This is unreal. The New School Student Senate voted to cut ties with their campus Hillel group because it literally sponsored students to materially participate in the BOMBING OF GAZA... and so The New School admin is investigating the student senators. prismreports.org/2026/06/04/n...

The City of Portland makes employer contributions to PERS for all of its employees, and also picks up employee contributions to PERS for Police and Fire employees. So, yeah, our property taxes here in Portland are funding the concentration camps. bsky.app/profile/marc...

This one hurts. I've really enjoyed Tim's work in the past But let's just be totally bloody clear here: every single person using a text fabrication engine to replace their work, research and writing skills: THIS MOMENT IS COMING FOR YOU TOO It is truly just a matter of time. It's inevitable ⏱️

from the university that brought you "flirting with bankruptcy because of bad tech investments"

Read @coletteshade.bsky.social discuss this with @rahawahaile.bsky.social at @talkscratch.bsky.social, a publication devoted to these painful quandaries 😭😭😭 www.talkscratch.com/colette-shad...

Randy Villegas is leading corporate Dem Jasmeet Bains by 4 points in CA-22. Lots of votes left to be counted but if his lead holds this will be a huge upset for the establishment, esp the DCCC. Go Randy go! www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

In a statement to @benmullin.bsky.social, Scott Pelley disputes what Bari Weiss said in this morning's editorial meeting, claiming he was never offered "a way back" as she claimed. "These executives cannot gain the trust of the staff with lies. This is antithetical to everything we stand for..."

I submitted a support ticket that said "website doesn't recognize my confirmation number" & shortly thereafter got a 3-graf email that started like this & didn't solve the problem. First of all settle down Hertz. Second of all this is what some of u sound like when u say "chat gpt is really helpful"

nick bilton is a bitch

I find it comforting that the widely shared journalism industry experience “being canned by a moron boss brought in from outside by other morons” extends all the way up to 60 Minutes. Media is still a blue collar field after all.

30,000 excess deaths over 5 days of unprecedented heat in India. Are our leaders saying "holy crap, we've gotta do something"? Nope. Carney is licensing new oil and gas. Trump is attacking Iran. They don't care.

The US is now spending more on data center construction than on public transportation infrastructure

Mikie Sherrill’s state police destroyed the mutual aid tent for families of the detained that had been in operation at Delaney Hall for more than a year, providing clothes, food, even stuffies for the kids. They just trashed it. I’m pretty speechless at the kind of person you have to be to do this

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

we cannot be a nation until the whole hell of the deportation machine, the family separation machine, the foul moloch that sustains Stephen Miller and grinds children into dust, until all of that is dismantled and the work of reparation begins www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The "democratic majority for Israel" spending half a million dollars in the geopolitically crucial regional politics of inland California. Pathetic stuff!!!!

A photojournalist who was injured at Delaney and whom the police refused to allow through their line to find her equipment has a GoFundMe. Please consider kicking something in. www.gofundme.com/f/support-an...

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

Delaney Hall action call in NYC subway

NEW — I wrote about my visit to Delaney Hall, the ICE facility in Newark, NJ where detainees are on a hunger and labor strike in protest of rotten food, unpaid work, and unjust detainment, and where protesters outside have spent the last week drawing ICE's ire while keeping strikers' demands alive.

Installed solar capacity in India has been growing by 40% a year. In March, it passed 150 gigawatts, and by 2030 is set to double again. Analysts say the world’s most populous nation is on the verge of becoming the first major country to power its industrialization predominantly with solar energy.

This is nicely put. The machine that subordinates all life to its own algorithm of self-expansion is already operating: It’s called capital. www.newyorker.com/science/anna...

Victor Hugo: here’s 100 pages on the history of the Paris sewers. AI book bot: this doesn’t seem relevant to the story, maybe you could cut it down to 3 paragraphs.

Simply damning

Figuring out what you actually want to say is the most important part of writing. And rewriting. And editing. It's like... the whole thing. Style is just decoration.

I think it’s very strange that there’s seemingly a wave of people authoring (?) books on the topic of AI with a slightly skeptical (but noticeably NOT anti-)perspective who are prominently using generative AI to produce those books

I fear I'm in the minority but this reads like a contradiction to me. Writers work with human editors & that doesn't mean we didn't write the books ourselves, but the use of all these bots is so casual & the process so vague...(& also increasingly common among writers of my acquaintance). I hate it!

I genuinely feel sick. A company reached out to me on IG, linking me to an AI version of myself. You can even ask "me" questions. They are also advertising it using an AI photo of me. They told me if I like it, they will give me free access... to my own fucking content that they stole. /1

On a plane kind of lit due to my flight anxiety self-medication procedure & marveling at the Women in Torture achievements lauded by GEO group on their website. Pioneers in empowering women to shape for-profit torture prisons! Congrats to Board Pres Julie Myers Wood! www.geogroup.com/geo-news/geo...

“There was a man who has Stage 3 lung cancer, not getting medical treatment. He wants to leave, go back home, spend his final months...with his family. But they just won’t let him go.”

Freelancing is hard enough already, and inflation sucks. Defector is raising our base freelance rates by 20 percent. Great time to pitch us. Email me or [email protected]

A Washington state jury found three protesters guilty of federal conspiracy charges for sitting in front of an ICE bus that was attempting to relocate prisoners last year. They face a maximum sentence of six years in prison and/or $250,000 in fines. Important reporting from @rangemedia.co:

• No, everyone *isn't* using AI to do their writing for them. • Modernizing kids' books demonstrates massive contempt for kids. And for books. • He *is* an ugly fuck, and he should shut up. Have a nice day.

There's enough recently laid off journalistic talent to staff and run 3-5 midsize to large news organizations.

has this story broken through at all? i can’t tell.

Cecilia Vegas confirms she was fired today as a CBS 60 Minutes correspondent.

Absolutely fucking not!!!!!!!

a time-honored tradition for key affiliates of disintegrating Nazi regimes

CURRENT NEEDS AT DELANEY HALL as prisoners are being gassed and beaten inside. Two large garbage cans At least 4 people at all times to manage the tent area, and support people being released and family members. We especially need people to take relief shifts from around 9pm until morning.

Last RT: This graph will haunt me until I die.

MIT boasts a $27b endowment

I thought I'd get maybe 25 replies to this request and use two or three of them. We're now at 1400. The column, which is 4600 words long (blame yourselves), is finished, but this thread should be studied by future historians. No era has ever been as utterly annoyed, as molecularly fed up, as we are

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Boycott Uline, a shipping supplies company owned by the Uihlein family. When you buy their products, you're financing right-wing cruelty and corruption.

helluva time for the oregon legislature to decide to defund trimet and force the agency to cut transit service

Reviewers in two groups were given identical resumes for Emily Clarke and James Clarke and told they had used AI. Emily's was 2x as likely to raise doubts about competence. "She can't even write a CV herself." But James "just needed a bit of help." fortune.com/2026/05/10/i...