Appreciate this piece as younger generations are both targeted and also making the path "Children are not figures of innocence for political rhetoric, or ​“bait” for federal agents to use in hunting down parents. Young people are not just a part of our struggles, but at the forefront of them."

I’m currently reading Solidarity With Children by the author of this article, and its relevance to this moment is so strong.

From tear gas attacks to violent abductions, we are collectively witnessing the mass-scale abuse of children. Young people are fighting back.

I wrote about having solidarity with young people in our struggles against ICE for @inthesetimes.com inthesetimes.com/article/in-t...

if you will be in Montreal on ACLA weekend we would love to see you at this event Friday Feb 27th, 6-8PM -- celebrating and discussing Solidarity with Children by @lalouverouge.bsky.social

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

RIP Teresa de Lauretis

another thing about AI-enabled research is that academics in secure jobs will say this is economic exigency: "funding for humanities research is drying up so I might as well use this instead" the earlier research on which we established our careers was supported by paid grad students

Like....truly all over

“We are not animals. Nobody is illegal on stolen land. We are all here, and we’re all gonna represent for what we know is right,” one student said.

My extremely hot take, as a community college faculty member who generally teaches 5 history classes per semester, is that I could totally do any history superstar's job but none of them could do mine.

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

Time to preorder @anniemcc.bsky.social ‘s Beneath the Wage 🔥🔥🔥 www.zonebooks.org/books/293-be...

I am fucking DYING inside: "AI Slop serves a social function: it offers a supply-side solution to a variety of problems in cultural and economic demand—that, collectively, people want more content than humans can supply."

can’t not hear and see:

heartbreaking to see public health people people get as far as “ICE detention is a driver of disease” only to call for increased funding for ICE medical services not “free them all for public health”

Thinking of Ryan tonight @screendrafts.bsky.social

People all over Portland, Oregon were impacted by the chemical warfare deployed by the feds tonight. Here’s a thread of some Portlanders experiences who weren’t even at the protest:

My 14 year old and hundreds of other kids were among those tear gassed by ICE yesterday in Portland.

Let’s remember: the call for this general strike came from student groups & young people. It’s their work together that made today possible. If you’re a “grown up” acting like you know how to do this better, please just SHUT UP and SHOW UP. All of us have something to learn.

BREAKING: recently murdered guy did something dope as hell a couple weeks prior

A better dystopia is possible.

Hundreds of detained kids, rising up. We owe them much more than our solidarity. truthout.org/articles/imm...

Co-wrote an essay on ‘Innocence’ for this Special Issue

Nur-D being arrested today

Just finished this excellent book by @lalouverouge.bsky.social. Hard to not see one's own childhood in the text. Watching the state-sponsored violence toward children in the Twin Cities, I can't think of a more pressing political project. Now fueling up (dried fruit & ancient grains) for next read.

Targeting children is a well-worn strategy of state repression. It works by further isolating the networks of care that keep children safe. It demands a total refusal of this logic: we are all each other’s responsibility.

What a moment for libertarians trying to understand themselves

Sunday afternoon browsing in @housmansbookshop.bsky.social So good to see copies of @lalouverouge.bsky.social's Solidarity with Children available on the shelves 📚 One of the best and most transformative reads of my 2025 - I encourage everyone to read it.

An overhead view of protesters gathering at the scene of the shooting. Live coverage: www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi... 📽️ Aaron Lavinsky/The Minnesota Star Tribune

Non-Minnesotans: if you want to support local journalism, give $ first to @mprnews.org, @minnpost.bsky.social, @sahanjournal.bsky.social, @minnesotareformer.com, @racketmn.com, @wedge.live The Star Tribune is okayish lately (& their photojournalists are great), but has a rough track record.

Here’s the report from KARE. The boy is five-year-old Liam Ramos.

new: during 2 competing rallies outside the Supreme Court as it heard a case on trans youth sports, police swarmed a trans woman and advocate after an anti-trans commentator yelled assault—releasing her and arresting him for assault after watching the tape "This is about power" @us.theguardian.com

ICE agents at a hotel in St. Paul woke up this morning to news that they’re getting kicked out of their hotel today at noon.

Greg Bovino was seen earlier today at the Minneapolis ICE facility dressed in a very nazi-inspired outfit. They don’t even hide anymore.

Free healthcare for everyone. Free childcare for everyone. Shelter, food, clothing, education for everyone.

Nobody takes child care policy seriously but everyone thinks they're an expert. It's a real problem.

Saying it’s “dangerous” and “hateful” to call a murderer a murderer is giving real “2+2=5” vibes

Hating your mom is the poor man's cognitive mapping... a degraded figure of the total logic of late capital, a desperate attempt to represent the latter’s system, whose failure is marked by its slippage into sheer theme and content.

what the pain of mothers must not expose is a viciously unjust world in a complete mess -- Jacqueline Rose

Fascinated by how the emphasis on Renee Nicole Good being a mother—in some cases yes, an appeal to family values and liberal “decency”—is revealing how much these fascists are galvanized by anti-maternal rage.

Our book has a cover! Co-edited with @seanobrien.bsky.social , featuring many wonderful contributors, and an Afterword by Annie McClanahan. Comes out in June, available for preorder now from @plutopress.bsky.social www.plutobooks.com/product/the-...

ICE shot and wounded 2 people in Portland katu.com/news/local/i...

Minneapolis.

In the name of “protecting” children, what tremendous violence inflicted on children.

Book #1 of 2026 Whew... will need some time to process this one. Not an easy read but well worth it, as it's generating a flood of my own questions around deconstructing systems of power, not only as they relate to young people, but to all of us. Thank you @lalouverouge.bsky.social #booksky

Stop comparing Trump and his regime to adolescent boys. Leave the kids out of it! These are adult men and they’re fascists.