GenAI does have many interesting uses (true), and also this neat technology is currently being rolled out in largely batshit insane ways by largely immoral ghouls unconstrained by either regulation or basic human decency (also true).

Everyone should not have to have a direct line to elected officials in order to ensure that we are not kidnapped by the government.

Kid came home with a 3D printed ICE whistle one of her classmates gave out to everyone and knew exactly what to do and what it is used for. I'm happy she has one, but I'm sad she needs to. My 9 year old does active shooter drills and knows the government is kidnapping her friends and their parents

they are this afraid of people advocating for humane behavior nyunews.com/news/2026/03...

"When you search on Google, you're searching with Hitler" needs to be a slogan

honestly kinda wild how this administration willingly created another global supply chain crisis after coming to power because the previous administration was cruicified for presiding over supply crises

when you include deaths at brothers & southern borders & off-duty events, nine people have died in 33 shootings by ICE & CBP agents since January 2025.

Next fall’s international student enrollments will be a bloodbath. Catastrophic.

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

Corporate surveillance and government surveillance are mostly a distinction without a difference.

I think I'm not enjoying governance by disaster capitalism

I’m seeing several threads in which academic (-adjacent) folks are lamenting the collapse of publishing and imagining alternative forms of publication – collectives of essayists, etc. Look to the blog collectives of the early aughts (Crooked Timber!), the contemporary worker-owned collectives!

This looks like a cool 2-year postdoc in oral history + social justice at Duke's Center for Documentary Studies! Due 3/16 (names of recommenders but not letters needed for this round). academicjobsonline.org/ajo/jobs/31652

Hello! I am a trans journalist looking to speak with trans kids and parents of trans kids across the US who have been impacted by the clinic closures---please get in touch or share!

🚨 My best friend’s sis, who CBP has been telling us different stories all day about, phone just got turned back on. US citizen born in Evanston. They said she was never detained at O’Hare after telling us she was, said she was not transferred to Broadview, now she's in a detention facility in WI.😡

What's making me lose my mind is that Hegseth made a career out of defending American soldiers who committed war crimes, now is openly ordering war crimes and bragging about it, yet our media does not have headlines screaming "Sec Def is Ordering War Crimes."

literally just stealing from us so they can line their pockets

Print is the rent strike, as @mattseybold.bsky.social says

Would be amazing if we could get some non-Minnesotan neighbors plugged in here. Minnesotans have majorly overextended themselves paying their neighbor's rents and we know there is more capacity to chip in from outside the state.

$20 million over budget in 2025 alone.

we don’t have money for Kanopy but Dawanna Witt’s goons get paid overtime to brutalize observers in the Government Center very cool

If you’ve read about the Trojan War, you’ve read about Tyre.

“Never again” is meaningless if it doesn’t include this. There’s no reason to mince words other than cowardice: these are concentration camps and never again is now.

This is the thing about bathroom bans targeting trans people - assault is already a crime! Indecent exposure is already a crime! And laws that protect trans people don't suddenly make them legal

Target has allowed ICE to abduct its workers and use its property for staging. Now Minnesota organizers are building a pressure campaign against the company. "There is no neutral here," says labor organizer Veronica Mendez Moore. Vital reporting by Isabela Escalona.

Why do the dumbest most arrogant venal fucking ghouls never suffer any consequences!

If allying yourself with an anti-vax lunatic and helping him gut public health in America while children die of vaccine-preventable diseases doesn’t get you expelled from academia, then the whole system is utterly broken.

Perhaps an early (bad) sign of what is to come: Vinay Prasad, who helped lead a campaign against lifesaving mRNA vaccines at FDA, is being welcomed back to the University of California San Francisco, where he was prior to joining the Trump administration.

I took this picture on Weds (it’s on East Lake, across from the library and next to the Coliseum building) The mural was gone when I dropped by the library today.

This is so absolutely predictable: ‘please feel sorry for our sad bag of math we are pretending has feelings, and that may or may not have been used to murder scores of Iranian schoolgirls’

Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo

Minnesota still needs your help

is it so hard to see people are not waiting to be told what’s possible

particularly when people are putting their safety on the line to defend people from abduction by the state—is that expressing “disagreement” with anti-immigration “policy”? or maybe, more simply and directly, it’s people standing in the way

Harper to the judge: "Your driver's license doesn't list your height and weight at birth. It doesn't list where you used to live. It identifies who you are now."

Friends from outside Minnesota have asked me if there are celebrations in the street over Noem being fired. To anyone not in MN: no. people are still buying neighbors groceries and collecting for their rent and patrolling. If ice is abolished or trump dies, then mpls will celebrate

Line go down

all media companies are gravely underestimating my willingness to teach teenagers how to use bittorrent

No, see, this time Lucy is gonna let Charlie Brown kick that football

We need your help bringing two pregnant women back home from ICE detention! Their loved ones and community are asking for financial assistance to support the family during these difficult times. givebutter.com/bring-pregna...

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26 NO - 41% YES - 38% UNSURE - 21%

Well, gas is expensive, and food is expensive, and we’re doing a war nobody wants, but at least there are no jobs

Ask him if he believes housing is a human right. We are not asking for the sun and the moon. Just a lifeline to help folks get back on their feet.

Imagine if you single handedly had the power to delay thousands of evictions & keep families in their homes. Jacob Frey can do that by signing what Council passed yesterday. Or he can help evict thousands of people with a veto. Let him know what you would do: www.minneapolismn.gov/government/m...

A really cool example of investigative reporting from @businessinsider.com, mapping (the often undisclosed) locations of US data centers by tracking permits for the diesel back-up generators they use: www.businessinsider.com/data-center-...

unlike Target, which is reactionary but has a near-monopoly on acquisition of some household products in town, it is very easy to avoid the traitorous Chicago-Lake Liquors (and the very questionable Matt's Bar)

Gone are the days when “cloud” as a metaphor could hide the material impacts of data centers, so now they are sold with AI hype.

american century of humiliation incoming

The Faux Faculty Senate are back with another round of helpful advice for our brethren throughout the state. Here we warn faculty not to teach Huck Finn or the Modest Proposal, if they know what's good for them.