Spare me the righteous indignation, Tucker. You built this guy up. Remember “Daddy’s home”?

Congratulations to @karenhao.bsky.social for receiving a NBCC award! Well-deserved. It’s a remarkable book that shows, among other things, the colonial nature of AI. Listen again to our conversation.

1. Read “Empire of AI” by @karenhao.bsky.social 2. Watch this talk between Karen and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app 3. Follow @dairinstitute.bsky.social, Karen and Timnit for a sober, critical analysis of the “AI” field.

Omg??????? www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/b...

Law shows how instead of focusing on care during the outbreak of COVID, prisons took the pandemic as an opportunity to amplify their inhumanity. Law also tells remarkable stories of self-sacrifice and solidarity, as prisoners gave each other care and support.

Impeachment should be the word of the season. A misguided and unauthorized war. A flood of unlawful executive orders. A budget request for political witch hunts. An obsession to steal elections through voter suppression. And, of course, the Epstein files. www.newsweek.com/trumps-chanc...

If the leader of any organization were posting things like Trump has been posting, the Board of Directors would’ve had them removed and changed the locks to the building.

The Trump administration has announced that the US will rewrite past climate reports, in a clear attempt to erase scientific history and undermine the consensus on human-caused climate change.

#SpeakingOutOfPlace 's @palumboliu.bsky.social welcomes @victorialaw.bsky.social, author of #CorridorsOfContagion. Law describes how state neglect and #carceralAbuse amplified the ravages of #Covid19 in #USprisons #USpol #prisons #prisonIndustrialComplex #socialMurder #Covid19USA #books

This is the world they want. They want you to be disabled so that you and I will be easier to take advantage of

How long before SNL teams up Tina Fey and Amy Poehler again to do Kristi and Pam??

A former DOGE staffer developed an AI tool that hallucinated the size of Veterans Affairs contracts. For example, it concluded that more than a thousand deals were each worth $34 million, when in fact some were for as little as $35,000. (Published June 2025)

I want to thank our Allies for telling Trump to go fuck himself over the Iran war. You have to punch a bully in the face.

The most loyal go first sometimes. When will Stephen Miller and Pete H go? Or is it just the ladies?

Two brilliant civil rights lawyers - one Asian American; one Black American. Both women. @aclu.org’s Cecellia Wang & @legaldefensefund.bsky.social’s @janainelson.bsky.social. They argued two of the most consequential cases in SCOTUS this year. This embrace is one of my favorite moments of the day.

This post is a good example of how major media normalize Trump's erratic conduct and inability to present a coherent explanation of his war strategy--if you can even call it that.

One picture, a thousand HUGE words.

Both of Marco Rubio’s parents were born in Cuba. Marco Rubio was born in Miami in 1971, before they became US citizens. He is a US citizen because he was born in the US under birthright citizenship. #Hypocrites

woof.

Poland joining Ireland and Wales in a World Cup boycott is as welcome as it is expected. 🇵🇱💪🏼

If at once you don’t succeed. Release the #EpsteinFiles

Picture worth a thousand words.

This is a news peg for a previous plea, that the Pulitzer board award the Miami Herald's Julie Brown a special citation, having missed the chance to give her the investigative prize years ago. www.pulitzer.org/prize-winner...

Supreme Court legalizes torture.

a new YouGov poll shows 25% of Americans falsely believe Iran possesses nuclear weapons and 45% believe the also false claim Iran has an active nuclear weapons program. So I examined why this misinformation is so widespread––namely sleazy, innuendo-laden Iran coverage by US media.

In this News Brief, we discuss a recent poll showing 70% of Americans are fundamentally wrong about the nature of Iran's "nuclear program"—including 1 in 4 who think Iran currently possesses a nuclear weapon, and detail how decades of sleazy media innuendo and fabrications got us to this point.

“Likely”? Looking forward to interviewing Adam Johnson on his book, “How to Sell a Genocide.” Deep dive into perfidy of NYT and many other media.

These are death camps because they are not equipped to sustain life.

Ridicule as praxis. That's the advice from Dr. Alex Hanna and Dr. Emily M. Bender, authors of "The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want," when it comes to Big Tech bros. @samleecole.bsky.social talks to them for the 404 pod. Watch now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UwBZ...

Supreme Court overtuned a Colorado law banning conversion therapy. It's 8-1 with Ketanji Brown Jackson as the lone dissent. Surprised by the vote, but not the outcome. MAGA is on a march to erradicate the LGBTQ community and the Supreme Court will help them.

icymi, why so many people are approaching tomorrow with dread, fury, and a willingness to burn the court to the ground if—

We engage in a broad discussion of Kurdish history, culture, politics, literature and language, with particular attention to issues of statelessness, identity, and violence. We talk about the current moment with regard to Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and the US-Israel war on Iran and beyond.

We engage in a broad discussion of Kurdish history, culture, politics, literature and language, with particular attention to issues of statelessness, identity, and violence. We talk about the current moment with regard to Turkey, Syria, Palestine, and the US-Israel war on Iran and beyond.

NYT and other mainstream media try to produce “balanced” stories, diminishing significance of #NoKings rallies. They don’t ask—where are the millions of MAGA supporters? Remember Trump’s stupid military parade. No “balance.” This is a decisive moment in history. Show up!

@bkindivisible.bsky.social had a STUNNING display, I believe primarily designed by the great Julie Pepito. @bradlander.bsky.social marching with them on the far left there.

It is not in fact a logical fallacy, to think that the views of white supremacists who wanted to limit and undermine the clear anti-racist goals of the Fourteenth Amendment should not govern our interpretation of the Fourteenth Amendment It's common sense and basic respect for multiracial democracy

"Speaking out of place" is probably one of the most important things we need to be doing now, so I was very happy to be invited to @palumboliu.bsky.social's podcast to discuss my book Science in Resistance and paths to liberating and democratizing education institutions @ucpress.bsky.social

Archivists are my heroes. Last week I emailed an archive I was at years ago and told them that I wanted to use a still from a film they had in their collection for my book but couldn't remember where in the film it was, so I just described it. They found it, digitized it, and sent it to me.

the reason hegseth lobbied trump to pardon war criminals in his first term and why he has done everything possible to make war crimes more likely is that hegseth believes war crimes to be Objectively Good. war to him, in fact, consists of committing indiscriminate war crimes.

this is turning out to be one of the onion's all-time classics

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... Houthi missile attack signals ‘serious’ escalation in Iran war

The answer is No. I would suggest turning to global news but it doesn't solve the problem of the availablity of local journalism to the public.

The NYT says today’s #NoKings protests had “no shortage of skeptics,” and then quoted exactly one of those skeptics: The chairman of the Ole Miss College Republicans (as of 2025.) But of course, the Times doesn’t ID him as such. He’s just a Concerned Youth.