"I can’t think of anything more chilling to First Amendment activity, or more designed to prevent coverage of high-profile, newsworthy events, than to criminally charge reporters for being present on the scene,” he said. www.cjr.org/news/madelin...

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

For the love of humanity: If attending an online meeting and you need to talk, please use a microphone or anything with a mic on it please. Your crappy computer catches room echo and distorts your voice. That's all.

Also, this is what is wrong with the cable news formula. Even when they know nothing, they must fill the air and so they fill it with speculation. We don’t know why this terrible shooting happened. It’s dangerous to speculate motives or politics. Please stop.

I for one would love to see Ras Baraka primary @corybooker.com Booker's style of performative politics while doing the bidding of corporate interests has run its course. #rasbaraka #coreybooker @rasjbaraka.bsky.social #njpolitics #newjersey #newjerseypolitics #USSenate

AI for research or writing? Could be damaging your thinking.

Sen. Alex Padilla was just removed from Kristi Noem's press conference in Los Angeles (video: Bill Melugin/Fox News)

What DOGE has perfectly demonstrated is that innovation for innovation (or disruption) sake costs human lives.

A spokesperson for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers and Trainmen confirmed to NJ Spotlight News that there will be a strike at 12:01 a.m. Friday.

NJ Transit's line about NJTransit workers don't deserve the same wage as NY workers is the biggest BS line ever. The cost of living is basically the same. #strike #njtransitstrike

Librarians (or anyone else who use): what's an alternative to Kindle (because you know, the evil empire).

Happy National Library Week! If you don't have a library card, go get one. If you have one, use it! Public goods thrive when everybody uses them. That's why they push kids to charter, home, and private schools, why they sow doubt and fear of libraries and our collections. Use it or lose it!

Exactly what needed to be said at #acrl2025 where too many were uncritical of AI and its effects on society especially our students.

The greatness of going to conferences like #acrl2025 is the community we develop from such engagements, and the potential power from our shared experiences to change our communities at home.

Ran into a demonstration of indigenous community members outside the Hennepin County Library over the brutality by a private security company on a local man. According to them after George Floyd instead of reforming the police they invested in private "mercenaries". #acrl2025

Never forget #acrl2025

While obviously our atmosphere in higher right now is a sense of dread and fear, I'm hoping we can find our fight and use our collective imagination, as Ruha Benjamin argued in her keynote, to start creating a new world. #acrl2025

More than packed room for a Librarian panel about Navigating the AI Frontier. I will be paying to attention to how much hype is being used in our discourse about AI. #acrl2025

How can we share the future as opposed to who is going to "own" the future. #acrl2025

"Computational depth without social context or historical depth isn't so deep." -Benjamin #acrl2025

Benjamin quoting @librarianmer.bsky.social about "slow librarianship". #acrl2025

"Some of the same people hyping the innovations of technology are the same causing the problems of society." Benjamin #acrl2025

Ruha Benjamin takes the stage! #acrl2025

Let's do this #ACRL2025

Academic library family: Hope to see y'all in Minneapolis this week. Let's make our community stronger than ever. 👊🏾

At least six of my books and publications were used illegally by Meta to train their AI. I already knew this by searching libgen, but Atlantic has put out a quick search tool. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

You cannot take these pundits seriously. Chris Cuomo was just railing against Columbia and tax dollars and elite this and that. He went to private school K-12 and attended Yale. Any of these conservatives or moderates who don’t talk about their own schooling first should be ignored.

Shutting down the Office of Diversity & Inclusion reverses the hard fought gains of Black students, staff, and faculty in the late 1960s. The Office of Minority Affairs (1970), formed out of dedicated struggle, became ODI in 2012. Preserve this history! www.thelantern.com/2019/10/offi...

No Other Land, directed by a four-person Israeli-Palestinian collective, has won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But no one in the U.S. wanted to distribute it.

Listen up you absolute fucking legends of stupidity, you glorious, star-spangled dipshits, you majestically brain-dead champions of mediocrity, you beige wallpaper of humanity… measles outbreaks do not HAPPEN ALL THE TIME in our country. Stop acting like this shit is normal. It’s not.

Do people in the military realize they're fighting for Russia now?

Well, Bluesky…you know what to do. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Shall we decode? Open to all analyses.

You want to erase us. Kendrick: I don't think so.

He said “The revolution is about to be televised, you picked the right time but the wrong guy”

I thought the President of the United States was going to be there? I don't see Elon Musk.

Yup

Elon Musk is a horrible President. Spread the word.

John Stewart's interview with Chris Christie was fascinating and some good takes. Christie is still horrible human though.

America is gonna to feel like a Florida subprime loan house circa 2009 with the republicans and christian-right grifters stripping & pocketing all the fixtures, pipes, and appliances.

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent. Opportunities are everywhere. Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

The same people wailing about DEI literally can’t spell their own job title.

I’m so tired of this ‘mandate’ BS and ‘the American people said…’ nonsense. Trump didn’t win a majority of the popular vote, and beat Harris by one of the smallest popular vote margins (1.5%) in US history. If you factor in turnout, he got the votes of less than 1 in 3 eligible voters in the US.

Over 500 humans with no criminal records were detained and/or deported in the raids. No humans are illegal.

No executive order from last week guarantees: •Universal healthcare •Higher wages •Affordable housing •Disaster relief • Mental health services • Universal public education • etc. Those orders divide us & make the 1% richer.

Snoop Dog will FOREVER be known as Lap Dog now. So it is written...

What say you @coreybooker.com @robmenendez.bsky.social @andykimnj.bsky.social (and others) about arresting your constituents? You're going to do something right?

It is so hard to build things and so easy to destroy them.

SHARE WIDELY. KNOW YOUR RIGHTS. With mass deportations starting today across the country, it is vitally important - for both citizens and non-citizens - to know your rights. You have the right to remain silent. Assert it. You have the right to a lawyer. Ask for one. (1/3)

Personal thanks to @michellegoldberg.bsky.social for capturing the yesterday so precisely with "The age of algorithmic feudalism has begun." So, perfect.