When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern

On this 115th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, we remember the victims – who were primarily young immigrant women. We also carry forward the lessons of this painful moment in NYC's history. Reckless, unchecked greed resulted in mass catastrophe. (1/3)

speaking from minnesota, weird to see anyone asking about where are student protests in the wake of the most effective protest movements of my lifetime, one that included so so so many college students but not as /college/ protests.

Every book on this list rules. Rowling can eat shit. Read trans authors!

57 of my fellow students were arrested, academically disciplined, and barred from campus 2 weeks before finals. And then the visas of some of those students were quietly revoked. And then the DEI office was killed. And then we watched our mentors’ grants evaporate over “woke”.

OMG! www.tumblr.com/did-the-clif...

Okay, so the JHU alumni association. Does anyone else get emails from them where the mail merge keeps trying to call them Karen? Or do they just want to call me that? 🤣 I've replied to them multiple times over the last couple YEARS telling them about the issue and they haven't fixed it. Just me?

look if I wanted to die for my country I’d lawfully film an ICE agent with both my hands visible at all times

if you want to know how important it is for you to do this math: the fees patreon took from me in 2025 add up to roughly 3 months of income. that's 3 months of income i would have paid taxes on if i didn't deduct the fees from the 1099. 3 months of income i never actually had!

Re: my last reposts “Do not put money in the pocket of a woman who has sworn publicly to use it to disenfranchise vulnerable populations” is the smallest ask imaginable. It’s not oxygen, it’s not food. It’s television. You can do without. There are thousands of other shows for you to watch.

Why did my throat become all sore and painful to swallow in about a minute? I'm hoping I just held my head too long at a stupid angle or something.

Monj is correct and she should say it.

We could just scrap TSA and go back to having airports & airlines be responsible for their own security. We wouldn’t have this chaos when there’s a government funding gap, and as a nice perk we’d ditch a lot of time-consuming theater that adds little meaningful security benefit.

Who could have guessed that spending the last 6 decades dismantling every form of mass transit except air travel would have negative consequences??

It’s endometriosis awareness month, so sharing this is the least you could do for us

A hair style photo reference library 🙂‍↕️🙏 afroindex.org

Bring back rent parties! Our ancestors showed us the way! officiallangstonhughes.com/rent-parties...

The ICE and community organizing I've been involved w lately in Portland is no joke 95% women and trans folks. There's no founders or credit to take for others' labor so then men just don't even bother

Because Gulf-produced chemicals sustain everything from factories in China to farms in South America, the current consequences are more extensive than 1973 embargo, and more catastrophic than can be gleaned oil prices alone especially for those in the global South. www.nybooks.com/online/2026/...

Yet another article I was surprised to find was not published by The Onion

My quick gloss is that there’s a lot of deception and sloppiness going on with 287g. Very few law enforcement leaders understand it. (Like literally they do not understand the program) It appears to have been pushed at a series of conferences.

Do something today that orients you toward feeling joy when other people feel joy

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

“Lessons from the sixties and seventies that you’ve been thinking about?” Assata Shakur: “... that people work together wherever they are... to become active; to become aware; to increase the level of activity rather than to concentrate on being the vanguard, on trying to lead a movement.”

This is apparently a big day for having to explain to people that nuclear electric propulsion and nuclear thermal propulsion are not the same thing. And also that nuclear thermal propulsion has not been made to work and that nuclear electric propulsion systems would take a long time to work.

once again I am compelled to mention that Bush v. Gore likely went down the way it did because Sandra Day O'Connor cooked her brain on talk radio scholarlycommons.law.hofstra.edu/cgi/viewcont...

depressing take out of Denmark, where the far right may not fare well in general elections today—because its anti-immigrant agenda has been adopted and mainstreamed by centrists

I truly think that the best comparison for what Grammarly did--attributing fake writing advice to real writers without their consent--is deepfake pornography.

Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website: https://www.forbes.com/sites/joetoscano1/2026/03/06/google-just-patented-the-end-of-your-website/ (For once the clickbait headline is accurate: google's planning on swapping their own AI-generated summaries for the website you just tried to view.)

Last year, long before Trump’s latest ICE deployment to US airports, ICE airport arrests had already increased by 94 percent (from Trump taking office through mid-October 2025 vs. the same period in 2024), as @documentedny.bsky.social & @deportationdata.org reported:

Me emailing HH about Corey Williams, who was wrongfully sentenced to death for an alleged crime he committed at 16.

I'd choose a choice and truly terrible-simultaneously-hilarious quote from this interview, but there are too many It's absolutely wild that these people think like they do, and that society has allowed this mentality and behavior to flourish But seriously: READ this, it's tremendous reporting ⬇️

The AI companies have massive incentives to lie about the impacts of the data centers, and anyone involved in pushing AI is incentivized to at least be in denial. I just don’t believe that you can keep piling on more and more GPUs like this without environmental impacts.

Wow. The grift is happening, apparently, at an appalling number of levels.

I deal with a lot of people who are both anti-semitic and Islamophobic. I can safely tell you they love conspiracy theories b/c they fit right in with dehumanization. it’s hard when everyone’s hurting to make sure everyone’s legitimate pains are acknowledged, but that’s the work

Thread. I'm begging people to realize how much we've already given in just the past 25 years. I'm old enough to remember when surveillance wasn't ubiquitous and before ICE or the TSA existed. There was even a time when the average cop wasn't kitted out for full on urban warfare.

People do not talk about this enough. There is no continuous feedback. Models can only be updated as frequently as humans are able to update them - sometimes that means once every six months or longer, in my experience.

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

Regardless of how you feel about the quality of LLM-generated code, it's not more important than a literal city.

anyways my guys, don't forget to nightshade your images in case someone else uploads them into this mess 🤗 (all my stuff is nightshaded and nobody can tell, it's gotten really good)

This was, to put it mildly, quite misleading by Kavanaugh—suggesting that a professor made the OPPOSITE point that he actually made through selective quotation.

Constant mood: I don't want *more* competent fascists. But I reserve the right to feel insulted by how allergic to competence they are.

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

today’s guy was a 46-year-old imam from Eritrea and the thoughts I’m having right now after reading this cannot safely be posted on this website HE FUCKING. TRIED. TO TELL YOU.

the sad reality: your favorite local haunts (that indie bookstore with the queer book club, the game shop that hosts tcg nights, the cafe with local art shows, etc) are always teetering on the edge of closure every single month. just a reminder to show these places love whenever you can.

To everyone who doesn't want to see the face of the US president, we have a labeler now! bsky.app/profile/face...

KOSA doesn't help these kids. No one's talking about "protecting" these kids. They're on their own. W/ favorite collaborator @legalminimum.bsky.social dcjournal.com/when-the-cal...

NY & NYC folks! Read Pete's thread, and then do as he asks: call your state legislators and demand that they not give in to Governor Hochul's demands to gut New York's climate law in the state budget.

Saw an old interview with Frank Herbert who said “I don’t think that the old saw about power corrupting and absolute power corrupting absolutely is accurate. I think power attracts the corruptible” and, yeah, that.

Oh, you need to watch this -- it concerns how the weaponized narrative about the border destroys the actual human stories of those who live there: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcDy...