The home secretary is fucking disgusting there is no ‘seamless” way of inflicting the violence of deporting children to a country they’ve never been to

“Traumatized, humiliated, degraded.” The nurse, a US citizen, 4’11”, 85 lbs, says she was following orders when she was dragged out of her car by masked immigration agents in Florida. It was the 3rd time she had been stopped and told to produce ID. Free link ⤵️ www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

the answer to so many questions is Unionize Your Workplace

www.thenation.com/article/soci... Co-wrote with @julesboykoff.bsky.social about today's nonsense

Shitheads run everything.

Regulators must stop this deal. It would accelerate the content-ization of film and potentially deal a terminal blow to cinema. Netflix can’t be allowed to control and apply its model to more of the film industry.

This is journalism malpractice by @usatoday.com: Trump said some of the most racist things he had ever this week (and that’s saying a lot) and this headline & story completely ignores that. It’s Trump PR, not journalism.

Note that Roger Stone refers to Prospera, the Network State city in Honduras, as a "freedom city." Trump wants to build ten of these cities on federal land, and Stone makes it clear that these fascist cities are, indeed, the Network State.

Don’t miss our third –and most consequential– report from Tegucigalpa 👇

Jeff Bezos and the Washington Post are at it again.

no amount of viagra will make cory booker’s limp, bought and paid for politics “Hard” bsky.app/profile/edit...

If only there was another major expenditure outlay in Iowa that could be used to ensure kids had enough food, rather than subsidizing affluent kids already attending private school...

fucking incredible

Either you understand that there is an organized campaign to push trans people out of public life with the explicit end goal of "morally mandating us out of existence" that is backed by some of the wealthiest individuals to have ever lived, or you're simply not equipped to grasp what's happening.

the primary thing that TPUSA provides to young conservatives is a blueprint for weaponizing the abject cowardice of university administrators against individual teachers and instructors, and university admins should take a long look in the mirror and think about what that says about them

An organization devoted to preserving the legacy and memory of Emmett Till has taken ownership of the barn in Drew, Mississippi, where he died and plans to open it as a public memorial by 2030.

A book launch in Pilsen, Chicago, Saturday. @uminnpress.bsky.social

Creating a military conflict with Venezuela gives this administration a legal "hook" to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. In other words, the foreign war is being manufactured in order to facilitate court deference for its domestic mass deportation policy. It's a Stephen Miller Special.

This a thread about one feature of the Trump Admin's EO regarding the Smithsonian that I haven't seen much explicit discussion of. The stated purpose for reviewing Smithsonian exhibits and collections is to ensure they align with something called "Americanism." That term has a notable genealogy.

when you’re trying to evade capture after WWII ends:

given how unpopular Trump is, it’s insane that civil society/universities/law firms are still asking themselves “how do I stay on Trump’s good side” rather than “how do I avoid facing consequences for complying with Trump’s illegal demands”

I feel much safer today knowing that we deported a Babson College student back to a country where she hasn't lived since childhood. She wasn't even flying internationally. She was flying to Texas.

This is at the 9th percentile of all approval ratings since Gallup started asking the question in 1941. It’s the second-lowest (after Nixon) of any pres 11 months into his second term. Trump's Approval Rating Drops to 36%, New Second-Term Low news.gallup.com/poll/699221/...

The public nature of these enemies lists also encourages harassment. Some federal employees were fired, some resigned, but even those who stayed faced a stream of threats. One left the country. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

can anyone who understands finance lingo tell me if this is a good or bad sign??

NEW: A @propublica.org & @frontlinepbs.bsky.social analysis found dozens of cases in recent months which officers deployed "less lethal" weapons in ways that flout the government’s own rules — like aiming at someone’s head, spine or groin and deploying chemical agents near children.

While state and local officials tout the economic potential the data center brings, watchdog groups have warned that the massive centers that are popping up across the country consume inordinate amounts of power and water, posing serious environmental dangers and raising energy costs.

I used to handle interlibrary loans for a public library. ILL is a magnificent expression of the idea that readers deserve books, and books deserve readers. It’s libraries everywhere pooling their resources for the benefit of everyone. Killing IMLS could have killed ILL. This is great news. 📚

“How to Monetize Your Own Failures Through the Magic of Bigotry”

We shouldn’t pathologize this. Billionaires using gen ai to design personal aircraft is a great idea.

Thanks for the share @awinston.bsky.social in your newsletter! bleeding-edge.ghost.io?ref=bleeding...

Gaby Iori explains the connection between the death of tech idealism and the rise of homelessness in Northern California.

I mean, why should toddlers be excluded from the AI extractionist project? So much $ thrown at AI booster academics, meanwhile those critiquing AI are institutionally alienated and must pin hopes in funding competitions that maybe one critical study will be tokenized as an alternative viewpoint.

America 2025.

Fun party

Centrists “But Karl the federal government isn’t Nazi stop calling them Nazi it’s fear mongering and misinformation” The federal government:

Don’t miss Eric A. Vázquez’s States of Defeat at ASA! Read about the cultural reverberations of Central America’s failed revolutions on US intellectual thought #2025ASA #ASA2025

Eric A. Vázquez's States of Defeat is out now! www.upress.umn.edu/978151791990...

Every day he plumbs new depths of Can You Believe This Loser Shit. You think you’ve reached the bottom of the Marianas Trench of Can You Believe This Loser Shit but then there’s a bang and a lurch and your little internet bathyscaphe plunges into a new fissure of Can You Believe This Loser Shit.

You were awfully quiet when universities were firing faculty for trying to keep police from beating the shit out of students, Jason. Glad you found a university HR matter you can get behind!

Pseudoprofound bullshit: Tendency to perceive superficially deep but vacuous assertions, such as “We are in the midst of a high-frequency blossoming of interconnectedness that will give us access to the quantum soup itself,” as meaningful.

"For students, AI teaching appears to be less transformative than it is demoralising". “I do not want to be taught by GPT.” www.theguardian.com/education/20...

“The Sam Altman-founded company behind the ‘Orb,’ a volleyball-sized metal sphere that scans irises to prove people's humanity, had a message for employees: work weekends and ignore anything outside your job — for the good of humanity.”

Whatever it takes to diminish his influence:

Many new releases today! (1/2) -The Double Bind of Disability / @beccamonteleone.bsky.social -Place-Keepers / Jessica Lopez Lyman, on Latina/x women artists in the Twin Cities -States of Defeat / @fritamoreno.bsky.social -The Eurabia Myth / Mehammed Amadeus Mack

White bros have tanked the economy OVER AND OVER AND OVER again. It's a testament to white supremacy that they continue to hold the power to do this.

"Cruel optimism' names a relation of attachment to compromised conditions of possibility .. even though its presence threatens [our] well-being.. [It is] is an obstacle to [our] flourishing..." - Lauren Berlant, Cruel Optimism

This should alarm everyone. On Thursday, Florida, by unanimous vote, became the first state in the country to adopt “The Phoenix Declaration: An American Vision for Education.” It was written by the Heritage Foundation, the same group behind Project 2025. THIS IS INDOCTRINATION

I laughed out loud at this quote from a spokesperson “Heritage has zero tolerance for racism” because it’s so obviously false.

Oh, uh…huh.