I most certainly did not sign up for Gemini, Google. In fact I’ve tried to find all the ways to turn it off. This is just bad UX in general btw. Telling the user what *they did* (even if they didn’t) with no remedy to correct if it’s a mistake, with no unsubscribe on the footer either. And no bsky

They literally want to keep everyone dumb

I'm doing a thread of everything I've published this year, but amassing everything I'm struck by how fast the Trump admin moved to wreck the country. I figured that they would move a bit more slowly breaking everything, but no, 2025 was the year of the crowbar and the wrecking ball. (Plz boost!) 🧵

People, please don’t just make comments here about this disgusting whitewashing attempt. Please direct complaints to NPR: help.npr.org/contact/s/ And Tamara Keith: www.tamarakeith.com/p/contact.ht...

Hi folks. Just to be clear, a date has not yet been announced for the next No Kings. If a PAC you’ve never heard of asks for donations to “organize” it, please block and report them

Sincerely one of the funniest things the WSJ has ever written or done. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...

priorities

All travelers from ESTA countries (yes the ones on visa waiver programs) will have to disclose 5 years of social media + huge amounts of personal data to enter the US now. All US academic associations should now meet outside the US if we want to meet our international colleagues.

Conservative Harvard debate club now excludes women; changed its motto in '24 from “Harvard’s premier undergraduate debate organization for political and moral philosophy” to the “premier organization for the reinvention of man at Harvard Square.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

Some idiot glued her deadname under her portrait www.npr.org/sections/sho...

this sentence alone, my goodness

best package warning graphic i've ever seen 🪶

Rand Paul tells me that he wants the full video of the Venezuelan boat strike released. “And I think if the public sees images of people clinging to boat debris and being blown up, I think that there is a chance that finally, the public will get interested enough in this to stop this.”

Today's absurd sci-fi headline that's somehow our reality: Fact-checkers barred from immigrating to the U.S.

get a load of the "journalist" asking questions at the Pentagon press briefing

Federal Government Announces Racial Profiling Campaign, Explains It’s Because of the President’s Personal Bigotry

It's with heavy hearts that we share that Claude, our beloved albino alligator, has passed away at the age of 30. Claude brought joy to millions of people at the Academy and across the world during his 17 year tenure. We will miss him dearly. 🤍

RIP Claude

He’s gesturing to a sleeping man as he says “He’s the only leader in the world who can help end [the war in Ukraine].”

timeline cleanse! <3

Equally a part of American political life.… The mayor of Boston in concert with our greatest cellist.

They are literally firing all the judges they think might grant relief. They just fired a friend of mine a couple hours ago. They have no shame. The bastards want an assembly line for deportations and nothing more; rubber-stamping bootlickers who’ll yes’sir at every new diktat to deny.

WE JUST KEEP WINNING. (UC President's Postdoctoral Fellowship Program RESTORED!!!!)

just learned we won an award for our blog post about Tom Holland and stormwater management. remember, when you see an article about stormwater management, you repost it. i don’t make the rules.

"they may make it all the way to college before they find out that they can only do math at a middle-school or sometimes an elementary-school level."

Despite showing legal papers.

Over 20,000 students stayed home from school Monday in Charlotte amid ICE raids, representing 15% of enrollment The district is nearly one-third Hispanic, per WBTV www.wbtv.com/2025/11/18/n...

For Charlotte friends who want to prepare, we made our little whistle station with a plastic planter (drainage in the bottom in case it rains), zip ties, and no-heat lamination paper

The article tries to defend Catholic sexual abuse of minors by calling the priests "homosexuals", not "pedophiles." Disgusting and bigoted at the same time; nice work Catholic League

Struck this morning by how the win wasn’t from the UC system itself pushing back—it was its worker power through *unions* and aligned groups like @aaup.org defending UC interests, even though admin itself wasn’t. There’s some kind of lesson here

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She “thought she was getting an operation to remove a cyst on her ovary — until the driver who brought her to the hospital said otherwise. "She was just like, 'You know you're having a hysterectomy, right?' " Floriano tells NPR in an interview. "And I was in shock, because I knew what that meant."

I did not realize the UC system has been actively fighting the folks trying to protect it from trump’s interference wrt academic freedom. WTH #ucla

😡 @ashtonpittman.bsky.social just shared one of the worst uses of the passive voice I’ve ever seen with me. Make no mistake: Too many in journalism use passive voice on purpose to give passes and to soften certain news about power. Why I basically outlaw it in our shop. (It also ruins writing.)

"This assault on higher education is best understood as a means of destroying a locus of political opposition."

MAGA’s ongoing war on academic freedom, reflected in headlines from the last 24 hours.

I thought the earlier news from A&M was bad, but this is incredibly bleak. It’s close to the point of not having a functional university.

bit.ly/ucunbowed I just signed the petition to protect academic freedom at UC schools. Join with UC Unbowed before the Board of Regents meeting on November 18-20 and tell President James B. Milliken and the Regents to protect UC's independence.

Jeffrey Epstein to Lawrence Summers (both of whom are very bad people): “i have met some very bad people , none as bad as trump. not one decent cell in his body. so yes- dangerous”

every tiny crumb that leaks out is a career ending bombshell and we’re all just supposed to go on with our lives while our elected representatives shrug and tell us there’s nothing to be done about the president’s involvement in a child sex trafficking operation

It's driving me batty that nobody except Heather Cox Richardson, the Washington Monthly, and myself is covering Trump's race to sell off (for likely demolition) "the Sistine Chapel of the New Deal," w/ murals by Ben Shahn, Philip Guston, etc. I've furnish links below to help reporters get started.

NEWS: The UK is no longer sharing intelligence with the US about suspected drug trafficking vessels in the Caribbean because it does not want to be complicit in US military strikes and believes the attacks are illegal, sources familiar with the matter told CNN. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/11/p...

Devastating— “I’m afraid for my parents to leave the house. They treat us like dogs because of the color of our skin. I shouldn’t be scared, I should be focusing on school.” A 16yo American living in fear of the Trump regime’s ICE goons terrorizing brown people pleads for help.

“UC has spent billions of dollars acquiring new facilities, raises on its wealthiest executives & housing assistance programs to help these same elites buy mansions or 2nd homes — but it won’t offer its frontline workers enough to pay rent or groceriesl” www.sfchronicle.com/health/artic...

The goddamn nerve of Jeff Bezos' newspaper to talk shit about raising the minimum wage at a moment when workers at Jeff Bezos' online superstore -- who are paid so little half of them in one study were on SNAP benefits -- are going hungry. The fucking arrogance.

And now dailybruin.com/2025/11/05/u... “The EDI department previously said its purpose was to dismantle “all forms of systemic discrimination,”and “to building an enduring anti-racist organization,” while the new OCIE homepage makes no references to race or racism. “

"the University of California system office will no longer pay for the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program, a fellowship established in 1984 to encourage more women and minority Ph.D.s to pursue academic careers." #UC alums tell them what you think of capitulation: [email protected]

Ah, off-cycle election night. Time to start obsessively following the returns for a faraway candidate I just learned about an hour ago.