Mayor Johnson: We don‘t have “illegal aliens” Reporter: That’s the legal term. Mayor Johnson: The legal term for my people were ”slaves”

🚨 I was close reading the UCLA deal with Trump & found this gem of a ‘typo’ 😮 about UCLA’s “Feinberg School of Medicine”… THERE IS NO FEINNBERG SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AT UCLA, they have the Geffen School of Medicine… But there is a Feinberg School at Northwestern (I worked there!), meaning…(1/3)

tl;dr 1. Studies of genAI in the classroom show that it harms learning 2. The quality of AI-generated text is irrelevant to its most negative effects on teaching 3. The way AI has entered the classroom is as a money-making project extracting new labour, not a “tool” serving teachers’ actual needs

yes. this has basically been one of the themes my column for the last few months!

Reminder that players aren’t paid a salary for playoffs. Their paycheques stop after game 162. All playoff income comes from a portion of ticket sales. And players will vote to allot a portion of that money to clubbies & other staff.

Got to see him play last December in Minnesota. He showed so much talent & potential but was also pushed around a lot under the basket. He seems to be putting it together - which will be fun to see

Was JUST teaching about the (misogynistic/sexist) hx of ’sex verification’ as it trickled down fm elite sports to kids’ recreation. has mostly meant surveillance/policing of girls + women. was bound to affect boys in ways that extend beyond reproducing hegemonic masculinity bsky.app/profile/auts...

to keep functioning a society must discourage baldfaced lying, especially by authorities

So many elite institutions are run by cowards

“There is a lot to think about in all this…questions about how much straight-up Nazi poison is latent in the cultural groundwater, & the sort of ideological journey a person can have over the course of a moderately engaged lifetime, & what is…disqualifying at this present national moment”

The sheer chaos that Trump unleashes daily is an underdiscussed method of his presidency imo. Exhibit A: on 22 June—only 3 months ago today—Trump bombed Iran’s Natanz nuclear facility & Fordow enrichment plant. It was in the news for a day or 3. It feels like an eternity ago. Chaos assists impunity.

Sara C. Bronin, a law professor at George Washington University “said that Mr. Trump’s decision to tear down the East Wing appeared to run afoul of the National Historic Preservation Act, which requires federal agencies to take into account the effects of their actions on historic places.”

New @therealnews.com This is not a "normal" government shutdown. A lot is happening in/to the government while parts are shut down. I spoke w/ 3 furloughed federal workers @fedworkersunited.bsky.social & asked them the ?s we all have about what the hell is going on therealnews.com/this-governm...

I think this messaging is important in context, but yes, that’s what they voted for. And they should have to grapple with that fact.

I liked Platner initially. He wasn’t perfect, but he seemed like a solid candidate with his head, heart, & hands in the right place. While I only read some, the past Reddit comments were not disqualifying to me - as long as he continued to grow But, nazi tats? No

A slow/moving 9/11-style attack on a US govt building but utilizing a Palestinian-terrorizing technology (a bulldozer)

A barbed wire tattoo is a mistake. I forgive T-Mac. A Nazi tattoo is a choice. It’s unforgivable.

another indicator of US‘s downward trajectory since RR

between the Politico texts and Platner I think we've earned (and would appreciate) at least a week break from any more literal Nazi-related political news updates. maybe we could collectively try for a few days of regular grift and graft stories? a suitcase or Cava bag full of money perchance?

No Cap! 👇

Harvard has tens of billions of dollars in their endowment, but this is how they decide to balance their “academia and fiscal responsibilities”

"It's tempting to shrug off the language in the Young Republicans' group chat as the pathetic humor of pasty losers. But the danger is real... We have seen incel ideology drive heinous acts of public violence." www.liberalcurrents.com/sex-is-gay-r...

Finally able to listen to this fantastic episode on this important specific topic with some other great insights on links between anti-trans-ness and fascism and anti-intellectualism with the brilliant Sheree Becker & @annaposbergh.bsky.social I look forward to their article‘s publication

Remember April 2009 when about 250,000 people took to America’s streets in Tea Party rallies and the media was like “oh man, the Dems are in trouble?” Approximately 28X as many people took to the streets to protest Trump yesterday. Didn’t even make the NYT front page.

The networks took the much smaller Tea Party movement so seriously they broadcast a Tea Party rebuttal to Obama’s 2011 SOTU on top of the normal GOP one.

Whoever’s been running the music into commercial breaks for FS1 this MLB playoffs loves the Grateful Dead - and I like it! 🌹🐢🎩💀🌹

I spoke with someone from PSL yesterday at the rally. They were helping organize a General Strike in May 2027. Maybe i’ll come early! ✊✊✊

At this point, if you're interviewing a Republican about the president's latest transgression and you *don't* have the video or post or whatever cued up and ready to show them when they pretend they haven't seen it yet -- I'm just going to assume you're in on the con yourself.

The reason for this is that this class of people has internalized the idea of conservatives as the American Volk, an idea downstream of the senate and EC giving them more power than their numbers that has somehow become a quasi spiritual belief about the nature of the country

The Trump shit video is basically this, but I will reiterate that if a Dem is critical of conservative voters it’s a generational scandal and when Republican pols literally post themselves shitting on their opposition virtually the entire elite politics and media class treats it as fine and normal

I found this a really illuminating thread on what demonstrations do and why they matter.

On Oct 4, I worked w/ my AAUP coworkers to host a gathering of multiple labor groups & people to strategize. RI Sec of State spoke, as did RI AFL-CIO prez ⚓️ Yesterday I marched w/ my wife, Jemma 🐕 & 30,000+ RIers Both Saturdays gave me hope, inspiration & connection to others who want to do more

In social movement studies, we talk about how marches and protests expand the threshold of acceptable risk so that people take more and bigger social risks IN PUBLIC, EN MASSE. This is extremely important for the bourgeois white folks holding signs and building social rapport.

BREAKING: The House will vote on the SAVE Act today. If this bill becomes law, millions of American citizens could be blocked from voting. 1/

Truly ghoulish. Retrofitting the ideas & processes (& probably similar actors) of our already amoral for-profit prison industry into our immigration system to create Deportation, Inc. Commodifying this will make some people a lot of money and destroy a lot of people’s lives & communities.

Inside Higher Ed is mapping where students have had visas revoked

We hang together or we hang separately. Could not be clearer what is happening and how universities must respond.

I am sorry to report that I think, after 5+ years in Rhode Island, I may have finally become a Red Sox fan-ish. Please forgive me.

just getting around to reading this, excellent thoughts flaminghydra.com/mother-shoul...

Very disappointing - especially after Trump’s DoD erased Jackie Robinson from their website

"The High School: Sports, Spirit, and Citizens, 1903-2024" by Michael A. Messner Watch a series of short, engaging videos. youtube.com/playlist?lis... #Sports #HighSchool #WomensSports

++. absolutely ahistorical fucking nonsense. american universities have actively practiced affirmative action for conservative ideas since the mccarthy period and HUAC. there's a reason why american philosophy departments look so different from european ones.

Yes. Not to mention many computer science, economics, & engineering programs. PLUS Boards of Trustees and Presidents’ offices.

The white men fantasizing about the return of American manufacturing don’t actually think they or their kids will be working in the factories. This is their American individual idealism at work: they believe there will always be someone else working hard for their benefit

hi, cis folks! if we *are* going to talk ACA, RFK's HHS proposed a rule to remove *all trans care* from ACA essential health benefit status. ~25mil people are insured by ACA & if 1% are trans, that's 250,000 people who'd lose access to care. that's bad! take 2 minutes to stand with trans people.🧵

According to the American Gaming Association estimate, more than $3 billion will have been bet on this year's NCAA basketball tournaments — more than February's Super Bowl. The NCAA says this has led to a distressing consequence: online abuse of players, coaches, and officials from losing bettors.

You guys, they're not stupid They're doing propaganda When they lie through their teeth, they are doing propaganda Do you think the people behind Big Brother in 1984 were stupid? Big Brother says lots of nonsensical shit. It's called p r o p a g a n d a

Can we get more of this? “The Japanese American National Museum will ‘scrub nothing,’ Fujioka said, and instead will highlight the importance of DEI. “Our community is based on diversity, equity is guaranteed to us in the Constitution, and inclusion is what we believe in,” Fujioka said.

"All the badly behaving children in Asia and elsewhere are coming home to papa." It’s not McKinley-era tariffs. It’s the whole-cloth McKinley era.