“We are told by leaders that we are the future. But when it comes to the ongoing pandemic, our present is being stolen right in front of our eyes.” Incredible speech by Violet Affleck who warned about the ongoing dangers of COVID & Long Covid, & advocated for masks and clean air at the UN today!

On the art of subtitles. Upbeat music. www.theguardian.com/film/2025/se...

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands... And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

asking a should-know-this question: if I tag someone in a thread here, do all the down-thread posts keep tagging them? interface doesn't show me this, and I'm hoping to not be obnoxious (out of character, i know!)

My book, The Future That Was, is about the extraordinary rise of global research on women. It also about the attacks on & starvation of gender research today by universities who leave only the shell intact, dismantling entire fields of knowledge built by women press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...

seriously! what do i even say: "i planned your midterm way back in july when things were not this fully off the rails, oops"

i'm planning to open tomorrow's media law/history class with all the nervous laughter that has been building up for a few weeks

asking a should-know-this question: if I tag someone in a thread here, do all the down-thread posts keep tagging them? interface doesn't show me this, and I'm hoping to not be obnoxious (out of character, i know!)

Haven't seen much comment on how when people lose their jobs in the US, they (and often their families) also lose access to healthcare Jimmy Kimmel will be fine; his staff, teachers, journalists, and professors will potentially have a much harder time. cuts to ACA & Medicaid make it even worse

reading up on the UN remarks today and... i had all but forgotten about how the US bombed iran a few mere months ago (surely an indictment of me, but also shit is just moving SO FAST)

so our line in the sand really is white dudes on tv 👍🏼

So if you want this to move, the ask has to be "include telehealth in any CR deal"

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

At some point earlier I'd said I was willing to help onboard anyone considering joining Mastodon, & that I am also willing to speak candidly about drawbacks there. All that still stands... And, I have a just-out paper about user safety & moderation there: openjournals.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/Jo...

Chilling dispatch from Mario Guevara, the journalist trapped in ICE detention for...doing his job.

NYPD "use of force [..] surged 49 percent from 2022 to 2023." "Just four precincts account for a quarter of the legal settlements paid out since 2019." "More than 85 percent of the people who live in these precinct areas are Black or Latine." #NewYork #USA #Policing

"AI can enhance learning outcomes" ok let's go to the evidence-based replay

Every single Isaac Chotiner interview

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A man caged by ICE was found dead in his cell inside a Long Island jail 18 hours after arriving there.

Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock are asking Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for answers after more than a dozen people died in immigration detention, as the department rushes to expand.

CW mass graves, CECOT It brings me no pleasure to add this to the mix. IDK if the US is still sending people to CECOT or not, but: www.lemkininstitute.com/single-post/...

"By centering the experiences of LA’s transit-riding populations amid unprecedented wildfire smoke & mobility disruptions, the findings offer urgent evidence to inform equitable, health‑conscious emergency & evacuation planning for cities across the US..."

“In 23 years at Harvard and 15 as a tenured professor, I have seen a lot of tenure cases. While there have been other denials I was sorry to hear about, I have never been at such a total loss to explain Harvard’s decision,” said History professor Mary D. Lewis wrote in an emailed statement.

hitting the rapture on the west coast now

Oh My God I did not realize there is a banana port festival in Port Hueneme! bananaportfest.com/ Chapter 2 of OIL BEACH is all about banana handling in Southern California and how containerized cargo traffic jams in LA and Long Beach drove bananas into smaller ports like Hueneme

"For the first time in its history, WIRED is dedicating an issue to politics, citing concerns about the tech industry's alignment with President Trump. @katie-drummond.bsky.social explains what this shift means for Silicon Valley and for readers."

"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

PART 2 of my interview w/ Alberto Toscano & @stschrader1.bsky.social on Trump’s intensification of police, ICE, military repression, what it reveals about MAGA’s fascist/authoritarian project—and about illiberalism already immanent in US carceral/imperialist state www.thedigradio.com/podcast/stat...

hitting the rapture on the west coast now

"nothing bad can happen, it can only good happen" is my new motto

BREAKING: A federal judge has ordered Trump to restore $500 million in frozen UCLA NIH grants. The same judge, Rita F. Lin, previously ordered all UCLA NSF grants reinstated. Lin has now nearly entirely reversed Trump's July de-funding of UCLA research: www.latimes.com/california/s...

An article from a site called "Clean Tech Times" about Charlie Kirk and Big Oil money is trending in r/energy on Reddit It's a completely plagiarized, unauthorized, unlinked version of an article I published the day before I have no idea what to do about it except complain. It's so fucked up.

I’m an Autistic classically trained chef and I wrote a food aversion acceptance cookbook and guide titled COLOR TASTE TEXTURE, that’s all about finding out what works for specific sensory needs and how to customize food for them. It’s useful for all ages, no cooking experience necessary.

many things that get called "culture war" are not; GWAR offending delicate sensibilities actually is, in the funniest possible way

our students and colleagues have never received justice for the violence they endured.. instead all we get is new restrictions on (and surveillance of) our speech and activity

Please consider donating to Environmental History Now: A Platform on Representation, Engagement, and Community #envhist #envhum ko-fi.com/envhistnow

Is anyone keeping track of the full list of college and university professors who have been fired for social media posts over the last two weesks?

Folks Wait a few days before declaring victory on Disney.

OK is everyone else getting their job back

Since people are revisiting the Telecom Act of 1996, here's a little history you won't see too many places Activists tried, & succeeded, to keep a little bit of spectrum for nonnetworked noncommercial use. They didn't trust the claim that the internet heralded a new democratic era for communication

new from @kylietcheung.bsky.social in @teenvogue.com: recently, men have impersonated plainclothes ICE agents to assault women—only possible, she argues, because state agents commit violence with impunity. "To be clear, men wouldn’t be posing as ICE agents and assaulting women if ICE didn’t exist."

Bookmarking all the Bhattacharya critiques for a conversation about the scientific research funding landscape I'll be having next week, send me any I might have missed recently

Shana tova to the Cambridge Jewish community as Rosh Hashanah begins tonight! In our campaign, we know that Arab, Jewish, and Muslim safety are intertwined EVERYWHERE, and we’re committed to fighting for all of our people in the new year.

In the last six weeks, the Tenant Union Federation launched seven (7) majority tenant unions, across five (5) states, representing 1000 units of housing owned by Capital Realty Group, a New York-based corporate landlord. The first portfolio organizing of its kind... www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

🚨🚨🚨 NEW AAUP Report Analyzes Trump Admin Weaponization of Title VI to Undermine Civil Rights Protections. #Academicfreedom #AcademicSky #DefendHigherEd

Good job, everyone who canceled your subscriptions and threatened to burn your mouse ears!! (complimentary)

The boycotts work, kids, & represent our most direct weapon against fascism in this moment. Time to *expand* them & leverage their impact against this increasingly dangerous regime.