I am continually amazed by the complete lack of just basic situational / spatial awareness exhibited by my fellow humans. how did you live to this age without paying one fking shred of attention to what's going on around you?

Absolutely horrific and shameful what this country has become

Hard same

To put this in scale, Elon Musk's salary from Tesla alone could fund the SNAP program for the entire country into 2034.

Quite a set of accomplishments really #proud of

we should stop pretending people in academia are aligned with our projected political imaginations of higher ed. many CS/AI "luminaries" are obviously engaged in political projects to unravel labor power, belittle human intelligence & creativity, and enhance capacities for state & corporate violence

Yet again I am amazed at how we women don’t go get machine guns and shoot up workplaces because we’re so angry all the time.

Anyone else’s brain go to “douche” whenever they see “douhat” or is it just me? #ruintheworkplace

I know I’ve ruined the workplace by demanding to be treated like a human being and not putting up with men’s bullshit 🤷🏻‍♀️

Pretty sure neither Georgia or Mississippi are blue states dude.

NEW: Mississippi Democrats broke the Republican Party's supermajority in the state Senate tonight for the first time since 2011. It came as Democrats flipped 2 Senate seats and 1 House seat. “Mississippi just broke the supermajority—and the people have taken back their power,” the party says.

Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."

Brad Lander is at the victory party and, folks, he has the custom one-of-one “GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE” shirt.

As I get ready to leave this country, I look at these election results and think how everything could have been different if only university administrators had the sense and courage to stand up to him from the get go. But they’ve ruined it all, and for nothing.

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

Definitely need a Hot Girls for Zohran tee

Elected Democrats spending more time today praising Dick Cheney than Zohran Mamdani is a great case study in abject fucking moral failure.

Disturbing news out of Auburn University, where the admin is pressuring professors to sign a statement saying they're complying with an "anti-DEI" law and TPUSA is holding a rally and trying to record classes. I hear faculty are terrified to sign, worried this is a pretense for mass firings.

Boy Mamdani's race is really a vivid reminder that anti-Islamic bigotry is 100% accepted in US public discourse. People don't even bother dog whistling, it's just right out in the open.

If you are in Atlanta please come to the Arts and Social Justice showcase at Spelman on December 4. My class is part of it and creating something pretty awesome. Registration here www.eventbrite.com/e/emory-arts...

11 months after I submitted the final manuscript, my epub files have been delivered... One time my boss (a nurse) asked me why it was taking so long between books. (I published my first in 2020 BTW).

"Dear Martha, we've been camped outside Richmond for going on 30 days. Overhead the sandwiches are exploding day and night. The smell of the onions and mustard is overwhelming."

Ugh he’ll probably get a full on state fascist funeral too

At his final rally on Monday, New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani vowed to resist US President Donald Trump’s threat to withhold federal funds if he wins, framing the vote as a stand against intimidation and political bullying.

It’s very hard, being Cookie

In Chicago, a woman was driving to get coffee when a DHS vehicle fleeing an angry crowd crashed into her car. Armed agents jumped out of the vehicle, yanked her door open, pulled her by the legs out of her car at gunpoint, held her incommunicado for hours, then released her with no charges.

I have a confirmed uplift day from Schumacher Logistics. January 5 it is.

You know you’ve acclimated to the South when someone tells you a relative “fell out” and you know what that means.

I just watched House of Dynamite and gee that was uplifting 😩

ICE detained a Virginia mom while she was driving her 16yo daughter to school bc she couldn’t recall her SS#. “The agent got flustered and lunged at her,” said her daughter. ICE arrested her even after she showed proof of legal status. “I want this video out there because I want my mother home.”

I hate it here

I’m feeling particularly Bolshie tonight. I was rooting for the jewel thieves as if they were Luigi Mangione #burnitalldown

Eat the rich

What if you have anti-religion bias? Is that allowed? (Asking for me).

أنا اسمي زهران ممدان وعم رشّح حالي لأكون العمدة الجديد في مدينة نيويورك

The trials of Cookie: waiting for new treat box

Hello it’s not just the sciences. The reason we’re in this mess is because they (and I also mean universities themselves) already killed the humanities and social sciences in subservience to the basic sciences and no one has a critical thought to bless themselves with

I would add one: Professors who use AI should not be Professors.

I guess someone heard from Tylenol’s lawyers.

When the foreign media do a better job of the fascist boot lickers that pass for newspaper editors in the US…

Random thought while preparing dinner: people who say they like broccoli are lying. Surely there has never been such a foul sour evil weed to grace the planets surface. No argument will be entered into because all other opinions are wrong.

This country is so fucked. Like, royally.

California police boost patrols at grocery stores as millions set to lose SNAP benefits

Under Trump, the draconian future of homelessness policy is coming into focus: mass internment. Utah is building a 16-acre site to detain up to 1,300 homeless people inside locked "accountability centers." This is profoundly alarming. Vital reporting from @ellenbarry.bsky.social and Jason DeParle:

I'm shaking almost too hard to type. I entered SLC airport and heard screams and cries for help. I could see people gathered around, watching. I sped over to discover this woman face down on the floor, four grown men pushing her down, while she cried "HELP ME" and pled for her child.

This is a remarkable claim. I think I can speak for historians as a group when I say that even those who take a top-down approach welcome with open arms scholarship that incorporates the perspectives of marginalized groups. How in the world is it "feckless" to seek to incorporate such voices?/12

I made the mistake of putting the flannel sheets on and now I never want to get out bed again.

This feels totally normal at this point

Working with my favourite activists (and book) in class today #seizethehospital