The level of racism and transphobia and shear callousness involved in people outside the US looking at what the US government is doing to people of color and trans folks here, some of whom are US citizens, and saying “these people are privileged” is intense

We’re following a likely significant winter storm this weekend across a large swath of the United States. The National Weather Service is forecasting heavy snow and freezing rain for many locations that don’t typically see this type of dangerous weather. Check out the latest #NWS graphic:

No one can be watching this Davos speech and reach any conclusion but that the President of the United States is mentally disturbed and that something is deeply wrong with him. This is both embarrassing and extremely dangerous.

Scenes from occupied Minneapolis: "3 SUVs ICE officers driving down 21st to 42nd street. The ice officer rolled down his window and took a photo of me and said 'I got you motherfucker'. I am just a home owner going outside to see what was going on."

I trust that there are some fancy law firms left who are rushing forward to represent her…. Right?

Devastating.

Great discussions at #CrossroadsConvening about designing reparative research rather than perpetuating "damage-centered" research (www.harvardeducationalreview.org/content/79/3...)

Some interpret "abundance" to mean an "abundance of highways." Ben of America Walks is leading a panel at the #crossroadsconvening on "Centering Transportation Equity in the Abundance Agenda" to do better than that. FYI, "some" is the Abundance Caucus in Congress, cdn.sanity.io/files/ifn0l6...

"We are at a crossroads, figuratively and in reality" Do we choose disinvestment and harm or repair and renewal? @theycallmeoboi.bsky.social at #CrossroadsConvening

"Our current reality is not inevitable" @equiticity.bsky.social on what fuels HOPE in this time #CrossroadsConvening

Thank you @ucs.org for leading on logistics for #CrossroadsConvening all day today to focus on transportation equity & justice!

Well this is not good

Catch these transportation equity sessions on Thursday! (I'm presenting on my #TransOnTransit findings at Crossroads in the morning instead of TRBAM).

Hey #TRBAM folks! Any colleagues, friends, classmates want to meet up this week while I'm in DC?

Meta names former Trump advisor Dina Powell McCormick as president, vice chair

Good on the Mass. governor for making this demand of ICE’s charter airlines. I hope she will back up the demand with the political and financial levers at her disposal. And if only there were other blue-state governors who had those levers! *stares in crab cake* www.wbur.org/news/2026/01...

Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).

Your regular reminder that ~90% of the lawless authoritarianism could end today, simply by these Senators & about 7 other people in Congress caucusing with the Democrats & giving them governing majorities in both chambers until the crimes & fascism stop.

ICE agent recognized out Christmas shopping—throws tantrum when citizens profile him. "We're trying to prevent you from kidnapping our neighbors," they say. "I'm not doing anything but walking, leave me alone!" he yells. "Not right now you're not—but the past 5 days you have." Philadelphia, PA

ICE detain father shopping on Christmas Eve—then steal his family's groceries. Then 3 agents divvy up his paid for food—taking what they want for themselves. "Can I just get the wife's number to call and let her know?" woman asks. "No, guess he should've complied," agent says. Yakima, Washington

The lack of empirical evidence in the “anti-conservative bias in higher education” panic is really striking. We’ve had more than a decade of elite consternation about this so-called crisis based on a handful of anecdotes.

This sentiment/argument was then repeated in the SCOTUS decision upholding state level bans on gender affirming care for youth, citing the NYT as its citation.

Yep, my sense is that Vance is the figurehead for the less-obviously-Nazi wing to push ethnonationalism into the mainstream.

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

A good thread. IME, when a (former) employer threatened to challenge my copyright of a published work, the eventual decision was that the reputational damage far outweighed their willingness to enforce their rights. Today is a different day.

Matt Yglesias has been a morally bankrupt hack since he was a cheerleader for the invasion of Iraq as a college student. The fact that I still have to hear about his opinions more than two decades later is as a damning indictment of our information environment as I can imagine.

everyone talks about tortured identity language on the left but... "heritage American"?

This threatened military action directly contradicts what Secretaries Rubio and Hegseth told my Senate colleagues and I today about the mission and goals of their operations in the Caribbean. 1/2

We just murdered eight more people in boats.

The third time in 2 months that the official DHS account has tweeted a Nazi term which means "ethnic cleansing" of all people of color from America and Europe.

"He took every Advanced Placement class he could, earned a scholarship to Brown and worked at Wawa over the summer to make enough money to buy a laptop, according to his two sisters."

We're a nation with this...this lackluster no account "leadership" subbing in for actual governance.

A million Muslims live in New York City. We belong here, as does every other New Yorker. This is vile Islamophobia from the Councilwoman and it has no place in our city.

MORE OF THIS EVERYWHERE PLEASE

It's almost like something can be done when horrific things happen.

Interested in learning more about how #LandUse and transportation strategies can improve #RoadSafety by reducing exposure to systemic risk? Join tomorrow's ITE webinar to explore examples from SafeTREC's Julia Griswold, Caltrans' Rachel Carpenter, & @wsdot.wa.gov's John Milton ⬇️ #SafeSystem

“Permit holders are allowed to carry in classrooms. Faculty members may not impose a ban on concealed handguns in their classrooms.” www.utexas.edu/campus-carry

“Under the changes in HB 128, which went into effect on May 7, individuals who are 18 years old or older and have a current Utah concealed weapon permit (CWP) may carry a weapon on campus, including in an “open” fashion.” publicsafety.utah.edu/home-safety-...

Tomorrow is the 13th anniversary of the Sandy Hook shooting. My heart aches for the Brown University community.

AS A PROFESSOR, I AM ASKING HOW ARE OUR STUDENTS SUPPOSED TO LEARN IN THESE CONDITIONS? HOW ARE THEY SUPPOSED TO GO TO SCHOOL AND TAKE EXAMS KNOWING SOMEONE MIGHT JUST SHOW UP WITH AN EASY TO ACQUIRE AUTOMATIC WEAPON? HOW??????????

Gunshot/school shooting survivor @miatretta.bsky.social sent me this photo of us taken after the 13th national vigil for all victims of gun violence- just this morning. Now she is in lockdown at Brown University. Please 🙏 for her & commit to joining the fight to end this madness!

Every disturbing news report about a wrongful deportation or military-style raid of an apartment building should come as a reminder that the US government is using its prosecutorial discretion—it is choosing—to normalize casual cruelty and overt racism.

I haven't looked via my library yet, but has anyone done similar work on the California speed camera pilots? @calbike.bsky.social I know you are supporting a new bill on this right? Can you please point me to any evals you've seen? Working on a grant app related to speed, speeding, and attitudes

The American Association of University Professors said 40% of full-time faculty members — or 169 academics — have received voluntary separation or early retirement offers, making it the “largest attempted firing of faculty currently taking place in the nation.” #AcademicSky

At our school (UCLA), we’re told we’re in a budget crisis. And yet central IT is out here buying licenses from OpenAI. As I told the person responsible, if anything, OpenAI should be paying US for beta testing their dangerous, flawed software.

increasingly clear that the academy’s mad rush into AI & concordantly away from the humanities corresponds to that same shift in the priorities of intelligence & defense funding—so accustomed to it now that they no longer know how to do anything different. the university as cargo cult

Well this is disgusting

Reminder: All Haymarket print books come with a free, bundled ebook (where available)—so you can buy the paperback for someone on your holiday shopping list, and start reading the ebook yourself right away!