Same here :) thanks, Melanie!!

Thanks for coming, Melanie! It was nice to meet you “irl” — if even briefly!

Uncovering Coerced Labor and Resistance within American Carceral and Quasi-Carceral Spaces, 1898–1973 Solicited by the Labor and Working-Class History Association (LAWCHA) Chair: Robert Chase, Stony Brook University Commentator: Anthony Gregory, Political and Legal History, Hoover Institution, Stanford Stagnation, Coercion, and Gendered Labor Ideology at the Thomas Indian School of New York within Early Twentieth-Century Reform. Rachel Pitkin, PhD Student in History, City University of New York Graduate Center The Role of Juveniles in the Prisoners’ Rights Movement in Texas. Moises Acuna-Gurrola, California State University, Bakersfield They Demanded “Good Time or Smokes”: Women Prisoners’ Resistance to the New Deal Era Coerced Labor Regime at Alderson Prison. Donna Haverty-Stacke, Hunter College, City University of New York

this #oah26 panel on coerced labor and resistance in carceral spaces was fascinating and it is so striking to me that institutional history remains such a lively and potent area of study

Is there a way to access your article for non-subscribers?

all of us are.

omfg.

The academic rediscovery of “reading books” in the era of digital colonialism. It’s going to be a thing. Lit is standing in the corner with their eyeglasses on the tips of their nose glaring at this thread, saying “we told you like 10 years ago.”

It’s going to sound quaint, but the best way to resist an AI takeover of the humanities is to assign physical books, sit around, read them, and argue about ideas. Academic has become such a competitive arena, that we ourselves are trained to look for the winning angle, instead of the best education.

“As we prepare for more waves of bad news, I’m remembering that there is always a next right thing to do, that I am never alone in my despair, and that when we come together, we can create new worlds that are kinder and more of what we all deserve." - B Loewe

Garcia, up again, ends by holding up a photo of Stephen Miller and says:

"There is probably no single person who has done more damage and more harm to people across this country...than this man right here. It's our job...to hold him responsible for the crimes that are happening to U.S. citizens."

Thousands of people filled the streets of downtown Minneapolis in protest of federal immigration enforcement for the second consecutive Friday.

📷️: Aaron Lavinsky

lfg

Letter From Minnesota: “If They Take Me and Leave the Children…” Today is Tuesday, January 27th, 2026. I got gas for the first time this year by myself. The gas station was mostly empty. I drove into the station, heart thudding in my chest. I did everything as f…

Powerful writing @literaryhub.bsky.social today. This, from Kao Kaila Yang, on preparing for the worst with her children, was a gut punch: lithub.com/letter-from-...

JD Vance's strategy for succeeding Trump as head of the MAGA movement is predicated on retaining and exciting the support of violent Nazis all around the US. That's what makes his Holocaust commemoration so unique.

JD Vance @JDVance X.com Today we remember the millions of lives lost during the Holocaust, the millions of stories of individual bravery and heroism, and one of the enduring lessons of one of the darkest chapters in human history: that while humans create beautiful things and are full of compassion, we're also capable of unspeakable brutality. And we promise never again to go down the darkest path.

Legitimately a feat of carefully calculated writing to issue a Holocaust Remembrance Day statement of this length without mentioning either (1) the people who perpetrated the Holocaust or (2) the people against whom they perpetrated it

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

The 2029 Pretti Good Act will establish a commission to identify all agents, create a detailed accounting of all acts, and hold criminally liable as necessary. Agents who voluntarily and truthfully disclose will be granted some leniency, provided their crimes did not include murder or torture.

This should be a piece of every Dem’s platform.

ICE is now responsible for 66% of the homicides in Minneapolis this year.

Protester in Minneapolis just before disappearing in gas: "Fuck you! Stop. Damn! I'm 70 years old and I'm fuckin' angry!"

Call your senators. ICE today is a product of ICE of yesterday, of our carceral and policing and security logic — that’s all true. But shooting civilians point blank in the street with impunity is turning a corner we won’t come back from. Please call them today & tell them not to fund this.

the star tribune’s live blog has no paywall right now

The man shot by federal agents this morning has died, Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara told the Minnesota Star Tribune. Several witnesses have already been transported to the Whipple building. ICE attempted to order local police from the scene, but O’Hara refused, sources said. O’Hara instructed his officers to preserve the scene. The BCA was en route to the scene. All available MPD officers have been called into work, except dogwatch (overnight shift), and days off cancelled.

ICE, which murdered a man in cold blood in Minneapolis this morning, tried to order local police off the scene.

The police chief ordered local police to remain on the scene.

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Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

ICE agents are America's failures, basically indistinguishable from lazy school shooters, losers who want to play Call of Duty on our streets against people who can't fight back. They have unlimited ammo and toss tear gas like they're pressing L1. They have to be defunded and jailed. All of them.

Reached out to my Senators imploring them to play hardball with the budget.

Calling my Congressman to renew demands that they replace Minority Leader Jeffries.

I am watching what is happening in Minneapolis on Ali Velshi and one of the ICE officers (off camera) literally says, “It’s like Call of Duty. Pretty cool huh?” as they shoot whatever it is they are shooting. Agents walking around, guns unholstered for no reason. This is insanity

Top two articles are about ICE abducting a 5 year old and a 2 year old.

Below that, news about a historically large protest and general strike.

Then articles detailing how ICE lies about their actions and how the White House makes/publishes fake images about the anti-ICE protests.

What if we just stopped paying taxes? Where there's a will there (might) be a way.

New in PN: What if we just stopped paying taxes?

"Like many other blue states, Minnesota pays more to the federal government than it takes in. But why should the state continue to subsidize a government bent on destroying it? What if it just … didn’t?"

If you’re defending kidnapping a five year old, you’re losing