams was, er, occupied. Hope CUNY which is chronically underfunded gets some relief. Stats:

This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?

MAMDANI: "So hear this, Donald Trump: To get to any of us, you will have to get through all of us."

I think Dick Cheney’s death today highlighted this divide. The Democrats who still say shit like “reach across the aisle” and praise evil people are playing to a political audience that no longer exists. Mamdani wasn’t cruel to Cuomo in a Trumpism style, but he didn’t concede anything either.

OMG I thought that “say: ManyGA” thing was a joke

“What keeps us going, ultimately, is our love for each other, and our refusal to bow our heads, to accept the verdict, however all-powerful it seems. It’s what ordinary people have to do. You have to love each other. You have to defend each other. You have to fight.” —Mike Davis

I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.

This is incredibly important: we must frame tonight as a resounding victory — an electoral landslide, a mandate from the universe itself and as a repudiation of MAGA, of Trump, and of vichy democrats we must be relentless, we must not shut up

Can’t stop thinking about all the robber baron fucks that held secret meetings and spent MILLIONS AND MILLIONS in bribes and campaign investments and attack ads and media manipulation trying to tank Mamdani currently having the dawning realization that their money is completely and utterly useless.

I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.

Congratulations to Governor Cuomo on a decisive victory and the first step in the Make New York Great Again (MNYGA) (say: Many Gahhh) Movement. We must come together as one in this great city and place every humanities student in it on a terror watch list.

The crashouts are already in progress and they are delicious.

Need footage pls