So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.
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So Bree hinted at this story a few days ago, but I want to circle back now that I have permission to share it.
WHISTLES OUT: A WHISTLE CREW MYSTERY
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Ho-lee Shit. This is phenomenally good news. Department of Education rolls back— for now— its attempts to destroy Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility initiatives. Keep an eye on them, of course, and watch for the hidden knife, always, but for now: Fantastic news.
"Disciplines reject what isn’t intellectually valid... If the discipline of Geology determines that the flat-Earth theory doesn’t meet its standards, geologists do not need to hire flat-Earthers and provide lessons in flat-Earth theory to their students."
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My students after we saw Hadestown—this was legit one of the discussion questions they wrote and asked the class haha
So much of the rise of fascism is just normalizing brutality that once felt unthinkable to us because things currently feel a little better than they did at their worst.
They hate humanities because they hate critiques of the brutal power they wield:
“The abolition of gender studies is a way of further guaranteeing impunity to the elite men whose contempt for and exploitation of women and girls apparently knows no bounds.”
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One of the other elements in this story is the reality that a lot of immigrants are becoming “undocumented” because of government slowdowns in the process of maintaining their documentation.
The U.S. has successfully convinced its people that “the humanities are frivolous and STEM is Important and Real” is basically a law of nature: this is absolute nonsense that we should stop putting up with.
I think the lesson for the Trump administration is they did not have to change the law, or win a court case, to get universities to do what they wanted.
Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)
In a lot of ways, I'm really lucky. I work from home. I write and draw books. I still experience a lot of the same normal creative issues. I'm burned out. My current project frustrates me. But a few things in my routine have changed. Me: Hey, mom. Are the cousins okay? How's grandma? And your sisters? Me: Oh, good. Yeah. Okay, that's good. I'll call you later. Watching Bob's Burgers on repeat while I work.
![My friends check in from time to time.
Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch.
Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay?
Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay.
I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left.
I’m worried all the time.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cb6uhto6bwvcx4anaq55konv/bafkreiejn4yr42v63dgduydsv6fnjqqci2yfdwj6sishctyicaqfyrcouy)
My friends check in from time to time. Text: I got rubber-bulleted by ICE just on my way back from work. Ouch. Text: Hey I'm gonna observe tomorrow at the protest. I'll text every hour, and if you don't hear from me, please call [number] and give them my identifying information. I'd probably be at the Whipple. Okay? Text: They knocked on my door, but I'm okay. I demanded a signed judicial warrant, and they couldn’t provide one, so they left. I’m worried all the time.
Very little in the news feels encouraging. Headline: Mayor Kaohly Her says she was told to carry a passport amid ICE operations in Minnesota St. Paul Mayor elect Kaobly Her says her office received reports of federal agents going door-to-door asking where the Asian people are. KARE11 January 16, 2026
And it makes me feel utterly untethered from reality when I have to live like this and just get back to work and draw my stupid little cartoons. Nothing else feels real or important right now. But my neighbors are doing such a great job staying engaged and finding needs to meet. Text: I'm running to Costco and picking up some canned goods to run to the food shelf. Let me know if you want to donate anything. Text: I'll throw in for some canned goods! Text: Me too! Text from me: What's your Venmo? I can contribute.
Things continue.
#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.
I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.
I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.
I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?
Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.
#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls
It's a problem that actual elected officials post on social media as if they are powerless observers and commentators.
This is quite good. Worth a read.
“Fascism always tells the same story.
It claims the nation is superior to all others and demands we return to imagined glories of the past, to the “good old days.” It blames present troubles on a scapegoat, a convenient enemy—it shouts that they deserve violence.”
kind of darkly funny that "gender studies" is the stereotypical "useless degree" because gender studies will help you understand a large and important chunk of the current psychosis in american life
Marketing + publicity of YA has really just tanked. I'm shocked there was virtually *nothing* about THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS last fall. It's incredible! It's GORGEOUS. It's fresh, voicey and centers Appalachia and a Deaf main character and a mystery and an emerging friendship. It's epistolary.
Happy to have contributed with data wrangling for this piece on 2025 #comics restrictions, although I'd be even happier if folks would stop with frivolous book challenges.
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Reminder that she’s living off of this Go Fund Me in the meantime:
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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good morning, I have noticed that some of the critical responses to the Crave show Heated Rivalry have been, let's say, incomplete
sex scenes are craft! goddammit!
Let me give some insight on this, as a producer in the dub industry who worked with major streamers, who's witnessed first-hand where this push for AI is coming from.
tl;dr: Only CEOs want this. Tell them how much you hate it. Be loud, email, call, @, post. You will kill this.
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Starting off our smut discussions with a presentation from Corinne Matthews and Ayanni Cooper on the challenges of studying smut in the academy, and their "semi-scholarly" smut podcast, "Sex. Love. Literature." www.sexlovelitpodcast.com
actual feminists stood with the lady-ghouls of Fox News in their lawsuit because even evil women don't deserve to be sexually harassed in their evil workplaces and all women are harmed when we let that shit slide, but boy that experience sure didn't change any of them as people, did it
