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Trump’s War Is Destroying the Global Economy Spiraling financial chaos might be the only thing that can force the president to pull back from this conflict.

On the one hand, Trump is destroying the global economy. On the other hand... www.thenation.com/article/poli...

ICE Detention Is ‘Hell On Earth.’ Trump Has A Plan To Keep Even More People Locked Up. Immigration detention is not supposed to be punitive. But one man who spent 20 years in state prison told HuffPost the ICE detention facility he is currently in is worse.

ICE detention remains almost completely opaque to the public. So this is essential reporting. @mattshuham.bsky.social and @jessicaschulberg.bsky.social spoke with a man who got paroled out of CA state corrections but was then sent straight to California City.
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Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance How Kleber Mendonça Filho's film positions archival, art, and preservation as tools of resistance.

In times of social and political strife, we often proclaim, “History will not look upon this moment kindly.” But how will history remember us if the historians are executed?

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These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

Best film of 2025!

Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance How Kleber Mendonça Filho's film positions archival, art, and preservation as tools of resistance.

In times of social and political strife, we often proclaim, “History will not look upon this moment kindly.” But how will history remember us if the historians are executed?

www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

If you took $1 billion and gave it to the endowment of a different small college each day, they could each provide a free college education to several hundred students per year in perpetuity. Instead we are using that money to bomb schools and kill students in Iran, for no clearly stated purpose.

Penn tuition, fees, and room and board will exceed $94,000 for 2026-27 Overall, tuition, fees and room and board costs at the University of Pennsylvania will rise from $91,112 to $94,582 for the 2026-27 school year.

“People ask me when are we going to break through the $100,000 barrier,” Trevor Lewis, vice president of budget and management analysis, told board members. “Probably in FY28 or 29.”

If you are in line to post a Kristi Noem getting fired joke - STAY IN LINE.

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

Trump-Approved CBS Boss Going Full ‘Propaganda-Palooza’ Bari Weiss has made it clear where she stands on Trump’s war with Iran.

CBS News’ avowedly pro-Israel editor-in-chief Bari Weiss has reportedly abandoned the network’s standards on objectivity to go all in on promoting President Donald Trump’s deadly war against Iran.

'It Was Very Creepy': These People Say They Lost Global Entry Just For Watching ICE Agents Two people claim they were punished for acts of protest, and an internal government memo suggests they may not be the last.

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers.
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Father sues Google, claiming Gemini chatbot drove son into fatal delusion | TechCrunch A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.

AI is going great

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ICE is bringing back pandemic-style lockdowns In immigrant communities, it feels like 2020 all over again.

I wrote about how ICE is forcing families into lockdown, in a painful echo of the pandemic

One of the kind of fucked up parts of the ICE occupation here is that a lot of folks want to believe it’s over, and the media seems to tell us it’s over, but folks on the ground are still seeing tons of activity and vulnerable people are still (rightfully) terrified to go outside. We can’t stop yet.

DHS confirms ICE agent fatally shot US citizen in 2025 Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

Ruben Ray Martinez was shot through his driver's-side window in South Padre Island, Texas.

I get asked a lot what I'm giving up for Lent, and this year the answer is nothing. this is what I'm doing instead, and I'll tell you why, and you're invited to join in with me however it fits into your own spiritual or contemplative practices.

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Reminder: No government ever builds concentration camps it does not intend to fill.

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Hey! Scholars! If you're using someone's work in your class, sometimes it's nice to email them and tell them, because then they might feel good about their research instead of entirely crushed by the academic humanities' ongoing descent into the grave

The difference between a judicial warrant and an administrative warrant is the difference between a $20 bill and a napkin that a fascist wrote "twenty dollars" on.

Mia Valentina Paz Faria A 7-year-old from Venezuela who was living in Austin, Texas Detained for 70 days “I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

UPDATE: Staff at the ICE concentration camp in Dilley, Texas have begun raiding the dormitories of kids and their parents to confiscate and destroy letters from the children. This is in response to the ace reporting by @micarosenberg et al for ProPublica:

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.”

- 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas.

Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children.

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South Jersey guy becomes the face of ICE resistance | Will Bunch Newsletter Last Friday, Joseph Zobel, “an average Joe who grew up in Haddon Heights” saw a video that shocked him. First interview with the ICE protester whose viral video reaction has been seen 3 million times.

SCOOP: I have the first interview with the 36-year-old South Jersey man whose tearful protest against an ICE raid at a school bus stop has been watched more than 3 million times

How a non-political Eagles fan Everyman became the face of ICE resistance

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U of North Texas Cancels Exhibit With Anti-ICE Art The University of North Texas College of Visual Arts and Design removed an art exhibit that includes anti-ICE artwork, the artist told The Denton Record-Chronicle.

today in "campus free speech":

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These are concentration camps and its our duty as citizens to ensure these things don't get built.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Democracy is when voters choose their leaders. Autocracy is when leaders choose their voters.