Must read: @adambroomberg.bsky.social writes about Israel’s plan to artwash genocide at the Venice Biennale: “This is the danger of the liberal Zionist position. It offers the language of conscience and dialogue while absolving itself of engagement or responsibility.”

Not every guide book takes you past the Oxford Bar!

Here's where we are right now with this record of academics and researchers who simply didn't or never wanted to stop trying to gain benefit from their interactions with Jeffrey Epstein after he was already a convicted sex offender. Let me know if you think I missed someone.

My Latest: Contrary to many doomsayers, it is not too late to protect the midterm elections. There are steps Democrats can take now — at both the state and federal levels — to safeguard our elections. www.democracydocket.com/opinion/its-...

This is Bad Bunny getting a drink from the legendary Toñita who runs a Puerto Rican social club in NYC. She's a fixture in Nuyorican culture and Bad Bunny directly references her in the song saying "Un shot de cañita en casa de Toñita" hellgatenyc.com/tonita-time-...

Bri has a gofundme to help with essentials for other single moms gofund.me/94496b300

In Minneapolis, for every story detailing the fallout of the federal crackdown, there are as many stories of people like Bri, a mom donating breastmilk for babies whose mothers are detained by ICE. Bri's story: 19thnews.org/2026/02/minn...

i wrote about the pup-opticon

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

Please don’t forget about us and our neighbors! standwithminnesota.com

The *only* response to this is all the other governors drop out.

Benito is a threat b/c he makes art so alluring and enjoyable you want to understand everything about it and then you end up learning about sugar and slavery and colonialism and the Taínos and Hawaii and then you probably have some thoughts of your own, and that's why art is powerful and dangerous

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps. If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

The folks who believe that their entire world view should be enshrined in law and taught in every classroom have some thoughts on indoctrination.

If they can do this to find a dog, they can do this to find anyone. That’s terrifying.

Civil rights lawyer Nekima Levy Armstrong's latest brief reveals the backstory of her arrest in a footnote. Feds refused to let her self-surrender, taped her arrest at a hotel, and broke a promise not to post it on social media, she says. The White House then digitally altered it to smear her.

🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨🚨 Leqaa Kordia is Palestinian and is the last pro-Palestine student protestor who is still being held in government custody. She has recently suffered a medical emergency while incarcerated. Please fill out this form to send a letter to your congressional reps demanding her release:

If you are looking at 100 whistles and thinking "I don't know that I could give that many away," one of our group members (who is incredibly involved at all levels) has written a guide for how to use whistles as a catalyst to talk to and organize your neighbors. www.riotgrrrlrevolution.org/help

So this article just dropped. www.theverge.com/policy/87495...

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies. It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

You can be a self-employed, a part-time tutor, a project employee, a grant holder without job security, working in a museum or in archaeological fieldwork, in admin to pay the bills, there are different situations there. Join us! #MCRHumNetwork

Reminder: In light of Bad Bunny's Superbowl performance spotlighting Latino culture, here's a hefty list of Latino speculative fiction authors I curated if anyone wants to take a gander and read some phenomenal work. Much love to all! go.bsky.app/6BAmgpi

Me on Bad Bunny's beautiful joyous halftime show and why it is legible to everyone, no matter what language(s) you speak

"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"

Schiff on the SAVE Act: "Jonathan, what you've just asked is essentially, Republicans have created distrust in the elections by making claims of nonexistent fraud, and shouldn't we use the distrust they've created in order to enact a voter suppression law?"

A Florida A&M University law student says the school told her to remove the word 'Black' from a Black History Month event flyer. The school says it is in full compliance with state law

The Muppet Zoom academic conference.

I eagerly await FIRE's amicus brief and legal support on behalf of this HBCU.

The 5 Best Booths at India Art Fair 2026

I've written about the overarching post story, causes, underlying pattern. But the failure of Lewis or Bezos to even show up, literally or figuratively, on a day of devastating cuts epitomizes the profound lack of character and accountability that is so common place today within the American elite.

First class in our new Archaeology & AI module tomorrow! We're reading Gattiglia's 2025 overview and @blkheathhopper.introspectivedigitalarchaeology.com's Algorithmic agency to discuss basic concepts and the importance of critical engagement with AI and digital technology in archaeology. 🏺

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries. One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home. Abolish the billionaire class:

"For years, a cottage industry of political observers has contorted itself to obscure and occlude the obvious. That regardless of what others see in him, Trump’s entire political career...cannot be understood outside the context of his bitter, deep-seated racism." (gift link)

What is happening in America is not who we want to be. Let's start there, and work on the rest as as we go

The Big Lie was always a racist project Trump's racist video had two parts: a Big Lie rehash and a Jim Crow cartoon. They’re not separate stories. www.allrisenews.com/p/big-lie-ra...

Excellent! I'll add my blog-post which suggests three other books on the same subject. There's plenty available. mywildgardenyear.blogspot.com/2021/12/thre...

Newly released files from the investigation of convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein reveal that his ties to the scientific community were deeper than previously known. go.nature.com/3Oq4Po2

(gift substack) Jeffrey Epstein didn't want prostitutes. He wanted scared, vulnerable girls and young women he could control. open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

This story is so good

www.theatlantic.com/internationa... a beautiful must read if you care about humanity and love movies (Gift article) Thank you Arash Azizi for writing this and @theatlantic.com for publishing it

I cannot sufficiently underline how despicable it is that the IOC has required Haitian Olympic athletes to remove an image representing the leader of the Haitian Revolution (against SLAVERY) from their uniforms.

One of my most woke opinions: France needs to pay back all the money they made Haiti pay for their independence (with interest).

“Saalumarada Thimmakka, an Indian farm laborer who transformed her grief over being unable to conceive children into one of her country’s most enduring environmental legacies…died … in… Bangalore…She was believed to be 113.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/w...

Hey, Iranzy here. Thanks for all the support throughout this year. I have one last goal: reaching 100 readers for my graphic novel. Only 28 readers left to go! If you’re into that kind of art, the link is in my profile. The graphic novel is free. Thank you!🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼🙌🏼

The part that sticks with me is not even his racist post. It’s how fast so many people rush to protect him from responsibility. They told on themselves. The benefit of the doubt appears instantly. The excuses appear instantly. He never earns that grace. It just shows up on demand.

In the same way Abrego Garcia was, this 5-year-old is being singled out and punished for making the administration look bad just by existing as sympathetic case.

So much of the best raps come from people forced to innovate with limited tools while fucking around with their friends and more people should take that lesson in.

Nothing but respect for MY national anthem.