Kendra Salois

A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

Here's your evening read! For Issue 15, Jeanelle K. Hope shows black feminists have always fought fascism, and what lessons we can take forward today from our last.

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Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike.

University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections.

NYU, it’s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

The VSU ‘Fired Six’ takes the Virginia State Capitol to demand their jobs back & for the General Assembly to pass full collective bargaining rights for all higher ed workers.

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He demanded that she send him nude pictures and bullied her into a relationship. This is called sexual harassment. It was not “an affair”. RESIGN NOW.

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version that’s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. We’re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: “The Gettysburg Address,” Macbeth, and Plato’s “Allegory of the Cave,” but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If you’re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of “The Red Wheelbarrow” in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing we’re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, we’ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that aren’t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitches—please include your name and contact info—to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

We’re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

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Grammarly Is Offering ‘Expert’ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authors—Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writers—without their permission.

Read the full piece (including much longer quotes from me) by the perpetually excellent @milesklee.bsky.social below!

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

We’re getting to work this weekend to knock on doors in Essex and Morris Counties, ESPECIALLY as vote-by-mail ballots start getting delivered to voters.

Sign up to canvass this weekend so we can fight for bold change in Congress! www.mobilize.us/analiliafornj/

Several rural states changed child labor laws beginning around 2021 so that they could force (Brown and Black) kids into jobs no one else would take.

Nebraska, just weeks ago, voted to cut minimum wage requirements for minors.

This party cares about child labor and exploitation, not children.

Noem’s luxury ‘deportation’ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noem’s DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

This plane joins the 70 million dollar luxury 737 you may have heard about — N471US — and the two Gulfstream 650s DHS also recently acquired — N472US and N473US — which you probably haven’t heard about unless you read my story here: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

They do not care to understand that the hundreds of millions of people in the Middle East—with their hundreds of millions of social networks, dreams, desires, & fears—have agency. Have whole cultures, centuries-long histories, shared traumas & joys that inform their decisions. That they're people.

Maryland man pardoned for Jan. 6 riots held without bond for Metro assault on women 28-year-old Bryan Betancur is accused of assault and battery on the metro for touching women’s hair. He has a documented history of stalking women.

I did a video interview about Bryan Betancur today at the courthouse!

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I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today.

You can call your Senators, too.

Find them here: reps.fyi

We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

We can’t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

That’s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldn’t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!

How can Congress pass a supplemental funding bill for a war it has not authorized?

Museum job!

Looks fascinating

Listening to the Past Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language March 19 – 20, 2026 | German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Workshop at the German Historical Institute Washingto...

Looking forward to co-presenting an invited talk with @sadiecouture.bsky.social at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC.

We'll discuss how we built - and more importantly have sustained - our Library of Congress academic/federal collaborative research project, now in its 12th year.

So the Texas Supreme Court just ruled to pause the ruling allowing people to vote in Dallas County. They knew they couldn't beat her so they decided to mess with the votes. This is a preview of what's going to happen in November. Buckle up. Everyone needs to vote early in November.

National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might ‘disparage’ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administration’s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics, Part I The question of whether or not we are living “in fascism” is, I’ve always thought, a kind of useless one, mostly because history does not go backwards: today there is not a “return” to fascism so much...

hello I am now a member of @flaminghydra.com and am kicking things off with a multi part series on fascist aesthetics and what their whole deal is flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

Former USAID employees mark one year since major agency cuts - Maryland Matters Marking a year since they were escorted from their offices, hundreds of former U.S. Agency for International Development workers and supporters gathered Friday at their old offices to decry the Trump ...

Marking a year since they were escorted from their offices, hundreds of former U.S. Agency for International Development workers and supporters gathered Friday at their old offices to decry the Trump administration’s dismantling of the agency.
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The act of dehumanization impacts not just the person on the other end but also the person who is practicing dehumanization

UMAW joins workers & organizations across the US in demanding an immediate end to the US-Israel war on Iran! Go out to the demonstrations happening across the country today, call your reps and demand that they support a resolution to end the war - take action however you can.

Screenshot of a 3hr old post from the GW Hatchet: “BREAKING: GW sold its Virginia campus to Amazon Data Services, an Amazon subsidiary that manages the company's data centers, for $427 million on Friday. The deed, obtained by The Hatchet, authorizes ADS to develop the campus into a data or information technology center. STORY TK”

GW‘s student newspaper appears to have broken the story that the institution has sold a satellite campus to Amazon to be turned into a data center, which is just about chef’s kiss for the state of American higher education rn

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