@praeyesright.bsky.social's Hialy Gutierrez on why "school choice" is billionaires' way of dismantling democracy religiondispatches.org/the-billiona...

Do not accept the question "But how do we pay for it?" about social programs ever again. That talking point is done forever.

Immigration enforcement *is* a public health crisis, and a longstanding one at that. It harms both physical and mental health, and its effects burden immigrants and the U.S. born alike.

Utterly delighted to find A Queer New York: Geographies of #Lesbians, #Dykes, and #Queers fully free, #openaccess, and downloadable at library.oapen.org/handle/20.50... -- thanks so much, @oapenbooks.bsky.social! #lgbt #lgbtq #bisexual #trans

I was wondering who’s responsible for the ongoing demolition of NSF. Aside from Chief Management Officer Cheatham, whose resignation the staff union seeks, it appears to be 3 DOGE agents: Farritor (23), Terrell (25), and Riley (33). None appear to have any familiarity with scientific research.

NEW: Trump’s takeover of the Library of Congress is about taking control of the legislative branch. One expert says it’s “dangerous,” given agencies within the Library provide legal advice to lawmakers and police their misconduct.

SCOOP: DOGE is hosting a “hackathon” in DC next week with the goal of building one “mega API” for accessing all IRS data. Palantir has been brought up as a potential partner. www.wired.com/story/doge-h...

8. Trans women in prisons have recently reported having their hair shorn and their feminine clothing confiscated; being deprived of medication; and being subjected to mandatory, invasive body inspections by doctors and prison staff, including breast examinations. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i...

what the actual fuck

I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding the traffic on all the side streets. No police in sight. #handsoff

#handsoff Paris

Two new *very exciting* #handsoff events came in today: American Samoa and Puerto Rico. Send them some love tonight, y'all. And in case you hadn't zoomed out on the map, let me do it for you, because multiple cities in Portugal, France, the UK, the Netherlands, and Germany are showing up.

#HandsOff in a small town in ruby red Alabama

NEW: Two-thirds of NYC voters support creating municipal grocery stores to bring down prices. "The concept is imminently feasible. In fact, publicly owned grocery stores are quite common and already exist at scale—in the US military."

This is the most important story in the United States right now. www.wired.com/story/treasu...

Behind this astonishingly impressive £30k. / month savings (amazing for a health system in crisis) is also an increase in people leading healthier lives, experiencing fewer episodes of poor health, and material steps to closing wide gaps in health inequalities.

Precarity is a relational condition: people aren't simply 'precarious' but they are *made* precarious e.g. by marginalisation due to gender, bullying and harassment or disability. Above all, institutions make us precarious, and that condition has now been more widely generalised

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

“You’re under arrest.” “I’m a reporter.” “I don’t care.” Read more from Mohawk journalist Isaac White about his arrest and prosecution for covering a land claim demonstration in northern New York in May 2024: freedom.press/issues/mohaw...

Colombian President Gustavo Petro's full post ordering an increase of import tariffs on U.S. goods, says he doesn't really like traveling to the U.S. because it's “a bit boring” and invokes the ancestors

Hold off on USAID obituaries and suggesting staff have gone. Most actions so far are under legal challenge, only Congress can get rid of USAID (and its funding), the staff are on administrative leave. What has happened is terrible, but it is time to push back, not give in.

Read this whole thread about how segregation is being enacted at the NIH This will have life and death consequences for communities of color that depend on interlocutors from our communities that do science with our well-being in mind 🧪

Susan Faludi’s book Backlash made the point that every time there is progress in diminishing sexism, aggressive backlash ensues. It is increasingly clear that attacking trans people is a vehicle to resuscitate reactionary views of women under the guise of “protecting” them. @paisleycurrah.com

The function of the New York Times is to normalize Trump to readers that Fox News can't reach.

Argentine feminist Verónica Gago in praise of the letter with the body—the materiality of the protester with a sign in the street. Elogio de la letra con cuerpo www.eldiarioar.com/129_b7520f?u...

The American College of OB/GYN’s website is now hosting the critical documents purged by the CDC This is what every professional medical organization should be doing right now #MedSky www.acog.org/clinical/cli...

2/ privileges in this system but has indeed begun rewriting the code base of this critical system, significantly rewriting the software for this critical system. For more on this it was this situation I was referring to in a series of tweets from last night in which, as I said, I substituted the …

Weird how not a single one of the newspapers and magazines that have been breathlessly churning out "cancel culture" thinkpieces for the past four years have managed to use the word "censorship" at all to describe the most rapid and comprehensive campaign of mass-censorship in recent US history.

“AP: Rubio says El Salvador offers to accept deportees from US of any nationality, including Americans” Honestly still just staring at my phone in disbelief. apnews.com/article/migr...

TLDR: They've banned every word that has anything to do with people who are not white men. My question here is simple: Researchers, what are we planning to do about this? Like actually. What's the action we take?

I went to my Congressman's local office today. First off, they were surprised that I was there. They said they had been getting phone calls, but I was the first walk-in. That said, the phones were not ringing off the hook. If the DC phone lines are busy, try calling the local office.

Darren Beattie believes that everyone who isn’t a cis white male is chattel. If you’re not a cis white man, Trump and Musk believe you are subhuman and intend to force you out of your jobs and to take away your human rights.

NYC’s largest hospital, New York-Presbyterian, has removed references to gender-affirming care for young people from its website and won’t address questions about those services, days after a presidential order threatening federal funding to hospitals. https://www.thecity.nyc/2025/02/03/new-york-p…

A bit of professional disappointment that Wired beat me to it. But glad the info is out. I can confirm the key details of this report based on my own reporting -the name of the DOGE operative and that yes the reports about read only access is categorically false. Not only does Marko have full …

One of the words on this list is “historically”.

Using a two-month-old photo of Musk because he's with his kid and it makes him look loving or cute is a choice by an unnamed Washington Post editor who is working on behalf of Jeff Bezos to soften the image of a fascist takeover

A super helpful read — Is It Fascism Yet? by #ScotNakagawa antiauthoritarianplaybook.substack.com/p/is-it-fasc...

Participation is our biggest advantage in the fight against authoritarianism Anti-authoritarian organizer and strategist Scot Nakagawa explains the importance of confronting political violence and learning from pro-democracy struggles abroad. wagingnonviolence.org/2024/08/anti...

The authors don't frame it this way but this is the best "AI is neoliberal" argument www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Training models on a dataset of largely capitalist behaviours and rewards gives you AI aligned with capitalist values

Bumped into this Jenny Holzer in the Allen Memorial Art Museum and she is the perfect antidote to Mars broligarchs (from the series Inflammatory Essays)

Trump essentially ending medical research in the US. As historians of business will tell you, a foundational reason America became *the* innovation superpower was federal support for R&D.

I deeply enjoy all things Rob Kitchin. If you need a primer, I am sure this is delicious, smart, and actually useful.

What are we DOING here? We're just meant to sit and act like this insane plagiarism and climate threat that requires more money than anything has ever cost is worth it? Are we meant to pretend that ChatGPT is worth this aimless, meaningless destruction of capital and our environment? For what?

After a long pause, I have returned to my role as an MSNBC columnist with this new piece out today, sharing why it’s so disturbing to see Musk @ Vance explicitly or implicitly praising a German far right party, especially just weeks before the snap German elections: www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

In a recent article in @religiondispatches.bsky.social , @jeffsharlet.bsky.social analyzes how Trump's choice for Secretary of Defense, Army veteran-turned-TV host Pete Hegseth, demonstrates a complete embrace of fascism and alarming civil war rhetoric: religiondispatches.org/meet-pete-he....

"What Trump is clearly asking for (and promising) is a Christian nationalist kakistocracy—a government by the least suitable, most unworthy people." @ardenthistorian.bsky.social and @tlecaque.bsky.social write on Trump's cabinet picks: religiondispatches.org/trumps-cabin...