In nine hours the national press corps will raise their glasses to the most racist person in the country and claim it’s a “work dinner” for “source building”

And his warring in Latin America is not even in headlines & getting attention like with Iran. Costing billions. It's how the US always does Latin America. It's their laboratory for constantly meddling in with violence & getting away with it with no attention put on it.

...what the actual fuck.

I sent this interview around to so many journalist friends when it first came out; it reinvigorated me and my love for and devotion to our profession. This is such a tremendous loss for journalism. Every journalist must speak out about Israel killing our colleagues over and over and over again.

Good god the kicker:

The director of the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas has seen an uptick in organizing across the country to challenge a wave of new anti-trans legislation. “I’m hoping that Kansas is a wake-up moment for other communities across the country.”

I know I’m not sza, but i think this is what my advisor had to do with me with my dissertation www.vice.com/en/article/s...

Remember when tech innovation did non-genocidal stuff?

OMG 👀

Forbes is gamifying news about the horrific mass shooting in Shreveport, LA this weekend, encouraging readers to bet on the likelihood of gun regulation with fake money via its "ForbesPredict" feature. Eight children were murdered in the shooting. futurism.com/future-socie...

At the very least the last time something like this happened, tech companies were falling over themselves to fund bootcamps and schools for learning to code. But really nothing this time, not even aggressive lobbying the EA's favorite, UBI.

Another day, another trauma I will never recover from

On the same day that white nationalist Elon Musk called contemporary South Africa an apartheid state, the philosopher king of the reactionary billionaire set (Yarvin) called Musk a communist. The "intellectual life" of the American super-rich has always been kind of absurd, but this is next level.

In the last 20 years, the "two state solution" has been a discursive mechanism to convince people that (1) this is a "conflict between neighbouring peoples" rather than between the state and dominated/colonised people within (2) That there's a credible route towards partition, when there isn't one

People do NOT talk enough about the inspirational work of Los Angeles’ resistance work in these trying times. THIS is who I want to be when I grow up.

bitch gtfo

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

We can't ignore that the President of the United States threatened to commit war crimes in our names. Congress must vote to stop Trump’s war.

tired: my WNBA crushes dating each other wired: my WNBA crushes dating me 😭😭😭

two months ago I had like, actually hundreds of pages of notes and memos and weird sketchy little maps of partially completed thoughts, and somehow now I have three not-even-that-bad dissertation data chapters.

Once again, the national average pay for adjunct professors with PhDs is a flat fee of $3900 per course.

[reposted to add alt text] @mahsaalimardani.bsky.social: We didn't deserve this day.

“As the saying goes, there’s no such thing as a free lunch,” EFF’s @mguariglia.bsky.social told @sfgate.com. “Police may still have to request the footage from either the user or Ring, but they clearly consider it part of a larger network of police surveillance.”

Daily Memo: The 15th Death In ICE Detention and ICE is Slowly Escalating ICE’s slow increase in operations is now averaging about 30 kidnappings per week in Southern California.

This is an insane outcome for the AP, but I guess at least they’re honest about what they are now?

😒😒 just my union here to prop up a technology industry that threatens our labor power and demeans our knowledge as educators. great thanks.

According to this, the ICE flight to DRC last month wasn't a third-country removal -- just a "regular" deportation of migrants into a humanitarian crisis via private jet -- but third-country removals will begin soon. I'll be watching air traffic closely. apnews.com/article/cong...

Having an administration that’s very overtly in favor of performative war crimes is bad. But let’s not pretend this isn’t simply a reflection of American culture. Plenty of Americans reject the concept of war crimes and are enthusiastic about doing ANYTHING to enemies.

The FY2027 budget requests $1.5 trillion for military spending and pays for it by gutting NOAA, FEMA grants, NIH, and fully eliminating programs that keep the lights on for struggling Americans.

No, fuck you. You don’t get to suddenly decide that copyright matters when folks suddenly have access to the source code of your spicy autocomplete due to your own incompetence.

People with power are entirely capable of moralizing loudly all day and then absolutely refusing to live by those/any standards themselves. But let’s not assume that humiliation = accountability (or that exposure = humiliation even) lol though that this got broken in Washington Examiner??

Food policing poor families isn't a win for nutrition--it's a loss for dignity and joy. As Brea Perry and I find in our research (see reply), low-income parents buy food treats for their kids because they want their kids to feel happy and normal--and they can't afford to do so in bigger ways.

As someone who studies politicization of democratic militaries this statement on X is a five- alarm fire. It creates an undeniable permission structure for overt partisan behavior by mil. It's part of a concerted effort by civilian leaders to turn the U.S. military into a partisan aligned force.

The United States has normalized firing teachers and librarians for the simple act of defending students' and communities' right to learn. This country has normalized this behavior, but we must remain discomforted and agitated by this.

guys what on EARTH is this infographic??? "Progressives" are just what, non-white people succeeding in public-facing careers?

happy tdov, "visibility" without protection is a threat

As AI PACs flood primary elections, Hakeem Jeffries and House Democratic leadership are quietly bending the knee to the industry.

Olivia Miles was made for March highlight reels:

try and imagine a bigger W as an academic

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

How city lawmakers can continue to defend LAPD as “defending us from ICE” when these pathetic little horse boys jump at every chance they get to demand an OT paycheck for stomping on journalists and civilians is so beyond me www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles...

Lotta overtime getting paid right now in DTLA

@marisakabas.bsky.social that time to bring out the classic

Things are politically horrible, I’ve got a super frustrating cold, my dissertation is due in like 3 weeks, BUT LSU-Duke is cookinnnn

Everyone who works for the NYT — including my many friends — should be incredibly embarrassed by this statement. The depths to which the NYT will go to back its agenda of challenging trans people's right to exist is horrifying, ongoing, and has caused very real and specific harms to trans people.

It’s not strange. Grown Americans in positions of power & authority called the police on to campuses, and threatened the future work and livelihood of 20 year olds because they dared to stand against the mass bombing of women and children. And they will never forget it.

Safety is measured by statistics. Safety theatre is defined by how people feel.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

According to the Cato Institute, The Trump administration is reportedly receiving millions of immigration applications, pocketing the hefty fees, and never processing the applications. It’s collected over $1 billion in fees so far. Where is the outcry over this fraud and abuse?

When people ask me about restoring trust in higher ed, there's a reason I bring up presidents calling the police on their students and how I find it curious those students' trust is never a concern