@ethanscorey.bsky.social and I have published a database of congressmembers who received donations from ICE profiteers GEO Group, CoreCivic, and Management and Training Corporation. Look up your reps at @inthesetimes.com + @theappeal.org. inthesetimes.com/article/ice-....

"In general, the comments ranged from ardent support of the proposed regulation to categorical rejection of it. Approximately 5 percent of the overall comments were supportive, 1 percent neutral or mixed, and 94 percent opposed the proposed regulation." HUH!

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I was one of the commenters on the rule that pointed out that research shows that more politicized governments create information bubbles. The rule just says, no, we disagree. Have these people ever watched a Cabinet meeting? Do they really think people are offering "good faith professional advice"?

Final Schedule F rule published: in defiance of the vast majority of public comments, it commits to further politicizing government, removing anyone the Trump administration dislikes. public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2026-02375.pdf

Back in 2024, when I interviewed labor leaders about the prospect of Trump 2.0, they said Schedule F was the biggest threat his election posed to federal workers. Don Moynihan warned it "makes it easier for politicians to push bureaucrats to...violate the law and undermine the public interest."

Iowa closing the African American studies major during Black history month is diabolical. This article is from 4 days ago, but it is now official. The minor will continue.

Woke up early to sign a few books! Book Launch Day at @wellesley.edu Forgive the excessive posting that’s about to happen! The joy! The Joy! The Joy!

You should be here. Rest in Power Trayvon 🖤🖤🖤

This is why higher ed complied in advance with getting rid of DEI. They didn’t want the Black people or the programs. They didn’t want to talk or hear about white supremacy. They didn’t want students protesting against genocide. They had the money but didn’t want the ideas.

I feel like people in these big old noble houses must have had workers constantly doing upgrades and repairs, and this seems like a real oversight in some of these historical shows.

Heck, I have normal-sized house with 1,900 sq ft, and I have no idea how people afford maintenance. I have nightmares about house crumbling around us. The back porch is literally sinking. We had to get to point in last year where we're suddenly making top 10% money *just to stop the porch sinking.*

What a full-circle moment: In 2014, Black NYT writer John Eligon called Michael Brown a Black victim of police, "no angel." He took so much heat, "no angel" became shorthand for how Black people are blamed for their own deaths. Now, a white POTUS is using that for white victims of state violence.

If you want to understand the mainstreaming of far right politics and why defeating the far right at the ballot box doesn't mean actually defeating far-right politics, this is it

This would be a good time to donate to @wikipedia.org, if you have the means: donate.wikimedia.org/w/index.php

I wonder how many source citation links in Wikipedia are broken now that CIA fact book is down.

Media coverage of Gaza has plummeted. So today on @thenation.com, we're doing something pretty special: we're only running pieces by people in and from Gaza. We're calling it "A Day for Gaza." You can find links to all of the incredible pieces here. Please read! www.thenation.com/article/worl...

Yes. Real unions are freely democratic, which means they are who their members are, good or bad, just like American elections.

I know a lot of people operate off the assumption all unions are good and should be regarded as such at all times but they are in fact very different depending on their leadership and membership.

‘Study after study shows that students want to develop these critical thinking skills, are not lazy, and large numbers of them would be in favor of banning ChatGPT and similar tools in universities’, says @olivia.science www.ru.nl/en/research/...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

This is another effort that has taken a HUGE amount of local activism, led by community folks who care. It CAN be done. Get involved where you live and push back. www.elpasotimes.com/story/news/i...

INBOX: first reported by The Daily Free Press, Boston University's student newspaper, Mariette DiChristina, dean of Boston University’s College of Communication, corresponded extensively with Jeffrey Epstein in 2014 and 2015, including a one-on-one meeting, and “phone dates”

The problem isn’t that these are bad ideas. The problem is they’re mostly existing law/policy. Want to get serious? At least mandate accountability. Ex: Revoke qualified immunity. Firings. Demotions. Suspensions. Loss of OT. Kicked back to basic training. Or a more mainstream idea: Abolish ICE.

i think people should consider the extent to which bannon, a known bullshit artist, knows that you will see this and panic. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

I have zero bandwidth to develop the idea, but the last decade has given rise to a gulliblity style, where a source’s statement is treated as the story regardless of whether it’s true or plausible. It creates stories that are technically true but functionally misinformation. You see it everywhere.

RUN. RUN FAR AWAY FROM THIS CONTEST.

Also why billionaires resist universal health care - because it makes employees less pliable /dependent and more likely to ask for what they are worth. Also why they won’t calculate the asset value of knowledge/expertise in their employee base.

This is one reason I keep trying to remind people of the power that we have. That we have *always* had. Not because I’m in denial, but because I know history. I’m no sophisticated intellectual, but I do know we’re going to win even though the bad shit is really terrible right now.

‘One officer told me that I "had no chance of returning to Minnesota" and that "the best thing for (me] is self-deportation." … She offered me $2600 to self-deport. I refused. I wanted to talk to my attorney. They didn't tell me the judge had already ordered my release and return to Minnesota.’

One of the biggest tragedies of #YourSlipIsShowing, along with Shafiqah's passing, is the way that the changes these social media platforms made effectively squashed these Black and queer ecosystems of knowledge and education And it wasn't on accident

Up at 7:21am bawling because this is the first thread I've seen about #YourSlipIsShowing that genders and includes me properly, thank you so very much

Again: Mississippi Plan, circa 1875. Look it up. It ended Reconstruction and paved way for many decades of Jim Crow laws in South and de facto segregation and discrimination across the country. Also solidified the use of lynching as a trusted political terror tool.

The desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving billionaire attacks on DEI. Because marginalized students/workers have led the questioning of white collar alignment with billionaires, and bigotry makes it easy to get privileged workers not to care if the marginalized are pushed out

This desire to decimate the white collar workforce is also driving the billionaire class's efforts to cut, curb, and control higher education. Because academia is the machine that produces the white collar class. bsky.app/profile/loui...

Now, I say decimate because the goal isn't to destroy white collar work entirely. It's to make those "good jobs" so rare that people will do anything to get and keep them. Including and most especially—working to quell public resistance and bolster billionaires' power.

The billionaire class wants to decimate the white collar workforce. Because white collar workers are expensive. And because white collar workers—who historically sided with billionaires—are questioning that alliance. Which makes their knowledge and resources a huge threat to billionaire power.

And people wonder why I stay home www.ocregister.com/2026/02/01/d...

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

There are a few by noticeable amount of students that think they can dictate the terms of the classroom and treat Black professors as inferior to them and when corrected fly off the handle. It’s happened to me. It happens all the time all around the country. www.timesunion.com/state/articl...

My first work in American newspaper journalism was as a "stringer" in West Africa for the Washington Post. This is such a tragedy. www.thewrap.com/media-platfo...

I’ve always argued that that the desire to be a billionaire is a sign of malfunction. The desire to hoard more resources than you can consume in a single lifetime is a sign that something is broken in someone’s wiring.

What I think keeps getting lost I'm The Discourse is that there is a difference between disagreeing with a tactic (strategically or even on moral principle) and *endangering* the folks engaged in that tactic.

If you missed it last night, please please please read Gwen’s great thread about why snitching is bad, even when you disagree with a tactic someone is using

The ICE killings in Minneapolis evoke Selma but the day-to-day tactics in Minneapolis remind me of the Birmingham Bus Boycott: a grinding, continuous, citywide and logistically demanding effort of non-cooperation over months to break an unjust status quo.

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This part of our response essay is where I'm at. Boiling down all of politics to electoralism has been absolutely terrible for resisting rising authoritarianism. www.bostonreview.net/forum/how-no...

No actually Democrats (voters) want to abolish ICE. It’s only fascist dipshit Democrat “representatives” who refuse to enact the will of their constituents and make a mockery of governance on immigration, on Gaza, on M4A

as i said, guy turns out to be exactly who we Black women said he was: an American story

I love this song. I brought Sweet Honey and the Rock to Swarthmore at the height of our South Africa divestment campaign. I love that people are carrying this forward youtu.be/uaBDQSXO_Yg?...