“Marc Beckman, an adviser to Mrs. Trump, told Turning Point USA on Wednesday that the first lady had invited representatives from the Alpha School, an A.I.-powered private school, to participate in the summit…He called Mrs. Trump “ahead of the curve.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/u...

Lunacy. Has she ever had a teacher or been in a classroom??? Yeah, let’s just replace the teachers who negotiate the intellectual, social, & emotional learnings of our children with a scrap of metal.

I would like to live in a world where I don’t have to constantly mourn children being separated from their families and/or bombed by my country, ostensibly on my behalf.

O'HARE (Chicago): "There are dozens of ICE agents at TSA checkpoint, almost all of them doing the jobs of the TSA agents. They are the ones checking IDs and passports and verifying flight info, while TSA agents stand there and do nothing."

Watching my 13yo & his friends fish is so sweet because when one of them catches something, they are ALL thrilled beyond belief. They will call their parents and say “WE caught a fish!” The joy in embracing the collective 🤗

There is no need for these little nuisances which we learned years ago are controlled by poorly paid workers in the global south. To the contrary, they are disruptive to pedestrians (including me) who have to yield to them on the sidewalk. Pay someone a living wage to do delivery! This is dystopia

“You can’t build a world-class university on the backs of exploited faculty and graduate students.” —Tim Gibson, Virginia AAUP President @abigailspanberger.com, Let’s put faculty back in the bill! @aaupvirginia.bsky.social

“Fueling those concerns have been..warnings from A.I. leaders including..Amodei…who predicted the [AI] could obliterate half of entry-level white-collar jobs w/in 5 years” Employers have to re-recognize the importance of training workers for long term productivity! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/b...

Unbearable cruelty abounds.

“Those who have opposed the lionization of Columbus have focused on his role as a slave trader of Indigenous Taíno people; on the brutal campaign of subjugation.., & on the decimation of the Indigenous population”” Trump says he is a hero b/c he identifies w/ him. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/a...

This will not go well: “Tom Homan, the White House border czar, confirmed on Sunday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents would be deployed to U.S. airports on Monday” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/u...

"We argue that publicly posting syllabuses is a bad move for public universities in Georgia. It jeopardizes safety and well-being for students and faculty, decreases the rigor of our public universities and reduces affordability across the state." —Georgia State University AAUP

"She may be aiming for a horseshoe theory of politics, where she draws in the anti-Israel left, but for her to succeed at that, they’d have to embrace her militant, fringe Catholicism. In the meantime, she is alarmingly succeeding at resuscitating the ugliest forms of antisemitism."

So a great thing about contracts is that they usually have and end date and/or means of ending them. If your university or other organization bent the knee to OpenAI or any of the other chatbot providers, when a contract is up, there is an opportunity for pressure: forms.gle/ZGn5brEGU4t9...

This book had an incredible impact of millions of women, including me. My sister gifted it to me when I went to university & it was how I learned the fundamentals about our bodies, ourselves. Rest in Power, sister Paula! www.nytimes.com/2026/03/15/b...

Uber's investing $300 million in Rivian toward eventually having a fleet of "fully autonomous robotaxis" which could mean anything as those terms are undefined but prob means kinda like what Waymo has. In 2028, SF & Miami are supposed to be their first markets. investor.uber.com/news-events/...

Self driving cars collect several hundred terabytes of data in one day. Where does that data about our lives and movements go who has access to it?

UC Berkeley “will use the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism to evaluate complaints, which critics have said allows for criticism of Israel to be conflated with antisemitism.” www.dailycal.org/news/campus/...

DoorDash is now in the business of data work.

The city of Verona, Wisconsin, ended its contract with surveillance company Flock Safety last fall, but the company waited months to remove its cameras. “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product,” says the mayor.

There is an unspoken rule within the labor movement that you don’t publicly criticize other unions or union leaders b/c doing so gives capital fodder to divide us. I think that this can create a culture of fear re: speaking out about many things. I get it. But I am also exhausted by it.

It *IS* possible to live a moral and ethical life in pursuit of justice and equality.

What a deeply painful day.

Rename everything for her!

“The farmworker movement has always been bigger & far more important than any one individual. Cesar’s actions do not diminish the permanent improvements achieved for farmworkers with the help of thousands of people.“ -Dolores Huerta, today. medium.com/@dolores_hue...

Horrifying. Historically pinning a movement on a person not only erases the work & sacrifices of countless people, but it also deifies a charismatic human who doesn’t deserve it.

For the first time in the history of Christianity, Israel has canceled Easter in Jerusalem www.instagram.com/p/DV_dExqDTR...

This is where he reveals that it’s been him all along. He is the Antichrist.

The story here is actually that people are SO angry — angry that these not-really-self-driving cars in SF are displacing jobs and much needed funds from our struggling public transit system. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/17/t...

If we on the left don’t stand by and defend the most basic principles - anti-racism, equality, anti-imperialism, for starters - what do we have to stand on?

“We don’t need them,” says school yard bully with no friends to nation not with him.

During their “investigation” into my posts about Charlie Kirk, UCLA scoured my social media history and cited posts like this ⬇️ as me discriminating on the basis of race and age. To be clear, UCLA found me guilty of discrimination and “generalizations” against…white people. I shit you not.

Sigh. Opposite our letter from *actual Jewish UCLA faculty and staff* opposing the Title VII lawsuit against UCLA (link ⬇️), today a petition landed on the UC Regents’ desks demanding a crackdown on *faculty* for “anti-Israel activism." There are several problems with this petition. A brief thread:

Haven’t read yet, but this should be a delight.

“A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked a Trump administration order demanding colleges nationwide to submit data — including student grade-point averages and test scores — to prove they don’t illegally consider race in admissions” www.latimes.com/california/s...

“A Christian engineer with L.A. County claims his bosses discriminated against him by forcing him to pass by a Pride flag on the way to his office, the latest legal challenge to the.. policy of requiring many government buildings to display the flag throughout June.” www.latimes.com/california/s...

Grammarly's AI-fueled edits -- using my name - suggested making up sources and writing vague insinuations. In my latest for @nytopinion.nytimes.com (gift link) I describe Grammarly's terrible edits in my name -- and call for a federal right of publicity. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/o...

"We...dedicate this book to those who resist imperialism in practical ways, and we remember Sam Dubal...a brilliant young scholar of inhumanity, who would have been part of this intellectual journey had he not passed away far too early." I miss my brother so much discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...

We are not seeing mass protests because universities and colleges criminalized dissent — not just disciplining students on specious grounds but sending police (sometimes more in # than protestors) and supporting prosecutions. Ppl are terrified.

Thank goodness they are prioritizing meetings between FBI agent and UFC stars. We will be so much safer now 🙄 FBI agents should all be injected with steroids too so they can fight the super villains better with their arms. POW! variety.com/2026/politic...

Everyday, this guy says insane things that reveal (1) the extent to which he hasn’t a clue about the relationship b/n knowledge production and human life, AND (2) his own deep moral rot.

“In the lawsuit on Wed, filed by the attorneys general of 17..states, including NY & CA, the states argue that the Trump admin was attempting to turn the Nat’l Center for Edu Statistics…into a “mechanism for law enforcement & the furthering of partisan policy aims.”” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/u...

For the first time in my entire life, the taxi driver who picked me up (checks notes) from the law school parking lot asked if I was a professor. I have been waiting for this day!!! 🎉

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket. When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.” Video + interview with her and her daughter:

The Dept of War just asked Congress for an additional 50 billion dollars. And at the same time, the state is policing what kinds of food SNAP recipients can purchase. fREeDOM!!!

Week in review: @veenadubal.bsky.social and @azizaahmed.bsky.social on how feminists transformed the law and science of AIDS, @lookheron.bsky.social on market governance in Trumpworld, and @abalasub.bsky.social on the misnomer of modern Indian capital. Plus, the best of LPE from around the web 🧵

"In many ways, the pioneering Center for the Study of Law and Society (CSLS) encapsulates Berkeley Law’s mindset: prioritizing civic engagement, collaborating across disciplines to maximize impact, and assessing how law operates on the ground." (👋 @veenadubal.bsky.social!)

““It’s stunning there were no orders for authorized departure for nonessential U.S. gov’t employees & family members in almost all the affected diplomatic missions in the region — nor public recommendations to American citizens to depart — until days into the war”” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

“Anthropic said it needed terms that would ensure that its A.I. tech would not be used for domestic surveillance of Americans or w/autonomous lethal weapons. But the Pentagon insisted …Anthropic could not decide how its tools would be used in national security work.” www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/t...