The political right is operating under the guise that attempts to address racial inequality are “actually” racist against White people. This was the same racist logic used by White enslavers when Reconstruction efforts attempted to legitimize Black people as citizens

folx, I’ve been working on AI "ethics" for almost a decade now & hate to tell you there’s no such thing as "ethical AI" the only "ethical principle" that works is regulating the shit out of the industry & to take back control of our autonomy, fundamental rights, freedoms & right to exist w/out AI

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

Unfortunately I know a teacher in Colorado who worked at multiple agencies before working in a school, then a different district before the paper trail of investigations finally caught up with him. Multiple students were harmed & violated as his allegations weren’t shared from one place to the other

The systematic war on Palestinian farming in the West Bank is an enraging travesty both for cultural identity and food security.

In the fear-driven rush to address “learning loss,” so many districts forked over so much money looking for easy answers. But packaged deals like this NEVER live up to the hype (and more often than not, effectively steal valuable sources that could be better used elsewhere)

I thought I knew some things about old Walt, but wowza

Local police are getting bankrolled by ICE to inflict harm on their own communities. When we say that the deportation agenda isn't possible without local cooperation, this is exactly what we mean.

I'm sure that it's a coincidence that all of the people doing the disenfranchising are white people.

This is basically a lawsuit to determine who has the right to exploit academic workers: Elsevier, who relies on academics to write and peer review everything for free, or the AI companies

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

You booked the cruise honey? Oh I’m so excited! It’s my dream to be trapped in a corny hotel on the ocean getting casino entertainment & calling seeing tourist traps at the ports of third world countries travel & incubating with outbreaks of rare diseases!

I was at a store recently behind a white guy at the checkout who was telling the clerk, “yeah I actually moved to TN recently and it’s amazing there, everyone’s so nice, it’s like a Hallmark movie,” and this is a reminder that anti-Black violence is behind idyllic white American Dream fantasies

As someone who was into the punk scene in the 90s/00s, this explained the 1:1 in the wealthy suburbs to horrid pop punk pipeline

“More blue districts” is not the same as protecting Black voting power - this is something that must be made clear as the VRA is demolished and redistricting wars continue to escalate

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

Reading can be a pleasure and leisure that activates the imagination. We separate reading from a capitalist definition of productivity and reject the oppressive colonial systems of indoctrination and subtle reprogramming that distort the way we read with isms and phobias.

From our SJP Manifesto: "Most people struggle with reading and are capable of changing their relationship to reading. Reading as an academic, elitist practice can make us feel ashamed and embarrassed for not having read specific things in order to be considered “well read.”

The Trump administration is closing the office responsible for investigating misconduct and abuse in the immigration detention system, per an email obtained by HuffPost

Please read books.

My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now

May the 4th be with you

This product should not exist. www.wsj.com/us-news/chat...

If you were to design a program to destroy the Black middle class in America, it would look exactly like what they're doing.

What is the common thread between purging the entire Federal civil service, war on DEI, war on the Southern Poverty Law Center, financial destabilization of HBCU's, curtailing of NEH cultural grants, rewriting of National Park Service sites, rollback of protections against predatory payday loans?

I keep thinking about the ease with which they cancelled elections over the last 24 hours

I do frequently wonder what the average citizen of the U.S. knows about Reconstruction. As Du Bois would later point out, the backlash of lost cause propaganda didn’t just create mass disinformation about the civil war itself, but about the opening for actual democracy that briefly came after it.

Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.

We must understand the racist political rhetoric, the erasure and attacks on Black history, the reinstalling of Confederate names and monuments, all go hand-in-hand as the Court and Congress legitimize the taking of political rights and the end of multiracial democracy itself.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

A periodic reminder to journalists covering the indictment against the Southern Poverty Law Center that our union released a statement about this that you can find here.

A hero whose heroism consists of killing people is uninteresting to me, and I detest the hormonal war orgies of our visual media, the mechanical slaughter of endless battalions of black-clad, yellow-toothed, red-eyed demons.

84 percent of Trump's Truth Social posts referring to a person as “low IQ” were directed at Black or Brown people, most recently Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and former MAGA ally Candace Owens.

“Well, you see, at first Saruman said he was using the orb for good, but now he’s just talking to this glowing eye all the time, and I’m not so sure…”

When folks are selling AI as an accommodation tool for disabled students, they are selling individualism. This individualism is infused with neoliberal whiteness where the disabled person is a consumer & producer only focused on their needs, not part of of a collective political identity.

One of the wildest fictions of this AI “academic” article is how quickly it went from submission to publication lol

Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement

My students know practically nothing about the OKC Bombing, and even fewer know the name Timothy McVeigh. I’ve been trying to highlight this event more, because the culmination of white supremacist conspiratorial ideologies with violence points us toward a deeper understanding of this country.

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

The red line shows homicides between 2018 and 2025. The blue line, the number of local government employees. They are mirror images. The blue line trends w/ARPA, a $350B investment in local government. The red line trends down as 1 million teachers, counselors, and clinicians enter the workforce.

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This will prey on people and lead to delusion and self-harm, akin to those who have used AI for “therapy.” Using religious persuasion as a tech tool is extra nefarious and evil.

The U.S. just killed five more people in its latest boat strikes. The death toll of these extrajudicial killings is almost 170 civilians. And more deaths are on the horizon. Pentagon Reveals Attacks in Latin America Are Just the Beginning theintercept.com/2026/03/23/t...

I’ll stand on the claim that for reasons like this, Nirvana was such an important intervention (I was in middle school when they broke out)

Melania: “imagine having an AI Socrates as your teacher…” Donald: “hey look at my new shit post I made with me as an AI Jesus lol”

The Trump administration is lying about Lebanon’s inclusion in the Iran ceasefire deal that officials agreed to on Tuesday, as new reporting citing “multiple diplomatic sources” found that Trump agreed to pause bombardments on the country before Israel launched a horrific wave of airstrikes.

On Tuesday evening, as the anxiety, hurt and fear of millions settled into an uneasy and impermanent sense of relief, one sentiment was widely expressed: this is no way to live.

NEW: ICE facilities’ medical staff repeatedly failed to diagnose critical illnesses and misdiagnosed patients, @kolyncheang.bsky.social and I found, during a six month investigation that we have just published. www.sfchronicle.com/projects/202...