Today, a coalition of groups are convening in Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, to begin a caravan to the Adelanto ICE facility in Southern California, where detainees have been on hunger strike for weeks. Just as at Delaney Hall, detainees report abysmal conditions, rotten food, and retaliation
“Startups like Axiom promise, ‘We stand at the threshold of a mathematical renaissance.’ The collective market capitalization of such ventures would suffice to fund 200 math PhDs—the number lost this year in the United States due to cuts to graduate programs—every year for the next 500 years.”
“If this kind of austerity can happen at The News School, it can happen everywhere. Faculty all over the country need to be on guard. We need strong labor unions.”
— Jeremy Varon, New School AAUP President on @democracynow.org today.
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1,954 active 287(g) agreements now deputize state and local police for immigration enforcement, up from 134 at the start of 2025. The profiling-prone task force model is back.
See the data here: austinkocher.substack.com/p/this-week-...
Grading week! We hear so much about how everything is falling apart. Which it is, but in the midst of that, I’m still really proud of what happens in my classroom. For all the barriers the world places in the way, my students think hard and well and searchingly and I believe in what we do together.