Deaths in ICE Custody Skyrocket: 2026 Toll Reaches 17, on Average One a Week As the Trump administration continues to rapidly expand its immigration jail system across the United States, we look at the rising death toll of people in ICE custody, the highest in over two decades...

At least 17 people have died in ICE custody since January.

The Barbara Johnson Collective - Northwestern University Press Collaboratively reassesses Barbara Johnson’s legacy as a reader and thinker with an eye to contemporary conditionsAcross an archive of essays on abortion a...

if you want to preorder this bad boy & set some of its very, very good essays on your fall syllabi, you can use NUP2026 to get 25% off —and I bet some of us would love to Zoom into your classes to talk?! 💗

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“Researchers that have attempted to make the university’s connections –and potential obligations– to the Caribbean explicit say their efforts have been stymied. …“The conversation is not happening,” said Carla Martin, a Harvard professor of African and African American Studies. “We all have tried.””

this is fucking nuts:

Residents Say Musk’s AI Supercomputer Is a ‘Death Sentence’ for Memphis Communities A federal lawsuit claims xAI secretly fired up dozens of gas turbines, pumping smog and cancer‑linked chemicals into Black neighborhoods to fuel its growth.

NAACP: Black Neighborhoods Are Being Sacrificed to Feed Elon Musk's xAI - Capital B News capitalbnews.org/elon-musk-xa...

Alligator Alcatraz phones were cut off. Then the beatings began, court docs say Attorneys say the Trump and DeSantis administrations are disregarding a court order requiring access to phones and attorneys for detainees.

April 2: guards cut all phone access in the housing units without warning. When detainees protested, CRS officers allegedly punched a man, threw another to the ground, kicked him in the head, and pinned him by the neck. A third detainee's wrist was broken. The entire cage was pepper-sprayed.

Bodycam video contradicts St. Louis police's earlier account in fatal shooting of 17-year-old Body camera video released Monday shows a St. Louis police officer shoot a 17-year-old in the back of the head as he fled, contradicting an earlier police statement that the teen pointed a gun at offi...

Emeshyon Wilkins mattered

Police said he pointed a gun at them. Body cam footage shows police shooting him in the back of the head as he ran away from them

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I am broken-hearted at the terrible news that my alma mater, @hampshirecollege.bsky.social, after 56 yrs, is closing. Its death is a victory for conformism, for corporatism, for higher education's dull love of hierarchy & status. It's a grievous defeat for imagination & experimentation.

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

“They tried to weaken higher education, but instead they built a movement to fight for the future...

They can attack our institutions, but they cannot stop our movement….We will not stop until we have the higher education system and the democracy we all deserve.”

— Todd Wolfson, AAUP President

My book, Probable Exhaustion, posits that literary texts of the long 19th c help us trace how a conception of progress welded to infinite growth and development is unthinkable outside of the threat of exhaustion. Will be out with @cornellupress.bsky.social Jan 15, 2027

Texas Tech University to Close Gender, Sexuality Programs All majors, minors, certificates and graduate degrees that are “centered on” sexual orientation or gender identity must be phased out and canceled, Texas Tech University system chancellor Brandon Crei...

“The decree is an escalation of the course content review policies implemented last year and reflects a trend of academic censorship at Texas public institutions.”

NYT article on Mrs. Bezos and this in screenshot: ‪More Perfect Union‬ ‪@moreperfectunion.bsky.social‬ · 21m A worker died at an Amazon warehouse in Oregon last week. For more than an hour, workers were instructed to continue working as the man lay dead. One worker wanted to help, but a manager told them to “Just turn around and not look. Let’s get back to work," according to @thewesternedge.bsky.social .

Your post about the World's Longest Press Release appeared like this in my feed.

The point of the university as a concept is that it's been here for a thousand years and meant to be here another thousand. Turning education over to producing what the market needed five years ago is never going to work well.

CORNELL AAUP | When the Deal Goes Down The Cornell Chapter of the AAUP critiques the University's response to the 2025 settlement deal with the Trump administration. They call for accountability and transparency in order to preserve the…

"Now, more than ever, we need a university that can serve as a beacon for democratic society, by deepening our commitments to academic freedom, shared governance and the public mission of higher education."

— Cornell AAUP

@cornellaaup.bsky.social

UW graduate student deported through SEA as protesters demand answers A union representing University of Washington graduate student workers says Kennedy Orwa’s student visa was rescinded without explanation.

Our PhD student Kennedy Orwa, who studies applications of AI to health care, was hastily deported today to Kenya along with his 13-year-old son without opportunity to speak to legal counsel.

King 5 reports that he held a valid visa that was rescinded without explanation.

it's officially out! :)

"Google wrote that it has trained Gemini 'not to agree with or reinforce false beliefs, and instead gently distinguish subjective experience from objective fact.'"

Is there any chance that defining which beliefs are false could turn out to be difficult or controversial?

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(202) 224-3121 is the capitol switchboard for connecting to any senate or house office; even if you've never called; even though the lot of them are useless. no abominable war crimes, no war, no.

Type: Adjunct/Part-Time Salary: $1,000 per course Posted: 5 days ago Category: Other Technical and Career Faculty Assignment Walkthrough Expert This part-time, remote role is an opportunity to directly shape how students learn across Rize-powered courses — a growing catalog of 100-, 200-, and 300-level college courses delivered asynchronously across the LCMC, a national consortium of 120+ colleges serving 230,000+ students. As an Assignment Walkthrough Expert, you’ll record screen-capture videos in which you actually work through a course’s assignments, narrating your thinking as you go. The goal isn’t to hand students the answers — it’s to model what a knowledgeable, experienced person looks like when they approach this kind of work. Students follow along, pause, try it themselves, and succeed because they’ve seen the process done by someone who knows what they’re doing.

Just read @lerikscline.bsky.social on Rize Education and FUCK THEM and FUCK THIS 👇 UNBUNDLING BULLSHIT SO VERY MUCH.

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I'm so grateful to @devingarofalo.bsky.social for organizing this special issue and for offering me the opportunity to contextualize the events at St. Norbert College within a broader range of attacks on higher education. The thinking that went into writing this has been vital to me, in all senses.

My best friend spent 3 months watching this back in 2022. There’s an article out there that says that they are the only film critic to ever make the claim that they sat down to watch the entire thing and it’s “impossible to know” if they actually did.” I was there, they totally did, and wrote this:

We’re going to keep doing this, huh.

Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office Rules Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a Homicide The Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office has ruled the death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a visually impaired Rohingya refugee, a homicide. Fifty-six-year-old Alam died on the streets of Buffalo, New Yor...

Erie County Medical Examiner’s Office Rules Death of Nurul Amin Shah Alam a Homicide

love how "get paid while doing your job" is a constant source of contention between employers and employees, as if there's any possible argument against it other than "i want to steal my employee's time"

everything I love about writing as a journalist/critic — a killer lede, a strong kicker, a surprise joke — is there to remind you about the person who wrote it, and that they see you as a person too.

Brown graphic featuring a desk in front of a window, with several stack of books on it, reading: "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory. April 10-12, 2026, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, USA. Keynotes by Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak"

The registration deadline for "Fredric Jameson and the Future of Critical Theory," a symposium featuring Michael Denning, Jane Gaines, Achille Mbembe, Toril Moi, & Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, is coming up 3/31. Sign up now!
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Hey! Is the dream of the 90s (sustained ambitious attention to the fin de siècle American novel) alive?

Yes! In this AzQ special issue @rafaelwalker.bsky.social and I co-edited with intro by us & afterword by Jennifer Fleissner 😎

Open access! @hopkinspress.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/issue/56582

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That’s not how you spell my name and I’ve never written a book by that title.

But other than that, yeah, sounds good! 👍