If you make "controversial statements" outside of classroom, that the President of the university dislikes, you can be summarily fired even if you are tenured.

Happy Indigenous People’s Day, y’all!

Trump, speaking in the Israeli parliament, boasts about the weapons the U.S. has provided and says "you obviously used them very well." An estimated 20,000 children have died in the war in Gaza.

Baltimore folks! Come through! Tonight at the RED ROOM you can see my husband, Sam Pluta and Shelly Purdy in a trio and HOW THINGS ARE, a sick electroacoustic crew from Pittsburgh

This is devastating. The MMWR was one of the first publications to put the distinct puzzle pieces together and notice « GRID », i.e. HIV/AIDS. This is a deeply self-destructive choice and will have terrible consequences for this country.

aaand we are officially in the hide-your-neighbors stage

It might be hard to convey to people outside economics just how seismic this is. The Trump effect has most certainly arrived to US academia.

Friends and comrades made a crowdfunding page for my family. It’s really hard to post this. I know that there are a lot of other important issues asking for money but things have gotten to the point where we need to open ourselves up to your support. Thank you for your consideration.

eventually politicians need to start advocating for criminal and civil penalties for people involved in fabricating stories to get citizens incarcerated. or, put another way: a society that would like to keep functioning has to discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

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I can’t believe I’m watching interviews of city mayors talking about how they are coordinating with other mayors to discuss how to protect their residents FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES I know we are “used to it” but it is absolutely insane

I hope it's clear to everyone now that Trump really is going for it - he's trying to become a dictator. I don't know if he'll succeed, but he's working to install himself as an autocrat unaccountable to voters. And he's weaponizing the military against Americans who oppose him as part of that effort

Protest is political speech. ICE is not above criticism. Nobody should be. Vocal and direct protest against ICE actions galvanizes resistance in impacted communities; that is why the regime fears it. This is a terrible, but predictable, move.

the president has begun ranking generals out loud by fuckability

“AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society, and our descendants will be digging it out for generations.”

"one officer smiled for a selfie with her as she cried."

I want to say thanks to whoever left this extremely twisty mystery in the little free library in our neighborhood

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Grotesque and symptomatic behavior that would seem implausible if it appeared in a political satire; a dying empire turning in on itself, saber-rattling and sending in troops to an American city to fight a « war » against the very idea of anti-fascism

Hell yes

Super chuffed to say that MATMOS is going to perform at the Primavera Sound festival in Barcelona this summer along side many artists we admire! This fest has got it all, from Neubauten to Ninajirachi! 🛹🫟🎪🥁

standing in the rain waiting for a bus to take me to the gym while listening to Morton Feldman

Found photo of my main squeeze as a young wastrel ; photo taken in Florida during a road trip across the USA

Every few years I save up for an early modern book; just gripped this 1641 folio of Joshua Sylvester’s translation of the « Divine Weeks » of Guillaume de Salluste du Bartas - rarely read today, it’s a didactic poem on the creation of the world that was a huge hit with Renaissance readers

The whole administration in one quote

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Only weeks after Kyle Rittenhouse was acquitted, his first big public appearance was at AmericaFest 1 where he came out to a custom song and thousands of screaming fans after the screens displayed graphic footage of his victims. 🎥 Throwback:

"More professors in the United States have been fired for controversial views in the past week than any other week in all of American history." www.insidehighered.com/opinion/colu...

OK social experiment time: Who else is at the BEHERIT show in Brooklyn?

The NYT has, ahem, a lot to answer for in its coverage of trans issues but this analysis of the paranoid MAGA projection and the deep structure of its us/them logic of contamination and disease is spot on

in between wild free improv sets at the first night of the High Zero Festival tonight in Baltimore I read this tough as nails novella from 1970 - was adapted into a much weaker film called « Identikit » starring Elizabeth Taylor- go for the original!

Let’s mock them still

BREAKING: Trump says he is designating “Antifa” as a “major terrorist organization.” Such a step being taken this way would be concerning enough, given what it actually is, but, given that Trump sees “Antifa” hiding in every corner of opposition, this could be an extremely alarming escalation.

designating ANTIFA an enemy of the state is telling on yourself

battle of the mega tomes! Thanks to @sinsleyh.bsky.social and co, I am now fifty pages from the finish line of Richardson’s mammoth, heartbreaking masterpiece- we’ve been reading it in a reading group for a year- but today my follow up tome has arrived: I’m about to dive into the Schatten-zone

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.

Yeah man they ain’t coming back. This is going to be one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of my lifetime, and it’s entirely possible that some guy at ICE ordered it not having any clue what he was doing. This is why we used to leave foreign affairs to sensitive nerds.

Let's not kid ourselves It gets really really bad

This is an archived government report that found that “Since 1990, far-right extremists have committed far more ideologically motivated homicides than far-left or radical Islamist extremists.” It existed yesterday and is gone today.

Before the Nazis engaged in mass murder of Jews, they did mass murder of people with mental illness and disabilities.

Charlie Kirk’s direct legacy.

Like hundreds of other people, I was targeted by Charlie Kirk's "Professor Watchlist" project and spuriously accused of being a "Terror Supporter" and an "Antisemite". The legacy of Charlie Kirk is bigotry, classroom surveillance and anti-intellectual harassment.

This is who they are mourning as a terrible loss to the conservative movement and to the American conversation - in his own words:

It is weird that the assassination of essentially a celebrity influencer is a bigger deal than the shooting of two top state legislators + their spouses

My main observation from the last few hours of monitoring US social media is that Democrats are universally denouncing political violence and calling for calm while MAGA are escalating language and openly lusting for retribution against broad categories of people they identity as their enemies.

Thanks Donald Trump! Love how that new tariff policy of yours is working out for us everyday Americans! So much winning! I bought something overseas and now I get to pay even more for it! Very cool!

"Harvard can't use race as a factor in admissions, but ICE can use race as a factor in detentions" is a retrenchment essentially to a pre-Civil War understanding of the Constitution. It's vanishingly few steps removed from "Latinos have no rights which the white man is bound to respect."

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