If you are interested in #earlymodern architectural drawings and are an ECR under age 36, *APPLY FOR THIS*! Deadline: 20 April. #CFP

BREAKING: Judge Leon finds Trump likely lacks the authority to build the ballroom, blocks Trump admin from building unless Congress actually gives that authority. "[N]o statute comes close to giving the President the authority he claims to have." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Stephen Miller allegedly urged Department of Homeland Security agents to “force confrontations” with protesters in Minneapolis in order to win a “PR battle." trib.al/NcbpdiX

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

This is an astonishing read. The US-Israel coalition is burning through munitions at a financially and industrially unsustainable rate. The real danger is not just how much has been spent, but how hard it will be to replace. $26B spent, $50B to replenish.

FWIW absolutely no one I know who has expertise in spaceflight or planetary exploration thinks this is either remotely plausible or a good idea to attempt on such a timeline. The dominant reaction is somewhere on the spectrum between mockery and dismay. Real, important science was cancelled for this

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

Good people, please fill out those Anthropic claims. Settlement is going to be around $3000 per book. "Anthropic will pay $1.5 billion plus interest into a settlement fund, equating to approximately $3,000 for each work covered by the settlement." www.susmangodfrey.com/wins/susman-....

ICE officers getting paid for standing around doing nothing while TSA employees work without pay is a pretty succinct summation of where we're at right now

fucking horror show

ICE integrating facial recognition from airport security for their tracking of everyone, lovely

When I moved to UK in '08 my anarcho pals talked of undercover cops among them & I’d scoff re: their paranoia. “139 undercover officers spied on left-wing activists, assumed fake identities, hoovered up details of their political & personal lives.” I was so wrong. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

This is good news for Paris, of course, but it's also good for every other city. As Paris continues to demonstrate what is possible, other urban authorities will feel more pressure to follow its lead.

i’ve always said the generally hellish experience of going through TSA would be improved by bringing in other federal agents with no understanding of airports who love to shoot people

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Students, your teachers in the near future will either be robots or precarious workers in a gig economy. All of this will degrade your educations, your minds, and your chances in life.

It won't do much good in the short term to reduce consumption in this new fossil fuel crisis, but imagine if governments had actually cracked down on plug-in hybrid consumer fraud right from the start www.theguardian.com/environment/...

in which the kids are alright AND student newspapers continue to light the way "In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts+the outsourcing of academic thinking. AI cannot coexist with education — it can only degrade it." www.thedp.com/article/2026...

"NPR found five other people in Illinois, Oregon and Minnesota who...said they were arrested, seemingly without provocation, while protesting ICE and then had officers take or try to take what appeared to be a sample of their DNA." www.npr.org/2026/03/18/n...

Anarchist literature is now evidence of terrorism, according to the government. As is wearing black at a protest, carrying a first aid kit, or using Signal. Horrifying stuff is happening, it's happening quickly, and not nearly enough people are paying attention to it.

This is insane.

"The results are astonishingly clear. On rewilded land, biodiversity surged across the board, with the number of bird species up 261%. The variety of bumblebee and butterfly species more than doubled, their abundance increased over 10x." The cure for nature loss exists. share.google/w30RUdw1902W...

Those ugly, gaudy, ridiculous quartz countertops that were all the rage for a while—and still are, in some corners—are even uglier for workers.

"Facing the difficult task of making 💰 off of an unstorable, unmeasurable, indivisible, + lethal product—electricity—[co's] like Westinghouse, GE, + GM were particularly motivated. The electric refrigerator was valuable to them, precisely bc of its avarice. It consumed a lot of power all the time."

Very grateful for this thoughtful review of Diversity of Aesthetics out from @commonnotions.bsky.social in e-flux notes www.e-flux.com/notes/678346...

RIP Habermas, whose death follows that of his beloved Public Sphere

it’s unreal how these grown-ass men had no problem destroying untold lives with chatGPT but go crying to a judge when people make fun of them online

Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.

The discovery in our lawsuit with @historians.org & @modernlanguage.bsky.social reveals the impact of NEH grant cancellations on local communities, including High Point Museum in NC, which had a grant for HVAC improvements canceled after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI-related: https://bit.ly/40tzEew

I am old enough to remember the vitriol directed at random humanities scholars' work complaining about the totalizing tendencies of capitalism to corrupt, colonize, or co-opt everything. I also lived long enough to read long term coverage of the literal attempt to privatize thinking in the newspaper

“We at the Office of the Solicitor put the American worker first by shoring up the social contract that affirms work as service to God, to family, to community and to the nation.” Tough luck if you aren’t a white Christian man or want to make it through the workday without losing a limb, though

"Jennifer Schuessler has meticulously documented the destruction since the beginning... But there’s something about seeing a callow young man blank out when asked why he destroyed so much that really brings home the mindless destruction of this campaign." www.lawandchaospod.com/p/doge-bros-...

I knew that the Department of War shot a missile into a school & killed 175 civilians, mostly children. This is learned today: Secretary of War Hegseth had cut the teams assigned to prevent such tragedies by 90%. www.npr.org/2026/03/11/n...

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

He declared all of Lake's actions over the past year to be null and void, including the layoffs of more than 1,000 journalists and staffers. n.pr/4sy0uhE

Today is International Women’s Day! Browse a number of online and open access collections of historical feminist and women’s liberation materials from around the world as part of the Radical Online Archives list. hatfulofhistory.com/radical-onli...

Multiple news outlets are reporting a US attack on an Iranian #desalination plant. If verified, this violates international law protecting #water systems during wars, and it sets a dangerous precedent, given intense dependence of Gulf countries on desalination. timesofoman.com/article/1691...

All of this stuff is fundamentally about the erasure of consent. At the core of these products is the assertion that your very existence is a tacit agreement to feed the machine.

"between 2 million and 8 million gallons of drinking water per day" for a single data center campus or: between 3 and 12 Olympic size swimming pools (50 meter x 25 meter x 2 meter) every day.

they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the “narco-terrorist” boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends

I haven't said anything about this before, bc in the grand scheme of horrors this only rates as an inconvenience, but since others are experiencing it: Just three days after CBP arrested me for filming them outside Broadview on 9/27, my TSA Pre & Global Entry were suspended—and so were my wife's.

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

Hey that’s about the cost of the SSI Restoration Act, which would cut recipient poverty by 60%, eliminate marriage penalties, and modernize draconian asset limits.

Just like during the J20 trails and the anti-Cop City RICO case, the state wants to make first amendment activity: speech, flyers, grassroots organizing - all symbiosis with "terrorism." These attempts are a threat against everyone who is pushing for a better world.

Israel just saying that its policy is to replace Iran with an enormous and destabilizing failed state it seems that because the US has no plan, it has just cleaved to the Israeli plan despite it being horrible, and specifically horrible for American interests www.axios.com/2026/03/03/i...

structurally indifferent to truth is a good line

The WSJ is reporting that AI, specifically Claude, was used in targeting for the attacks by the Epstein Empire. That would mean the use of AI led directly to the massacre of 115 schoolchildren and 20 volleyball players. www.wsj.com/livecoverage...

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