2026-03-19T00:33:31Z https://yabu.me tools for commensality 🧿 https://yabu.me/npub1aq0h7hhfhwjfr5ynh73yrhpwts4fz5es7vkytd32m8vuhacnddhsanmq9f https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/accounts/avatars/113/150/365/150/289/175/original/882a02fe10b325b3.jpg https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/accounts/avatars/113/150/365/150/289/175/original/882a02fe10b325b3.jpg https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswfq5ryh4j3tz8awvvyh3vkntvxswwje9nd903phva8ehtdvp2ttgzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7g97kpk This is a pretty good summary of US higher ed for the past ~year and a half. It may thrill and embolden the current federal administration, but they can&#39;t take credit for it--their predecessors and university leaderships beat them to it<br/><br/>(via a colleague across town, Miriam Posner, on bsky)<br/><br/>#uspol #HigherEd #UCLA #academia #PolicingTheCampus<br/> <img src="https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/115/351/887/218/965/163/original/290be1f62cdbe7b6.jpg"> <br/> 2025-10-10T21:03:08Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9kcgxzhpksc6aedpnsuv4xaashdqxhs66dfslcltn8pkz7w9tn6qzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7masawa &#34;articulable facts&#34;:<br/><br/>&#34;Asked why agents arrested the man they’d run after, Bovino would not specify anything except that the man didn’t resemble the white reporter.<br/><br/>“He exhibited articulable facts that made us take a look, and then we took a look and our suspicions were proven true. It does appear right now he’s an illegal alien,” Bovino said.&#34;<br/><a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river">https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/09/28/ice-agents-spotted-downtown-on-michigan-avenue-along-chicago-river</a><br/><br/>#ICE #uspol #chicago #ArticulableFacts 2025-09-29T03:32:45Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgnwaujnnlywch2upg5kz9jgz99flxhzcdcj58hmjf33yqdmm957szyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7jg6a9a Kimmel&#39;s back, now do the fired regular people including journalists and professors<br/><br/>#uspol 2025-09-22T21:25:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs9knqnm6ugrk434mrgufstw58zuna63vgqdx9pjl7zkk2pnupddnszyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7a9kzra Local media in #Chicago on what happened in an #ICE raid where ICE killed someone they were pursuing<br/><a href="https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/">https://unraveledpress.com/what-happened-to-silverio-villegas-gonzalez/</a><br/><br/>#uspol #SilverioVillegasGonzalez 2025-09-14T18:22:50Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsrg02qsf6pf3c4evzzpe5vp9hfk2f0u255vef8z66zylyjm7ccu4czyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7926xjt Good. &#34;Two-year attempt to prosecute opponents of police training center on criminal conspiracy charges ends in failure&#34;<br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/13/cop-city-case-georgia-prosecutors</a><br/><br/>#StopCopCity #RICO #uspol #policing 2025-09-13T22:35:00Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstw9qps9zvcffthngux9jrgavk6rxul5aqdgptyagayfqfg3lvpqqzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7keeas7 I&#39;m following this stuff relatively closely and even I almost missed the distinction here. Go Harvard AAUP &amp; National #AAUP ! 👀<br/><a href="https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/5/harvard-lawsuit-trump-aaup/">https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2025/9/5/harvard-lawsuit-trump-aaup/</a> <br/><br/>#uspol #academia #HigherEd 2025-09-06T21:05:11Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqswfd3tnkwpujcpxeper5e0e5l245fn7n4mqeq2nt7a5cxhapuj8qgzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k742xvqj I&#39;m reviewing another file for academic promotion and honestly... reading it makes me so tired. It&#39;s great work, politically urgent, both smart and wise... but... like... I am just tired. Some of us really work ourselves to death 2025-08-28T23:03:28Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqs973f9kvcwccr4tuesp2s0kdxzcx2nctwgs5yvcnasg4kwp024zeszyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7y8mtnd In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqsq6rx75uj49zcjd6cwhjz7tkw9zch57ql7qw3p4gssfntzssnd00sax3xnd'>nevent1q…3xnd</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>I&#39;m literally convinced that some people listening to wildfire scanner traffic in 2020 became convinced that BLM meant Black Lives Matter and not Bureau of Land Management and the tear in their discursive world never was mended 2025-08-28T03:36:20Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsqyz0fwd798xxvsumxsj6l5e8gsqtqym8vt2356sehpr972dknreqzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k70chskn This is great<br/><a href="https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115046063095138408">https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/115046063095138408</a><br/><br/>For background on the (pre-sandwich) image, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_Man">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov_Man</a><br/><br/>There&#39;s an essay I used to teach about Molotov Man&#39;s image circulating, but it&#39;s not online. I have a PDF if anyone wants it<br/><a href="https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/on-the-rights-of-molotov-man/">https://harpers.org/archive/2007/02/on-the-rights-of-molotov-man/</a><br/><br/>#SandwichHero #MolotovMan #SandwichMan 2025-08-17T21:18:46Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqstsr329z3d5d29xl5ds04v6lxar4t734pmayry4ck58qgkypamx4czyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7aan44j (You&#39;ll not often find me sharing Cato Institute blogs but) data now shows what was self-evidently true: &#34;how frequently Latino immigrants are arrested off the streets without any recent prior contact with law enforcement&#34;, i.e. much ICE activity is just profiling, and that&#39;s it<br/><br/><a href="https://www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice-arrests-are-latinos-streets-no-criminal-past-or-removal-order">https://www.cato.org/blog/1/5-ice-arrests-are-latinos-streets-no-criminal-past-or-removal-order</a><br/><br/>#ICE #immigration #uspol 2025-08-05T23:17:18Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsf73f7puy6kh4wnt9tnrgzc62ghsdh3a22cm7tdes2ze8526vf83szyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7en4h94 We don&#39;t need a Joe Rogan of the left (🙃) but we do need a media &amp; information system that isn&#39;t entirely captured by rightwing propagandists:<br/><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/nancy-mace-ice-videos">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/28/nancy-mace-ice-videos</a> 2025-07-28T21:14:40Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsg45jpr4z2fg9kf2yn4ak8vcxhsah037v62v2m6h8l7ykq7pkansgzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k756k7tw In reply to <a href='/nevent1qqs9vztm49phmgfyhxfmxn87nljh7r5ddaru8dpn8cfez0pmf3juxvgylsc2v'>nevent1q…sc2v</a><br/>_________________________<br/><br/>#Bloomscrolling 3/3<br/> <img src="https://cdn.hosted.spacebear.ee/sb-ab9b494dccbef43e454fccf9f07caa75/media_attachments/files/114/791/189/303/807/974/original/c1267e262db9110d.jpeg"> <br/> 2025-07-03T20:29:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsy0lkwd5wmjq2ez3q9pd2fga79mtlweqsv6twdeqkj0lp8ceve4fqzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k7lvcxsw Another thing to note in the &#34;why aren&#39;t USian&#39;s protesting&#34; discourse: <br/><br/>This is the geography for a lot of the country. (Even so, people *are* showing up!) <br/><br/>#TeslaTakedown<br/> <img src="https://sb-assemblagees.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/114/094/357/934/383/527/original/29279f4d9588a651.png"> <br/> 2025-03-02T18:57:49Z https://yabu.me/nevent1qqsgfrqndp3ctaaej9x54keu5h2g24fcatk33lkjsmv8t7e0tlx6u3gzyr5p7l67axa6fywsjwl6yswu9ewz4y2nxrejc3dk9tvanjlhzd4k723teh4 Would anyone want to read a trade book where I expound on and largely condemn (at length) a series of everyday technologies, including the truck, and the lawn? <br/><br/>Btwn the state of the world, state of my workplace, and career stage, very much entering my &#34;fuck it all to hell&#34; period 2024-10-02T18:40:01Z