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Kendra Salois

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Ethnomusicologist, parent, incorrigible lurker. Author of Values that Pay: Complicity, Sincerity, and Hip Hop in Contemporary Moroccan Life (April 2025, UC Press).

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Unbearable. Wtf are we doing.

07.03.2026 03:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 385 ๐Ÿ” 160 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 18 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasketโ€™s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

The litigation over who has lawful control of the USIP building plays on, with the Trump administration maintaining control for now. But I'm proud @rcfp.org and I were able to obtain this footage and shed important light on DOGE's intentions when they entered the USIP building nearly one year ago.

06.03.2026 22:46 ๐Ÿ‘ 743 ๐Ÿ” 115 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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More evidence suggesting the US is withholding casualty and injury numbers of troops in the region x.com/penguinsix/s...

07.03.2026 04:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
United States Onurt of Appeals
FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT
No. 26-5050
September Term, 2025
1:25-cv-02471-ACR
Filed On: March 6, 2026
Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al.,
Appellees
V.
Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al.,
Appellants
BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges
ORDER
Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the
opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is
ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

United States Onurt of Appeals FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT No. 26-5050 September Term, 2025 1:25-cv-02471-ACR Filed On: March 6, 2026 Fritz Emmanuel Lesly Miot, et al., Appellees V. Donald J. Trump, President of the United States of America, et al., Appellants BEFORE: Walker, Pan, and Garcia, Circuit Judges ORDER Upon consideration of the emergency motion for a stay pending appeal, the opposition thereto, the reply, the amicus briefs, and the Rule 28(i) letters, it is ORDERED that the motion for a stay be denied.

BREAKING: DC Circuit, on a 2-1 vote, keeps in place a lower court order blocking DHS Sec. Noemโ€™s effort to end Haiti temporary protected status designation.

Judges Pan and Garcia deny DOJโ€™s request to stay the district court order. Judge Walker would have granted it.

Haiti TPS is safe for now.

07.03.2026 03:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 2655 ๐Ÿ” 710 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17 ๐Ÿ“Œ 33

If true, Sunny was illegally detained along with several other fellow travelers - both citizens and permanent residents - whose whereabouts are also unknown.

Where are they? Why wonโ€™t CBP answer?

07.03.2026 04:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 1025 ๐Ÿ” 138 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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A Running Count of How Many People ICE Has Killed and Injured - The American Prospect ICE is not required to report any use-of-force incidents against the public. So The American Prospect created our own running tally.

We updated our record of people immigration agents have killed or caused to die since Trump took office in January 2025.

As of today, agents have killed at least 28 people in the field and 48 people in custody.

04.03.2026 21:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 998 ๐Ÿ” 599 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 15
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Here's your evening read! For Issue 15, Jeanelle K. Hope shows black feminists have always fought fascism, and what lessons we can take forward today from our last.

Subscribe now to read it online, or get the issue in print on our website โœจ

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05.03.2026 00:32 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Solidarity to the NYU faculty members as they prepare to strike.

University leadership must offer a deal that meets the moment: Stronger job security, higher wages, and academic freedom protections.

NYU, itโ€™s time to give CFU-UAW a fair contract and also pay your RAs!

05.03.2026 00:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 593 ๐Ÿ” 98 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7

Sen. Blumenthal has written a letter to Kristi Noem about her denial that Corey Lewandowski has a role in approving contracts at DHS.

"I demand that you amend your testimony" and "provide the basis for your apparent false statement on the record."

www.blumenthal.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

05.03.2026 00:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 2314 ๐Ÿ” 759 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 88 ๐Ÿ“Œ 29
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The VSU โ€˜Fired Sixโ€™ takes the Virginia State Capitol to demand their jobs back & for the General Assembly to pass full collective bargaining rights for all higher ed workers.

www.courthousenews.com/home-care-an...

04.03.2026 19:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 37 ๐Ÿ” 12 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

He demanded that she send him nude pictures and bullied her into a relationship. This is called sexual harassment. It was not โ€œan affairโ€. RESIGN NOW.

05.03.2026 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 2674 ๐Ÿ” 667 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 72 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
Close Reading Is For Everyone
Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant

Call for Pitches

Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version thatโ€™s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. 

Weโ€™re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: โ€œThe Gettysburg Address,โ€ Macbeth, and Platoโ€™s โ€œAllegory of the Cave,โ€ but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail?

If youโ€™re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of โ€œThe Red Wheelbarrowโ€ in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing weโ€™re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, weโ€™ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step.

We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that arenโ€™t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it.  

Send your pitchesโ€”please include your name and contact infoโ€”to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

Close Reading Is For Everyone Dan Sinykin and Johanna Winant Call for Pitches Based on our previous Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century, we are at work on a new version thatโ€™s shorter, slimmer, and aimed at a more general audience. Weโ€™re looking for a new set of contributors who would write excellent, brief, model close readings of texts that high schoolers might know and care about. Think: โ€œThe Gettysburg Address,โ€ Macbeth, and Platoโ€™s โ€œAllegory of the Cave,โ€ but also song lyrics, idioms, or even a visual image. What is your best, most instructive, most exciting, most welcoming example of how a close reading builds a real argument out from a tiny, perhaps overlooked detail? If youโ€™re interested in pitching us, please send us your 250-word close reading of the text you propose. Your close reading should be mappable using our vocabulary of close reading: the five steps of scene setting, noticing, local claiming, regional argumentation, and global theorizing. (Our close reading of โ€œThe Red Wheelbarrowโ€ in the early pages of our introduction is the sort of thing weโ€™re seeking.) If we think we can use yours, weโ€™ll ask you to expand it to a 1,200 word essay in which you explain how your close reading works step by step. We seek close readings both of texts that are canonical and also ones that arenโ€™t. And so we invite contributors both from the discipline of literary studies, and other disciplines across the university, and the public humanities beyond it. Send your pitchesโ€”please include your name and contact infoโ€”to daniel.sinykin@emory.edu and jwinant@reed.edu by March 15.

CALL FOR PITCHES

@dan-sinnamon.bsky.social and I are at work on a new version of Close Reading for the Twenty-First Century aimed at a more general audience.

Weโ€™re looking for new contributions: your model close readings of texts, canonical and not, from literary studies and not.

Details below!

09.02.2026 13:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 239 ๐Ÿ” 142 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 17

Get him

05.03.2026 00:49 ๐Ÿ‘ 24 ๐Ÿ” 7 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Grammarly Is Offering โ€˜Expertโ€™ AI Reviews From Your Favorite Authorsโ€”Dead or Alive The tool, offered by the recently-rebranded company Superhuman, gives feedback based on the work of famous dead and living writersโ€”without their permission.

Read the full piece (including much longer quotes from me) by the perpetually excellent @milesklee.bsky.social below!

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

05.03.2026 01:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 28 ๐Ÿ” 8 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Weโ€™re getting to work this weekend to knock on doors in Essex and Morris Counties, ESPECIALLY as vote-by-mail ballots start getting delivered to voters.

Sign up to canvass this weekend so we can fight for bold change in Congress! www.mobilize.us/analiliafornj/

05.03.2026 01:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 36 ๐Ÿ” 16 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Several rural states changed child labor laws beginning around 2021 so that they could force (Brown and Black) kids into jobs no one else would take.

Nebraska, just weeks ago, voted to cut minimum wage requirements for minors.

This party cares about child labor and exploitation, not children.

05.03.2026 01:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 33 ๐Ÿ” 20 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Noemโ€™s luxury โ€˜deportationโ€™ jet is the tip of the ICE-berg Kristi Noemโ€™s DHS has acquired at least nine new aircraft in recent weeks, with another one on the way. Half are luxury jets.

This plane joins the 70 million dollar luxury 737 you may have heard about โ€” N471US โ€” and the two Gulfstream 650s DHS also recently acquired โ€” N472US and N473US โ€” which you probably havenโ€™t heard about unless you read my story here: gillianbrockell.ghost.io/noems-luxury...

05.03.2026 01:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 44 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They do not care to understand that the hundreds of millions of people in the Middle Eastโ€”with their hundreds of millions of social networks, dreams, desires, & fearsโ€”have agency. Have whole cultures, centuries-long histories, shared traumas & joys that inform their decisions. That they're people.

03.03.2026 20:50 ๐Ÿ‘ 165 ๐Ÿ” 23 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maryland man pardoned for Jan. 6 riots held without bond for Metro assault on women 28-year-old Bryan Betancur is accused of assault and battery on the metro for touching womenโ€™s hair. He has a documented history of stalking women.

I did a video interview about Bryan Betancur today at the courthouse!

05.03.2026 00:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 183 ๐Ÿ” 39 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Find Your Representative Find your representatives. Learn how to find and connect with them. Stay informed about their bills, committees, and contributions.

I just called my US senators and told them to publicly call for Tim Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting and apparently breaking the hand of a Marine today.

You can call your Senators, too.

Find them here: reps.fyi

04.03.2026 23:26 ๐Ÿ‘ 1103 ๐Ÿ” 445 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3 ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
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We identified 12 shootings by federal agents that led to the deaths or injuries of citizens & immigrants since Sept.

Nearly every time, the Trump admin blamed the injured and dead. Experts say this apparent lack of accountability demands that local authorities step up to investigate federal agents.

05.03.2026 02:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 2168 ๐Ÿ” 963 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28 ๐Ÿ“Œ 39
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We canโ€™t clean up Washington without restoring integrity to the Supreme Court.

Thatโ€™s why I believe we should expand the Supreme Court to 13 justices. And then, institute term limits.

Because an appointment to the Supreme Court shouldnโ€™t mean a lifetime lack of accountability.

04.03.2026 02:35 ๐Ÿ‘ 9940 ๐Ÿ” 1956 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 275 ๐Ÿ“Œ 201

Let how exhausted I look here give you a window into how hard mutual aid organizers have been pushing to keep our neighbors safe and housed when no one else will. Please write to your councilmembers and the mayor and urge them to pass Pause Evictions, Save Lives!

04.03.2026 02:22 ๐Ÿ‘ 468 ๐Ÿ” 116 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

How can Congress pass a supplemental funding bill for a war it has not authorized?

04.03.2026 01:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 771 ๐Ÿ” 304 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Museum job!

04.03.2026 03:04 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 4 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Looks fascinating

04.03.2026 03:28 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Listening to the Past Listening to the Past: Digital Approaches to the History of Sound and Language March 19 โ€“ 20, 2026 | German Historical Institute, Washington, D.C. Workshop at the German Historical Institute Washingto...

Looking forward to co-presenting an invited talk with @sadiecouture.bsky.social at the German Historical Institute in Washington DC.

We'll discuss how we built - and more importantly have sustained - our Library of Congress academic/federal collaborative research project, now in its 12th year.

03.03.2026 22:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 34 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

So the Texas Supreme Court just ruled to pause the ruling allowing people to vote in Dallas County. They knew they couldn't beat her so they decided to mess with the votes. This is a preview of what's going to happen in November. Buckle up. Everyone needs to vote early in November.

04.03.2026 02:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 217 ๐Ÿ” 108 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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National Park Service database flags hundreds of items that might โ€˜disparageโ€™ America An internal government database reviewed by The Washington Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administrationโ€™s ongoing effort to revise or remove information on African American history, cl...

Exclusive: An internal government database reviewed by The Post demonstrates the vast scope of the Trump administrationโ€™s effort to revise or remove information on African American history, climate change and other topics at hundreds of national parks.

02.03.2026 22:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 178 ๐Ÿ” 92 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 11 ๐Ÿ“Œ 12
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Toward an Understanding of Fascist Aesthetics, Part I The question of whether or not we are living โ€œin fascismโ€ is, Iโ€™ve always thought, a kind of useless one, mostly because history does not go backwards: today there is not a โ€œreturnโ€ to fascism so much...

hello I am now a member of @flaminghydra.com and am kicking things off with a multi part series on fascist aesthetics and what their whole deal is flaminghydra.com/toward-an-un...

02.03.2026 23:34 ๐Ÿ‘ 458 ๐Ÿ” 94 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0