Matt Hooley

ICE is targeting Native businesses & community/resource centers in Minneapolis. They harassed people at Pow Wow Grounds & sat outside of the American Indian Women's Resource Center for 2 hours last month. Many Native people (that we know of, there's definitely more) have been kidnapped by ICE.

A Pedagogy of the Inevitable Over the last couple of years, two altogether incompatible discourses of “AI literacy” have emerged. One seeks just enough literacy to support a smooth, perhaps even joyful, integration with new techn...

One of the best AI critiques I’ve seen read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/...

Need a manuscript critique? This literary auction is raising money to support Minnesotans. In further news of book people showing up for each other, and for the rest of us, a dedicated group of publishing and culture workers has organized an auction to raise funds in support of communiti…

If you want to support communities terrorized by ICE and DHS while getting query feedback or manuscript critiques, this is the auction for you.

“Everything We Do Matters.” Minneapolis’s Moon Palace Books is a Hub For Anti-ICE Resistance Angela Schwesnedl from Moon Palace Books in Minneapolis picked up my phone call on Saturday almost two hours to the minute after Alex Pretti was murdered in the street by ICE officers. “If you have…

@jamesfolta.com talks to Minneapolis bookseller Angela Schwesnedl about anti-ICE resistance.

Man detained in Minneapolis dies in ICE custody in Texas A man arrested by immigration officials in Minneapolis died in federal detention in Texas.

Man detained in Minneapolis dies in ICE custody in Texas www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

Elderly man wearing only shorts with a blanket over his shoulders is flanked by ICE officers on either side as he descends the front stairs of him home in the snow. “A man, whose family requested a Hmong interpreter, is detained after ICE agents and other law enforcement officers conducted an immigration raid at his home, days after an ICE agent fatally shot Renee Nicole Good, in St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S., January 18, 2026.REUTERS/Leah Millis” via @idreesali114.bsky.social on X

Hmong man detained by ICE today in St. Paul, Minnesota.

(Photo via Reuters)

Another person taken today in Northeast. ICE left their car out in the road and pepper sprayed legal observers, directly violating a federal judge’s orders from earlier this week.

"Homeland Security refused to release more information, unless the tribe “entered into an immigration agreement with ICE.”

The audacity of this demand.

apnews.com/article/ice-...

Minneapolis won’t be intimidated by Trump’s secret police force. #ICEOutForGood

WATCH: Prem Attends Memorial at Scene of Murder in Minneapolis See what Prem saw at the memorial for the 37-year-old mother killed by ICE in Minneapolis, plus interview with Omar Fateh and residents.

We visited Renee Good's memorial.

There, we met a group of Somali Minnesotans — who too have been viciously attacked for weeks — warmly hosting everyone.

Flowers & stuffed animals galore.
Neighbors continually offering sambusas & hand-warmers & water.
Grief. And belief.

Scenes from Minneapolis:

it is time!

An official from Roosevelt High School in Minneapolis told MPR News that armed U.S. Border Patrol goons came onto school property during dismissal Wednesday and began tackling people; they handcuffed two staff members and released chemical weapons on bystanders.

IMHO, this is the best way to frame this. Whether the shooting was or was not legally justified (and remember that the legal precedent tends to be incredibly cop friendly) is very different from whether the Trump administration is telling the truth about what happened. They are not. They are lying.

Because this has happened to me - a shelter in Spokane was so notorious for its targeting it had to close, and I'm tired of not speaking on it - I need people to understand: if you're an undocumented Indigenous person, you are a target, and the Gov't knows you will have no community to help you.

gotta say also that if you’re not Muslim now is really not the time to be telling folks that actually his win means nothing for them 🫠

Like jfc stop being a racist little shit

actually all of the organizing networks and connections people built together as part of the movement to get Mamdani elected are important

And hope is politically extremely valuable

I think the ”super radical” takes that Mamdani is a counter revolutionary phenomenon are extremely tired arm chair shit

Also he is gonna be Mayor of NYC so anyone who was expecting him to lead the revolution either works for the NY Post or doesn’t understand the system or both

[Goose meme]
Ruin the workplace for who
RUIN THE WORKPLACE FOR WHO, MOTHERFUCKER????

Book cover for Nothing Wanting: Asexuality and the Matter of Absence by KJ Cerankowski. Main title rotated to appear as column over a cyan bird's-eye view of water glasses casting shadows. One glass is cut away, but its shadow remains.

Book cover for First Light: Kanaka 'Oiwi Resistance to Settler Science at Mauna a Wakea by Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar. White title at center against an image taken above cloud level of the sun just clearing the horizon on a clear day.

Book cover for Indigenous Inhumanities: California Indian Studies after the Apocalypse by Mark Minch-de Leon. Painting in red, black, and cream of eyes and teeth in nonfacial arrangement. Title in large white letters stacked on left. Subtitle in cut-out below.

Book cover for Spectropolis: The E​nchantment of Capital in Singapore by Joshua Comaroff. Colors from a cardboard slot machine and apartment building stretch up toward the title in black above. Hell bank notes, iPhone, and toy car in front.

Four brand-new scholarly books out today:
-Nothing Wanting / KJ Cerankowski
-First Light / Iokepa Casumbal-Salazar
-Indigenous Inhumanities / Mark Minch-de Leon
-Spectropolis / Joshua Comaroff

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these clowns just can't help themselves

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“It’s just Netanyahu/Zionists/right-wingers/extremists.”

Honey, I think not.

Turning Point USA Hosts Campus Event Pushing Death Penalty for Abortion Patients 10.3.25

At the newsletter right now:

One of Turning Point USA’s first campus events since the murder of Charlie Kirk will be a panel with leaders of the abortion ‘abolition’ movement - extremists who lobby for abortion patients to get the death penalty

jessica.substack.com/p/turning-po...

USC sold dead bodies to U.S. military to train IDF medical personnel A review of seven years’ worth of contracts unveiled more than $860,000 to use cadavers in surgical trainings involving the Israeli Defense Forces.

oh good lord
www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/01/u...

Come work at @dukegsfs.bsky.social: postdoc ad is live. academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/30734

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Cornell Cut Classes by a Pro-Palestinian Professor After an Israeli Student’s Discrimination Complaint Dr. Eric Cheyfitz, who has taught at Cornell for more than two decades, claims the university is attempting to silence him as part of a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian activism.

The whole outrageous story:

www.thenation.com/article/soci...