My piece "Custodial Media: Carceral Handbooks as Infrastructures of Incarceration" is out (open source) now with @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

"criticizing AI use in journalism or other creative industries is classist" NO IT IS NOT

there is a class that benefits enormously from cognitive surrender, epistemic warfare, and the enclosure of all hitherto produced culture and it is NOT THE WORKING CLASS

Through a focus on Immigration and Customs Enforcement's (ICE) National Detainee Handbook, I show how ICE has long relied on media work to maintain its operations.

My piece "Custodial Media: Carceral Handbooks as Infrastructures of Incarceration" is out (open source) now with @jcmsjournal.bsky.social. Read it here: quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/i...

At Largest ICE Detention Camp, Staff Bet on Detainee Suicides, AP Reports Camp East Montana has received several 911 calls in the span of five months about immigrants trying to harm themselves.

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

'Everyone is pretty upset about it': Socorro speaks out against ICE center Residents who live below three warehouses in Socorro, Texas purchased by DHS for an ICE immigration detention center raise concerns.

Neighbors who live below the massive warehouses in Soccoro, Texas that DHS wants to convert into ICE detention facilities are concerned. Their quiet neighborhood in unincorporated El Paso County will now become the center of the Trump's inhumane immigration policy.

My story:

After Detention, Families Stranded in Border Town Face Harrowing Journey Home Parents and children from a detention center in Texas found themselves dropped at a border town shelter with few means to leave.

After detaining children and parents for weeks, or months, inside Dilley detention center, ICE is dumping them at a shelter in Laredo, TX. They are often thousands of miles away from where they were arrested, with no money to get back home. THREAD (1/)
www.themarshallproject.org/2026/03/02/i...

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.

High School English and the Making of American Readers Abstract. The high school English classroom is the most influential literary institution in the United States, and the most overlooked by literary scholars

As some of you may know, I’m writing a book on the history of high school English in the United States, and I’m excited to share a new article from that project—“High School English and the Making of American Readers”—out today in American Literary History! 🧵

academic.oup.com/alh/article/...

The Making of the Deportation Machine The pillars aren’t new. They were built over decades, with bipartisan consensus.

Last summer, a sheriff put it plainly: the federal government “depends on sheriffs and county jails to have bed space,” and his ICE contract helps “pay the bills.”

Marie Gottschalk on books by @briannanofil.bsky.social @jesspish.bsky.social @michellesphelps.bsky.social @equalityalec.bsky.social:

Recent LCS PhD alum here who landed a tenure-track job at an R2. Warren's statement exemplifies the classism I experienced regularly at CMU. But guess what? Jokes on them. I am proud to be teaching at Marshall University and I hope to never be this miserable or condescending.

Abolition now.

Opinion | The Border Patrol Was Always Out of Control

I wrote about the long history of Border Patrol racism and violence for the New York Times www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/o...

Abolishing ICE isn’t enough – it’s time to center people’s humanity | Heba Gowayed and Victor Ray It’s far from radical to reject a system predicated on violence – despite what thinktanks might claim

“Abolish ICE” isn’t radical, it doesn’t go far enough.

Latest in @theguardian.com written with my friend @victorerikray.bsky.social.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Renee Good's Murder and Other Acts of Terror An interview with Robin D. G. Kelley on how to think about ICE—and the broader history of police violence.

"Strangest of all is the liberal pipe dream that local police will stand up against ICE and CBP, when police have collaborated with ICE and been deployed to protect agents from protesters, even in so-called sanctuary cities."

An interview with Robin D.G. Kelley
www.bostonreview.net/articles/ren...

The Companies Behind ICE Sludge built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

New: We built an interactive map of every ICE contractor working with the Trump administration.

readsludge.com/2026/01/16/t...

Want to Stop ICE? Go After Its Corporate Collaborators. ICE can’t function without help from the private sector. So we should force the private sector to stop helping.

www.thenation.com/article/acti...

Hit them where it hurts them - boycotts can work

Abolish ICE is the conservative position abolishing DHS is moderate solution open borders is the liberal solution

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public Trump’s actions are illegal, yes. Worse than that, they are wrong—precisely what the legality debate is meant to obscure.

“The longer Americans indulge this preference for the language of the law over morality, the weaker their moral voice becomes. They lose the ability to say, forthrightly, that what the Trump administration has done is cold-blooded murder for which they and their partisans should be ashamed.”

ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database to Tracks Their License Plates. ICE is terrorizing communities in unmarked cars. These Pacific Northwest activists built a public database that tracks their license plates.

ICE Drives Unmarked Cars. This Public Database to Tracks Their License Plates. by @noahhurowitz.bsky.social
theintercept.com/2026/01/02/i...

Four Frictions: or, How to Resist AI in Education - Public Books We are calling for resistance to the AI industry’s ongoing capture of higher education.

"We envision a resistance that is...a repudiation of the efficiencies that automated algorithmic education falsely promises: a resistance comprising the collective force of small acts of friction."

"How to Resist AI in Education" by me & @cnygren.bsky.social
www.publicbooks.org/four-frictio...

Humanities programs shouldn't be pawns to gamble away with "big bets." This programmatic shift is contributing to the evisceration of critical fields. Read the non-PR account in the Chronicle here by @seeshespeak.bsky.social & @caevans.bsky.social
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Opinion | A Coup at Carnegie Mellon? The university is replacing the humanities with more computers.

No one wants to watch their PhD program be eliminated. It’s nearly the same story when it’s “innovated” away.

Me & @seeshespeak.bsky.social in the Chronicle. Read it below ⬇️

www.chronicle.com/article/a-co...

UT Austin wants to eliminate its Black studies, Latino Studies, and gender studies departments. Tell them you won't stand for it. UT President, Jim Davis, president@utexas.edu UT Executive Vice President and Provost, William Inboden, provost@utexas.edu College of Liberal Arts Interim Dean, David Sosa, david_sosa@austin.utexas.edu #EducationalLiberty #SaveUT

🚨🚨 @utaustin.bsky.social is working to eliminate its Black studies, Latin studies, and gender studies depts -- utterly reneging on its mission and depriving students of the full educational opportunities they deserve. Please--scholars AND publishers--share & write to UT leaders. #SaveUT

Oh hey. I curated this show all about feminist tshirts at Chatham University. Please come through! Opening reception (Oct 15) will feature a talk by Dawson which will also be live-streamed. Register for the opening here: chatham.edu/events/detai...

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