Joseph Howley
@illdottore.bsky.social
“imagine a classics professor” – The New Yorker
I need the guy putting on clown makeup meme but it’s a clown putting on robot makeup
BREAKING: Free AI training will be offered to every adult in the UK, with short courses to teach people how to use simple AI tools effectively in the workplace.
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
Technology Secretary Liz Kendall tells #BBCBreakfast about the scheme
January 28, 2026 at 9:45 AM
I need the guy putting on clown makeup meme but it’s a clown putting on robot makeup
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Really, Hello Kitty Island Adventure??
January 28, 2026 at 4:25 AM
Really, Hello Kitty Island Adventure??
Good morning
January 28, 2026 at 6:29 AM
Good morning
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READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
The last Columbia protester in ICE detention: Leqaa Kordia on her 9 months in captivity
Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism...
mondoweiss.net
January 28, 2026 at 1:32 AM
READ: Leqaa Kordia has been held by ICE since her arrest in March 2025. Her attorneys say the White House is targeting the last remaining Columbia University protester in custody for her activism, using racism and procedural tricks to prevent her release.
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
mondoweiss.net/2026/01/the-...
Remembering a student social media post that was like “when he’s only a six but he’s got a Canary Mission page 😍”. Oh no Tom please don’t make a public website dedicated to hero’s of the republic
homan again says that dhs is working on its own canary mission site to dox left-wing activists and get them expelled/fired/destroy their career prospects
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
January 27, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Remembering a student social media post that was like “when he’s only a six but he’s got a Canary Mission page 😍”. Oh no Tom please don’t make a public website dedicated to hero’s of the republic
Redolent of the little freaks and weirdos who collected photographs of faculty in vests protecting and deescalating at campus Gaza protests, but guess what dorks - that’s a badge of honor
TOM HOMAN: “We’re going to create a database where those people that are arrested for interference, impeding and assault, we’re going to make them famous. We’re going to put their face on TV. We’re going to let their employers, in their neighborhoods, in their schools, know who these people are.”
Story: www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
January 27, 2026 at 7:22 PM
Redolent of the little freaks and weirdos who collected photographs of faculty in vests protecting and deescalating at campus Gaza protests, but guess what dorks - that’s a badge of honor
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The former Columbia student who tried to get leftist professors fired for their politics and the Stanford professor who told conservative students to "dig up dirt" to use against a leftist student for his politics have united, and I'm sure they have a lot to say about how cancel culture is very bad.
January 27, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The former Columbia student who tried to get leftist professors fired for their politics and the Stanford professor who told conservative students to "dig up dirt" to use against a leftist student for his politics have united, and I'm sure they have a lot to say about how cancel culture is very bad.
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A bit late for #mosaicmonday, from Italica in Spain, birthplace of Hadrian, we have the mosaic from the House of the #Birds.
My favourite is this particularly jaunty heron fellow
My favourite is this particularly jaunty heron fellow
January 27, 2026 at 11:46 AM
A bit late for #mosaicmonday, from Italica in Spain, birthplace of Hadrian, we have the mosaic from the House of the #Birds.
My favourite is this particularly jaunty heron fellow
My favourite is this particularly jaunty heron fellow
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
January 27, 2026 at 10:15 AM
It's hardly the most egregious failure of fact checking from the New York Times recently, but this outrageous assertion tells me that nobody who edited this story has actually read this book to a child. The entire book is narrated (beautifully) in the third person. 1/ www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/s...
Ok that’s enough Online
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 AM
Ok that’s enough Online
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Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
Why is the msm outside of Maine not covering this? It seems like a huge and very troubling story to me. ICE coming to observers houses or calling them on the phone warning them to back off??!! www.pressherald.com/2026/01/23/i...
ICE watchers in Maine say they were threatened by federal agents
Community members have been monitoring the activity of immigration agents in Greater Portland.
www.pressherald.com
January 26, 2026 at 10:27 PM
Everything they learned in Minnesota they’re applying in Maine from day one. They started off doing fast-moving snatch and grabs on the street, recording and using facial id on observers, and threatening observers directly. They’ll do it all where you live too.
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In one set of documents, government officials acknowledged that there were virtually no grounds for deporting the students and expressed concern that courts would “closely scrutinize” the State Department’s efforts to deport them based on their advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ju...
Exhibits 247-250
knightcolumbia.org
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
In one set of documents, government officials acknowledged that there were virtually no grounds for deporting the students and expressed concern that courts would “closely scrutinize” the State Department’s efforts to deport them based on their advocacy. knightcolumbia.org/documents/ju...
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Several memos show that “government investigators searched for findings of wrongdoing on the part of the students, but internally acknowledged that they had found the task difficult,” reports @zjmontague.bsky.social @nytimes.com.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Several memos show that “government investigators searched for findings of wrongdoing on the part of the students, but internally acknowledged that they had found the task difficult,” reports @zjmontague.bsky.social @nytimes.com.
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Documents prepared by DHS and State reveal the admin targeted 5 students—Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chung—for deportation simply because they participated in pro-Palestinian protests or published writing about Gaza—all First Amendment-protected speech.
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Documents prepared by DHS and State reveal the admin targeted 5 students—Mahmoud Khalil, Rümeysa Öztürk, Mohsen Mahdawi, Badar Khan Suri, Yunseo Chung—for deportation simply because they participated in pro-Palestinian protests or published writing about Gaza—all First Amendment-protected speech.
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Last week, Judge William G. Young unsealed hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted as evidence in our legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian activism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
D.H.S. Cited Foreign Students’ Writings and Protests Before Their Arrests
www.nytimes.com
January 26, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Last week, Judge William G. Young unsealed hundreds of pages of documents that were submitted as evidence in our legal challenge to the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and threatening to deport students for their pro-Palestinian activism. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...
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Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges. This leaves in place a federal judge's ruling that the anti-DEI effort violated the First Amendment and federal procedural rules. (Via AP) apnews.com/article/dei-... #ncpol #nced
Trump administration drops legal appeal over anti-DEI funding threat to schools and colleges
The Trump administration is dropping its appeal of a federal court ruling that blocked a campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion threatening federal funding to the nation’s schools and colle...
apnews.com
January 26, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Every administration, every faculty senate, every board of trustees who forced their institutions to bend the knee over this shit should immediately be fired.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
Their presence dishonors the profession and the institutions they supposedly serve.
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The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.
my emerging theory is that the political press literally does not believe in objective reality in any meaningful sense. there is only what A says and what B says and how that affects the horse race
January 26, 2026 at 1:31 PM
The political press very clearly understands “truth” as a social agreement, a compromise position between everyone important enough to have an opinion. It did not reflect on how this would allow dedicated liars to go all-in on lies again and again and dramatically shift the position.
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I've been waiting for this shoe to drip. In particular I think COVID accelerated a shift to e-only resources for researchers and now we (universities) are both addicted to these services and increasingly unable to afford them.
Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs 📚
www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
www.emorywheel.com/article/2026...
Emory libraries cancel Elsevier journals due to rising journal costs
The Emory Wheel is the only independent, student-run newspaper of Emory University, since 1919.
www.emorywheel.com
January 26, 2026 at 1:35 PM
I've been waiting for this shoe to drip. In particular I think COVID accelerated a shift to e-only resources for researchers and now we (universities) are both addicted to these services and increasingly unable to afford them.
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You should read this.
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
A Report from Occupied Territory
www.thenation.com
January 26, 2026 at 12:59 PM
You should read this.
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
James Baldwin, “A Report from Occupied Territory” (1966)
www.thenation.com/article/cult...
@ztul.bsky.social they gave Yoshi a gun in the new Mario movie trailer
January 26, 2026 at 12:20 PM
@ztul.bsky.social they gave Yoshi a gun in the new Mario movie trailer
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Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
Important ethnography by Diana Enriquez, putting some flesh on the survey findings reported by Lindsay Ellis in the WSJ. Fascinating that these organizational pathologies are currently so widespread.
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"We should bear witness to the brutality and demand that our government protect our freedoms—not crush them with armed, masked men who think they can act with impunity. As people who have chosen learning, it’s the least we can do." —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on Minneapolis
Minneapolis is Now Ground Zero for Our Democracy
www.wesleyan.edu
January 25, 2026 at 3:15 PM
"We should bear witness to the brutality and demand that our government protect our freedoms—not crush them with armed, masked men who think they can act with impunity. As people who have chosen learning, it’s the least we can do." —Wesleyan University President @msroth.bsky.social on Minneapolis