This was a trans affirming protest, defending not only academic freedom but also the entire project of the university. I was so moved.

My employer, Dartmouth College, today boasts it's 1st Ivy "to launch AI at an institutional scale." It is doing this by partnering--"more than a collaboration"--with Anthropic, a company that stole the books of many faculty, me included, which many of us are suing.

Performative xenophobic sociopathy for an audience of one.

I'm about 500 times more concerned with my own elderly parents being victimized by an identity theft or pig butchering scam than I am about them being mugged or burglarized and I think that's similar for most voters bsky.app/profile/todm...

Social media is dying, from now on we meet at the moonlit bog at midnight instead

I need everybody to read this and understand what’s going on. These are spouses of US citizens in the country legally. They have entry clearance and green cards, they’ve passed background checks and have no criminal records. ICE is taking them anyway. Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/u...

Never forget that just a week ago, Ross Douthat and the NYTimes were asking if women ruined the workplace.

“The secrets of Epstein’s inbox do not reveal an overarching conspiracy but paints a more sobering picture: a world where immense wealth, privileged access and proximity to power can insulate individuals from accountability and consequences…” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

holy shit: “Among the 2,000 UK adults surveyed, 85% were unaware that Britain forcibly transported more than 3 million Africans to the Caribbean, 89% did not know that Britain enslaved people in the Caribbean for more than 300 years” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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1.This is not the only known example we know of ChatGPT cheering on a vulnerable young person to die by suicide, this time it is a recent Texas A&M grad 2. Every single university that has invited OpenAI into our midst should be asked to account for their choices. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

BREAKING: California voters approve a new House map designed to help Democrats net 5 seats next year, NBC News projects, countering Republican redistricting in other states.

this is a reminder that we dont have to settle for newsom in 2028

wait, are you telling me that all the centrist pundits who insisted that Dems wouldn't win any future elections unless/until they threw trans people under the bus turned out to be wrong? how could this be?!? 😱 www.erininthemorning.com/p/new-poll-v...

I'll go ahead and say it. Texas book banners got their butts kicked in tonight's school board elections. Again.

Young people in NYC absolutely showed out and there should be 1000 articles and profiles about this. Because we have had to put up with 1000 MAGA diner stories for years now.

I am no longer employed so I'm not blogging Zohran tonight but I can just repeat exactly what I said in June :-) he won on the back of a pro-migrant, pro-trans, pro-working class campaign. and also: Dem pundits are full of shit

No, Mr. President. You do not have the right to take away student debt forgiveness from teachers, nurses, veterans and other public servants if they do not show loyalty to your right-wing political agenda. This is a democracy, not a dictatorship. Rescind this illegal rule.

REPUBLICAN Senator Lankford on Trump bombing boats and killing people with no due process or real evidence they’re drug-related: “The administration needs to give Congress insight on this. If this was happening under Biden with this level of insight I’d be apoplectic.”

Small bright moments to remind you that not everyone sucks: a Dallas, TX United Methodist Church responds to TX's law preventing rainbow crosswalks by painting their steps and church doors instead www.thepinknews.com/2025/10/24/t...

this is what will happen if mamdani makes bus rides free

“I can’t imagine why anybody would want their music used or associated with something created with the sole purpose of dividing us."

Cleve Jones gave a riveting, rousing speech at San Francisco's No Kings rally yesterday, and he's graciously allowing me to publish it. He began: "The pronouns I use the most are the ones probably understood the least by those in the White House today. They are WE, US and OURS."

It's incredibly telling that student newsrooms have shown more bravery in the past few years than many national outlets

The Portland Frog army has now infiltrated Tulsa, OK and they’ve made an unlikely alliance with the T-Rex infantry and Sharks on Hoverboards mercenary forces. This is truly terrifying.

The end of federal enforcement of special ed laws. Some states - including MN - will likely be ok. But a lot of disabled kids in a lot of states are going to lose the education that federal law and decades of jurisprudence say they are owed.

“I’ll declare war on you if you don’t give me the peace prize” is an incredible bit

I’ve received multiple death threats + doxing (including my home address) directly following harassment from Turning Point USA, Jack Posobiec, Andy NGO, + Fox News which called me an antifa ‘financier.’ I have been forced to move my classes online. If journalists want to talk, DM me or reply here.

Snarky twitter posts aren’t enough.

What's to weigh? It's a no. It doesn't even matter what the proposal says. It's entirely unacceptable for the president to be cutting side-deals with universities. Say no reflexively, and if he pulls your funds, sue him. www.washingtonpost.com/education/20...

hey, cis people. we need you to call every single elected official you've got, now.

War-ravaged Portland

The great Dakota artist Oscar Howe's 1959 painting of Wounded Knee. No matter what Whiskey Pete says, it was a massacre not a battle.

BREAKING: Oklahoma Education Superintendent Ryan Walters says he is resigning. (Of course, he announced this on Fox News.) www.koco.com/article/ryan...

More coverage of the 2025 @aaup.org Faculty in the South Survey from @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Donald Trump rode the escalator in the right way. by Ezra Klein

THIS. It is crazy-making

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

This is gonna get people killed.

happy labor day

But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.

Transgender studies professor Dr. Susan Stryker tears Gavin Newsom a new one while accepting the Transgender Legacy Award from the California state legislature 🔥🔥🔥 @susanstryker.bsky.social

Rock guitarist Tom Morello (Rage Against the Machine) has made a playlist called Fuck ICE, “a rocking little soundtrack to enjoy while you drive those bastards out of your neighborhood”. Springsteen, Public Enemy, Joan Baez, Woody Guthrie, etc. (via @prisonculture.bsky.social) [brooklynvegan.com]

“The Trump Administration and Congress would rather topple a statewide health safety network than let low-income patients receive a cancer screening at a clinic that also offers abortions." —Nancy Northup, Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO

the actual communication problem democrats have is this: their most prominent national figures filter everything through focus grouped lines and are incapable of plain speech

The women's and gender studies program at Sonoma State University in northern California has been shut down, blamed on budget trouble. Tenured faculty lost jobs. If gender studies would be secure anywhere in the country, surely it would be in northern CA. And yet.

Friendly reminder that AI data centers are working overtime to help cook the planet. If the fires are scaring you— start using ‘-AI’ at the end of all Google searches to cut out any AI response to your query. Refusal is possible & responsible. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

In this bonkers post, Trump repeats something he said in April – that "the states are merely an ‘agent’ for the federal government." Back when Republicans talked about small government, their heads would have exploded if they’d heard that. But the traitor party now believes only in money and power.