National Guard chatter from the front lines in Georgetown: “You got eyes on this?” “Could be a weapon.” “Hold.” “What are you seeing?” “Stand down. It’s a falafel wrap. Looks like a male, thin, late 40s with a falafel wrap. Walking a schnauzer.” “OK. Stay sharp boys. Eyes on the dog.”

Do they really think they can scare us with the word “socialist” when they are literally sending out men in masks with no warrants and no badges to disappear people off American streets? I know what I’m scared of, and it’s not a socialist.

ICE rolls in, LA rises up.🔥 If Stephen Miller was looking for immigrants to roll over and just take it from his ICE goons, he picked the wrong f*cking town. Between yesterday in LA City and Paramount today, the community is fighting back.

It's...interesting that the US media is so eager to condemn Biden and his handlers for hiding his aging and not for openly being an accessory to genocide. (Imagine. Biden spent a lifetime trying to be a good person, and threw it all away for Netanyahu. Now he's destined for Hell.)

Alex Lawson: We're outside the Energy & Commerce committee with folks risking arrest to protest the destruction of Medicaid which is what Republicans are doing right now in the committee room.

This is so vague that it could ban the regulation of any kind of algorithm whatsoever; “automated decision system” is an extremely broad term!

CBO estimates that the combined effect of Republican Medicaid proposals, allowing enhanced ACA premium tax credits to expire, and President Trump’s proposed ACA rules would increase the number of uninsured by 13.7 million. That would take us back to close to pre-ACA levels.

Wrote about the arrival of mental health chatbots with @laurigoldkind.bsky.social and the enduring importance of human practitioners

I’ll be helping to edit a new speciality series at JSSWR on AI + SW. Would welcome submissions broadly, including those that consider wholesale or targeted prohibition of AI deployment within practice.

Proud member of this union.

Hopefully this also finally prompts universities to find some backbone to stand up against similar unlawful threats.

Grant cancelled? 👇

I’m so tired of hearing Rubio & other rightwingers now claiming that if you’re on a green card you’re a ‘guest’ in this country. BS. You’re a lawful permanent resident. The clue is in the name. If someone is a permanent resident in your home, are they the same as the guests who come and go? Come on.

This is good but why is it written by six individual faculty and not by the presidents of 400 US universities

🚨 New paper! Medical AI benchmarks over-simplify real-world clinical practice and build on medical exam-style questions—especially in mental healthcare. We introduce MENTAT, a clinician-annotated dataset tackling real-world ambiguities in psychiatric decision-making. 🧵 Thread:

We urge university leaders to respond confidently, with law and moral principle on your side, and not to sacrifice essential and legally defensible DEI initiatives that help universities fulfill their most basic mission to pursue truth and knowledge for the common good. app.box.com/s/2me4mszr6p...

I like the revised version better.

JUST IN: A federal judge in Washington state, who blocked Trump's executive order re: transgender health care, says it is unconstitutional in multiple ways, including usurping Congress' power of the purse storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

For a straightforward explanation of the sheer illegality of everything going on, @sbagen.bsky.social has you covered.

Come close out #SSWR2025 by strategizing with us on how to end the harm to our profession caused by the ASWB exams.