Over the last year the entire "free speech on campus" beat has been revealed as an utter fraud. Years of punditry puked out in ignorance and bad faith. Yet even as the fraud becomes undeniable we still get stories about wide-eyed idealists who just wanted 'ideological diversity' and 'open debate'.

Average rents in Puerto Rico have skyrocketed 600 percent since 2017 as properties have been bought up by newcomers. It's unaffordable for locals to live on their territory.

boulder, 2025-01-10

DHS Warns Any Action By Americans Will Be Treated As Domestic Terrorism

ICE opinion is shifting from lefties (a little) + reality (a lot). But it's happening much more slowly than it would on the right, because a, our partisan media is comparatively weak, and b, three-quarters of Dems are still prioritizing Seeming Moderate over stopping ICE from murdering moms.

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At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full story by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying...

The murders of two people outside an LGBTQ+ bar at first looked like the act of a lone shooter. A ProPublica and @frontlinepbs.bsky.social investigation shows they were, in fact, the culmination of a coordinated, international recruiting effort by online extremists. (Published March 2025)

hey! just putting this out there: propublica.org/tips

This is a thread of major media outlets falsely anthropomorphising the "Grok" chatbot program and in doing so, actively and directly removing responsibility and accountability from individual people working at X who created a child pornography generator (Elon Musk, Nikita Bier etc) #1: Reuters

BREAKING: Here’s the 60 Minutes Segment Trump and CBS News Executives Don’t Want You to See Video (no paywall): bit.ly/4qn6Jn5

iCloud, Mega, and as a torrent. Archivists have uploaded the 60 Minutes episode Bari Weiss spiked.

Hard to express how much I love this. Twitter is the Nazi site for Nazis. Delete it, ESPECIALLY if you're a famous person or political leader. Abughazaleh does a great job explaining that it's also TRASH and doesn't even let you reach your audience. Get the hell off.

This morning @npr.org uncritically parroted Israeli government statements linking the Bondi Beach shooting to the movement for Palestinian rights. There is no evidence for this so far. This sort of journalistic malpractice has devastating effects for human wellbeing.

7News Australia reports that the hero who jumped and disarmed one of the terrorist shooters His name is Ahmed el-Ahmed A 43 year old married father of two He owns a fruit shop in Sutherland No experience with guns He was walking past He has two bullets in his arm

Remember that UC did not have the courage to fight. Instead, they negotiated a 27-page betrayal. It was faculty/AAUP prevailing in federal court that saved UCLA. For now.

Keynote Announcement! We're thrilled to have Kate Starbird from the University of Washington's Department of Human Centered Design & Engineering speak at IC2S2 2026. Registration is open with submissions opening on 12/15: ic2s2-2026.org

For the record, I will be swearing in on Octavia Butler’s Parable of the Sower after I’m elected.

a .gov website basically reposting stormfront

I love this random exoplanet youtuber who starts all of his videos like "for those of you who've been living under a ROCK" and then talks about the most obscure shit.

Great culture can save lives. Literally. Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard

The counterfactual to widespread e-bike use is most of those users driving personal automobiles, which kill >40,000 Americans per year. But the @nytimes.com doesn't care about that, because defending powerful bloodthirsty enterprises is kind of their thing.

Disappointing article today from @nytimes.com arguing that we need more regulations for e-bikes while pedestrian and cyclist fatalities continue to rise from autos make this article seem like a piece of propaganda from big auto while we do nothing to stop distracted driving data.thewhiteline.org

NEW ESSAY for Trans Awareness Week! hopefully it will make ppl aware about how bad actors manipulate transgender statistics & that "social contagion/ROGD" are disproven: on Medium (friend link): juliaserano.medium.com/lies-damned-... & Substack (no paywall): juliaserano.substack.com/p/lies-damne...

center left nation with electoral structures that generate center right results

Finally, I know of at least one case where the letter writer, deep into an episode of AI-induced psychosis, asked the LLM why scientists were not responding. The machine suggested that perhaps the scientists were trying to steal his discovery. This will get someone killed sooner or later.

Chiropractic is like the evil twin brother of libraries. Institutions that are grandfathered in to American culture from a completely different era. One is a nice place to chill and read a book for free, the other is a place where you pay some guy to sever your spinal cord.

Watch our reporter Lizzie Presser discuss Tierra Walker's story on @msnowreports.bsky.social: “What I want to be clear about is that this isn’t a bug in these [abortion ban] laws, this is a feature ... Anti-abortion activists have fought hard to keep health exceptions outside of these laws.”

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work. Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

We're excited to announce that the website and registration for IC2S2 2026 (July 28-31) will launch in early December! The Vermont Complex Systems Institute @vcsi.bsky.social at the University of Vermont will be hosting IC2S2 in 2026: youtube.com/watch?v=p412S4GnPkc&feature=youtu.be

Do you have medical training? Join SAFE! Safeboulder.org/join #Boulder #Colorado #MutualAid

Last night our Tuesday crew completed their 260th consecutive distro for our homeless survival program. We have distributed aid every Tuesday night in Downtown Boulder for the past 5 years, without missing a week, and without compromising our beliefs. #Boulder #MutualAid #Colorado

Autumn donation drive! Help us fight frostbite as it gets chilly in #Boulder.

a lot of political “scandal” coverage is just the media making a decision about whether public opinion needs a corrective

I hate academic halloween wdym you're pandas the python library for data manipulation and analysis

The dream of every Muslim is simply to be treated the same as any other New Yorker. And yet, for too long, we have been told to ask for less than that, and endure hatred and bigotry in the shadows. No more.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

This week’s episode is INS v. Lopez-Mendoza, a 1984 case where the Court held that immigrants have constitutional rights, they’re just not allowed to enforce them.

They tell me Gaetz the only one who get your hand-me-downs And Petey at the party playing with his nose now And Bobby got a weird case why is he around? #nokings #boulder

New from 404 Media: Google removed an ICE-spotting app too. Called Red Dot, an immigration support group on the ground in Chicago told me it was using it. Google now removed, just like Apple did with ICEBlock after DOJ pressure. Google calls ICE vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-calls...

In other words, the real story of 2025 so far is a drop in far-right terrorism, NOT the rise in far-left terrorism. Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio explained it best: "We won. We’ve got what we wanted."

Bad Bunny, one of the biggest musical artists in the world, said he avoided the US in his tour because he thought ICE would set up ouside his shows.

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THE HYPOCRISY IS THE POINT!!

another way to say this: fascism isn't about rules people follow, it's about categories people are in if you're in the right category nothing you do is bad if you you're in the wrong category nothing you do is good it's not about what you do, it's about who you are

My mission in life is to make mutual aid a common practice in the US. A prerequisite of that is a kind of communal subjectivity. I'm the board chair of Pact which fiscally hosts 15+ mutual aid orgs. I built Papertree as a community bank account. And now I'm building online tools for community.

From ‘The Onion’ Editorial Board: It Is Journalism’s Sacred Duty To Endanger The Lives Of As Many Trans People As Possible https://theonion.com/it-is-journalism-s-sacred-duty-to-endanger-the-lives-of-1850126997/

These people make more in a day, an hour, even in a minute than I do in a year. But never in my 30+ year career have I had to do something a thousandth as degrading as what you see here.