“the [Civil Rights Act] is no longer being used to address racial discrimination in higher education...has been repurposed as part of the administration’s broader effort to remake higher education in line with its rightwing political and cultural agenda” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

lol. lmao.

I am hearing that on his deathbed Dick Cheney received the light of Islam and unhesitatingly recited the Shahada. Even now he looks down on the Ummah from the gardens of Jannah. Truly there is no god but Allah, and Mohammad is his prophet!

Folks should be very careful on Tuesday to not spread rumors or AI slop. No one should deter voters from showing up. But if you *do* see something, document it. Take pictures and video. And then lawyers like me can take all necessary steps to protect voters from intimidation.

It's pretty cool that the US economy is propped up entirely by continuing work on software thats only real functional uses are eroding consensus reality, spreading often politically motivated misinformation, and for various scams like impersonating your grandma and saying she's been kidnapped

Mutual aid for Tiffany Willoughby Herard at UC-Irvine American Studies, for defense against disciplinary charges stemming from her participation in protests against the war in Gaza. chuffed.org/project/1562...

I know folks in the US find it hard to think about the world beyond your borders but there is an absolute horrific situation unfolding in Sudan, and people everywhere need to be aware of this, writing about this, and talking to their politicians about assisting.

remember Ferguson (2014). Remember Michael Brown. Black Lives always Matter. None of what is happening today is new, only that the brutality has increased and expanded ever since. abolish ICE. Abolish DHS. Abolish the police.

“Individuals on the ground sent a message that reached us Monday morning that 1,200 were dead,” Nathaniel Raymond, the lab’s executive director, said. “By that evening, they said 10,000. By Tuesday, we couldn’t reach them anymore. We assume our ground contacts are dead.”

THEY CELEBRATE AS COMMUNITIES STARVE.

The Pentagon has failed seven audits in a row and the DoD has confirmed nearly $11 billion in fraud in just 7 years. But the concern is the poorest Americans abusing the average $342 monthly alotment. foxbaltimore.com/news/nation-...

oh lmao well im gonna miss seeing trans people on this site

YES! Honestly, an ideal outcome would be every student in a class getting an A! Or better yet, every student in a class learns the material deeply and gained a great deal by collaborating on their education in that group. Teachers should not brag about failing students! An F is a failed teacher!

An estimated 15.7 million workers use SNAP. It’s a lifeline for those in low-wage jobs. Meanwhile, CEOs are paid 280x as much as the typical worker. Don’t be angry at workers for using food stamps. Be angry at the corporations paying them so little that they need them.

In Feb 2025, Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham ordered the state health department to stop promoting vaccines. Now, the news comes out that the health department failed to inform the public or even healthcare professionals about the largest whooping cough outbreak in more than a decade.

I don’t think I have ever been this burnt out and demoralized and part of this is because institutions are not taking our concerns about the pedagogical harms of widespread and uncritical adoption of LLMs in higher education seriously. It’s exhausting to do this without any support.

Someone tell the Democratic Party that fascism is, in fact, a kitchen table issue

And critically, who would still have it if not for a campaign controversy, and who has no record beyond social media videos and his platform on a website with which to evaluate his character and suitability for office.

A Naperville man was hauled away by federal immigration agents Thursday morning as his two sons watched, the older boy begging them not to hurt his father and tearfully asking for a chance to speak to him before they left.

On a deadly serious note, the President cannot rely on external, private sources to fund spending as an end-run around Congress’ constitutional power of the purse. If he can, we no longer have a republic.

This is educational malpractice.

say it with me: it’s a Kavanaugh Stop

'is nursing blue-collar work' is one of those questions we really need to address because while the education might say not the working conditions and level of unionization is an emphatic yes

So here’s the thing about the common conception of Dune and the butlerian jihad. The danger has never been AI “going rogue” or “gaining sentience”. It’s just strings of linear algebra. The danger is in people surrendering their ability to think to a machine.

Many men, screaming: TFR TOO LOW. NO SPERM. NO BABIES. END TIMES. Me and a few other women: There are no good or bad birthrates. There are just people and whether or not they can build the families they want.

Higher ed is struggling, and in that struggle I am reminded that those of us who work in HE often have no clue about the differences between types of institutions, their cultures, challenges, and resources (R1, SLAC, Comm. Coll, Regional Pub, etc.). HE is not a monolithic sector.

It probably doesn’t matter but I would be flooding the zone with images of the White House destruction right now.

It's not just what Andrew Cuomo is saying—it's who's funding him. The single largest donor to a pro-Cuomo SuperPAC is Airbnb cofounder/board member Joe Gebbia, who promotes vile and racist messages about immigrants.

btw trump bombed another boat today

Quick question. Why does literally everything require you to have an account. Everything.

I have to stress how highly unusual it is for the most powerful military on the planet to be blowing up random boats in international waters. I can’t help but feel that several criminal charges will ultimately come from these strikes. It makes far more sense to interdict them.

im fine with nazi tattoos being disqualifying. im just not really afraid of losing any worthwhile babies with that bathwater

“we all had a nazi phase, right?” my brother in christ: no

i actually don’t think the “average” american millennial man had a nazi phase. it’s not some boys will be boys shit. this makes me side eye you and your friend group, sounds like a personal problem

NEW: The State of Arizona sues the House of Representatives, demanding that Speaker Mike Johnson seat Adelita Grijalva or that someone else be allowed to swear her in. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

unfortunately a good metaphor for democracy right now

Basement of courthouse horror stories: “One immigrant got her period during the meeting in which she was detained, and was forced to wear that same underwear for days.” timesofsandiego.com/politics/202...

A spokesperson for Texas Gov. Greg Abbott argued his office’s emails with Elon Musk are confidential under a “common-law privacy” exception to public records laws because they may include “intimate and embarrassing” information. (Published July) With @kutnews.bsky.social @texastribune.org

NEW: Four years after GOP lawmakers in Georgia enacted one of the most aggressive anti-voting laws in the country, new evidence filed in federal court shows that Senate Bill 202 has drastically deepened racial inequalities in voting access in the state. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

BREAKING: Congressman Marc Veasey just arrived for an unannounced visit at the Dallas ICE field office to demand accountability regarding multiple unanswered congressional inquiries his office has sent to the agency.

shocked to learn that the president lied about this and also this is a horrible defacing of a building that belongs to the people of the United States, not donald trump

On the plus side it has completely cured me of any sense of being impressed or intimidated by people who went to fancy schools.

Yes, this! “Our tool can design whole curriculum for you” - no, thank you, that’s the part of my job I enjoy the most.

I'm grateful to @60minutes.bsky.social featuring our study published @justsecurity.org. Link to the study (on the 'presumption of regularity'): www.justsecurity.org/120547/presu...

From today’s No Kings rally in little Williamsburg, VA.

“You can win elections by tacking to the middle; lots of people have. But you can also win elections by staking a moral position and convincing people to agree with you. You can earn support by demonstrating what is important to you instead of just being determined to nod along with what you hear.”

To be candid, I want the bubble to burst. Because it will eventually and inevitably, but the longer the current charade goes on the more our planet and communities are decimated— and the more dependent we become on the few powerful people left who control those resources.

So when I hear of students being encouraged to use GPT in college I don’t hear innovation. I hear cognitive atrophy, the inability to think critically for oneself, and total dependence on vulnerable centralized repositories of data for knowledge without ever understanding how knowledge is generated.