Mubashir and his family came to the United States as refugees from Ethiopia when he was a child, and they all became naturalized citizens in 2019. Despite being a U.S. citizen, Mubashir was targeted by ICE, assaulted, and detained. Listen to his story:

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

saving to read later

A blog about corruption and our new edited volume from Cambridge UP! (As always, couldn't have done this without my co-editors, Marina Zaloznaya and Marco Garrido!) cambridgeblog.org/2026/01/seei...

BREAKING: I will be entering the NFL Hall of Fame by conducting a daring raid on Devin Hester’s house and stealing his gold jacket. Sportswriters of America, please adjust your stats accordingly.

Okay, this is driving me nuts. I'm feeling this as 4+4+4+3 or 8+7...right? open.spotify.com/track/6k4WyW...

The Social Science History Association 2026 Call for Papers is up! The meeting will take place in Atlanta, Georgia, from November 19th to 22nd, 2026. Submission deadline is March 1st, 2026. Submission link and details here: ssha.org/conference/

NYT website for me, at the moment. (The Minneapolis shooting is below the bottom of the image; couldn't even zoom my browser out that far.) Compare to NBC News, Fox News, and (even) CBS News.

Meanwhile, in down-market GOP messaging... (This is the doofus in NY-1. Apparently neocolonialism is restitution for drug deaths...)

Ready or Not, Here They Come — Notes From the AI Force-Feed …. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/ready...

Obviously his name is Dean Dean and he's risen to the rank of Dean. Dean³

The dean wrote "death recorded" on her application.

this, from @kevinbaker.bsky.social, is a better analysis of the intersection between LLMs and academic science than 98% of what's out there.

New track tonight. on.soundcloud.com/AkrWybEkNZOY...

This is one of cultural consequences of financialization: boards are increasingly populated by finance and business type folks, and for their paradigm, value is perception (brand), not fundamentals. Also, these elites have fewer connections to scientists and see them as labor, not knowledge.

It is my long held belief that Top Secret! is the better ZAZ movie than Airplane! even as so many people I know disagree.

Why hello there former US Treasury Secretary, president of Harvard, and director of the National Economic Council Larry Summers. Sharing with alt so we can all bask in his hidden insights that we are NOT allowed to share. And here's the source link: oversightdemocrats.house.gov/sites/evo-su...

A subtle one that's easy to miss, but the fact that Andreesen and Musk both use "alpha" as slang for "information advantage" is a clear tell that their mental world is finance, not technology. They try to talk otherwise but they are investors not inventors.

The best comparison case for LLMs I can think of pre-coffee is pumpkin spice. LLMs are the pumpkin spice of the corporate world. Pumpkin spice can be lovely in very limited quantities and proper recipes. But not when it’s on absolutely every single friggin food group in the supermarket.

Here we go! www.trumpcancelledmyflight.com

Last night is gonna be a real thinker for Ezra Klein

this is the most successful a CIA officer has been at toppling a government in years.

NYMag blew up its story about ICE's increased presence at 26 Federal Plaza, and pasted it on a wall a few blocks away on Broadway

Abduction of Proserpina, by Giambologna, 1579 (from the @NortonSimon Museum in Pasadena), 📸 by @nturchiarophoto

Statement from United University Professions President Frederick E. Kowal regarding the detainment of a UUP Upstate Chapter member by ICE: Statement in following posts. (1/6)

My father worked on an offshore wind farm. Woke up early every morning before dawn to wrangle the zephyrs out to pasture, then he had to milk the breezes. Sometimes one of the gales would get a little rowdy. He died of whale-lung at the age of forty two.

Here we go! Awesome new edition of GULLIVER’S TRAVELS from @beehivebooks.bsky.social! Kickstarter is live NOW!

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When you don't use virgin olive oil in your kitchen

Seems bad! www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

Couldn't help myself, sorry www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...

Over to you @jaketapper.bsky.social !

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

So....later?

get your math politics jokes here, folks.

In the latest episode of Moral Matters, the @AMSS_Section podcast, ASA member Nicholas Hoover Wilson @nickhwilson.bsky.social @stonybrooku.bsky.social discusses his book Modernity's Corruption: Empire and Morality in the Making of British India @columbiaup.bsky.social.

Lecturing active soldiers about being too fat while dropping standards so low for the ICE deportation force that a third of their recruits can't handle the easiest PT test I've ever heard of www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Known from The Bugle!!!!

I am proud to say: I am that T-Rex! ;)

"Cal Raleigh" is also an ACC rivarly now.

this white house actively treats a large swath of americans as disloyal and outside the political community and it doesn’t merit so much as a peep from the political press

The bloating might never leave your face, but beneath it -- you still have some years. You still have some hope.

It was two OUP books.

Tonight's futzing is just a little vamp in A harmonic minor. Messed around with some resonators for fun at the end. soundcloud.com/nicholas-wil...

Cool. Wasn't expecting to live in a country like this.

Okay, okay, I'm getting conspiracy-pilled here. Given all the madness today, he's *still* not making any statement?

have a new piece out of defense tech with nyrb! www.nybooks.com/online/2025/...

This morning, the Trump Administration’s Department of War gave me an ultimatum: call up your troops, or we will. It is absolutely outrageous and un-American to demand a Governor send military troops within our own borders and against our will.

Wishful thinking, maybe, but feels like some kind of crest today. Consider: (1) Kimmel/Sinclair folding. (2) ICE actually *apologizing* for their agent in NYC. (3) Hegseth pre-neutering his power-play with generals. (4) Wheels off the Comey indictment already. Plenty still bad out there, but...