One reason I favor impeaching Noem is because it's a political process for a political problem. No, this will not stop ICE enforcement action but YES it would be an opportunity to educate the public about DHS & perhaps begin to lay a foundation for dismantling it.

Remembering today that having your heart broken is a necessary step on the path to becoming fully human. Whichever heartbreak is your first, it’s probably critical that a state break your heart so that you can develop a political imagination. If this is your first, I’m sorry and also welcome.

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS GOOD IN THE UNIVERSE PLEASE DO NOT USE THIS THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

1. The attacks on trans people have become untenable, and many people feel like they can no longer stay in their homes. Now, this morning, the Movement Advancement Project put hard numbers on it: 9% of transgender people, 400,000 people, have moved states. Subscribe to support our journalism.

New: we've obtained material explaining how an ICE surveillance system, called Webloc, works. Draw shape on a map, see all phones available there, follow them home. All without warrant “This is a very dangerous tool in the hands of an out-of-control agency.” www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

Google is forcing more generative AI on Gmail users. I couldn’t think of a better moment to finally drop Gmail (and other Google services)! I have a guide to do just that here: disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

Good morning. I'd like to invite anyone who is interested to make a small gesture of kindness today. It's up to you to decide what that can be. The key is for you to act on the idea. With so much out of our control, we can choose how to be with each other today and every day.

New: I spoke with a Colombian asylum seeker who was the victim of a ‘Kavanaugh stop’ about what it was like to be racially profiled, abducted in front his family and held in ICE detention hours from home for more than a month—despite doing everything “the right way.” This is Nick’s story.

1. Did you know that Girl Scouts has, for a long time, accepted trans girls and nonbinary scouts? Trans kids are under attack. Every year, I make a thread of trans and nonbinary girl scouts you can get your cookies from. Lets get our cookies from them this year in solidarity!

trump did january 6th. republicans did january 6th. violent traitors did january 6th. they stormed the capitol, destroyed the building and threatened to kill members of congress. ashli babbitt was a violent insurrectionist. the capitol police protected people. these are truths we need to repeat.

This is batshit. The White House is doing alternate reality history. It is past time for 25th amendment remedies.

For the "data scientists" out there who are throwing things at machines (e.g., LLMs) and trying to extract "insights," I recommend (re)reading this piece: "Data is therefore only as useful as its quality and the skills of the person wielding it." qz.com/1664575/is-d...

Ok gang, we're 90% of the way there with the matching! Let's get that last $500 in today so my team can get to work on this tomorrow? Pleeeease help me help you free your timeline from my annoying but important fundraising posts.

Don't forget folks: allowing yourself a vision of the future you'd want for our country and planet - not the one you'd settle for, not the one you fear, but the future of your dreams - isn't naive, it's a vital cognitive skill. That's how we articulate what we most value. What's worth fighting for.

What if none of these things is a distraction from the other things and instead they're all just horrible things

Candid answer - as someone who handled constituent affairs calls for years - while they’re not checking the phone right now, the urgency of the moment is important. Show them you care enough to make the weekend call, and be counted that way. Staffers will clock and report this upstream.

“Let’s not let the AI con disappear and devalue our labor, art, expertise — and, most importantly, our vision of the world we are fighting for.”

If you can't attend a protest, I would suggest speaking to your values in whatever ways you can, and attending to something *you can do*. Remember, many things are happening at once. They want to keep your head spinning. Let purpose preempt despair.

Chuck Schumer being eaten by an alligator: "I asked the alligator: Are you planning to eat me? Are you intent on eating all of me?" And the alligator has assured me it is not pursuing those things. I therefore---” *Alligator swallows*

If you're arrested in Illinois protesting the illegal invasion of Venezuela, and your court date is during or after my return from surgery (last week of February), I can potentially represent you pro bono. Email me at [email protected].

Wrote a thing: The carnage associated with fossil fuel is why speeding the transition to renewables is good for international stability as well as everything else. Fossil fuel is inseparable from violence, and dependence on it it has created a brutal world order....

None of us knows exactly what's going to happen next. Too much is being decided by chaotic buffoons. Even if you accurately map what major players would do to best serve their own interests, that's not a reliable map. Uncertainty is difficult and also a real condition.

Members of Congress: stop posting online and APPEAR, PHYSICALLY on the steps of the Capitol to decry this unconstitutional violation of domestic & international law. SHOW THE PEOPLE the level of danger we are facing as a country. @housedemocrats.bsky.social @senatedemocrats.bsky.social

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

This is billionaire-controlled media. They want to sleepwalk us into another forever war. We must break free.

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

💯💯💯💯💯 You don't have to let the fascists believe they're doing it with your consent

This is not the first US imperial atrocity for oil —let’s not exceptionalize it— but wow is is it awful. And the violation of Venezuelans domestically in the name of a sovereign borders they actually dgaf about. As Aimee Cesaire put it— the price of imperialism is the empire’s own civilization.

The belligerent violation of the lives of human beings, the imagery of fire and flames over there, the screams muted under the overdub of commentators— fuels the tech, the violence, the l racism and hate, that legitimates kidnappings here. You cannot be for one and against the other.

Here's the newly released superseding indictment against Maduro and his wife: www.justice.gov/opa/media/14...

🚨 Thread collecting actionable steps to help civilians in Venezuela, Venezuelan refugees fleeing to neighboring countries, and Venezuelan immigrants in the US. 🚨 ✅️ Please post ideas / links, especially to local frontline groups. ❌️ Please avoid non-actions, and be cautious regarding sanctions. 👇

Best thing I’ve read this morning, from a human rights lawyer in Mexico. Translation is in the ALT-text.

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.

People are going to try and lure you into debates about whether Maduro was a good guy or not and the thing is, it doesn’t matter for the purposes of discussing whether violent kidnappings and extrajudicial murders by the US government are ok. No, they aren’t! End of convo.

My ACA current plan is going from $385/mo to $821/mo.

Starbucks workers this Thursday 11/13 are starting a long strike to win a first union contract *** NOBODY SHOULD BUY ANYTHING FROM STARBUCKS AS LONG AS WORKERS ARE STRIKING ANYWHERE IN THE COUNTRY*** Consumer boycotts are very powerful when combined with workplace militancy

this shit fucking sucks so fucking much. this is a pathetically small reform that gives some relief to people and their loved ones and the horrible world we live in cannot even offer that. just fuming.

SCOOP — The White House instructed all federal agency leadership on Tuesday to send out a mandatory message to workers blaming the impending potential government shutdown on House Democrats, The Handbasket was first to learn. Absolutely no modifications to the email were permitted. My story:

Me: forever mad about the FBI’s surveillance, propaganda, violent work to destroy everyone from Du Bois to BLM Also me: people need to understand what is happening to Comey is bad, big bad. It’s the both/and. Sometimes I think the hardest work for educators and media is to explain nuance/context

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Everyday we get more evidence that the most revered organizations in America are willing to help re-segregate daily life. Today, I woke up to the Washington Post and Harvard-organizations ostensibly committed to "truth"-(continuing) to help re-segregation along.

"The configuration of social capital is the key in shaping resilient city dynamics. Rather than simply increasing the number of civic organizations, what is most important is how social capital is deployed, called upon, and realized by the actors within a community." - Sean Safford

A push to preserve an Indianapolis neighborhood built by Black WWII veterans: mirrorindy.org/indianapolis... 📷 Flanner House, Indiana Historical Society

A read from Judith Butler about the handing over of names & files by UC administrators to the government. Link to article below

People missing an important point about folks getting fired for whatever they said about Charlie Kirk: Americans are being conditioned to be snitches on their fellow citizens who don’t toe a party line on what is “allowed” to be expressed. And employers are going along. It’s the new secret police

When we think of sexism, it's easy to think of *active* efforts to discriminate against women. But sexism also operates *passively* - like through our inaction on issues like childcare and paid family leave. In that context, return-to-office policies are sexist in consequence, even if not in design.

When Campus Reform and Turning point came after professors and created the professor watchlist, administrators didn't pay attention..Now they are being fired and attacked. Maybe institutions should have done more to protect academic freedom....

If you're an author and haven't yet signed up for the Anthropic settlement, do yourself a favor (and strike a blow against AI) by checking to see if any of your books were involved. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

I wrote a piece on tech contracts in higher ed. for Jacobin. The endless outsourcing is troubling for a variety of reasons. Not helping is vendors jumping on the AI hype to offer ever-more-advanced and expensive programs to universities. #CheatGPT