🚨NEW: @cbsnews.com reports ICE is arresting people who can't even legally be deported and holding them without enough food or water in a federal building BASEMENT in Los Angeles.

Families dutifully attending check-ins with ICE are being arrested and held for days, forced to sleep on the floor.

Nearly three years before the Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin knelt on George Floyd as he cried that he couldn’t breathe, Zoya Code found herself in a similar position: handcuffed facedown on the ground, with Chauvin’s knee on her. Code said she began pleading: “Don’t kill me.”

“A drone view of detainees forming the letters SOS with their bodies in the courtyard at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility, where Venezuelans at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling are held, in Anson, Texas, U.S. April 28, 2025.” (REUTERS/Paul Ratje)

www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Our AAUP chapter is sending a letter urging WashU sign on to the AACU's "Call for Constructive Engagement" along with hundreds of other universities in the U.S. If you are a WashU faculty member, staff member, current student, or alumnus, you can sign here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

From a source: “Just had a co-presenter for a buildings research conference bow out. She’s a dual citizen and the FBI came knocking to ask her about her involvement in coauthoring chunks of the Paris Agreement.

Climate science is being literally (and I mean literally) criminalized.”

Two men died hours apart on Wednesday afternoon inside Sing Sing Correctional Facility, bringing the total of deaths behind bars to three since correction officers at more than two dozen New York State facilities went on strike earlier this month.

The job of the government isn’t to “produce federal revenue” the job is meeting the needs of the people. Refuse to engage in a debate about the profitability of providing people’s needs through public resources.

It is illegal for landlords to do this. And it's evil. And it shows why housing should not be a for-profit industry.

NYU suspends students for an entire year for “significant and coordinated disruption” in the library, which refers to some students in keffiyehs studying quietly in the lobby, others sitting on the admin. floor asking for a meeting, a few holding banners, and some flyers dropped from an upper level…

🚨 Mitchell-Lama mentioned 🚨

From earlier this fall, here's what's going on at Timothée Chalamet's old building, Manhattan Plaza:

Look at this.

Several faculty and students were given this designation with no explanation of why other than “violation of university policy.”

In my case, the violation could only have been filming interactions between campus cops, administrators and students during a peaceful sit in.

This is where we are.

this is unquestionably sexual violence, holy hell

It's rare you get such a clear illustration of whose lives have value in America and whose don't

I don't know who needs to know this, but Pro Publica has an online thing that will format a letter to your US health insurance company to demand the records behind a claim denial. (which the insurance is then legally required to provide in most cases)

projects.propublica.org/claimfile/

I am weeping