Man, this shit is out of hand and someone need tell us why in the fuck we are blowing up fucking boats? This ain't the shit we are fucking supposed to be doing. Someone please explain why in the entire fuck we are just blowing up fucking people? It needs to happen now www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/p...

may all beings be safe and well

The union is calling on people to boycott btw!!

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Multiple immigrants detained at the facility say ICE officer demanded that they sign deportation paperwork, refused to let them talk to lawyers, and threatened them when they wouldn't sign documents in English that they couldn't read. Here's a representative example.

broken record on this but a similarly great beat for left wing media would be covering arts and culture and not just focusing primarily on politics and current events because there's a massive void there right now

When my faculty union went on strike two years ago, one of our demands was for adequate counselor-to-student ratios -- and we didn't get it. Since then, the CSU has spent millions to embed ChatGPT in all our platforms & has pushed faculty relentlessly to incorporate generative AI in our classes.

Here's Palantir's Louis Mosley, grandson of Britain's most famous fascist leader, talking about the importance of AI, if you aren't convinced yet that this is one big co-ordinated push towards the destruction of everything good in life. www.politicshome.com/news/article...

absolutely sick to perversity with the love of money, all of them

"World's first potential trillionaire has killed 600,000 people, including 400,000 children" is the only headline that anyone should ever read about Elon Musk

The Trump administration is now literally *fighting* to deny food to 42 million people, more than a third of them children. Read that again. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/u...

The shared dimension between this and the fallout from Elon killing USAID, ideas of worthiness and eugenics directly tired to race, have to be front and center because otherwise the politics are inscrutable.

if I could have a week with an art teacher it would be Wayne Thiebaut. and if I could have a small painting from anyone, one of my choices would be a Thiebaud cake or pie

Automated calipers are, of course, big tech's end game.

In the last month at O’Hare International Airport, federal agents have repeatedly abducted rideshare drivers with legal work permits from their cars and disappeared them to immigration jails or fast-track deportation flights.

Growing concerned that Boo Boo might be the world's most photogenic kitten.

"without subjecting anyone to differential treatment." This is flatly false! Trans people with a passport that does not match with their plain appearance when presented to a border agent is subject to additional hassle compared to a cis person presenting a passport.

I'm one of the four fired employees. I was a writer & producer at Bon Appétit for nearly five years, during which I helped organize our union and sat on our bargaining committee. I am, to my knowledge, the only trans woman in our union and the only trans woman on editorial who doesn't work at Them

Several weeks ago, the Dallas police chief announced that he'd declined $25 million to cooperate with ICE through the 287(g) program. Our turncoat MAGA mayor is mad. He called this meeting to discuss it. This is a great thread detailing how a majority of the full council supports the chief.

there is nothing more infantilizing than corporate training. we're doing show and tell. im in hell

one reason I love the @necessaryfiction.com newsletter is that Steve writes it as a letter, not a piece of PR. this week's included links to foodbank/food pantry databases as well as a list of books for review www.feedingamerica.org/find-your-lo... foodfinder.us docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Once you start thinking of AI as a war on humanity, on human thought, on human inquiry, on human labor, on nuance and critical thinking, it slots in pretty seamlessly with the right wing ideological project, oligarchical political projects, big tech's political projects, etc

Once again, we need to define what “feminism” is here. Not everything any woman ever does—not even in the political realm, and not even concerning gender—is “feminism.” Opposing the rights of women as a class to equal status and dignity is in fact called “antifeminism.”

When people talk about the excesses of MeToo, they have to lie, because the reality is that there was no massive social reckoning forcing people to believe survivors or hold perpetrators accountable. In fact, there has been a significant backsliding and new punishments in rejection of MeToo

looking forward to meeting Luke from Antiphon Editions (from whose instagram I stole this image) at the Fair later this month! antiphon.co.uk

If the sandwich don’t split, you must acquit

I hope this pattern is becoming clearer: Billionaires target & destroy assets that serve the public interest so that their profits & power go uncontested. From news to tech to finance & space, billionaires are not interested in "innovation" or "job creation" or any of that bullshit. They plunder.

"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture-- which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy

yesterday we talked abt section 5 of Ordinary Notes, the section that deals w/photography directly. and I realised that the first note sets up the metaphor by which to read the whole thing--Barthes' text being the projection by which/tracing over which Sharpe makes her Art (portrait, text).

The 1960s posters in Spanish are the most visually interesting. The show the agency trying to reach out to Spanish speakers, and professionals who might not think themselves eligible, such as self-employed artisans.

Apparently the Friend ads have arrived in Chicago and the people know: AI is not your friend.

I talk to the press professionally, I'm really, really, really good at it. So please, please believe me when say you cannot turn this interview request into anything good, it will do only harm. Harm to you, harm to your child, harm to other children.

They were not fooled, tricked, manipulated, hoodwinked, or bamboozled. They posted the videos because it matches their ideology and illustrates their preferred narrative. That’s it.

Black Studies and Black History will teach you how to imagine a very different world even when the deck is stacked against you and there’s no light in the tunnel.

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A devastating set of decisions on the part of UC leadership to withdraw support from our nationally recognized postdoc program that prioritizes research excellence combined with addressing our university public service mission. www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964)

"Rather, the Trump administration is alleging he’s “glorifying terrorism” via social media posts. However, Ya’akub’s online history instead reflects a consistent belief in favor of human rights and solidarity through community activism."

this is actually impressive, making up a brand new nobel peace prize replacement is a genuine innovation in bribery absolutely nobody does corruption like FIFA

Seeing this bubble grow from the front row and yelling into the void as we head towards 2008 part deux is making me lose my mind.

Wow -- look at OpenAI trying to shift responsibility to the users: 🧵>> www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/art...

As a headsup for anyone on Vyvanse, you should go check your lot numbers. www.health.com/adhd-medicat...

Chicago: ICE heavily active in West Ridge and Edgewater. Landscapers heavily targeted. Put on your whistles and patrol if you can.

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Excellent observation from @anildash.com. I wrote a bit about the “public intellectual” last week and this quote from a 2015 essay by Mark Greif — about stretching one’s thinking toward an equally stretching public — seems apropos. thehometownholler.substack.com/p/the-very-m...

If you’re in the fine city of Duluth this weekend, we are having Stump Party

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