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If you can spare it please help a help an Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti Area Family Rebuild After Sudden ICE Detention: www.gofundme.com/f/help-a-fam...

There’s a word for this and it is colonialism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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The normalization of “public expression” causing arrest on a college campus is really something. People are blaming the Trump administration but this is the central building block of the fascist turn and it precedes Trump — the work of institutions maligned as bastions of woke. If only.

My best organizing tip for academic workers (& all workers, but academics esp. can struggle to internalize this IME) is to go to campus workers with less power than you as the *first* step of any campaign. Going to deans etc w/ more power cedes your own power to the boss & shrinks your coalition.

So-called #genAI means the abolition of the future through the proliferation of endless streams of stochastically rendered generic pasts. Having turned large parts of the cultural archive into training data, it now traps us in a foreverized pastness, a 24/7 nostalgia for a past that never existed

Trump offers universities funding in exchange for segregation. That’s the clearer way to talk about his “deal.“

"Canada’s “elbows up” plan for asserting sovereignty looks less like defending against American aggression and more like doubling down on the denial of Indigenous rights in the service of short-term economic gain." canadiandimension.com/articles/vie...

Miles O'Brien fan club assemble.

I have an opinion piece in the New York Times today on how the labor movement has failed to step up to the moment in countering Trump, even as Trump unilaterally strips public sector workers of collective bargaining. Labor will die as a movement if this continues. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...

I wonder if any university admins have thought even a little bit about what it looks like to unleash LLM chatbots—as a university-purchased, -promoted, and -legitimized “educational” enterprise technology— on a student population in the grips of a well-documented college mental health crisis

In response to Trump's auto tariffs GM is reshoring by spending $4 billion in expanding production at factories in Michigan, Kansas, and Tennessee. But this isn't going to produce a return to the glory days that MAGA envisions for a couple reasons: (1/3) www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

If there is one lesson to draw from the history of fascism in the interwar period in Europe, it is this: Democracy falls if and when mainstream conservatives and centrist/center-right elites decide to make common cause with extremists because they consider the “radical Left” the more acute threat.

Can’t stress the importance of labor and community organizing in this moment as shit is about to get qualitatively worse than it is now. If you aren’t a part of a social movement, mutual aid network, or union I would join up as it’s going to be critical in the coming years for social survival

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

Mahmoud Khalil is free.

I have never felt so gaslit.

Old Mission Peninsula - Lake Michigan

Thinking about him again

Trump's mega bill giving a massive tax cut for the rich while gutting Medicaid for the poor is grotesque, but it would also grant 800 billion to immigration enforcement. If you think ICE is bad now, it will get a whole lot worse if this passes. slate.com/news-and-pol...

“The University of Michigan is using private, undercover investigators to surveil pro-Palestinian campus groups, including trailing them on and off campus, furtively recording them and eavesdropping on their conversations…”

Santa Ono says he “declined to politicize the institution.” While Pres of UM, he: 1. Cancelled the student vote about BDS because he personally disagrees with boycotts of Israel. 2. Prosecuted peaceful pro-Palestinian student protesters. 3. Fired a staff member at the bequest of the ADL.

“Massive numbers of students are going to emerge from university with degrees, and into the workforce, who are essentially illiterate…Both in the literal sense and in the sense of being historically illiterate and having no knowledge of their own culture, much less anyone else’s.”

Happy May Day

Following yesterday's read-in and months of negotiations, LEO-GLAM union (#librarians, archivists, curators) has announced they will quit their contract with U-M. Faculty and students: let management know how much you value your partnerships with LACs in research, instruction & student engagement!

This could be a great statement except that two of these regents threatened to defund DEI in the press even before Trump took office and this op-Ed doesn’t answer: Are you reinstating the staff who were fired? Are you signing the Mutual Defense Compact? Are you dropping charges against students?

"Each decision — each erased name, each revised syllabus, each closed program and department — was framed as necessary, even patriotic. Within a few years, German universities no longer served knowledge — they served power." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/o...

Washtenaw County Sheriff won't cooperate with ICE. Good. Things are bad and times are dark. But I am very, very, proud of my community tonight. The only way we are going to get through this to the better future our community deserves is standing strong together for our neighbors and what's right.

America's contradictory position towards globalization in one chart:

9 years after the Standing Rock protests against the Dakota Access Pipeline….

Hey University of Michigan union supporters, Michigan union supporters, Michiganders, or union supporters (international travelers will definitely get at least 2 BEERS on me) come to downtown Flint for this rally tomorrow. Our admin is acting like jerks, so we need to have a good showing!!

One way to read America MAGA's policy endgame is compare it to Argentina's MAGA policies that have resulted in the widespread use of debt financing to make everyone precarious and reliant on financial speculation to survive. www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...

the diag. ann arbor. april 10. 5pm. mark your calendars and share widely! @umich.edu

Today's Headlines

The University of Michigan Black Student Union has released a statement on the dismantling of DEI at the institution. "To Santa Ono: You are a coward, and bending to the will of fascists will not save you. To the regents: We see you for the racists you are." Via: www.instagram.com/p/DH1qbq8JpvJ/

This exciting resolution from Rutgers University Senate is exactly the kind of model I think higher ed needs: a mutual defense pact of, in this case, Big 10 schools. They call for member institutions to create a joint defense fund and make resources available to any member institution under attack.

Emergency meeting for UMich faculty, students and staff on Friday March 28 12-1pm.

Video of the international student at Tufts being arrested by "federal authorities" in Massachusetts has been released and it's terrifying. They're not even uniformed officers. Just secret police thugs in hoodies and masks. From WCVB: youtu.be/PuFIs7OkzYY

Mahmoud Khalil’s fundraising goal has almost been met. Please donate and/or share. chuffed.org/project/just...

A crowd has gathered for the NYC protest against the illegal ICE arrest of Columbia grad student Mahmoud Khalil. Protesters are chanting and calling for his immediate release. Multiple helicopters overhead.

re the previous repost: if they can disappear permanent residents they can disappear citizens

They adopted a posture of total submission and it bought them precisely nothing. A lesson for the Trump era www.nytimes.com/live/2025/03...

Excellent read on the geographical factor of urban and rural elites behind the current political crisis: thebaffler.com/latest/one-e...

this will be the first in a series of public talks on this topic that I will give in Europe and the US in 2025