Arum Park
@profarumpark.bsky.social
Korean American; she/her; Classicist at University of Arizona. Opinions are my own. http://press.umich.edu/11853864 https://www.fulcrum.org/concern/monographs/q524jr02p
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this only makes abolishing ICE an even higher priority. they are racing to get this done before they lose their trifecta. but there is a danger that a Democratic government would simply allow these camps to continue to exist. every single one must be dismantled before fully operational if possible
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:22 PM
this only makes abolishing ICE an even higher priority. they are racing to get this done before they lose their trifecta. but there is a danger that a Democratic government would simply allow these camps to continue to exist. every single one must be dismantled before fully operational if possible
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Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
‘He’s not the same’: Father of Liam Conejo Ramos says 5-year-old continues to suffer
Some people thought they say the 5-year-old during the Super Bowl halftime show. But Liam is still in hiding with his family, after he and his father were detained and then released from a Texas deten...
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February 10, 2026 at 1:11 AM
Super Bowl viewers Sunday speculated that 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos appeared in the halftime show. In fact, he has been in hiding with his family.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
“He can’t sleep well at night. He wakes up three or four times a night screaming, ‘Daddy, Daddy,’” Liam's father Adrian Conejo Arias, said.
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I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Authors, a newsreader, a lawyer and an esteemed colleague: they’re all great – but I’m not married to any of them. Can we really depend on this technology, asks cartoonist and author Martin Rowson
www.theguardian.com
February 9, 2026 at 10:28 AM
I asked AI to name my wife. To the hopelessly incorrect people it cited, my deepest apologies | Martin Rowson
Wooohoooo!! Redemption!
February 9, 2026 at 3:40 AM
Wooohoooo!! Redemption!
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I have been informed that when high school kids are asked a question on the spot in class, it’s a verbal meme to say “counting or not counting gang violence?”
February 9, 2026 at 3:19 AM
I have been informed that when high school kids are asked a question on the spot in class, it’s a verbal meme to say “counting or not counting gang violence?”
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Robert Kraft’s team losing the Super Bowl in humiliating fashion is, to date, the worst consequence suffered by any of the men in the Epstein files.
February 9, 2026 at 3:15 AM
Robert Kraft’s team losing the Super Bowl in humiliating fashion is, to date, the worst consequence suffered by any of the men in the Epstein files.
That halftime show did not disappoint.
February 9, 2026 at 1:34 AM
That halftime show did not disappoint.
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Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
Donate to Support for Washington Post international employees, organized by Michelle Lee
Among the hundreds of journalists laid off by The Washington Post on … Michelle Lee needs your support for Support for Washington Post international employees
www.gofundme.com
February 8, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Former Washington Post journalists have launched a GoFundMe to help repatriate fired staff members who are effectively stranded in foreign countries.
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
One of the richest men in the world fired them from the paper and didn’t even pay to ensure they got home.
Abolish the billionaire class:
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 6, 2026 at 8:57 PM
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
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i went back to a tougher, pre-covid syllabus for my intro NT class this term. students have been rising to the occasion magnificently. like, for real, i was expecting a bunch of drops after day 1. i got emails and office visits instead.
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0... | @theatlantic.com
Stop Meeting Students Where They Are
What I learned when I finally started assigning the hard reading again.
www.theatlantic.com
February 8, 2026 at 1:36 AM
i went back to a tougher, pre-covid syllabus for my intro NT class this term. students have been rising to the occasion magnificently. like, for real, i was expecting a bunch of drops after day 1. i got emails and office visits instead.
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
it’s making for a very fun teaching term!
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A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Elon Musk Will Be Deposed Over What He Did With DOGE
The former DOGE head will have to answer for what happened at USAID.
newrepublic.com
February 6, 2026 at 11:05 PM
A federal court cleared way for us @democracydefendersfund.org to depose Elon Musk over the unconstitutional shutdown of USAID
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
Our case now moves into discovery
As our Legal Director Tianna Mays explains: accountability starts w/ facts👇 - TN
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when dook loses, we all win. Heels, baby
a man stands at a podium with a sign that says right side
ALT: a man stands at a podium with a sign that says right side
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February 8, 2026 at 1:48 AM
when dook loses, we all win. Heels, baby
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They’re not helping the majors get into the classes they need or writing the 1 million reports required by admin or showing up at the thinly attended colloquium. Anyway that’s who’s in the Epstein files.
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
They’re not helping the majors get into the classes they need or writing the 1 million reports required by admin or showing up at the thinly attended colloquium. Anyway that’s who’s in the Epstein files.
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There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
February 7, 2026 at 4:26 PM
There’s a “superstar” layer at every R1 institution I’ve been at that isn’t composed of academics in any sense I recognize. They’re there so the institution can claim them, but they use the university as a launchpad to contracts and speaking engagements. They’re not teaching the intro classes.
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This is good.
NEW: Letitia James, the New York attorney general, announced that her office will deploy "legal observers" to document ICE activity in NY.
Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
Her office says the effort is the first of its kind by an AG.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/03/n...
New York Attorney General to Deploy Observers to Document ICE Raids
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 12:25 AM
This is good.
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Buried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.
Mike Johnson speaks out against the use of judicial warrants in immigration cases:
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
"Imagine if we had to go through the process of getting a judicial warrant"
February 3, 2026 at 4:43 PM
Buried lede: he realizes that it is absolutely impossible to achieve mass deportation if that process is required, which it constitutionally is.
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NEW: We sent a letter urging the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board to reject an application to form the nation’s first religious public charter school.
Public schools cannot be religious.
Public schools cannot be religious.
February 3, 2026 at 5:04 PM
NEW: We sent a letter urging the Oklahoma Statewide Charter School Board to reject an application to form the nation’s first religious public charter school.
Public schools cannot be religious.
Public schools cannot be religious.
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Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/
The successful nonviolence and civil rights movements of the past, as I’ve gathered from reading about them, ALSO featured a shit ton of incessant petty drama and in-fighting.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
But crucially, they didn’t have social media - so this was kept far more private.
February 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM
Social movement scholar here. Earlier activists had petty beefs but those were wildly exploited by the FBI's COINTELPRO programs, particularly in the case of the Black Power movement. 1/
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more of this from democrats please, "here is the problem, here is who is responsible, here is what we are going to do about it" and then uh follow through though
Rep Lieu on Kristi Noem: “Under her leadership, the Department of Homeland Security has killed a number of Americans. She needs to resign, or she needs to be fired. And if not, impeachment proceedings need to proceed.”
February 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
more of this from democrats please, "here is the problem, here is who is responsible, here is what we are going to do about it" and then uh follow through though
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This is a great sketch. Not just Ashley Padilla's performance, which is perfect, but the writing as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...
Mom Confession - SNL
YouTube video by Saturday Night Live
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February 2, 2026 at 10:02 PM
This is a great sketch. Not just Ashley Padilla's performance, which is perfect, but the writing as well.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wQh...
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JEFFRIES: "It's time to reform the orphan-crushing machine."
SCHUMER: "The Baileys are hard-working Americans. Yes, they might crush an orphan once per year, but isn't that a small price to pay for freedom?"
ADAMS: "May crushing orphans bring you endorphins at the table of success."
SCHUMER: "The Baileys are hard-working Americans. Yes, they might crush an orphan once per year, but isn't that a small price to pay for freedom?"
ADAMS: "May crushing orphans bring you endorphins at the table of success."
February 3, 2026 at 4:34 AM
JEFFRIES: "It's time to reform the orphan-crushing machine."
SCHUMER: "The Baileys are hard-working Americans. Yes, they might crush an orphan once per year, but isn't that a small price to pay for freedom?"
ADAMS: "May crushing orphans bring you endorphins at the table of success."
SCHUMER: "The Baileys are hard-working Americans. Yes, they might crush an orphan once per year, but isn't that a small price to pay for freedom?"
ADAMS: "May crushing orphans bring you endorphins at the table of success."
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Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
February 3, 2026 at 4:05 AM
Dem leadership: changing this is a difficult process, you fool. You rube. You utter infant. Give us between $5 and $50
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
Mamdani, wiping grease off his hands: So it turns out there's a switch on this machine that puts it into either orphan-shredding mode or free school lunch mode. Just had to flip it
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There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it
The Trump administration is no longer trying to get cash from Harvard as it seeks a settlement. At this point, the White House seems happy to get a signature on anything they can call a compact.
Trump Drops Demand for Cash From Harvard After Stiff Resistance
www.nytimes.com
February 3, 2026 at 3:57 AM
There is a case to be made that any board of a university that signed an agreement that required paying a fee has breached their fiduciary duty and I think somebody should explore it