okay maybe *one* king

If you're protesting this weekend: Prep a burner phone, learn to move in crowds and what to do if things get violent, understand how you'll be surveilled, and find resources for storing media and remotely locking or erasing your phone: www.digitapub.com/collections/...

I can’t help but think today about how many young people were savaged on social media, branded as anti-semites and abandoned by their schools for daring to call for a ceasefire. I remember saying that it was the first time I can remember that calling for ceasefire was regarded as a hostile demand.

That was the most insane double play I have ever seen. And I am old and have been watching baseball a long time. #DodgersBrewers

Indigenous People’s Day is a good day to do some reading.

lolsob

“It’s built on Drupal”

This was a rough week. The sense of overwhelm with all the ways this administration wants to harm and steal our futures got to me. We’re all so tired. But this - the Mamdani ad and Katelyn’s response - gave me air today. Thank you for writing this. None of us are free until all of us are free.

@utaustin.bsky.social Your alums are watching.

New Madrid

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

Notable leftist provocateurs: the...(*checks notes*) Catholic Bishops

My husband was detained by ICE today Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away I have had zero contact or updates since #SOS @duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

New: Apple just removed ICEBlock, the app for reporting sightings of ICE, from its App Store after DOJ pressure. ICEBlock's developer tells 404 Media "we are determined to fight this." "Capitulating to an authoritarian regime is never the right move." www.404media.co/iceblock-own...

Essential thread.

RIP

Fix this @apnews.com.

Come on SoCal, let’s do this!

This is obviously just more RFK Jr garbage, but for those who have never been pregnant, you should know that Tylenol is pretty much the *only* medication you can take while you’re pregnant. So, it’s especially uncool for him to try to scare pregnant people off of taking it.

So…currently in Tokyo and wondering if Tuesday’s rapture happening in EST or did I get left behind already?

#SaveOurSigns on @npr.org this morning! Help us tell our full history! one.npr.org/i/nx-s1-5543...

I found that report that they lost www.publicnow.com/view/52C0B5B...

The 7-11 egg salad sandwich in Japan deserves every bit of the hype. #TokyoThings

In 2022 Texas A&M reorganized their libraries (over faculty protests) and pulled all librarians out of faculty status.

"The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence 'continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism' in the United States." www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

We're witnessing the most aggressive, fanatical crackdown on free speech in my lifetime. The speed and breadth of government censorship and private sector and nonprofit capitulation has been astonishing. As has the lack of urgency/silence from people who've long claimed to care about this stuff.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Anyone else eating their feelings today? These are incredible.

My heart hurts for friends and former colleagues in higher ed in Texas still trying to teach anyone anything.

Doctor I trust more than R.F.K. Jr.

If you're protesting ICE in Chicago, let me know at [email protected] if you need free legal training or legal support. If you're arrested protesting ICE, I can represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected]. As always, I will take as many cases as I can.

This is excellent.

We don’t need a Pinochet or a Mussolini to tell us that trains running on time is good, actually.

This former 4-Her loves Sarah’s content. More people need to be reminded what a dairy barn is like.

How university administrations handled pro-Palestine protest is what has enabled the large scale attack on the academy that is now impacting scientists and scientists refuse to speak honestly about being wrong and actually yes that is a problem because that’s not how you build trust

I wish more teachers understood that they are being tasked to find use cases for genAI for free, and what they are choosing to do for free now is something they may be required to use later--even if they figure out it's counterproductive to their core mission.

This is terrifically on-point.

Against my better judgment I watched The Biggest Loser documentary last night. If not for the @yrfatfriend.bsky.social commentary providing some sanity I would have thrown something at the TV. The craven cruelty that went into making that show is ghastly to see laid out.

cool cool cool

Monied. Fuckos.💀

Texas Department of Public Safety has locked a Texas legislator inside the Capitol.

A great read on UChicago, arguing we’re seeing the result of decades of mismanagement: “The university’s trustees and leaders view it preeminently as a tax-free technology incubator, and its debt load is so great that it is abandoning ideals it once held dear in order to sustain that goal.”

The creators of reality TV have so much to answer for in this bizarro timeline.

This is enraging and heartbreaking. Another senseless death caused by a chaotic ICE operation. They took 13 workers from the scene they even chased workers with their cars. abc7.com/post/man-fle...

Took my family to New York and saw Mrs. van Rhijn taking luncheon with a divorcee, you can’t convince me that crime isn’t up

Welp …one Instagram purchase and now 70% of my social media feed seems to be ads for compression socks.

If technology is society made durable (Latour), AI reflects a perceived need to commit reckless acts and discriminate at a scale and timescale faster than human effort (get me offa this ride pls)