ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

I feel like everyone who followed this story carefully knew that this was the role Canary Mission was playing but didn't have definitive proof yet. It's a weird feeling to just finally have something to point to.

MSP airport. Clergy risking risking arrest and a huge gathering of protesters. The song is, “Down to the River to Pray.”

just to make that clear for the rest of the world, that's -9 degrees *fahrenheit.* -23 degrees *celsius*.

CRM repertoires of contention being repurposed powerfully here.

🚨 BREAKING: Over 100 clergy at Target HQ in Downtown Minneapolis demanding justice #ICEOutOfMN #ICEOutForGood #ReneeGood 🎶 “We can stay here all day, we shall not be moved. We are shopping elsewhere, we shall not be moved.” 🔗 Watch live: www.facebook.com/share/v/1ALf...

I am not a religious person, but this is incredibly moving.

I reviewed MORE AND MORE AND MORE which argues that there’s no historical precedent for an “energy transition”; instead, we see symbiotic linkages between wood, coal, oil, and now renewables. I’m convinced. But the book’s analysis of capitalism falls short @thebaffler.com Link ⬇️

Aww, old school Teletubbies!

When I first started studying media Arabic in Cairo circa 2005, we would read news reports in Al-Masry al-Youm about political detainees who had knocked their heads against prison walls and killed themselves.

Commit to what we could be rather than what we are. My favorite expression of this is Langston Hughes’s poem “Freedom’s Plow”.

Defining armed people as necessarily in the right, entitled to do whatever it takes to achieve their goals, because "you are either with us or with the baddies," was always likely to end up this way.

If you are a US citizen and think your children are safe because they don’t “look like” this child… … stop to consider that in our country, now, your children’s safety depends on what they “look like”.

A five-year-old boy seized on his way home in Minnesota and now locked up in Texas. His family didn't know where he was for 24 hours.

One of the reasons it's more work to be juggling multiple responsibilities than to have longer stretches handling one responsibility. (Those who teach & research & keep track of multiple needs, time-sensitive tasks, advance planning for multiple people, know this well)

the old connectors are dying, and usb-c struggles to be born. now is the time of dongles.

I mean if you take the 101 to the 10 to the 60 at like noon, & dodge rush hour commuter traffic, you might be able to make it in under 2 hours, but that's pushing it. The container trucks near the 57 will slow you down any time of day. (Riverside is 40 mins from the eastern edge of LA Country)

So an 'adult content' warning was placed on this, from Egypt over a decade ago - when on social media IN EGYPT, where I lived at the time, this image was not censored. People were horrified by it. Revolutionary graffiti replicated it. It galvanized protests. I suppose puritans would rather not know

“But what deeply troubles me now is that for all the steps we've taken toward integration, I've come to believe that we are integrating into a burning house."  Dr. King said this famous quote on March 27th, 1968, mere days before his murder. But the context around the quote is interesting...

I haven't found a cookbook as perfect for my current life stage and interests as Good Things by Samin Nosrat, in a loooong time. And I'm really curious about the vin d'orange, which seems perfect for the oranges that grow on campus trees!

A depressing instruction at a peer-reviewed journal's portal for submitting manuscripts: "Please note that AI chatbots, for example ChatGPT, should not be listed as authors."

I can't retweet this enough.

Social media would be more engaging & productive if we - I'm referring mainly to academics & reporters - posted less whinging about how such & such other writer/analyst is a jerk/wrong/moron/has undue influence. I get the impetus, and share it - it just makes for a feed full of back & forth beefs.

An amazing set of essays and resources about primarily US protest movements.

I have an article forthcoming in the Annual Review of Political Science called, "Participatory Democracy & Its Limits." It focuses on limited citizen attention & how participation can backfire, w/ land use as an example. Abstract below; here's a preprint: kevinjelliott.wordpress.com/wp-content/u...

Few things deter people from writing letters of recommendation for excellent students quite like fussy reference portals that require you to get your letters down to x number of characters and spend 4 hours tailoring them to the whims of the specific grad program's web interface.

www.latimes.com/travel/list/... Weird to see this start so early.

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America has tried to be a real multiracial democracy for just over 60 years and that attempt has been contested at every step along the way. The dinner has been held every year, without fail, since 1969. www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

If you are a person who has the slightest bit of a social conscience and knows/likes people who are in any way vulnerable, you are under constant pressure to help. As you should be.

My editorial business has mostly recovered from the funding shocks of last winter, but two changes seem permanent: everyone has lost control of their schedule, often for reasons beyond their control and the gender ratio is reversed.

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...)

I also found that age & life stage mattered a great deal in women's work - younger women, likely to have phones & ambition, were channeled to education/homemaking, lucrative delivery/gig driving could harm reputation/marriage prospects. Then marriage/kids kept them home. theprint.in/opinion/wher...

Galettes St Michel, or rather their TJs version. Not bad.

Net US immigration was zero or slightly negative last year, in important new estimates by @stanveuger.bsky.social et al. The loss of labor cut GDP growth by about 0.2 percentage points.

I’m happy to see the new American Cancer Society report showing that the U.S. has reached a historic milestone in cancer survivorship, where 70% of patients live for 5+ years after diagnosis. But I also see it as a requiem, because the systems that made it happen have been destroyed.

A very informative panel on how internal regime tensions, public opinion, violence and the threat of external intervention are shaping protests in Iran. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHRh...

👀 sikit is a great example of a stative verb that follows the CaCaCa pattern in Classical Arabic but CiCiC in modern dialects.

All the ebook chapters linked in the library databases that I use for syllabus readings now have an AI summary assistant without the ability to turn it off. This is fundamentally counter to the goal of getting people to read scholarly work, and I struggle to see who benefits from it, intellectually.

So excited for this book! Hossam is one of the best scholars and analysts of Egypt, and knows this subject better than anyone. Preorders are open now.

Mubarak's second speech it is, then.

Happy New Year to all, am back after a couple of months offline and away from the US. What have y'all been up to, and also, why the heck are wildflowers blooming two months early in SoCal?

Koshary is now Intangible Cultural Heritage: ich.unesco.org/en/RL/koshar...

"Every single surface of the room is sticky and coated with a fine, white powder."

It comes from the persian word for 'green' too. So, can Iranians not say ghormeh sabzi?