Lviv was hit by a deadly terror attack. The same night, Ukraine absorbed a massive combined missile-and-drone strike. Yet Ukraine kept pushing back—long-range hits on Russian air assets, air defense, and fuel sites deep in the rear. This is the brutal rhythm: mourn, repair, retaliate.

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

The Blue Bottles are supposed to trap evil spirits. You see them in the low country by the coasts. The tradition apparently goes back to Africa. I've never seen them this far west (in TX). explorebeaufortsc.com/lowcountry-l... #GhostsOfMississippi #HATM

ICE agents grabbed a 16-year-old asylum seeker--which they aren't supposed to do They kept him from his parents -which they aren't supposed to do They shipped him out of state, to a Christian ministry, which they aren't supposed to do. Then they *lost* him. www.startribune.com/how-ice-labe...

Some day we'll all regret this & we'll hold hearings & rend garments & pledge "never again" & we'll be just as full of shit as we were last time.

“.. The government told federal courts, in writing, across multiple cases and stipulations, that refunds would be available, automatic and assured. It made those representations to defeat petitions for emergency relief. Courts believed it.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/opinion/a-go...

$1.2 billion on one of the richest companies on earth is genuinely, sincerely, criminal. That is quite literally money stolen from us on multiple fronts.

"What do I think of the Board of Peace? I think it is a colonialist operation: others deciding for the Palestinians,” said Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa: www.ncronline.org/news/us-led-...

Leaked docs detail plans for a sprawling military base for 5K troops that would be built on 350 acres in southern Gaza The establishment of a massive military base by the Board of Peace, of which Trump has been named as the permanent leader, can only be seen as an act of US occupation.

And dare I add: my workbook, which targets faculty and staff (not students) is specifically about assessing risk and taking action in higher ed. It may be useful here. halperta.com/shalperta%20...

Ugh, who wants to have to write about coverture bc relevant to current events? Super short post bc apparently needs circulating. karinwulf.com/tidbits/cove...

We do! And we capture when sales have been canceled due to community resistance. 🔴 = Bought by ICE 🟢 = Canceled by community 🟡 = Still for sale 🟣 = Reopoening detention facility 🔵 = Potential admin office leases tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

This is my third order of the season, every single ask tugs at my heart strings. Also cookies are delicious.

Channeling Judge Young here. See: www.lawdork.com/p/judge-will...

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

Rümeysa Öztürk, who was swept off the streets of Somerville last year by masked immigration agents, announced she completed her doctorate. “I would like to be called Dr. Öztürk, not Miss Öztürk, from now on," she wrote in a social media post.

Dear medievalist and medieval-curious friends, please help spread the good word about a new opportunity to enroll in the Advanced Certificate in Medieval Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. CUNY may not be rich, but we are uniquely rich in medievalists! www.gc.cuny.edu/events/medie... #medievalsky

The case appears to be the first known fatal shooting of a U.S. citizen by a federal agent during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

Take a load off your minds everyone, it was regular old misogyny the whole time

Don't congratulate John Roberts or the Supreme Court. Congratulate Rick Woldenberg, the Chicago-area leader of Learning Resources, an educadtional toy company that had the courage to sue the president of the United States to save his family business. As well as everyone else who stepped up.

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that ChatGPT conversations from the Tumbler Ridge teenager who carried out a horrific school shooting were flagged by employees at OpenAI. They raised their concerns but the company ultimately did nothing, according to the reporting. archive.is/GUweE#select...

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📚 Weekend Reads — Technology & Future (Edition 83) The controversial data firm co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel – which holds UK government contracts – researched protest prediction for the US Army before agreeing to build ICE’s…

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

Under a new Bureau of Prisons rule, trans people will no longer have access to gender-affirming surgery, hormone care, clothing or toiletry items that align with their gender identity.

-Contingent faculty now teach 45-54% of all classes at 4-year public institutions; these faculty are paid up to 60% less per course section than their (comparatively few) full time, tenure line counterparts.

‘Military service is one of the strongest predictors for becoming a mass shooter in the US.’ @lalehkhalili.bsky.social on the symbiosis of drugs and war. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

Folks look at you like you're crazy when you say we're in the midst of the worst, most unprecedented Article I constitutional crisis in American history, & then it's Wednesday

In solidarity with all those standing up for our communities against the brutality of immigrant detention and ICE occupation, we're offering free ebooks of three crucial books about migrant justice and border abolition.

NEW: David Greene was the voice of NPR's "Morning Edition." Is he also secretly the voice of Google's popular AI podcast tool, NotebookLM? Google says no. Greene thinks they're lying. My story today breaks the news of his lawsuit and compares the two voices. Listen for yourself: wapo.st/3ZHRvho

A group of nonprofits have filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Trump admin — arguing that its decision to remove the Pride flag from the Stonewall National Monument in Manhattan this month violated a federal law that allows national parks and monuments to fly Confederate flags.

The Trump economy. www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

CFP: Race, Law and Empire

Previewed tonight on Rachel Maddow, Cardinal Cupich to celebrate Ash Wednesday Mass and Procession in solidarity with immigrants; the move comes just days after a judge ruled that priests and ministers must be allowed into Broadview Detention Center to minister to migrants. Official invitation here…

#AshWednesday #ICE www.ncronline.org/news/judge-o...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics. 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/epstein-bi...

What is “Un-American”? We must acknowledge America’s history of state authoritarianism and racial violence – but also dare to claim its aspirational tradition of egalitarian democracy. Let’s Make MAGA un-American, finally. My new piece (free to read):

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

The congressional switchboard number is (202) 224-3121. Put it in your cell phone. Use it. If you're not calling at least once a week, you're not doing your part.

Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Amy Moore & her enslaved family were freed by the Union Army in Alabama, only to be arrested & sold as slaves behind Union lines. "We claim protection," Moore wrote in 1865, "under that [Emancipation] Proclamation from the fact of our living in one of the States mentioned in Said Proclamation."

On 2nd March at 17:00 (GMT)/12:00 (EST) we will discuss a pre-circulated paper titled “La Negrita”: A History of African Girlhood in the Spanish Caribbean Slave Trade” by Dr. Elise Mitchell. Dr. Mitchell will introduce the paper for discussion. kingsearlymodern.co.uk/race-and-the...

This is the way. When they come at us, we come back at them twofold. Raise that Pride flag every time they take it down. If they prevent that, surround the park with Pride flags. Ruin their petty little lives until they shit rainbows. Never stop. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/n...

So that has to be like one of the worst Super Bowl ads of all time now right?

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

The sudden closure of El Paso's airspace Wednesday came sometime after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials used an anti-drone laser that was provided by the military to shoot down objects that were later identified as party balloons. www.nbcnews.com/politics/nat...

I keep my dermatology man in business with my string of biopsies. Today he did one on my inside heel and I gots to go work 4 hours partly on feet. Here’s hoping it’s not a moderate/severe atypical nevus or another melanoma.

"Apocalypse no: how almost everything we thought we knew about the Maya is wrong" "For many years the prevailing debate about the Maya centred upon why their civilisation collapsed. Now, many scholars are asking: how did the Maya survive?"

Feel free to drop Gallup a line, folks! I know I DID.

A White Historian Claimed That Black People ‘Had No History.’ This Trailblazing Scholar Dedicated His Life to Proving Otherwise Carter G. Woodson, the “father of Black history,” founded the celebration now known as #BlackHistoryMonth in 1926. www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-...