Dispatch #10: One Battle After Another: On the Destruction of Rainbow Crosswalks and Library Archives October 13, 2025Greetings from the Swamp. I bike to the beach in a weekly attempt to temporarily clear my mind of the increasing political tumult that has swept over our swamp and increasingly engulfs...

I take pride in this recent dispatch that combines part film review of the best movie out there with analysis of our sordid political moment where historical erasure of marginalized communities reigns supreme.

This is going to be rad.

Helping break down the film’s multiple meanings will be the powerhouse trio of Dr. Sika Dagbovie-Mullins, Dr. Regis M. Fox, and Dr. Daniel DeVinney.

Come in costume if the spirit catches you.

October 30, 2025, 7 PM
CU 107 (Campus Movie Theater)

Thanks to all our loyal fans and attendees. Oct 30 we will be sceeening Get Out

Right-Wingers Are Getting Mad at (and Misunderstanding) 'One Battle After Another' Conservative critics and commentators like Ben Shapiro are complaining about, and misunderstanding, Paul Thomas Anderson's "One Battle After Another."

Their anger over the film is as predicable as their intolerance for difference.

something i put out a while ago. my entry into podcasting

This Thursday at 7 PM. Free pizza. We will be having the director Al'Ikens Plancher of Boat People and the Deputy Director of Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition, Renata Bozzetto (an FAU grad), as part of our Q&A.

Florida Atlantic University, Culture and Society Theaters

“Orwell: 2+2=5”: Raoul Peck & Alex Gibney on New Documentary, Authoritarianism, Trump & More We speak with the acclaimed filmmakers Raoul Peck and Alex Gibney about their latest documentary, Orwell: 2+2=5, which explores the life and career of George Orwell and why his political writing remai...

Raoul Peck has to be one of the most interesting doc filmmakers out there. *Exterminate All The Brutes* is a brutal masterpiece. *I Am Not Your Negro* was an incredible excavating the brilliance of James Baldwin. I can't wait to see this one.

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap.

Trump Offered Universities an Invitation for a Deal. Some See a Trap. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/02/u.... This is appalling and any school signing onto this should be ashamed. university of texas is already as signing on. I fear Florida will be next since we war with texas with anti-intellectualism

Opinion | An Antifascist Movie at a Fascist Moment

An Antifascist Movie at a Fascist Moment www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/o... I mostly agree with. Check out the film.

‘One Battle After Another’ Ticket Sales Are Solid (With an Asterisk)

‘One Battle After Another’ Ticket Sales Are Solid (With an Asterisk) www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/b.... I would argue one of his best films, and a film that speaks to the moment while also the complex psychic terrain and fallout that accompanies resistance,

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech

Judge Rules Trump Unlawfully Targeted Noncitizens Over Pro-Palestinian Speech www.nytimes.com/2025/09/30/u.... Let’s keep pushing back

Dispatch #9: The Disinvestment and Destruction of Trust in Public Higher Education September 22, 2025Greetings from the Swamp!This past week finds us confronting two related onslaughts against public education. UC Berkeley, home of the free speech movement in the 1960s, recently sha...

The most recent post regarding the attacks against public education and the closing of the American mind.

Given the centrality of immigration in South Florida, we will be screening Boat People (2024) and Black Girl (1966). Al’lkens Plancher, director of Boat People, and Renata Bozzetto of the Florida Immigrant Rights Coalition will join us.

October 9, 2025, CU 110 (Campus Movie Theaters)

UC Berkeley shares 160 names with Trump administration in ‘McCarthy era’ move Prominent professor Judith Butler among students and faculty investigated for ‘alleged antisemitic incidents’

This along with the attacks against educators across the country for posting on social media is a levelling-up of the authoritarian playbook against education used in Hungary, Turkey, and Poland.

Opinion | Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

Trump Is Wiping Out Unions. Why Are They So Quiet?

we certainly need to be mass mobilizing & organizing more vibrantly.

UO to reportedly cut multiple language programs amid university wide budget deficit - Daily Emerald Deans and department heads at the University of Oregon are under mounting pressure to identify budget cuts amidst a university wide budget deficit. The cuts have led to multiple rounds of layoffs in r...

Solidarity with the faculty fighting back against such cuts. "Austerity" is often used as an alibi, not an actual reason, for gutting programs that don't align with a functionalist, technocratic view of the world.

My newest post with some resistance events coming up in the near future.

Know Your Rights for Immigrants: University Faculty/Staff · ACLU Florida Florida's public universities are entering into unprecedented partnerships with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) under the 287(g) program. Join us as we discuss the rights that university fac...

open to all on september 2 @ 6:30 pm

ICE off campus! Protest the 287(g) agreement at FAU · Voices-United As of July 24, FAU PD has partnered with ICE in the 287(g) program. This allows FAU PD to conduct immigration enforcement during routine police duty, including "**the power and authority to arrest wi...

join our students in protesting against our campus police partnering with ICE on sept. 5 @ 3 pm

Opinion | They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan.

They Saw Their Neighbors Taken Away by ICE. Then They Made a Plan. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/30/o.... We are starting the semester discussing this in my radical media and social movements class

Dispatch #7: The Carceral University, ICE, and Resistance July 31, 2025Greetings from the swamp.I had to take brief respite from my blog duties to escape the tropical heat, which can melt your mind to such an extent that it could turn someone MAGA if left un...

A new piece straight out of the swamp.

Passed my basic rider course last weekend to get my motorcycle license. Please be kind on the road to me.

Painting over the Troubles: street art, class, and re-imaging Belfast This paper argues how postcolonial melancholia, as defined by Paul Gilroy, haunts attempts within Belfast to use public art to move past the trauma from the Troubles and colonialism’s lingering imp...

Some new work my comrade, John F. Lennon, and I have been working on regarding Northern Ireland, Brexit, the Troubles, and street art. Branching out a little. Proud of what we did. Look forward to working on more.

Majorly revising an article on Sound of Freedom, white supremacist media and porno-nationalism. I had the details before but not a coherent argument yet. Think it’s finally coming together. I’m kind of amazed there’s no good scholarly article on this film, at least that I know of.

“Gator Grift”: Hundreds Caged in Inhumane Conditions with No Due Process at Florida Immigrant Jail Florida Democratic Congressmember Maxwell Frost joins us to discuss how he observed horrific conditions in Florida’s new immigration detention jail in the Everglades, known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” wh...

Florida-- pumping money into the carceral-industrial complex, not education.

OMFG!!!

We are going to 11 this September!

New Blog Post Dispatch #6: Cinema Solidarity and the Politics of Popular Culture

A new blog post regarding the cinema series we created here at FAU. The blog is a dry run for an article I am working on for a collection

Stocked for t he Fourth.

The Minaw Collective: An All Female Force of Art Watching Holly Pereira maneuver her way onto a construction site is a masterclass of Dublin-charm. Holly is a member of the Minaws, an all-female street art collective that formed in Dublin in 2013 wh...

A new piece that John and I wrote on Minaw, an all-female Irish art collective

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