Did you know that because of recent USPS changes, ballots mailed on Election Day may not be postmarked in time to be counted? To ensure your vote counts, we recommend mailing your ballot by May 26! You can also drop your ballot in an official drop-box or vote in person. Bottom line: VOTE EARLY!

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Los Angeles: we just got word that Hydee Feldstein-Soto has begun charging anti-ICE protesters from arrests *last June* with a court date set for July. If you received a letter from the City Attorney we want to talk to you. Message us on here or hit us on signal gglaprotest.72

it’s wild how they are reporting this on local public radio - basically either it leaks or it explodes and either way residents need to get out now?!?!

Chinga la migra

NEW: A California DA was prosecuting Stanford students for felonies over pro-Palestine protests. Bolts reported back in February that he was fundraising off these cases. Learning this, defense attorneys dug more, & filed a motion to force Rosen off the case for bias. A judge just removed him:

Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org

fine we’ll take it all then

this is a masterpiece

In 2025, HHS issued stop work order for federal research lab that studies Ebola virus and other deadly pathogens and fired its director. This lab was a world leader in accelerating development therapies and vaccines for Ebola and other viruses. 1/ www.wired.com/story/hhs-ni...

Mamdani: I cannot help but think of the words of our 40th president, Ronald Reagan. He famously said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the govt & I'm here to help'" I think nine more terrifying words are actually, "I worked all day and can't feed my family"

the thing about tenure line professors forming Pennsylvania’s largest public sector union in 50 years is unions are for everybody!! profs are public servants! and we're doing all the big publics! we're doing Urbana we're doing Michigan we're doing California! www.statecollege.com/articles/psu...

Hell yes - congrats to our AFSCME siblings! Our turn to win healthcare caps @ucaft.bsky.social

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

when will I see you at the picket line? you going to bring your lunch and cancel that event?

We stand in solidarity with AFSCME 3299 as they begin their open-ended strike on May 14. Read on for ways to support our UC sibling union workers!✊ @afscme3299.bsky.social

this dusty ass cunt is a menace to every student and every educator

let’s fucking goooooooooo

karen bass where you at

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

This post (by a cybersecurity professional) gives some background on the gang that claims to have perpetrated the hack, which apparently is a group of (mainly) teens based in the UK.

* SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: ENERGY SUPPLY SHOCK THAT BEGAN IN Q1 IS THE LARGEST THE WORLD HAS EVER EXPERIENCED * SAUDI ARAMCO CEO NASSER: IF HORMUZ DISRUPTION CONTINUES FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, NORMALIZATION WON'T HAPPEN UNTIL INTO 2027 @reuters.com

To be clear since the headline isn't: a study that claimed GenAI was good for learning, actually, turns out to have been bullshit.

“We are driven out and despised we are tormented and persecuted and all just because we love the poor and haggard people We are shot and hanged, robbed of our lives and our rights, because we demand the truth and freedom for the poor slaves…”1/2

Please don’t forget that the story about the hack broke widely on MONDAY. And instead of preparing campus contingencies, administrators kept it quiet. www.techrepublic.com/article/news...

Kind of surprised that this hasn't been bigger news. It's finals week for a whole lot of universities, and yet, Canvas (a learning/grading platform used by ~9,000 schools globally) is currently inaccessible because of a pay-or-have-your-data-leaked hack. www.insidehighered.com/news/tech-in...

well this is fun

Canvas hacked at UCD, any other UCLA folks noticing something messed up down here?

🔥 @justinjpearson.bsky.social: “WE ARE STILL HERE.” #Memphis @GovBillLee @MarshaBlackburn #JimCrow

solidarity is beautiful

I was lucky to write the lead article for a special issue of Academe on AI in the Corporate University. In "What does AI do?" I offer a provisional balance sheet of this technology's effects on our work, our finances, and our management, in a moment of rising fascist attacks on higher education.

WTF, NYer. "If we agree that college primarily serves a credentialling process that stamps select young people as worthy of work..." We do not. So much for the bastion of erudite journalism. This is sensationalism, damaging our most vital institution: education. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...

Attention all men. More of this, please.

In a lengthy list of core primary sources, there is precisely one written by a woman, a short excerpt from Jane Addams' memoirs (unless we count the Nineteenth Amendment). In "additional sources," there are 2 more: Mary Rowlandson's narrative of her captivity among the Narragansett & Betty Friedan.

We talked about USAID in class today (specifically the FUSADES program to fund maquiladora development) but it made me sad that most of their associations were entirely negative and no one seemed to know about any of the good things it did

BREAKING: in March 2026, *every single one* of the 1,341 refugees admitted in the United States were white South Africans: In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 4,496 white South Africans, three Afghans (back in November), and nobody else. www.rpc.state.gov/documents/Re...

WEMBY: Youngest player in NBA history with a triple-double including blocks in a postseason game since '73–74 👀 👽 11 PTS 👽 15 REB (postseason career-high) 👽 12 BLK (NBA postseason record) Also becomes the first player in NBA history to record 10+ PTS, 15+ REB, and 10+ BLK in a postseason game!

This story has everything: patriarchy. Homophobia. Biblical inerrancy. And don’t sleep on the white supremacy either. “It was like Gettysburg,” [Pressler] said [of his struggle to root liberals out of the SBC]. “But this time the right side won.”

🎁 GIFT LINK: tinyurl.com/gen-z-hates-ai

This is the Israeli government.

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Happy May Day to workers in fields, mines, sweatshops, kitchens, delivery bikes, factories, homes, on the street & beyond. To freedom fighters, caregivers & the ancestors who make our work possible. May we work for freedom, for a world with no rulers, no kings, where all labor & lives are valued.

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Hey creatives in the movement! 👋 The UCLA Labor Center is partnering with photojournalist David Bacon to hold a series of participatory workshops designed just for you. Join us to engage with movement photography more critically and connect with others in this space. 📸 Register here: bit.ly/LCP4TR

2 years ago tonight

“It hurts the students as well, because now (the lecturers) are less focused on teaching and just more focused on surviving and trying to stack as many classes as possible. In the end, students are the ones that lose out the most.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/... @ucaft.bsky.social

This description by @AdamSerwer of the logic of the Alito ruling completing the demolition the Voting Rights is devastating—and right “Trying to disenfranchise Black voters isn’t racist; preventing Louisiana from disenfranchising Black voters is racist.” www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...