Holy fucking fuck

"(Sexual and gender minority) populations face compounded risks during (armed conflict and forced displacement), including social exclusion, targeted violence, and limited access to humanitarian aid." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

ICE agents are walking around with a list of 20 million people to detain in their pockets because of this Palantir database: www.404media.co/ice-agents-h...

Milei is destroying Argentina's education system. Today people will respond with a massive march. You can help Argentina by reading and posting about it. Gracias! #MarchaUniversitaria english.elpais.com/internationa...

Yesterday a professor who taught in the classroom before me left their PowerPoint presentation open, and it was just slide after slide of all text. I asked my students if their other classes looked like this, and some said yes. Yuck.

Musk did this. “Refugees have also died at food distribution centers, the officials wrote in the cable, including a pregnant woman who died under a stampede.” www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Genuinely incredible stuff in here.

This is absolutely outrageous. SCOTUS reinstated Texas gerrymander 15 weeks before primary because they claimed it was too close to election to block it but now allowing Alabama to gerrymander one week before primary after trial court found map was intentionally discriminatory against Black voters

This is dead on. If the Democrats retake the House and Senate--or even just the House--it could mark the beginning of the end of a 50-year Republican project. If they can't? The GOP will spend the next 2 years destroying all remaining guardrails. Most important midterms of our lives, no question.

Yup. I miss old Twitter.

I am begging people looking to make major donations to universities to either 1) care as much about academics as they do sports, or 2) make unrestricted gifts instead. Signed, A faculty member at a university with brand new athletic facilities and crumbling teaching and research infrastructure

“One of those plots involved a bizarre scheme to dress as Santa and give poison candy to minority children on New Year’s Eve.”

It is wrong and criminal for government agents to kidnap someone, send them to die in a concentration camp, and disappear them, regardless of immigration status. But it's still worth noting she has a green card. The government doesn't even pretend this is about deporting undocumented people.

There are at least two studies showing that loud noise is correlated with lower birthweight, one with pregnant women living near airports and another with women who worked in factories. You’d be on solid ground to hypothesize that loud noise in war would do the same. Probably worse.

Kevin Gonzalez has died just hours after reuniting with his parents, NBC Chicago/Telemundo Chicago reports: www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/c...

When I see historians using gAI to read, think or write (mercifully few in my circles), I admit to feeling a great deal of contempt. How can you be so uncritical that you do not see the labor implications of gAI for our already-wounded profession? Or who owns/runs these tech companies?

We lost my brother on a Mother’s Day years ago. My mom will never see this day the way she once did.

1/ Tear gas was created to incapacitate grown men. So when I started seeing reports of kids hurt by tear gas deployed by federal immigration agents, I wondered how often it was happening. My colleagues and I started to count:

the most anti free speech administration in this country’s history

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I wrote this in 2016.

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Pretty tired of terrible people in positions of power.

The New York Times is playing the Republicans’ theft of Black political power — the return of Jim Crow —primarily as a sporting event. “Bullish Republicans are back in the game,” writes NYT.

TN : 1958 vs 2026

Democracy dies in horserace coverage

Not a shred of decency. Not a single redeeming quality.

Good job, brain, worrying about my to do list in the middle of the night. No, I didn’t want to sleep.

😕🇺🇸 a rigged system

“We need to work with nature, not against it.” Very few people have the good fortune to live for a century. Fewer still achieve so much and touch so many lives. Sir David Attenborough Is 100 years old today, And The World Is Celebrating a Living Legend🧪 theconversation.com/from-fossick...

It’s staggering How swiftly states in the South can still move to stymie Black voters And how ready they were to do so

“The death of Lunas Campos and the aftermath also underscore what is a prime feature, not a bug, of the Trump White House’s anti-immigration agenda: The administration has an enormous tolerance for killing and sheer brutality during the course of…

Every weakness in our political system – the Electoral College, the makeup of the Senate, lifetime terms for the Supreme Court, the acceptance of gerrymandering – has been weaponized by the fascists to steal our government from us.

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

as per melissa's thread, it is really important to understand that a major goal of this administration is the resegregation of key institutions of american society

It's amazing how quickly White politicians in the South rushed to PROVE exactly why we needed the Voting Rights Act!

“I live in constant fear that I will be subjected to further baseless detentions just for going about my daily life." On May 2, Leonardo Garcia Venegas, a Florida-born US citizen, was detained by ICE in Alabama for the third time (!) in the span of a year. And he's suing the federal government.

NEW: ProPublica identified at least 79 children who’ve been left screaming, unable to breathe, or otherwise hurt by tear gas and pepper spray during Trump’s historic immigration crackdown.

Three quick observations: 1. “Excursion” is a horrible euphemism for war. 2. Time is not a metric for how justified a war is. 3. He doesn’t actually believe in metrics. He latches onto anything he think flatters himself.

The Confederate South is rising again.

“Do you really think it's weird to show compassion?” Broken people.

Is it me, or does this all seemed incredibly rushed and overzealous?

Why South Africans are ditching Trump’s US to return home www.thetimes.com/world/africa...

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

it's been five months since the United States has admitted a refugee that is not a white South African

“Why are our bosses, in their many guises, so enthusiastic about AI on campus? The answer lies in the nature of our work…Workers…can produce more widgets…as new technologies augment their labor... Not so with teachers.., whose product is a relationship, experience, or other immaterial good.”

Though not without their flaws, Universities they have *already* done more to drive economic development and innovation than pretty much any other human institution, and that's in addition to creating informed citizens and otherwise enriching the human experience. The evidence for this is...

All of DHS must go, it’s not just ICE.

It’s still a beautiful world.

Posterity will not come close to fathoming how insane this era was.