People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

For @prismreports.org, I wrote about prison telecom companies donating to nonprofits, particularly charities focused on at-risk youth and communities impacted by incarceration. prismreports.org/2026/05/05/v...

When you go out to Costco and a park playdate with the toddlers and you come home with a box of abandoned kittens 😭

Someone *please* explain to me how vegetarians and vegans are the crazy ones, because they don’t want animals to suffer or be brutally murdered just to have a basket of friggin’ chicken wings or a burger…

Today is Trans Day of Visibility. To all my trans peeps, I'm so glad you've made yourself whole. I'm sorry it's so hard. I'm happy to see you happy.

Democrats introduced bills to end the TSA shutdown on: March 5 March 11 March 12 March 18 March 19 (x2) March 21 March 23 Republicans blocked TSA funding every single time.

Sending ICE to “help” TSA officers is like sending a butcher to “help” with a complicated surgery…

If the US spent that money on education, health care, and helping people, then we wouldn't have enough people in precarious positions to conscript for our war profit machine.

"The Peace President."

"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953

@governorwalz.mn.gov what are you doing? Folks in MN are days away from rent being due but 10s of thousands of people are being impacted by ICE and the Federal government. You need to push to pass a rent moratorium until ICE IS OUT of MN. Please move on this fast.

THE @agomezfcc.bsky.social cited the work I did with the amazing @crhinesmith.bsky.social and Madison Bishop on affordability in her statement on Lifeline and Link Up reform! I'm humbled and honored every time I see that my work has real policy implications! docs.fcc.gov/public/attac...

Letz go even bigger and better,,, ALL Female US Olympians and Paralympian medalists are invited out to celebrate in Viva Las Vegas for the SHE GOT GAME Weekend ,,, Hit a guy up and LETZ GOOO

Last chance to submit to my @citams26.bsky.social session at @asanews.bsky.social ! Submissions are due by the 25th, 9pm EST.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

ICE is still in my Minneapolis neighborhood today.

The company is facing a lawsuit from three detainees who allege guards beat and sexually assaulted them, then covered it up. Never forget who is profiting from this cruelty. https://prospect.org/2026/02/12/ice-immigration-prison-geo-group-trump/

Come work with me! We're a fun bunch! We're looking for a new colleague with expertise in Business Communication at the Lecturer (highest degree MA) or Teaching Assistant Professor (highest degree PhD) level. You can find the job ad here: jobs.charlotte.edu/postings/66228 @citams26.bsky.social

Help, the algorithm has decided to target me with the beef tallow women—where did I go wrong 😩

I can’t stress this enough. The state of 4th Amendment law is that the cops can’t force you to type in a passcode but they can force you to swipe your finger or present your face. Never stop using passcodes/passwords to unlock your devices. And consider additional code to unlock Signal.

If you're an adult who was vaccinated, you should get your titers run to make sure you still have immunity. Vaccination can wane and/or you may not have generated a strong immune response. That was ok when we had herd immunity but we're likely about to lose our "measles free" status.

This is absolutely horrific and a move in the complete wrong direction. It’ll also play into the hands of predatory tablet vendors like JayPay and GTL that charge for e-books and other content. If you’re in Arkansas, call your representatives now!

Voting NO on the DHS funding bill is the bare minimum. Backing Kristi Noem’s impeachment is the bare minimum. Holding law-breaking ICE agents legally accountable is the bare minimum. ICE is beyond reform. Abolish it.

Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. were murdered. Marimar Martinez was shot. Mahmoud Khalil was arrested and jailed. The next could be you. What’s at stake isn’t just our democracy. It’s also your safety and security and that of your loved ones. This is personal — to every one of us.

ICE has now carried out two summary executions of innocent people in the streets of an American city. If you work for ICE, there's no denying that's the mission you're supporting now. You don't get to claim in one year or ten or twenty that you didn't know what ICE was doing. You're complicit.

I don’t want to hear anything from an elected official unless it’s a plan to defund the DHS and impeach Noem, Bovino, etc. No texts. No emails. No talk about the economy. Step up or step off.

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bro there’s a gofundme to crowdfund attorney fees for a preschooler who was kidnapped by our federal government and shipped across state lines and his senator is posting about high school hockey while every other elected official is debating whether to give a zillion more dollars to the kidnappers

Bipartisan negotiators released a DHS funding bill that does not significantly reduce ICE and CBP’s funding nor rein in the agencies’ abuses of power. Make no mistake: Any Democrat who votes for this bill is complicit in Trump’s campaign of terror. Grow a spine and vote no.

Alert: Winter Storm Watch: Severe. Affects Person, Granville, Vance. Expires at 01/26/2026 01:00 PM. https://tinyurl.com/222647th

When you take a once in a lifetime trip to Hawaii and see your dermatologist right after and they say “Good job coming back without a tan!” And they sincerely mean it as a compliment 😭

The Haley Travel Fund is the primary source of travel funds for the #ICA26 conference. While CAT (and other Interest Groups/Divisions) have some funds for travel, we encourage members seeking support to apply to the Haley Fund. Applications open 14 Jan - 11 Feb. www.icahdq.org/general/cust...

I’m seeing posts from people (outside of MN) about how US citizens should carry their passports. And let me say that *inside* MN, we are calmly responding to requests with: “No, I don’t have to show you any documentation.” Because that’s how you protect everyone, regardless of immigration status.

Planning to go to @asanews.bsky.social in New York? Doing work on digital inequalities? Consider submitting to the session "Digital Inequalities 3.0: New Problems and New Approaches" @citams.bsky.social. I'm the session organizer and would love to see your submissions! www.asanet.org/annual-meeti...

Hopefully my happy espresso (decaf) is a good omen for 2026 😃 Happy New Year, y’all!

I am told that announcing you make donations encourages others to do the same. So at the risk of virtue signaling, I will signal virtue by announcing I spent much of the day making sure I donated every penny my employer will match for 2025.

Serious question: Do pharmaceutical and supplement manufacturers ever ask consumers if they’d rather take one giant horse pill or two pills that actually can go down human throats? 👀

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

When I'm feeling particularly hopeless about the future of professoring as a profession, I try to remind myself: That's what they want. They want us to not want to be professors anymore.

Show me how your 2025 went

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.”

Giving boys baby dolls to play with won't make them grow up to be gay. But it will make them grow up to be dads who can parent without ChatGPT.

This kind of bottle-shaming is a not-so-subtle way to push women out of the workforce.