I did a bunch of research for a story on boats and climate change that never came to fruition but if you're interested in a story on boats, insurance and climate change hit me up.

Yes, I agree. It's like saying that we deserved drive-by shootings as children because a few Detroiters were drug dealers. And, f*ck that. Collective guilt is a nonstarter. And children NEVER "deserve it." Not Jewish children. Not Muslim children. Not Black children. Not ANY child on this planet.

When a federal judge (finally) put ICE officers under oath, they admitted that they are given daily detention quotas and rely heavily on a Palantir-supplied AI tool to select targets, without warrants and without enough evidence to obtain one. They simply go into neighborhoods and round people up.

One of the very bad things about AI that is not discussed enough is the way that it has degraded the otherwise perfectly good name, Al. This post is dedicated to my friend Al, and indeed to every righteous Al out there, whose good name has been tarnished by AI.

A DOGE staffer assigned to the National Endowment for the Humanities to flag grants for "DEI" tries to explain what "DEI" is. This deposition is part of a lawsuit by the @acls1919.bsky.social, @historians.org and @modernlanguage.bsky.social.

Happy Harriet Tubman Day to all those who celebrate.

In January, Jeffries declined to whip against DHS funding. Then DHS murdered Alex Pretti, and Dems had to play catchup to the politics. Now Jeffries won't commit to whip against Trump's war. This isn't rocket science - unify Dems against bad and unpopular things! www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

I very hated seeing her on screens while going through airport security, so realizing upon reading this post that I won't have to do that anymore is a nice moment in the day.

The bitterest pill about AI cheating for me is that AI'ed assignments take much longer to grade than honest assignments because they turn grading into an investigation. So when the student spends less time, I spend more. Fun!

The Iran War Powers Resolution vote just failed in the Senate. Party line, with John Fetterman voting no and Rand Paul voting yes

I'm not really paying close attention to the geostrategic/military aspects of Trump and Bibi's horrifying and deranged imperial war, but the fact that Iran's drone strategy to close the Straits of Hormuz "seems to have caught the White House off guard" is bonkers. www.npr.org/2026/03/04/n...

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

“Trump was anointed by Jesus to bomb Iran to cause Armageddon” 🚨 This is bad news. And worse, Pete Hegseth, Russell Vought, probably one SCOTUS justice, and at least half of the White House also believe this. It’s not just random members of the military!

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

Iranian here. The loudest voices in the room do not represent all of our voices. You can be against the regime AND not want a war.

Associated Plungers, apparently.

NEW: At an anti-war demonstration in Toronto, Iranian-Canadians spoke out against the American-Israeli bombing campaign against their country. “This war is a war of power, a war of resource and land grab, and it is nothing about democracy.” www.readthemaple.com/why-these-ir...

I know maps are less popular than clickbait, but pls entertain me 🧵 We are watching two escalating conflicts at the same time: • Pakistan–Afghanistan cross-border fighting • Israel–Iran strikes, with spillover across the Gulf These events may converge into a regional displacement crisis.

Lorraine Schneider, 1967.

Literally the only statement from an elected official I’ve read this morning worth our time. @schumer.senate.gov @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social @sanders.senate.gov take note!! Thank you @mayor.nyc.gov @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social CC: @hebagowayed.bsky.social

What the genocide in Gaza reinforced is that there are no "civilians" when it comes to Israel and the United States. The rest of the world learned the same lesson and the consequences are going to be felt across the world.

Footage from Minab, Iran, shows the aftermath of an Israeli-US strike on a girls' elementary school that reportedly killed more than 50 people.

When I saw the news story about the girls school being bombed, one of my first thoughts was about how unlike American physics, Iranian physics is 50% women at the undergrad level and how some of those girls who had been murdered were going to be physicists one day

“The victims were between seven and 12 years old, according to Iran's Tasnim and Fars news agencies.”

The first deaths announced from the US-Israeli strikes on Iran: dozens of school girls. They hit an elementary school in Hormozgan.

It is clear now that the Omani foreign minister's sudden media blitz last night was an attempt to shame the United States by putting into the public record how readily Iran was prepared to reach a deal.

Students feel like they can’t enroll in majors like Af-Am Studies and WGSS because they’re getting messages from all sides that they’re not remunerative. And yet they desperately want the knowledge, so classes are full. That seems to be the situation everywhere.

These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.

Part of the reason the whole country hasn't been screaming about trans Kansans who drive being made criminals overnight is because there's so much else that's unconstitutional and horrifying. But part of it is because it's happening to trans people.

So much commentary boils down to “I can’t believe they’d do this to white people” to me and maybe I’m wrong but that’s just how I feel.

My worst nightmare is that anyone ever think I organize to get famous or enrich myself. I do it because I had a hard life, I got some space to breathe, and I want things to be easier for everyone. I talked about this because I want other people to see that they can just do something.

always funny seeing this one come up in the wild... i made this in the bathroom of my job in 2018. however it took me another 10 months to quit that job because it is hard to take your own advice

all time photo editor performance

In my experience, the "swaggering asshole shtick" is usually cover for more serious, targeted assholery. Because that way, if the targets of the worst assholery (usually people from marginalized groups) try to complain, others dismiss them as exaggerating, saying—oh, he's just like that to everyone.

Reducing human value to what we can be trained to do is straight up technofascism. Every fascism has its suhumans. To technofascists, humans are the subhumans.

Mamdani makes cuts to library funding :( as reported in the gothamist “If you're just going to say, ‘Oh, I love the library,’ but you’re not actually supporting them, then that’s a real disappointment and, frankly, bulls---,” said Abby Emerson” gothamist.com/news/taking-...

I talked with @andreapitzer.bsky.social about why we should understand the Trump administration as a concentration camp regime, and what it means to fight back.

Welp

In the concentration camp universe, this is what's known as a filtration camp. A government preemptively takes a whole class of people to interrogate and detain extrajudicially in order to inflict duress on them while arbitrarily assessing their (supposed) culpability.

Two female ICE agents popped the hood of their car and knocked on the door of a mechanic born in Mexico. He went out to help. “A bunch of agents jump out and tackle him, essentially restraining him, and take him away...His six kids are now without their father." www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...

What’s most disturbing to me re @mayor.nyc.gov’s failure to uphold the .05% allocation for libraries is that these are THE socialist institution, islands designed to secure everyone’s equal & free access to knowledge, tech & space otherwise monetized. They should be a socialist’s top priority.

The bottom line is that NYC Public Libraries need increased and most importantly STABLE funding annually. Mayor Mamdani promised both and this preliminary budget is a BROKEN PROMISE. There’s time for him to rectify this. NYC library patrons expect that he will.

the logic of his position is that you would them abandon those issues and so on and so on until you’ve fully sacrificed a group of vulnerable americans to reactionary bullies for the sake of a percentage point (if that)

“I don’t want to be in this place I want to go to my school.” - 7 year old imprisoned by ICE for 70 days in a concentration camp in Texas. Today, after @propublica.org published this story, the camp was raided to confiscate letters from the children. www.propublica.org/article/ice-...

The drunk uncle theory. You don’t argue with the casually homophobic uncle at Thanksgiving dinner to change his mind; you argue so that the closeted cousin at the kids table knows there’s safe people and better possibilities out there

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to restore the slavery exhibit that the National Park Service removed in Philadelphia www.inquirer.com/news/philade...

How lovely. I've only been to this space to get "un-domestic partnered" with my former partner (for random bureaucratic reasons--we are still friends and it was actually kinda fun), but watching this makes me want to go back if A and I ever decide we need to "officially" tie the knot as we age.

I believe that--appropriately placed!--exclamation points increase solidarity.

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