You laugh but LSU still, STILL, keeps a tiger in captivity. www.mikethetiger.com

What a joy it was to review @e-bumps.bsky.social's latest for QJS. Highly recommend Minor Troubles: Racial Figurations of Youth Sexuality and Childhood Queerness to any human who has ever felt the deep, deeeep cuts of being a queer and/or trans child. Free copies of the review here:

Occupation is strongest when it is normalized. They are not trying to terrorize you (unless you’re a target) at the airport because the point is to normalize their presence and occupation.

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

Not that anyone #onhere cares about my feelings about NCA, but the fact that the org is requiring membership to review conference submissions is laughable! More critically, NCA for YEARS has shown a pattern of attempting to DISCIPLINE the field. Stop engaging with it. It’s a garbage organization.

Mmmmummmmmhmmmmm.

"We are at war, and thousands of people are dead. We are at war, and we are complaining about high gas prices and long lines at the airport. We are at war, and running late for our next appointment." organizingmythoughts.org/the-zombie-d...

Fuck work. Do art

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Making this skeet the cover photo of my syllabus in the fall.

I think this is a reasonable (as in, not radical) way for elective officials to show up. Literally just do this. This is *baseline* of what they should be before you vote for them. Good for Judge Mustafa Kasubhai. And yay for gender expansive folks in Oregon!

@edwarmulfo.bsky.social keeps telling me to make a salad influencer YouTube channel and I’ve never been closer to quitting my job to do it #springbreak

Ok I'll say it: laboring towards enacting abolitionist pedagogies is very difficult when the athletics department is involved with a student. Someone gift me some strength 🌀

Baltimore is on everyone's radar as productions and shows leave D.C. and we love it. But we want to remain us, OK! Thanks @lauralippman.bsky.social for the cheerleading!

Baltimore art does it different.

Student's seriously get riled up when you teach critical university studies. Would recommend. Start basic--literally explain faculty organization and that most of their professors live below the poverty line. They go wild, as we all should.

Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike. University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections. NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

200 people. The world’s twin super villains have already killed 200 people in Iran.

If the new technology is as dangerous as its makers say, great power competition becomes suicidally reckless. Only international cooperation can ensure AI serves humanity instead of worsening war. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-and-...

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

Whewww www.publicbooks.org/the-misuses-...

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Tenure has never been a measure of merit, it is a carceral logic used to discipline and control. Sending lots of solidarity your way.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Yes yes yes this thread! I and I DO think it’s our jobs to give them the language to articulate against the surveillance state, neoliberalism, nationalism, etc. How to communicate about mundane and insidious forms of power that goes beyond “racism is bad.”

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it. I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.” 1/

Thousands of academics and campus administrators across the country are hard at work trying to discover a new type of Academic Freedom that can protect visits to pedophile island, but not criticism of Israel.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Oh so according to Variety, now he *doesn’t* like violent threats and stalking behavior. Got it got it got it.

Mmm love a good unexpected barrier to medicine on a Thursday. Another reminder of how bleak it all is rn.

What a useful resource for organizing.

We already knew those Amazon ring cameras (and all the other versions of home surveillance cameras) were evil, but now we know they are even more evil... Abolish ICE, abolish Amazon, abolish surveillance, abolition now. 💥

I love that all flavors of political left are doing Ice Watch. Including “wine moms”. But I don’t like being scolded for wanting everyone to use good op sec, or operational security. Here are some pointers in case they’re useful: 1) don’t livestream when you’re patrolling or observing.

If you were like me today, not much got done and spirits were low swimming the dark cold ocean of existential dread. And if you were like me, it’s ok. You did your best. Try again tomorrow.

*At least* a thousand people, probably more, out in the streets today protesting against the ICE detention center in downtown Baltimore

It’s abolish ice which means abolish the police which means free Palestine. Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.

Baltimore if you’re interested in what your tax dollars are up today that isn’t the removal of a foot of ice from our fucking sidewalks and bike paths, it’s Foxtrot flying low right circles over a bunch of people exercising our constitutional rights.

It’s so embarrassing to have to admit I graduated from the same uni in the same year as Colton Underwood. Get this stalker off my television.

I am telling you right now that all my classes this term are teaching students multiple ways a) to understand the contemporary nexus of fascist power (e.g. white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, transphobia) and b) to get organized. I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.

From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode New report from me @therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A

It’s almost like refusing to name white nationalism in schools forever has absolutely gotten us to this point. Because that’s how power works.

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Read this whole thread. This is what we all need to be doing.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The vet 2 times in a week ✅✅💰🤠