#OtD 5 Jun 1993 EMT Breonna Taylor, recently killed by police, was born in Grand Rapids, MI. Taylor, an unarmed Black woman, was shot 8 times and killed in her home by officers with a drugs warrant. No drugs were found

Marx predicted "agents"

on the bus down 5th Avenue I was listening to what seemed to me like an extremely bizarre conversation between a couple of tourists and a lady I couldn't see

Those interested in archival research and trans studies should join us at @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social tomorrow for a stimulating conversation w. @profmasha.bsky.social @ldevun.bsky.social and others. Lmk if you’d like a link to participate remotely.

After ICE deported Wendy Hernandez Reyes, it turned her 3-year-old son Orlin over to her sister’s estranged partner, who tortured Orlin and beat him to death. I can’t say what I think should happen to those responsible without violating this website’s TOS. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Sen. @schumer.senate.gov marched in NYC with Israeli fascists today.

This is who @schumer.senate.gov marched with in the Israel Day Parade today.

Happy day before Pride from the NYT. Can’t believe this isn’t @nytpitchbot.bsky.social

Their new girlfriend is women

love this but it's sad to me to see the divide where harvard grads are being told this, and community college grads are being told AI is the future and will destroy their jobs and that they should be grateful for this

i just found out about "meadow lane" and now im going to be seething about it for like a week. first of all anyone in nyc who is buying bottled water as a flex needs to **** **********

Hundreds inside an ICE concentration camp are on a work and hunger strike at Delaney Hall in New Jersey and other hunger strikes have been announced in New Mexico and Southern California. In Tacoma, WA, over 100 detainees announced the formation of the 'Union of People Kidnapped by ICE.'

This is pretty shockingly evil. Wild (if not surprising) that Washington does this while maintaining that Cuba is a threat to the USA.

In graduation ceremonies across the US, students showed their support for Palestinians. The footage features three examples from CUNY, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Texas at Dallas, with many others circulating on social media.

the fucking gall of marketing an ai tool explicitly intended to replace librarians as "ai FOR librarians" lmao so we're replacing ourselves?? is that the idea?

To my library colleagues who went all-in on AI: we told you so. We told you they would use technology you were training to replace us. We told you that it wouldn't matter to admin if AI couldn't do even a fraction of our job. And you dismissed us.

"You’ve read a million pearl-clutching op-eds about woke professors and cancel culture, but for my money, the real crisis facing American higher education is that colleges & universities are increasingly run by people who are hostile to students & professors, &...the idea of the university itself."

just want to emphasize that there are confirmed photos of this, including one of israeli soldiers stripping a woman in front of all the other aid flotilla activists.

It’s weird how booing AI has completely broken some commencement speakers. They’ve gone from, “You can do anything if you put your mind to it” to “Shut up and eat shit, fuckers. Being here is supposed to make ME feel good, not you.”

And let's be clear for the few here who think Democrats shld "just focus on affordability": these Democrats voted to actively punish trans people. That's not "focusing on affordability." That's going out of your way, bucking your party, to hurt people.

what part of "you are metaphysically stained in your soul by the Evil™ of sexual activity I deem twisted and unnatural" is not an inherently negative attitude toward gay people?

I lied, because “it is a stereotype that gender critical people are nasty bastards” is actually written into this code and sorry you can’t legislate to make people like you

First glance at the CoP and it’s so fucking bad, like stating that trans inclusion will constitute unlawful harassment and that protecting women’s dignity (hint: by excluding trans people) is a legitimate aim Written and approved by by some seriously sick, twisted people

Here’s what the guidance has to say about policing people’s sex.

This is insane.

Trans men can be excluded from both men’s facilities and women’s facilities.

This passed the house today, so now is the time to call our senators (and yell at our house reps if they voted for it) This bullshit bill is an assault on trans people and on every kid’s right to read and see the world as it exists. Reps.fyi

is anyone else getting those weirdly ominous Ross Dress For Less ads

📚️ This week, we hosted a community workshop in partnership with CUNY at our Queens office to support future immigrant students on their path toward higher education This exciting opportunity gave our communities first-hand knowledge on continuing their education, regardless of immigration status.

missed my train bc BC public safety randomly locked the 1 gate that was supposed to let ppl off campus until 11 🙃 now i have to wait an extra 15-20 minutes and ill get home at like 12:30 👍

The word "hero" gets thrown around a lot. But it's clear the attack on the San Diego Islamic Center yesterday could have been SO much worse. 140 children were feet away from the attackers. Security guard Amin Abdullah engaged these cowards in a gunfight, and they ran away.

wow i hate baudrillard so much

NYC Public Defenders Condemn the Treatment of Samantha Randazzo, Who Gave Birth While Handcuffed to a Bench in an Open Courtroom at Brooklyn Arraignments

Getting kind of tired of self-styled serious people confidently asserting that data centre water use is a made up issue.

FINAL LINEUP at @strandbooks.com @samhita.bsky.social @reetamac.bsky.social @afeefness.bsky.social & Una Osato! There's a few tickets left: www.strandbooks.com/steven-w-thr...

Washington Post in 1979: U.S. State Dept. found Israeli "abuse during interrogation of arrested Palestinians," including "refrigeration, use of electricity, hanging by the hands or feet, extreme forms of sexual sadism, interrogation accompanied by starvation, enforced sleeplessness"

Inea’s story is one of home, tradition, and memory over generations.

Today marks Nakba Day, an annual day of remembrance to commemorate the expulsion of more than 700,000 Palestinians between 1947 and 1949 during the creation of the State of Israel and the year that followed.   Inea is a New Yorker and a Nakba survivor. She shared her story with us.

There’s something going on with dad

its kinda like they put olivia reingold and bari weiss into that teleporter machine from the fly and they got combined into one annoying lady

wow — the preprint host, arxiv, is banning authors for a year if they submit papers with hallucinated citations 🤖

I've been on a big Lukacs kick recently so maybe it's just me but that Jacobin piece is really giving Lukacs attacking Kandinsky as a fascist at the same moment when the Nazis were denouncing him as degenerate

ctrl F for "bruce springsteen" 0 results lmao

Insane dystopian shit here, totally unacceptable. I expect politicians and commentators to be outraged by it, regardless of their opinion of the crimes these people were convicted of.

I do think a lot of the pointed publicity on Microsoft's dealings in Israel came from BDS specifically, so this is legitimately a huge victory for the movement

Let's be extremely clear here: the claim of Israel using dogs to rape prisoners comes directly from survivors of that torture. They are denying testimony from multiple survivors as well as IDF guards who came forward. Can you imagine the pain of coming forward with that, and being called a liar?

I wouldn't frame this story as Kristof does, but I recognize that he's doing so to try to reach people who would otherwise not read a story about such horrifying actions by Israeli soldiers and settlers. I hope he succeeds and that people don't look away (needless to say, major content warning).

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

gothamist.com/news/rolling... fuck hochul