@instats.bsky.social I’m a doc student at UT San Antonio (we are members of CARMA, not InStats) and would like to purchase a subscription but cannot afford the annual subscription fee all at once. Can I pay monthly?

Since every Republican in Congress is repeating their false talking point over & over that “Democrats want to shut down the govt to give free healthcare to illegal aliens,” it would be helpful if some Democrats in Congress could address that argument with facts at some point.

I’ve spent a lot of time in and around military communities and military families. This veteran is right on target about the intentional inequality that fuels military recruitment. www.instagram.com/reel/DO9iuj7...

These are the things we need to be remembering and celebrating during Hispanic Heritage Month.

Tylenol causes autism? FCC threatens media firms & violates the 1st Amendment? Drug smugglers merit being fired on as an act of war? Deploy the military to quell nonexistent domestic crime?

The heroes we need right now.

Block & build. I love that these trainings are as much about building and strengthening community as about blocking authoritarians. We can only build a better democracy together.

"It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy” www.wnep.com/article/news...

Legit question for folks who may have insight (i.e., not bait for anti-MAGA likes). I served as civilian support of US military for 5 yrs & most folks I met/worked with would be appalled by Trump's use of military as a prop. What is going on inside the Pentagon??? Where is the pushback?

It was absolutely part of @npr.org “we have to save our funding even if we completely lose our soul in the process” efforts. I listened to those two idiots and couldn’t believe there was hardly any pushback in their disinformation. Then platforming Bannon & Rufo too? Wtf. NPR doesn’t need my $$$.

Despite Trump's EO opposing "anti-Christian bias", Cap Police arrested Poor People's Campaign chair, Rev. William Barber. @antheabutler.bsky.social noted “Seems like this administration only wants Christians who are supporters of Trump to have access to pray in the Capitol and express their faith.”

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ICE is entrapping people who are here legally---telling them to report to the Immigration Office to advance their status--and then abducts them for deportation without due process. This can't be legal.

In the wake of Harvard’s lawsuit against the Trump regime, AAC&U issued a statement from 180 higher ed leaders across the US. 20 minutes later www.aacu.org is down. Coincidence?

Picard management tip: Fight for what you know is right. Only arrogant bullies think resistance is futile.

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And another instance: US citizen arrested and held without charges for 10 days for "walking while brown," with CBP claiming they picked him up in Mexico, when in fact he was visiting Tucson AZ with his family from Albuquerque NM. Reporting by Arizona Public Media @azpm.bsky.social

My story breaking this news exclusively was 7K+ words and had almost all of this in it, and more: www.npr.org/2025/04/15/n...

We have to be prepared to strike, which means learning from and listening to the people who have been doing the work. Join us for our first mutual aid info sessions, starting tomorrow at 4pm ET. Check out our first couple of guests: @remorahousedc.bsky.social & @foundseed.bsky.social!

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both." —Louis Brandeis

More evidence that US citizens are not safe in this assault on democracy. Two American citizens detained while driving home. Of note: "CBP insists that the incident was routine...that can 'apply for any traveler'.” Expect to see "detentions" of US citizens become routine under this corrupt regime.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia was just the test case - how much can they get away with? Now ICE, at the behest of the entire apparatus hijacking our democracy, is illegally holding a US-born citizen for "driving while brown." Don't think it wouldn't happen to you. Reporting by @suzgamboa.bsky.social

He hates the military. We are just props.

As your neighbours start to feel the impact of this the correct move is not to be a smug asshole. The correct move is to show compassion and help them like you would others and also educate them about why progressive policy is better. Also, fuck both parties.

Elon Musk has taken control of government employees’ private data by having his cronies illegally install a commercial server at the Office of Personnel Management.

So the man who can’t pay his own contractors is in control of the US Treasury’s payment system? Grift upon grift upon grift.

Ontario Premier Doug Ford is announcing that the province will rip up its $100M contract with Elon Musk’s Starlink ahead of Trump’s incoming tariffs

The sparse news coverage that exists of the Billionaire's Coup is, frankly, incomprehensible to a lay audience. "Treasury payment system" is meaningless jargon to most people. Tell people in plain language "Here is what Trump and Musk are doing, and here is how it affects Americans."

Framing matters. Position issues/events in terms of who caused them. But also stop using the terminology of oligarchs and colonizers DEI rollback --> Segregation Pro-life --> Anti-abortion Illegals --> Assylum seekers, refugees, immigrants Stop using market terms to describe government services

Everyone interested in small business, entrepreneurship, policy (and sane takes on all the above) please follow Rep. Markey & the Senate Small Biz/Ent cmte.

Heartfelt piece on complexities of Latinidad. I worked for the Hispanic political mktg pioneer whose genius was in having us- Mexican, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Venezuelan, all of us- be seen as one people. 40 yrs later we’re undone by a charlatan who exploited us as individuals. @jeanguerre.bsky.social

This is an excellent and important thread 🧵 So many who are feeling surprise/shocked into paralysis this week are used to being comfortable bystanders, not organizers. But what we need now is connection, organization, & ACTION. Here are some concrete suggestions that anyone can put into action.

What shall we make of this MLK day?

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The Congressional GOP and the Supreme Court have truly created a monster: Trump knows he faces zero accountability from impeachment or prosecution, and now doesn’t even have to face voters again. It’s going to be kleptocracy on an unprecedented scale.

I’m a proud member of the PhD Project, which recruits underrepresented minorities into PhD programs to become faculty & I wouldn’t have chosen this path if not for PhD Project’s training, mentoring & support network. 8 universities have now pulled out. 1/

I’m sorry, this might be a great investigation, but “as it was never intended” is obscene. This is precisely how many people specifically and repeatedly told us — warned us — it would be used.

Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

My husband just got a new prescription to manage his blood pressure; Walgreens quoted $500/mo - unless he gets prior authorization, after which it will be $3/mo. 1) he’s a 100% disabled vet, 2) gets all his healthcare from the VA, 3) a VA doc prescribed the rx. What is going on? It’s not only UH.

On the importance of practice in management academia, and the importance of theory that draws from practice. You might enjoy this quote, @nicholaspoggioli.com. I wish this wasn’t still an issue in our field.

I am all in favor of #UBI and think it is a needed support in a radically transforming economy, but don’t see how a government captured by tech and corporate interests will ever enact such a tax to fund UBI. What kind of #lobbying is currently being done to advocate for such taxes? Anyone?

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

So thrilled to find @tracesoftexas.bsky.social on bsky! No more facebook needed for ToT’s great images of TX history. Side note: super grateful ToT introduced me to Russell Lee, Depression-era photographer @Farm Svc Bureau, whose work illustrates my dissertation on SATX entrepreneurial history❤️

How can it possibly be time to go back to work? It’s a winter wonderland out there in my backyard! ❄️☃️

Hope for the first, expect the second. convo courtesy of @robpilk.com and @pumpkinpal.bsky.social

Fellow journos covering "AI": Please don't do their PR for them! "Virtual employees" is a harmful anthropomorphism in that it (a) is false; (b) confuses readers about the emerging technology and inaccurately lends human attributes like agency, accountability, etc.; and (c) harms humans in real jobs.

Hmmm. I think he may misunderstand where the real threat is coming from. Can I interest anyone in a copy of this resistance manual that was oh-so-handy in fighting authoritarianism in WWII? Has anyone updated it for the 21st century yet? Asking for a friend. www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/26184

The dogs were very good again this year. (I'm not crying... you're crying!) #tellyourdogisaidhi