Also in case anyone thinks “no, it wouldn’t look like this if Biden or Harris were president,” may I present to you photos from 4 different news outlets from DECEMBER 2023. Who, exactly, was president (and vice president) in December 2023? WHO???

In case it needs to be said, my page is not a welcome space for Biden and Harris apologists when it comes to Palestine. As I replied to this comment: Gaza ABSOLUTELY still would have looked like this if Kamala had won. THAT is the reason folks (including me) were mad at and about her.

Just killed nine acres of trees and it told me to try saying "hi"

University leaders: [terminate programs, close campuses, cave in to political pressure from demagogues] Faculty, students, staff: you’re killing the university Management consultants: looks like you got a real comms challenge here

Border Patrol “attempted to arrest a plumber working inside a Logan Heights home but left empty-handed after the homeowner refused them entry. The homeowner told agents she would not allow them inside because the warrant they presented did not include her address and lacked a judge's signature.”

I’m guessing many academics will be interested in Qualtrics’s role in all this

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison. Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

I found a 19th century Cat Villain!

White people who have spent decades thinking “Born in the USA” is patriotic and “Every Breath You Take” is a great wedding song are suddenly very concerned about not being able to understand lyrics to some songs at the Super Bowl halftime show.

they are not "trying" to exert influence, they ARE influencing elections already.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

know what's good? a great lecture by someone who really knows their shit

I made this point on TikTok in April (www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8AmJuBH/ c. 4:30) but it bears repeating: the point of this man, to the admin (& esp miller), is a v particular manipulation & evasion of intl law in the service of manufacturing consent. It didn’t work, so now they’re retaliating against him.

So Kilmer Abrego-Garcia will not challenge a deportation to Costa Rica, who has agreed to for him residency, but DHS won’t agree to send him there because it’s not cruel enough. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

bitch what

Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on! Boss: I have an idea

Can't think of anything else that this looks like other than the aftermath of Hiroshima or Nagasaki (actually just looked at pictures of the fire bombing of Dresden, and there were more building standing after that that this)

In the 2010s, this country's elites were thrown onto social platforms with everyone else and could finally read what we all think about them and it caused them so much psychic damage that they decided to destroy both the internet and democracy to make sure nothing like it ever happened again.

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One great aspect of iconic inflatable costumes (aside from how they instantly undermine propaganda about war zones) is that it's useless to arrest the person wearing one. Cuffing a frog would make law enforcement look pathetic. And carting one off just guarantees that more will show up the next day.

Bar associations need to start disbarring. There's immediate precedent with Giuliani. To the point @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social has repeatedly made, a polity that allows elites to repeatedly lie, obviously and with impunity, is not sustainable. Feels like the legal profession is at the same juncture.

If you haven’t seen it, this footage from @apnews.com is incredibly important. The intent here seems unmistakable, in two ways: (1) just read the genocide convention, here it **absolutely** is, and (2) this level of infrastructural destruction is, no question, meant as pre-development demolition.

It also reveals to me, constantly, how little time any of those journalists with such a big platform have actually SPENT in university classrooms. Especially public universities, where the majority of students are and virtually no one from the vaunted NYT or the Atlantic went.

I’ve been thinking about how US media (on all sides of the political spectrum) have been on a tear for decades now radicalizing the public (there is no other word for it but radicalizing) against the very idea of universities. The NYT, the Atlantic, WSJ, it’s been a concerted decades-long effort.

Roughly 1500 books published by my employer, Duke University Press, are named in the list of books Anthropic stole to build their AI. That's almost 1/3 of the books Duke UP now has in print. Now think of all publishers big and small and try to picture the total amount of stolen work. Inconceivable.

Maybe this is a millennial thing or maybe it’s just me, but I have, etched into my memory, the fact that Snowden made journalists put their phones in the freezer before he would speak. Not just airplane mode, not just off. And that was in, what, 2013? The tech has gotten better (worse) since then.

These steps are important, but folks need to understand that if they’re using tech of any kind there are limits to how much they can actually protect you. There are innovations that are more effective (mesh networks etc), but please god STOP trusting technology.

this is as open an admission that an entire agency is engaging in routine constitutional violations that I can imagine

Literally there was an article in *Time Magazine* two days ago abt how risk of long COVID doubles (doubles!!) w/ a second COVID infection. If you haven’t found a high-quality mask that works for you, do so. There are many. And wear it when you are sharing air w/ folks you don’t know, at very least.

Apple did something very similar to the people of Hong Kong in 2019, removing an app that allowed protesters to track police movements via crowdsourced information: gizmodo.com/apple-sells-...

they don't care because they will go around unmasked when they *know* they are sick.

il n'y a pas de hors-texte

your own. . . virtual. . . Jesus. AI to hear your prayers AI that cares

The internet is filled with people ‘doing their own research’ who are unable to understand what they’re reading

How many tears—how much blood— must Black America shed, all while you demand we do your moral housekeeping?

We are at the point where ICE's gestapo raids -- whole buildings being cleared and residents hauled off in the middle of the night, no questions asked -- are being reported in People magazine.

More boats. More flotillas. Beautiful.

✨ICONIC! ✨

I didn’t go through 12 years of medical training to check immigration status before deciding if a life is worth saving.

this is the worst I've seen happen to someone in a panel and I am an analytic philosopher

If they claim they haven't heard the quote, play it for them and ask for a response. If they claim it's being taken out of context, play a longer version and ask for a response. If they try to sidestep the issue, play it over again and ask for a response.

My favorite thing is that the people on campus who are falling for AI and pushing hard to use it in class are the usual suspects: VP of IT, the College of Business, the College of Engineering, and the technology teaching support staff who have no teaching responsibilities.

yes, this has always been self evident--they say so openly on Twitter! I don't know why our lords and masters in higher education cannot understand that we are MARKS; that our students are experimental subjects; that this is eventually going to be about the wholesale automation of higher ed.

“It’s a scary moment, but it’s also a moment that bears no equivocation. At this point you are either on the side of protecting our neighbors and protecting our community, or you’re on the side of this administration. There is no neutral ground. There is no center left.“ - @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social

This is also why I cannot comprehend transphobic disabled people: do you imagine we are not next? One of the most frequently cited scholars on ableism studies is an open terf, and it irks me endlessly when I see them cited.

“This administration’s strategy is to just push the most horrific developments possible and see what sticks, see what they can get away with. And so the imperative on us to resist is higher than ever.”

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Multiple COVID-19 infections pose a risk for developing Long COVID. People who got infected twice with COVID-19 were twice as likely as those who got COVID-19 once to develop Long COVID symptoms that affect the major organs in the body. time.com/7322188/covi...

Assata Shakur's story, Marian Jones writes in @teenvogue.com, is "also a reminder of the impact of COINTELPRO, and how it continues to impact activists today through technological surveillance, the criminalization of protest, and the targeting of dissidents." Shakur passed in Cuba on Friday.