Senate Votes to Allow Mining Near Minnesota Wilderness

This is just too tragic.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/c...

BTS Fans Revisit Howard University History From 1896

BTS Fans Revisit Howard University History From 1896 www.nytimes.com/2026/03/27/a...

Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’ www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

Believe Your Eyes People are risking their lives to document agents in Minneapolis.

Minneapolis residents are risking their lives so that the world can see what is actually happening to their city, Charlie Warzel reports.

Opinion | An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good

An Old Theory Helps Explain What Happened to Renee Good www.nytimes.com/2026/01/18/o...

Can’t believe this is happening.

ICE Arrest of a Citizen, Barely Dressed, Sows Fear in Twin Cities

ICE Arrest of a Citizen, Barely Dressed, Sows Fear in Twin Cities www.nytimes.com/2026/01/20/u...

Leaders of Historians’ Group Veto Resolutions Critical of Israel

Leaders of Historians’ Group Veto Resolutions Critical of Israel www.nytimes.com/2026/01/12/a...

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.

Feds Used Chemical Weapons On Chicagoans At Least 49 Times — Even After Judge Said To Stop Contrary to federal claims about attacks on agents, most of these incidents appear to involve nonviolent protesters or bystanders.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/11/19/f...

If ICE agents come onto my campus, or the campus of K-12 schools, I want the school to use active shooter protocols: lock them out, hide the kids and staff, and call the police to inform them of armed gunmen on campus.

alt hed: President confirms he is full of shit.

Video: Federal Agent Pushes Woman to Floor at Immigration Courthouse Federal agents shoved a woman to the floor after she clung to her husband who was being detained at an immigration courthouse in Manhattan. The Department of Homeland Security said the agent was “reli...

Absolutely unconscionable. www.nytimes.com/video/nyregi...

Now fire his ass.

So the state’s largest economic development project is the site of a raid where the feds held 300 economic ally partners hostage. Now the detained employees are awaiting their government to send a charter plane to take them back to South Korea from the Savannah area.

Opinion | Trump Is Waging War on His Own Citizens

Trump Is Waging War on His Own Citizens www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/o...
A brilliant essay by Grandin

Completely agree. My little ones are also very scared of unleashed dogs. The owners always say “Oh, he’s very friendly. Just wants to say hi.” No doubt that they are friendly to “you” but not always to scared kids.

Delighted to run into this during my walk today in my neighborhood

A tiny but wild snapshot of the current chaos

The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs

The Miners Who Lost Their Jobs, but Not Their Faith in Trump’s Tariffs www.nytimes.com/2025/05/18/b...

5 Years After George Floyd’s Death, Minneapolis Debates His Memorial Site Five years after the corner where George Floyd was killed became the epicenter of a national protest movement, the future of the site is unsettled.

What Is the Future of George Floyd Square? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate

Why Tot Celebrity Ms. Rachel Waded Into the Gaza Debate www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/a...

A Call for Constructive Engagement | AAC&U A Call for Constructive Engagement

As of this afternoon, Columbia's acting president Claire Shipman finally signed onto this letter. Better late than never!

www.aacu.org/newsroom/a-c...

Columbia University may have signed its own death notice. YouTube video by Katherine Franke

Columbia may have signed its own death notice. Word has it that tomorrow Columbia will announce an agreement to formal oversight by Trump. This, if true, will signal the death of Columbia as we knew it - a premier teaching and research institution. I explain it here: youtube.com/shorts/W7Rr7...

More of this!

Letter signed by members of the Columbia History Department urging resistance to the Trump Administration's efforts to dictate university policy.

"Should this control be realized, here or elsewhere, it would make any real historical scholarship, teaching, and intellectual community impossible."

how, then, are any of these university affiliates supposed to do their jobs?

none of this is sustainable, and the longer higher ed leaders wait to push back the deeper the longer term damage will cut.

Bright passionate people who wanted to dedicate their lives to public service were fired in a mass email over the holiday weekend.

This has absolutely nothing to do with efficiency, fraud, waste, or abuse. And your life will be worse because of it.