Third Offering: A Pattern for Future Thought open.substack.com/pub/jmjafrx/...

BREAKING: A federal judge has EXTENDED Haiti TPS! U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes’ order read it was “substantially likely” that DHS Secretary Kristi Noem preordained her termination decision because of “hostility to nonwhite immigrants.” HERE TO STAY! WI NOU KAPAB!

Happy Bad Bunny Day 🇵🇷

Liam is home now and we are grateful to @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for traveling to Minneapolis with him and his dad. Welcome home Liam ❤️❤️

Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.

First Offering: The Other Side of 1619 open.substack.com/pub/jmjafrx/...

Anyone telling you NOT to call your member of congress today is an op or under the influence of an op There is literally no reason not to Telling people not to call is not a radical position

"The gentleman I was standing next to was focused on helping people who were coming into Nicollet Avenue understand that they needed to take it slow and helping them get through. ... "Next thing I knew, they shot him." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Best team to ever do it; thank you Lauren Klein and the co-authors for being such generous thought partners. Just in time for your spring semester courses.... jmjafrx.substack.com/p/updated-pr...

Thank you to all the peer reviewers and colleagues who supported this project!

Thank you to series editors @laurenfklein.bsky.social @mkgold.bsky.social

@lisaironcutter.bsky.social Mark Algee Hewitt, Kasper Beelen, Vanessa Holden, Josh Rothman, Crystal Hall, Julie Damerow, Abraham Gibson, Manfred Laubichler, Mariekej Van Erp, Tobias Blanke, Tassie Gnady, David Kloster, Megan Meredith-Lobay, Lee Zickel 👇🏼

Syllabus time. Computational Humanities from Debates in DH series is OA! Co-eds with @dmimno.bsky.social Jessica Marie Johnson. Articles from @dbamman.bsky.social @kmcdono.bsky.social @roopikarisam.bsky.social @bschmidt.bsky.social @barbaramcgilli.bsky.social @quinnanya.me @tharsen.bsky.social 👇🏼

My Slate piece on the widespread NEH grant cancellations is live. So much gratitude to everyone who took the time to talk with me these past few days while fighting fires on every side. #humanities #highered #neh slate.com/news-and-pol...

"The two-page memo, which was obtained by The Associated Press, does not allege any criminal conduct by Khalil, a legal permanent U.S. resident and graduate student... Rather, Rubio wrote Khalil could be expelled for his beliefs." apnews.com/article/mahm...

As a criminal defense attorney, the vast majority of my cases were NOT immigrants. So let's stop pretending immigrants are the problem when there's a 34-count convicted felon sitting in the White House. The hypocrisy is outrageous.

We hope you’ll join us at Red Emma’s tonight at 7 p.m. to discuss the Uprising and what it meant for Baltimore. www.eventbrite.com/e/looking-ba...

Baltimore City Paper tried to cover the Uprising differently, writes Jack Serpick. His father was editor-in-chief of the paper at the time. baltimorebeat.com/a-particular...

Here is a list of events being held to remember the 2015 Uprising baltimorebeat.com/events-in-ba...

Find images from the Uprising, shot by photographer Devin Allen, on our Photostory page. baltimorebeat.com/photostory-i...

Jaisal Noor and Logan Hullinger wrote about the Baltimore Legal Action Team, which got its start during the Uprising. baltimorebeat.com/from-emergen...

To try to understand what happened in 2015 and to get a sense of where we are now, Baynard Woods sought out people who were involved in the uprising in one way or another. baltimorebeat.com/a-mass-movem...

“Freddie Gray’s death, the Uprising that followed, and the city’s response to police violence deeply altered the way I thought about journalism,” Editor-in-Chief Lisa Snowden writes in her letter. baltimorebeat.com/letter-from-...

Issue 59 of Baltimore Beat is live. April 19 will mark 10 years since Freddie Gray’s death. This issue looks back on that tumultuous time in our city’s history. Our cover was designed by Wide Angle Youth Media.

a lot of very important stories and memories in this issue. it was very moving to read even as an editor

I just had a flashback to 2012/2013. Everything old is new again.

An immigration judge on Tuesday gave the U.S. government a day to show its evidence that Columbia University student Mahmoud Khalil should be deported and said she would rule on the government's case on Friday. "If he's not removable, I'm going to be terminating this case on Friday"

New on the SOIL Blog: "Being present with what you’re feeling in the wake of harm, to feel what's going on in your body, is really freaking hard. I can’t do it all the time but as I’ve worked through historic harm in recovery I was shocked at how feeling my feelings made empathy easier to access."

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to stop barring the Associated Press from the White House press pool, finding that it had discriminated against the outlet over its editorial decision not to adopt “Gulf of America” in its news stories. More details coming:

And there it is.

We've aggregated relevant @modernlanguage.bsky.social resources, including tips for NEH awardees, links to webinar recordings on threats to higher ed, MLA statements, & links to other resources. Share resources w/ us through the google form, and sign up for the first Strategy Session (April 22).

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New — ICE will release the mother and children they shackled and unlawfully abducted from Sackets Harbor, NY in late March after relentless pressure from the town. I write how the incredible outcome of this horrifying story should give fuel us to fight back: www.thehandbasket.co/p/sackets-ha...

3133 GREENMOUNT AVE, BALTIMORE, MD, 21218

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org has a great resource on protecting data (yours and others') while attending a protest for this reason! ssd.eff.org/module/atten...

A wonderful resource for anyone interested in zine-making! #DHmakes

This right here. Since their negotiation tactic is “all stick, no carrots” why do anything but fight back?

With a firehose of IRS data, it seems likely to me that this administration is seeking to create a knowledge graph that includes every person in the US. To anticipate the effects of that, we can look to people’s experiences with various cities’ gang databases. www.washlaw.org/targeted-lab...

More context about this letter on @aaup.bsky.social’s Academe blog: academeblog.org/2025/04/01/f...

I should be working on my dissertation but instead I'm sketching out plans to turn my Vandercook No. 01 galley press into a mobile protest press for printing posters on site and on the fly.

"tech good, DEI bad" is core to how the current administration exercises power.

Live now!!! sfpl-org.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In an attempt to preserve what remains of my sanity, I'm continuing to update the Academic Target Tracker map @elotroalex.bsky.social and I threw together last weekend. It includes info about academic workers who have been detained or had their visas revoked in recent weeks. You can find it here:

Librarians still level legend.

Yes. This. Passing the baton is a practice.

As we approach our Who Owns Black (Historical) Data conference in May 13–14, I'll be focusing more and more on the question of saving history, and in particular Black history—for issues of scope and level of threat. Here are some friends who are. on. it. www.saveblackhistory.org

As several other folks who have quoted this have said, the violent/peaceful dichotomy cedes ground to opposition because cops decide almost invariably which protests are "violent" in the sense of people getting physically hurt by someone who has the intent to harm them.

Good resource to think how your protest photos/videos might get used (even if you don't intend to archive them) is Margaret Lawson's "How to Archive a Protest: A Field Guide For Southern Memory Workers" @invisiblehistories.bsky.social Article is also a free zine! invisiblehistory.org/zines-guides...