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U.S. Border Patrol boss Greg Bovino, fellow agents expected to leave Chicago soon Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin insists “we aren’t leaving Chicago,” but the feds' immigration campaign is expected to begin winding down. However, one source said they could b...

"Another source with direct knowledge said the number of Border Patrol agents currently operating in the Chicago area will go from 250 down to 100. But in March, that number could increase to 1,000 agents."

chicago.suntimes.com/public-safet... w/ @jonseidel.bsky.social

Indeed, this issue enters the world at a different moment from the one in which it began. In my introduction, I try to make sense of the histories embedded within the issue itself and clarify my own understanding of just what methods we might require from here. 5/ online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Volume 11 Issue 4 | Feminist Media Histories | University of California Press

I find it v difficult to put into words how honored and lucky i feel to have edited this issue on feminist historical methods, to have had so many important pieces of writing and thinking entrusted to me over these last few years. 1/
online.ucpress.edu/fmh/issue/11/4

The Film That Made ‘Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song’ Possible (Published 2021)

10/21/67: Melvin Van Peebles breakthrough feature, Story of a Three Day Pass
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Renata Adler: www.nytimes.com/1968/07/09/a...
@nicolasrapold.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/m...

Chicago come out!

At immigration court in Chicago this morning.

Per reporter inside who was told he can't use his phone, at least three people have been detained by ICE this morning after their hearings; two men and one woman.

Two black SUVs with plainclothes agents inside have arrived, presumably for transport.

Ahmed Abu Shaban

For the Gaza Scholasticide project, we spoke with Ahmed Abu Shaban, a professor and dean of agriculture at Al-Azhar University-Gaza.

You can listen here:

voices.uchicago.edu/scholasticid...

White House fires head of Copyright Office amid Library of Congress shakeup The White House terminated U.S. Copyright Office Director Shira Perlmutter two days after firing the Librarian of Congress.

🧵 Under Shira Perlmutter, the Copyright Office identified major harms to copyright holders from AI training, as well as writers who must compete with AI-generated material that was trained on our own creative works.

It is really important--no matter how often it happens--that we not normalize college presidents calling in militarized police to clear students engaged in peaceful protests from their campuses.

NYPD shared a Palestinian protester's info with ICE. Now it's evidence in her deportation case New York City’s police department provided federal immigration authorities with information about a Palestinian woman who was arrested at a protest.

This seems like a big deal: The NYPD shared a Palestinian Columbia protester's sealed arrest information with ICE, which promptly detained her and whisked her to a Texas jail. The NYPD claims, without offering evidence, that this doesn't violate NYC sanctuary city laws: apnews.com/article/nypd...

Every day, a new reason to despise this asshole. Every. Day.

A screenshot of a Reuters article stating that the US FDA suspended milk quality test workforce cuts.

Previous to the FDA, folks would put chalk and plaster of Paris in milk to make it appear white. They could also add formaldehyde to cover the smell and taste of spoiled milk.

"The National Museum of African American History and Culture is not a place that traffics in improper ideology," Clint Smith writes. "It is a museum that recognizes that America has been suffused in improper ideologies for most of its history." https://theatln.tc/81hXXEqK

HAPPENING NOW: Rümeysa Öztürk (repped by ACLU) has a hearing before Vermont federal judge William K. Sessions III.

Öztürk is the Tufts PhD student snatched off the street by ICE and now facing deportation for cowriting a pro-Palestine op-ed in the student newspaper. 🧵

DOGE takes over federal grants website, wresting control of billions A DOGE engineer removed users’ access to grants.gov, threatening to further slow the process of awarding thousands of federal grants per year.

U.S. DOGE Service employees have inserted themselves into the government’s long-established process to alert the public about potential federal grants and allow organizations to apply for funds.

I know they can’t respond, but to my friends at the ODH, we love you and are so angry on your behalf and we haven’t even begun to fight back yet.

This is really unfair to everyone who just voted for him for the racism.

The Expert Who Kept Eye Drops From Blinding You Was Fired Yesterday Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the so-called Department of Government Efficiency terminated thousands of experienced public health professionals in an April Fools’ Day massacre. We’re all about to pay the ...

"When investigators in the field confronted a potentially life-threatening contamination that compromised drug sterility, Pohlhaus was the person they would call. He’s the one who helped them gather evidence that could halt dangerous manufacturing or shut down a pipeline of compromised products."

National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act of 1965 (P.L. 89-209)

It looks as if the National Endowment for the Humanities is at risk of imminent collapse, following DOGE going in and apparently firing everyone.

Please consider reading the short legislation that established the NEH, and embodies its mission: www.neh.gov/about/histor...

It's looking less like a story of "Trump forces Columbia..." and more of a story of Trump, reactionary Columbia Trustees and donors, and Bari Weiss types forming a coalition that feeds off of each other

Betar: She was on our list. Many more jihadis are. We will be making a new submission Monday with approximately 1800 more jihadis. Submit to us candidates with proof for @ICEgov to consider! 🇺🇸

We have reached the crowd-sourcing deportation lists phase.

Mapping how Israel’s land grabs are reshaping the occupied West Bank Israel’s assault in Jenin and Tulkarem seeks to suppress resistance and tighten control amid a demographic crisis.

With global attention fixed on the war on Gaza, Israel is rapidly redrawing the map of the occupied West Bank through intensified assaults, paving the way for full annexation.

On Palestine Land Day, we map out what is happening ⤵️

I will never resent people for being free unless they pull up the ladder behind them or their freedom is predicated on someone else’s oppression, in which case that’s not real freedom.

I will ask, as Toni Morrison encouraged us to, how they are using their freedom to free others

She was targeted by a doxxing website and the US government used it to disappear her. canarymission.org/individual/R...

every person involved in this needs to be in prison

it takes a full NINE paragraphs in this nyt story from today before there is any mention that hundreds of palestinians have been killed www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/w...

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage | CBC Radio Scientific evidence is painting an unsettling picture: COVID infections, even if mild or asymptomatic, may be causing long-term cellular and organ damage, as well as increasing your risk of developing...

Beyond long COVID — how reinfections could be causing silent long-term organ damage

Even if you think you're done with COVID, COVID might not be done with you

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Grieving husband says "reckless" Texas abortion law led to pregnant wife's death Between 2019 and 2022, the maternal mortality rate in Texas increased 56% after the state outlawed abortions.

Porsha Ngumezi was killed by Texas’ abortion ban after doctors refused her a D&C to treat the miscarriage she suffered at 11 weeks gestation. She leaves behind a husband and two sons. www.cbsnews.com/news/grievin...

After canceling meeting of independent advisers, FDA issues 2025-26 flu vaccine recommendations | CNN The US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday issued recommendations for the composition of influenza shots for the upcoming respiratory virus season, but without input from its independent vaccine ...

In case you, like me, are a high-anxiety human who missed this piece of moderately reassuring news:

Despite many broken things, the FDA *did* make a flu shot recommendation for this fall.

www.cnn.com/2025/03/13/h...