Anything less than abolishing ICE is unacceptable. I don't want to hear people talk about training these motherfuckers or throwing more money at them. The entire institution needs to be permanently disbanded. Do not let politicians sell you on anything less.

"When you're accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression." - Franklin Leonard

once again shoutout to every dipshit who insisted it was hysterical to talk about trump and white supremacy in the same breath www.rawstory.com/trump-267487...

We are in unprecedented times. Everyone is on edge. Peaceful protest Boycotts Strikes Armed resistance These are all legal. These are all important. Remember who the enemy is. Love to you all. 💙💙💙

No one's goal should be open conflict. If thats why you want to carry arms, you arent doing this for the right reason. But every single fucker in a mask should know there is a good chance they aren't going home to their families if they threaten our lives. (Continued below)

So what do we do? Maybe, for once, we should look to the black community for education. Because they have been facing this level of brutality from law enforcement for decades. So what does the Black Panther resistance look like specifically? (Continued below)

So to go back to what I said originally that got everyone in a tizzy. No, we should not be planning an attack on the Capitol or an armed conflict with the military. Thats silly and its a strawman argument. Dont do that. It weakens the entire movement. (Continued below)

All of this was important. And, fun fact, both men were assasinated. Because our government saw both arms of this larger movement to be threatening to their tyranny. So for one arm to condemn the other: "peaceful protest is useless" or "dont anger the fascists" is counter productive. (Cont. Below)

A well known example that we can learn from is the civil rights movement. Malcom X and the Black Panthers were resistance fighters. (Still are) Martin Luthor King Jr. was a protest leader and helped organize resistance movements like the Montgomery bus boycotts. (Continued below)

Resistance is another arm of a large movement. Some people resist, others protest. Many do both. Resistance is the wrench in the machine. Some resistance is done through things like boycots and strikes. Both are also important. Other resistance is more confrontational. (Continued below)

Renee was trying to get out of their way when she was murdered. She was unarmed. There will be no consequences, at least short term, from our government. Federal or otherwise. This has been the case with law enforcement and their abuse of BIPOC communities for a very long time. (Continued below)

There’s a GoFundMe for Jonathan Ross’s legal expenses for murdering Renee Good. This violates GoFundMe’s Terms of Service. Everyone must report it. A thread on how to do that 🧵

This is a cartoon about housing.

Exactly this. As someone smarter than me once observed: “You are not ‘stuck in traffic’; you *are* traffic.”

They’re opposed to preventative healthcare policy because they believe they’re an intervention in the natural eugenic hierarchy, framing this as an issue of “government overreach” while they’re literally banning healthcare for disfavored groups assists in that effort.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court is going to hear West Virginia's effort to ban the state's only transgender athlete, 15-year-old Becky Pepper-Jackson. Win or lose, I need your help making sure Becky knows she's a hero for standing up for what's right

This is a good article about the history of Parkinson’s research & the influence of genes & the environment on the disease. If you teach biology this is a good article to share with your students to discuss not only research priorities but the need to understand our environment as well as genetics

"In every society fallen to authoritarianism, the state goes after the press first+ closes in on universities next. All of us who live, work,+learn within the university should think of our institution as part of the larger constitutional structure of the nation." www.chronicle.com/article/univ...

Want to reduce risk for dementia? Get vaccinated! 🩺 I will explain how this works...

they've got Raffi calling for regime change. something has shifted.

The reactionary centrist logic is simple: if the left does something bad it’s the left’s fault, and if the right does something bad, it’s also the left’s fault for making them do it. It’s a simple formula and once you see it every one of their arguments is the same

A woman recording an ICE agent tells him "Shame on you." The agent responds, "Have you all not learned from the past couple of days?" "Learned what?" she asks Then he knocks her phone out of her hand

Oh, this is a crushing disappointment. Not only because we won’t get the samples which will teach a lot, but the challenge of returning the samples would’ve taught infinitely more. We are losing so much knowledge from this decision.

This is not a good plan. There’s a reason we have different people to have different departments. And understanding education is a form of expertise.

“Saruman believes it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love.” - Gandalf (Tolkien)

Rather than dampen their enthusiasm for green energy, I have found this approach increases their trust in geoscience, & their faith that we can make a better future. My fear is that failing to make the messiness of the energy transition crystal clear pushes away more of the public than it attracts.

I contribute to this problem. I study copper in magmas, and teach classes on mining. But I don’t make the mistake of framing the problem as simply a technical challenge. I try to have my students grapple with the political, ethical, cultural, & ecological challenges of the green energy transition.

Geology in the 19th and 20th centuries wedded itself to empire and exploitation. Can the 21st century break this pattern? doi.org/10.1080/0308...

But in the face of increasing state-pressure on scientists, we shouldn’t shirk our responsibility to contextualizing our work in crystal clear terms. And stating clearly what ethical red lines we refuse to cross. Failing to do so reads as naive at best, and complicit at worst.

Admitting this shouldn’t undercut people’s faith in the green energy transition, or in the importance of scientific expertise. Rather, it honestly engages with how necessary the green energy transition is, while acknoweding the ambiguity of the impacts moving to new energy. doi.org/10.1016/j.ex...

Avoiding the non-scientific dimensions of Greenland’s resource problems confuses the actual problems at play. It’s not primarily a technical challenge to mine in Greenland. It’s a political and ecological problem.

We make a big mistake when we neutrally frame resource extraction. Paul makes this mistake referring to the US’ “strong interest” in Greenland. The only negative impacts of mining noted are (1) increased CO2 emissions and (2) damage to “pristine” landscapes."

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

Bald eagles are a sign of hope. We almost killed them off with DDT, but we changed our ways, and now there are plenty. We can correct our mistakes.

Somewhere there's a little girl hiding in an attic in Minneapolis writing in her journal about ICE.

Please support Aaron and his vital work. He provides a resource to all of us in the pro-democracy movement. Here is the link: www.publicnotice.co/subscribe

rare to see an american politician speak in these terms and it rocks

When you succumb to the cynicism, you are helping Trump. He wants you to think that all is lost, that he is all powerful, and that there is nothing we can do. The fight for democracy is hard, but it is worth having. We have shown we can stand tall. We have shown we can win.

A career federal agent says that in 25 years, a fleeing vehicle has never justified killing its occupant, and officers should never stand in front of a running car. CBS reportedly pulled the interview, but it posted on YouTube. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

Steve Kerr on the murder of Renee Good: "It's shameful that the government can come out and lie about what happened when there's video and witnesses who have all come out and disputed what the government is saying."

Here's the map after 24 hours of launch. Find your event or get one up here: www.mobilize.us/map/?tag_ids...

Find a local anti-ICE protest this weekend.

Here is a video of a frozen creek that had begun to thaw, and the water was flowing beneath the thin ice on top. I took this because it was soothing and wonderfully bloopy and I wanted to listen to it for hours. You are all welcome to enjoy it, too. Let your brain settle here and rest for a moment.

Hannity has a Fox reporter in Minneapolis talk to a random protester walking through the city who goes on to spit bars for 2 minutes

I replaced my final assignment this semester at the last second because I felt like I couldn't LLM-proof it, and told my students as much. I got this back on my course evals. The kids are alright

I met "On Learning to Dissect Fetal Pigs" through @josie.zone, after Renee's death. I wish I'd known it sooner--that I might've known her. the poem surges. I recognized its swell from hours spent along the gulf, waiting for high tide to remake the day's coast.

“Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables—at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere—if governments have the courage to change the rules.”

A dominant theme of Hitler's speeches in the late 1930s is that Germany was surrounded by threats. These threats were imaginary: it was Nazi Germany that threatened other nations. But they were used to justify pre-emptive attacks. Trump is following this script.

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The California Geological Survey offers a variety of interactive web maps, including geologic and geohazard maps, mineral resource maps, and earthquake regulatory zone maps. These maps can be found here: maps.conservation.ca.gov/cgs/#datalist