Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

got emotional thinking about wikipedia again

On this day in 1991, the Supreme Court held that formerly segregated schools could be released from prior integration orders, despite evidence schools were resegregating.

Walz: "What's happening in MN defies belief. News reports simply don't do justice to the level of chaos & disruption & trauma the federal govt is raining down... This long ago stopped being a matter of immigration enforcement. Instead, it's a campaign of organized brutality against the people of MN"

this is all to say that should democrats win the house and senate this november, they should hold similarly dramatic — which is to say televised and highly publicized — hearings on the conduct of ICE and CBP, with testimony from victims. we want as much of *this* as possible in the record. (3/?)

Some pics from today’s rally in LA. A beautiful day with some beautiful people #fuckice #abolishice #iceoutofla

Zac Kinney shared this photo from the second of two ICE deportation flights at MSP today - one of the 47 deportees was still in their Amazon uniform. (I counted 127 deportees on the first flight)

Consensus reality has been under assault by Trumpism and by tech for years now. But it's important to underline that people are still putting their lives on the line because they believe it matters. www.theverge.com/policy/85905...

Here's the full moment of silence including a fan yelling "Go home, ICE"

Defunding the police was always a good idea. The bipartisan rejection of it helped lead us to where we are now. Until we recognize its necessity, we will continue our downward spiral. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/the-conseq...

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

This is how ICE agents responded after watching a mother of three bleed out in her car after they shot her multiple times in the head.

The Department of Homeland Security released a Maryland woman who was held for 25 days despite evidence that her lawyers say proves she was born in the United States and is a citizen.

"Americans have been dragged, tackled, beaten, tased and shot by immigration agents. They’ve had their necks kneeled on. They’ve been held outside in the rain while in their underwear. At least three citizens were pregnant when agents detained them." (Published Oct. 2025)

The sheer number of videos of the shooting is horrific, but in the vein of what @prisonculture.bsky.social has been saying, it proves how many people cared enough to show up where ICE was and record them. It wasn't just one or two legal observers, and when Good was shot, they didn't abandon her.

CCFest is turning 10! I wrote a short recap of 2025 (two virtual CC Fests, two Teacher Training Camps, amazing collaborators) and a look ahead to 2026—including ideas for a 10-year celebration. #virtualCCFest #CCFestTeacherCamp 🔗 sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/CC-Fest-2025...

NEWS: In a heartbreaking video, after ICE shot and killed a woman in Minneapolis, a woman who was in the same SUV cries out: “They killed my wife. I don’t know what to do." “We stopped to videotape, and they shot her in the head,” the distraught woman sobs. www.advocate.com/news/minneso...

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

Intolerable to spend even one more minute under this, to see my neighbors grappling with living under this, to make the little practical concessions and plans it requires. countless little tragedies all over the city

hello EVERYBODY remember to GENUARY !!! tomorrow starts DAY 1 of GENUARY, the generative art month -- we have prepared 31 unique code based daily prompts for you (specifically for you) (yes you) #generative #genartclub #genuary2026 #genuary

the fourth and final episode of FOOL TIME drops on youtube tomorrow. it will be wildman whitehouse's finest hour

Nyt finds a new bigot to rehabilitate

Insane but true fact: making US roads as safe as Canadian, Australian, or European roads would save more lives than eliminating murder from the US.

Rick people in California are some of the most under taxed people on the planet

The right, along the Roberts Court, is trying to nullify the Reconstruction amendments guaranteeing equality under the law, in order to restore the Antebellum Constitution, which envisions “liberty” as an eternal aristocracy of race and class (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Racist too but you know how it is

The smear campaign against Mustapha Kharbouch -- falsely accused of the Brown shooting and MIT murder by powerful politicians, pundits and plutocrats -- is a prime example of how pervasive racism has become. It's also a story largely ignored by the mainstream media www.thenation.com/article/poli...

i hope someone got me THE FORT BRAGG CARTEL for Christmas, and @ayeshaasiddiqi.bsky.social's interview with author Seth Harp is well worth reading. open.substack.com/pub/ayeshaas...

Boycott Microsoft and Xbox. Brilliant video youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4?...

BREAKING: Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar says her son was pulled over by immigration agents and asked to prove his citizenship.

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

Hundreds of people on Sunday gathered in New York City to protest the U.S. government’s forced separation of a 6-year-old migrant boy from his father after the two were arrested by ICE last month amid President Trump’s deportation crackdown.

i made a video about the president's gutter racism against somali-americans and how a scandal became a smear became a call for de facto ethnic cleansing

the “leftovers” holiday candle launch will be on wacky timing wednesday (made that up for my fellow tiny businesses also in the weeds) - keep your eye on bugsrock.online and/or sign up to the mailing list to find out first lol

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Can mamdani do this?

Woke 2.0

#CCFestTeacherCamp session 4, working with data in #p5js in arrays, CSV files, and web APIs. And a visit from Patt Vira, who gave a talk on her background & how she stays creative. Final session is coming up Saturday, November 22. Checkout the recap sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Session-4-Re...

#OtD 13 Nov 1909 suffragette Theresa Garnett attacked Winston Churchill with a horsewhip in Bristol, shouting "Take that in the name of the insulted women of England!" Learn more about this and hundreds of other stories in our book: shop.workingclasshistory.com/products/wor...

The reporting is a little sparse here, but it suggests the lecturer was removed because a student complained to one of her US Senators, who then leaned on IU.

pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

The Mississippi GOP's main project has been to roll back the civil rights movement, starting with the re-segregation of public schools. ProPublica identified 20 segregation academies in Mississippi that received almost $10 mn over 6 years from state coffers.

I can't think of anything to say

these guys just love doing this. nothing like 8 storm troopers beating the absolute shit out of a defenseless old person www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

On this day in 1869, a white mob in GA attacked Abram Colby, a formerly enslaved Black state legislator, after he refused a bribe to resign. The mob kidnapped him in front of his daughter and brutally whipped him. He survived with permanent injuries.

Oct 25 I held the 2nd session of #CCFestTeacherCamp, we reviewed the assignment from the previous session, had a visit from Angi Chau, and then we reviewed how to incorporate motion and interactivity into a #p5js sketch. Read more below: sustaining-boursin-d41.notion.site/Session-2-Re... #p5xjs

fuck this chud

My motion graphics software startup, www.usebutter.com, recently got funding and is hiring! Full-stack: apply.usebutter.com/full-stack-e... Graphics: apply.usebutter.com/graphics-eng... Infra: apply.usebutter.com/infra-devops...

🚧Work in progress 👷🏿‍♀️ I'm using the Scroller component from the ONS Svelte components library to transform a grid of D3 plots & maps into a scrolly-telling story. So close, yet so far 🫣 #dataviz

Learning p5.js week three: Wave Function Collapse #p5js #creative-coding #javascript #js kulugary.neocities.org/blog/learnin...