Republicans and their allies have mainstreamed antisemitism for years, only to portray it as a left-wing problem to advance Trump's authoritarian agenda. So why are they feigning shock as it spills into full view? By Natasha Soffer-Roth www.972mag.com/gop-antisemi...

The LA County jails just posted their 43rd in custody death for this year, and the second in under a week

So similarly, when we see people who prefer ChatGPT or a similar synthetic text extruding machine as a source of medical information, that means those are people who are under-served in the current system.

Students, staff, faculty turning to ChatGPT? That means they are being asked to do things they don't have the time, resources, support, etc to do.

In early 2024, I got to speak to Deans from up & down the West Coast of the US & Canada about "AI". I told them that the only value of ChatGPT for university administrators is as a contrast-dye test to show where resources are lacking.

Yes. Yes. Yes. Students use LLMs because they have never, not just now, had enough time & space for learning. And they are frequently missing knowledge about how the various resources work. We just skipped right over that to "they're going to use it anyway so we have to integrate it into pedagogy."

STS/Communications scholar Morgan Ames (whom these authors don't cite) has repeatedly demonstrated that OLPC was ineffective at best, and harmful at worst, including in an award-winning book published in 2019. The real question is why economists don't acknowledge work in other fields.

Inbox: Aramis Furse, 32, died on Rikers early Sunday morning. He’s the 14th detainee death this year so far. In April, Laura Swain, a federal judge overseeing DOC said she’d appoint a “remediation manager” to takeover potentially large parts. But she hasn’t selected a candidate yet.

Simply amazing that the Supreme Court declared an end to legal race discrimination in the affirmative action case two years ago and now allows overt racism in both immigration arrests and redistricting. Using race to help minorities? Bad. Using it to discriminate against them? Very, very good.

Holy shit. Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa. www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...

The Institute of Museum & Library Services has restored all previously canceled federal grants to libraries, following a ruling by a federal judge "Restoration of these grants is a massive win for libraries of all kinds in all states."

Historian of eugenics here. I don't normally like to retweet bad arguments, but this is such a fundamental misunderstanding of eugenics, I think it's important to point out. I don't have time to debunk all of the ways this is inaccurate, but I'll highlight a few things and then recommend some books🧵

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Like 30% of the country is absolutely enraged because they thought they were going to be able to be utter shitbirds without anyone being allowed to call them shitbirds, but here we are, calling them shitbirds.

The problem with ICE is not that it's targeting people who aren't criminals. The problem with ICE is that it's an unaccountable secret deportation police. It cannot be reformed under a better president. It can be made less terrible, but the instrument of repression remains for the next tyrant.

I am of the simple opinion that stuff like this is the peak of human endeavour and we can cut it out with the missiles and demonic computers in favour of getting really good at a cool little thing

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

X has changed their policy and now you can see where the accounts are based. Here’s an “influencer from Texas”

There was no way to know how many people died in Missouri prisons — until now. Emerging on Bsky to share this latest installment in @themarshallproject.org's death-in-custody coverage + a few thoughts from my reporting on MO's flawed records system 🧵👇🏾 www.themarshallproject.org/2025/11/18/s...

Via @annabjournalist.bsky.social: Alabama's new state Senate map was designed by an 18-year-old University of Alabama freshman who submitted his proposals, unsolicited, to a federal court hearing a lawsuit over the districts.

Reporter: Is it appropriate for your family to do business with Saudi Arabia while you’re president? The us intelligence concluded you orchestrated the murder of a journalist… Trump: Who are you with? Reporter: ABC News

Trump suggests Khashoggi had it coming: "You're mentioning someone that was extremely controversial. A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen. But he knew nothing about it. You don't have to embarrass our guest."

The president of the United States said this today: “A lot of people didn't like that gentleman that you're talking about. Whether you like him or didn't like him, things happen.” Context: journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and dismembered by a Saudi hit squad and his body parts dispersed.

Scotland [4] - 2 Denmark - K. McLean 90+8' It's done! No Playoff! Straight through! And WHAT A GOAL TO FINISH IT OFF!!!!

Physicians for Human Rights finds a staggering 94 documented cases of Palestinian deaths in Israeli detention between October 7, 2023 and August 2025. It alleges "a deliberate Israeli policy of killing Palestinians in custody" www.phr.org.il/en/palestini...

this is an important example of the NYT at its best - when it deploys the sheer scale of its resources to do a story as comprehensively as possible.

Officially a new fan of the Republic of Ireland's men's national football team!

New data reveals 98 Palestinian deaths in Israeli custody since Oct. 7 Post-mortems & testimonies suggest many died from torture, medical neglect & food deprivation. According to leaked Israeli intelligence database, dozens were civilians. www.972mag.com/98-palestini... @mekomit.bsky.social

I’m gonna disagree with this one. What we’re calling “AI” doesn’t replace cognition. It replaces pattern matching, but on its own has no idea which patterns are important or why. We are nowhere close to an actual thinking machine.

NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen. Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.

“There are about a thousand of us.” What the actual???? I’ve heard so much stuff about child trafficking over the past decade and these powerful men were doing it basically as an open secret? Surely the FBI and a bunch of cops must have known what was happening! I guess they were in on it…

Tomorrow, the AMA is giving a platform to Dr. Oz — CMS Administrator destroying Medicare and Medicaid. Residents can’t freely dissent or the AMA will punish them. This isn’t “dialogue.” It’s coercion. We wrote the position statement the AMA won’t. Document link: drive.proton.me/urls/9CR5SB3...

I'm not trying to be mean, but racists who believe Trump betrayed them by being a child molester are not going to embrace the Democratic Party without forcing that party to embrace racism. And the people gained would in no way make up for those lost.

BREAKING: In AAUP et al v. Trump (wall-to-wall union lawsuit challenging the administration’s unlawful use of TItle VI to reshape the University of California system), the faculty and staff of the UC system WON!!! We were granted our preliminary injunction! @aaup.org

“While they were responding, they were informed that a dog had jumped up onto the bed, causing the shotgun to go off, which ultimately struck the male,” Cpl. Michael Schoone said. At least they granted the pup the same professional courtesy they offer to peers! www.live5news.com/2025/11/13/m...

I wrote about the supposed conservative "civil war" over antisemitism as more of a lovers' spat for @liberalcurrents.

Every single time! Epstein will write: "porsecters h4arrsed me w/ sbuopenas al bcuase tr4ificing myners .due porcess much???no" and then there's, like, the former president of a university or white house counsel or something replying: "You're totally right, and also I love you with all my heart."

"This could take down Democrats, too." I know. And I frankly wouldn't give even an itty bitty damn if it implicated every Democratic man in Congress, every Democratic hopeful for 2028 and every Democrat who has even thought about running for office. Down with the sex predators, wherever they are.

QANON CULTIST IN 2017: "In this 1,879 page thread I will unravel the byzantine system of codewords and phrases the global elite use to mask their pedophile cabal." JEFFREY EPSTEIN WRITING AN EMAIL AT THE SAME TIME: "helo its me jeff had fun cmmitting sex crimes wit u lst weeknd"

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

The diagram for what Palantir does is like if Richard Scarry got super paranoid and did an Apocalypse picture book

And I've been doing politics for long enough to know clearly that the entire Senate Democratic caucus agreed to this decision to fold. Open your eyes. The 8 who "broke" did so with the complete blessing of Schumer and their colleagues. You don't have to play along because this is not a game. The end

NEW: Dems easily flipped the sheriff's office in Pennsylvania's Bucks County, a big swing county in the Philly suburbs. So? The incumbent GOP sheriff had contracted with ICE. His Dem challenger promised to end the contract. Now he wants other swing-state Dems to look at his victory as a lesson:

What if we make you wait 40 days to receive [checks notes] nothing? Sound good?