I‘m in the sandwich generation: I serve as tech support for both my gen-z students and my octogenarian parents (thank you, David, for your service)
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I‘m in the sandwich generation: I serve as tech support for both my gen-z students and my octogenarian parents (thank you, David, for your service)
I remain committed to the Phryges. Not least because their Paralympic stuffies had “Paris 2024” in braille on the bottom of their running blades
watching notifications for a city in which I do not live just to feel something about the potentials of municipal government
(and Harvard gets far too much credit for “fighting back” against the Trump administration despite enacting most of their demands)
Or: the critique of safe spaces was never really about safe spaces at all, but the beliefs and identities they were intended to protect.
(all that aside, this is infuriating)
MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸
Megan Keller, who scored the golden goal for Team USA against Canada, plays pro hockey for the Boston Fleet.
The PWHL season resumes Thursday: www.thepwhl.com/en/stats/sch...
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
I don't care one whit about football, and I deeply hate the Patriots.
Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again.
#Pinks #ProudBlue
NEWS: Judge Biery has ordered the release of 5-year-old Liam Ramos. A thunderous rebuke against ICE’s violent campaign in Minnesota. Read the order below.
Link:
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
I think it is OUTRAGEOUS that people are LEAPING to the conclusion that some our post prominent Americans are child rapists when it is EQUALLY PLAUSIBLE that they are simply indifferent to whether other people are child rapists so long as those other people can offer them access to power.
Kill your darlings
It's near-white out conditions in Chicago as the snow comes down, and tonight's anti-ICE/CBP rally is wrapping up in front of city hall.
But not before the crowd bounces and chants, "I believe that we will win!"
Exactly this. But instead of providing families with resources, healthcare, or well-funded schools--all things that might address those feelings of anger and desperation--RFK has instead reverted back to the "refrigerator mother" theory of autism.
Anyway, you can give $5 tax deductible to PBS for their app and get Ken Burns Revolutionary War doc along with Lupita and Sandra Oh in Twelfth Night and not pollute all of Memphis while you’re watching it.
Today, Luke Farrell (@lukef.bsky.social) explains how complex eligibility requirements have turned America’s safety net into a lucrative revenue stream for monopolistic private contractors.
My mother (in SF) had the audacity to call me last Friday to complain—completely seriously—that it was “chilly” in the city. The windchill in Ann Arbor? -20. My dad, on the other hand, revels in sending me sun-drenched pics from around the Bay. I save my gloating for June
Weather is something that happens in other places, to other people. They call me and tell me about it. I go, wow the sky is wet? And the air hurts? That's crazy.
And finally, if you haven't read it, I highly recommend Dr. Price's most recent book, Crip Spacetime: Access, Failure, and Accountability in Academic Life (available thru Duke OA below).
dukeupress.edu/crip-spacetime
CART will be available and a zoom link will be provided with registration (registration isn't required for in-person attendance). For those able to attend in person, the event will be held in Palmer Commons Forum Hall (parking is available in the Palmer lot). Please circulate widely!
Emmalon Davis (Philosophy, U-M) and I are thrilled to be welcoming Margaret Price (English and Disability Studies, OSU) to Michigan next Friday, February 6 from 3-5pm. Dr. Price will be giving a lecture entitled "Exploring the Politics of Disability, Accompaniment, and Collective Accountability."
This is a beautiful testament to food, memory, and adaptation. Reminds me a bit of Sara Hendren's What Can a Body Do (gift link)
CNN is reporting that federal authorities may have been collecting information and "documenting details" about Alex Pretti before killing him on Saturday, and that officers tackled him a week earlier. www.cnn.com/2026/01/27/u...
In which the author argues that the *real* problem with ICE isn't its rapid expansion, its weaponized deployment, or its role in facilitating and committing state terror, but agents' insufficient preparation for the job. Clearly the answer here is higher education. Got it.
Greg Bovino sadly filling one steamer trunk after another with elaborate fashy overcoats, the teargas canisters he always has bouncing around on him like labubus, and dozens of "chest-belts." They will be shipped ahead of him as he prepares to return to his home, which is a men's size 10 boot.
Vigils were held around Minneapolis and beyond Saturday night in the wake of the fatal shooting of Alex Pretti by federal agents.
Photo and video: Jeff Wheeler, Anthony Souffle, Simon Peter Groebner/The Minnesota Star Tribune.
(This is the best name)
Tomorrow's front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 24, 2026
