🚨 The attack on LGBTQ studies at Texas public #HigherEd institutions has now reached UT Austin. www.statesman.com/news/educati...

Though Mississippi’s vaccination rates are high among infants and school-age children, “our concern is that adult Mississippians are not maintaining the pertussis immunity, which puts our babies at risk,” says State Health Officer Dr. Dan Edney.

BREAKING: Israel has intercepted Global Sumud Flotilla vessels Alma and Sirius, according to activists onboard. 🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/356qba

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Let's annotate: 1. Who did it? Clearly assigns blame. 2. Why did the culprits do it? Motive. 3. What must be done in response?

Holy shit, this is bad. Bad enough that it's possible. But why in the hell would you boast about it online?

Today, Darryl Li examines the alarming rise in campus antisemitism investigations—inquests that are often sparked by outside complaints, lack concrete evidence, and lay the groundwork for future crackdowns and grievances.

“ICE goes masked for a single reason—to terrorize Americans into quiescence.”

Agreed!! Same goes for authors who write phrases in their native language. I love translating those phrases.

BREAKING: Judge William Young, a Reagan appointee, delivers the most scathing legal rebuke of the Trump era, ruling that Trump and his cabinet illegally targeted pro-Palestinian students for deportation to "strike fear" into First Amendment protesters. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

May this idea spread like wildfire: as the faculty of the Columbia journalism school (unfortunately for me, not of the Medill j school) said, if even ONE person’s speech is punished, it can chill almost EVERYONE. Every firing & deportation makes a freely speaking community impossible!

I'm skimming, but this paragraph stood out:

In this remarkable opinion, Judge Young concludes it violates the First Amendment for government to deport people because it dislikes their speech, and hopes to chill others from engaging in similar speech.

@aaup.org won its case against the State Department's attempt to terrorize non-citizens and deprive them of their First Amendment rights

What is the history of member-driven change in the AAG? Our archival research has shown that member-driven political activity has been common in AAG's history, including struggles around the Equal Rights Amendment; the US funding of contras in Nicaragua; and nuclear proliferation and war.

Electricity now costs up to 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Assata Shakur, one of the most consequential Black political revolutionaries and writers of her time and enemy of the U.S. government until her last breath, died September 25.

I often say that conservatives want to repeal the various Civil Rights Act but it’s probably more accurate to say they want to overturn the Reconstruction amendments.

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered the University of South Dakota to reinstate a professor who posted criticism of Charlie Kirk on his Facebook page the day of the shooting, finding the action likely violated the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

see how settled science suddenly gets turned into something unclear as soon as conservatives make it a political issue? this has happened on dozens of issues.

As the Trump administration promotes unproven claims about Tylenol and autism, public health expert @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social says such attacks on mainstream science help the health and wellness influencer industry "sell their snake oil" to people desperate for answers.

The World Health Organization has joined the international pushback against the Trump administration’s warnings that acetaminophen use during pregnancy leads to autism, saying there is “no conclusive scientific evidence confirming a possible link.”

The same bs they're spewing about autism and tylenol is the same bs they're spewing about trans people's healthcare. It's the exact same playbook and the fact that the media can see through one and not the other is a damning indictment of how complicit they are in the attack on trans lives.

This will be great:::

Ezra’s claim here runs into the challenging fact that abortion rights are more popular than Democrats in red states

That’s me in the video. And a Fox News host just celebrated me being assaulted by ICE. If ICE will do this to a congressional candidate with a big platform, just imagine what they’re doing to the people they’re kidnapping.

Dave Klion did a Harpers Letter where are they now 5 years later piece in May of this year: www.thenation.com/article/soci...

NEW: I tracked three dozen teachers, professors and other school staff who've been forced from their job or stepped away due to their comments on Charlie Kirk and his killing Republican lawmakers are increasingly getting involved, pushing for firings www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Literally as the same legislature stripped these huge wins of teeth

GOP Senator Cynthia Lummis: "Under normal times, in normal circumstances, I tend to think that the First Amendment should always be sort of the ultimate right... I don't feel that way anymore." www.semafor.com/article/09/1...

One time I heard Ruth Wilson Gilmore make the point that “racial capitalism” is redundant as all capitalism is racial & never has that been clearer than watching all these tech moguls & university presidents & media conglomerates & journalists fall over themselves to promote white nationalism.

I got my shot yesterday (along w flu vaccine) and I could not be more thankful

Editing is the first job on the chopping block to AI, because in my experience as a writer, that's always been the first job to get cut. Because suits legit don't understand the importance of editing - so many people see it as "superfluous." Like, oh, the writers can just self edit, right?

RFK Jr. is objectively pro-disease, pro-illness and pro-child death.

from political scientist Charles Tilly’s 1985 essay “War Making and State Making as Organized Crime”: “To the extent that the threats against which a given government protects its citizens are imaginary or are consequences of its own activities, the government has organized a protection racket.”

Just voted to make Charlie Kirk a national hero 👇

I could say that antifa is neither ‘terrorist’ nor an ‘organization,’ but MAGA does not care about facts…this is just about mobilizing a broad label to expand repression and accelerate the march to fascism.

This was such a great convo with @danieldenvir.bsky.social & @alfatau.bsky.social! Please check it out!

Harvey Milk and Medgar Evers...both assassinated for their beliefs...were actual veterans unlike career podcaster Charlie Kirk and Hegseth is actively scraping their names off anything he can.

Soooo is abolition starting to sound like the only viable solution to this yet or??? Idk how many more object lessons in how every cage to cage a person is a bad cage that's used for fascism we can really handle here folks

Remember when the hot debate was about what a slippery slope we’d create if Simon & Schuster cancelled one Nazi’s book deal?

At least 17 states have taken steps to ensure broader access to the COVID-19 vaccine since last month, when the federal government significantly restricted eligibility for the shot, reports @chatlanis.bsky.social.

An immigration judge has ordered Mahmoud Khalil to be deported to Syria or Algeria. News of the Trump admin’s continued pursuit of the freed Palestinian activist comes as it expands its war on speech even further, this time against Jimmy Kimmel.

New Immigration Enforcement Dashboard Makes ICE Arrest Data Accessible to More People New dashboard makes Deportation Data Project data accessible through interactive visualizations, bridging the gap between complex datasets and public understanding. austinkocher.substack.com/p/new-immigr...

The U.S. has blocked a number of U.N. resolutions calling for a ceasefire in Gaza despite an overwhelming majority because of its veto power as a member of the Security Council. “The political bodies that are at the heart of what was created in 1948...are unable to perform their role.”

☀️ EPISODE 217! ☀️ In today’s episode, we discuss the 2nd in a six-part series titled “Abolitionist Lessons from the Prison Belt” in @inquest.bsky.social called “Abolition and Environmental Justice” ft. @lydiajean.bsky.social, Judah Schept, Ruth Wilson Gilmore & @craiggilmore.bsky.social.

We relaunched our canvassing operation a month ago— and our volunteers already surpassed 235k doors knocked, including 39,700 this past weekend. There's a hunger in our city for a new kind of politics and it's motivating people to participate at a scale they never have before.

Congressional Democrats voted today to sell out Washington DC and their constituents, as numerous Dems backed bills advancing the Trump takeover of DC. After meeting with our Council and saying nice things, @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social and leadership *declined* to whip a No vote on the bills

Tom Alter's basically been dismissed for being an intellectual, despite having tenure, and that obviously puts him and his family in a hard spot financially. If you can afford to donate, please consider doing so via this link. (More details at the link.) www.gofundme.com/f/support-fr...