Jeremy C. Fox

ICE Stranded a 17-Year-Old on I-20 After Arresting His Father. The Mississippi Dad Now Faces Deportation. A 17-year-old watched as ICE arrested his immigrant father, Hector, on I-20 in June. The family faces mounting legal fees and the risk of deportation.

ICE left David, a 17-year-old boy, stranded on the side of Interstate 20 after pulling over his immigrant father, Hector, in Mississippi.

David began running in the scorching sun after the car and watched as it disappeared from sight—soon headed to a Louisiana ICE prison.

Here's their story.

Bravo Neko Case.

Hours after refusing to kiss the Presidential ring, #MIT wins court battle over Defense Department plan to slash its grant funding
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#lawsuits

Today in life under competitive authoritarianism

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

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I’m the same person I’ve been forever it’s just that now when I see random strangers in public and assume they’re about my age they all have neck waddles

His slip of the tongue reveals who’s really in charge. trib.al/mIvP0yE

“Illinois governor says we’re provoking actions that are unlawful,” Miller said on CNN. “If I put federal law enforcement and National Guard into a nice sleepy Southern town, is anyone gonna riot?”

Meanwhile, in the West Bank/not in Gaza:

Protest frogs vs. MAGA media influencers: the information war over ICE in Portland and Chicago | CNN Business As the Trump administration floods social media with “propaganda” videos, and MAGA personalities flock to Portland and Chicago in search of a “rebellion,” local residents are responding with… chicken ...

As Homeland Security floods social media with propaganda videos, and pro-Trump commentators flock to Portland and Chicago in search of a "rebellion," local residents are responding with... chicken suits and clever jokes:

Red Summer of 1919

I’m teaching abt Red Summer today, when white vigilantes & National Guardsmen across the country harassed, detained, assaulted, & murdered Black Americans as part of a backlash against Black military service in WWI.

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A master class from MIT in responding to authoritarian overreach:

Your “premise … is inconsistent with our core belief that scientific funding should be based on scientific merit alone.
… America’s leadership in science & innovation depends on independent thinking & open competition for excellence.

Breaking: Some Guy Now Aware Of Most Revered Country Artist Who Ever Lived | Defector Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren’t even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they’re many…

Breaking: Some guy now aware of most revered country artist who ever lived defector.com/breaking-som...

PRITZKER: "I genuinely think there is something wrong with him. I wish that his family would intervene, because I do think he needs mental health help."

Norway braces for Trump’s reaction if he does not win Nobel peace prize US president may impose tariffs, demand higher Nato contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says

The Guardian- The US president may impose tariffs, demand higher NATO contributions or even declare Norway an enemy, analyst says, if on Friday he is not awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. www.theguardian.com/world/202...

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Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur

Michigan Avenue right now.

Federal agents held him in a hospital for 37 days, at times shackled to his bed, without charging him Bayron Rovidio Marin broke his leg when immigration authorities raided the car wash where he worked in Carson in August. He was surveilled for more than a month in his hospital bed at Harbor-UCLA Medi...

ICE held a man in a LA hospital for 37 days after being injured during his arrest.

His attorneys say he was shackled to his bed for several days, couldn't speak privately with doctors or lawyers & was registered under a pseudonym.

He was never charged.

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I see pieces like this a lot, often w/ a spin of lamenting cultural degeneration, but reading is a LABOR issue, it’s declined because so many people are working overtime or two jobs & employers expect after hours work. France has Earth’s highest reading rate b/c long lunch breaks & labor protections

Robin Williams' daughter has some quality thoughts on AI slop

PEGGY NOONAN: “.. You know why people say something’s wrong with this guy? Because it appears something is wrong with this guy.”

@wsj.com
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The G&LR is Excited to Announce its New Managing Editor Email from The Gay & Lesbian Review Jeremy Fox The G&LR's Newsletter   Introducing The G&LR's Managing Editor: Jeremy Fox Dear G&LR Reader, Let me take this opportunity to welcome Jeremy C. Fox * as T

We are thrilled to announce @jeremycfox.bsky.social as the new Managing Editor of The G&LR. With a rich background in journalism and a commitment to our mission, Jeremy will lead our Features section and curate engaging content for our readers. myemail.constantcontact.com/The-G-LR-is-...

Werner Herzog on AI-Generated Movies: 'They Look Completely Dead' Herzog spoke with Conan O'Brien about the concept of truth and why AI is a

Werner Herzog voice:

“I’ve seen movies, short films, completely created by artificial intelligence. Story, acting, everything. They look completely dead. They are stories, but they have no soul…They are empty and soulless.”

The Case Against Generative AI Soundtrack: Queens of the Stone Age - First It Giveth Before we go any further: This is, for the third time this year, the longest newsletter I've ever written, weighing in somewhere around 18,500 wo...

Newsletter: This is The Case Against Generative AI, a comprehensive analysis of a financial collapse built on myths I’ll dispel, the markets’ unhealthy obsession with NVIDIA's growth, and the fact that there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...

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The Free Speech Crisis for Black Americans Is Worse Than You Think Don’t let Jimmy Kimmel’s return fool you: Black academics are more frightened of talking to the press than I’ve ever seen.

Since Charlie Kirk’s assassination, HBCUs received terroristic threats. Black students have been expelled or forced to withdraw. Black professors and teachers have been fired and placed on leave. A Black firefighter was placed on leave. A Black journalist was fired

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I am just a humble flyover-country professor at a land-grant institution who holds to simple ways, but this strikes me as being a tad sketchy

"A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold."

— E.B. White