Many communities in the US have been quietly trialing “drone as first responder” programs that send drones to most every 911 call - which creates a near-constant state of surveillance. We all need to be organizing HARD against these programs: they’re a key pathway to getting Loomer what she wants.

Anyway, I went to King Spa yesterday and the women in the pool areas were staring at my bruises, concerned about a domestic violence situation. Nope! Just the anonymous thugs paid for by our tax dollars!

It is not a coincidence that most of the videos you see of ICE agents using excessive force seem to feature unarmed women half their size. 🙃

I don’t think I’ve ever loved anything as much as ICE loves violently attacking women.

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

Electoral Commission on NZ Minister Goldsmith's Electoral Amendment Bill says: - cutting off enrolment early was NOT in their recommendations! - cutting off enrolment early would NOT result in a faster result! Still 20 days w verification of Special Votes. #NZpol www3.parliament.nz/en/pb/sc/scl...

From the original Swedish researchers.

Don’t let the internet fool you. I was at a protest for trans kids yesterday an HOUR south of Seattle, and it was HUGE. And there was a cacophony of drivers beeping in support. I could not believe it. Because I spend too much online and figured it’s a lost cause.

someday it's going to be ALS's turn for this headline and I'm going to be a weepy little puddle of Mom Feels about it for five to seven business weeks because in my heart I still believe that it is coming one day

I am so grateful to scientists because in a world where every day the news is bad (including, frequently, the news about money for science!), I feel like we are still blessed like at least once or twice a week with some fucking incredible breakthrough like this which heals my heart each time

I'm pretty sure this woman has a name, Bloomberg

So just to be clear: The US is propping up Argentina’s economy, and now Argentina can eliminate its export taxes, so it can sell tons of soybeans to China, so China isn’t forced to buy soybeans from the US, so the US can pay subsidies to keep our farmers solvent. www.reuters.com/world/china/...

when some white cis dude tries to get a startup going around this, DO NOT GIVE HIM YOUR MATERIAL, UTERUS-HAVING LADIES AND GENTLEMEN AND THEYDIES make them pay you

“Every period is a failed pregnancy” more like every period is a chance to regrow someone’s severed limb, you squeamish little cowards that’s a whole-ass human-producing chamber getting flushed

Anyway, scientists should get the fuck over being whiny little wretches who are scared of female bodies, because menstrual stem cells appear to be industrial printers compared to bone stem cell little desktop printers and you don’t have to drill into bones to get them. www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...

However much you hate your annual gyno appointment, you don’t hate it enough because literally EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT IT could be less painful, less humiliating, and less poorly designed if any of it had been developed based on actual science and not Man Science.

A field founded by real scientists, instead of male scientists, might have started by gathering information about the knowledge and practices of midwives and then subjecting it to rigorous testing. You know, the practice with thousands of years of data?

So, right now, the only reliable way to diagnose endometriosis is with exploratory surgery. But finally, real scientists (instead of male scientists), are on the job & of course they’ve identified multiple markers in menstrual blood that point to noninvasive testing. www.science.org/content/arti...

Whoa. The school board porn meeting guy who wants to force bibles and TPUSA clubs into OK schools is quitting his job to pursue his true passion of “destroying teachers’ unions.”

CHOTINER: And you thought it would be funny to do a fake interview by me? ME: A lot of people have, so CHOTINER: You were looking for engagement? ME: Well, to make someone laugh I guess CHOTINER: How many likes and reposts did it get? ME: That's, uh, not really the metric...look can we start over

Georgia people: pay attention to utility commission races! (Everyone should, but almost no one does. 😦)

goddamnit

If the victims weren't carrying IDs when ICE kidnapped them, DHS might not even know who they are. If the victims' families are afraid to come forward, it could take days, weeks or longer.

okay, whew this is factually, firmly fascist abcnews.go.com/Politics/new...

Ah, the old "shark's teeth escalator steps, dark teleprompter, turn down the volume" triple sabotage. A classic from the Cold War days of spycraft.

Dems in farm-belt states should probably just advertise with these charts.

"I look at my children and I say, 'I don't know if I'm going to come back. And I always tell them that I love them very much." - "Ana", farm worker & single mother of 3. www.context.news/socioeconomi...

"Eva" is part of a team of 3 who pack raspberries. Each box has 12 baskets. They work 9 hrs/day 6 days/week and pack 1k boxes/day or 12k baskets every day! In the final 6 weeks of the season (mid Sept-end of Oct) the 3 women will pack about 36k boxes or 432k baskets. #WeFeedYou

My latest column for the Chronicle of Higher Ed is now live. It's an argument for including AI-critical voices in campus conversations and policymaking workgroups, and I'm proud to get this dissenting piece into the mainstream genAI/higher ed discourse. Please read and share if you're so inclined 🙂

Dear My Phone, My Computer, My Apps, My Electronic Devices, and so forth: Please stop asking me if I want to enable AI. Or use your janky AI tool. Or load my documents or pictures with a bunch of useless, off-putting, earth-killing AI junk. I don't want it. I SAID I don't want it. Stop offering.

If you offer this, I will in fact go out of my way to use every app and device that avoids it.

Here's a Youtube link of Violet Affleck's full speech about COVID and clean air at the United Nations:

“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

JUST IN: The Trump administration's bid to coerce states to comply with immigration enforcement in order to receive disaster aid is illegal and unconstitutional, a federal judge ruled today. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

2/ In 2001, Borsook said tech "libertarianism" reflected an adolescent mindset, with a craving for unchecked independence & resistance to constraint. She warned that tech libertarians wanted an anti-human world that worked more like a computer. From "Cyberselfish," a book based on her 90s writing:

Yes I will be fighting back against the unjust firing by @washingtonpost.com. I have filed a grievance and will be represented by none other than the amazing @katiephang.bsky.social and an incredible legal team. Journalistic freedom is a bedrock of a healthy society and is worth battling for.

huge W

Many of us called out that this law passed by Democrats would turn out to be a massive self inflicted wound. They never should have passed the TikTok ban. It was a bad idea even WITHOUT oligarch capture.

Trump personally ordered this, which is of course an act of monarchical tyranny we fought a revolution over. But also: dude somehow thinks going back into his first term grievances is good politics when the public overwhelmingly rejected them in 2018 and 2020. And also: this is a legal loser, too.

They've lost the 9yos

I haven’t seen a lot of cis people I usually see pushing for calls, etc. doing so about these rules provisions, which would devastate trans people nationally. Calls need to be made to all electeds and a firm stance taken ASAP, with ten times the fervor of the Kimmel/D+ event

Jimmy Kimmel's Monologue now has 14.3 MILLION VIEWS on YouTube. It would be a shame for you to share it www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

Ted Cruz and other officials at a press conference in Dallas after a shooting at an ICE facility all refused to name the victims as being detainees. All “thoughts and prayers” were instead directed at ICE agents. I feel like I am going crazy

No money for USAID, no money for healthcare or Medicaid or rural hospitals or scientific research or schools or libraries, but billions of dollars for a corrupt strongman in Argentina.

This story shouldn’t get lost in the rush of health policy news this week: Hospitals get dinged for reporting too many infections. In some cases, the solution is not to test Via @tarabannow.bsky.social www.statnews.com/2025/09/22/h...

Donald Trump wants to lend $20 billion of our money to bail out a political ally and his global investors before an election. Oh, and Argentina just struck a major deal with China that crushes American soybean farmers already suffering from Trump's tariffs. “America First.”

i would again like to remind everyone that NEGATING A FRAME REINFORCES IT "he's not really targeting criminals" makes it an argument about criminality "this is a fascist attack" states what is actually happening START WITH WHAT IT IS not what it isn't

2/2 Agents selected to engage w/media are trained to portray agents as just doing their jobs & that they care for migrants, but this is the law. Media embedded w/the agents tend to come back feeling sorry for the agents. In doing this, the agency creates conflict in media & they get softer stories.

Here they are controlling the media by allowing them to embed. This is done when agencies feel they have lost the narrative. They allow press to ride along, but these embeds are highly controlled. They do not abuse people & are on their best behavior. 1/2

Writing about this right now. We've had five-plus years of educators being ousted by MAGA. Can we go back and restore those folks' careers, safety, and peace of mind?