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...

As an education scholar, the Harvard Ed Review is seen as one of the premiere journals to publish. Hearing Harvard censored invited scholars writing about Palestine is heartbreaking for the authors & editors trying to name the genocide, scholasticide & the dangers of teaching about Palestine.

Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

The Israelis want to force all remaining Gazans into concentration camps before forcing them out of the Gaza Strip, and those outside of the concentration camps they'll murder. This isn't hyperbole, this is just the straightforward plan of genocide that Israel is admitting to

One thing that Grok's showing is how inordinately easy it is to reprogram these supposedly grand aggregator apps to be propaganda machines.

The Trump administration is currently holding hostage nearly $7B in federal funding for K-12 schools--funding that was supposed to be distributed yesterday. They've stolen $80M from Wisconsin students and teachers alone. How much have they stolen from your state? www.edweek.org/policy-polit...

this is the level of funding where all the possibilities for American politics that have been described as hyperbolic over the past decades - the comparisons to Nazi Germany and other nightmares of the 20th century - become logistically possible and politically likely

They are sending roving bands of masked thugs with the stated goal of kidnapping 20 million brown people to transport them to any country they can pay to take them. All this has been cleared by The Stolen Court. This is not deportation. This is ethnic cleansing.

there is no jurisprudence at work here. the republican court believes that anything a republican president is presumptively constitutional, even if it directly violates the unambiguous constitutional text and causes total chaos in law and policy.

Somewhere in hell, Richard Nixon screams at his tormentors SEE SEE I TOLD YOU IT WASN’T ILLEGAL. The fiend with the jagged, venomous dagger pauses for a moment, looks into Nixon’s pleading, hangdog face. It yawns and resumes its labors.

This is the key point in Sotomayor’s dissent in the majority decision in Trump v CASA: “No right is safe in the new legal regime the Court creates.”

Movie you've seen more than six times with a gif.

Hello, I’m Jewish. I think genocide is bad and Zohran Mamdani is good. Hope this help.

kind of just endlessly sad and grieving that there are so few voices in the public sphere making the basic principled argument that immigration is an affirmative good in every way and the best way for this country to serve humanity is to welcome people who want or need to leave their homes

Here are some texts I got from an immigration lawyer friend of mine. Shared with permission. Some of the bleakest shit I’ve ever heard.

A huge step from HHS that is at odds with science showing significant risks for young children and pregnant women — and that directly contradicts *the FDA's own publication* from last week listing pregnancy as a high-risk condition that would qualify people for this fall's Covid vaccine

THREAD on the *desperate* medical situation in Gaza from a presentation by UNRWA director at the World Health Assembly. This thread was written by Prof Anthony Costello over on X - I think it's important to share as widely as possible, so I have transferred to here. Please read and share! 0/11

FFFS.

Of course sex scenes are necessary. How else are movies going to reproduce? And before anyone says "mitosis", that's how we ended up with so many remakes and cinematic universes

STOP SUGGESTING THAT IT IS ANTISEMITIC TO BE AGAINST MURDERING CHILDREN YOU'RE LITERALLY PROPOSING THAT IT IS A JEWISH THING TO KILL KIDS IT'S FUCKING ANTI-SEMITIC, YOU JERKS

THANK YOU FOR THIS 🧵

Somewhere along the line the idea took hold that every part of public life needs to be efficient, an efficiency exclusively expressed in terms of whether or not it makes money. "Makes money for who, exactly?" is a question that is never asked.

READ. THE. SUBHEAD.

fun fact three fighter jets is roughly equivalent to the NEA’s 2024 budget

This should be a huge story

"But AI has some use." So did leaded gasoline and asbestos! That doesn't mean they're worth using!