This is what DHS advertised. (Salary and equipment) It’s why depts are joining (there is a public records problem). What the piece misses is how many are getting paid vis a vis how many applied.

It's so incredibly disappointing that Daniel Biss, who had an affair with a student while he was a professor, has beat young and vibrant Kat Aboughazaleh instead of withdrawing from the race He should not accept the nomination

Today is the 36th anniversary of the Capitol Crawl and disabled people are still fighting for basic rights in a society that's actively working to undermine them, surrounded by systemic disablism. (This is a corrected thread TY to the person who flagged that I said 26th, not 36th!)

Rhetorical identification through style

Today is the deadline for my car and I'm incredibly worried and scared ♥️

"What you've got is people baptizing their partisanship and calling that Christianity" - 9:44 Banger of a line #teamrhetoric

“Jackson is arrested in 1993 after blocking 5th Avenue as part of a group protesting against the Clinton administration’s policy of maintaining a detention camp for Haitian political refugees who were HIV positive” Remember this history as we remember this man.

This is why we need art. Also don't watch if you need to look presentable in the next ten minutes.

Can you think of examples where people use technologies differently from what the developers intended, whether unintentionally or as an act of resistance?

🗃️ Tyler Austin Harper’s insane Andrew Mellon Foundation hit piece, which of course @theatlantic.com was happy to print, has rightfully pissed off everyone in the Humanities. As someone who works in higher education funding, here is a 🧵 on why this article is even more infuriating than you think.

omg everybody go draw a horse this is what the internet was made for gradient.horse

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

“Deporting these people means condemning them to death” www.latintimes.com/four-haitian...

Much of the prepper discourse is explicitly centered on this fantasy of an apocalyptic wasteland as the building grounds for a more masculine society where everyone 'knows their place' and masculine violence is praised as 'protection'. See @surplusenjoyment.bsky.social 's work for more

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

As an aside, Rachel is a legend. (From Fischer’s “African Founders”)

Need $720 today. Don’t think I’ll make it, but I didnmt think I’d make that $280 over the last couple of days either. I just want me, my wife, and my poodle to not have to worry about this anymore for this month. We already have enough to worry about. Grateful for any help. 💕💸

🚨"My mom is being arrested for documenting what happened at City Church—this is wrong. This goes against her first amendment right. She is not a protester, she is not an activist, she is a mom working to provide for her children,"-daughter of arrested journalist @bygeorgiafort.bsky.social

"Luther runs a unsanctioned library out of a broom closet, for which his fellow prisoners pay him $5 a week from a mutual aid fund of their own money. He logs every book ... and writes short reviews on index cards to help people decide what to read next."

Has anyone written about @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social's "elite capture" and how it manifests in specific academic fields? I can think of anecdotal examples of how some in rhet/comp have taken up language that emerges from specific labor abuses of grad students and WPAs... Would like to read more

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

rise and grind, taxpayers, it's time to help our neighbors under threat of summary execution

I wrote about my experiences being sexually exploited as a child, and what we need to do to make sure AI doesn’t make that a reality for millions of children. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

People who were actually enslaved believed that chattel slavery would end one day. I'm sorry but to me that suggests that you [who are not enslaved in 2026] can also imagine an end to the current horrors.

Gofundme in comment sahanjournal.com/immigration/...

I’m one of the ProPublica reporters who has been documenting the aggressive tactics federal agents are using against immigrants & U.S. citizens All eyes are on Minnesota right now, but I want to tell you about Arnoldo Bazan, a 16-YO citizen in Houston who was choked by immigration agents in October

Wow 👏👏👏 RIP

Perennial reminder of this excellent paper about how secret police forces are swamped with underachievers “We don’t want clever people. We want mediocrities.” (Ungated summary here ajps.org/2019/10/08/w...)

Every extra hour that ICE spends facing off with activists is an hour they can't spend kidnapping other people. Every extra minute ICE has to spend contingency planning around activists and neighbors, every extra officer ICE has to put on a kidnap squad, is a drain on their efficiency.

Please join me in praying for my city's only synagogue, Congregation Beth Israel, which was set on fire in the early morning hours, yesterday. Nobody was hurt and a suspect has been caught and charged with arson, but not much is public. Beth Israel is part of JXN's long tradition of racial justice.

One of the many, many ways people are fighting ICE in Minneapolis is helping neighbors safely shelter at home during a time when abductions are genuinely rampant. People in Minneapolis are doing *so much* great work

Hi folks, I'm seeing a lot of "Eyes on Minneapolis" & "We support Minnesota" sentiment. Here's a tangible way you can help: Trump just suspended federal funding for SNAP benefits to Minnesota. Second Harvest Heartland is an MN-based hunger-relief org. Please donate what you can. www.2harvest.org

/4 Trump and ICE and the rest of the fascist scum can murder and lie and oppress, but they can’t kill that decency that some real Americans have. They don’t have it, they are inadequate without it, and it infuriates them. But they can’t kill it.

i graduated from a high school with what i thought was as bad a racist mascot as you could find, but this one is on a new level

"A neighbor identifying himself as a doctor asked if he could render aid to the woman who shot but was told by ICE agents to stand back.. Emergency responders’ vehicles couldn’t get past ICE vehicles, so firefighters and other first responders had to walk." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

There is no legal justification, whatsoever, to use military force against a NATO ally like Greenland. If any military member participates in this without congressional authorization, they are following illegal orders.

So the new paper… —finds that immigration economics is identical to other fields of empirical inquiry: researcher priors correlate with results —finds that the magnitude of this correlation is minuscule —does not mention the most prominent documented bias of this kind, from one of the authors.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Proud and grateful to be ending the year with this piece out in Quarterly Journal of Speech! 50 free downloads here - www.tandfonline.com/eprint/KHIAF...

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These motherfuckers who shill AI keep saying 'the genie is out of the bottle'. You realise that stories are full of ways to trick the fucking genie back into the bottle, right? You keep using that metaphor but I do not think it means what you think it means.

I think it’s not an exaggeration to conclude that the NYT is directly responsible with denying some of the worst genocides to have happened since the Holocaust, especially when the US is complicit in them jewishcurrents.org/the-genocide...

Ken Paxton has launched a snitch line to gather reports of supposed violations of Texas' transphobic bathroom policing law. Please do not abuse this snitch line. Please do not fill it with faff and nonsense. Please do not attach huge, unwieldy and irrelevant documentation to any reports.