Hell to the yes!

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.

Child farmworkers working in California are picking the fresh fruit and vegetables filling American grocery stores. The problem is, this faceless legion is often working for less than minimum wage in chemical-covered fields. From Robert J. Lopez with Capital and Main: trib.al/yVihjS3

“That sounds illegal”

This is the most important op-ed you'll read this week. The Trump administration is about to get rid of the birth-dose of hepatitis B vaccine. That is a deadly choice for many families. @helenouyang.bsky.social tells her story. Now call your member of Congress. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/01/o...

It is incredibly strange that these schools seem to factor in zero reputational, enrollment, or recruitment damage to their “settling with Trump” equation, when clearly there’s a major hit to all three.

Support your local syringe exchange this #WorldAIDSDay

Earlier this year, we documented nearly 50 incidents of immigration officers shattering car windows to make arrests — a tactic experts say was rarely used before Trump took office. ICE claims its officers use a “minimum amount of force.” You can judge for yourself.

Pro tip when applying for a faculty position: make sure you include all required documents, and address the ad's expectations. When small, out of the way departments get >130 applicants for 1 spot, you have to know the market is tight. #academicsky

The most precious commodity you have is your attention. You don’t have to waste it on poor-faith debates or arguments with strangers if you don’t think they’ll be productive. You can prioritize the things that matter to you and make your life richer.

"The university’s Committee on Academic Freedom, Responsibility and Tenure voted 8-0 that Texas A&M 'had no justification for dismissing' McCoul and 'failed to follow required procedures at multiple stages,' according to a Sunday statement from the Texas A&M chapter of the AAUP."

i’ve said this before but lemme say it again. it makes absolutely 0 sense to talk about “misuse” of llms because there is no clear use or purpose for llms to begin with. genAI is a purposeless tech floating around looking for uptake 1/

“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“

Finally got around to reading Prasad's actual memo about the purported deaths in children from COVID-19 vaccines, and it's kind of amazing in the worst ways possible. At one point, he says (regarding rare adverse events): "Causality is easy to assess in a randomized trial..."

What does manipulating VAERS data have in common with allegations of extramarital tail-chasing? The quality of evidence that 10 kids died from COVID vaccines with VAERS data or that CBER Steve Urkel is trolling for side pieces on the apps is equivalent. rasmussenretorts.substack.com/p/do-unvacci...

New Yorkers BLOCK ICE from leaving their parking garage ahead of a flopped mass raid attempt on Canal Street

Happening now near Canal Street, federal agents had been staging inside a fed owned parking garage, now being confronted by a group of protesters. masked agents are looking on from above.

Thousands of people die every year because their survival would lower profits. Healthcare, like journalism, needs to be non-profit. Neither our lives nor our democracy should be contingent on profit margins. hms.harvard.edu/news/deaths-...

The NYT definitely made a choice not to add “without evidence” to this headline.

The OpenAI ruling writers should know about 👀 (if your work was scraped for LLM training, this affects you). www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

Depressing late Friday holiday news dump: Northwestern agrees to pay $75 million to the federal government. The faculty vote against doing this, @heidikitrosser.bsky.social points out, was 595-4. That's the kind of margin where going the other way reflects a major failure of university governance.

words, what do they mean www.washingtonpost.com/health/2025/...

The amount of mis/disinformation from this group is simply astounding. I hope that every single medical society speaks up loudly and clearly against this.

THIS THIS THIS. COVID-19 killed kids. The current group of people in charge of vaccine policy are wielding their medical credentials to undermine our ability to protect children from harm.

Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.

The legal, media, and academic institutions capitulating to an authoritarian ordering payments for favorable treatment are damning themselves to irrelevance. They are destroying their institutions. They will be — and should be — shunned for failing in their most basic purposes for existing.

Authoritarians typically neither like science nor scientists We are seeing this everywhere So, fighting for science is also fighting for democracy www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Happy Thanksgiving! 🦃🍂🥧 Have some anti-vax family at your table? Here is a summary of 14 studies that found no association between vaccines and autism. h/t @drtomfrieden.bsky.social

The most openly racist, eugenicist monsters are running the U.S. They will use every opportunity to advance their agenda. And as the wheels come off their regime they will only grow more brutal and obscene. These are dangerous days for us all.

WOLFERS: “When a politician says: we’ll deregulate health insurance and send you a “freedom account” check, ask: freedom to buy what? If insurers don’t offer real policies or can cherry-pick only healthy people, that money is a coupon for a store that’s not open.” #MedicareForAllNOW

this is just the age-old Republican plan of shifting the entire tax burden into the lower classes by increasing the sales tax to 25% they've just obfuscated it by saying 'tariff'

My hot take is that in the era of easily-generated AI nonsense papers journals that want to ensure high quality will need to start hiring full-time professional editors and reviewers instead of relying on volunteer labor from overworked academics.

As I always do with boycotts, I urge: be tough with corporations, gentle with individual buyers. For some people, Black Friday sales are the way they get their kids jackets that fit, shoes that hold up to the weather. Yelling at them doesn’t help the cause.

I don’t know if anyone else notices or cares, but when I see a presentation in which the speaker uses obviously generated-AI images to illustrate their slides, it makes me immediately less confident in whatever other content they’re presenting.

NEW: ICE’s policy of mass detaining immigrants w pending deportation proceedings has led to an avalanche of rejections in court. More than 220 judges — including 23 Trump appointees — have called it an illegal distortion of long-settled law. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

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This Thanksgiving, ICE fascists are arresting people in San Diego At Their Green Card Interviews! These immigrants followed the law & did everything right—ICE is arresting them anyway. It was never about law & order. It was always about fascism & white supremacy. Abolish ICE. Protect our Republic.

Ask yourself why there wasn’t this level of wall to wall coverage for this shooting wgme.com/news/local/i...

Today I and everyday I am: Grateful for Vaccines Grateful for Science Grateful for Public Health Workers Grateful for Doctors Grateful for Nurses Grateful for Scientists Grateful for everyone whose job has been a little harder to do especially this year, yet who keep showing up. #Thanksgiving

Indigenous actress Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake

What’s Behind the Recent Decline in Overdose Deaths in Seattle? While Seattle’s outgoing mayor and city attorney credit drug arrests and prosecutions, public health evidence suggests other causes. @andyengelson.bsky.social reports. publicola.com/2025/11/26/w...

Oh fuck these petty evil people. A through line from Reagan to Trump linked by their erasure and callous disregard of whole populations of suffering and dying people (with notable exception of Bush & PEPFAR funding)- it's grotesque. Silence=Death.

The CDC has turned off its vaccine search tool. The vaccines.gov site now gives an error when you enter a valid zip code. They also removed text saying “Vaccines can help you stay healthy” and added a banner saying the site is being updated.

I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ

DAILY MEMO: In Absence of Border Patrol, ICE and HSI Steps Up to Take Its Place @eltragon.bsky.social

The Surreal Madness of the AI Boom talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-s... via @TPM

This. No due process, so your claims don’t matter.

Cal State University currently lacks the counseling resources to support existing mental health concerns among its students—so it is particularly unwise for the university to contract with a corporation whose product is allegedly associated with serious mental health harms.

In February, the CSU chancellor announced a new “AI-empowered university” initiative making Cal State the largest university to contract with OpenAI—spending $17M for system-wide of a product called “ChatGPT Edu.” www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...