‘Unimaginable horrors’: more than 50,000 children reportedly killed or injured in the Gaza Strip www.unicef.org/press-releas...

Hours after a federal judge paused the Trump administration’s plans to deploy 200 members of the Oregon National Guard to Portland, federal law enforcement officers escalated the tactics used on protesters in the city. Troy and I were on the ground:

Things are getting out of hand over at Margiela

I don’t know who Mr. Nichols hangs around with, but people have absolutely been erasing their social media accounts and keeping their heads down. Green card and visa holders in the US already have plenty of evidence that their social media presence is being monitored and used by the administration.

L'Ukraine encore la cible de tirs russes, plusieurs morts dans la région de Lviv

A CNN review has found two dozen incidents of people posing as ICE officers in 2025 – more incidents than during the prior four presidential terms combined.

The postmortem Takashi Murakamization of everything (Loewe + Albers Foundation)

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

💔 Four members of a family killed in Russian attack on Lviv Oblast

With a bespectacled cow playing backgammon?!?

Very cool www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tat...

Our man in Turkey/Middle East Source: Financial Times share.google/hqvnh71oYAri...

Thank you to @cnn.com for having me on this morning to talk the latest in immigration headlines out of Chicago — read more on these stories here: chicago.suntimes.com

Chien-Chi Chang. A newly arrived immigrant (Tang Z) eats noodles on a fire escape. New York City, USA, 1998.

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

Antoine Wiertz, Premature Burial, 1854, 160 cm (62.9 in) x 235 cm (92.5 in) (Antoine Wiertz Museum, Brussels). The inscription of the coffin reads: “MORT DU CHOLERA / Certifié par nous Docteurs / Sansdoutes” (“DEAD FROM CHOLERA / Certified by us Doctors / Without a doubt”)

Unis have learned nothing from the coding job crisis induced by tech’s egregious meddling in education. They’re doing this all over again, except it will be worse because AI will invade and choke everything

It’s heresy to say this, but unis have missed the train to step forward and say that in the next 3.5 years, they’ll focus on teaching and reward faculty just for it

The first point is a privilege and impossible for most: scores of academics won’t find another ac job elsewhere because there r none (or everyone’s hiring for AI), & those who come from nothing, don’t have a working partner, and/or are providing for kids can’t just walk out

There has never been an all-encompassing collective “we” embarrassed by past personality cults. Enough of us are already embarrassed—worse, deeply ashamed—and the biggest challenge is to stand up for one another and make the shame a force of change, rather than luxuriant moping

Excellent Op-ed by @pastpunditry.bsky.social, on the history of the censorious right. What she observes here for the US also goes for other national contexts, where formations on the far right often self-depict & are seen as free-speech absolutists, when they're anything but...

Taking a nine-figure piece of property away from a college in order to give it to Trump for a new Trump Tower (with a presidential library tucked in there somewhere). www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u...

Thanks to @katetsurkan.bsky.social , she translated my poems written in German—from the Ukrainian translation by Petro Rychlo—into English for the poetry magazine Apofenie. www.apofenie.com

The more that AI agents ‘remember,’ the more helpful they are. But without careful design and clear rules, we risk creating agents whose memories become less like a helpful assistant and more like a permanent surveillance file, write Kevin Frazier and Joshua Joseph:

Literarische, kulturell-politische Zeitschriften machen heute: Fatma Aydemir fürs „Delfi Magazin“ und Tobias Haberkorn für den „Berlin Review“ im Gespräch 🎧 www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/literatur-im...

“In a new report, management consultants Bain & Company found that despite being ‘one of the first areas to deploy generative AI,’ the ‘savings have been unremarkable’ in programming.”

A very cool Japanese mixed-media photography exhibit at the National Asian Art Museum, where every process is many times more complicated than most photo processes, with incredible results

Interesting new books spotted at the GSA

Setting aside the absolute scientific idiocy of the specifics here, reflect for just a moment on the fact that there's a list of "banned words" at all. That's fascism and unAmerican. "Energy Dept adds #climatechange and emissions to list of banned words" subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

The AfD qualified for three mayoral run-offs in cities in North Rhine-Westphalia today, and lost all by big margins. The lesson is not that we have overdone the AfD's rise, but that we do perhaps sometimes underestimate the counter-mobilisation effects - including in east Germany, incidentally.

Bereits vor einigen Tagen erschienen, scheint es mir aktueller denn je; als Beitrag zur Debatte in & über Deutschland. Freue mich sehr, in so guter Gesellschaft zu sein. H. Kundnani, @adamtooze.bsky.social @dirkmoses.bsky.social @hahauenstein.bsky.social @marwecki.bsky.social, E. Özyürek, N. Samour

UBC peoples: if anyone is interested in free books, DM me and we can arrange a time for you to browse. Because of space issues I have to downsize my office library. Primarily 18th-21st century literature, philosophy, literary history/theory. Much of it in German but also in English and French.

'“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

The hypocrisy of the problem that also claims to be the solution is unbearable

Harari’s onto something here

We have allowed the lazy, grifting Silicon Valley charlatans into the front door, & in doing so, we have learned just how many of our own colleagues & administrators simply are not interested in the actual business of education. It's incredibly demoralizing. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

Sure signs of decay: honey mushroom on the National Mall

Taylor Swift, made of Timothy grass red millet German millet, amaranth trefoil balloon plant gypsophila green needlegrass alfalfa alyssum white clover American cosmos corn husk crop seed. Linda Paulsen, 2014

Tin can is the new bustle

​On this day in 1981, Taiwanese-American performance artist Tehching Hsieh began his third one-year performance piece. Also known as ‘Outdoor Piece’, Hsieh lived on the street in New York for an entire year. He was not allowed to go inside at all, including buildings, vehicles, tents or the subway.

Untitled #7, from the Rome series by LA-based photographer Anthony Hernandez collections.lacma.org/node/200680

If you’re in DC, go see this. Go see every exhibit everywhere that’s not been inflected by Trumpism (be it for having been planned early or courageously) and let the culture workers know that this work matters and this is what the country is! It’s more important than knowing every bit of shit news

What makes for a good man-bites-dog story is often based on misleading statistics. (down in the thread: "The authors have chosen to exclude contemporary school shootings, many of which now clearly include elements of right-wing sentiment and ideological influence")

To read the university’s triumphant all-campus email about restored NIH funding, you’d think UC administrators made it happen. But that’s not true. In fact the UC *Faculty Association* organized the lawsuit; administrators kept their heads down and hoped it’d go away.

Seeing a huge NGA exhibit on photography and the Black Arts movement made gave me hope. So many moving and inspiring images—Barkley Hendricks, Bruce Talamon, Carrie Mae Weems (“Mom at Work”), John Simmons

Astonishing closeups of all the tiny insects by Jan van Kessel the Elder in the NGA’s show “Little Beasts” www.nga.gov/exhibitions/...

Tomorrow (Sept 26) at 12:30 pm EDT, please join Benjamin Nathans for a discussion of his Pulitzer Prize-winning book, To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause: The Many Lives of the Soviet Dissident Movement, at @cornelluniversity.bsky.social. Learn more about this in-person event here: buff.ly/OvKaHXe.

The underbelly of a country like Germany being a top migration destination for so many: The children of most immigrant groups earn less per hour than their parents…

A worthwhile read on how right-wing corrupt billionaire populism returns as a matter of concerns that are invented rather than rooted in reality. share.google/K3f85sr0JjLD...