Just letting you know that Women’s Baseball is back on tonight and you can watch it free on YouTube with a VPN. The pitchers bat, everyone plays multiple positions, there’s no statcast, everyone including the umps and announcers is a girl. there are no ads. It’s punk and it rules
ICE has now spent over $2.2 BILLION on purchasing 4 private prisons from CoreCivic, with the company banking half a billion dollars on the most recent sale. Of course, ICE will not actually operate these facilities; CoreCivic keeps the contracts to run these places for the foreseeable future.
Good news: if you work at a university your endowment (the health of which secures your job and pension among other things) is likely invested in this corporation. So let’s hope this contract keeps getting extended! concentration camps have great ROI
Project Salt Box@projectsaltbox.com · yesterday🚨ICE has awarded CoreCivic $536.2 million to operate the Prairie Correction Facility in Appleton, Minnesota as an immigration jail. The period of performance begins August 11.
Here’s the YouTube stream of the game happening now www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7kS...
WPBL: Los Angeles Queens at New York Heights
YouTube video by Women's Pro Baseball League
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Women’s pro baseball is about to start, better turn it on if you want to see a bunch of dames hitting dingers
The US dropped a 2,000 pound bomb on a family’s house in Iran, killing a husband, wife, and their two-year-old child. The two other children were pulled out of the rubble alive. One of the largest bombs in the US arsenal dropped on a home for absolutely no reason.
Evidence Indicates U.S. Dropped Bomb on Residential Area in Iran, Killing 3 Civilians (Gift Article)
The weapon, one of the largest in the U.S.’s arsenal, struck a house in a heavily populated area, according to a Times analysis.
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My genuinely brilliant colleague in Southeast Asian studies, Dr. Erik Davis at Macalester College in St Paul, faces a federal indictment and a possible six-year prison sentence, for having "ties" to "antifa" (i.e. for organizing anti-ICE protests). www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
The professor facing prison in ‘antifa’ case: ‘They want to scare all who oppose ICE’
Erik Davis is accused by the government of a ‘conspiracy’ to obstruct ICE – experts say it’s part of a pattern to criminalize lawful organizing and ruin activists’ lives
theguardian.com
A beautiful and excellent conversation between Ta-Nehisi Coates and the Makdisi brothers on how Palestine remains the most glaring hole in American liberalism.
"Palestinians are wholly excluded from the room" w/ Ta-Nehisi Coates
YouTube video by Makdisi Street
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Relieved that one of my Capital vol. 1 reading group meetings got canceled because it’ll give me time to read for the other Capital vol. 1 reading group I’m in
the fact that you can have a creative career without having to kiss too much ass is one of the few remaining reasons academia is genuinely cool
Micah@rincewind.run · last wk.I haven't had a chance to see the movie yet so I don't have an opinion on the review itself but I actually think it kinda rules that the classics professor didn't like the movie that launched her translation into the stratosphere
On various administrative shenanigans at UMass - including, sadly, my own department: electronicintifada.net/content/mcca...
McCarthyism in Massachusetts
Historian of Iranian descent sues university over politically motivated "firing."
electronicintifada.net
Yes, the Problems are bad, but this is no time for radical things like Solutions
My new book is on the horizon! It's about learning to desire the end of the world that liberal idealism has built, which I think is particularly hard for academics and maybe musicologists most of all
Wesleyan University Press@weslpress.bsky.social · 2w ago#musicology #newbook @mariannaritchey.bsky.social
trump has also debanked Italian citizen Francesca Alabanese for her work at the UN to condemn Israel’s genocide of Palestinians. she is on an international blacklist created for terrorists and it is also illegal for anyone to bank for her — she must live entirely economically isolated and on cash
The complicated life of Francesca Albanese: A rising figure in Italy but barred from every bank by Trump’s sanctions
The UN special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories has become a leading voice in her country, but she is on a US blacklist as if she were a terrorist and can only use cash
english.elpais.com
Haven’t been paying a single shred of attention to the World Cup, so my impression based on social media is: a famous player washed a baby in a small tub and there’s a picture of it, the muppets are involved somehow, and all the English players died or perhaps were killed
this is not a complaint but it's fascinating to have watched horror evolve from serial killer doll and machete hockey zombie into "having a girlfriend" and "being in a room"
the american youth that had the balls to stand up to their universities, their mayors, their governors, and our presidents did this
Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3w agoWow www.nytimes.com/2026/07/15/u...
These images of First Nations community members evacuating Collins, Ontario on motorboats are absolutely surreal www.facebook.com/reel/1548244...
Luke LeBrun@lukelebrun.ca · 3w agoThese photos of FNs community members fleeing their homes by boat are genuinely apocalyptic (Photo via Wayne Wastaken of Collins, Ontario, who says his “hometown is gone”) www.facebook.com/share/r/1ArN...
went to harvest my garlic under the heavy yellow fog of Canada burning far to the north. Bleakly holding up a tiny failed garlic head to examine it against the murky light of this more and more alien planet, sad little figure standing by her dog's grave now covered with particulates
most murders are committed by someone the victim knows - a partner, neighbor etc. but in cases where there is no relationship between murderer & victim? the killer is a cop about a third of the time. if you are killed by a stranger, there is a 1 in 3 chance that stranger is a cop.
Violence in Blue
‘One-third of all Americans killed by strangers are killed by police.’
granta.com
Every single senator has killed more people than any random guy from your city doing 25 to life, they just get to do it in a way we have all agreed makes it not real for some reason. We're governed by serial killers!! www.welcometohellworld.com/the-rube-gol...
people who have never gone to the gyno genuinely do not comprehend what happens to us in there nor how casually it happens. Just raw-dogging a uterine biopsy with no pain mitigation of any kind, and walking home afterward. Things of this nature
Ian Boudreau@ianboudreau.com · 4w agoEvery time I read a story about gynecology it's always something like "doctors discovered women could experience pain in 1989 but decided not to act on this knowledge for 20 years"
We are a province now, an outpost. This is how it’s been for other countries for a century, and it’s gonna be a hard adjustment. But thinking through this, figuring out what it means for our work, is an urgent step.
