@bgirledukate.bsky.social's latest Border Report spotlights Immigration and Customs Enforcement's test of an unorthodox new deportation tactic.

The cuts at the National Endowment for the Humanities go far deeper than any of these agencies - almost 70% of 179 people were terminated, despite no change to the agency's budget.

There were no savings here - only idealogical destruction. #NEH

One thing to understand about what's happening now is that on Oct 1, the deportation machine's budget increased dramatically: $170 billion in NEW funding, averaging to $42.5 billion per year. That's just below the Israeli military's annual budget. It's the equivalent of 13th biggest army on earth.

Dartmouth response to the Trump Administration Compact

president.dartmouth.edu/news/2025/10...

UPDATE: UPDATE: The small Journey jet made a fuel stop in Senegal and is now heading south—en route to carry out third-country removals to Eswatini, potentially with another fuel stop

This is what the state of Illinois sent to greet protesters at Broadview.

I’m on the ground at a prayer vigil near the Broadview ICE facility outside Chicago.

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

DACA Recipient Held at Adelanto Detention Facility Dies at Nearby Hospital, 14th Death in ICE Custody This Year

austinkocher.substack.com/p/daca-recip...

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

And yet, every scientific conference and meeting has at least one track with: AI and knowledge production, or how to integrate ethically AI in research. [Redacted] 😒

"Roy urges us to confront the political realities of our age. Even her ornate fiction is imbued with political ideas and values." Ade Khan reviews Arundhati Roy’s memoir "Mother Mary Comes to Me."
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/a-mothers-specter/

Fully agree w/ the tread. I have strong reservations about using LLMs to summarize papers, organize notes, writing outlines/drafts, and finding research questions, but what strikes me the most is that people would *want* to automate these tasks. These are the tasks were we often learn new things...

In Greece, "thirty women and their children found themselves out on the streets when their shelter closed. It was a direct result of US and European governments slashing their aid budgets"
www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

📣Call for applications: Dialogues on Mobility, Surveillance & Resistance JAN 26–30, 26 Tijuana, Mexico
Organized by International Migration Institute & University of Amsterdam's Decolonial Futures Research Priority Area.
Apply by SEP 25. Funding available! www.migrationinstitute.org/imi-archive/...

Academia dot edu licensing agreement says it can use your likeness and voice and publications in any manner they want, world wide.

🚨What has happened at Texas A&M this week should concern every Texan. Not only has the integrity of academic freedom come under fire, but the due process rights of a faculty member have been trampled at the urging of state politicians + the governor himself.

www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston...

Next they'll be rewriting textbooks to say Japanese American internment camps were delightful summer resorts.

DHS ends temporary protected status for over 200,000 Venezuelans in the U.S..

“Deskilling” skilled professions is a core promise of technological projects, so it’s probably not best understood as a side-effect even if some of the people pushing generative AI see it that way themselves. If the erosion of thinking is unforeseen, that’s just (so to speak) for lack of thinking.

Exclusive: The Justice Department gave some senior career attorneys a choice: They could either quit or go to a new Sanctuary Cities Enforcement working group.

Six months later, all of those attorneys have left DOJ. “The assignment was a sham,” one said.

There are links in the article, but for anyone who hits a paywall or just likes to click less, my suggestions for people who want to stand up (in/near/about academia/higher ed) are:
1) go to WeAreHigherEd.org and find a LOT of links & connections & resources & news & people fighting back.

2. I created this list and it's been viral. Some actions that are not protesting or voting. There's something for everyone on the list. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Offering 3 resources for people seeking ideas for what they might do in this moment:

1. We made a short workbook to help people narrow down or discover their areas of interest and focus. It's been downloaded thousands of times. Hope it's useful to you: millionexperiments.com/zines/making...