Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA. Facts that bear repeating.

In a far-right-ruled society, what really matters is whether it's possible to extract useful and accurate information from mainstream news, not just to point out that (of course) it defers to power & conservatism. I like Lakoff & Johnson--and Citation's Needed--but I feel like it's time to move on

"Photographic evidence from the shooting scene of a Venezuelan man by federal agents last month in Minneapolis supports the account of witnesses there – and appears to undercut the narrative provided by federal officials." www.startribune.com/ice-raids-mi...

"In a sign that many Iranians believe the death toll is far higher than the official claim, the Tehran teachers union issued a statement demanding the release of all detainees, claiming “...Tens of thousands of children, women and women have been drenched in blood.”

Abolish ICE. There’s no reforming it. There’s no compromise. There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

I hadn’t known this. Two men who were accused of sexual abuse on the Shitty Media Men document that I created back in 2017 reached out to Michael Wolff for help as they looked to sue me, and Wolf forwarded their concerns to Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein offered to help. www.jmail.world/thread/EFTA0...

It’s funny how people forget time has value. We’re so willfully stupid. Of course, I’m a poor grad student and really enjoy cooking as work with my hands and senses. On the other hand, eating out is great because it lets you taste delicious flavors, get out of your apartment, and overhear strangers!

If Starbucks won’t respect workers at the bargaining table, they don’t deserve our clicks or orders. Our call to action is simple: 📱 Delete the Starbucks app. #DeleteTheApp bit.ly/deletetheapp

The largest infrastructure projects currently being built in the US appear to be data centers and detention centers. The AI boom has coincided with ICE becoming the most heavily funded government agency. It's hard not to see a connection: This is the architectures of digital fascism

me, emotionally writing an essay on the use of force by federal agents: ok but what if i packaged this in the most insane way possible www.theverge.com/policy/86857...

Canada? Do we mean it?

This is so funny because Palantir is basically an Oracle database for killing people

Great stuff in @jewishcurrents.bsky.social “Accommodating militarism in higher education for the sake of fighting Trump will not do anything to prepare the academic profession to eventually confront its complicity in American-sponsored atrocities.” jewishcurrents.org/higher-eds-b...

The officer who shot Alex worked for DHS for 8 years. The officer who shot Renee worked for DHS for over 10 years. Both are considered “highly trained.” The problem isn’t "training." DHS was built to violate our rights and has been empowered to act with impunity. We must MELT ICE and dismantle DHS.

To appropriate the election-season discursive techniques of center left Americans for a second, if the choice is between Mussolini (MBS) or Hitler (MBZ) I choose Mussolini

That's an armoured vehicle sold to ICE by a Canadian company btw. Some of us were furious about the sale of such vehicles to Saudi Arabia under Harper/Trudeau, and we are equally furious about this under Trudeau/Carney.

Blistering piece on ed tech in @economist.com. ‘Although ed-tech companies tout huge learning gains, independent research has made clear that technology rarely boosts learning in schools—and often impairs it.’ economist.com/united-state...

NEWS: @nationalnurses.bsky.social “demands Congress abolish ICE entirely. We will be doing everything in our power to vote out any elected official who supports funding for this all-out assault on the health, safety, and civil rights of our people.”

We all just saw about six different angles of ICE murdering a guy who himself was filming them, but sure, you think body cameras will make all the difference. How stupid do they think we are?

i think the "immigration turns high trust societies into low trust societies" people were already on really shaky ideological ground but now they're watching neighbors helping one another and calling them paid antifa agitators

Yesterday, we joined tens of thousands to march. This am, ICE responded with violence. Alex was an ICU nurse, a union sibling, & an observer who stepped in to help. This is a union state. We will continue to show up, to watch, to document, and fight ICE is not welcome here.

There's a prison revolt at a concentration camp in Texas in solidarity with Minneapolis:

New: Amid the escalating situation in Minneapolis, ICE posted in the Federal Register asking companies to provide info about “commercial Big Data and Ad Tech” products that would “directly support investigations activities” www.wired.com/story/ice-as...

What the hell? The YPJ Information & Documentation Office @ypj.bsky.social has been suspended. In the midst of the attacks on Rojava. @safety.bsky.app what are you playing at?

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.

Today we mourn what’s been taken from our communities. Today we organize for what comes next. Today we take a stand. It’s time to get #ICEOut of our communities.

Economic strike in Minnesota to protest against ICE: ‘No work, no school, no shopping’

The clergy just keep coming to this anti-ICE protest. Genuinely unclear where they all will go — it’s packed outside on the sidewalk already.

I am, in particular, interested in updated appraisals of the *in principle* limitations of the technology.

In academia, on top of MBAs, it's the famous 75+ year old emeritus scholars who are most enchanted by LLM chatbots, evangelize them and confess to writing books with one. This is telling, I think. Like VCs people no one says no to yet, are psychologically vulnerable, and not at the top of their game

lol. And administrators / humanities professors still consider you an ignorant radical technophobe when you talk about AI as: 1) a bubble in the near term 2) primarily a sociopolitical project

In the interests of being fair, I do appreciate PM Carney’s speech. Let’s see what they do next (to develop the possibility of good lives on a burning planet in the settler colony shadowed by an empire run by a senile tyrant surrounded by neo-nazis)

An observer arrested in Suth Minneapolis. Photo by Richard Tsong-Taatarii/The Minnesota Star Tribune

What's so baffling is that before the invasion threats Europe was acting broadly indifferently or as an obstacle to coordinated resistance to US bullying (see: UK; see Venezuela and Iran). The MAGA strategists want to undermine European liberals, and show domination. Still, it's hard to rationalize

It would appear that the single biggest point of contention between software engineers and physical engineers is the "people will die" thing. It's true in both cases, but the software engineers are wilfully ignorant of it.

Just finished this right after having read @hofrench.bsky.social's Second Emancipation, and it convinced me that the African & African diaspora anti-colonial thinkers of the 1940-1975 period constituted one of the great intellectual movements in the history of humankind. Second Enlightenment level.

"More specifically, it was college-educated Black women — not those with less education or advanced degrees — who lost the most ground. In 2024, 74 percent of Black women with bachelor’s degrees were employed; that rate fell to 71 percent in the first nine months of 2025"

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Ever wonder “what did Tolkien think of the plane?” Or “what if goblins were played by the Beastie Boys?” Well, I’ve got the show for you.

I've put together a list of the most helpful activities/visualizations/tools I've found for introducing students to the mechanics of LLMs (which I do every year). miriamposner.com/blog/introdu...

I've just posted my latest essay w/ @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, titled "How AI Destroys Institutions." We argue that AI systems are designed in ways that degrade & are likely to destroy our crucial civic institutions like the rule of law, universities & a free press. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

This is........pretty wild A collection of "insiders" say they don't think data centres are (the present tense is important) slowing down decarbonisation (mostly the "innovators") This comes out 1 day after a @rhg.com US emissions update that *explicitly* names DCs as a core cause of rising GHGs

Part of why we are here is that there WERE in fact millions of white people who took to the streets in 2020 after George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and others were killed by the cops. So no it's not the case that white people are just out in the streets now. Fascist white people were ENRAGED by this.

Unions and community orgs are calling for a Minnesota-wide shutdown in 10 days to protest the ferocious assault by federal immigration agents. They're saying on Jan 23, no work, no school, no shopping. SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, & others are supporting, w/ more to join. By me, Amie Stager

There is no reason to "increase the birth rate" as a specific policy goal. There is a reason to think, both big picture and in detail, about how our approach to economic policy interacts with demographic shifts.

"multiculturalism" - the idea that giving up on concepts of ethnicity and nationalism would allow industrial societies to continue to grow their labour force - has been the main idea of non-socialist progressives for even longer.

"degrowth" - in other words, adaptation of human society so that it no longer requires constantly increasing inputs - has been an idea on the left for decades. The fact that you don't like the answer doesn't mean that they haven't addressed the issue!