Trump immigration chief Ken Cuccinelli twisted the famous words on the Statue of Liberty in support of the Trump administration's new crackdown on legal immigrants, saying "Give me your tired and your poor who can stand on their own two feet." n.pr/31CUVSA

The Trumpian school of literary criticism:

A few words on why Gaetz stunt to storm the SCIF to disrupt Laura Cooper's deposition is a VERY serious national security problem. Note, I worked in that SCIF for HPSCI and handled cybersecurity issues while there.

"They use the internet better than almost anyone in the world, perhaps other than Donald Trump," the president says of ISIS.

The obscene manichaeism of Trump's press conference, his evident and ugly pleasure in narrating the hunting and self-immolarion of the "savage monster" Baghdadi.

Trump refused to begin testing early, because he thought higher numbers would hurt his re-election prospects. This isn't an ambiguous situation. This is why we're here.

Here's the B side to all those pictures of empty Trader Joe's shelves you're seeing on social media: nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/…

Spoiler alert: it is! newyorker.com/magazine/2020/…

Everything wrong with monetized "mommy blogging," white savior-ism, and dominant discourses about autism in one incredibly ugly nutshell buzzfeednews.com/article/stepha…

I’m getting scared that we’re forgetting Breonna Taylor- those cops haven’t even been arrested. Please remember black women. Please let’s keep fighting for her.

Realized today that for too many white people, the police like TaskRabbit: something in your neighborhood seems weird, off, out-of-place--just call the police to "take care of it."

my partner is zoom directing a dissertation defense in another room and just overhearing the opening, "So, tell us about the evolution of your dissertation project..." is triggering some PTSD (not that my own PhD defense was "traumatic", per se, but oy, I remember the stress)

When #JohnLewis's grandmother died there was a Klan bounty on him. The Troy AL funeral home (Harrison) who had her body, slipped him in to say his farewells, and safely got him away. Black funeral homes were a Civil Rights era political site and sanctuary. Our history #PassedOn

Don't mess with The Linda Lindas. Watch the full concert: lapl.me/YQ2UH9o

"From Greg Tate’s work, I learned that a small intimacy with my dissatisfactions is how I end up here, on the other side, writing with a fluorescent affection about the things I love if only because they have convinced me, again, to stay in the world."

Our special issue "Pedagogy: Critical Practices for a Changing World," edited by Carol Batker, Eden Osucha, and Augusta Rohrbach, is freely available as part of Duke University Press's Critical University Studies Syllabus. Check out the other great scholarship here: