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My 7yo, noticing the new keychain she clipped to her fanny pack has a bell: “oh, if there’s a lockdown I will have to take this off.”

Renee Nicole Good, murdered by ICE, was a prize-winning poet. Here’s that poem. Renee Nicole Good, 37, mother to a six-year-old boy, was murdered earlier today by an ICE agent in Minneapolis, a few blocks from her home. According to the Minnesota Star Tribune: [An ICE agent] s…

“i want back my rocking chairs, / solipsist sunsets, / & coastal jungle sounds...”

A poem by Renee Nicole Good, who was murdered by ICE earlier today.

lithub.com/renee-nicole...

Distraught woman says ICE killed her wife in video after deadly Minneapolis shooting "They killed my wife," the distraught woman says, adding, "They shot her in the head." An ICE agent shot and killed a 37-year-old woman who was driving an SUV in Minneapolis on Wednesday. / Screenshot/@Breaking911

"They killed my wife. I don't know what to do," the woman says through sobs in the footage, with a damaged SUV visible in the distance behind her. "We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head," the woman cries. "We have a six-year-old at school," she says, almost unable to breathe, as a chaotic scene in which federal officers prevented at least one doctor who was on the scene from assisting the shot victim unfolds. "We're new here," the distraught woman says in despair.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.

This could be you.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during a press conference at the state Capitol in St. Paul

Tim Walz: “We've been warning for weeks that the Trump administration's dangerous, sensationalized operations are a threat to our public safety, that someone was going to get hurt — and today that recklessness cost someone their life”

Lollll I never knew how you did this before. I assumed witchcraft.

Highland Park Nazi Sighting and the Rise of Extremism in L.A. ~ L.A. TACO L.A.'s alt-right extremists are doubling down on their “WHITE MAN FIGHT BACK!" fliers, neo-Nazi tattoos, and white power band tees.

fuck these fucking fascists

lataco.com/highland-par...

Met Museum Workers Push to Unionize Staffers at the New York City institution have filed a petition for a union vote with the National Labor Relations Board.

Workers at The Met are trying to unionize, citing “long-term pay inequities, lack of job protection, and ever-increasing workloads.” If they succeed, their union would be one of the largest museum unions in the US.

A colorful illustration with speech bubbles containing motivational phrases about change. A black ribbon reads "THIS IS HOW CHANGE HAPPENS" amid a blue sky with clouds and stars. Quote attributed to Dan Berger.

"Our actions are working, and they are not enough.
Nothing we do is sufficient, and everything we do matters.
We must be strategic, and we must operate on multiple fronts simultaneously.
Time is of the essence, and we have to act for the long haul.
This is how change happens." Dan Berger

I *just* finished teaching my section on deviance in my intro course. We focus on underage/binge drinking in college as the example of "illegal vs deviant": non-drinkers as deviant (Kinney and Kinney 2013).

Will circle back today with your post. Slide #1.

Thanks

Social norms are unwritten rules backed by social sanctions. If child sexual abuse isn’t met with strong, collective consequences, we don’t have a social norm against it.

A few months ago I attended an @aupresses.bsky.social webinar on Ethics in AI, which was actually about publishers trying to use AI ethically. The more relevant question in my opinion is whether it is ethical to use AI in academic publishing at all.

Move over for AI - DRB Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...

GenAI from an author's perspective, FYI my academic publishing folks drb.ie/move-over-fo...

Just so glad to be on Pacific time, let me tell ya.

It has been years since I’ve watched a game but I’ve been glued to this series since I turned it on at the 14th inning of game 3!

It’s hard enough to get to the grocery store.

There’s a million cruelties in canceling SNAP in fucking November for THANKSGIVING, but thinking about all the parents who now have to find the time to wait in line for boxes of random food given out during random windows at random community centers and churches all over town… I want to scream.

45 yrs of US history, in 25 words:

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault Carlitos Ricardo Parias was charged Tuesday night with assault on a federal officer after the immigration operation in L.A. in which the suspect and a U.S. marshal were injured.

ICE agent wounds deputy U.S. marshal and TikTok streamer, who is charged with assault

U.S. marshal and undocumented immigrant shot during ICE stop in Los Angeles, officials say

Both the U.S. marshal and the immigrant were shot by federal officers. You’d never know that from this headline.

Large Language Muddle | The Editors The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the ...

YES! THIS on GenAI!

Please read this absolutely splendid piece of writing that had me cheering, a little bit weepy, and writing in the margins:

"An extraordinary amount of money is spent by the AI industry to ensure that acquiescence is the only plausible response. But marketing is not destiny."

If any other president in all of history said the military should use American cities as a training ground he would be removed from office that same day. The hardest thing to tolerate in all this is how relatively silent elected democrats are. It’s ridiculous.

I thought that after this Kimmel business I would finally be able to tell the Jimmies Kimmel and Fallon apart but alas, no.

A little bit of inside baseball:

Many art museums have reduced their comms/PR staffs to near-nil, 'replacing' them with outside and usually geographically distant PR firms.

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win (h/t @miriamposner.com)

www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I have often described myself as a narrative junkie!

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened befor...

Loyola Marymount just declared its faculty union doesn’t exist anymore.

Non-tenure track professors say the Catholic university walked away from bargaining talks using a religious exemption to avoid federal labor laws—something labor advocates say has never happened before.

Lots of bad things in the news today but LMU claiming a “religious exemption” and rescinding recognition of the faculty union is certain among them.

Is Jonathan Haidt right about smartphones? In ‘The Anxious Generation’, Haidt makes the case that social media and smartphones have ‘rewired’ today’s teenagers, but his critics say the evidence tells us something very different - and that bann...

Very good longread from the TES on the veracity (or otherwise) of Jonathan Haidt's claims that I think is of interest to anyone looking at populist framing and moral panics www.tes.com/magazine/tea...

Live webcam view of LA, which has clearly burned to the ground.