This is so, so well-articulated.

Yes, I am tired of wearing a respirator mask every single I I leave the house. No, I will not stop wearing one. I am adult enough to be able to be tired, honest, and responsible all at the same time. It is not that hard, really.

Not a single thing we were told about #COVID turned out to be correct. A long thread 🧵

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

"World Athletics’ mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know – I discovered the relevant gene in 1990". www.mcri.edu.au/news/insight...

One thing that's been frustrating me INTENSELY this last few years is a pattern of brilliant Autistic autism researchers, doing important & fascinating work, struggling to get jobs in academia, or being pushed out of jobs they had before. Most universities seem unable to see how valuable they are.

I recommend reading the ProPublica article about ICE's practice of detaining children. This little section plus some data I've been working with recently has me thinking about how accountability looks given immigration enforcement devolution. www.propublica.org/article/trum...

I think this is a symptom of the white people thing where the collective delusion that is engrained in us by society is that all white people are inherently good and so if you can try and understand why they are bigots then you can talk them out of it. You can’t. And trying to honestly does harm.

Dolores Huerta's statement on Cesar Chavez: “I am nearly 96 years old, and for the last 60 years have kept a secret because I believed that exposing the truth would hurt the farmworker movement I have spent my entire life fighting for... I can no longer stay silent and must share my own experiences"

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

Long COVID can affect anyone — regardless of age, health status, or how mild their initial infection seemed. Preventing infection and reinfection of COVID-19 is the best way to avoid Long COVID.

Spot on, from @bakerdphd.bsky.social. Higher ed did NOT defend academic freedom in the McCarthy era, and most faculty were silent or indifferent. And now?

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

This is eugenics. Genocide. An attack on science, medical ethics, bodily autonomy, and human rights. Where is the outcry from the biomedical community? Trans people aren't just abstract patients and research participants: We're your friends, family, and co-workers. Speak up before it's too late

This is what it really comes down to. Masks are a reminder the pandemic isn’t over. 🔹COVID is airborne 🔹Each infection carries cumulative risk 🔹Long COVID has no cure 🔹The pandemic isn’t over 🔹Wearing a mask is still one of the best ways to protect yourself and others Stay informed. Stay safe.

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

“The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.”

To do this, anti-trans lawmakers in Kansas moved fast to change the law, overrode the governor’s veto, and pushed for the legal changes to go into effect nearly immediately. That kind of power—to void gender on official documents, to compel gender conformity—is terrifying and it will not stop here.

Text excerpt of H.R.7661 on Congress.gov, ending its definition of "sexually oriented material" with: “(ii) involves gender dysphoria or transgenderism.”. Legislation can be seen in full, including a link to contact your member of congress at: www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c... (Alt text added)

“‘The persecution is the point,’ said Rep. Abi Boatman, a Wichita Democrat and the only transgender member of the Legislature, who received the [Kansas Dept of Revenue] notice on Wednesday.” To underscore that: a Kansas state legislator is among those whose driver’s license will be voided. (🎁 link:)

Crime against humanity level shit.

CW: transphobia. See, this is why it can be painful to know too much history.🫤 This post implies that what is happening in Kansas is *similar* to what the nazis did. But it's not just similar. It's *identical*. In 1933, nazis revoked trans people's documents. Before 1938. Paragraph 175 and 183.

His name is Nazgul :)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

"I think ultimately we’re a subculture, but instead of being centered around a style of clothing or music, we’re centered on anti-ableism, and it makes our commitment more powerful" -- Camille Mai, Rebirth Canal

Farm workers pruning apple trees in WA state tell us, "The fog makes everything wet. This makes the work more difficult and dangerous. It also means we can't meet our minimum quota. They pay 45 cents per tree." #WeFeedYou

"Ariana" shares, "After a day of picking lemons, I come home super tired with back pain and bruises around my neck from carrying a full bag. I go up and down a ladder all day long. I earned $35 per 900lb bin." #WeFeedYou

I asked my friend who avoids getting sick why she does it, and she said: because I believe humans are worth protecting. And I asked my friend who avoids artificial intelligence why she does it, and she said: because I believe humanity is worth protecting.

Brandi Carlile's accompaniment for "America the Beautiful" before the game last night was SistaStrings. The duo, Chauntee and Monique Ross, played another American anthem, "Lift Every Voice and Sing," on the Library's Stradivarius instruments in 2024. Here's a clip of that impromptu performance. ⬇️

We are in a small community outside Minneapolis and a child arrived to an empty house on Friday. No parents, ice kidnapped them and just leave children to wander alone after school

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

Concentration camps: “For 280 days we haven’t eaten a single piece of fruit, banana, apple, orange, or anything fresh. We are all in one big room with no doors or windows. We can’t see any grass or trees. We are all constantly sick."

An ongoing pattern of violating human rights, including children. It seems doubtful the government will obey the judicial order, considering so many others it continues to defy.

I just want as much attention and awe for the young people of color who are defending their families in majority POC communities as there is for the white people who are supporting their neighbors in historically white communities lataco.com/lapd-arrests...

Add ableism to this list. Words matter

“You can dispute Newman’s interpretations or tone. But the move she makes is decisive: she shifts the debate from emotion to ownership, from attitudes to command structures, from guilt to institutional inheritance.That is why the response has been so fierce.” medium.com/@evansd66/ki...

MUST READ this powerful, intimate dispatch from Minneapolis by @propublica.org visual journalists @peterdicampo.bsky.social (who lives there) & @cengizyar.com This is America.

Quilicura, Chile, one of the communities I wrote about in EMPIRE OF AI, has launched a brilliant initiative to inspire more responsible AI prompting. Today, don't use AI; ask the townspeople instead: quili.ai. So heartened to see this creative act of resistance.

Happening today: "WE WANT TO BRING THE WORLD’S ATTENTION TO HOW THE FRIVOLOUS USE OF AI PROMPTS HAS A DIRECT EFFECT ON OUR WATER RESOURCES. SO, FOR ONE DAY, WE ASK YOU TO NOT USE AI, AND INSTEAD USE US. A GROUP OF LOCAL QUILICURA RESIDENTS WHO’VE COME TOGETHER TO SERVE AS YOUR AI." www.quili.ai/info

"The conditions in this facility are absolutely abysmal. They mix baby formula with water that is putrid. The food has bugs in it. One of my clients had appendicitis, collapsed in the hallway, was vomiting from pain, and the officials told him, take a Tylenol"

So for Dems, the win is: reiterating 3 things that are already law, 1 thing that is a best practice, and 1 thing that was already a rule up until 6 months ago? From the bottom of my heart: fuck off with this. And they didn't even include ICE out of hospitals, healthcare facilities and daycares.

This is dystopian… and not just because they’re dressed like a scene from the handmaids tale. These are mostly children. This is where Liam Ramos is being held. They’re screaming “let us out” and protesting the brutal conditions. These kids are braver than every ICE thug holding them hostages

Concentration camp victims protest! The incredible bravery and fortitude and care involved in doing this ✊🏽 ‘some of them holding signs that included “Libertad para los niños,” or “Liberty for the kids.”‘

ICE detained a 2-year-old girl in Minneapolis and put the child on a flight to a detention center in Texas, despite a court ordering her release: www.startribune.com/agents-detai...

In October, ICE grabbed Maher Tarabishi. He was a 24/7 caregiver for his disabled son Wael. At the time of Maher’s detention, disability advocates warned that taking away Wael’s caregiver put his life at risk. Wael died on Friday at age 30. ICE caused his death. They didn’t get to say goodbye.

We should stop referring to what ICE agents wear as “masks,” as it feeds into stigmatization and actual legislation to ban face-masks, including respirators. ICE agents technically do not wear masks; they wear neck gaiters. However we should refer to them as what they actually are: hoods

We do not get out of fascism by saving ourselves and turning our backs on others. We get out through solidarity with everyone—especially the most vulnerable.

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

*Clears throat* This is what you all endorsed when you agreed that the value of a life was less than brunch, and didn’t care if high risk people bore the brunt of “profit over people” policies (many from 'Left' gov'ts). The pandemic broke a leaky dam. And most chose selfishness over solidarity.

discussions abt raising birth rates always seem to boil down to promoting heterosexual marriage and like sorry yall but i think that ship has sailed. women have had a taste of life outside coerced marriage and too few men seem willing to become proper adults who pull their weight as equal partners