Michael Tristano Jr.

Tenure has never been a measure of merit, it is a carceral logic used to discipline and control.

Sending lots of solidarity your way.

How and why police actually support the federal invasions—I have been working on this article for ~6 months, trying to make sense of Trump’s nationwide surge of DHS officers, how it has evolved, what brought us here, and what will remain after it ends.

Yes yes yes this thread! I and I DO think it’s our jobs to give them the language to articulate against the surveillance state, neoliberalism, nationalism, etc. How to communicate about mundane and insidious forms of power that goes beyond “racism is bad.”

I don't think it is only our job to teach students how to read long novels; it may also be our jobs to teach them how to live without an online surveillance state. To learn without intrusive apps. To swap notes. To write in a book's margins. To exist in their communities in slow, clunky, human ways.

I don’t really know what I expect in posting this, but maybe some people see it and can learn from it.

I’ll call it “lessons from an unwilling immigration attorney.”

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Thousands of academics and campus administrators across the country are hard at work trying to discover a new type of Academic Freedom that can protect visits to pedophile island, but not criticism of Israel.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

Oh so according to Variety, now he *doesn’t* like violent threats and stalking behavior. Got it got it got it.

Mmm love a good unexpected barrier to medicine on a Thursday.

Another reminder of how bleak it all is rn.

What a useful resource for organizing.

ICE thanks you for your cooperation, flyer on utility pole with photo of an Amazon ring camera and information about how Amazon partners with ICE to share all data on those cameras

We already knew those Amazon ring cameras (and all the other versions of home surveillance cameras) were evil, but now we know they are even more evil... Abolish ICE, abolish Amazon, abolish surveillance, abolition now. 💥

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

I love that all flavors of political left are doing Ice Watch. Including “wine moms”. But I don’t like being scolded for wanting everyone to use good op sec, or operational security. Here are some pointers in case they’re useful: 1) don’t livestream when you’re patrolling or observing.

If you were like me today, not much got done and spirits were low swimming the dark cold ocean of existential dread. And if you were like me, it’s ok. You did your best. Try again tomorrow.

People marching through a downtown street

Another shot of the march, a sign reading “fuck ice” on a yellow saltbox is visible

*At least* a thousand people, probably more, out in the streets today protesting against the ICE detention center in downtown Baltimore

It’s abolish ice which means abolish the police which means free Palestine.

Did like 50+ circles of the action today and terrorizes citizens all over the city.

Baltimore if you’re interested in what your tax dollars are up today that isn’t the removal of a foot of ice from our fucking sidewalks and bike paths, it’s Foxtrot flying low right circles over a bunch of people exercising our constitutional rights.

It’s so embarrassing to have to admit I graduated from the same uni in the same year as Colton Underwood.

Get this stalker off my television.

I am telling you right now that all my classes this term are teaching students multiple ways a) to understand the contemporary nexus of fascist power (e.g. white supremacy, anti-Blackness, xenophobia, transphobia) and b) to get organized.

I sincerely feel it is the only ethical choice.

YouTube video by The Real News Network From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode

From Minneapolis to Baltimore, anti-ICE protests explode

New report from me

@therealnews.com @baltimorebeat.bsky.social

youtu.be/l2OEbJVut1A

It’s almost like refusing to name white nationalism in schools forever has absolutely gotten us to this point. Because that’s how power works.

Donate to Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE, organized by Jac Kovarik I have been involved in rapid response in the Twin Cities area since the b… Jac Kovarik needs your support for Help Equip Twin Cities Legal Observers with PPE

You know me I don't share fundraisers unless I can tell you I trust them with my whole heart and my own wallet. This one gets protective gear to legal observers in Minneapolis / Saint Paul

www.gofundme.com/f/help-equip...

Read this whole thread. This is what we all need to be doing.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

The vet 2 times in a week ✅✅💰🤠

Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. That is not a fringe claim but the settled judgment of the international human rights community.

What Gavin Newsom is rejecting here is an established fact, in the same category as Trump’s refusal to accept the 2020 election results.

big things happening

Who is writing about the Black queer sounds of Danny Brown? I want to read anyone thinking critically about it. Specifically about Stardust.

**MichaelA Frischherz—guess what I do this all the time in emails too smdh. Apologies!

1000 Cuts: A Performance Studies Curriculum A video of a perfomrance originally made for a silent noise festival

A little bright spot from the past weeks is that the project @drclaw1.bsky.social and I have been working on for a while has finally been published (film and artist statement!) in Liminalities. With a lovey response by our comrade Michael Frischherz. Open access:

liminalities.net/21-5/1000-cu...