SEN. OSSOFF: “.. why are roving gangs of masked men — who look like they couldn’t pass the Army physical exam — dressed up like pretend Delta Force operators, on our streets, demanding papers, dragging people from their cars, and shooting people to death?” @acyn.bsky.social

we really need to talk about how AI is being used to provide cover for government policy based on deadly misinformation — and how every one of us who writes about AI in health, but doesn't center that fact, is lending credence to the enterprise.

The democrats are absolutely failing to understand that the *moderate* position is abolish ICE. Too many won't act for the moral good because they think they can't keep their jobs that way. They all need to feel that the *only* way they can keep their jobs is if they actually fight for us.

If allowed to wear masks in “unusual circumstances” ICE will simply claim the majority of circumstances are “unusual.”

Please for the love of god how do we remove this man from office.

COMMENTARY: We Are Witnessing the Imperial Presidency on Steroids The founders wouldn’t recognize the executive branch’s monstrous powers — but they sure would fear them.

This is really heinous.

a reminder that AI isn't just cringe; it's part of this administration's toolkit.

Think you have to retire the phrase “immigration crackdown” when every major violent spectacle — at least those the news is choosing to highlight — involve US citizens screaming “Check my ID!”

We could have paid teachers at any time. We could have simply offered a dignified wage to do any of the work we need done at any time. San Fransisco could be clean right now. It was always a matter of political will.

This. I am done returning to the status quo of what got us here. I want universal healthcare. I want a maximum wage tied to the minimum wage. I want omnipresent, cheap public transit and walkable neighborhoods. I want Supreme Court and police reform, and I want the rich to pay their fair share.

Cancelled and they did ask me if it was about ICE and I said yes. Not the hugest traveler but I used Hilton often. Every person who calls, no matter how small their hotels counts. They will be having panicked meetings this week if the trickle turns into a flood.

I think she'd be our first indigenous woman senator, and I also think she's kind of great (and who can resist "fish family freedom" as a slogan?).

No. Social safety nets crumble when we wrap them in neoliberal rhetoric aimed at dividing people and deluding them into thinking that everyone--except some tiny group of perfect poor--should be able to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps, even if their boots have been nailed to the floor.

New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

Remember: When Tylenol was poisoned *by an outsider* and killed people, the company recalled all their products & redesigned them. When Intel’s Pentium had a bug so obscure it affected 1 in _9 billion_ long division calculations, they recalled their chips. ChatGPT was made deadly *by its team*.

These technologies can and are being used to create lifelike images and videos of actual living women and girls. For what I think are pretty obvious gendered civil rights reasons, it needs to be a recognized civil cause of action to create an AI image or avatar of a woman without her consent.

It did not "go viral". It was intentionally filmed and disseminated using a network of coordinated bots, amplified by an algorithm designed to spread this kind of content quickly. This was a harassment campaign, intended to silence everyone. Call it what it is.

The Vanity Fair photographer from the Susie Wiles story. Holy. Shit. www.washingtonpost.com/style/power/...

Consider buying these books as holiday gifts or to leave in some little free libraries in your neighborhood this winter!

"ICE and CBP must be abolished" is the only reasonable position. We can debate the specifics of new agencies for immigration functions, but these agencies are simply too infected with a culture of impunity, racism, and fascism to continue. They're gangs with badges.

This is fucking grim. Somebody invented a white guy, an "IT professional" named Edward Crabtree, who stopped the Bondi shooting and spread it all over the internet, which was picked up by AI agents and slop aggregation sites. The real hero is a fruit stand owner named Ahmed el Ahmed.

I was gonna do that thing where I repost this and just say "Oh". As in here is some important info that is fucked up but ultimately unsurprising. Then I realized my neighborhood is actually featured in this piece. 😔

Genuinely terrifying. Healthcare (really, health insurance) costs skyrocketing. Then complicated by these fuckers wanting us all to be more sick, all the time. Our kids, sick. Our elders, sick. All of us, sicker and sicker, and paying more for it.

Hi again! It's me with an another installment of the last book I ever thought would get banned--my picture book about a unicorn and kitty who are pals. A quick look at what this school district bizarrely found objectionable. 1/

Tonight was a very bad night.

Hey folks: Looks like @hcrichardson.bsky.social and I will be having a YouTube chat at 10:30 AM EST tomorrow (Saturday) morning. You can catch it here: m.youtube.com/@joannefreem...

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

Tomorrow on my live podcast “History Matters:” The Presidential Wrecking Ball and Why it Matters The fall of the East Wing is a litmus test for where we are. Join us. Friday 10AM ET NCHEteach.org/conversations

How to be an informed, pro-library, anti-book ban voter in upcoming fall elections (if you have them) and well into the future. Don't just celebrate banned books. Don't just read banned books. VOTE to support the democratic institutions creating access to them. bookriot.com/library-elec...

i desperately want everyone involved in the destruction of USAID to have to, st the very least, answer to the american people for the suffering and misery they have caused apnews.com/article/myan...

Plotting to turn the army on the American people. And for no reason—as they well know. Fascism. Trying to consolidate absolute power. And crush all opposition.

The person who did all of these things was called a “tyrant…unfit to be the ruler of a free people” in 1776. Yup. Give it a read…

“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. Sometimes we must interfere.” -Elie Wiesel, an actual Nobel Peace Prize winner

They do not have enough popular support. So they are trying to outlaw / silence opposition. And that’s where we are. Pushing back has never mattered more.

We don’t call everyone who disagrees with us a Nazi, JD, just the ones doing Nazi shit like: -masked secret police kidnapping people off the street -creating concentration camps -attempting to eradicate trans people -banning/burning LGBTQ/opposing viewpoint books -murdering fishermen in open waters

You guys, so many Romance girlies are reading "On Tyranny" that they've broken the Goodreads recommendations algorithm. 10/10; no notes. #romancelandia

Wrote about the Kimmel firing, which felt like a dam breaking. www.sfgate.com/politics/art...

Hey folks. A link to the pre-recorded episode of my podcast History Matters from my YouTube channel. History is HOWLING at us re: the meaning & threat inherent in censoring criticism. My YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@joannefreem... The episode: On Silencing Opposition youtu.be/dRgjGsBYwxo?...

This is why they’re deleting studies

It's always been like this, and it's because the elites are essentially self-preserving, and civility has always been the tool by which non-elites are condemned.

My lab's been attacked by an anti-wind group and their lawyers. They threatened the science funding of my whole university, to shut me and my undergraduate research assistants up. NYT just covered it. 1/n www.nytimes.com/2025/08/25/c...

In Opinion | Almost every new lifesaving drug starts with government-funded research. But what happens when that funding is cut? In this Opinion video, meet the scientists who are trying to save the lives of you and your family.

They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.

Yes. Collapsing all fed law enforcement into one undifferentiated, untrained, masked force. "Agents said they worried the changes would transform the FBI from an investigative agency focused on national security into something more akin to a federal police force..." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/21/u...

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

It all starts tomorrow!!! <3

Just saw someone repost this so I thought I'd resurface it for everyone. It's still relevant.

1. The extra marginal tax rate will affect millionaires' daily lives almost not at all, which is why in reality none of them would leave the state. 2. When you have this much money, your accountant/financial folks are already making you as tax efficient as possible. www.wbur.org/news/2025/04...