I was a 4th grader in western mass. Will never forget how i couldnt believe my mom that we got over two feet of snow and school wws canceled.

More than 400 years of history and a decade of advocacy were torn down Thursday afternoon when National Park Service employees removed every single display at the President’s House. 🔗 What's next? We explain: www.inquirer.com/politics/nat...

Super excited for the “Exxon-Mobil National Center for Everything But CO2 Atmospheric Research” and its 100 one-of-kind IM Pei luxury condos. #Boulder

I am not being snarky. I need my colleagues who wrote on covid school lockdowns to engage with this. To be as loud as they have been about prior "learning loss." Hell, you can cite Tom & Mark's AERJ paper so you feel better that there's some econ somewhere in your argument.

Brightline West, the high speed rail project between LA and Vegas, is delayed and overbudget. Not for the reasons that train projects usually get delayed and overbudget in the US. It's because AI datacenter builds are taking all the concrete and other resources. www.railwayage.com/passenger/hi...

counterpoint: you used to just be able to google museums and events in your area and decide if you want to do them,,,but then they broke their top product in an effort to steal our data and offer this inferior product

All the evidence one would need to impeach both Rubio and Noem was just posted to the AAUP v. Rubio docket. @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social

you don’t get this without years of centrist bullshit about “divisive concepts”

UPDATE: the elected officials voted to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Starlinks are a threat to Humanity, as well as all the mega constellations. Here's a timelapse from the ISS taken 6 months ago We need to stop NOW

NEW: DHS appropriations bill funding ICE passes 220-207 7 Democrats voted YES on the bill: - Jared Golden - Marie Gluesenkamp Perez - Henry Cuellar - Tom Suozzi - Laura Gillen - Don Davis - Vicente Gonzalez One Republican voted NO: Thomas Massie

Something something the jouissance of enforcing hierarchized suffering

We got to talk about the fact that the first target for this is a Black woman which a lot of people in the terminally online world we know these comms staffers (and others) inhabit represent a particular archetype of person who needs to be “humbled.”

Awful.

Lets think, ideologically, why someone felt the need to remove this. Its not about "knowing our heritage" Enraging, but not surprizing

Worth noting that among those participating in ICE/DHS watch in Minneapolis today — who Emmer appears to frame as “chaos agents” here — are literally hundreds of clergy.

💯 Those who shout the loudest about "heritage" are those who actually care the least about it. See, also, the Kennedy Center.

I don't know if becoming a parent rewires your brain, but in my case there was an immediate certainty that I'd do anything to protect my kid no matter what then happened to me personally. I think a lot of parents feel this way. And seeing stuff like this done deliberately activates that same feeling

Incapable of understanding how "abolish ICE" was silly but arresting 5 year olds is public policy

The cognitive dissonance of constantly reading that I need to spend some time mastering generative AI while not knowing a single person in my industry who uses it to do good work 🤙

His not being impeached by the end of the business day as a result of this threat is as much a problem as the threat itself. It’s not just Trump that the world has to worry about, it’s a GOP that supports him and Democrats who suck their thumbs and refuse to even discuss pushing to remove him

People constantly complain about sociology not meeting X or Y criteria of accuracy but no one talks about how the largest undergraduate degree in the US (business) is basically a collection of anecdotes (“””case studies”””), descriptive blah, and unverified claims.

New— An American citizen boarding flight from Boston to Lisbon just now told me after showing boarding pass, every passenger stopped on jetway by two ICE agents demanding to take their photo. When passenger asked why, ICE threatened to detain them. If they said no photo, couldn't board/TBD detained.

To honor today's #walkout against ICE, I'm sharing a free PDF of Ch2 of my first book, Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! "Walkout Warriors: Transmedia Organizing" narrates the successful cross-platform strategies of students & immigrant rights organizers in 2006: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...

ok not to be a philosophy asshole but what does Mr. Jones think preparation is?

Goebbels would be so jealous of how Trump has a Corporate Media that maintains the legitimacy of independence (or even opposition) but is perfectly obsequious, normalizing madman's latest attempt to destroy our national security & economy.

A worth-it thread to read

Quite a quote from Texans LB Azeez Al-Shaair, who was asked about his STOP THE GENOCIDE eye black after today’s game www.usatoday.com/story/sports...

Senator Susan Collins killed the amendment to protect the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) -- perhaps the world's premier research center for work on #weather, #climate, models, and remote sensing. Remember that.

We recently tested ~ a dozen public statements from a diverse set of Democratic elected officials on the murder of Renee Good and this was the top testing one

The targeting of immersion schools points changing racial logic. Under neoliberal multiculturalism the teaching of racialized languages was permissible if done in ways that benefited white people. Under neofascism the very idea of racialized languages being taught in school is being criminalized.

Don’t news outlets have an obligation to mention the vast majority of bettors on prediction markets lose their money? mattdpearce.substack.com/p/informatio...

REMINDER: Stephen Miller is not a lawyer.

In my district, students in English I & II took a full state standardized test in mid-December. They’ll take another one tomorrow. There was a two week break in between. Nonsensical. #EduSky

We’re in cartoon territory folks.

This is a HUGE problem.

'what is going on', is my only thought every 3 minutes today www.forbes.com/sites/mikest...

Hey, @amyklobuchar.com and @smith.senate.gov: I'm not a senator, but if ICE thugs were rampaging through the major city in my state, I might try to impede Senate business as usual and try to bring everything to a halt until I could get answers or force some votes. open.substack.com/pub/thebulwa...

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!”

"“They specifically asked me if I knew where the Hmong families lived on my street & in the neighborhood.” Lugert-Thom responded, “I don’t know anything about that” & she said they then asked, “Well, what about the Asian families?”" "“I was a bit shaken & a bit shocked of what I was asked to do.”"

What is all this for? Really? Text, image, and video generation? There is a reason so called "AI" is being sutured to all parts of our lives and it's not for our benefit

Tell me again how little energy a single chatbot prompt uses

The Irish Government's war with the environment continues.

The guardrails are gone

It’s no good Governments being slow-footed in response to this. You can’t sit back and wait for the real life consequences. It’s OK to stand powerful against such rotten conduct. And swiftly and fiercely.

Cook’s cowardice is especially egregious when you remember that, 11 years ago, he famously summoned Travis Kalanick to Cupertino to threaten removing Uber from the app store unless Kalanick stopped breaking Apple’s rules. And it worked!

I’m old enough to remember the late 2000s, when redpill dudes were starting to mobilize online various feminists and queer activists and historians wrote fairly regularly about misogyny as the canary in the coal mine of fascism I can still hear the crickets

Good grief.

“New ‘civic discourse’ platforms entered the market to demonstrate to lawmakers that students were… ‘engaged’ in civil disagreement. [R]equiring students to identify where they stand on controversial issues — has become the answer, apparently, via apps that also track… the change in student views.”

Oh also today, the US withdrew from every major international treaty for climate and environmental protection, violence against women and children, and peacebuilding. More than at any point in the past 100+ years, we are the baddies now.