It was an honor to be in conversation with @reveleth.com and @johannamellis.bsky.social on this episode of @endofsportpod.bsky.social about transphobia in and beyond sports and the necessity for solidarity among so many linked struggles over gender, race, and disability. youtu.be/tJT9qDjQtiE?...

The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling

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The End of Sport@endofsportpod.bsky.social · 2w ago

The SCOTUS Anti-Trans Ruling @jessagoldberg.bsky.social and @reveleth.com join to unpack SCOTUS’s recent ruling on cis and trans people in sports. open.spotify.com/episode/4mJI...

Not to mention an accessibility crisis. Online teaching opens up so many possibilities for people; losing it means leaving disabled people in the dust again

Kate Jewell@katejewell.bsky.social · 4w ago

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

Here’s the thing: I could probably come up with lots of creative, AI-proof online approaches. But finding the time to reflect an innovate comes at a premium. I often revamp my courses, but this is an order of magnitude much higher in redesign. AI is not a pedagogical crisis, it’s a labor crisis.

Katie Mack@astrokatie.com · 4w ago

It’s such a bummer. Online/asynchronous/virtual teaching can be incredibly valuable and with a little extra structure can be an amazing and scalable resource but now AI has rendered the whole enterprise impossible.

The trans people in girls' & women's sports case is horrific in too many ways to fully account for, for me, right now. But just to say, in the big picture it is part of an effort to legislate trans people out of existence. "Fairness in sports" is a BS distraction from the intended extermination.

Birthright Citizenship was perhaps the most straightforward legal question to come across the SCOTUS this century so the fact that it wasn't 9-0 is hella scary but at least it was the right decision.

There is no grieving great enough for Kohen Wiley. To wish Kohen's family peace or condolences is so insufficient I can't fathom it. May Kohen's memory be a blessing to his family. Abolish the police. There is no reforming this. Abolition now.

C19 American Lit friends: What are a couple of great go-to readings on Mark Twain's evolving political views from the pro-slavery and racist southern sympathizing he grew up in and retained for decades to his more fully-fleshed out left/progressivism towards the end of his career?

Hello from Albuquerque Pride.

Good morning. I want to try to use summer to post more on here, perhaps professionally about what I am trying to write. But, priorities: Israel and the US are still committing genocide in Palestine. And also waging imperialist was in Lebanon and Iran. These imperial powers need to end.

Indistinguishable from 1870s Redeemer rhetoric about "Negro misrule" and the like.

Ashton Pittman@ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 3mo ago

NEW: U.S. House Rep. Bennie Thompson's "reign of terror" in Mississippi "is over," Gov. Tate Reeves says, urging the ousting of the state's only Black member of Congress through redistricting before the end of 2027. He made that pronouncement even as he canceled a special session on redistricting.

Eight years after completing my PhD, I got a tenure & promotion letter today. Now Associate Professor of English and Director of Gender & Women's Studies at New Mexico Highlands University. I want to do some research to see if there have been any trans faculty given tenure here before me. 🤔

What a wonderful graduation weekend at NMHU 💜 The class of 2026 is significant for me because it marks my fourth year at Highlands, making this kind of my "senior year" in relation to first-year students who began the same semester as me.

“Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.” @c19americanists.bsky.social @aaup.org

Chris Hanlon@chrishanlon.bsky.social · 3mo ago

I’ve got some thoughts in today’s Chronicle. www.chronicle.com/article/dont... (Sans paywall:) archive.ph/Blzzk

Something I haven’t seen mentioned is that more than TSA work at airports! Janitors, food service, retail, etc. I have no faith that security clearance to work at an airport will keep those people safe from ICE, especially brown and Black people with accents.

Erin Biba@erinbiba.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Stunned by all the “ICE isn’t gonna do anything more than what TSA already does” rhetoric. Untrained white supremacists who’ve been told by bosses they’re not subject to laws will have POC and women lined up in front of them to grope and abuse and they don’t even have to chase them.

if you're travelling and you are a documented citizen (esp if you're white/white-passing), you need to speak up & interrupt any racial profiling you witness. We are absolutely defeated if we allow ICE agents to harass people in the broad light of crowded airports. Don't be a good deputy citizen.

Politico@politico.com · 5mo ago

Tom Homan confirms ICE to be at airports starting Monday

Taught Loretta Ross's formative essay "The Color of Choice" in Feminist Theory this week. And it feels a type of way to return to it post-Dobbs, as the US is starving people to death in Cuba, facilitating a genocide in Palestine, waging war on Iran, helping Israel to murderously steal Lebanon's land

Do not let the Western media manufacture consent. Hold the anti-imperialist line. You can be against the oppression of Iranian people by their own regime and not use that as excuse to support a US & Israeli act of aggression. Western bombs do not bring freedom or liberation to the SWANA region.

This has always been ICE and in truth policing for Black, Indigenous, and Latiné folks. It’s just happening at a scale where many more people are exposed to it.

Matthew Stiegler@matthewstiegler.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I do think we’ve got a responsibility to really sit with the truth that some Trump administration things we’re horrified by were Obama administration things too, and we just didn’t listen.

This is a type of ICE "ruse," and is a tactic the agency has deployed for decades. In 2015, ICE went to my former client's house posing as cops and convinced his 16-year-old US citizen niece to call him home from work with a fake story (the "identity theft ruse" explained below), then arrested him.

Prem Thakker ツ@premthakker.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Columbia President with NEW details: 5 DHS agents entered a residency with no warrant. They said they were police looking for a missing kid. Security camera even captures them showing pictures of the "kid." A campus officer asked for a warrant & their boss. They ignored him & took the student.

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

so about the relationship between the state and capital

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Moderna’s CEO announced the company will no longer invest in new Phase 3 vaccine trials for infectious diseases: ‘You cannot make a return on investment if you don’t have access to the U.S. market.’ Vaccines for Epstein-Barr virus, herpes, and shingles have been shelved.”

Don't let the liberals squash this moment like they have every recent anti-carceral movement by turning "Abolish ICE" into "Defund ICE" into "ICE needs better training" resulting in rehabilitation PR and ultimately increased funding for "reforms." It's "Abolish ICE" loud and clear, no qualifiers.

Federal immigration agents forced open a door and detained a U.S. citizen in his Minnesota home at gunpoint without a warrant, then led him out onto the streets in his underwear in subfreezing conditions, according to his family and videos reviewed by The Associated Press.

US citizen says ICE removed him from his Minnesota home in his underwear after warrantless search

Federal immigration agents have detained a U.S. citizen in Minnesota at gunpoint without a warrant. That's according to ChongLy “Scott” Thao, who says agents forced open his door, entered with guns drawn and led him outside in his underwear in freezing conditions.

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I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Taught my first week of classes and just submitted my tenure dossier. I would now like to sleep for 12 hours.

It's not lost on me that an intended side effect of doing this is putting children of color behind in their educations.

Norm Charlatan@normcharlatan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Apparently ICE goons in multi-car caravans are circling Spanish immersion preschools in the city taunting and photographing the parents and neighbors who are patrolling the school perimeter to keep kids safe.

I know people on Bsky know this but I hope it filters out: The feds are OCCUPYING the Twin Cities. This is a blockade, a siege. They are shutting down economic and civic activity. They are conducting "papers please" stops. They are criminalizing being a bystander/witness. You could be next.

🌲 Evergreen reminder that some organizing conversations are best had in-person, and definitely not on social media, especially Facebook, and especially discussions of specific tactics 💕