Thank you @sifill.bsky.social and @nhannahjones.bsky.social for this, which contains all I think needs to be said about that guy who was assassinated recently.

I recognize one of my favoriteCongresspersons ever, @jayapal.house.gov but I would be interested to know who the sensible young white man is and the context of the exchange. Bottom line: mass deportation of undocumented worker HARMS & does NOT help US workers.

This encapsulates all my thoughts and feels on the use of AI in education.

Dear news outlets: Link to the actual things you're writing about. A lawsuit? Link to it. A previous court ruling? Link to it. A bill? Yup, link. So often we instead get a link to that outlet's past coverage, only to learn the original story also didn't link to the source. This is bad. Stop it.

Critical part of the President's new $100,000 charge for H1-B visas: The Administration can also offer a $100,000 discount to any person, company, or industry that it wants. Replacing rules with arbitrary discretion. Want visas? You know who to call and who to flatter.

former CDC official Dr. Houry: "I first learned that the secretary had changed our CDC covid vaccine guidance on an X social media post. CDC scientists have still not seen the scientific data or justification for this change. That is not gold standard science."

“People shouldn’t be killed because of political beliefs!!!” Me thinking of all the women and girls dying because they can’t get medical help thanks to the GOP’s ham fisted abortion bans: “Yeah. No, I know.”

Today, the UN officially designated Israel’s assault on Gaza as a genocide. As a party to the Genocide Convention, the U.S. has a legal obligation to obey our own laws, stop weapons sales to Israel, and demand a permanent ceasefire. End the genocide. Ceasefire now.

For the record. My posts were not even about Kirk directly, but about America's apathy towards political violence, and the coddling of white male shooters and hate peddlers. I was fired because I mentioned race: white men and violence-- that was my "gross misconduct."

I hope people understand that the anomaly here aren’t the conditions—the conditions are very typical—the anomaly is that they put a number of documented workers from a high-income country in those conditions. This is how people are treated in custody routinely

South Koreans are reporting ICE put them chains & treated them like animals for 7 days. They had valid visas. They were here legally. They did everything right. Trump still treated them like trash. It was NEVER about "legal" immigration. It was always about banning non-white immigration.

I would phrase this differently: Those who are born with privilege see movements for equality as violent aggression.

For the record: Police brutally attacking peaceful BLM, pro-Palestine, or anti-ICE protesters is political violence. Denying due process is political violence. Normalizing school shootings is political violence. Demanding people “go back to normal” during a deadly pandemic is political violence.

If we flew the American flag at half-mast for every murder of an American who deserved better, who deserved to be heard and respected and live in peace, we’d never raise the flag to its full height again.

These six are as lethal to the USA’s foundational checks and balances as the SEAL team six are to civilians in other countries.

"Either [Lee] knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel—not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God." W.E.B. DuBois

The Silence of the Scholars: How leading Academics gave Cover to Genocide in Gaza

Argh!! Argh!!! Arrrghghgh!!!!! newrepublic.com/article/1993... via @newrepublic.com

Anas al-Sharif was Gaza’s mockingbird. He lived a life of courage, truth and love for his family. Israel killed him. We must remember who he was, and why they wanted him silenced, writes @kshaheen.bsky.social for @newlinesmag.bsky.social. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/th...

“The more I learn about genocide, the more shocked and embarrassed I am by my own ignorance. Once I actively tried to be better informed about genocide, the picture in Gaza became terrifyingly clear” — powerful and brave personal essay by my NYU colleague Lihi Ben Shitrit for @forward.com

Israel could have chosen to prevent a famine at any point. Instead, it has repeatedly blocked efforts to deliver life-saving aid to Palestinians, effectively vacuum-sealing Gaza and deliberately engineering a famine. This is not some unintended consequence: www.vox.com/policy/42262...

As a sufferer, I dream (while awake) of a day when the lack of adequate treatment for this cursed disorder get as much airtime as the need for more widespread diagnosis. CPAP helps a little, but it’s more of a cardboard standard than a “gold” one. Many of us are in desperate need of better options.

This totally makes sense. A notable public figure in the US (Amazon labor organizer Christian Smalls) is illegally arrested by Israel and subjected to severe physical violence while on a hunger strike… and not one US media outlet of any type has decided that is news.

NYT even did a Style section profile of how Chris Smalls dressed. Wild no major outlets are covering Chris Small being detained and beaten by the IDF paydayreport.com/amazon-union...

Unreal that neither World Cup nor Olympics hasn’t considered moving their events given the obvious concerns around the current regime. Signs are not good.

“We faced hunger before, but never like this”: Children fill hospital wards as starvation grips Gaza - The Guardian

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The only political split that matters - feed everyone on the off chance one person is hungry, or feed no one on the off chance someone undeserving might get fed

Palestinians in Gaza say they fear being forgotten: “They keep bombing. We keep dying.” - The Christian Science Monitor #Don’tForgetGaza

I am incensed. This is all so heartbreaking and despicable. The Iranian people do not deserve this violence. We do not deserve this governance. The world does not deserve this. These outrages must end.

Not taking anything away from Senator Padilla because he was treated atrociously But I JUST want to remind everyone that the Congresswoman LaMonica McIver, a Black woman, was just indicted for just asking questions at an ICE detention center in her state Keep that same energy of support for her

If you're going to choose NOW to decide to say that the Iranian government sucks, I'm going to assume you just want to manufacture consent for colonialism. You do NOT get to invade other countries because their governments are bad. WAR IS WRONG. UNPROVOKED WARS ARE EVIL.

Holy cow, YES, I was wondering how anyone could be expected to swallow such a statement, but there’s a fairly sizable audience out there, primed to eat that shit wholesale.

Newspeak in the news: “From the Guardian and BBC to the New York Times and CBS, Israel’s criminal attack was characterised as the aid ship being "intercepted" or "diverted", and of Israel "taking control" of the vessel. For the western media, Thunberg was "detained", not abducted.”

Bitch makes our entire country a pariah and a laughingstock, and that’s before even taking a glance at the ridiculous, cruel, unabashedly corrupt and toxically stupid things he and his administration have done and continue to do.

Whatever else one might or might not choose to say, it’s an incontrovertible fact that the current President of the United States is an obnoxious blowhard.

Hear!

Amazingly good look at the self-neutering process afoot at @pbs.org who are embracing the approach of compliance in advance. documentary.org/online-featu...

I’m sharing a Palestinian account every day and today is Malak. Malak was an engineering student before this started. She is trying to help her large family including her young sisters Mais and Majd. She is also trying to help Maali who has partial paralysis and needs diapers and medical care.

My skin crawls as I listen to this account of my country’s slide into gestapo-like intimidation and obstruction of a formerly frequent lawful visitor from our most favored neighboring country.

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Voice over: “She is not wrong about this. Or anyway, she goddamn better not be or we are ultra doomed as a civilization.”

People can be required to attend traffic school if they’ve operated a vehicle in a dangerous way, before they can drive again. We should have this for voters, looking at what ours have welcomed into power in the U.S. …Makes way more sense than the voter ID nonsense being peddled now.

Democrats in office better get the hell with us, their constituents. I’m looking at you, @murray.senate.gov @cantwell.senate.gov @repricklarsen.bsky.social

I’m surprised this isn’t suggested more often, it really sounds like what *should* happen.

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"We can't defend Abrego Garcia personally because he might be a criminal, we're just defending due process generally" is dereliction of duty because defending Abrego Garcia personally LITERALLY IS due process. The process he's due is literally a defense. We should defend both due process AND HIM.

The Bush administration disappeared people too, sent them to a different gulag at Gitmo and other black sites, kidnapped people off the street of Milan, tortured them, in the name of "a different kind of war." We didn't come close to holding them accountable. We're seeing the cost of that now.