I just want every person to consider this in its distilled form. ********************************************************** The President of the United States is unilaterally levying a tax on every citizen because he didn't like a commercial.

If you’re someone who still reads for pleasure, you are a marvel. If you’re able to unplug from all the chaos of our entertainment culture and disappear into the warmth and solace of a book, that is a rare gift and I’m very glad to know you.

Looking to do a little professional development reading over the next month. Any suggestions for composition instruction or other #commcoll pedagogy?

theres only way one to end this feud: rolling a perfect 6 (from brennan's interview with @variety)

Fullerton is Our Home - Belonging for All Immigrants — show up to the Fullerton City Council meeting to request they join the federal lawsuit to protect our neighbors from unconstitutional immigration enforcement actions. Wear a white tee shirt! www.instagram.com/p/DNTqNb6y8k...

I just backed Mock Trial: a Zach and Jess Mockumentary on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/zac...

saw a thing earlier today saying "beware of religious systems where we get to decide what is loving without the input of those being loved" and boy did that hit like a ton of bricks

As ICE terrorizes communities, remember that some of Trump's biggest supporters are private prison companies that will make bank off his budget bill. And Stephen Miller recently disclosed over $100K of stock in Palantir, the shady data firm ICE uses to target immigrants. Cashing in on cruelty.

Trump's Labor Department is gutting more than 60 regulations, including: -Minimum wage & overtime pay for in-home care workers -Organizing rights for migrant farmworkers -Penalties for companies that don’t maintain a safe workplace The “pro-worker” president strikes again.

Folds: If we’ve been told our whole lives that we can’t spend money on the arts because they’re not important—then why was taking over the Kennedy Center and the arts the first thing they did? It is extremely important. It’s the bedrock of self-expression.

Let me get this straight: Trump is using millions in FEMA shelter and services funds to build the cruel and unnecessary "Alligator Alcatraz" immigrant detention facility.  The cruelty is staggering. https://www.factcheck.org/2025/07/a-dedicated-fema-fund-will-pay-for-alligator-alcatraz/

They're building concentration camps with money they stole from medicare.

“Congress” didn’t pass this murder budget. Republicans did it. Republicans did it without a single Democratic vote in the House, without a single Democratic vote in the Senate. Be precise and give, uh, credit where credit is due

I don’t think anyone is prepared for what they just did w/ ICE. This is not a simple budget increase. It is an explosion - making ICE bigger than the FBI, US Bureau of Prisons, DEA,& others combined. It is setting up to make what’s happening now look like child’s play. And people are disappearing.

The most sobering part about becoming 1930’s Germany is realizing that no one is going to come here and liberate those being brutalized. If this historically inhumane regime is going to be overthrown, We The American People are going to have to do it.

The only proper term for these sites is "concentration camp." Not "extermination camp." That is a Nazi parallel too far. But they are straight-up concentration camps. That is what to call them.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Ask yourself why Rolling Stone is the only outlet performing this obvious public service.

🚨 ICE disappeared a woman on Wednesday night. She was grabbed by men in plainclothes and taken to an unidentified location. ICE is refusing to say where she is being held. It’s 72 hours later and not even a dedicated team of lawyers can find her. This is WRONG. We can’t let this be the new norm.

Mamdani must explain his tweet from 1740 BC claiming that Ea-nāṣir had "high quality copper"

All I see here is top notch ball security, elite contact balance, a willingness to grind out tough yards btwn the tackles, and surprising burst after he finds daylight

Absolutely incredible turnout for Budapest Pride! So proud of all the organizers, including some old friends, who estimate hundreds of thousands— major embarrassment to Orban

There are only three political positions in America today 1) I like the fascism 2) I'll acquiesce to the fascism (reasons for this one vary: cowardice, access, denial, misguidedly thinking that acquiescence is savvy, etc) 3) I oppose the fascism The rest is details

“ProPublica’s reporting revealed these cancelled contracts were delivering essential services … and exposed the cruel and dumb AI formulas DOGE bros used to cancel contracts,” Sen. Blumenthal said. “Veterans and all Americans deserve transparency.”

they have origins in common and often reinforce each other jewishstudies.rice.edu/branches/win...

The real question is how many other people have died under ICE who were not citizens of fancy ally countries. They will never report the true numbers. May all their memories be for a revolution. We need Canada to make a BIG FORKING DEAL over this and get it to be the scandal that ends ICE plz

establishment Dems are desperate to fabricate that Zohran is antisemitic but won't say shit about the blatant islamophobia Republicans are throwing at him now

Several state-approved textbook chapters, one board member argued, were inappropriate for students because they discussed “vaccines and polio,” touched on “topics of depopulation,” had “an agenda out of the United Nations” and included “a perspective that humans are bad.” With @texastribune.org

Democrats cannot win back working class voters by putting forth more corporate backed politicians. There's a better path forward. It's one paved by leaders who stand up to the oligarchy and fight to make life affordable for working people.

If a colleague had the reliability rate of an LLM, they would be fired. If ordinary* software did, it would be uninstalled. LLMs require the chat format, because chat makes us party to the conversation. We insert the meaning ourselves - and hold it to a different standard. It's the mirror effect.

I admire Jackson's restraint in not saying "Your 'textualism' and 'originalism' are 100% bullshit and you know it. They're just tools you use to arrive at whatever outcome you want, then cloak it in a phony methodology, you utterly dishonest wankers."

Maintaining a dead woman's body for 5 months then delivering a one pound highly premature baby from her corpse is a cruel medical experiment. If ever you wonder why there are high levels of medical mistrust in the Black community, remember this story. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.

We Should Not Be Shocked That the Alleged Minnesota Shooter’s Christian School Is Connected to Political Violence

Padilla: I was forced to the ground, first on my knees and then flat on my chest. And as I was handcuffed and marched down a hallway repeatedly asking, why am I being detained? Not once did they tell me why. I pray you never have a moment like this

Senator Padilla of California was wrestled to the ground and handcuffed today for doing his job: Asking a question of Kristi Noem, the Trump administration's Secretary of Homeland Security. sign.moveon.org/petitions/th...

“We have a duty and moral obligation to say no & resist evil orders.” I love her guts.

Pope Leo’s first US episcopal appointment, San Diego’s Bishop-designate Pham, a Vietnamese refugee, invites priests and faith leaders to “stand in solidarity”with migrants at courthouse on June 20, as they make court appearances.

The incel math we didn't learn in med school.

Yes. This is the way to think about it.

We should keep our foot on Gavin’s neck about all his bad governing but I will also enjoy him talking to republicans the way all democrat politicians should

I’m so fatigued and anxious and irate and other things right now. I have a number to call for rapid response if I see ICE in my area. I’m worried about my students not attending classes because they are afraid to. Trying to think how I can work with them. #NoKings #DueProcess #LeaveOurPeopleAlone

They didn't care this much when LA WAS burning!

BREAKING: A few minutes ago, a vehicle of three people was rammed by a truck belonging to federal immigration authorities in Boyle Heights, CA. According to security footage shown to me, they deployed chemical munitions & detained the driver at gunpoint. All are US citizens according to the wife.

No truer words #booksky

Why is ICE arresting employees but not employers? DOJ policy is to charge the most culpable people. The employers would seem to qualify.

You’re not taking too up much space. You’re not over-reacting. You’re not shining the light on you. You’re simply trying to exist.

Terry Moran worked at ABC for 28 years. Now, for calling Stephen Miller “hateful,” (which he 💯 is per his own family), ABC fired him to appease an authoritarian hypocrite who ran on “free speech.” This will have a chilling effect on all journalists. Fourth Estate fails. Authoritarianism advances.