The Vice President’s deletion of this post only deepens the pain of the Armenian community which saw this White House retreat on Armenian Genocide recognition. Another capitulation to Turkey, in such a sloppy manner as to invite further scrutiny of this admin's retreat on human rights & the truth.

Hi folks! Some of our friends in the Twin Cities have come back with another request! It's a heartbreaking one but the need is real, so if anyone can help get them more masks & filters for those on the streets to deal with being gassed constantly, that would be amazing!

Always a great sign for how things are going in your country when 21-year-olds are like “hey, I innovated a system to play bagpipes in tear gas”

RFK, Jr. says a Harvard researcher cured schizophrenia by feeding his patient a meat-heavy keto diet. The Harvard researcher says he did not. For busy schizophrenic lovers of beef tallow, it can be hard to know who to trust.

Cool/important job alert: Principal Research Scientist at the Wikimedia Foundation's Research team for the area of knowledge integrity Job posting: job-boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jo...

U.K. might lose a prime minister because a guy who worked for him knew another guy who hung out with Epstein. Meanwhile the U.S. opposition party is telling our President, who was Epstein's best friend, that his secret police should get better training so their public street murders look less messy.

Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

One man tracking people being deported & deportation flights at the Minneapolis airport. One person creating a record for future inquiries & potential prosecutions. Trevor Paglen's deep surveillance documentation now being done by everyday people. www.npr.org/2026/02/06/n...

A Minneapolis knitting shop has resurrected the design of a Norwegian cap worn to protest Nazi occupation. Its owner says the money raised from hat pattern sales will support the local immigrant community.

A great takedown of "big wellness" through the prism of Attia and Epstein "As a woman, I cannot imagine taking expert health advice from Attia seriously at this point, given the gross and dehumanizing way he talked about the female anatomy in his emails with Epstein." (Gift link )

The Count: Time-keeping Session Chair (also Bean-counting Dean) Grad student: Cookie Monster At Every Coffee Break Kermit: Scholarly Society's Executive Director Elmo: That One 1960s Academic With Bad Dance Moves Oscar the Grouch: That One Person Who Doesn't Like Group's Restaurant Choice

CFP The Incredible Nineteenth Century: Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Fairy Tale 1–2 May, free online Presentations invited on any aspect of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, or #fairytale in the Long #C19 as well as modern reinterpretations of the #C19 in literature & media docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. went hunting for dinosaur bones in the Dakotas with child sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell.

Wired has put together a list of do's and don'ts for how to record ICE. Burner phone not connected to WiFi to make calls; Separate camera to record (can be on your person); Turn off biometrics & faceid; Film 360 (slowly) showing landmarks, signs, time & date; And more #ProudBlue 📹: Wired/TT & IG

The people of Minneapolis have been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize. The first time a city's population has ever been nominated. #Minneapolis #Nobel

I think in the end AI's primary effect will not be to replace workers so much as to destroy whatever is left of our notion of a shared reality.

बाउ को धुरी छैन “Father Has No Roof over his head” An #OtherEverests #ConfluenceCollective exhibition in Kalimpong 21-27 February 2026 shorturl.at/YrbVv Lost archives & hidden histories of Indigenous high-altitude workers from the 1920s & 1930s. @sarahmpicks.bsky.social @calebscarter.bsky.social

This is a split-flap, and it’s a charismatic artifact of media history :) wordsinspace.net/2020/12/03/f... wordsinspace.net/fluttering-c...

I’m a day late but whatever. Happy 10 year anniversary to this:

A bakery called Maslow’s Hierarchy of Kneads

“The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I’ve cast on for my resistance Melt The ICE Hat. Proceeds from the sale of the pattern go to immigration rights groups. (This is the knitting pattern; there’s also one for crochet.) 🧶 www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani just secured a $5.2 million settlement for delivery app gig workers. He has been in office for one month. www.thenation.com/article/poli...

I genuinely have no idea how to convey this to the American people, but I think the biggest impediment to any kind of immigration reform is that people are convinced that "legal" and "illegal" are immutable, intrinsic categories instead of a rapidly-shifting arbitrary constellation of regulations.

Buried in this article is the astonishing news that "Across the state Democrats have recruited candidates to run in all 150 state House districts, 16 state Senate districts and every other state and federal contest on the ballot". G-d bless Texas, get on their level.

Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich

As a great grandson of a woman who survived the genocide in Turkey, they will come for you next.

🚨 'The don’t-love-thy-neighbor Christians have powerful allies in the war on empathy. Silicon Valley techno-authoritarians & social Darwinists argue that empathy is weakness & suicidal for civilization because it gets in the way of ruthless ambition & efficiency.' www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

The ghost of Roald Amundsen would like a word

Democrats Condemn ICE For Murdering Without Proper Warrants https://theonion.com/democrats-condemn-ice-for-murdering-without-proper-warrants/

College money well spent and needed. Rice students created an interactive map exposing ICE raids across the country as they're unfolding. Soon it will be a map of ICE raids and ICE murders. Keep reminding Schumer and Dems.

Ugh

This store was bought by employees like three months ago too. What a way to introduce yourselves.

Latest podcast! We talk to Simone Kenyon, choreographer + artistic creator of the place-sensitive performance piece Into the Mountain, inspired by the lyrical & embodied prose of Nan Shepherd’s 1974 book. shorturl.at/ac6QE @graemewarren.bsky.social @sarahmpicks.bsky.social @waymarks.bsky.social

Not pictured: Haruki Murakami’s wife, or indeed whoever is cooking, cleaning, paying bills, running errands, doing the laundry, answering emails, etc like yea his routine is goals, but let’s not lie to ourselves about all the invisible work others are doing to enable him to have that routine

Bovino has gone but the DHS leadership is unchanged. They just got the message about kinder and gentler sm posts. ICE is still fubar. Call your Senators at 202-224-3121 and tell them to block ICE funding

Bari Weiss Claims Ideological Diversity Begins And Ends With Her

The Horrors persist but so do-- The Horrors persist but The Horrors The Horrors *sucks air through teeth* Man, that's, like, a lot of Horrors. A lot more Horrors than normal. I was led to expect that-- less Horrors, in general, you know? Is there, uh-- a bathroom? No? Oh, this is gonna be bad.

All the blockbuster IP franchises you love today only exist because of mass market paperbacks. How can we stop this? goodereader.com/blog/digital...

Honoured guests, I believe we have found The Worst Answer to the Higher Education crisis.

Probably the most successful piece of legislation in US history, measured by social benefit generated per dollar spent. Also wildly popular, across demographics. Without any public discussion or consultation of Congress, the Trump administration has effectively killed it.

Can confirm that being a journalist is occasionally very sick indeed.

Thank Judges and Lawyers for Standing Up for Democracy These brave professionals need to know that the public is behind them A federal judge told us that the postcards were a much appreciated reminder that they are not alone.  Learn the details at our blog: buff.ly/tLdMURD

In this latest addition to the JHI Blog’s Forum on political economy, Arielle Xena Alterwaite turns to C.L.R. James’s classic reading of Moby-Dick to reflect not solely on the substance of intellectual history and political economy, but also on the various styles in which this history can be told.

"Democracy is based upon the conviction that there are extraordinary possibilities in ordinary people." If you're feeling helpless watching the news coming out of Minnesota, please check out this vetted list ⬇️ www.standwithminnesota.com We stand with Minnesota. United We Stand. Divided We Fall.

Take note, fellow skincare aficionados!

Remember the other day when I was saluting my friend Greg Ketter, owner of Minneapolis’ DreamHaven Books? This is him the following day. Greg will never say this, so I will — now is a great time to buy books from DreamHaven. Support Americans who stand up vs. 🧊. dreamhavenbooks.com