Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. You really seem to care disproportionately about the formatting of my CV

There was so much ICE activity today. A group of agents spent the whole morning inside Jimmy’s Bar and then ended up driving erratically all throughout the Holland & Como neighborhoods, eventually trying to park at the 2nd precinct police station.

Will Lewis oversaw some staggeringly unpopular decisions at the Post – and an exodus of many of the staff who made it great. But: his background was steeped in newspapers. He’d been a very successful journalist. The same is not true of the new CEO.

Wait JD took an entire plane of food? To Italy? Was he worried his kids wouldn’t like pasta or pizza?

So Gabbard is covering up more apparent evidence of foreign interference with the Trump Admin www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

“In just a few weeks, the United States reported four times as many cases than typically seen throughout an entire calendar year, the CDC said… Declining vaccination rates have left approximately 300,000 kindergarteners unprotected from measles infection.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

'Since when,' he asked, 'Are the first and last line of any poem Where the poem begins and ends?' #seamusheaney

NEW: A baby held in immigration detention became so sick, she had to be rushed to a hospital in severe respiratory distress. “She was at the brink of dying,” a lawyer told me. But the girl didn’t go home after her 10-day hospital stay; instead, ICE put her and her mother back in lock up at Dilley.

I don’t know that much about American politics, but whenever I see a clip of Ossoff I think “why is there not more presidential chatter about this guy?”

‘The story of their friendship contains within it a much larger history and both story and history were shaped by the seismic events that refashioned Britain’s place in the world during the second half of the 18th century.’ Daisy Hay on Charles Fox and Edmund Burke. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Vance gets a chilly Winter Olympics reception in Milan, with booing and jeering

"The American media makes things that are abnormal seem normal. The European press doesn’t do that. So you’ll see when they report on Trump’s rambling Davos speech, they will say it made no sense. In the US press, you’ll just see excerpts and an attempt to sanitize it." — @anneapplebaum.bsky.social

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.

In which Jeffrey Epstein, who laundered money for the Russians, explains how Donald Trump was doing exactly the same thing, and how this accounts for most of his wealth.

Our tax dollars at work brutalizing the most vulnerable.

The USA women are so good, they’re overcoming the Vance slump

abstractions also liberate

If I’d known booing JD was an Olympic activity, I could have medalled.

American star Alysa Liu overcame a delay en route to the Milano Skating Arena caused by Vice President JD Vance’s motorcade and finished second in the women’s short program at the Olympics team event. “We almost didn’t make it,” her coach said.

NEW STORY: Trump admits he was the one who found the video and asked that it be posted from his Truth Social account. Refuses to apologize.

The Italian national anthem is pretty fantastic. No Marseillaise but still pretty fabulous.

Staël’s Corinne was an unexpected guest at the opening ceremony

Really putting the Meh in Mehriah there

Absolutely fucking repulsive.

Trump doubles down on his racist video: I looked at the first part and it was really about voter fraud... Then I gave it to the people. Generally, they look at the whole thing, but I guess somebody didn't.

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.