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RIP Jesse Jackson. He demanded the right to inspect the Krome detention facility in Miami after it became apparent Krome was a glorified concentration camp created by Ronald Reagan for Afro Latinos and Black Haitian refugees who fled to the USA after the Mariel Boatlift.

Krome still operates today.

Epstein Family Values • EQUATOR The billionaire patriarchs of the American far-right want to rule an economy of masters and servants

"The Epstein household may have reached extremes of sadism, but its political economy is becoming less exceptional by the day."

Important analysis by Prof. Melinda Cooper in @equatormag.bsky.social

www.equator.org/articles/eps...

Or join your grad union. That’s all the institutional literacy training an aspiring academic needs.

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.

I enjoy reading about W.E.B. Du Bois's teaching. Here's a short thread about it.

When you get the flu, try to run anyway, then have to completely shut down for a week because you’re an idiot. #Running

I need folks to understand this. The idea that local police forces will intervene at scale against ICE is a utopian fantasy totally disconnected from how policing has always worked

Noticing that articles on AI are increasingly prefaced by a methodical listing of harms much like commentaries on state violence at the height of BLM recited names of people killed by police.

At what point does rhetoric move from abstraction to the naming of actual human beings killed by this mess?

Absolutely.

My experience has been that students desperately want critique. I had students discuss Moser’s “AI Hater” piece this term and was taken aback, not only by how intuitively they could articulate the concerns, but also by their lament at the absence of institutional space to actually study this stuff.

Flock is from Atlanta. Fusus is from Atlanta. Cop City is in Atlanta--so much of the surveillance and policing around the country comes from here. That's exactly why we need strong independent journalism on the ground sounding the alarm. Please give if you can to @atlpresscollective.com.

Hard to overstate how important ACPC is and has been, and not only to the people of Atlanta.

This is the most economically unequal big city in America. Most surveilled. Tip of the spear for so many ‘innovations’ driving the fascist project today. We can’t afford to lose this journalism.

yall, Atlanta Community Press Collective is running out of $.

we’ve sued for public records when no one else would. we covered Cop City from the ground for years. we train and pay local freelancers. we publish work other outlets wouldn’t touch. if this reporting means anything to you, PLEASE donate

These allegedly suddenly concerned workers sold their souls long ago, but part of me is intrigued by the prospect of a salting campaign to bring this bitch down from the inside.

Read this fantastic roundtable that @andyhines.bsky.social put together featuring faves Vineeta Singh, Annie McClanahan, Dan Nemser, and Rana Jaleel. The possibility of the university lives!

Ebo Taylor, Ghanaian highlife pioneer and guitarist, dies age 90 Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history

Ebo Taylor, who did for Ghanaian music what his friend Fela Kuti did for Nigeria, has been called the greatest rhythm guitarist in history.

His son Kweku Taylor:
“The world has lost a giant, a colossus of African music, leaving behind an unmatched artistry legacy. Dad, your light will never fade.”

"On February 9, 1976, Martin Sostre left prison for the last time. When he returned to New York City, he was almost fifty-three years old and had spent most of his adult life inside." (1/2)

-Excerpted from A Continuous Struggle: The Revolutionary Life of Martin Sostre by Garrett Felber (2025)

Trump is fuelling a humanitarian crisis in Cuba, with an oil blockade that is leading to devastating power outages and rationing. This administration is determined to dominate the hemisphere with brute force and naked impunity.

Dear Ms. Wolfe, Petitioner-Appellee Rümeysa Öztürk submits this Rule 28(j) letter to advise the Court that on January 29, 2026, the immigration court held that the Department of Homeland Security had not met its burden of proving removability, and the immigration court thereby terminated removal proceedings against Ms. Öztürk.' This development underscores the dangers of the government's interpretation of the Immigration and Nationality Act. Under the government's view, it could punitively detain any noncitizen in retaliation for her speech for many months, so long as it simultaneously institutes removal proceedings—no matter how unmeritorious—all without any federal court review of the lawfulness of detention at any time. To be clear, the termination of Ms. Öztürk's removal proceedings does not moot her habeas case. (By contrast, as Ms. Öztürk has argued, this appeal is moot. Br. 18-20.) Without habeas jurisdiction and the bail order that is currently in place, any government appeal to the Board of Immigration Appeals would again subject Ms. Öztürk to re-detention. See 8 C.F.R. § 1003.6(a). For that reason, she continues to suffer the threat of continuing "now-or-never" First and Fifth Amendment harms. Br. in Opp. 55-57.

NEW: An immigration court has terminated removal proceedings against Tufts doctoral student Rümeysa Öztürk, finding that DHS did not meet its burden of establishing that she was removable, her lawyers tell the Second Circuit. live-awp-vermont.pantheonsite.io/app/uploads/...

W.E.B. Du Bois holding a North African suit of armor, Harkness Hall, Atlanta University, 1935.

Oh, please make time to write that up! It's just so tortuously disheartening to see organized labor, perhaps our last best hope, caught up in these capitulation schemes.

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

How Bankruptcy Prioritizes Property Rights Over Public Good After a recent First Circuit decision, private creditors' bankruptcy rights pose an existential threat to the only electric utility in Puerto Rico. As this outcome shows, we need a new approach to…

If you were confused by the part of Bad Bunny’s halftime show where dancers re-enacted Puerto Rico’s economic struggles under PROMESA’s bankruptcy process, here’s a breakdown of what that moment was all about:

lpeproject.org/blog/how-ban...

And abolish the underlying corporate legal architecture that gives trustees ownership of the university as property.

Within three years, the college would find itself unable to refinance its staggering debt load, scrambling to meet its obligations and ultimately appealing to Gov. Gavin Newsom for a $20 million taxpayer-funded bailout. Months after receiving the state funds, CCA, the last remaining nonprofit art and design school in Northern California, announced it would close in 2027 and sell its campus to Tennessee's Vanderbilt University. CCA students who aren't graduating by then will likely have to find new schools in other cities. All of CCA's 530 faculty and staff will lose their jobs, though Vanderbilt could rehire some. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, though the university is likely to have assumed some or all of CCA's outstanding loans.

It was not just a story of bad timing. Since the late 1990s, the college's growth in San Francisco had increasingly overlapped with the personal financial interests of several trustees, some of whom owned property in Potrero Hill and entered into real estate deals with the school, blurring the line between fiduciary stewardship and private gain. And when the school's growth strategy ultimately failed, its leadership - backed by a politically connected board - got help from Newsom.

“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ

Would be interesting to compare the results on more recent models - but this problem won’t go away. LLMs are always going to be extrapolating from what has already, and often, been thought, which is why they aren’t windows to the future but anchors to the past.

When your kids have the flu and you move up your long run to beat what’s likely coming your way. #Running

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

This is the move that will ensure that synthetic images will overtake authentic human-captured photographs on the internet. We are about to see a wide-scale AI slop rendition of reality. When the evidentiary is destroyed, so is trust.

Amazing! Wonderful to hear.