Even when it’s hard, the writing feels so good

But why is racist in scare quotes, @cnn.com

Vice President JD Vance gets roundly booed at the opening ceremony of the Milano-Cortina 2026 Olympics. "Those are a lot of boos for him, whistling jeering," says the presenter. US athletes receive a warm welcome from fans, though.

Haven't seen this angle mentioned, but it's an extraordinary national security risk to have an anonymous "staffer" impersonating the president of the United States, posting racist memes, from his personal accounts, at 10 PM.

"we cannot begin to talk about freedom and justice in any culture if we are not talking about mass based literacy movements." bell hooks 1997 we cannot begin to talk about freedom+justice in any culture now if we are not talking about mass de-literacy cognitive-incapacitating industries.

Fun Winter Olympic fact – all the stone for Olympic curling stones come from the Scottish island of Ailsa Craig.

Got to spend part of today at the UMN Center for Premodern Studies doing a lightning talk about injurability, care, and the Gothic. Always so good to find the overlap in work with colleagues

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

Only pro-certain-families

“Is it too obvious to say that of course the right only values family as a system of ownership and property, only values motherhood as a way to push women from public life… only values babies & births when they are white babies and white births, meant to reproduce the nation as they imagine it?”

New report out by yours truly @clasp.org !! ICE Activity in Trump 2.0 is Increasing Employment and Decreasing Full-Time School Enrollment for Teens in Mixed-Status Families www.clasp.org/publications...

“A comment, not a question” of academics.

Marvellous. It can summarise all the AI-written crap that we are being flooded with, and then we will have a perfect spiral of ever-growing mediocrity. THE POINT OF READING IS TO UNDERSTAND, CRITICALLY, not tick a box grumble grumble.

📗Meg Grehan reviews Shorelines, by Ruth Ennis📗 @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @megcathwrites.bsky.social @littleislandbooks.bsky.social @childrensbooksireland.ie booksirelandmagazine.com/beauty-and-p...

If you’re around NYC 6 March and want to chat about care, vulnerability, and the Gothic, you should truck down to the Columbia Irish Studies Seminar

I’m pretty psyched about this visit to Penn State’s Humanities Institute next month.

I just published: 10 Simple Questions for Congress to Ask Immigration Officials - Overstaying a visa is not a crime (that's nearly 50% of all undocumented migrants) - Unlawful entry (18 usc 1325) is only a misdemeanor. For vast majority of those, the statute of limitations expired long ago - more

Genuinely amazrd at the big small dick energy www.axios.com/2026/02/06/s...

IMH researcher Adam Powell has contributed a chapter to a new publication which sheds light on people's experience of hearing spirit voices. The chapter draws on data from a study of clairaudient mediums, part of our research project Hearing the Voice. Read more 👇 www.durham.ac.uk/research/ins...

Boy the gym sure is empty at 4:45 in the morning.

“We need to make sure that we have an ultimate response to that which, I believe, has to be a true national strike in the sense that, if they do this, if they try to overthrow our democracy, if you are allied with democracy, do not go to work” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Finding notes in my handwriting in a novel I’m pretty sure I haven’t read before.

BREAKING: The federal government has filed a motion seeking to end asylum claims for the family of Liam Conejo Ramos, according to the lawyer representing the family.

In the historically anti-union South, the UAW just secured a landmark contract with Volkswagen. The workers won major wage increases, job security against outsourcing, and higher-quality healthcare. Congratulations to these workers, and remember: there is always hope in labor.

Absolutely gutted to find out one of my med students was on an icu rotation and attending to the ICE detainee brought in with multiple cranial fractures.

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"'A week ago, eight to ten churches asked for clergy to come and provide support to create a protective band so people could come to church, because dark-skinned people are afraid to come to church.'"

Teaching Persuasion in my Imagining Disability class and my students are doing such an outstanding job.

American scientists have historically been leaders in the collection and analysis of data on climate change. Trump is now trying to gag anyone reporting data that confirms climate change. www.economist.com/science-and-...

Trump's fascist goons are very much still terrorizing our community

Civil rights activist Medgar Evers was shot in the back by a Klansman in 1963. The National Park Service has removed visitor brochures from Evers' museum and reportedly plans to remove references that call his murderer a “racist"

I'm no PhD economist, but did a massive, cross-sector tax hike on consumer goods and industrial precursors make doing business in the US more expensive or less expensive? Explain it to me like I'm Peter Navarro, Howard Lutnick, or Scott Bessent.

You must needs be strangers

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Hard to believe that spiking an endorsement of the Black lady was worth it.

Looking forward to this discussion of bioethics for patients in the custody of law enforcement from @umnbioethics.bsky.social umn.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The Corpse in Modern Irish Literature was published this week by @livunipress.bsky.social. This collection brings so many new perspectives to the discussion of death and the body in Irish literature from the eighteenth century to the present. liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/doi/book/10....

Did you publish an article on regional, global, imperial, comparative, or transnational legal history in 2025? You should nominate it for the Burbank Prize--deadline June 1, 2026 👇

They saw a brand built on black sports celebrities and found it suspicious

Snatching spinelessness from the jaws of principle

Gramsci once observed "the old is dying and the new struggles to be born; in this interregnum a great variety of morbid symptoms appear," and I'm not sure there would be any better encapsulation of our society's comorbidities than this headline.

Doberman Penny wins best in show at the 150th Westminster, giving handler Andy Linton a second career crown nearly four decades after his first triumph with the breed

Made Donal Skehan’s farmhouse veg soup. Absolutely fabulous soup for these wintry days.

If you can, take a few minutes to watch us run through the parade of lies from DHS.

🧊 "We're going to get an ICE detention facility before we get a grocery store!"

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.