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Making tenure count, for MSNOW I wrote about my employer, The University of Iowa, creating a center for intellectual freedom. It's a reactionary project built on decades of conservative propaganda about higher ed.

This sequel to the award winning anthology of Palestinian fantasy, science fiction and horror is now 58% funded! #projectwelove 🥰 www.kickstarter.com/projects/158...

No one is surprised. #ACAB

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The new iteration of the Red Scare keeps on coming. Nothing is promising about the FBI providing guidance to state and local law enforcement on how to enforce POTUS’s crackdown to criminalize resistance and dissent.

We are living in an information vacuum. As @annalekasmiller.bsky.social discussed on @resistantcommpod.bsky.social, 40% of local news vanished in 10 years, leaving 50M Americans without access. Info vacuum. When trusted journalism disappears, we lose critical analysis. Listen: bit.ly/rc2026annale...

Social movement scholar here again. So, why protest? Nihilists were out yesterday arguing that "protests don't do anything." A short 🧵:

Look I’m an old leftist punk that brawled with nazi skins and I have literally nothing in common with these people but when I see a soccer mom with a Trans Kids Belong sign screaming FUCK ICE at the top of her lungs I whole heartedly welcome my unlikely new comrade

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown (not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

AI propaganda or "human slop"? We're seeing a shift where even balanced voices perform outrage to beat the algorithm. From harmless deepfakes to dangerous rumors, the incentive structure of social media is breaking our grasp on context. Check out our latest episode with @annalekasmiller.bsky.social

Prosecutors are also investigating Gregory Bovino, the outgoing Border Patrol commander who was the face of the immigration enforcement surge in Minnesota and who was seen on video lobbing smoke canisters into crowds in Minneapolis.

During the actual Cold War the idea of integrating computers into decision making was seen as kind of terrifying? People did it, but with a healthy dose of trepidation and awareness that surrendering control was too dangerous. But if the computer kisses your ass enough, that’s all it takes.

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Our newest episode, and a really good one.

This was clear from the jump, but the Venezuela invasion going as smoothly as it did, from a pure operational perspective, is going to prove catastrophic in the long run.

United Farm Workers out here fightin back against Noem! 🔥 UFW v. Noem has a ring to it.! All farm worker communities have been going through hell, mine included. @ufw.bsky.social filing this lawsuit is massive and powerful. So grateful for UFW for standing up! Get her, y’all! Godspeed!

ICYMI: We launched a dossier last week with some responses to Vivek Chibber's recent pieces on materialism and colonialism. You can find Bilal Zahoor's response to Chibber's separation of capitalist and colonialism history in the quoted post.

Hassett: "At the White House, we've got our eyes on the prize and we believe we're gonna have a world with a much more stable Venezuela, a much more stable Iran that is a very reliable and safe supplier of energy, which will reduce risk premiums around the world and be cause for celebration."

Anyway we know the economy has been in the toilet from the number of "upscale American comfort" restaurants serving fries with truffle aioli again

The countries doing the "oh jeez, this war is so sad and I have some questions" schtick while letting the U.S. do crazy stuff from their territory are all pathetic.

Trump thinks this will be Venezuela, over in a week, then onto Cuba

What a fun thing to announce at the open

"President Trump has been anointed by Jesus to light the signal fire in Iran to cause Armageddon and mark his return to Earth" I don't feel so good newrepublic.com/post/207270/...

With Judge Pittman’s decision this morning, there’s only one thing to call this trial.

A great interview with a dear friend, @annalekasmiller.bsky.social. Check out this great podcast interview with Anna, discussing journalism, social media, media literacy, misinformation, and its impacts on migration policy, namely the ICE and CBP occupation of Minneapolis. Such a brilliant episode!

As I scroll through triumphal pro-war tweets, thinking about this image a lot today:

#OtD 28 Feb 1972 the trial of legendary Black communist Angela Davis for murder, kidnapping & conspiracy began in San Jose, CA. Amidst a global campaign of support in June an all-white jury acquitted her of all charges. Davis tells her story in this book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

After a short winter break, the Resistant Communiqués Podcast is back for its second season! We've got a great lineup of guests. Listen wherever you get your podcasts, and follow us here: resistantcommuniques.com

Recently some Americans showed a great deal of concern for civilians being needlessly murdered on the other side of the world, and every powerful institution worked together to punish, expel, silence, and deport those Americans. I think Americans don’t relish murder, but our leaders do.

You have to believe that Americans are all complete pieces of shit to not even mention the civilians being murdered needlessly in our name, right?

UPDATE: The Iranian government confirmed the attack on Iran has killed Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the country's authoritarian supreme leader for 37 years. www.jezebel.com/at-least-100...

As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

“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-...

“Lorth Sim, a Cambodian national, died in ICE custody on Monday, the seventh since the start of the year and nearly the 40th since Trump took office. ICE has not updated its website to reflect this latest detainee death as of the time of this writing.”

At the same Texas concentration camp: “There were children in Dilley who were so distraught they cut themselves or talked about suicide, several mothers told me. Recently, two cases of measles were discovered in the center.“ Extreme child abuse as state policy. www.propublica.org/article/life...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

this is a "y'all got jokes" moment considering that there is no more security discipline left in the US national security establishment anymore. The director of national intelligence is a foreign cutout, strike plans are shared on insecure group chats, teenage cybercriminals ran loose in gov

this quoted post is uninformed nonsense. policy changes towards trans people have been profound at both the state and federal level. the EEOC won’t even process charges of trans discrimination right now for fucks sake.

It’s really disappointing to see people who spoke out against the genocide in Palestine when it became “safer”. But then turn around and practically campaign for (Christian or Jewish) Zionist candidates now that the midterms are coming. Where is your spine, genocide apologists?

“A political prisoner is held captive for their political determination, for their resistance against colonial powers and rebellion against inhumane, racist, and unjust systems. Xinachtli stood at the forefront of the Chicano movement in Houston, Texas, leading El Movimiento De La Raza…

I am huge fan of winter sports and currently enjoying the Winter Olympics. I’ve noticed competing Russians, are not allowed to compete under the Russia name and flag. Russia has also been banned from all UEFA & FIFA competitions, quite rightly so. I believe the ban should include the USA and Israel.

SCOOP: An FBI counterterrorism agent spent weeks pursuing a nonviolent climate activist, and showed up at his door. The visit suggests a possible probe into the climate group as the Trump admin increases surveillance of activists, calls them domestic "terrorists." theintercept.com/2026/02/12/f...

You can call fascists vile without using their tools. You don't need to make fun of bad people for being fat or ugly or for their gender or ableness of their bodies. It's just shitty, white guy behavior. None of us like Pam Bondi, but now none of us like you either.

Trump works hard to leave no trace whenever it reflects poorly on him. This data is so critical for many reasons. I frequently research presidential approval ratings after a particular event in U.S. history. It’s bad news all around, even in understanding history in the future.

We just had a strong geomagnetic substorm here in Iceland. My cat and I watched from the balcony. Sometimes the show is strong enough to see inside the city limits easily. #northernlights #aurora #iceland

Today, we launched “Cancer in Confinement,” a series exploring why cancer is often deadlier inside U.S. prisons than in the free world. This is the big project I mentioned yesterday. I hope you will read and share.