Matthew Garrett

“however beaten down we all are – beaten and broken, as they say in one number – we are also all free to move at will within the system, like rats or insects crawling around in a rich man’s castle, spoiling it forever”

Interior of street corner electrical box with high voltage warning and stickers that say Hartford Has It and FCK NZS.

Radioactive wasps

“If you track the numbers there are bad days and worse days but the daily killings at one of the only permitted food sources in Gaza are proceeding like this: 8, 13, 17, 25, 24, 80, 11, 44, 37, 31, 25, 26, 27.” — Selma Dabbagh, on the LRB Blog (18 Jul.)

The great gift of the Mekons, White Eagle Hall, Jersey City

One dead and 48 injured after Israeli soldiers open fire at Gaza food point Witnesses tell of bursts of gunfire and helicopter flares after Israel-backed logistics group lost control of Gaza site

“Aid that is used to mask ongoing violence is not aid, it is in fact humanitarian cover for a military strategy of control and dispossession.”

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

did you miss this 🔥 CT-State AAUP conference last month?

catch up with the videos of panels and keynotes from Hamilton Nolan, Bethany Letiecq, Rotua Lumbantobing, Russell Newman, Isaac Kamola, & Jason Wozniak!

ctsc-aaup.org/sp-2025-meet...

@aaup.bsky.social

Alex de Waal | Starvation in Gaza Twice already during this war, the people of Gaza have pulled back from the brink of categorical famine – both times...

“Gaza is an anomaly, a laboratory in which we will discover how much nutritional stress a population can withstand before succumbing en masse.”

www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ma...

Yesterday, the UN warned that 14,000 Palestinian babies in Gaza are at immediate risk of dying in the next 48 hours without desperately needed aid the Israeli government is blocking. 24 hours have passed with no action to end the suffocating siege on the people of Gaza.

Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the AAUP Redbook But Were Afraid to Ask Photo by AFT's Neal Thomassen The twelfth edition of the AAUP’s Policy Documents and Reports, a compendium of up-to-date versions of the Association policy documents deemed most useful to AAUP members...

The AAUP policy documents collected in the new edition of the Redbook are more important than ever at a time when higher education is under attack. Gregory F. Scholtz writes in Academe about the Redbook's history and purposes: www.aaup.org/article/ever...

Video of the woman being taken by ICE and the Worcester Police Dept helping them. From @billshaner.bsky.social

massachusettsians: call the gov & contact your assembly members, irate about the commonwealth's non-existent response to ICE.

here's what i wrote mine recently. do i think they'd do this? not really. does it matter? not really. overton window, etc.

malegislature.gov/Search/FindM...

“Dr. Hayden’s tenure has been marked by a steadfast commitment to accessibility, modernization, and the democratization of knowledge. Her dismissal is not just an affront to her historic service but a direct attack on the independence of one of our most revered institutions”—Rep. DeLauro

NYPD officers respond with force to protesters picketing around Columbia after arrests at Butler Library <i>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.</i>

“An NYPD officer punched a protester in the face across a barricade as the protester chanted.”

www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/05...

“In March, the Israeli government approved the creation of a special bureau to organize and promote the forced displacement of Palestinians from Gaza to other countries.”

“This is a time to act on principle, and it's a time to be brave.”

Zukunft kommt von selbst, Fortschritt nicht.

Thirty faculty groups, including seventeen AAUP chapters, organized to join an amicus brief urging a preliminary injunction against ideological deportations of students and scholars

Die rote Rosa nun auch verschwand.
Wo sie liegt, ist unbekannt.
Weil sie den Armen die Wahrheit gesagt
Haben die Reichen sie aus der Welt gejagt.

Semilla Cafe and Studio thrives after being at risk of shutting down last summer The black and locally owned business is known as "Hartford's living room."

www.fox61.com/article/news...

Excellent critique of cynical and nonsensical university investment policies.

wesleyanargus.com/2025/02/28/w...

Congratulations to you two! Is that Whitman’s butterfly on your sleeve?

Keep cool

Graffito in red spray paint J-O-U-S-S-I-A-N-C-E

Triumph of the signifier (courtesy of a friend)

The AAUP encourages chapters, conferences, unions, & faculty senates to:

1. Review handbooks & contracts to strengthen & reinforce faculty rights in the areas of curricular reform & course approval; academic program discontinuance; & faculty appointments, reappointments, promotions, & dismissals.

“ We shall honor him by trying to live up to his vision of the public university and his insistence that all academic workers should have greater control over the labor process and be paid a sustainable wage.”

academeblog.org/2025/02/06/r...

MLA People: Resignation Letter of Marxism Lit Society Forum Ex Comm

“Retreat is no defense against the political encroachment on university autonomy and more broadly civil society.”

Don’t be so sure this president was a model in handling student protests, as folks closer to the situation could explain.

Defend Trans Freedom ACLU's Supreme Court case will shape the future of transgender people's freedom to be ourselves – we need you with us. Take action.

Yeah, petitions. But sign it. action.aclu.org/petition/def...