"We know that air and water belong to all mankind and not merely to industrialists." - James Baldwin, 1970. (The year the US EPA was created.)

See normally you'd think the problematic views in question here would be about how trans people don't exist and they are but this is Derrick Jenson he spent his entire career telling people to carry out bombings on dams to reduce the human population Moreover, ICE must be destroyed

i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao

All of the Democrats around the U.S. proposing more pretrial detention and fighting reforms to the cash bail system should be thinking about why, across modern history, authoritarians are obsessed with increasing the power of the government to detain people before any trial.

Why shouldn't police abolitionists be included if pro-police people are?

He was traveling from Oklahoma to DC, not even an international trip

Alaska vowed to resolve the murders of Indigenous people. But when one nonprofit asked state law enforcement officials for a fundamental piece of data — a list of Indigenous murders they’d investigated — the state said no. With @adn.com

Sometimes I think about how much you understand this country's few safety nets were always conditional depending on who you were, and the less you understand that, the more susceptible you are to the Reality Break Inducement Device. "I mean it can't be that dangerous they wouldn't LET it be public"

The white man's ice is colder and the billionaires' ouija board is more demonic?🤦‍♂️ Imagine if you developed a software that's designed to optimize in engagement BUT ALSO is a pipeline of the worst shit on the internet. And you're going to engage with it, over and over.

this pisses me off. people trying to tie ICE and CBP directly to trump and shedding the democratic responsibility for propping them up and finding their expansion without repercussion during the Obama and Biden eras. BOTH parties created this monster. yeah there are differences, but they overlap

Insufficient is the gentlest way to state it. They should be trying to destroy that shit instead of making it more palatable, more normalized. We shouldn’t be experiencing this shit at all; making them seem like regular cops is NOT gonna fix shit.

not to put too fine a point on this, but anything that makes ice feel more like regular cops is counterproductive ice is a gestapo horror show whether it shows id or not making them 'normal' will let normies excuse its worst actions 'ice can do whatever so long as we know the officers names' foh

this is picking up steam so by all means watch and judge for yourself. what i see here is a lot of focus on fighting in the national arena with a lot of lukewarm answers to very pressing issues. “prepare kids for the ai economy”? we need to be talking about breaking tech companies up dude.

No. Abolish. Fire. Prosecute. This is the *moderate* position.

What I'd really like is new research on whether there've been any improvements in the racial & gender disparities in facial recognition systems in the past 5 yrs. Run the baselines again, see who & what it gets wrong, in what contexts. We know the effects (👇🏾; ≥10, now, btw), & need more process data

Yesterday my partner and I counted all the ads along Chicago's Brown Line for "Friend," a company selling an AI chatbot pendant, and tallied how many of those ads were defaced. Still working on a longer piece on this, but here's the quick and dirty: we counted 104 "Friend" ads total, 42 defaced.

Since February, according to my latest analysis, almost 600,000 Black women have been economically sidelined. The November 20, 2025, Jobs Report makes clear this isn’t a blip. It’s a structural crisis. That is not a recovery. It is a redistribution of opportunity.

BREAKING: Sorry to interrupt the football, but Kilmar Abrego Garcia has filed additional information claiming the feds misrepresented Costa Rica's position on accepting Abrego Garcia. www.courtlistener.com/docket/70475...

In a previous iteration of my career, I sometimes worked with kids who had been lured by adults on the internet. Without fail, it started on a Meta product. Reading these allegations makes me want to spit fire, because I’ve seen the end result and it can take a lifetime to heal from.

So Musk is paying Africans in Africa to pretend to be Americans afraid that Africans are going to take all the good jobs from Americans so that the Americans in America will fear the Africans in Africa who don't have to travel to America because Musk already gave them jobs in Africa? Huh.

A friend who teaches theology shared with me a post about CS Lewis's Mere Christianity, which discusses foundational Christian logic across denominations. It reminded me of Dale's tweet below, and I wanted to share some thoughts here regarding modesty and respectability, which are often hot topics.

To simplify: the thing that made American higher-ed unique was the institutional organization around education as a PUBLIC GOOD, rather than as an elite training ground, or job training. This aspect is nearly dead, killed by a thousand budget cuts.

Trying very hard to link transness with dangerous criminality is disgusting, but so is the following implication that only sane, well-behaved people should be allowed to transition, if any.

somebody on here suggested awhile back that a pretty compelling 2028 Democrat campaign promise would be "on day one I will deploy a WPA-scale army of forensic accountants across every square inch of the federal government" and I think about that every day

They're available now, BTW.

You know what’s going to make trans kids hate themselves and their body more than they already may do? Years of exhaustive probing and predatory physical and mental tests that will result in being told “sorry, you’re not allowed to live” You can run a nation and destroy these kids for far less

This is being required of trans teens in the UK in order to start puberty blockers. There is a limited time period in which PBs are even useful. Are there ANY medical treatments that require this many pre-requisites? This is designed to exhaust patients so that they age out of the system.

I just designed ten cyberpunk-themed X-cards. Well, by "designed," I mean I superimposed various hazard symbols over royalty-free neon cityscape photos. I've never been X-carded as a GM, but I remain open to the possibility. I want to have a fun, welcoming table for all.

the my dad disappointed in me to me disappointed in my dad pipeline

he sees all

She’s right. The government started putting gender on passports in 1972 out of concern that men and women were getting too hard to tell apart, what with all the hippies with long hair and feminists in pants and whatnot. Strike gender from IDs. Everywhere. It serves no purpose. @murray.senate.gov

Alluding to the witness looking at the government's lawyers during cross-ex, Abrego's lawyer Sascha Rand tells him: "I don’t mean to be weird, but keep your eyes on me."

A senior ICE official just admitted in an evidentiary hearing in Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s case that someone else drafted his declaration in the case and he didn’t know what certain words meant.

The party that promised "free speech on campus" has made sure there can be no free speech on campuses.

One of the cruelest tricks society played on creative people was planting the idea that being proud of your work is somehow unseemly and egotistical. You made a thing! You like it! You SHOULD be proud of it. Brag all you want!

The framing of this has been so ridiculous. Because the actions taken are so appalling. This headline should read “Harvard slow-walks the removal of former president/current professor, forced to open sexual misconduct investigation after public outcry”

What Donna Rose isn't telling you is that this kitten peeking out from under the leaves was hiding from @gailsimone.bsky.social , and the poor thing's eyes are so shockingly wide because as soon as she dared to look, she saw the latest Gail Simone post and fears the ensuing mayhem.

I think the word you’re looking for is “kept”

I think the level of sexual abuse that is going to be coming out of ICE would put the Boston archdiocese and Penn State to shame

See how this works?

PSA for any Apub authors whose books are in the Anthropic settlement list: Amazon is not participating in the settlement, since they have an investment in Anthropic. When you submit your claim form, you DO NOT have to list Amazon as an add'l rightsholder, & can claim 100% of settlement money.

Pete Hegseth’s church is part of Wilson’s sect, and Hegseth has praised Wilson.

Good god, they’ve *always* been like this 😡 The New York Times, January 19, 1859 www.nytimes.com/1859/01/19/a... [Reposted with alt-text]

Here’s a list of restaurants you can boycott, if you weren’t already.

More of us need to go back to clowning his book/movie, because too many people have recent told me they didn't know anything about this

Read this very carefully. A man who emigrated to the US as a child, as a WWII refugee, has been taken by ICE for being in the country "illegally." In no world, never mind in a country that claims to support the rights of individuals, should that sort of thing happen.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

DAILY MEMO: More Than 30 People Taken in At Least 30 Raids During Saturday Through Monday Rains

The sexual exploitation of children is so normalized that like every famous musician has at least one song about doing it in their discography. And if they were a teen music star, then they likely have a song about wanting to hook up with an adult written for them by an adult.