Raging Raul

The exhibits about slavery at the President’s House in Philadelphia’s Independence National Historical Park have been removed amid pressure from the Trump admin www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Higher Education in the Time of Fascist Plague What is at stake is far more than a rejection of gangster capitalism and the global misery it produces. The deeper danger lies in recognizing that education has become the primary battlefield in the c...

"What is required, then, is the radical reimagining of pedagogy. Higher education must reclaim academic freedom, dissent, critical thought, and democratic governance not as abstract principles but as urgent practices of resistance." #HigherEd

www.counterpunch.org/2025/12/12/h...

“An American Nightmare”: Three Men Deported to CECOT and Their Families Reflect on Their Monthslong Ordeal For months, Carmen, Lina and Doris awaited news about their loved ones, who were sent to a maximum-security Salvadoran prison by the Trump administration. Now that the families have been reunited, the...

CBS News may not want you to see its CECOT reporting, but I'm happy to share this powerful video that our team produced this year.

Tear Gas, Pepper Balls Among Weapons Deployed Against Illinois Protesters A judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics by federal agents, including those involved in Operation Midway Blitz in the Chicago region.

Children tear-gassed. Teenagers tackled to the ground. Bellingcat analysed footage of clashes between federal officers and civilians after a judge issued a restraining order on crowd-control tactics in Illinois: www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/10...

Seems like a good moment to be revisiting this history

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A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family Margarita Avila, a Houston mother of nine, was detained by ICE after an altercation that led to no charges. Her close-knit family weigh their futures if she is deported.

A Houston mother held by ICE must choose: indefinite detention or be deported without her family www.texastribune.org/2025/09/08/t... via @texastribune.org

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26085894-25a169-order/

BREAKING: By an apparent 6–3 vote, the Supreme Court halts an injunction that had prevented immigration agents from racially profiling Latinos in central California.

Sotomayor, dissenting, says the decision is "unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation's constitutional guarantees."

Again, they say these troops are there to make the people of the city feel safe

Dispatch: The Chicano Moratorium! - Tales From Aztlantis Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium March, a movement of Chicano anti-war activists that built a broad-based coalition of Mexican-American groups to organize opposition to the V...

Dispatch: The Chicano Moratorium - Today marks the 55th anniversary of the Chicano Moratorium. In Chicanolandia, this day is marked by commemorations and remembrances. This episode is our humble contribution. Ruben Salazar - Presente! www.buzzsprout.com/1720405/epis...

What it's like to be a Middle East Studies professor in 2025 Basically, it sucks. Last week, Tuft's Dan Drezner and my GW colleague Dave Karpf published really good pieces on what it's like to be, respectively, a dean of international affairs and a professor o...

“It isn’t students who shy away from serious discussion – it is powerful elites enraged by the protests against Israel's war on Gaza and determined to restore by force a narrative and political consensus that has collapsed under the weight of genocide” — excellent piece by @abuaardvark.bsky.social

How to Study.pptx How to Study College 101

And my final mini lecture in what I call "college 101" series is How To Study:

It's insane how this administration is shaking down colleges for admitting too many students of color by citing alleged racial discrimination while simultaneously petitioning the Supreme Court to allow them to profile and detain anyone with skin darker than mayonnaise.

A legal black hole "We're surrounded by miles of treacherous swampland," President Trump said earlier this month, referring to the new detention camp in the Florida Everglades known as Alligator Alcatraz.

1. The Everglades detention camp, known as Alligator Alcatraz, has become a LEGAL BLACK HOLE.

Hundreds of people are being held at the facility without charges, without access to attorneys, and without the ability to contest their detention in court.

When you strip away humanity

Philosophy Professor Reportedly Assaulted & Abducted During ICE Raid on Farm - Daily Nous Jonathan Caravello, a lecturer in philosophy at California State University Channel Islands, was reportedly "piled on by multiple agents all at once" as "he tried to help a man in a wheelchair" who wa...

A philosophy professor was assaulted and abducted by ICE while protesting the agency's raid on a farm near his university.

Laura Loomer‘s tweet: Alligator lives matter. The good news is, alligators are guaranteed at least 65 million meals if we get started now.

The entire Latino population in the U.S. is 65 million. She means all of us.

The mainstream media has enabled Trump’s war on universities | Jason Stanley For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault

“For the past decade, the US press has fueled a moral panic over leftists on campus while failing to report on the right’s assault”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In Trump’s America, wealthy criminals are pardoned, poor innocents are arrested While ICE patrols court houses for law-abiding immigrants, Trump's friends get a free pass.

New — I wrote about the injustice unfolding before our eyes as rich reality stars are pardoned for their crimes while law-abiding immigrants are rounded up and caged by ICE, and the way communities are rising up to say fuck no.

YouTube video by Cal State LA Department of Philosophy The Philosophy of María Lugones Meets Transgender Studies: A Complex Conversation

A super fascinating conversation between @talia-mae.bsky.social, @hilmalatino.bsky.social, PJ DiPietro and Andrea Pitts. Some great house pets even make an appearance in the last 30 minutes or so.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0p3y...

Heavily armed paramilitary forces stormed a local San Diego restaurant today, deployed stun grenades against a crowd of onlookers, and kidnapped a handful of kitchen workers.

Episode 184: The Future of the University - Hotel Bar Podcast Can the University be saved? Should it be saved?

Episode 184 is live and we can hardly believe we're on Harvard's side!

Check out our co-hosts @talia-mae.bsky.social @drleighmjohnson.bsky.social and @rickleephilos.bsky.social's timely and disturbing discussion of the future of the University.

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U.S.-born man held for ICE under Florida's new anti-immigration law • Florida Phoenix Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old U.S. citizen, was being held in the Leon County Jail Thursday, charged with illegally entering Florida as an “unauthorized alien” — even as a supporter waved his...

US-BORN US CITIZEN BEING HELD FOR ICE IN FLORIDA

HIS FAMILY ALREADY PROVED CITIZENSHIP TO ICE DAYS AGO

floridaphoenix.com/2025/04/17/u...

Purging wrongthink

This Is Fascism What Trump’s affection for El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele reveals about the fallen state of American democracy.

I learned a few things from this piece by Zak Cheney-Rice about the way the American Nazis have been studying and promoting Bukele’s governance style nymag.com/intelligence...

Always getting those lists of Most Cited Philosophers or Works Featuring in the SEP Most Often or whatever and when you look there's never nothing by any women or POC. Well, finally, thanks to President Trump, a list of philosophical works has come out which heavily features women and black people!

There's probably a Signal chat specifically made for this.

"So, we’re in this strange situation where we have a full-on counterrevolution, but we never got the revolution." Naomi Klein
inthesetimes.com/article/haym...

It's the Economy (of) Stupid: Or, Destroying the Economy to Save its Image

Reposting.

www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/03/its-...

These notes from universities aren't just useless and cowardly, they're actively dangerous at this point! Your university isn't a "community" if it's allowing people to be abducted off the street because of an op-ed.

Real answer is to reallocate all university resources until the student is freed.

“The trick of Trump’s rhetoric is to look back at moves elites made to cover their DEI bases, hail those as hollow, then channel resentment created by those moves to solidify actual elite power, which lies in money—and the political institutions that control who has access to earning it.”