These stories hit differently when the same shit is happening in Portland.

@alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social for University president! I love this aspirational college statement described in The AI Con:

I understand this as a threat to me and my people

Just a reminder the word remigrate is open Nazi language and should be seen as a threat of violence. When the neo Nazis use this term their is another two words they use after it which are :or die It’s important to understand the context that the word Remigrate is a threat to leave or be murdered.

This is real. Chicago today.

Another man was reunited with his family after 2 years. Israeli soldiers had told the family he was dead. They'd grieved and mourned this man.

Israel is going to halve the amount of aid that it will allow into Gaza under the ceasefire agreement, aid groups say — a move Israel has attempted to justify by blaming Hamas for supposedly violating the deal that Palestinians have said Israel is working to sabotage.

apparently a lot of people need to hear this: harmful practices that violate fundamental rights are not a matter of ethics or morality. please don’t frame it as “unethical”. the “ethics” lens undermines the fact that is it unacceptable under any condition. not a matter of debate

Trump just bombed six more people in the Caribbean, for a total of 27 civilians who have been killed so far by the US military. It’s illegal for the military to target civilians who do not pose an immediate threat. This is murder.

Based on the video shared by Univision (they've paired it with overhead from ABC), today's attack might be the most chemical gas we've seen feds launch into a neighborhood so far. The clouds are enormous/that's a lot of canisters. Completely engulfing cars and homes. instagram.com/reel/DPzWnGCklvl

ICE agents continue to escalate violence in attempt to fulfill Trumps “out of control” narrative. Here they visibly initiated an assault on a protester in Portland last night.

But... Justice Kavanaugh specifically said this doesn't happen.

Kicked out of school, lives threatened, put on leave, fired and pushed out of their livelihoods, arrested, deported, beaten, bones broken, and more ... for asking for human lives to be valued

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

Du Bois basically did a version of this in his bibliography in Black Reconstruction

agi is just the rapture rebranded for techies huh

federal agents stealing children and sending them south. where have i heard about that before?

This sadly demented man doesn't realize *he* was president on Jan 6, 2021. Get him in an assisted living facility ASAP.

ai is a fascist tool. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

CBP agents knocked on an El Paso home at 7:15 a.m. The owner asked to secure his Rottweiler, Chop, in the bathroom. While he got his ID, agents opened the door and shot Chop. The family tried to save him as he bled out on the kitchen floor.

Night sky from Torrey, Utah

Incredible. Exonerated after 43 years of being falsely imprisoned, rather than releasing him to his awaiting family, the police released him to ICE, beginning deportation proceedings. www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The fact that white nationalists feel a need to make a halftime show just for them communicates clearly that they understand safe spaces. They just don’t want anyone they deem “other” to have one. Safety for me, not for thee. In that regard, they sure got the “All-American” part right.

Philip Morris to provide free cases of cigarettes to area schools amid debates over effects of tobacco on health.

I don’t wait for permission to fight for what’s right. I’m running to represent Missouri’s First because our community deserves a leader who shows up when it’s hardest and fights for all of us with courage. Thanks for having me, @velshi.com @msnbc.com. #CoriForUs

it’s going to be awkward when ICE accidentally kidnaps Qatari soldiers

Read this to study for the future required CITI "Anti-Woke Training Course"

Big mistake. Huge.

The Rutgers University professor who was doxed, harassed and threatened after being targeted by Turning Point USA has safely departed the country with his family. Their tickets for their original flight were mysteriously canceled after they cleared security last night.

“Someone” cancelled my family’s flight out of the country at the last second. We got our boarding passes. We checked our bags. Went through security. Then at our gate our reservation ‘disappeared.’

This week, our colleague Dr. Mark Bray came under attack by Turning Point USA’s Rutgers chapter for his public scholarship. Rutgers AAUP-AFT and the Rutgers Adjunct Faculty Union condemn this campaign and stand in solidarity with our colleagues. Read our full statement here: https://loom.ly/BDXasRY

you can’t even occupy an american city without getting laughed at anymore, because of croak

Thanks, New Yorker

Update from the war zone in Portland.

Good reporting on the South Shore raid from South Side weekly here. Confirms one thing I was told but didn't put in my own piece because I didn't have a second source and it seemed too insane: border agents segregated arrested residents by race southsideweekly.com/federal-agen...

This strikes me as pretty bad

Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat. For the crime of … complaining about government policy. Core 1A speech. With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

Josh Hawley and Yale Law School, ladies and gentlemen.

This is what I'm here for: www.sltrib.com/artsliving/f...

It’s always so obvious that Pam Bondi would rather be yelling at a waiter than doing whatever she’s doing

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Trump’s order to deploy Texas National Guard troops to Chicago is illegal, immoral, and must be stopped by the courts. ICE is already wreaking havoc in our communities. Let’s call this what it is: an invasion by out-of-state troops coming here only with the purpose of tormenting Chicagoans.

Got my first ICE call from a friend being detained this morning. They are Asian, here legally but they were detained for hours anyway and then forced to pay $600 before they were let go. Corruption from top to bottom.

Applications for JamCoders, a 1 month free algorithms & programming camp for Jamaican high schoolers, are now open. Head over to jamcoders.org.jm#apply. No programming experience required for students. We're looking for students & teaching assistants. Deadline January 31.

I'll teach for seven weeks about the intersection of race and mass media development. This is the course I taught at Columbia University before it was cancelled. The course includes guest lectures and chances to connect/network with brilliant minds! www.resistancesummerschool.com/fall-2025-re...

Unlike Jesus, I have returned.

The Convicted FElon has finally united the people on one thing. #ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles

Claim: rioters attacked ICE Truth: ICE rushed at unarmed protesters standing on a patch of grass

“We are home now. We marched from the park to ICE, very peaceful crowd. We were standing around ICE pushed us down, sprayed us with chemical and I was hit in the head with a projectile. This was so unprovoked. People have to know that the Feds are attacking people with NO provocation whatsoever.”

Israel has killed more than 100 Palestinians since Hamas agreed on Friday to release all captives as part of the latest U.S. ceasefire proposal.