I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

Climate denial is expensive! The American Academy of Actuaries warns that closing the National Center for Atmospheric Research — which the Trump regime calls “one of the largest sources of climate alarmism" — would lead to higher prices for home insurance and thus for housing itself.

the Erie County Sheriff’s Office who originally arrested and beat this man requested $428 million from Erie County to build a new jail complex, even though current buildings aren’t near capacity. They also got two new helicopters even though they can’t afford to outfit them. Defund the police.

Growing up, I never heard a woman described as a “genius.” Not even Madame Curie. “Genius” meant “male.” I never noticed this as a child. We weren’t meant to notice.

pretty wild to mention science anywhere in your bio but deny the scientifically validated fact that racist language is medically harmful and class power does not insulate Black people from the effects of racism but talk your white supremacist talk Johanna

stop calling us nazis just because we are invalidating IDs and rounding people up based on their skin color and putting them in concentration camps and sending them off to foreign gulags and using all that nazi imagery and banning books and dont forget about all the pedophilia. so just stop alright

(Free) How Jeffrey Epstein Beat the Justice System and Why This Story is Important open.substack.com/pub/jkbjourn...

Don't look away from the continued cruelty and horrors. Please keep calling your representatives, please keep showing up to protest these horrific actions, please keep caring.

"A blind dad of two has died after he was taken into custody by Border Patrol officers and allegedly left miles away from his home, according to reports."

This is truly some of the meanest shit I’ve ever heard of and I firmly believe the intended this to end with his death The Rohingya have already survived one genocide, one driven by lies spread on Facebook. The horror show is now continuing here.

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

Anyway if anyone wants to interview me about driver’s licenses, I hyperfocused my way through a dissertation about this and i think am one of maybe three experts on the topic

The coinage “administrative violence” emerged from within trans studies for a reason. In doing this, Kansas does usefully get rid of the pretense that “proper” legal identification should reflect how a person looks, which undermines the logical justification for photos on ID in the first place

I’m quoted quite a bit here so perhaps I’m biased but I feel this is a good run down of what the Epstein files tell us about how power works in academia. with some good commentary from @jessicacalarco.com, too:

Reconstruction and Nazi Germany are both instructive historical examples because they are both instances of a society actively (re-)introducing segregation after a period of increased integration

Same

The closing of African American Studies and GWSS at Iowa is absolutely heartbreaking. It is such an important time to study these subjects. Words really cannot express how upsetting this decision is. www.thegazette.com/higher-educa...

This is happening at schools across the country and similar to ignoring Trump’s racist attacks we’re seeing these moves being downplayed in the hopes of white racial reconciliation.

Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

This, basically:

Just throwing it out there because ya never know, but if you have $1100-$3000 to give and would like to cover a rent tonight, hit me up on Signal. I am asiniiwiikwe.72

There are currently over 1,780 citizens from the African continent fighting in the Russian army. The African fighters are from 36 different countries spread across the continent, according to the Ukrainian government. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

So after Trump pardoned Honduras's narco-president, the admin didn't just let him out--they canceled an immigration hold and sent a specialized team to **chauffeur him to the $1k/night Waldorf Astoria.** “It's "absolutely fucking nuts,” said one official www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Retribution for what they think the Union did to the secessionist states

One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

today it’s snowballs. tomorrow it could be marshmallows, pillows, stuffed animals, or worse

Fascist fucks.

Congrats to Fetterman for accomplishing the exact same thing Sinema did, and which will inevitably produce exactly the same result: an incumbent who plainly cannot win the primary for either party. There's no good reason for anyone to do that (there's plenty of bad reasons), but they did it! 🥳

More abolish ICE news: @senmikesimmons.bsky.social officially supports abolishing ICE & *introduced legislation* to make this IL's official stance! Just got this response from his office. 👊 * Also note he's running for IL-09 (Schakowsky's seat, in a race with lots of other progressives).

Man, they suuuuuuucccckkk

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

vp harris had a level of caution to her in politics that has hurt her in the past. you could see this in the 2020 cycle when she had chances to push ahead of biden but didnt. this caution showed up again in 2024 when she had momentum and then gave in to the consultant borg.

Belief in “grade scarcity” is downstream, I wager, of a lot of the same psychological antecedents as fascism

"Carvalho and the district’s elected board have expressed unanimous support for immigrant students, staff and families since President Donald Trump was elected to a second term. The superintendent has also spoken openly about his own journey as a former undocumented immigrant."

I think Harvard's plan to respond to the every-decade moral panic about grade inflation by capping A's is pedagogically obscene. Grades should be a measure of learning, not competition. Grade caps engender competition and anxiety where we should be teaching collaboration and a love of learning.

Back with another book video, this time about the remarkable new poetry collection from @bardsbesidebars.bsky.social *It’s Important I Remember* which is one of the most remarkable poetry collections I’ve read in years. Go out and get it!! #BookSky nupress.northwestern.edu/978081014964...

Our third feature for Black Futures Month is AJ Link, Director of Policy for New Disabled South. Re: Black disability liberation, he describes his determination to fight for a better future for Black disabled kin, thinking about parallels between now and the Reconstruction and Jim Crow apartheid.

Abolish DHS

tHeY JuSt NEeD mORe tRaIniNG

sometimes i open this app and see some of the posts and i'm like can you just take a break from being so ______ for like a day, jfc

Defund the police is very specific. The issue is the Black youth that articulated the position were met with eye rolls, even as they laid out their plan for an abolitionist movement. I've spoken to many of them, specificity isn't a problem, will is. Much like abolish ICE.

"My fellow Americans, we’re bringing money back to our country. We’re using a thing called tariffs. Here’s how it works: You have to pay more for things, and that money becomes the people’s money. (The people are my family and me.)"

Happy No Sleep Ever Again Day to all the transient astronomers out there! 🔭

"NSF-DOE Rubin issued 800,000 alerts the night of Feb. 24. The alerts called scientists' attention to new asteroids, exploding stars and other changes in the night sky. This milestone marks the launch of a system expected to eventually produce up to 7 million alerts per night." 🔭🧪

"Today, the Brazilian Supreme Court announced that they had convicted the masterminds behind the assassination of socialist Rio de Janeiro City Councilwoman Marielle Franco guilty on all counts." massive news in Brazil today, writeup by @mikeelk.bsky.social paydayreport.com/rio-police-c...

They're going to lie about birth control just as they did with trans people.

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This is just so craven and unfair to Jordan/Lindo/Baechler and Davidson. I don’t understand or I guess I do understand just how toxic racism is. It is just so depressing.

(cont) @erinbiba.bsky.social giving us the rundown on cozy lady murder detectives @swordsjew.bsky.social making us all mad at notable polar exploration maniacs @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social doing maybe my favorite presentation of the night, an incredibly funny rundown on bird taxonomy

presentations include: me ranting about rise of skywalker @chanda.blacksky.app ranting about star trek @moryan.bsky.social ranting about supernatural @clairewillett.bsky.social resurrecting her epic viral Friends thread about Joey and Rachel