Jack A. “Deceptively Blank” Raslich

and that, my fellow academics, is one reason not to hire war criminals: so they can't show up years post (their) war arguing in favor of the scaffolding behind their own atrocities with the imprimatur and status of your university

German soccer team cancels Minnesota visit due to ICE crackdown Bundesliga side Werder Bremen were planning to visit in May, though no matches were scheduled.

This is what needs to happen.

Cancel the World Cup.

Cancel the Olympics.

Cancel your US vacations.

Refuse to support this regime and refuse to endanger lives.

After one of the biggest bag fumbles in history where they underestimated the commercial potential of an animated film inspired by Asian culture, Sony proves they learned absolutely nothing and doubles down by scrapping the next film all together.

‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals

In case you missed it this ⬇️ It is still going on. Weirdly in a era where people are asking if a machine can be a person whilst simultaneously treating people like machines. Having to ask questions about both.

It's weird times guys.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

just saw Iron Lung and I can't help but notice a consistent trend within Millennial art where the core thematic take away is 'Well, we might be doomed to die in miserable failure, but at least we can help those who come after', which probably means nothing

1. It was not an accident.
2. It was not a staffer.
3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia.
4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares.
5. His base agrees with him.
6. He will do it again.
7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

"more and more of our leftist co-strugglers are recognizing that what people are doing...is much more important than how they talk about it."

"political transformation is much more likely to occur in the process of waging struggle than in the process of arguing about it"

I'm seeing so many clueless settlers now think that Billie Eilish invented the phrase "No one is illegal on stolen land" when Indigenous people have been saying that for decades in defense of our migrant relatives.

I will never forgive the GOP for opening up the Pandora's Box that was the Trump Presidency and I'll never forgive the DNC for not treating it seriously or doing a fucking useful thing to prevent all of this shit or to effectively stop it.

Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior Native women, children, and even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the Canada-US border on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Duluth, Minnesota.

Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior #MMIW #MMIP
Plz listen to Native Voices

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Exactly this. People keep saying "well, scientists need to raise money". But almost all the academics who connected with Epstein were "entrepreneurs", creating carve-out institutes and projects and chasing big speaking engagements, who wanted to float above universities as institutions.

this al guy has co-authored so many academic papers i see his name everywhere

My hot take about the “students cannot read whole novels / watch whole films / etc.” is that they can learn to do it. None of us are born with attention spans suited for long media. It is a learned skill and can be developed with practice.

Kansas bills creating bounties to go after trans people in bathrooms, Texas bills creating bounties to go after people using and transporting abortion pills—the desired outcome is clear: harassment and surveillance curtailing the movement and bodily autonomy of women and LGBTQ people everywhere.

Toni Morrison said something that I'm paraphrasing here:

"You can't forgive yourself for doing something terrible without shame. Skipping responsibility and using a substitute emotion like guilt is virtually useless. You must go through the fire to come out on the other side." #blacksky

STATEMENT REGARDING DETENTION OF STANDING ROCK SIOUX TRIBE MEMBER IN MINNESOTA JANUARY 24, 2026 I was notified today, January 24, 2026, that a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe member has been detained by the U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the state of Minnesota. Tribal leadership is actively working to locate the individual, gather accurate information, and coordinate with the appropriate authorities to secure their release. At this time, details surrounding the detention remain limited. I urge the public to refrain from spreading unverified information while this matter is being reviewed. Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will continue to advocate for the protection of our citizen's rights and will provide updates as appropriate.

ICE has kidnapped another Indigenous person in Minneapolis. This is the fifth member of the Očhéthi Šakówinnto be taken this month.

Statement from Standing Rock:

The 5-year-old arrested by ICE In Minnesota is detained at Dilley. We reported on conditions there in the below article.

Parents said the food was contaminated with mold and worms & that children were so under so much stress that they were hitting their own faces & wetting themselves.

Unclear to me if this fucking five year old kid getting kidnapped is breaking through outside of the Twin Cities and I don’t want to speak for anyone else but this has really steeled my resolve. This shit cannot be allowed to stand.

A cartoon from the mid-1960s. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. talks with a reporter, surrounded by the aftermath and detritus of a riot saying "I plan to have another non-violent march tomorrow."

This is what they said about him then. This is what they say about us now. This is who they always have been.

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO

this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Last night, The Minneapolis Federation of Educators Local 59 signed on to the call for a Jan 23 shutdown. That brings total labor support to: the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 1005, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, CWA Local 7250, St. Paul Federation of Educators Local 28, and the MFE 59

Just another morning in the Twin Cities, keeping my eyes on the preschool parent signal chat to make sure none of my child’s classmates, their parents, or their teachers were kidnapped by the federal government in front of the school.

The Gilded Age was beating once, it can be beaten again, but it must be clear that it won't be beaten by polite letters and expecting the fascist billionare and their feudalistic fantasies to relent.

if they can do that to a white woman driving away, just *imagine* what they've been doing to innocent refugees and immigrants in their camps.

we need to abolish ICE, now. we're already at the extermination stage.

This is the "testing the waters" phase of the playbook. The GOP ecosystem targets groups like Somalis, Haitians, and trans people specifically because they've calculated that the average person's passive disapproval won't ever turn into active defense. They're exploiting public apathy.

Carney promises 2026 will see huge economic growth that will absolutely not include you OTTAWA - Prime Minister Mark Carney has vowed that 2026 will see huge economic growth for Canada's GDP, manufacturing, and exports, none of which will redound to you in the slightest.

Carney promises 2026 will see huge economic growth that will absolutely not include you

In China, A.I. Is Finding Deadly Tumors That Doctors Might Miss

This article about AI being used to detect pancreatic cancers includes a quote from a physician saying: "I think you can 100 percent say A.I. saved their lives".

However, this is unsupported by the data in the article.

It's really incumbent on journalists to vet these claims.