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Worth noting that this response actually concedes that what Pritzker said is true.

Just a quick update from the Twin Cities. (Please forgive the unsolicited message). THINGS ARE NOT BETTER IN MINNEAPOLIS. The media is mostly moving on, Trump is focused on other stuff, BUT NOTHING HAS CHANGED ON THE GROUND. More than 2,000 DHS thugs continue to roam the streets, abducting people 24/7, assaulting legal observers with impunity, and routinely denying 1st, 4th, and 5th amendment rights. Drones and helicopters are overhead every day. Hundreds and hundreds of terrified families have not left their homes since mid-December ... relying on the community to bring them food and help with rent and other necessities. (Those people are NOT violent drug cartel sex offending murderers, as DHS would tell you. Most are legal residents or citizens.) If anything, things have just become more stressful and intractable (think trench warfare as a suitable metaphor): The resistance is better organized and numerous, but DHS has become more clever and better at disguise... and the county sheriff's office is increasingly supporting them . Do not let anyone tell you that Homans (the new person in charge of the occupation) is making anything better. Do not let anyone tell you that 700 ICE agents leaving the city has made much of a difference; the remaining force (again, ~2,000) is still larger than the entire city's police force (which is legally unable to do anything). Please call your congressional reps ... especially if there is any chance the administration might listen to them.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

How do white people delude themselves into believing that they can identify anti-Black racism better than a Black person? Enough to refute the validity of a Black person’s claim of anti-Black racism??? Like…how does one get to that level of ability to lie to themselves?

Please, please, please, don’t try to engage your Black coworkers in “organic dialogue” about their struggles. That’s a fucking nightmare.

Academia is not going to save us.

the thing is:

there is nNEVERr any rest for black folk... when we say "we taking time for self" it doesnt immediately mean the same as when non-blacks say it: we always got shit to deal with — the shit that WE go through that our allies are blind to because of their proximities to privilege.

Pinned lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Aug 19, 2021 Almost three years ago, my editor called me early one November morning. A wildfire had sparked near a town called Paradise, he said. Could I go? (1/13) 0:02 / 0:10 lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · 47m I was just laid off by The Washington Post in the middle of a warzone. I have no words. I'm devastated. Quote lizzie johnson @lizziejohnsonnn · Jan 25 Waking up without power, heat, or running water. (Again.) But the work here in Kyiv continues. Warming up in the car, writing in pencil — pen ink freezes — by headlamp.

A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world

Martinez Negrette Earns Early Career Reviewer Award

Congratulations to @ciatillinois.bsky.social assistant professor Giselle Martinez Negrette on receiving the Early Career Reviewer award from the Bilingual Research Journal.

More: https://blogs.illinois.edu/view/1526/1883638244

‘Barrage of Bills’ Would Upend Iowa Higher Ed—If They Pass The state’s new House Higher Education Committee has advanced a raft of bills that would hit universities’ pocketbooks, hide presidential candidates’ names, and more.

Consider the suite of “reforms” for public higher education in Iowa. This is a sweeping package that would dismantle public universities. The justification? Public money should go only to training people for high demand jobs. In the Postliberal University we call this a “neoliberal Trojan Horse”

I’m sharing this video again because people don’t really get what these data centers and ai are doing to our planet and our communities. Especially Black communities because they were strategically placed there.

I need you to listen to these people.
STOP USING AI. STOP SUPPORTING AI.

I’m not gonna post it because it’s genuinely so grim but there’s this comedian who set up a fake ICE tip line for people to call to report on immigrants and he posts their conversations on TikTok. The most recent post of his was a Kindergarten teacher who wanted one of her students parents deported.

Opinion | Democracy Dies by Database

In which @tressiemcphd.bsky.social scares the shit out of me.

“ICE knows that it cannot shoot us all. But the Department of Homeland Security is close to being able to track us all.” www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/o...

How are we supposed to teach knowing there are students who deem us enemies because we believe in humanity and love?

How do we do our jobs while wondering which students think we (the enemies) should be felled (definition: to cut, knock, or bring down; kill)?

think of all the college students who were disciplined or expelled for protesting genocide

"You tell me that Hitler is a mighty bad man. I guess he took lessons from the Ku Klux Klan. You tell me Mussolini's got an evil heart. Well, it mus-a been in Beaumont that he had his start-- Cause everything that Hitler and Mussolini do, Negroes get the same Treatment from you." --Langston Hughes

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

‘Fell the enemies:’ Illini Republicans support ICE amid killings - The Daily Illini In a post that included a graphic of a presumed officer holding a gun to someone's head, Illini Republicans stated that they “stand with ICE."

University of Illinois college republicans advocate for executing protesters as “traitors” with art that takes a disturbing killing and makes it even more extreme.
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Grammys 2026: The complete winners list Here's the winners list for the 2026 Grammy Awards, updating live. The night's major awards went to Olivia Dean for new artist, Billie Eilish and Finneas for song, Kendrick Lamar with SZA for record and Bad Bunny for album.

Bad Bunny just made history. “Débi Tirar Más Fotos” won album of the year at the #Grammys — the first time a Spanish-language LP has won the top prize.

Billie Eilish used her acceptance speech to say: “No one is illegal on stolen land.” And CBS censored her when she said “Fuck ICE.”

Bad Bunny condemns ICE during his #GRAMMYs speech for Best Música Urbana Album:

“Before I say thanks to god, I’m going to say, ICE out. We’re not savages, we’re not animals, we are humans and we are Americans.”

A reminder that Bad Bunny performs in front of the biggest audience on earth in seven days

Olivia Dean: "I guess I want to say I'm up here as the granddaughter of an immigrant, I wouldn't be here... I'm a product of bravery and I think those people deserve to be celebrated"

Kehlani says "F*ck 🧊 “ during winning #Grammys speech 💪🏽💪🏽

"He treated belief as an active force. Never did he ask listeners to believe in him; he asked them to believe in possibility."

Sun Ra and the Politics of Imagination | Marcus J. Moore
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Black educators have always done more than teach. We carry history, culture, and responsibility in systems not built for us.

This BHM, I am highlighting Black educators making history right now. In classrooms. In schools. In communities.

If you are a Black educator, your work matters. We see you.

The Democrats didn’t flip a red seat in the Texas Senate.

The PEOPLE flipped a red seat in the Texas Senate.

re: that reskeet of the Tarrant County, TX election results…I'm *from* Tarrant County, pre-Portland. I was involved in activism & government in Fort Worth. I can personally attest that a 31-point swing toward a Democrat in Tarrant County TX state senate is absolutely bonkers banana pants.

a close up of a man wearing a headband and a black and white shirt . Alt: a close up of a man wearing a headband and a black and white shirt who looks into the camera

Omg… the scream I screampt😂😂

"The world isn’t ending. A world is ending. Our job is to midwife the next one."

Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old