"In reality, closing the press will cut relatively little from the university’s overall budget. The press has two full-time employees and an annual budget of roughly $300,000; its partner institution [...] pays for production costs and handles distribution.

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Um, ICE just coldly shot an unarmed PRIEST in the head w a pepper ball when he (and everyone around him) clearly posed no threat.

For the crime of … complaining about government policy.

Core 1A speech.

With cameras rolling, they’re sniping priests for sport.

The “compact” for higher ed is an unserious document written by unserious people from a position of spectacular ignorance. No one should take it seriously. Sadly, my bosses are taking it seriously.

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Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed.
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🚨NEW: For the first time in history, the single largest group of people arrested in the interior and sent to ICE detention is people with NO criminal record.

As of yesterday's data release, 40%(!) of those arrested in the interior and detained by ICE had no prior conviction or pending charges.

I had a great time reviewing this fantastic book by @mateojarquin.bsky.social for the @h-diplo.bsky.social roundtable! networks.h-net.org/group/discus.... I also ended up with an extra copy of his book and will send it for free to one lucky person who reposts this post! 🗃️ #history #freebook

A lovely feature on ///boy says///, my translation of Néstor Ponce's ***Vos es*** in Latin American Literature Today. Read it for a taste of the book, which is always available, free, from the open-access press punctum books.

latinamericanliteraturetoday.org/2025/06/boy-...

On censorship and international students. With a lot of James Baldwin and a title (thanks to my editor's suggestion) from Foucault. Here's latest for @truthdig.bsky.social
www.truthdig.com/articles/dis...

Waterloo Press is offering copies of Néstor Ponce's Disappearance without absence (2017) for only 10 pounds. Its poems work with the contradictions of memory, imagination, and meaning to encounter the atrocities of Argentina's military junta.

waterloopress.co.uk/books/disapp...

Borges Beyond the Visible (Penn State UP, 2019)...

Is on sale quite a bit right now on Amazon.... Borges, "Islam," literary visuality, sexuality, blindness and the limits of selfhood within certain disorienting, contradictory experiences of fiction...

Enjoy !

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New book:::: punctum books just published boy says: my translation of Néstor Ponce's book of poetry, Vos es.

~It is a free, open-access, bilingual edition~

Enjoy!

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