"I want people to know what happened to him, a man who lived 30 years here, hardworking, paid taxes, and they treated him like an animal," said Gantchev's wife, who ...fears retaliation from federal officials. "They are so rude to him... They treated him like he was a murderer."

Bada bing.

This is possibly the most significant attack on trans rights in this country yet, and I can count the number of posts on my timeline about this on my hands. If you're trying to dismiss this thinking "It'll die in the senate," DON'T! Sound the alarms now!

6/ We know what works. We just need to do it. You can read the whole article here: www.bmj.com/content/391/...

I can’t believe someone who won the FIFA Peace Prize would act like this.

We’re not even *close* to running out of good ideas. The issue is smart people’s ideas being systematically persecuted, under-resourced, and blocked from opportunity by fascists. Do not believe propaganda in the “Future Perfect” section of Vox that’s underwritten by Effective Altruism extremists.

Killing Section 230 will kill free speech on the Internet. It's obvious, and all of you must realize it. At at time when we face an authoritarian threat, how dare you give autocrats new tools to stifle speech and dissent and crack down on information?

Glad to be a member!

"Lincoln: 'There has not been a pedagogical rationale stated. This isn’t about student success. OpenAI wants to make this the infrastructure of higher education—because we're a market for them. If we privilege AI as a source of right answers, we are taking the process out of teaching and learning.'"

without birthright citizenship in the united states, you don't have a democracy and you don't have rule of law. revoking birthright citizenship gives fascists free rein to purge the country of literally anyone they don't like. it opens the door to atrocities and mass murder. i am not exaggerating.

Welp.

Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management. They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations. www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

You know who knew that would happen? The current grad students.

What's frustrating is in ten years, you will see a few of the small elite institutions that have survived suddenly advertising that they have an AI-free educational environment and charging a heckuva premium for it.

In addition to highlighting the significance of this concept, I want to emphasize what a bloody EXCELLENT writer Bouie is. This is a hard concept to elucidate AT ALL, much less in the space of a skeet.

As Stoppard wrote, and as I contemplate often: “I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.”

Why are students having learning challenges? I can't imagine:

In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.

Imagine escaping the literal Nazis, making it to America, living three quarters of a century there making your life, and then this:

I usually share a new Palestinian account every day but today I am going to do a thread of people I’ve already verified impacted by the recent flooding in Gaza. If you can help any of these families- many who lost everything again- please do. edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/m...

Yes please.

i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

Wow. One can only say "a new low" so many times. AND YET.

I’m so mad at how hard I laughed

Chicago Broadview 🧵

Yupppppp

Potent 🧵, delightful skystorian

they’ve made it easier to build concentration camps.

Zeteo traveled to Chicago for a first-hand look at the president's militarized crackdown on one of America’s great cities. Watch @swin24.bsky.social's report: zeteo.com/p/watch-insi...

Thinking about how much of their violence has been normalized already, how scenes that caused shockwaves 6 weeks ago are now part of the rhythm of daily life. Watched a TikTok from a daughter who has to do her parents' laundry & get their groceries because they're in hiding. This is just it now

And now @acls1919.bsky.social speaks out. Just. Say. No. To Trump's compact on higher ed. It's extortion plain and simple. www.acls.org/news/acls-st...

Reminder that we still don’t know what happened to the 1,000 immigrants who went missing from Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and attorneys can’t locate them. They’ve been disappeared. People are still being sent to that horrible place without any due process.

I don't think it's any coincidence that the right has been working sweatily to re-define grooming and sexual abuse of children to mean accepting or affirming trans young people. They wanted to keep the cult-like fervor, while discarding the idea that the actual sexual abuse of children is wrong.

🧵 on long term COVID sequelae

We are legitimately looking at a genocide against trans people in the United States. That's not hyperbole. The Department of Justice isn't talking about disarming us so that we can all live quietly in peace. There is still time to stop this, but only if cis people care enough.

With love to my old home 🧵

Full resignation letter from Demetre C. Daskalakis, a CDC leader, does not hold back. "The recent shooting at CDC is not why I am resigning. My grandfather, who I am named after, stood up to fascist forces in Greece and lost his life doing so. I am resigning to make him and his legacy proud."

I do wish people would treat transphobia as the serious red flag it is, because if someone is repeating bullshit pseudoscience talking points from right wing cranks, that's just as bad as conceding to anti-vax nonsense and undermining trust in science and medicine, alarm bells should be sounding!

Cheers.

"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

Israeli Army Minister Israel Katz approved a new plan to occupy Gaza City. According to the public broadcaster KAN, Katz named the plan Gideon’s Chariots B, after Operation Gideon’s Chariots, a ground offensive launched in May.

As usual, orders of magnitude worse than anything blue states did during the "left wing illiberalism" panic

This.

If I have to explain to you why it's a bad idea to use a machine that makes shit up 15-80% of the time AND destroys the environment AND contributes to rising fascism and genocide AND puts brilliant skillful creatives out of work by stealing their work, then we're already speaking different languages

The FTC is seeking public comment about gender affirming care in order to go after providers and restrict access. Share your stories instead of how this care has helped you and how it is life saving. We need to counteract their false narratives. Please share! www.regulations.gov/docket/FTC-2...