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TPUSA was a transparent astroturfed far right op that egged on conservative students to become stasi narks on their professors and “controversial” invited speakers for the sole purpose of stirring shit

Charlie Kirk was a bad faith, incendiary, anti-democracy white supremacist, wtf is going on!?

Ultimately, when people with power say "violence is unacceptable" - they mean "violence against us is unacceptable", nothing more, nothing less. It foregoes that violence for those with power tends to come from greed, and violence against them tends to come from need.

There's so much handwringing about whether violence is acceptable that ignores the fact that violence is utterly normalized - normalized one way only. If violence was unacceptable, Palestine would be free, almost all guns would be outlawed, and Trump wouldn't be president. Violence is daily.

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

to my mind the woman who dies of sepsis because of antiabortion laws, or the person who dies because they can't afford insulin -- these are just as much victims of political violence as the man shot through the throat while making a racist speech

I’ve been thinking about how the white moderate think about free speech. Where calling for violence and the dehumanization of entire groups of people is merely supposed to be pluralism at work rather than an a threat to that pluralism.

It’s weird how these summaries leave out the context about trans people specifically being blamed for mass shootings

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I've been finding it morbidly funny how little the MSM and pundits are pointing out that racism is rampant across the U.S. Like absolutely virulent in the regime, yes but also at large.

“We have observed approximately 90% of the workers targeted for terminations due to a perceived association with diversity, equity and inclusion efforts are women or nonbinary,” said an attorney representing federal staffers. (Published June)

The connection is that the Deltas are Black women and the judge is a Black woman

My first expository paper, building on lecture notes from the minicourse I gave at the 2023 Riverside Workshop on Geometric Group Theory.

Another short little note. This one might seem completely out of left field but I promise we had a reason for thinking about it lol

Jes\'us Hern\'andez Hern\'andez, Christopher J. Leininger, Ferr\'an Valdez: Fibrations on Handlebodies https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02897 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.02897 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.02897

Tarik Aougab, Jonah Gaster: From arcs to curves: quadratic growth of 1-systems https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.05555 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.05555 https://arxiv.org/html/2508.05555

On every level, what Israel is doing in Gaza is unconscionable, and people of conscience must say so.

Al Jazeera Media Network condemns the targeted assassination of its correspondents Anas Al Sharif and Mohammeel Qraiqea, along with photographers Ibrahim Al Thaher, and Mohamed Nofal, by Israeli forces. #JournalismIsNotACrime

Being pregnant in Gaza right now is so difficult- Mouni has been reaching out to me for a long time and she needs help.

On this Chairteenth, we celebrate the good folks of Montgomery, especially our guy AquaMayne. Special shout out to the folks who, within 72 hours, recreated this in their apartment complex. A COMMUNITY!! 💀

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Abeer. Abeer was a pharmacist before the war. She has four children, Jamal, 10, Zain, 6, Mariam, 5 and Mass, 19 months old. Jamal has spina bifida and desperately needs a surgery outside of Gaza. They also need money to survive ❤️

There was a video some divers took in Guam in 2016ish, of the military (a submarine) using sonar near the coast without informing the public. It is LOUD AF. They claimed that they were not, but nobody else would be using it near Guam and ppl aren't gullible.

ALSO with the push into using the oceans for drilling oil, wind farms, geothermal, deep sea mining etc. NOT TO MENTION the military exercises always ongoing, these whales are pushed away from their usual feeding paths to stay away from all this loudness underwater. For them its excruciatingly loud.

Worse, it’s inculcating you with the idea that it’s the product, not the process, that matters. You work in a factory now. The product is getting shit done, and all you are producing is shit.

Holy wow this thread. I have two weeks till I’m back on contract and the way I’m going to think about this every day till then.

Four days left. We are increasingly running these emergency drives because the task in front of us exceeds the capacity of mutual aid. These six families need funds to survive, AND they need our boldest actions in the streets. Today. 2596/4100 by Sunday: chuffed.org/project/hope...

Rana has many unique photos, social media in Gaza that predates the war and is the aunt of Ruaa @itsmeio.bsky.social whom I’ve before. Rana has just started her fundraiser with the help of Ruaa- she has very poor internet and has been struggling to survive with her kids. Even a little bit can help❤️

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Rana. Rana is a nurse who has been volunteering throughout in Gaza health clinics. Rana has four boys Ahmed, 15, Abdul, 14, Zain, 13 and Fouad, 10. Just Thai week she had to get an IV solution of glucose at work because her blood sugar was low

Currently home in Hawai’i and, based on both the traffic and chatting with friends, I think we are.

I do firmly believe that refusing to outsource your basic cognitive functions to LLMs right now - as so many are stumbling over themselves to do right now, like hogs trotting to a pile of slop that’s been set up inside of a butcher’s delivery truck - will very much pay off in a few years.

Meanwhile, the Israeli army is now destroying the aid they refuse to allow to be distributed to people they are deliberately starving to death. www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

I read it - unfortunately - and his entire argument is “if it is a genocide why isn’t the death count higher”, a line of thinking that could be applied to any previous genocide including the Holocaust which is foundational to the legal definition of genocide.

Comrade card for 7/23/2025.

Break the siege. End the occupation. Free Palestine.

Last week I did math in Banff for the first time and it was quite beautiful (and yes, of course, I swam in that freezing cold lake).

Fun part of this is when one of the white nationalists says “white people are native americans”. The purpose of settler-colonialism has been (and continues to be) to destroy, remove, or subsume indigenous peoples in order to control the land.

We have decided to ban the use of GenAI for research, writing & creative work at our organization. In fact, we make people sign an agreement saying that their research, analysis, writing, and creative work are *theirs* and not done by GenAI.

Some of us have tried to warn for years that criminalization is the fuel and engine of fascism.

Gavin Newsom Sits Down For Podcast With Serial Killer Who Targets Homeless

Javier Aramayona, Hugo Parlier, Richard Webb: Hyperbolic spaces not quasi-isometric to curve complexes https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.08086 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.08086 https://arxiv.org/html/2507.08086

The truth is that higher education in the United States should be free and accessible, and people like Andreessen are the reason it isn't. The truth is that people like Andreessen are advocating for segregation and discrimination for ideological reasons, not because it's fair for any students.

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In a new paper published earlier this year in the Journal of Marketing, we uncovered a surprising pattern: The more knowledge people have about lead poisoning, the less likely they are eat paint chips for a snack.

Seems important to say that MechaHitler is being powered by turbines that are poisoning Black people in Memphis www.wired.com/story/xai-da...

“Our goal with SAW is ensuring that kids and families in our community have fun and stay safe by becoming ‘water-ready’. Every child deserves the chance to feel confident in and around water,” said YMCA of Dane County President & CEO Mark Westover.