Mr. Khalil cannot work a regular job. Few employers are willing to take the risk of drawing attention from the Trump administration. And he will not go out alone with his 11-month-old, Deen, for fear that he will be detained and that the baby, an American citizen, will be taken.
“a politics of gangster imperialism…”
Excellent piece, thank you
@eskandarsadeghi.bsky.social
America, as an identity and a community, need not be confined to the zero-sum politics of nationalism and the nation-state system. A more powerful and capacious understanding of “American” identity emerges when we focus on the shared cultural and political possibilities of our hemispheric community.
Important from Arne Duncan and David Pressman:
"There is little effort among university leaders to coordinate a political response to attacks on academic independence by the administration. Appeasement is being coordinated while resistance is not."
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Not at all surprised to learn that Bad Bunny has a historical adviser. His halftime show was a reminder that our history and culture are deeply intertwined with the rest of the western hemisphere. We should think of his performance as part of #America250. #SuperBowl
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In which the Daily Northwestern reporter describes my new book as a "novel." Love it. Almost, but not quite.
There we go:
“It should no longer be possible to say that the Trump administration seeks merely to govern this nation. It seeks to reduce us all to a state of constant fear… That is our new national reality. State terror has arrived.”
Gift link:
ICE OUT.
Minneapolis 1/23/26.
Professor Elizabeth Shakman Hurd presents her new book Heaven Has a Wall, a powerful reflection on how U.S. borders entangle religion, law, and power.
#borderpolitics #religionandpolitics @bethhurd.bsky.social
ICE out of Evanston. Out of Illinois. Out of the US. Just get out.
Dear US government: Stop killing our neighbors. Stop killing, period.
The New York Times states it plainly in display type:
Videos Contradict Trump Administration Account of ICE Shooting in Minneapolis
“.. In the last four months alone, immigration officers have fired on at least nine people in five states and Washington, D.C. All of the individuals targeted in those shootings were, like the woman killed on Wednesday, fired on while in their vehicles.”
@nytimes.com
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Congrats Ramzi Kassem on being named Chief Counsel in Mayor Mamdani’s administration.
My colleagues Heidi and Paul at Northwestern's Pritzker School of Law argue that the university's agreement with the Trump administration is illegal.
The people who circulated this lie should be banned from all public platforms forever. Such irresponsible cruelty — of course it’s what they accuse others of — and at such a trying time! It is reprehensible.
Stop using Spotify until the ICE recruitment ads stop: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
“Nearly 250 years after American colonists threw off their king, this is arguably the closest the country has come during a time of general peace to the centralized authority of a monarch.“
Timely, important piece by
@peterbakernyt.bsky.social
"To foster a campus climate of real inclusion, we need to convene and converse, not record and report. The details are tricky, but teachers and students can figure them out together. Our administrations and governments just have to give us the respect, job security and academic freedom to do so."
What’s really going on at the Justice Dept?
Jaweed Kaleem explains why so many DOJ attorneys are quitting their jobs rather than break the law by concocting unfounded accusations of antisemitism in order to bring universities to their knees.
A leading public health scholar whose career has been defined by work on racial justice, poverty, HIV, and global inequality appears to have been removed because the political costs of applying those commitments to Palestinians became too great for Harvard to tolerate.
Northwestern alums plz sign and circulate.
This is the core definition of extortion in administrative law: the use of government power to coerce compliance unrelated to the lawful purpose of the funds.
With more and more regulators burning out of the machine, Trump’s retrogression has no limit but his expiration date.
Press release: Two Northwestern Law Profs explain that the Trump Administration violated federal law when it withheld federal funds from Northwestern and that portions of the Agreement with the Government violate both the First Amendment and federal antidiscrimination law.
You may’ve heard the Northwestern has joined the list of universities striking a “deal” with the Trump regime. Hard to believe we’ve stooped this low.
Here’s why it was a mistake.
The 2025-26 Pembroke Publics Lecture
Judith Butler
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A Spotify playlist called “Don’t Stream Fascism”: Dear Losers. Stop Runnin’ by LOKRE brutal by Olivia Rodrigo Secret Police by Fishbone Recruitment by The Chilling Alpine Adventure, Falling Up Propaganda by Muse Until Then… by Sully Erna, Irina Chirkova We Protest by Dave Carroll
Cancel your Spotify subscription until the ICE ads stop. There are other streaming options that don’t profit from exploiting artists while recruiting for ICE: indivisible.org/cancel-spotify?source=bluesky
