Coming from Upstate NY, this ICE falling on ice video really touches my heart!

Start naming mass shootings after politicians who take money from the NRA.

How small does your penis have to be--and I mean this literally and not as a metaphor--for a straw to remind you of a dick and (even more sadly) threaten your masculinity?

New Pope Has Creole Roots in New Orleans

Never knew I would post so much about a Pope but he does offer a welcome contrast to our current administration and their denial of the heterogeneity and nuance that actually makes the U.S. an interesting place...Here, an article about his Creole, multiracial background...

The world is burning, but Dying for Sex is such a gorgeous and tender exploration of friendship and kind and sex in the face of death. What more could you ask for in a show?

Samesies!

Communities are organizing ICE patrols using radios and megaphones—but what we really need is an ICE alert website where people can share details of ICE activity in real time to help protect and inform one another.

Terrifying!

Is this extremist Zionist group trying to protect Israel — or just punish left-wing Jews? The extreme Zionist group Betar wants Israel to issue lifetime bans for certain left-wing Jews. That's a giant boon to antisemites.

Sharing one last time: "to the extent that any of this is about the safety of Jews, it’s not about safety for all Jews. It’s not even really about the safety of some Jews because they are Jews, but rather because they adhere to a certain political or ideological program."
forward.com/opinion/7109...

Somehow, the future is both going to be a dystopian techno sci-fi hellscape AND we're gonna have coal and measles and robber barons and a permanent underclass.

Philip K. Dickens

I am convinced a major factor in the tariff disaster is that Trump has so consistently been met with cowardice and capitulation from every quarter in American politics that he imagined other countries would just as easily fold to bullying.

"A mother and her three children who were taken into custody by ICE...in the tiny hometown of...“border czar”, Tom Homan, have been released following days of outcry from community figures, advocates and protesters calling for their freedom." www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Away with the dotard, to the jail with him!

Japanese American National Museum takes a stand against DOGE cuts to NEH The National Endowment for the Humanities warned museums across the country that it was slashing funding, including money previously pledged to places such as LACMA and the Japanese American National ...

“The Japanese American National Museum says Trump admin may withhold as much as $2 million approved by the Biden admin.”

“Facing pressure to scrub its website of diversity and inclusion references, a JANM leader says the museum will ‘scrub nothing.’”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The Gestapo

(Also: this almost makes up for the fact that I was too cheap to pay the exorbitant fee to see Vanya despite my love for forever-hot-priest-from-Fleabag Andrew Scott).

I don't know if it was thinking about the current state of the world or the play's topic--a woman exploring her dead mother's past in the women's movement-but the audience was weeping by the end of the gorgeous Liberation. I guess theater can still do Aristotelian catharsis like no other medium.

Hiding from the horrors of higher ed with a short trip to NYC to eat all the oysters and see all the plays like the cosmopolitan Jewess that I am.

Visas of 'a small number' of University of Cincinnati international students revoked The revocation for students at UC comes as a handful of students at universities across the country have had their visas revoked.

How do we stay in higher ed and watch our students lose their visa status and face deportation?

This would be a good note for Israel, too.

As a therapist friend said: "Bad for the world, good for business."

80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimation of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway). Corey Booker is doing a good job though!

80s sitcoms, silent film vamps, the Jewish American novel, repro rights, current rage-spiral about the decimated of higher ed (I pretty much talk and think about this every day, all day anyway)

Columbia Alumni Statement Condemning Columbia's Collaboration with ICE and DHS and in Defense of Academic Freedom and Student Activism We, the alumni of Columbia University and Barnard College, unequivocally condemn our alma mater’s collaboration with ICE to detain Mahmoud Khalil, and condemn the University’s decisions to capitulate ...

Please sign if you are a Columbia or Barnard alum and feel as I do:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

I want us to study the history of resistance to slave catchers right now. I want us to study how slave catchers worked, how they were sanctioned, who paid them, and why they did what they did, right now. I want us to study the hyperlocal and networked ways slave catchers were impeded. Right now.

Thanks! I appreciate your resistance, too.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

I feel like this stems from the fundamental mistrust of expertise and education represented by Trump and his supporters. Both the "drain the swamp" and the anti-higher education rhetoric come from the same twisted root. The result: people who do not know how to protect our national security.