ICE is a profit driver for the private prisons and large corporations like Amazon, AT&T, Google, Microsoft and FedEx who spend millions paying off Trump and Republicans for ICE contracts. They’ll always look for new streams of profit, which is why they won’t stop with immigrants.

We cannot consider Texas A&M a university in the sense we’ve used the word in the past. open.substack.com/pub/academic...

The real answer is that people like this can't be trusted to care for pets.

Texas A&M University will not reinstate a lecturer who was fired after a video of her teaching about gender identity in a children’s literature class went viral, despite a faculty appeals panel unanimously concluding that her dismissal was not justified.

"Move fast and break things" is, indeed, what they're doing. Breaking things.

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

In case you need a positive reminder: How effective is protesting? According to historians and political scientists: very www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

This is a great example not just of Nazism being normalized, but of being so removed from the consequences of Nazism that it becomes just a thought exercise. I mean, hey, 20 years ago this avowed antisemite couldn’t even have been part of polite society and look at him now!

Astonishing feat! US will break its record for the warmest Christmas by ~5°F! That’s remarkable. Anomalies are up to +40°F in the nation’s middle and as you can see the US has the warmest air - relative to average - in the World! H/T to @BenNollWeather

Universal healthcare and experimental treatments for national electeds who make the laws, gig economy healthcare for you.

it's incredible to contemplate: these people don't have enough. they look at your rickety remaining safety nets -- maybe some employer provided health insurance, maybe even a 401k -- and they think: i need to get my greasy lips around those dregs and drink them dry too

i don't think cuban is really being straight with anyone regarding his open mindedness towards the provision of health care

the elite consensus seems to be congealing around "disrupting" health insurance and giving you discounts on vitamins and a savings card for medicine to use when the worst happens. best cSe scenario you'll get a thousand bucks a year to buy your health on the open market. gig economy health care

Pretty good but I'm bringing in the big cornfed Midwesterner, the Polka King, Gus Polinski, in the 0-tech when we go 4-3.

2yo has been obsessed with Pennywise since we went to Spirit Halloween, so my brother-in-law got him this monster plushie that he slept with last night.

It's not fun to dunk on (most) Democrats, but I do not have much faith in a focus-grouped buzzword from Silicon Valley that's been outdated for a decade. Tell us what you are going to do to hold these people to account and ensure this never happens again.

1 million Americans died.

Well, on X, pretending that universal healthcare doesn't exist in numerous places across the planet is the type of misinformation those folks go for.

Look, I'm sure that Nolan's adaptation of "The Odyssey" will be fun, but I highly doubt it will be as good as the original.

1 million Americans died.

Extremely funny to call the pope “holier-than-thou”

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to everyone who is up assembling toys.

Would you believe me if I told you Mark Cuban didn’t want a peer reviewed answer to his question from the top medical journal

If you're someone who's riled up about trans people existing, you're both a bigot and a sucker.

“Today’s feature to recognize your friend at your front door can easily be repurposed tomorrow for mass surveillance,” EFF’s @mariotrujillo.bsky.social told Cyberguy. “It is important for state regulators to investigate.” cyberguy.com/ai/amazon-a...

Having secured control of the legislature, Virginia Democrats will likely soon advance constitutional amendments to enshrine abortion rights and restore voting rights to people once they’re released from prison.

The student didn't cite the Bible. She wrote stuff that she thinks the Bible says, didn't come close to following the prompt instructions, called the instructor "demonic," and there's a 99.9% chance the entire episode was a setup. It's an abomination that this is possible.

AI could never capture a billionaire's soul like this.

Anti-trans demagogue and fifth place swimmer Riley Gaines earned $470,000+ last year from a conservative non-profit. Notably, $420k was incentive-based. A neat little window into the way the transphobic grift is being compensated. I wonder what the per-post rate is?

John Prine - Christmas in Prison

Every liberal arts college (SLAC or within a university) need action plans for this. And I can't stress enough: educating the bad actors is not a plan. Deans, and generally everyone above department chair, will likely go to, "let's sit down and talk it out and educate them." This is not a good idea.

In the past week, I've seen stories of AI: - being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students - calling innocent people sex offenders - shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars - emitting more CO2 than New York City What the fuck are we even doing?

University administrations are really comfortable overturning internal processes to aid the far right, both because they are terrified of them and also because the far right has captured so many state legislatures that they can, in fact, kill the universities if they don't.

Wow. If you’re of a certain age, that name brings a pang.

Concentration camp, slave-labor camp, gulag; whatever you want to call it, it definitely is. We need to make sure that it's understood as all of the above. It means that the Trump administration is involved in, if not running, a slave trade of kidnapped immigrants.

ICE has posted a video of Santa Claus arresting immigrants. Your government is hijacking a symbol of charity to spread fear and hate. it’s up to all of us to defeat these twisted fascists.

bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public

No. And not even Jefferson Davis, if we count people building monuments to him, which we shouldn't.

Lol blast it out on every media possible.

The entire american "free speech" panic was about elites being criticized, which is why anyone who ever took it seriously should be ignored forever

One of my personal favorites of these is, at the premiere of the 1934 film "Carolina," starring Shirley Temple, Black moviegoers in multiple cities packed bricks and threw them at the screen when the n-word was uttered.

Re: slurs: It's actually not better to know where the bigots and fascists are. It's better for a social taboo to push them under rocks.

Bari Weiss understands the assignment.

how bad are things going when Dylan Byers won't even tell the story you want him to

We have to take this seriously, I think. It's a plan for colonies. Balaji and the Rhodesia boys can't conquer Greenland, or any landmass, much less run an independent city-state. So, what is required is the full support of the United States under the Trump admin.

With Trump designating a Special Envoy to Greenland, reposting that one of the pushes behind this is that the tech-bros have decided Greenland would be a great place to build new city-states from which they can engage in crypto-AI scams and general lording over things.

Belief in science-related conspiracy theories is not just a matter of knowledge: The democratic quality of countries as a protective factor @irelopeznavarro.bsky.social & Santos-Requej journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

"AI isn't going away." I dunno we've gotten rid of snake oil salesmen many times before. Nobody knows. *I suspect we're talking about Gen AI, not specific use cases for machine learning etc.