Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Man alive. The contrast between the courage of voters and the absolute cowardice of Democratic leadership is just undeniable and the story of the moment. The question is which will win out in the end and that question just got a whole lot louder.

just want to remind everyone again that zohran is the one cis candidate i am aware of that had his platform on trans rights written by trans people. i think that matters

Let’s clarify: the GOP is responsible for SNAP benefits NOT being paid when there is a $5B congressional appropriation within the USDA budget to pay SNAP benefits in case of government shut down. The both of these clowns are lying. 🤥 www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

It's no coincidence, they targeted SNAP months ago. www.snopes.com/fact-check/m...

I always point out—for a man who confidently speaks on the law everyday-that Stephen Miller, in fact, did not go to law school and very, often is profoundly wrong about the law.

They got Claudine Gay out of the Harvard presidency over a footnote.

BREAKING: A court ordered the Department of Defense to stop censoring educational materials discussing race and gender in schools on military bases. Books removed from the schools must be returned to the shelves immediately.

I'd love to know how many people learned today about AWS (Amazon Web Services) and how many companies depend on it for service because they don't pay for their own servers/infrastructure. It's a scary reminder that big companies like Amazon can bring many things we see as important to a quick halt.

These findings shouldn't surprise anyone, given the current political climate. But they should shame anyone who hasn't seen the need to protect queer and trans kids--and the family members, healthcare providers, and teachers supporting them--from dangerous political attacks.

If you were at #NoKings #NoKingsChicago yesterday & are looking to get more connected to ongoing efforts, I’m gonna share a few things that I frequently recommend to people. The first is obvious & timely, given the state of our city. (I’ve learned I need to put 🧵 lol yay I’m learning the Internet)

Top story when you go to The Guardian this AM. Which it is not when you go to the Washington Post or the NY Times. Apt language here, whereas WaPo describes the day as an airing of grievances as though we are a bunch of whining George Costanzas, not a vast public fearful of losing everything.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

This is your reminder that small dick jokes are not only unfunny they're also transphobic. There are plenty of other insults available that don't play into patriarchal ideals of manhood.

"Our dads & grandpas are being kidnapped for going to work to build American homes. Men with masks are breaking our windows & pointing machine guns..." Erendira Rendon of The Resurrection Project describes the horror & heartbreak suffered by immigrants at the hands of ICE & tells what we can do. 🧵

In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.

The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

I prefer “anti-fascist“ for a host of reasons and this is a nice practical one.

My publisher’s been very patient. I’m not doing everything I said I’d do to promote this book (out in a few weeks) because I’m an organizer in a city under federal attack. My days are full and emotionally exhausting. Any help getting the word out means a lot. It's a book people need right now.

Despicable. He seeks to win the votes of cowards who are willing to sacrifice trans people on the altar of political opportunism and indifference. Up to us to shatter his grandiose dreams.

It would be incredible if folks coming into consciousness around the ICE raids were also able to make the connection the family policing. I highly recommend Dorothy Roberts book “Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families--and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World“

1. A new journal report in the prestigious Medical Journal of Australia eviscerates the Cass review, saying it is filled with fallacies and launders anti-trans disinformation. It methodically goes through each problem in the review. The latest from S. Baum. Subscribe to support our journalism

If you're watching the situation in Chicago from afar & want to help, on the off chance you have spare $$, you can give to the Midwest Immigrant Bond Fund, which posts "bond for individuals held in the custody of ICE w ties to IL, IN, KY & WI who cannot afford to pay" www.mibfc.org/helpusgrow

My friend Mark Helmsing is gone. He was an incredible human, brilliant scholar, and outstanding educator. I will miss so much about him but especially his deep thoughtfulness, his sense of humor, and his bear hugs.

Many NU websites have been updated to fall in line with the Trump administration’s orders and have erased resources, history and information that were once easily accessible to students, faculty and staff. — Reported by Alexander Hernandez Gonzalez

The administration has determined that if you describe this accurately for what it is, you are also an enemy of the state

Incredible ruling in a case brought by the AAUP against Rubio and the State Department. A federal court found that "arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment." www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

CHICAGO / SUBURBS If you want to know what it's looked like at the ICE facility in Broadview (Chicago), this brilliant photo essay from @almacampos.bsky.social & @pgoyette.bsky.social at @southsideweekly.bsky.social is a very good place to start.

This is absolutely a lie. There is no reason shutdowns trigger layoffs. They never have before. Trump is simply using the shutdown as an excuse to take federal employees hostages and to further gut the government. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/shutdown-h...

To the 300 Northwestern students refusing to watch US-Israeli propaganda: I applaud your integrity & critical analysis. I may not be able to teach & you may not be able to learn on campus. But we WILL teach & learn throughout the world to make a better future 👊🏾 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Some say Charlie Kirk did Politics the right way, that he was an authoritative champion of free speech and discourse. Part of that “Politics” is a 1200-person Professor Watchlist that’s led to harassment, censoring, cancellation campaigns, and death threats.

NEW — I wrote about my confirmed scoop from last night that Disney hastened Kimmel's return because of a planned Disney+ streaming price increase announcement coming on Tuesday:

A few strategies I use: 1. Talk with students about how: 1) AI tends to produce work that is at best mediocre and at worst just wrong, 2) using AI habitually weakens the critical thinking skills that make college valuable, and 3) AI exploits environmental resources and content creators.

NYT has been spreading dangerous transphobic misinformation disguised as journalism for quite some time, but it took the Kirk coverage for all to see that they’ve abandoned serious reporting. If you want investigative reporting in the age of fascism check out @assignedmedia.org @democracynow.org

The Dept of Education is now accepting comments on a proposed rule that would overhaul Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and make it too expensive for students to go into work that threatens the Trump administration Folks have til *Sept. 17* to oppose the changes ballsandstrikes.org/legal-cultur...

This may explain why there’s an aggressive response to people who merely post Kirk’s own words. It threatens the existence of the alternate Kirk - the motivational speaker that had been marketed to young kids and white Christian groups through selective quotation & clips.

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

I have written and deleted a lot of posts but I keep thinking about how the brutal assassination of Minnesota State senator Melissa Hortman, her husband Mark, and their beloved dog Gilbert in June did not prompt this same level of calls for empathy, sympathy, and flags at half-mast.

Haymarket Books for Fighting Fascism

With students heading back to the classroom, a group of cognitive scientists and AI researchers has published one of the most forceful and evidence-backed calls yet to reject the "uncritical adoption of AI" in academia:

Breaking: Missouri House passes new gerrymandered US House map giving GOP 90% of seats in state Trump won with 58% of vote. Destroys district held by Black Rep Emanuel Cleaver, one of 2 Dems in state Texas was just start of Trump’s sweeping plan to rig midterms www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Also, I know it is a small point in the overall march towards fascism, but the idea that gender is performative and a spectrum is backed by science. The *actual* “gender ideology” is being imposed by the folks who insist, against fact and reason, on a strict binary.

I encourage people to watch this video. The selected footage shows the professor doing nothing even slightly out of line, whereas the student misinterprets the law and hopes to impose her religious beliefs on the material. Administrators caving to this is terrifying.

🧵🧵🧵 Two decades ago, writer Laurence Britt listed 14 defining characteristics of fascism. In this thread, I match them up with actions of Trump and his regime. Spoiler alert: MAGA is 14-for-14. 1. Powerful and continuing nationalism

Among so many other things, imagine the national security policy value of this vs the natsec value of spending a tiny tiny fraction of this cost for usaid. Staggering self own.

I am grateful to be thinking alongside & in conversation with @mskellymhayes.bsky.social as we move through these times, especially as her city of Chicago prepares for a fascist occupation fueled by criminalization of Black, migrant, disabled & unhoused people. The law won’t save us, only we can.

truly, what a useless piece of shit this dude is.

We won!! “Defendants used antisemitism as a smokescreen for a targeted, ideologically-motivated assault on this country’s premier universities … Their actions have jeopardized decades of research and the welfare of all those who could stand to benefit from that research.”

Spotted at Great Lakes Naval Station: some unmarked vehicles being used by recently arrived Customs and Border Protection agents. The photographer reports seeing a small staging area with all agents in uniform. Great Lakes police had to be called bc one locked his keys in his car.