Major new @knightcolumbia.org initiative will address the role of the legal profession in the defense of democratic values and institutions. Excited to have the chance to work with Prof Madhav Khosla on this. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...

These pardons are not backward looking, but forward, telling the next group of election conspirators that they will be pardoned too www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“This was a very very bad vote”

Every single Dem that caved and agreed to this deal needs to be primaried and voted out. They are cowards who wasted the last month for a half baked promise vote a month from now.

I mean, sure, nice idea. A more interesting essay (from these authors in particular) would be: “Why Did We Ignore Voices That Continually Told Powerful People Like Us Not To Build AI Like We Have — And What Does This Teach Us About How Power & Money Work In U.S. Universities?” That’d be a banger.

"The chatbot said to my son, 'Why don't you send me some nudes?'" “Tesla did not respond to CBC's questions about Nasser's experience. However, xAI provided what appeared to be an automated reply, stating, "Legacy media lies."” www.cbc.ca/news/investi...

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation. Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

Don’t look away from this country’s cruelty. Don’t let these scenes be normalized.

How do you possibly learn to think critically about—investigate, protest, boycott, historicize, hold accountable—big tech *power* when your uni culture & leadership says to embrace these companies? When tech employees teach classes & you need their favour for jobs? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

How do you possibly learn to think critically about—investigate, protest, boycott, historicize, hold accountable—big tech *power* when your uni culture & leadership says to embrace these companies? When tech employees teach classes & you need their favour for jobs? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...

“Cloud infrastructure from American companies, whether located in Europe or Canada, is incompatible with sovereignty…These companies fall under US jurisdiction &, therefore, are subject to the 2018 CLOUD Act, which enables US authorities to access data they hold, even if that data is stored abroad.”

Every billionaire is a policy failure, part 32,678: www.nytimes.com/2025/10/25/u...

I can’t wait for the media to tell us in 2029 all about Trump’s steep cognitive decline and psychosis while he was president, with numerous examples that they just discovered through extensive research and sourcing.

As tragic as it is, the country should see (1) such destruction, & (2) the hideous, corruption-funded tackiness that will take its place. It should be an ugly monument to an ugly time, a constant reminder of this era’s failures. The constant human violence doesn’t seem to sink in, maybe this will.

This is who is paying for the destruction of the White House East Wing, per @wsj.com Altria Group Inc. Amazon Apple Inc. Booz Allen Hamilton Holding Corp. Caterpillar Inc. Coinbase Global Comcast Corp. Hard Rock International Google HP Inc. Lockheed Martin Corp. Meta Platforms Inc. 1/3

A new report from a global alliance of public broadcasters says AI chatbots make mistakes with news content nearly half of the time. The study looked at how AI chatbots answer questions about news and current affairs. halifax.citynews.ca/2025/10/22/a...

As tragic as it is, the country should see (1) such destruction, & (2) the hideous, corruption-funded tackiness that will take its place. It should be an ugly monument to an ugly time, a constant reminder of this era’s failures. The constant human violence doesn’t seem to sink in, maybe this will.

Head to a protest today. I can almost promise you will feel less hopeless. That's exactly what they don't want. There are more of us than there are of them.

Protest is good for you and good for the nation. Get out there

Meta removes this ICE-watching group, Apple bans the ICE-watching app, Disney suspends the MAGA-critical comic, CBS News is run by MAGA apologist, etc, etc.. Every day we’re reminded that democratic resistance is incompatible with corporations.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you www.motherjones.com/politics/202... A stunning investigation by @lighthousereports.com of what I call "despotism as a service"👇

Meta removes this ICE-watching group, Apple bans the ICE-watching app, Disney suspends the MAGA-critical comic, CBS News is run by MAGA apologist, etc, etc.. Every day we’re reminded that democratic resistance is incompatible with corporations.

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

We can have democracy or we can have billionaires. We cannot have both. NYT: Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

Reading/listening/action list on the “dual state”, Justice Jackson call to action, & the US Supreme Court’s Nazi-style jurisprudence. 1) www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u... 2) www.motherjones.com/politics/202... 3) www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm... @onthemedia.bsky.social 4) www.nokings.org

I really enjoyed this Coyne column. Said tech oligarchs need to way more attentive to the way public opinion is shifting against them. Coyne is just about the furthest thing from a "soak the rich" socialist, and yet.... www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/arti...

Canada’s continued lack of progress on strong AI & data regulation leaves its sovereigny vulnerable. www.cbc.ca/news/busines...

This article is bonkers. With Benioff’s PR people unable to control his obnoxious, billionaire toxicity (redundant?), he reveals his true self. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...

This is a perilous moment for democracy in the United States, but I couldn’t be prouder of the Knight Institute’s work right now, and I don’t take for granted that we have the freedom and resources to do it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

My first thought was “wow I hope this guy didn’t give out his name because he could absolutely be charged” and yup, he is correct to stay anonymous. This man’s account is shocking. His neighbors’ situation is shocking. The entire Chicago raid is shocking.

Pattern: Trump muses about tariffs as a way to force stock market dips that generate upsides as quid pro quos for other things he wants.

“[W]hen there is that moment when the gov't has gone in the wrong direction and fundamental rights are at stake and no one else is prepared to step forward to say, enough is enough, it will be the Knight Institute who will have stepped forward," Lee Bollinger. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

If you’ve never been to a big protest like No Kings before: It feels great to be part of a big gathering of people who want to change things. It sparks joy, and resolve for the long fight ahead. Sometimes there are dance parties. You could be the one who starts the dance party! Just show up!

MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

The academic journal Digital Journalism (DJ) identified "many" hallucinated references in a submitted article. They desk-rejected the submission & told the authors they're "no longer welcome to submit to DJ." You have been warned: drive.google.com/file/d/1KfLL... @digitaljournalism.bsky.social

Unapologetically governing AI in public interests *is* economic power. The alternative (weak/non-existent regulation) lets techno-capitalism run amok to further fracture shared social realities, destroy environments, deepen inequalities. Strong democracies & economies need strong tech governance.

Dunno if it's helpful to anyone, but I offer this in the spirit of academics not talking enough about rejection & students sometimes not getting mentoring on the point. A student (primary author) & I just had a paper rejected from a journal, & I wrote this reply to them sharing the news with me.

Making people feel they need to carry citizenship papers. Invading our state with military troops. Sending in war helicopters in the middle of the night. Arresting elected officials asking questions.

His masked agents already are grabbing people off the street. Separating children from their parents. Creating fear. Taking people for “how they look.”

I will not back down. Trump is now calling for the arrest of elected representatives checking his power. What else is left on the path to full-blown authoritarianism?

Monstrous. "federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning."

Happening right now. To us. In America.

Dunno if it's helpful to anyone, but I offer this in the spirit of academics not talking enough about rejection & students sometimes not getting mentoring on the point. A student (primary author) & I just had a paper rejected from a journal, & I wrote this reply to them sharing the news with me.

“‘Universities & university presidents need to be the ones to stand up to Trump and say no, because we are not seeing industry leaders in specifically media & technology taking that kind of stance,’ said Mike Ananny.” cc @annenbergmedia.bsky.social www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/r...

“‘Universities & university presidents need to be the ones to stand up to Trump and say no, because we are not seeing industry leaders in specifically media & technology taking that kind of stance,’ said Mike Ananny.” cc @annenbergmedia.bsky.social www.uscannenbergmedia.com/2025/10/06/r...

BREAKING: We just won in court — again. A federal judge BLOCKED Donald Trump’s unlawful attempt to DEPLOY 300 OF OUR NATIONAL GUARD TROOPS TO PORTLAND.

Trump is now calling up National Guard troops from states to send them into other states. He’s trying to send California troops into Oregon & Texas troops into Illinois. This is illegal & threatens to tear apart our country even further. He is trying to provoke a civil war.

This is a breathtaking abuse of the law and power by the President of the United States. America is on the brink of martial law. Do not be silent.