Map of unmatched facilities in FY25 A map of the United States and surrounding territories show several hundred color-coded circles denoting locations.

Mapping ICE's un/under-reported detention sites:

The official count of immigrants detained by ICE passed 73,000 in January. But in the rush to expand several thousand more are being held each night in sites not include on the agency's public reports.

An analysis based on FOIA-supplied data…

Thank you for sharing! I have a Spanish version too that I’ll send you in the am!

"Mal-Nutrition: Maternal Health Science and the Reproduction of Harm" by @eyatesd.bsky.social is #Free2DownloadAndRead published by @ucpress.bsky.social

www.luminosoa.org/books/m/10.1...

Very excited to read this book, since I love Emily's work!

Yay to zines! Also, just out, this collection of 30 Academizines is going to be a fabulous resource. Did you meet Andie Thompson at the UW workshop back in 2018? Her doctoral research on maternal health in Portland is featured in “inflammatory states” journals.library.unt.edu/index.php/un...

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

March 18, 2026 Today, civil rights leader Dolores Huerta issued the following statement:

Dolores Huerta: "I have never identified myself as a victim, but I now understand that I am a survivor — of violence, of sexual abuse, of domineering men who saw me, and other women, as property, or things to control."

Matthew Wolf-Meyer (a bald, middle aged white guy with glasses) holds aloft a copy of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century. He's standing in front of a window with blue skies behind him.

We're about a month away from the official release of Mapping Medical Anthropology for the 21st Century, which was an effort made better by so many friends being involved, esp. @eraikhel.bsky.social and Junko Kitanaka, who did so much work to make this volume from @rutgersupress.bsky.social happen.

The Diameter Of The Bomb The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters, with four dead and eleven wounded. And around these, in a larger circle of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered and one graveyard. But the young woman who was buried in the city she came from, at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers, enlarges the circle considerably, and the solitary man mourning her death at the distant shores of a country far across the sea includes the entire world in the circle. And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans that reaches up to the throne of God and beyond, making a circle with no end and no God.

amichai.

The Kids Trump Sent to ICE’s Dilley Detention Center ProPublica went inside the immigrant detention center for families in Dilley, Texas. Children held there told us about the anguish of being ripped from their lives in the United States and the fear of...

Some children in Dilley were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, parents told ProPublica.

They said kids lost their appetites after finding worms and mold on their food, had trouble sleeping, and were constantly sick.

Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History The Place of Sugar in Modern History

For those interested in why Black & Caribbean people are going off about the sugar cane from last night's halftime show: sugar is a plantation commodity that fueled slavery & colonialism

bookshop.org/p/books/swee...

Every time this experiment is conducted anywhere in the world it has a similar outcome.

Can we move this beyond the trial phase now?

It's finally out! 3 years after its release in French, my book on phage therapy, antibiotic infrastructure, and the possibility of pluribiotic medicine is now available! Thank you to @ColumbiaUP and to Vincent Lepinay, who has welcomed me into his collection!
#phage #AMR #capitalocene #phagetherapy

Action Network petition: Cancel ChatGPT Edu. Invest in Humans. In February 2025, the California State University system announced a $17 million contract with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT Edu to all faculty, staff, and students on its 22 CSU campuses as part of a larger “AI-Empowered University” initiative. This is the largest contract ever established between a university system and an artificial intelligence company. Despite the name, ChatGPT Edu is not educational technology. It is a general-purpose chatbot that is not designed, trained, or optimized for education. Beyond its privacy and security features, ChatGPT Edu is identical to the free online version of ChatGPT. ChatGPT Edu does not use reliable peer-reviewed sources to answer students' questions and is indifferent to whether its answers are correct. Experts argue that ChatGPT Edu is harmful to academic working conditions, diminishes the quality of teaching and learning, introduces new forms of discrimination, and is dangerous to students' mental health. Recent polling shows that CSU students share these concerns, with the majority of students expressing that they are worried about the negative impacts of generative AI on human creativity and the environment.

Cal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract.

Link below and anyone can sign:

Last summer, just before he died, Dan Hirsch spoke at the NRC meeting on EO 14300. You can find that @ 46:00- www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNiq...

Later published: thebulletin.org/2025/10/pres...

“There is no threshold below which there is no measurable harm. Standards already weak.”

The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules The rewrite was done to speed up the construction of a new generation of nuclear reactors. Critics warn it could compromise safety and public trust.

EXCLSUVIE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules and shared them with the companies they're meant to regulate, without making the new rules publicly available.

We've obtained a copy of the new rules and here's what we found.

www.npr.org/2026/01/28/n...

NPR now EXCLUSIVE: The Trump administration has secretly rewritten nuclear safety rules.

Me, waking up in -8 degree weather: what fresh horrors does today hold?

@npr.org:

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day, commemorating the day in 1945 when the Red Army reached Auschwitz in occupied Poland.

Naturally, the Trump administration decided to commemorate the day by doing Holocaust historical revisionism, pretending Anne Frank's family had "legal" status.

"today we remember that freedom is not free. we have to work at it, nurture it, protect it, and even sacrifice for it."

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

Four Oglala detainees located, three still in ICE custody - ICT The four Lakota detainees were reportedly sent to a former concentration camp used during the Dakota Wars

This is surreal. 4 Oglala Lakota men kidnapped by ICE in Minneapolis have finally been located. One of them was released but the other 3 are being held at Fort Snelling, a former concentration camp used to imprison Native people incl. the Dakota 38 during Dakota Wars.

ictnews.org/news/north-c...

Had an intriguing editorial discussion recently: how did people in the past talk about 'minutes' when they didn't have watches or standardised times? How does that affect your thinking?

Come down an Elizabethan/Jacobean rabbit hole with me.

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kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life

I keep thinking of how “the present” in archaeology is dated from when carbon dating stopped working well because of pollution from atmospheric nuclear tests.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Before_...

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, Michi Saagiig Nishnaabeg scholar, writer, musician

Gabriela Leandro Pereira, Prof Architecture at Federal U. of Bahia

V. Mitch McEwen, Atelier Office; Princeton School of Architecture

Laleh Khalili, Prof of Gulf Studies, U. of Exeter

Nov 18 @dukepress.bsky.social

The War On Weeds | NOEMA Pesticides and herbicides made from fossil fuels that are freely available to unwitting consumers poison our land, our bodies and life all around.

Stumbled upon this essay on “The War on Weeds” by Laura Martin today and just wow- every single line is so good.

www.noemamag.com/the-war-on-w...

Ep 20: Democracy Dies in Clickbait with Maggie Mertens & Sarah Stuteville Podcast Episode · In the Meanwhile · 10/10/2025 · 1h

If you’re in a constant state of “Bari Weiss, CBS, Joe Rogan, WTF??” We’ve got you! @maggiemertens.bsky.social and Sarah Stuteville discuss building a sane news diet (follow people, not brands), supporting community-rooted media, and turning doom into doing. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...

HAPPENING NOW: Judge Karin Immergut hears emergency arguments as California and Oregon seek to block President Trump's deployment of federalized California National Guard troops to Portland. 🧵

“When I face the desolate impossibility of writing five hundred pages, a sick sense of failure falls on me, and I know I can never do it. Then gradually, I write one page and then another. One day's work is all I can permit myself to contemplate.”
― John Steinbeck

#WritingSky #AcademicSky

The thing regular people don’t often grasp about ‘academic freedom’ is that if you don’t allow experts to research & teach in their fields of expertise, guided by their professional judgment & decades of training, you have effectively given up on the concept of knowledge & shut down your university

p.s. My essay on the Wounded Knee massacre can be found here (open access!):

www.jstor.org/stable/10.25...