Aren Aizura
@incommensurati.bsky.social
no borders, no police, no prisons. no occupation of palestine. transsexual, aspiring inanimate object. also a theorist of trans and queer mobilities and social reproduction. gaza will be free.
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programs to be moved out of the Education Dept that affect Black students include Title I, which provides ~ $20B annually to low-income districts, and Title III, which supports and strengthens HBCUs. Both will be relocated to the Department of Labor. #BlackskyNews
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Attack on the Department of Education: What Black Borrowers Need to Know
Black college students and Black borrowers could be impacted by the shuffling of agency responsibilities.
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November 29, 2025 at 7:19 AM
programs to be moved out of the Education Dept that affect Black students include Title I, which provides ~ $20B annually to low-income districts, and Title III, which supports and strengthens HBCUs. Both will be relocated to the Department of Labor. #BlackskyNews
capitalbnews.org/department-e...
capitalbnews.org/department-e...
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I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
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The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
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November 26, 2025 at 3:14 PM
I wrote an essay for @bostonreview.bsky.social about what I learned about close reading when I taught at West Virginia University
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
November 29, 2025 at 5:08 PM
ICE still FROZEN at Centre St & Howard in lower Manhattan right now as calls continue circulating for people to join.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
NYPD arriving with barricades.
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ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
November 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ICE is STILL stuck inside the parking garage in lower Manhattan, and they seem pretty grumpy about it.
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The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
November 29, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The scene now at Lafayette and Howard, diagonal to the ICE garage which activists remain camped out in front of on both sides of the building.
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in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
November 29, 2025 at 12:47 AM
in this agreement, NU formally says it will define "sports, locker rooms, and showering facilities" by sex assigned at birth.
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the agreement finally forces the university to "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries" on minors.
November 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM
the agreement finally forces the university to "not perform hormonal interventions and transgender surgeries" on minors.
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Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
November 28, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Kneecap is suing Canadian MP Vince Gasparro for his lies and defamatory comments.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
I couldn’t possibly love this any more.
Took the toddler swimming today and when she got out of the pool, she said “Thanks you pool for swimming in the water!” She also thanked the door for opening earlier. Never knew “thank you” could become a toddler’s favorite word tbh
November 29, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Took the toddler swimming today and when she got out of the pool, she said “Thanks you pool for swimming in the water!” She also thanked the door for opening earlier. Never knew “thank you” could become a toddler’s favorite word tbh
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There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
There is no way to read these agreements, at a moment when the presidency is so obviously both lawless and unpopular, other than a willful collaboration by university administrators who see utility and purpose in the overreach by a flailing fascist government.
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Also, any lawyer or university administrator who uses "socialize" this way deserves to be locked in a lecture hall with the ghost of Talcott Parsons reading out loud from "The Social Structure of the Family."
November 29, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Also, any lawyer or university administrator who uses "socialize" this way deserves to be locked in a lecture hall with the ghost of Talcott Parsons reading out loud from "The Social Structure of the Family."
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Regime stenographers
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
How did the @nytimes.com editors let this sentence appear?
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
"Critics have likened Mr. Trump’s approach to extortion, while others have chalked it up as a cost of doing business with this administration."
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...
Northwestern University Nears Deal to Resolve Its Conflict With the White House
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November 29, 2025 at 1:14 AM
Regime stenographers
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
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I don't mean this in a self-congratulatory way because I had nothing to do with it, but other universities and the press are deliberately ignoring the fact that our union already won a permanent injunction against terminating funds this way. "Critics" here includes federal judicial precedent.
November 29, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I don't mean this in a self-congratulatory way because I had nothing to do with it, but other universities and the press are deliberately ignoring the fact that our union already won a permanent injunction against terminating funds this way. "Critics" here includes federal judicial precedent.
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The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
BREAKING: Northwestern University has agreed to pay the U.S. Treasury $75 million, over the course of three years as part of an agreement with the federal government to restore funding and end investigations into the university
Full statement from NU below:
Full statement from NU below:
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.
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this is also another great onion newspaper ad
November 29, 2025 at 1:26 AM
this is also another great onion newspaper ad
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This whole thread.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
An issue we're seeing at all levels of university is that many students are simply refusing to do *anything*. They aren't reading the syllabus, aren't following assignment guidelines, aren't engaging with material, ignoring deadlines. And this might seem like old news, but it truly has ramped up.
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
This whole thread.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
And I must add, trade school full of nontrads did not escape, so Jes is right that it absolutely isn't a "kids these days" issue or even just in academia. People are not firing on all cylinders. Worse, many don't seem to have noticed the check engine light.
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The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
November 28, 2025 at 7:35 AM
The university has made the recording of my talk available at the link below. In case of interest and you missed it.
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=kML5...
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this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss.
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You Loneliness Was a Design Decision Made by Your Enemy
or: they want us isolated because it's easier to sell us shit
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November 28, 2025 at 1:37 PM
this week's post is about why all of us dream of throwing our phones into the abyss.
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...
margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/you-loneli...
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Recreating the conditions of “broken homelands.” LOL no kidding. Would that the terrors of all those messed up nations had stayed on the other side of the Atlantic. Bringing their disease, oppressive religions and customs. The hypocrisy of rapacious settlers never ceases to shock.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Recreating the conditions of “broken homelands.” LOL no kidding. Would that the terrors of all those messed up nations had stayed on the other side of the Atlantic. Bringing their disease, oppressive religions and customs. The hypocrisy of rapacious settlers never ceases to shock.
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Trump and Miller want to turn the clock back to the era of American immigration politics I think few of us were taught honestly about in American public education, outside reading The Great Gatsby
November 28, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Trump and Miller want to turn the clock back to the era of American immigration politics I think few of us were taught honestly about in American public education, outside reading The Great Gatsby
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Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Look, if you're not an expert you wouldn't know, but this chart is bullshit. They could not possibly measure this as 1. How can you tell for sure? There's no reliable automated way. 2. You're not counting the many sites that are blocking crawlers now.
But there's an even more important reason...
But there's an even more important reason...
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November 27, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
This is not a useless task so long as there’s a chance just one person can see this and help.
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
So here’s hoping.
Six families, etc.:
Keep Hope Alive: a Gaza Giving Circle
We are a team of volunteers in the US and UK, led by two sisters passionate about helping our friends on the ground keep their families and neighbors alive with food, water, & shelter. We saw that their...
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November 28, 2025 at 1:45 AM
I was able to donate 50. It was doubled. Who can join me? Please.
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D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan, a Childhood Friend Said
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November 27, 2025 at 7:02 PM
D.C. Shooting Suspect ‘Could Not Tolerate’ the Violence of His C.I.A.-Backed Unit in Afghanistan
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...
“The units had been trained for nighttime raids targeting suspected Taliban members, & were accused by human rights groups of widespread killings of civilians.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/u...