More spot-on work from by The Department of Unsubtle Metaphors

Underflows: Queer Tran Ecologies and River Justice by Cleo Wölfle Hazard (University of Washington Press, 2022)

Engineering Nature: Water, Development, and the Global Spread of American Environmental Expertise by Jessica Teisch (UNC Press, 2011)

The Decline of Western Civilization: Part II (dir. Penelope Spheeris, 1989)

Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure (dir. Stephen Herek, 1989)

More zeitgeisty iteration

(Both of these were made to be seen in a movie theater)

(One of) the first double feature(s) at my movie theater

Mário (dir. Billy Woodberry, 2024)

thefilmverdict.com/mario/

More higher ed discourse like this please

This is more theoretical than empirical (and I, too, would love to see empirical research on this group) but is interesting and perhaps relevant regardless. www.apa.org/pubs/journal...

Smell of feces, vomit fills crowded ICE facility, detainee's wife says Conditions at the ICE facility in central Phoenix mirror the conditions at a Mesa facility, where people were being treated worse than "animals," lawmakers said.

Many, many brave people are fighting to stop this, and also—our collective failure to stop it from getting this far will haunt us for the rest of our lives.

We gotta figure out more models for convening classes like this completely separate from university infrastructure. This is a cool class.

I’ll take the under for that over/under…

Hampshire College to close permanently after fall 2026 semester Emma McCorkindale

While Hampshire’s case is in some ways unique, it is amazing to think that in a single lifetime - about 70 years - the US founded the greatest public and liberal arts college system in the world and then destroyed it, to build prisons, give tax cuts to the rich, and own the libs

yes. in LA the "would need to be remediated" landscape seems like it's more default than aberration

Boiling Frogbooks: Education's Past and Future

Reposted to go along with the devastating news that Hampshire College is closing (and will actually be part of the past).

www.unemployednegativity.com/2019/03/boil...

Done and done ✅ ✅

Basketball team?

I wish I had this handy when I was arguing with someone about “what the economic data says” yesterday. Very clearly articulated.

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“Triumph of the Will” alongside Capra’s “Why We Fight”

The question of Capra’s politics could also be useful to explore.

“Birth of a Nation” (1915) seems like a must

I hate the term “self-deport” so much. What it actually is is “fleeing the country to avoid government persecution.”

Just like terms like “enhanced interrogation” aka “torture” it obscures what is happening and I hate how willing media outlets are to use those sanitized terms.

Are there sources you’d recommend reading to learn more about Twain and democracy?

BREAKING: JURY FINDS PROFESSOR CARAVELLO NOT GUILTY!

While some justice was restored by the jury’s decision, the beatings, the surveillance, and the trauma that John and others across the state and nation have had to endure cannot be ignored. #ICEOUT

Scoop: City of L.A. Facing Over 120 Claims For Damages Related To Anti-ICE Protests Amid Financial Crisis ~ L.A. TACO Since 2019, the city of L.A. has paid out more than $430 million in liability claims related to policing, according to Los Angeles City Controller Kenneth Mejia’s office. More than 40 percent of those payouts are listed as “civil rights/excessive force” claims.

Scoop: City of L.A. Facing Over 120 Claims For Damages Related To Anti-ICE Protests Amid Financial Crisis

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Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord (1967)

It seems like it would pair well with this

"Why don't Americans—" we do. That's why many of my friends are in prison or dead.

“I’ve been a civil rights lawyer for 40 years, but back during the protests of the 80s, they didn’t have that kind of weaponry and they just hand them out like candy to these officers,” he said. “These officers have high-powered toys in their hands but they’re not toys…they’re 12-gauge shotguns.”

Here’s a timeline of the past ten years of struggle to close Rikers, as of January, 2026: www.cityandstateny.com/politics/202...

Rikers is currently run by an ex-CIA guy appointed by a judge rather than the Department of Corrections, led by Stanley Richards, the first formerly incarcerated comm.