Good news: “A federal judge issued a last minute reprieve on Feb. 2, blocking President Donald Trump's attempt to end temporary protected status for hundreds of thousands of Haitian immigrants in the U.S.
The status [allows] about 350,000 Haitians to legally live and work in the United States”

We reiterate our demand, alongside our siblings in GSU-UE, @nationalnurses.bsky.social, Faculty Forward, and the Lab School Faculty Association, that the University of Chicago act immediately to exclude ICE and CBP from all buildings without a judicial warrant.

Earliest known photograph of a snowman, ca. 1854, taken by Mary Dillwyn (most likely in Wales).

The first image in our post collecting photographs of snowmen through history (1854–1950) — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-snowmen/

A DEMOCRATIC argument for close reading. I loved every word and it was a balm today to me to focus on the detail.

The Genocide and Holocaust Studies Crisis Network invites you to an online panel: "Denying Genocide: Comparative Reflections from Armenia, Bosnia, the Holocaust, and Palestine."

Register for this November 17 event here: wakeforest-university.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Georgia O'Keeffe carrying her canvas in the desert, c.1920
(via FB) #WomensArt

U Chicago AAUP fights back docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A new review of Alenka Zupancčič's Disavowal -- Patrick Pender gives a lucid account of Zupančič's Lacan, and her understanding of our inability to face climate change and capitalism as a shift from collective psychosis to perversion olrsupplement.com/2025/06/23/d...

*International students represent about 15% of all higher ed students.
*They subsidize US students, so expect domestic student costs to increase
*Trump complains about tariffs but he is destroying an industry where the US is a huge net exporter
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/23/u...

How in the world did I miss this in January .... Tom Geue (@tomgeue.bsky.social), Major Corrections: An Intellectual Biography of Sebastiano Timpanaro (@versobooks.bsky.social, 2025; #skystorians) www.versobooks.com/products/312...

For the Monday morning crowd: a 🧵on how to appeal your NEH grant termination. Please share with NEH grantees.

I also summarized in a shareable google doc, available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

AAUP has just published a memo laying out the many legal reasons why universities should not hand over the names & nationalities of their students or faculty, as the Trump admin has asked. Please share freely with your friendly university admin! @aaup.bsky.social www.aaup.org/news/institu...

A flyer you can distribute on how to handle ICE if they come to your campus: