Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

Under the common law, the arguments that aliens had no rights, that alienage was heritable to the children (Butts v Penny, 1677) had justified slavery in the colonies. The 14th amendment was intended to secure, by constitutional amendment, against any resurrection of these claims.

The Speaker Emerita of the Minnesota House was gunned down in her home and slaughtered along with her husband and dog, and Trump didn't say a thing. Half-mast, my ass.

NEW: Judge Jenkins ruled that the Trump administration’s effort to force states to assist their mass deportation efforts was a violation of the 10th Amendment and states’ rights. w/ @joshgerstein.bsky.social www.politico.com/news/2025/07...

JUST IN: A federal judge has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit against Illinois, Chicago and Gov. Pritzker over the state’s sanctuary policies, saying it’s an effort to encroach on state sovereignty. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Outstanding news!

Why is public media important? Turn on KEXP and you’ll see why, 24 hours a day, human curation, humanity, creativity and never ever compromising. Right now, the station is all Ozzy all day. Anyone who isn’t should shut down.

Speaking today on “Up Against the Patriarchy: Louise Michel & the Embodiment of Resistance,” at the Global Consortium on French History Conference “Resist!” 🗃️ @sfhs.bsky.social @thewsfh.bsky.social

When Joe Biden referred to "shylocks" in 2014, the ADL admonished him. I look forward to seeing the group similarly criticize President Trump for using the term today.

The shocking thing about Trump tossing off a “shylock” slur is he pushes antisemitic conspiracy theories, said he needs accountants with “funny little hats,” does dual loyalty smears, openly speaks of Good Jews and Bad Jews, hired neo-Nazis, and more, and media still says he’s opposing antisemitism.

We are only going to see more of this thanks to the USAID draw down

Please remember this torture happened to *every single person* who was kidnapped by ICE and sent to a foreign concentration camp without due process. It doesn’t matter if they were citizens or even if they were criminals. Every case is a violation of our Constitution and of Trump’s oath. #IMPEACH

This is "Brady". He targeted our client #BrentEfron by false dating profile on #Tinder. He claimed to share same liberal values but was actually undercover operative for #ProjectVeritas secretly filming w/o consent during private date. If you can identify him, please contact me.

A Dem lawmaker and her husband were killed by a guy for their political views and it’s already out of the news.

Birds of a feather…

I was briefed on the intelligence last week. Iran posed no imminent threat of attack to the United States. Iran was not close to building a deliverable nuclear weapon. The negotiations Israel scuttled with their strikes held the potential for success.

In ALL wars leadership oft slips into hyperbole. In this one we will be in a constant state of bold-faced lies. There is a difference.

Take note.

holy shit. Cuomo halted an investigation into the Weinstein case after a donation from Weinstein’s former lawyer’s firm to his reelection campaign… guys, this was in 2018 AFTER the Weinstein exposés (multiple) had been published & the #metoo movement was ascendant

What WSJ Said about Stephen Miller at 9PM on a Friday www.emptywheel.net/2025/06/21/w...

If you think it can’t happen here, remember that it already did. In 1942 soldiers came with rifles to our home and ordered us out. They put us in internment camps. Most of us were citizens.

Kristi Noem must resign. She has deported a four year old with cancer, detained a U.S. marshal, and arrested two members of Congress. She’s lost the confidence of the American people. ICE must stop terrorizing our communities.

A fun Joshua Clover read. slate.com/culture/2015...

One of the first to take Twitter into the realm of narrative creativity, RIP Joshua Clover

Shocked and saddened to learn of Joshua Clover’s death.

Le 27 avril 1871, la Commission du Travail, dirigée par Léo Frankel, publie un décret interdisant les amendes et retenues sur salaire. Ces prélèvements arbitraires étaient une arme aux mains des patrons pour affaiblir la résistance ouvrière. #vivelacommune #vivelasociale #commune1871 #communards

From the Department of Things Columbia Could Have Done

Dance with Death, by Hieronymus Hess, 1841, 📸 via Vatican Media Pool

it's important this go as viral as the original story for morale purposes if nothing else. despite the image they project these people are NOT unaccountable. consequences CAN be forced. focused anger and outrage MATTERS.

keep it up big ten

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This is obscene. I hope USC will do something to support this student.

A top White House official says Jews "deny the existence of objective truth" but tell me more about college campus protests being antisemitic

Almost 10% of the entire Canadian electorate voted on the VERY FIRST DAY of advance polls because we’ve spent the last 3 months watching what happens when you elect a populist windbag who vilifies journalists and shits all over people’s fundamental rights. Thanks America. You really did us a solid.

Well, it took 200 years but France has apologized for forcing #Haitians to pay reparations to their enslavers for the crime of freeing themselves. 🇭🇹🇭🇹 Will they actually pay the money back? I’m not holding my breath! 🗃️ www.nbcnews.com/news/world/f...

Chris Van Hollen flying down to El Salvador and refusing to leave until he got in a room with Kilmar Abrego Garcia blows up every other “well what do you expect them to do?” defense for elected Democrats

@schumer.senate.gov where the fuck are you?

ICE should be charged under RICO.

Oh yes, they were “shocked.”

The slope isn't slippery; the frog isn't gradually getting boiled. Within its first hundred days the Trump administration has openly asserted the right/ power to seize and imprison anyone— including political dissidents, including citizens— and deprive them of any legal recourse at all. 5/

Or just for Jews?

You are understanding it correctly.

Let me say this again: If a president can illegally deport someone, conspire with that country’s leader to abandon them to human rights abuses, and face no consequences, we are in a hellish authoritarian moment. What a fucking evil, illiberal government this is.

They're building concentration camps for political dissidents

which white, blonde, blue-eyed American citizen needs to be kidnapped and renditioned to El Salvador before the American people understand the threat here?

this photo of a charred haggadah (the book jews use at the passover seder) from governor shapiro’s house breaks my heart. www.thedailybeast.com/pictures-cap...

While his DOJ refuses to comply with not only a judge but SCOTUS in returning Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Trump is posting videos in real time to his social media site of ICE and active duty Air Force trafficking human beings directly to CECOT where he is being held. This is fascism in 2025, live.

They continue to violate a court order to retrieve someone they illegally deported. We’re now well beyond a constitutional crisis. If they’re allowed to do this, their secret police can sweep up anyone, for any reason, deport them & refuse to bring them back. That would be the end of democracy.