Also, if you are debating whether something is a concentration camp or not, it is something that needs to be shut down, and people need to be released from it.

I did a 1 year long independent study about Japanese mass incarceration a few years ago and I was surprised to learn this. Blogged a bit about the use of "concentration camps" here: www.usprisonculture.com/2013/09/26/s...

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH

Reading articles like this, it occurs to me that the more we try to fix problems caused by replacing social norms and relationships with financial incentives, by replacing social norms and relationships with financial incentives, the worse things will get. theconversation.com/the-peer-rev...

I guess what I'm saying is that crappy "AI" search layers & reference chatbots alienate humans not just from other humans today but also from humans who have produced knowledge in the past.

Social Security Workers Are Being Told to Hand Over Appointment Details to ICE The recent request goes against decades of precedent and puts noncitizens at further risk of immigration enforcement actions www.wired.com/story/social...

Remember when Roe was settled law? Remember when birthright citizenship was just an unquestioned feature of the 14th amendment? Remember when states and localities regulated guns all the time because of course the 2nd amendment wasn’t about individual self-defense?

I’ve seen this person get retweeted by MAGA influencers like Benny Johnson. He’s not kidding. This is a real political goal he is pursuing. He has 425,000 followers on Facebook.

If you think there’s NOTHING in our heritage (or in any nation’s) to be unapologetic about, you’re a fool. A dangerous fool.

I went to UT and, while I was a history major, I wouldn’t have been able to complete my honors thesis without the Benson Latin American Collection, which was part of the Latin American Studies dept at that time. LAS was/is one of UT’s most respected programs nationally.

if you want schumer out, you might consider donating to stratton's campaign. she is cash poor, and the leader with all the money is a centrist asshole who I think would legit be worse than Durbin.

LETS GO!!

medical miracle: this 75 year old man was born yesterday

“Abolishing gender programs & the lessons they have taught, will, Trump & his acolytes hope, undermine our ability not just to condemn, but also to critically analyze the policies & practices they want to impose.” Must Read by Joan Scott, member of the AAUP’s Committee on Academic Freedom.

Gosh why would a young person who cares about journalism turn down the chance to move to Lorain, Ohio to feed their notes into a story-writing machine and never learn anything about generating publishable work? Big mystery here.

and once again: student-run papers are the free press now www.michigandaily.com/news/former-...

Been thinking about this all day. As an immigrant, I am not sure what they think this is going to sound like to people like me.

So lying “economist” Peter Navarro is just as stupid as Pamela Jo Bondi? The Dow Jones is not “the stock market.” And it is indexed—the 50,000 doesn’t stand for $50,000.

Even if you fully intend to vote for whoever the Democratic nominee ends up being, there’s a huge difference between doing that quietly in November 2028 and loudly announcing it years in advance with zero conditions attached.

This is the story right now. It's surging in right wing online spaces & leading to very real harassment of kids in the real world.

a public education landscape that makes holding or selling this kind of bullshit narrative a lot less lucrative is possible. I really believe it.

What Rubio describes is not how it went. In the colonial period, free land, religious toleration, "mild govt", fast +easy naturalization so U could bequeath land to heirs were the main reasons peeps came. Belonging was also defined by enslaved importation + Indigenous dispossession.

As parents we see & hear what students are thinking, how they see the actions of the gov, their fears for their families, friends & community. The right fears student walkouts bc they show plainly the clear moral stakes of this moment. We stand with students and all demonstrators against injustice.

someone asks, "matthew, why are you on patreon, why not substack?" it's the nazis. www.theguardian.com/media/2026/f...

I started this magazine in a different body, gender and name and with zero editorial experience. Will yourself into existence

My social media algorithms, which have me (correctly) pegged as a white zillennial woman also suggests that this is the direction this stuff is going in. I constantly come across influencers being used as test balloons, uncritically repeating right-wing fears about the dangers of hormonal BC

ICE is still active all across Minnesota, even parking at observers homes this morning. But we’ve been showing up all weekend with massive food drives, placing hearts where were abducted, at singing marches, and there’s another big protest at Jackson Square Park today at noon. Let’s keep showing up!

My main opinion on Graham Platner is if there was a 41 year old guy running in the Republican primary for the Maine Senate seat and it turned out that he had a Nazi tattoo for 15 years and then he claimed that he just didn't know it was a Nazi tattoo, none of you would ever stop screaming about it.

Everyone makes fun of the incel "government redistribution of girlfriends" proposal but the state did in fact force women to marry mediocre men by not letting them have a bank account or own property in their name and they don't have to take us that many steps backwards to get there.

The difference between them and me and presumably you, is that you and I don't think that having no moral constraints is some kind of sophisticated strategy no one's ever thought of before. They do and think that's what separates them from the little people who are too dumb to think of it.

"One Edge member and Epstein consort, the anarchist Noam Chomsky, described this ethos: “The cool observers – meaning us smart guys – it’s our task to impose necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications to keep these poor simpletons on course.”

1/And I would add to this claim, by noting how much is this is gendered as well: as more more female students graduate from college and more female professors teach in college, forcing higher teaching loads is to “diminish” the professorate to a level of a “high school teacher” (also sexist).

Propaganda during WWI and WWII in fact

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

populism is indeed a lie

Bill 137 "forces teachers in Saskatchewan to tell parents if a student under 16 asks to go by a new name or pronoun." "Saskatchewan Coalition to Repeal Bill 137 [..] is gaining momentum. The event in November had a packed venue." #Saskatchewan #Canada #Education #Labour

This is nuts. Famous and prestigious program. So toxic that it’s now a conservative goal to gut the humanities and universities generally while shoving AI everywhere

Rubio's entire speech was Christian white nationalism. What else could this mean? It's nothing close to actual history, it doesn't make sense except through the invented history of a "shared history, Christian faith, culture, heritage, language, ancestry" in the "common civilization" of whiteness.

Public comment on Dr Oz's proposed rules to ban gender-affirming care for youth closes 2/17 One rule bans hospital-based care, the other eliminates Medicaid/CHIP coverage Together they'd make care virtually unavailable nationwide, including in shield law states www.patreon.com/posts/149210...

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

“People along the route came out of their homes and businesses to cheer on the students. One man, standing alone in a parking lot, spent over 20 minutes repeating, “Thank you,” and “We love you,” until all the student marchers had passed.”

no foreign foe has ever dreamed of being able to sack and pillaging this country the way Trump admin and its congressional and scotus enablers do every day.

Everyone’s talking about Swarovski right now so let’s take a second and dive into the fact that they were NAZI Nazis. Like full-on Seig Heil, prosecuted after the war level Nazis and the modern company has done everything they can to hide all their archives and prevent anyone accessing them.

Like millions of folks on BlueSky, I've been highly critical of ICE kidnapping, executing, torturing, zip-tying, & tear-gassing people...... Gift link www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

“I don't see any plan, any strategy, any end game,” says Pat Parenteau, a professor of environmental law at the University of Vermont. “I don't see anything from this administration, just fuck everything up as much as you can. You can print that.” Sounds accurate to me.

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Rubio has a personal interest in saying nice(ish) things to Europe; the Trump administration as a whole has a strong interest in Europe not acting on the rupture the White House has created. None of this means an actual change of direction in US foreign policy.

Happy Valentine's Day! The National Capital Planning Commission has opened the public comment period on the East Wing Modernization Project, including the proposed construction of a 90,000-square-foot ballroom addition to the White House complex. Written comments are due March 4, 2026 at Noon ET.

“Criminalization is what got us here, criminalization is what is keeping us here, and more criminalization will definitely *not* get us out of here.” This piece makes a clear and compelling argument that invites deeper consideration.